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TJ’s advice on the challenges and market changes relevant to SME construction companies searching for talent on the West Coast.
Frequency: every month or two.
We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience. John Dewey You or your team hired someone who failed. They may not have had the skills, character, personality, or perspective that the position required. It’s easy to write the failure off completely to the candidate, setting yourself up to make your mistakes […]
One of the questions we hear most frequently is where salaries are at across a range of titles, based on open-source data. Such an inquiry is understandable for companies and individuals trying to make salary-related decisions, but trusting this data is problematic. We have run large salary surveys that measured tenure, type of work, project […]
One thing I’m noticing and watching closely is a growing relational disconnect between employers and employees. This is apparent in the prevailing viral LI posts, media, and our personal experiences here at ASG. We believe there is something here for all of us to learn from. We also believe this is intrinsically related to the […]
We need to respond aggressively and wisely to the Covid-19 crisis.One critical element is to keep the economy moving in every way reasonable so that the financial impact on businesses, and consequently the people that work in them, are impacted as little as possible. The cost to the world economy will be measured in the […]
Predictions are a far cry from prophecy. This is what we estimate from what we see in an ultracompetitive and malnourished hiring environment. But I’ll guarantee one of these will prove true.
