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How is the Labor Shortage Affecting YOUR Salary?
For small businesses in the custom integration industry, the hiring market has always been competitive. And it’s about to get a LOT more competitive. Today’s labor shortage is affecting every single company, small and large. Just about every single position's average...
What Makes a Great AV Technician?
One of the biggest reasons businesses struggle to hire great employees, is because they are looking for something so specific, that they are unable to find the right fit. We use our decades of experience in the custom integration industry to fill positions with...
Are You Living In The Right City?
No matter where you’re located, or how deep your roots are, your location has a huge effect on your work environment. Varying weather, scenery, people and above all, traffic, can positively or negatively affect your disposition to enjoy your job. Luckily, in today’s...
The 72 Hour Workweek Is Here – But So are We!
It is overwhelmingly easy for the owners of small businesses to get caught up in endless daily tasks and interactions. Whether you’re drowning in paperwork, or really into your game of solitaire, it’s important to move past the day to day operations, and commit more...
What Do Dating and Hiring Have In Common?
If you have ‘love at first sight’ for a prospective employee, you’re probably doing something wrong… At Wise Guy Staffing we see ourselves as a ‘dating service’ for the Custom Integration industry. We get out into the job market and match-up quality candidates with...
Hiring Automated Service-Based Industry?
Should Hiring be Automated in This Service-Based Industry? For many companies trying to cut costs, recruitment automation can initially seem like a no brainer. By lowering HR involvement to an absolute minimum, companies can save a lot of money annually on salary...
The Number One Reason People Change Jobs Is…
Today’s economy is absolutely booming. With unemployment at an all-time low, finding quality employees gets harder and harder. Companies are often competing with each other in order to gain access to the more experienced candidates. If firms hope to gain an edge in...
Signalling Tactics (Why You Can’t Get a Job)
In a perfect world, the employees with the best skills would get the best jobs, and all employees who wanted to refine their skills would have the opportunity too. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case in the short term. In the long run, we often see that ‘the cream...
This Cost Is Killing the AV and Technology Industries
In this industry and thriving economy, it’s often secondary costs that are killing businesses small and large. When it comes to your employees, their turnover price is often intangible, hard to track, and thus grossly overlooked. Turnover for an employee can often...
Choose Where You Want To Live
Finding the right fit with the right company almost always starts with your physical location. If you have your sights set on a new position professionally, you should be thinking about your position geographically as well. Here are some important things to think...