That star candidate may not be so stellar for your company. Industry consultant Paul Winans blogs about how to avoid making a costly hiring mistake.
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Sales growth has led to a boom of a different kind.
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NAHB student chapters bring the rising generation's top talent to the show, but the program is still fighting for funding and for builders’ attention.
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Ed Barnes, who will be serving as the builder's chief financial officer, will be focusing on expansion as the real estate market improves, he says.
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Noncompete and severance agreements, as well as potential discrimination issues, must be reconciled.
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The Labor Department's monthly report on employment for May, released Friday morning, showed nearly all job growth came as a result of the hiring of temporary census workers and missed expectations by a wide margin. The report said total nonfarm payroll employment grew by 431,000 in May, with 411...
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KB Home (NYSE:KBH), Los Angeles, on Thursday announced the hiring of its third chief financial officer in the past two years. He is Jeff Kaminski, who will join KB June 7 from the same post at Federal-Mogul Corporation, a Michigan-based automotive technology company.
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Builders must be able to verify that they and their subs meet immigration and hiring statutes.
The next generation of sales agents are motivated by a different set of standards and practices.
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Government jobs report shows residential construction jobs continue to disappear.
Only the fortunate will be attending this year's NAHB convention.
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"Not only don't things slow down in December, but there's a sense of urgency to fill jobs in many cases," says Tim Jones, vice president of human resources for Ixia, a communications technology test systems maker based in Calabasas, Calif. Even though you may have heard otherwise, don't drop out of...
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How to manage growth for optimal profitability.
For builders, the current market conditions are no game and the stakes are nothing less than survival. You can't afford to drop the ball because there just aren't that many opportunities right now to put points on the board. That's why it's critical to master the fundamentals of the business:...
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You want all the perks associated with a job in your favorite niche but your background isn't an ideal fit. Here's how to turn the odds of success in your favor.
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John Sadofsky wanted to be ready when he started his first postcollege job at a big accounting firm in Chicago last fall. The 23-year-old read financial books, sought a mentor's advice, attended a company networking event and bought some dress shirts. "When you graduate, you're going off into the...
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As a bipartisan immigration bill enters the arena of political and public debate, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) weighed in, focusing mostly on what it called the "deputizing" of the home building community."Home builders are home builders. Law enforcement officers are law...
The big builders that build two out of every five of the nation's new homes collectively pay at least $8 billion a year to hire undocumented workers, according to an analysis by BIG BUILDER. And they like it that way.
TEN TIMES,ADRIAN CALDERON SWAM THE RIO GRANDE in the dark trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States, carrying nothing more than an extra pair of jeans in a duffel bag. Ten times, he was turned back by border patrol officers. Finally, he had had enough.
BUILDERS IN THE FUTURE MAY WELL POINT TO May 9, 2006, as the day when the immigration debate stopped being academic for the housing industry. Early that morning, federal agents raided three of Fischer Homes' jobsites in Kentucky, Fischer's headquarters in Crestview Hills, Ky., and apartment...