Reopening Begins, Working with Employees on Return, Hiring Competes with Unemployment Benefits and More!

Alaant's Miriam Dushane is here with an end of the week message on the reopening of businesses, staying connected virtually for your career search and more…

Businesses will be facing new challenges as executives and employees start to head back to the office. Beyond the legal challenges of reopening, businesses will have to be patient and sympathetic with their employees' concerns. Some employees may be scared to head back to work for fear of getting sick with the coronavirus. Some employees may…

Alaant’s next virtual career counseling series “Powering Your Career Search During COVID-19,” will be held Thursday, June 11 via Zoom. This event is free & open to the public and is intended to assist individuals seeking job opportunities in a labor market upended by coronavirus. Register Now!

It was mid-March when Hire Up Staffing Services sent its top salespeople to Las Vegas to celebrate the biggest week they had in the history of their company. They had found positions for more workers than ever before in what was then a “candidate’s market,” according to Rebecca Kirkman, president of Hire Up. At that time, employers were raising wages and benefits to persuade those in a shrinking labor market to take up or change jobs…

Join Alaant and Groff NetWorks on 6/10 for our bi-weekly 518 Business Connect - Virtual Networking Event. Catch up with fellow business colleagues to share stories, get a pulse on the current state of business affairs, and help each other by networking. Keeping our connections strong will help us all to move forward after COVID-19. Register Here!

Albany, NY – Alaant Workforce Solutions, the leading professional workforce services firm in New York’s Capital Region, today announced it has been named by Forbes as one of America’s Best Recruiting Firms 2020 – the fourth consecutive year Alaant has received this prestigious recognition…