Currently, four states have non-compete restrictions: California, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Oklahoma. As more legislation heats up,...

Companies are striving to diversify from their 'pale, male, and stale' roots and add more women and people of color in the workplace.

Some things haven’t changed and that’s how to conduct yourself in a professional interview whether in-person, on the phone or via video.

3 Tips for engineers and architects seeking a new job when they are relocating to a new city.

How do you keep people that work with and for you feeling like they are part of something bigger?

What if my client’s opportunity is your dream job that offers you something better and more special than what you have right now?

Here's the 3 things I have learned since the beginning of this monumental and seismic shift in the workplace post-COVID.

Now that many of us are going back into the office or starting to travel again for work, what are you supposed to do about your wardrobe?

CEO’s have told me that finding and retaining top talent is their number one issue they face in this current market.

Sound familiar? A headhunter calls you yet they refuse to share the name of their client and other specific details. The good recruiters...

The last three companies I spoke with in the past week shared a similar frustration with candidates they had recently extended offers to:...

“Search” is a concept often misunderstood as everyone seems to have a different idea of recruiters based on their own personal experience.

In our modern age in 2022. verbal communication has been replaced far too often with text and email messages.

Great individuals (and leaders), like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.

January 2021 is the 15th anniversary of starting the Smith Consulting Group.

In this edition of ‘Coffee With a CEO’, we are talking with Pete Giovenco, President & CEO of Bergmann. From pizza maker to CEO: This is...

It's always sort of amazed me that some companies take their young engineers with their shiny new Professional Engineer seals for granted.

It is not necessarily a foregone conclusion that companies stop hiring during the holidays.

One topic that reared its ugly head to me this past week is the topic of loyalty between employer and employee. 

No one at the age of 21 and having 4-6 years of schooling realizes that in order to advance into the upper echelons of their profession,...