September 3, 2010

Employers struggling to find qualified job candidates

Manpower Inc. shows talent shortages continue despite the economic downturn. The employment services company (NYSE: MAN) says 30 percent of employers worldwide are struggling to find qualified job candidates especially skilled tradespeople, sales representatives and technicians. Manpower surveyed nearly 39,000 employers across 33 countries and territories to gauge employers’ ability to find the talent they [...]

Gen-X and Gen-Y – Bridging the GAP!

Today’s worker world has a thread and weave of a different color, pattern and texture. Twenty years ago the job market was dominated by the baby-boomer generation and Generation-X. Today the job market is rapidly tipping the scales in another direction, as Generation Y moves into the forefront as the dominant pool. Is there a [...]

Chris Caros go PERMANENT!

Chris came to CPGworks as a referral from a friend of a friend- funny how that works…. anyway… he was looking to make a clean break and fresh start- “Just give me the opportunity and I will prove to you I am someone to take a chance on” he said to me. I met Chris [...]

What happens EVERY June in America?

What happens EVERY June in America? Scientists across the nation are recording record highs in migrations of people during the month of June. It’s been noted by specialists, and non-specialists for that matter, that there is a repeating wave of humanity which echoes from every part of the nation and eventually confluences into Buffalo. Countless [...]

Tame the Buffalo – June 26th

TAME THE BUFFALO….! Come to the Career Connexions at Citybration/Buffalo Homecoming on 26 June. Meet up with us if you haven’t already done so! And just to put this in perspective, one man approached CPGworks for a trade job. His wife answered most of his correspondence with the agency, keeping him and us hooked up [...]

Ken Paul goes Permanent with…

Ken found CPGworks through a Financial firm that he was using who knew of our services and recommended us to assist him to find a new job. In fact, when Ken walked through our doors, it was only an hour after A.F. Wholesale Insulation had called us for someone for a driver/warehouse position. Ken really [...]