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The State of Recruiting: What It Takes to Find and Attract Today’s Workforce

Anyone in the industry can tell you there’s no silver bullet to recruiting. Yet as the hiring market evolves, your recruiting strategy must change as well. Successful recruiting today requires a combination of intentional sourcing, clearly defined candidate criteria, and benefits that align with how today’s workforce evaluates employers. Katelyn Milanes, director of culture and […]

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Team Building: The Benefits of Hiring Veterans

The search for skilled labor is a constant concern, but one promising pool is military veterans. Each year the military discharges 270,000 service members and 80 percent won’t have a job lined up. ā€œIt makes good business sense to hire veterans,ā€ says Elly Zemetra, senior director of talent management for BrightView, based in Blue Bell, […]

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Melwood Provides People with Differing Abilities a Career in the Landscape Industry

Melwood is a nonprofit that has been providing jobs and opportunities for people of differing abilities for over 50 years in the Washington, D.C. area. The organization provides employment and job training to more than 2,000 people of differing abilities a year. Started in 1963, a small group of parents and community supporters decided to […]

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