R.I.P. Blue Linksys Router

It had to happen eventually. My blue Linksys router, the one that everyone seems to have, is dying. The forty dollar device lasted a long time, so I have no complaints, except that now I have to buy a replacement and there is a much bigger selection than when I bought that good old Linksys. My first search on Amazon returned nearly nine thousand results. Although it’s tempting to buy another Linksys, how do I know if that is still the best thing available? I started reading the reviews, but after the first page of routers I still could not tell what I needed.

If I Had Known Then What I Know Now

Once upon a time, I was a job seeker. Now that I sit on the other side of the desk, I realize what a horrible job seeker I was. When recruiters asked me for information, I did not want to answer. How were they going to help me? I clearly remember interviewing with a staffing agency many years ago and the recruiter asked me what salary I needed for a permanent position and I told him not to worry about that, just to find me a temporary job while I worked on my own job search. Hello, attitude? After all, who could do a better job than me of presenting me?

Celebrity Staff Announces Q4 Employees of the Quarter

Celebrity Staff would like to congratulate its Q4 Employees of the Quarter. Learn more about the winners, here.

C&A Named a Best Places to Work

We’re thrilled to announce that Celebrity Staff‘s parent company, C&A Industries, has been named as among Omaha’s Best Places to Work for the fourth year in a row! This annual initiative, sponsored by the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce and Baird Holm, recognizes a select number of companies based on the results of surveys which [...]

Celebrity Staff in the News

Celebrity Staff Regional Manager Patty North was recently quoted in the Midlands Business Journal in an article about staffing trends. Read a summary of the article.

Delegating with Success

Trying to do it all is a variation on the theme of doing too much at once. When you try to do everything yourself, rather than appropriately delegating tasks that others can do (sometimes even better than you can do them), you slow yourself and your company down, as well as potentially sacrificing the quality of your services or products.

NASCAR, Frogs, and Bunnies, Oh My! What Your Email Address is Saying About You.

Leaving an impression is good, right? Well, that depends.

How, exactly, are you leaving a memorable impression? With a charming personality? Perfect. With a sharp suit and a good handshake? Fantastic. With an email address that causes an employer to do double take? Not so good.

Career Quote from Celebrity Staff

If you’re in a good profession, it’s hard to get bored, because you’re never finished — there will always be work you haven’t done. — Julia Child

The Great Lost Art of the Handshake

We tweet. We text. We IM, but the ultimate “Instant Messenger” in an interview is the Handshake. Technology is fantastic, but don’t be quick to dismiss the perennial stand-by for introductions; the handshake.

For the most part, we’ve gone far beyond the origins of this gesture, which in Medieval times provided a way to demonstrate the absence of weapons for the approaching parties.

From an employment perspective, we’ll focus on using the handshake as one facet of making a good impression on your interviewer, and potential employer.

Setting Goals & Planning in 2012

I have a room in my house that has about ten framed quotes by Ronald Regan. As January is a great time to evaluate goals, I often reflect on Regan’s quotes about setting goals, one being: “My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.”