Peggy Dunn, Managing Director, IT, announced that Sandra Schwarz has accepted the role of Information Security Specialist at Providence Hospital – AHIS in Washington, DC. Ms. Schwarz has a solid and dedicated background with the specifics and intricacies of Information Security as well as strong leadership and mentoring abilities. She’s excited to begin her new role and make a positive impact!
ASG has recently completed a search for a Client Advisor for Freedom One Financial headquartered in Clarkston, MI. Mark Angott, President, and Beth Grossman, Banking and Financial Services Director, have placed Tim Madigan in this role. Mr. Madigan has had many successful achievements throughout his career and is excited to be joining the team at Freedom One.
Don DeLaura, Managing Director of ASG, is pleased to announce that he recently completed an Executive Director search for a leading nonprofit organization with a long-standing heritage of community service in southeast Michigan. Don looks forward to working with this organization and other nonprofits in the future.
Mark Angott along with J.T Westendorf have successfully placed Shannon Craigg with Michigan Business Connection in Ann Arbor, MI. Ms. Craigg has accepted a position of Senior Portfolio Manager for this credit union service organization.
Quentin Burchill and the Energy Practice at Angott Search Group are pleased to announce the placement of Mr. Eric Hutchins into a Regional Sales Manager role with IGS Energy. Eric will be based in Chicago.
Eric has spent the past 14 years in sales and business development. Most recently, Eric worked with Direct Energy, selling natural gas and electricity to commercial and industrial clients. His track record of success in sales and his ability to develop business relationships along with his desire to build, grow and mentor a team made created the perfect fit for IGS and the aspirations they have for the Chicago market. Eric will report directly to Scott Arthur, Director of Sales for IGS.
Based in Dublin, Ohio, IGS Energy is America’s largest independent retail supplier of natural gas. Founded in 1989, the company serves over 800,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in a seven state region across the Midwest and the Northeast.
This national search was completed in August and Eric started at IGS in September.
J.T. Westendorf, Search Consultant, and Mark Angott, President, are pleased to announce that Sue Dame, Barbara Zalud and Alicia Wahdan have accepted Mortgage Loan Officer Positions at PNC Bank. Ms. Dame will be based in Fort Wayne, IN; Ms. Zalud will be located in Cleveland, and Ms. Wahdan will work from the Dayton, OH branch. All three individuals are looking forward to joining PNC’s Mortgage department.
Mark Angott, President at ASG, announced that Nancy Tochman has accepted the position of Business Banking Lending Manager with Flagstar Bank in metro Detroit. Ms. Tochman has strong successful track record in the banking industry is looking forward to her new role at Flagstar.
The full report can be seen here: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm
According to the Labor Department, total U.S. private-sector employment grew by 67,000 positions in August, the eighth consecutive month of job growth. Total U.S. employment fell by 54,000 positions after factoring in government jobs, including 114,000 temporary census workers who were let go. The unemployment rate rose from 9.5 to 9.6 percent, driven mostly by an increase in people who completed temporary work—including census workers—and new entrants, people looking for their first job. In total, nearly three quarters of a million private-sector jobs have been added to the U.S. economy this year.
At last, meaningful improvement is being seen in the length of unemployment. The average length of unemployment has fallen since June from 35.2 to 33.6 weeks. The total number of people unemployed for 27 weeks or more has fallen from 6.8 million in May to 6.3 million in August.
Year-over-year, the management, professional and related occupations unemployment rate has fallen to 5.1 percent from 5.4 percent. The improvement, however, is tempered by a decline of a little over a million workers using the classification, about a 2 percent reduction. Conversely, production occupations have seen the most dramatic year-over-year improvement with unemployment falling from 15.1 to 11.6 percent. Total workers using the classification grew by about 300,000. A large part of this strength likely comes from the automotive industry, which while traditionally shutting down for a month in the summer to retool, did not do so this year because of high demand.
In an interesting, yet not immediately explainable turn of events, the participation rate of those with four-year college degrees over the last three months has dropped from 77.3 to 75.8 percent. This may be the clearest indication yet of the effect of baby boomer retirement and their exodus from the labor market. Such drops in participation have not been seen among workers with lower levels of academic achievement, whose retirements presumably will be delayed further than college graduates.
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Online advertised vacancies dropped 57,100 in August to 4,236,200, following an increase of 139,200 in July, according to The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine Data Series. The gap between the number of unemployed and advertised vacancies (supply/demand rate) stood at 3.40 unemployed for every advertised vacancy in July (the last available unemployment data) but is down from its peak of 4.73 in October 2009. “Labor demand continues to struggle to post gains month after month,” said June Shelp, VP at The Conference Board. “During the last few months, gains in online job demand one month have been partially offset by dips in the following month. But the good news is that overall job demand is still maintaining a modest upward trend for both the nation and most States.” Among the top 10 occupation groups with the largest numbers of online advertised vacancies, Management occupations posted the largest August increase, up 8,300 to 588,800 and followed a gain of 40,200 in July. The August rise was largely due to increases in demand for financial managers (branch or department), sales managers, marketing managers, postsecondary education administrators, and human resources managers. Labor demand for healthcare practitioners and technical occupations dropped for the second month in a row; demand was down 31,500 in August to 542,500. The drop was largely due to decreases in advertised vacancies for family and general practitioners, physicians and surgeons, general internists, and obstetricians and gynecologists.
Time Management Tips
Do you ever have the feeling that there aren’t sufficient hours in the day? Time management is something that can make a huge difference to what you can achieve during the working day. The following are a series of tips to help you and your team manage time successfully.
• Decide your personal life/career objectives.
• Specify the objectives in specific terms. Make them measurable: have specific aims and deadlines.
• Break your aims down into assessable objectives.
• Review your aims at regular intervals. Don’t just write them down and forget them.
• Keep your written aims at hand always.
• Focus on the efforts that contribute to your improvement.
• Review your personal mission, aims and objectives at regular intervals – and assess how much you achieved.
Planning
• Plan your time. Don’t let it control you.
• Assess your work carefully and allocate priorities.
• Allocate priorities in order: A’s, B’s, C’s and D’s.
• A’s are important and urgent.
• B’s are important, but not urgent.
• C’s can be dealt with outside of your key business/sales time.
• D’s are unimportant, and can be discarded immediately.
• Make appointments with yourself in your diary for personal time to evaluate your progress and plan time for the coming days and weeks.
• Stick to your day as you have planned it. Make a plan and stick to it.
• To help with planning, always ask the questions: what, who, why, where, when and how?
Delegation
• Concentrate on those “tasks” whose success depends on you.
• Delegate wherever possible. Make use of administrative, technical or specialist staff.
• When delegating, do not abdicate tasks. If it is your “task”, it is your final responsibility.
• Agree a timeline for tasks which are being delegated, then let the other person get on with them.
• Make sure the delegation instruction has been fully understood and leave room for questions.