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Browse thoughtful views and opinions about staffing topics from KNF&T’s perspective.
Resume Tips for Recent Graduates
Your resume is more than likely the first impression you make on a potential employer. When you’re a recent graduate, it’s even more important to craft a resume that successfully translates your accomplishments, accolades, and skills for competitive employment. As a...
Essential Interview Tips for Recent Graduates
Interviews at any stage of your career can be nerve-wracking. In the post-covid world, there’s the additional factor of whether your interview will be on-site and face-to-face with your interviewer(s), or if you’ll be interviewing virtually. When you’re also a recent...
BANKW Staffing Wins 6 Best Of Staffing 2023 Awards from ClearlyRated
BEDFORD, NH – FEBRUARY 8th, 2023 – BANKW Staffing, the region’s leading provider in staffing and recruiting services, is proud to announce that through their portfolio companies, Alexander Technology Group, The Nagler Group, KBW Financial Staffing & Recruiting,...
Job Searching is a Full Time Job. Let Us Help!
When you’ve decided to embark on a job hunt, you can find yourself easily overwhelmed by the amount of time it takes to conduct a thorough search. You may already be underwhelmed from an exhausting day in a role that no longer satisfies or challenges you, leading to a...
Rising Above Office Gossip
While conversations with your colleagues can inspire camaraderie and workplace connectivity, most gossip stems from a negative place. Even if the topic you’re discussing seems as though it couldn’t possibly be a bad thing, office gossip can have unintended negative...
Executive Turn Over on the Rise
In the wake of troubling workplace trends like “quiet quitting” and “quiet firing,” managers may be relieved to know that workers are now skipping the “quiet” and are outright quitting their positions – although sometimes faster than they’d like. American workers are...
Seeking Career Advancement? Consider Workplace Committees
If you consider yourself a leader in the workplace, it’s likely you’re persistent in your pursuit of skill and career advancement. From constant learning to professionalism and performance, your proficiencies are what sets you apart from your colleagues and makes you...
How’s the 2023 Job Market?
Having been in the staffing industry for over 20 years, whenever we are in an extreme market or talks about a recession surface, I am frequently asked “How’s the job market?” It is usually followed by lots of questions concerning whether companies are hiring or if...
2022 Reflections and Promising 2023 Staffing Trends
As 2022 comes to a close, reflection on the previous year is inevitable but this season it seems like the staffing market is the topic of the year! After “unprecedented times” for the past two years, the last month of 2022 has stayed true to trend and remained...
20 Easy Holiday Messages for the Workplace
Tis the season! You may send holiday messages to your parents, siblings, and neighbors, but what about your coworkers? Should you send a holiday card to your boss? And if you do, what should it say? Concern and uncertainty surrounding personal messages in a...
5 Ways to Thank Your Back-Office and Support Staff During the Holidays
Commonly in a workplace setting, the people operating in support staff roles – the administrators, payroll professionals, and individuals who perform the clerical duties that make the business function – are effectively invisible unless something has gone horribly...
Keys to a Successful Recruiting Career
If you ask any long-time recruiter how they got started in the staffing industry, a common answer is, “I fell into it.” Hardly anyone grows up thinking, “I want to be a professional recruiter when I grow up!” Whether planned or not, a career path in recruiting can...
Welcoming Back Boomerang Employees
In today's competitive job market, no company wants to see good employees leave. Retaining new and tenured talent is vital for organizations as we head deeper into uncharted labor markets and employers are finding that their previous employees may be best suited to...
10 Ways to Stay Motivated at Work
The workday is filled with a wide variety of tasks, inbound emails, and lengthy meetings that may or may not be productive. With colleagues, clients, and managers all vying for a chunk of your time, it can be all too easy to lose track of long-term goals, and even...
5 Simple Ways to Give Back Meaningfully in the Holiday Season
The holidays are upon us and despite some creeping difficulties in the market, a growing number of people are joyously wishing one another well and preparing for celebrations with friends and family. During the happiest time of the year, it’s easy to get caught up in...