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Hiring is up, unemployment rates are close to an all-time low, your social media and job placement sites are buzzing with activity, yet you have not made a hire. What gives? And how can you get better hiring results without lowering your standards? Hire Standard’s analysis of successful hiring manager [...]
The pay gap between males and females doing the same job has been an issue for years – an issue that some companies refuse to address. But while those companies hide their heads in the sand, many employers are making significant effort to change these numbers. April 14 th is [...]
A promising 13 percent of Washington D.C. area technology executives expect to add to their IT teams during the first half of 2014, according to recently released reports. The survey noted that 85 percent of Washington D.C. area CIOs were hopeful their companies would experience growth during the first half [...]
In March 2012, Forbes reported that Washington, D.C. was one city that had emerged relatively unscathed from the recent recession and had been buoyed economically by federal spending. The federal government accounts for one-third of the area’s economy and is the area’s largest employer. However, the effects of recent fiscal [...]
by Helen Hopkins, President, Hire Standard & Blue Zebra Now that the economic engine is sputtering back to life, companies tell us they need to hire but are hamstrung by budget concerns. Many companies have squeezed as much as they can out of existing staff and must add new talent [...]
Washington DC is a unique job marketplace, drawing lots of recent grads and relocations from other geographical areas. We've gotten the reputation of being a hotbed of hiring activity during the recession, but why are we still seeing so many unemployed job seekers? Hire Standard recognizes a disparity between the [...]