Celebrity Staff Recognizes Employee of the Year

Celebrating with professionals from each of the staffing divisions within C&A Industries, Inc., Celebrity Staff was ecstatic to recognize the accomplishments of our 2010 Employee of the Year, Leslie B. at the Annual Awards Dinner on Thursday, September 23.

Improving Your Workplace Relationships

Whether you’re meeting with a group of colleagues in a formal setting or working one-on-one with a coworker on a project, how you interact with others impacts your ability to manage your time. The better your workplace relationships, the better able you will be to accomplish goals you have in common and to communicate clearly, effectively, and honestly.

Fun at Work: Possible and Productive

As I watched my grandson this weekend laugh a fully belly laugh, it made me think about the last time, we as adults, laughed like that. If you think about it, you spend more than 33 percent of your week at work. I understand work is work, but why can we not have a few moments of laughter in that time?

A Little ‘Chocolate Milk’ Goes a Long Way

It was a typical Saturday afternoon. I had finished preparing lunch for the family and was starting to clean up the dishes when my 7-year-old son approached me. “Daddy, do you know why I love you?” My brain started to flood images of my many qualities that make me a loveable father. Was it the hundreds of logged hours watching various Cartoon Network programming? The irreplaceable half I bring to our “Dynamic Duo”, when playing Xbox 360’s “Lego Batman”? Maybe it’s the quality time we spend just before bed, tucking him in and exchanging a long goodnight hug?

Interviewing: Looking Beyond the Here and Now and Moving Forward

In the last two Celebrity Staff blogs, Patty North, Celebrity Staff Regional Manager, discussed Celebrity’s recent client presentation about interviewing and making smart hiring decisions. She pointed out what is not working and gave tips on how to make smart hiring decisions. I would like to wrap up the discussion on interviewing and making smart hiring decisions by giving you some ideas of how to move forward.

Interviewing: First Step in Improvement? What is NOT working?

In my last blog post I shared that while there are some managers/execs who truly are interview pros, most of you aren’t trained in interviewing. Your core skills instead rest in your offerings to your business, yet a vast number of hiring managers still think they are interview experts.  So, now that we are all aware [...]

Interviewing: Do you really know what you are doing?

Why selecting the best candidates NOW may define the future of your company.

Last month, Elizabeth Ambri, Branch Manager of Celebrity Lincoln and I conducted a workshop exclusively for Celebrity Staff clients on why managers should step back and evaluate their interview skills. We explained how doing so could benefit their company and offered specific tips on what they should do differently when interviewing.

Employee on the Go — Sarah Bonow

Each month a new C&A Industries (parent company of Celebrity Staff) employee is featured as an Employee on the Go, which are individuals who are going above and beyond in a positive way in the name of health and wellness. This month Celebrity Staff Operations Manager, Sarah Bonow, was featured in recognition of her overall zest for physical fitness and for her accomplishment of completing her first half marathon. Way to go, Sarah!

A Client’s Perspective: Why Working with a Staffing Firm Works for my Company

This month I am celebrating my ten year anniversary with Celebrity Staff! In my ten years, quite a lot has changed. The employment landscape in Omaha has changed, the process of how applicants apply for jobs has changed, the way our clients conduct interviews has changed, and the process we go through to recruit candidates has definitely been changed by technology and the advent of social networking. In honor of my anniversary, I thought I’d sit down with a client that I have worked with my entire career with Celebrity to find out if the reasons why employers choose to work with a recruiting firm have remained the same or if they have also changed.

Unemployment Part II: Disciplinary Action

It is difficult in these economic times to avoid talk on the television and radio of the financial crisis we are in or the seemingly hopeless state of the economy. Likewise, unless you are only tuning into the Disney Channel, it is hard to miss the topic of unemployment and how its effects are playing a part in the world today. Now, I recognize that flipping the channel to a show about a teenage alien can be a much-needed reprieve, but only with knowledge can you really find peace.