September 3, 2010

Do you need one of these???

Underwater divers who do construction and welding and other skills normally associated with having one’s feet planted solidly on the ground, are a unique and highly skilled breed of construction personnel. If your company is looking for one of these, we may have the man for you. He has worked for years in this industry. [...]

GO AHEAD – MAKE MY DAY!

Clint Eastwood wasn’t the only one that used that line. And though I cannot speak on behalf of every recruiter here at CPGworks, I’m pretty sure that they would all share this view. One of the GREAT pleasures of working as a recruiter and headhunter is when you can make the connection for a client [...]

Buffalo – Attractive to Job Seekers

Seems that Buffalo holds more lure to job seekers than we may all realize. In posting recent ads to locate skilled talent to fill positions for my client companies, I have been inundated with emails and resumes from applicants in Florida, Michican, PA, MA, North Carolina, Texas, California. Many of these people are born and [...]

A MESSAGE FOR AMERICA

A MESSAGE FOR AMERICA On Jan 20th, 1961 an American president elect said these words to the world: “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” That President was John F. Kennedy. Those words hold true today, possibly even more [...]

Buffalo – “You got heart”

I have to comment here on something. I’m a new guy in town. I hail from Canada, moved to the states in 1976 and have lived the last 25 years in Los Angeles, but I spent about 15% of that time outside the country travelling the world. I crash landed in Buffalo, quite unexpectedly last [...]

CPGworks EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK

Our next pick for CPGworks Employee of the Week is Dan Casey. Unfortunately we don’t have his photo to hand for various technical reasons, but that does not lessen the value of this post. Dan came to us through our Springville office back in June 2008. He was a relatively shy young fellow, who came [...]

Where the Most Jobs Are Being Created

This article is excerpted from www.saleshq.com. It is of interest to people in the construction industry: Where the Most Jobs Are Being Created The top three growing industries as a result of the economic stimulus package are Construction, Retail, and Business services. While in your job search, consider researching and applying to these fields… Construction [...]

Quiz…

If a complete desert on edge of the Persian Gulf can be turned into this….(Dubai, UAE), then what about a city on the edge of Lake Erie, one of the 5 largest fresh water lakes in the world?

10 Tips for Job Hunting

This article is excerpted from Squawkfox and is useful in locating work. Note that #8 of these steps is using headhunting/placement agencies. That’s US! Here it is…. This article is part of a four part series on the ways to kick start your job hunt. To start this series from the beginning, read the introduction. [...]

GRANT HELPS JOBLESS GET BACK TO WORK

The following article appeared in Buffalo First: Grant helps jobless get back to work Business First of Buffalo – by Tracey Drury A Buffalo nonprofit agency has received a $320,000 grant to expand a program that helps individuals get back to work.  Child & Family Services received the new funding for 2009 through the national [...]