Overcoming Workforce Shortages
Every industry is facing the same challenge; overcoming workforce shortages. It's an ongoing battle, but there are ways to help you win the war. We offer tips and tools for victory, from retaining your existing staff(in the face of the great resignation) to recruiting new talent and then successfully onboarding said talent. Retaining current staff: [...]
A Thriving Remote Workforce
We all recognize that remote work is no longer a 'futuristic" concept, but successfully doing it involves connecting, communicating, and collaborating – across the distance. It means taking the time to train your workers – remotely, of course. Finally, it means understanding and embracing the concepts of flexibility and the freedom of work from anywhere, [...]
What are You Doing About the Great Resignation?
Everybody is talking about it, but what is it, why is it looming on the horizon, and what can companies do about it? What is it: As the country opens, your talent is searching and leaving, possibly in droves. The exodus is becoming so real; a Texas A&M professor coined it as "The Great Resignation." [...]
Discovering Your Career Niche
Whether you are graduating HS and trying to “choose your future” or you’ve been in the workforce for years, but you’re ready for a change, finding your career niche is not an easy task. On the other hand, despite being challenging, it can be accomplished with this 3-step process. Explore – Plan – Act. [...]
7 Habits for Your Career
"But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise." ― Stephen R. Covey Stephen Richards Covey was an American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker. His most popular book is The 7 Habits of Highly Effective [...]
In 2021, the Best Workforce Strategy is to Expect the Unexpected
We’ve spilled a lot of (digital) ink over the last few months talking about what comes next for a business world that has been battered by turmoil. We’ve touched on the ways in which the Covid-19 Pandemic has challenged the conventional wisdom and changed the nature of the employee/employer relationship. And while we believe many [...]
The Unique (and Challenging) Reality of Staffing in the Coming Year
We've recently gotten some of the best news I’ve seen all year: the official approval of not one but two different Covid-19 vaccines. It seems that the next few months may finally bring an end to this devastating pandemic. While it may feel like this year has lasted an eternity, such a rapid development of [...]
Why Remote Work is Likely to Stick Around Even When COVID is gone
It seems trite at this point to say that the coronavirus has fundamentally changed life as we know it. It’s been almost eleven months now since the first reported case of COVID-19 in the United States and nine since most office workers started working from home. But now that the initial shock has worn off [...]
Robbins Staffing Solutions Celebrates 11 Years of Serving the Charlottesville Community with Giveaway
For 11 years, Joyce Robbins and the staff of Robbins Staffing Solutions, Inc. have been connecting excellent job candidates with Central Virginia employers, bringing talent and opportunity together. To celebrate their 11th anniversary as one of Charlottesville’s leading staffing firms, the company is giving away a designer Dooney & Bourke Calypso purse to a lucky [...]
Emotional Intelligence Spark Great Hires
Johnny Manziel, the once phenomenal college football player, winner of the Heisman trophy was supposed to be the turning point for the Cleveland Browns – the top talent they were seeking to jumpstart a new era for their team. They signed the contract, but the glory never came – Johnny had the talent, but not [...]