This Veterans Day, I’d like to send a personal message to United States service personnel past and present.  We celebrate Veterans Day to commemorate the armistice reached in 1918 ending World War I.  The question still remains today—how do you say thank you to people that have put your life ahead of their own?  These men and women have chosen to shield others, to put their own hopes and dreams aside, to love their families from a...

Eskridge & Associates Receives Service Disabled, Veteran Owned Small Business Certification (Round Rock, TX) Bob Eskridge, President and founder of Eskridge & Associates, was recently certified as a Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Small Business (SDVOSB) by the Center for Veteran Enterprise, Department of Veteran Affairs in Washington, DC. “The government provides many contracting opportunities to small businesses in general...

(Round Rock, TX) Eskridge & Associates announces that it has been awarded a contract to provide Emergency Room Physician Services at the Spokane VA Medical Center in Spokane, WA. The Spokane VAMC provides health care services to veterans in Washington and Idaho. The contract was issued by Department of Veterans Affairs, VISN 20 Acquisition Office, Vancouver, WA. With expected renewals, the total contract length will be for 5 years. In...

Just received the The Herman Trend Alert by Joyce Gioia-Herman, Strategic Business Futurist this morning and thought this was an outstanding article to post. Recently JobFox.com conducted a poll of recruiters with predictable results—Millennials were judged to be the least effective performers of the four generations now in our workplace. A paltry 20 percent of the responders characterized them as “generally great...

Though this is an older post, Paul Hawkinson at The Fordyce Letter wrote an excellent explanation of why a top-notch recruiter is worth the cost. His blog post, Why Recruiters Are Worth What They Charge, explores the value that a recruiter adds to a job search – through expertise, networking, access to “hidden” job markets, neutrality, and negotiation skills. I second many of his opinions, and would like to underscore a few of the...

Board-Certified Physician Recruiting, Part 4 In other blog posts in this series, I have described why it benefits clients and physicians to work with a board-certified recruiter, what each of the certifications mean to someone who is looking for a recruiter, and how the ongoing education of certified recruiters will help both hiring managers and candidates. In this last post, I want to talk about how certified recruiters play a crucial...