Posts Tagged ‘Staffing’
Attitude Gains Altitude
Your attitude will determine your altitude. Our own Marquette University Law School conducted a poll recently asking what people thought about the economy going forward. About one-third thought it would get worse than last year at this time. That was the highest number since this poll began in 2012. If we are thinking like pessimists,…
Read MoreHappy 2019!
Happy New Year! A new year has rolled around again and it brings both challenges and promises along with it. If we are looking only for the less-than-good, that will be easy enough to find. Too much of this! Too little of that! No people available! Can’t find a job to save myself! If, on…
Read MoreStrong Relationships Mean Everything
Strong Relationships… We talk about strong relationships regularly. We believe that strong relationships are the life’s blood of our business. Relationships are formed over time and we understand that. We have enduring relationships formed at the very beginning of WFA Staffing. We have been developing strong relationships with relatively recent client organizations. Each of our…
Read MoreDon’t bite off more than you can chew!
They bit off more than they could chew. This pejorative describes firms, companies, teams…you name it. It means, simply, that whatever company is being referred to, tried to be too much to too many or that it spread itself over too much geographic area. The company tried to do too much, and the company failed…
Read MoreNew WFA Staffing Website
If you’re reading this, chances are good that you have already interacted with the new WFA Staffing website. New website designs are always, it seems, great for a while and then they tail off on the excitement scale to ‘same old, same old’.This new website, developed for us by Cultivate Communications, will take longer for most of…
Read MoreCost of New Employees
There is a usual rate of increase in the cost of new employees as anyone in business understands. We are, obviously, in a situation today where that increase is greater than it has been in the recent past. Business in general is on the uptick. Certain types of people with certain backgrounds are in even…
Read MoreEmployment: Good News or Bad News?
Is our state of unemployment good news or bad news? That depends upon your point of view. Wisconsin’s unemployment rate now stands at 2.8%. That is good for some and not-so-good for others. If you find yourself looking for or thinking of looking for employment, this is likely a better time to be doing that.…
Read More2018- A New Year, A New Reality
What is to come in 2018? We see a 2018 that will bring with it new opportunities and certainly new challenges. We know that the pool of great candidates for virtually any and all positions is what it was in the past: too small for us to delay on decisions when we find good people. …
Read MoreDifferentiators
Have you given much thought to the impact that differentiators have in your business or your daily life? Those are the sometimes subtle, or sometimes ‘in-your face’ things, that help each of us to make decisions through-out the days and weeks ahead. A differentiator might be the color of a dress or the pattern on a…
Read MoreNow Hiring: Where Are All the People?
Where are all the people coming from to fill the needs of employers in this market today? Truth be told, there are difficulties even for us professionals to find the right people for the open positions our client employers have available. That is no secret. There are more openings than qualified applicants. We’ve been through…
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