Posts Tagged ‘growth’
Congratulations to this year’s Future 50 class!
The MMAC’s Council of Small Business Executives (COSBE) has just made its decision about those companies that are on this year’s Future 50 list. This is particularly important from our perspective since WFA Staffing was fortunate enough to make the Master Mettle level as a 3-year winner. The MMAC/COSBE began the Future 50 program to recognize…
Read MoreHabits – Are they good or bad?
Habits come in all varieties, but we tend to think of ‘bad’ habits whenever the word ‘habit’ is mentioned. Maybe that is natural from childhood on through adulthood. Maybe we were admonished so often as youngsters that we see the word as having a bad connotation. Habits are defined as: a settled or regular tendency…
Read MoreIs it time to shorten your hiring process?
Our last WFA Blog dealt with what is being called the ‘Silver Tsunami’ and the impact that is having on employers as retirements take valued skill sets off the market. The State of Wisconsin has released its latest figures showing a total of more than 94,000 open positions across Wisconsin at this time. This includes…
Read MoreFuture 50
The latest edition of the Milwaukee BizTimes (Sep. 7 – 20, 2015) features this years’ Future 50, the fifty select growing companies in SE Wisconsin according to the rankings of BizTimes. They’ve been at this for quite a while, and we admittedly are partial since we were selected for this prestigious group three years in a…
Read MoreJobs at 15 year high….
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recently reported that jobs are now at a 15 year high! This Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article from September 10, 2015 includes a quote from Tom Krist, President of WFA Staffing- Follow this link for the article. ow.ly/S3nc4
Read MoreEmployment Equation
“The strongest pace of job growth we’ve seen since 1997” was the statement recently attributed to Paul Ashworth, the chief U.S. economist with Capitol Economics. The U.S. Labor Department advised that employers added 257,000 new jobs in January, 2015 besting the forecast of 228,000. Job growth estimates in November, 2014 were upwardly revised to 423,000,…
Read MoreGood News/Bad News
Great news! The economy continues to improve and unemployment has gone down to 5.6%! That ‘great news’ also brings a potential downside where WFA Staffing can help. Unemployment standing at 5.6% means much of the formerly available talent is likely already employed. That can limit the number of people you might be able to interest…
Read MoreWhatever Happened to the Suggestion Box?
Have you ever seen or heard something that triggered a great idea? Maybe it was something totally unrelated to your business or to the issue you were wrestling with in your subconscious. But it was that one thing that made a crystal clear impression…and from which you were able to proceed to solve the other…
Read MoreThe Midas Touch
The Midas Touch The ‘reverse Midas touch’ seems to be present on a regular basis in many aspects of life. What we touch does not always turn into gold. Sometimes it turns into ‘stuff’ we’d rather not have anything to do with but are often confronted with having no choice in the matter. There…
Read MoreIt’s Tricky
It’s Tricky This may sound like ‘preaching to the choir’ but…the smaller your company and its staff, or the bigger and more critical the job, or a combination of those things, the greater the need for a disciplined and thoughtful process leading to the ultimate decision. The interviewing process and reference checking, and hiring processes…
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