Tag Term: Employment

Recruiting

Dec 02 2011

I recently attended a job fair at the University of Michigan as a recruiter on behalf of my company. Despite the slow economy, we were fortunate to be looking for highly qualified structural engineering students. Attending a job fair as a recruiter is part company promotion, part interviewing, and part career counseling. The top candidates…

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Contract Negotiation

Oct 09 2011

Although the economy is slow, if you can demonstrate your abilities and are flexible on location, type of work, and title there are still opportunities.  My company recently hired several engineers (mostly at the starting engineer level) to staff a couple of major international projects.  It has been refreshing to see the new faces around…

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Performance Evaluation

Apr 23 2011

April showers bring May flowers and annual performance evaluations.  Being slightly narcissistic, I always get more worked up about the reviews than I ought to.  The evaluation itself consists of 20 performance categories on which we are rated from “does not meet expectations” to “exceeds expectations.”  A numeric rating was tried a few years back…

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