As 2015 ended, the hiring market seemed to follow suit. Motivations have changed for truly qualified candidates who are now much more passive than they have been in years, while needs have increased (as well as the urgency of those…
Category: Banking
Jon Burkhart & TRG Commercial Banking Complete Successful Regional President Search
RICHMOND, June 2, 2016 – Jon Burkhart and the Commercial Banking Team of The Richmond Group USA (TRG) are pleased to announce the successful conclusion of a Regional President search in Murfreesboro, TN for a well-known and established TN-based community…
Jon Burkhart & TRG Commercial Banking Complete Successful Regional Credit Officer Search
(Richmond, VA) June 1, 2016 – Jon Burkhart and the Commercial Banking Team of The Richmond Group USA (TRG) are pleased to announce the successful conclusion of Regional Credit Officer search in Nashville, TN for a well-known and established regional bank. At the end…
Bruce Peacock & TRG Manufacturing Division Completes Successful Engineering Search
Richmond, VA May 2016 – Bruce Peacock and The Manufacturing Search Division of The Richmond Group USA (TRG) are pleased to announce the successful conclusion of a Continuous Improvement Engineer search for an industry leading commercial equipment manufacturer. This person…
April Is Slow Growing
Spring is here, but cooler temperatures and rainy weather seem to have slowed down normal seasonal trends. “Slight growth” is probably the best way to describe the growth for U.S. manufacturers in April. The upside is that the overall US…
The Biggest Roadblock to Hiring the Best Candidate (and how to get around it)
Have you checked the unemployment rate recently? We’ve gone from 4.9% unemployment to 5.5% unemployment in a quarter, which suggests a fairly robust market. At least, that’s the 10,000 ft view from our candidate traffic helicopter we call the US…
What’s Your Plan?
In the years heading into “the Great Recession, a major concern for businesses was the coming brain drain, which would be caused by Boomers retiring in droves from the workplace, and taking with them their vast technical skills, historical knowledge,…
Success(ion) Planning — When Retirement Becomes a Winning Strategy
By now, it should come as no surprise that baby boomers are retiring in record numbers. According to AARP, the number of retiring baby boomers is somewhere in the range of 8,000 per day. Considering that the average age of…
Is Your Bank a Reactor?
With the new year here, many of you may be feeling a renewed pressure to meet goals and continue to grow portfolio size and revenue for your company. By this point, every bank knows what that ‘magic’ growth number is…
Fed raises interest rates in U.S.
The Federal Reserve unanimously voted to raise interest rates for the first time in close to a decade.