About: Sara Antonetz

Black Friday, White Christmas, Blue-Light Specials, Red-Tag Savings…the list goes on and on… Everything seems to get a little more crowded, and a little more frantic this time of year. Between school programs, church functions, holiday parties, family gatherings, is shopping, preparing, cooking, wrapping, and oh yes! Work. Work brings its own level of franticContinue Reading

A recent 2016 Staffing Industry survey by Haley Marketing revealed that 65% of the 487 staffing professionals who responded, cite the gap between job requirements and the skills of candidates as “very” or “extremely” challenging.  In fact, the survey indicated this skills gap is the number one job frustration among respondents. These results left theContinue Reading

One measure of a great company that is often overlooked in the business world is the ability to create and preserve an environment of work-life balance. Sharply contrasting this ideal, many employees are being paid for 40 hours’ worth of work on a weekly basis, yet a 2014 Gallup Study found that Americans work an averageContinue Reading

For the American workforce, witnessing the United States unemployment rate spike sharply during the recent economic recession was anything but encouraging. The good news? After hitting a peak of ten percent in October of 2009, the national unemployment rate has decreased to 5.3 percent as June 2015. The bad news? That still leaves approximately 8.3 millionContinue Reading

Sizing up the interviewee sitting across the desk from you can be daunting.  How do you really know who you are talking to?  Getting past the resume and prepared answers is the key. Asking situational questions can reveal character and personality traits, if you know how to listen.   Questions that begin with statements such as,Continue Reading