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…
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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…
Unemployment Sneaks Down To 4.9%
While global economic fluctuations sent the stock market on a wild ride in January, the US unemployment rate dropped another 0.1% to 4.9%, which is its lowest level since February 2008. Economists are projecting some more wage and inflation pressure…
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…
Cheap Gas Moves Cars
Cheap oil continues to help and hurt US manufacturing. The automotive industry led manufacturing losses during the recession but has been an area of strength and growth for US manufacturing in the last few years. Sales of cars and light…
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…
Manufacturing A Bit Sluggish In November
Reports are showing that the overall US economy grew for the 78th consecutive month, but US manufacturing has slowed a bit during the last couple of months. The recent ISM manufacturing index said that manufacturing numbers contracted in November for…
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…
US Down To 5% Unemployment
Manufacturing has been flat the last couple of months, but the overall economy seems to be doing well. We are now at 5% unemployment which is considered the threshold for full employment by the Fed and many private economists. This…