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…
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Manufacturing Trends heading in to Q2
According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, Manufacturing employment took a dip in March by 29,000 jobs. Two big stories at the end of March continue to be economic growth and personal consumption growth, yet American manufacturing continued to deal with…
Knowing the Cost of the Market
When talking to top talent, we spend a significant amount of time exploring what motivates candidates to make a career change. The most common areas of interest for making a change involve finding an opportunity offering more professional challenges or…
Don’t Let The Perfect Be The Enemy Of The Good
As the 1st Quarter of 2016 begins to draw to a close, the life science market continues to remain exceedingly tight. Today, the overall economy added 242,000 jobs surpassing economists’ most optimistic forecasts. The overall unemployment rate has dropped to…
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…
Spreading Around Some Holiday Cheer
As 2015 begins to draw to a close, the life science market continues to remain hot providing some holiday cheer as we enter the winter months. Just last week, the overall economy added 271,000 jobs — far surpassing economists’ most…
Green Beans and Checking Accounts
I had a very insightful conversation earlier this week with a national retail banking manager in the Midwest who managed grocery stores in a previous career. His approach to how he trains his lending team is simple and intelligent: “Every grocery store carries basic Del Monte…
Who Are You Counting on for a Strong 2016?
As we move into the last quarter of 2015, many people have begun to set their sights on ramping up for 2016. When planning, there is often a focus solely on one critical question: what is the plan? However, many…
Life Science Market As Hot as the Late Summer Weather
All across the country as we enter the Labor Day Holiday, most of the US is experiencing a heat wave. The same came be said about the Life Science job market right now; despite the continued wave of mergers and…