Jezabel Southard, Author at TERRA Staffing Group

The Competition for Talent in Seattle’s e-Commerce Market Heats Up

Staples. Alibaba. Nordstrom. Costco. Zulily. As more and more companies place their e-commerce teams in Seattle, within easy reach of the burgeoning talent of Silicon Valley, the race for local companies to grab the best available talent has become tighter. And the big companies have big clout. Amazon hired 1,700 Seattle-area engineers in just the …

TERRA Helped Me Turn a Temp Job into a “Real” Job!

People have a tendency to dismiss temporary work, saying that they want a “real” job. Well, not only are temporary positions “real”, they are great for many reasons. (An obvious reason being that doing temporary work is better than not working at all.) Temporary work allows you to “test-drive” different industries and is a great …

TERRA Opened the Door for Me To a Great Full-Time Job

Some job seekers are hesitant to partner with a staffing company when searching for a job. They make the assumption that every opportunity is temporary or that there is no chance that a partnership with a recruiting firm will lead to full-time, regular employment. And that’s a misconception that can cause many people to miss …

5 Tactics for Managing Top Performers With Toxic Attitudes

Sometimes, employees with great attitudes turn in mediocre work – and employees with toxic attitudes turn in outstanding work. The conventional advice for dealing with toxic employees is simple: “Just fire them!” But when the owner of the bad attitude is also one of your top producers or possesses a skill set found nowhere else …

TERRA Found Me the “Right Fit” Fast!

When Wendelyn Leon’s contract job as a paraeducator came to an end, she decided that she wanted a change. Rather than return to education, she wanted a role that was more administrative in nature. An online search led her to TERRA’s Tukwila office, where she interviewed with recruiter, Betty Dawson. Upon meeting and speaking with …

7 Steps to More Productive Meetings

The word “meeting” provokes groans from professionals in nearly every field. Meetings are essential to ensure everyone is on the same page and that work proceeds smoothly – but every minute spent in a meeting that doesn’t pursue these goals is a waste of your team’s time and productivity. Here are seven ways to make …

The Pros and Cons of Recruiting Talent Away from Your Competition

Companies and their staffing firms have a number of recruiting strategies at their disposal. One with the largest impact is to recruit talent away from your direct competition, also known as poaching talent. While this strategy sounds aggressive, it’s also in line with many other strategies used in marketing and sales, where the goal is …

TERRA Staffing Group Names Everett "Branch of the Quarter" for Q2

Congratulations to TERRA’s Everett Office for being named “Branch of the Quarter” for second quarter. The award, based on achieving sales, quality, profitability, and service delivery targets, was given at the company’s quarterly meeting last week. “The Everett branch demonstrates excellence in so many ways with an incredible level of consistency,” said VP of Operations, …

Top Technology Hubs This Year

If asked to name the top centers of technology in the United States, most people would instantly name Silicon Valley. And they’d be right – the cities of San Francisco and San Jose are far and away the biggest attractors of investment capital, and San Jose is way ahead in the race to file the …

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