July 29, 2010

Senior Executive Position – Pittsburgh, PA

The executive position is with a successful national level company. The qualities we’re looking for are: * Must have long term goals to be in business yourself. That is, you have entrepreneurrial aspirations to head up your own successful company. Are you someone that will challenge yourself and constantly look for ways to improve the [...]

Estimator Wanted – part time

Our client is seeking an estimator who meets the following with many years of solid and significant experience working for medium sized, or larger, general contractor in commercial construction. They are located in Buffalo, however they engage work sites around Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Western New York. A significant criteria is that we need someone [...]

How to be a successful executive and employeer

This is possibly a rhetorically redundant article, which some will wave off with an “of course that’s true”, or “obviously…” but nevertheless, people probably thought the same thing about gravity before someone actually defined the law. Obviously there was a force that held people to the earth – it didn’t take a genius to define [...]

The Booms & Depressions Syndrome

In the past two years in the Human Resources (HR) industry, I have observed this phenomena. When the economic wave was strong, people rode that wave with confidence and insouciance. But when that wave crashed and the economic scene no longer fueled it, people became worried about security.  This sounds terribly kindergarten level in terms [...]

CPGworks – A Successful Tour in Buffalo NY

I have worked “big” corporate, volunteer, large retail, and I have traveled to many countries around the world, some of them numerous times in my career. I have had the opportunity to work with people from across the globe. When I landed in Buffalo nearly two years ago, I was looking for a company that [...]

When Service Really Matters

If I tell you that CPGworks goes the distance, it’s not a pitch. Just this Friday one of our clients was in a bind. At 5pm, before the long weekend, the Project Manager informed me that he needed some guys who could work the next day (Saturday) and Labor Day (Monday). I was on site [...]

Myeisha Wesson – A Success Story

This short story is about Myeisha Wesson who was placed through CPGworks. It says it all and exemplifies the type of people that your company could employ and put to work… From the moment I met Myeisha, I knew she was one tough cookie. Tiny as she is, I knew she was strong, both physically [...]

Put AMERICA to work!

We’ve got lots of people that are hungry for work. Laborers, roofers, carpenters, asbestos & lead certified handlers, drivers, heavy equipment operators, warehouse stockers, project managers, CFOs, accounts people and office managers. We also provide property maintenance personnel from superintendents, maintenance to cleaners. You can get them as temp, or temp to perm or permanent [...]

The Aussi Story…. Kangaroo Jack

This story just surfaced from our Rochester office. It bears witness to the fact that CPGworks places people from all over the world, even Aussi’s! Being a native Chicagoan, when I met James McMahon, I had to say “Wow, Jim McMahon!” I was quickly corrected. He is not from Chicago, but Australia, NOT an American [...]

Uhhh … a pig and a cell phone.. what’s that got to do with placing people?

A short anecdote from our Rochester Office: Jimmy Crespo came in to my office to re-interview. He had already interviewed with one of our staff some months ago, but I was looking to put together a crew of metal-stud framers for Acquest. He was friendly and funny, and apologetic that his cellphone was almost continually [...]

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