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Yesterday, we celebrated the 14th anniversary of Joss Search with team lunch and Magnolia Bakery cupcakes, sent from our London office! 🧁 Here are 14 things I’ve learned in my eight years as a Jossie: 💎 Focus on doing all of the small things really well and the big things will look after themselves 💎 Eat the frog 💎 There’s no such thing as too many to-do lists 💎 We don’t save lives, but we do change them 💎 You don’t have to be the best - you just need to do your best 💎 Resilience is a muscle, and you only build it by failing 💎 Treat your candidates the way you’d like your family to be treated 💎 Mindset is there for the taking 💎 Fortune favours the bold 💎 Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself 💎 We need hurdles to evolve 💎 Making others happy will make you happy 💎 Team work really does make the dream work 💎 Be humble about what you know and confident about what you can learn   It’s exciting to envision where Joss Search New York will be in the next 14 years... 🚀 Here’s to growth, innovation, and continued success! 🥂 #josssearch #anniversary #newyorkexpansion #futureready

🌟 Employee Spotlight: Meet Madison Gochanour 🌟 Join us in celebrating the dedication and hard work of our June Employee Spotlight! Read on to learn more about Madison, or click the link below: 👏🎉 https://lnkd.in/gD5XmTSq 🚚 How long have you been with Bay & Bay? • I have been with Bay & Bay for 2.5 years. 🚚 What drew you to the transportation industry? • It was a different type of industry that I had not been in before and wanted to try. I am still interested, as this is a great job and very interesting; no two days are the same. 🚚 What position did you start in, and how did that help you get to where you are now? • CSA taught me how to stay organized and how to get everything done in a timely manner. 🚚 What do you enjoy most about Bay & Bay? • The people. I love the job, but the working environment makes it so much better. 🚚 What do you like to do outside of work? • I like to garden, bake or cook, and knit!

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We all want real, sustainable impact across Chicagoland - and this is what it looks like for those eager to find a career pathway to create a new future. Highlights that matter include... ➜ Since 1983 E&ES has helped place hundreds of thousands in good, quality jobs and assisted thousands of local businesses find talented new team members ➜ E&ES enjoys long standing and high-performing partnerships with Chicago Housing Authority, Chicago Dept. of Family & Support Services, and Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership ➜ Over 90% of those served are from priority populations with over 96% BIPOC served with workforce programs, and E&ES Staff and Leadership is 80% BIPOC - serving and representing Chicagoland Impact is more than a buzzword - it's the culture of E&ES. To discover more, start here - https://lnkd.in/e8ckXQtc

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From making Peter’s cups of tea each day 18 years ago, to now holding the position of Manager | Planning, Brooke Bruns has come a long way at MM! We strive to provide career progression opportunities to everyone at Millar Merrigan, and, as Brooke put it, “if you speak up about what you’re wanting - even if you don’t know what you want - there are opportunities to move in and out of separate departments.” Find out more about Brooke’s story by visiting our article on The Chalk 👉 https://buff.ly/3HFmXni

Did you happen to catch Shawn Gorman '84 on the Today Show recently? Read more about Shawn's time speaking with Al Roker, and watch the interview, in Shawn's post below!

Have you ever encountered a Red Door? Last weekend I visited Savannah, GA and what a cool city it is. It was an Oktoberfest weekend, and I had a great time, while sporting my Alabama T-shirt in South Georgia. I had fun sitting with a bunch of Georgia fans at one of the local sports bars, while watching college football, and discussing life. While strolling around in one those beautiful neighborhoods seeing how “the rich people live”, I came across this red door and it caught my attention. This well-kept red door, on this older building with the numbers 340 on it, stood out among all of those fancy homes, where the rich people live. They live well. While driving home, I begin to think about the significance of the “red door” and why it caught my attention. See, red doors can represent a lot of things and have throughout history, like “opportunity”, and the list goes on and on. You can Google that one. Have you ever walked down a long hallway and all of the doors are closed? Not one of those “doors” were open. Have you ever walked down a hallway that had all one colored doors except for one “Red Door”? Which door did you notice? Life is a lot like a hallway, with a series of doors. We walk down it, knock on some, some open and some don’t. We walk through some and pass on others. Some are locked, some are not. But then, there are the “Red Doors”, those special doors that opened that one opportunity that changed your career or life, and it was opened for you, by someone else. Leadership can be like a doorway! All of us in leadership can have the ability to be someone’s “Red Door” at different points in our career and life. You never know when you might be that one opportunity that colleague, direct report, new hire, or young person just starting out in life, just might need at that moment, in their life. Could you be someone's Red Door? Yes, that’s deep and we could camp out here for a minute, but we’ll leave that for another time. So, remember, motivate someone in a positive way today, knock on doors, be that “Red Door”, paint it, if you have to, and watch out for dragons. #bestlife50

“We don’t hire people to bake brownies, we bake brownies to hire people.” I've posted about Greyston Bakery before, having met CEO Joseph Kenner at an event in Rome, but their "Open Hiring" approach is so novel that it came back into view again this year and is worth sharing. At Greyston, job seekers put their name on a list and when the next opening comes up, they get the job, no questions asked, no background checks or anything. What they are doing is unlocking human potential through inclusive employment. The magic question: how does a 40 year old company that bakes brownies for Unilever, Ben & Jerry's’s and Whole Foods Market keep their standards high enough to meet stringent customer requirements with this kind of hiring policy? A lot of it has to do with gratitude and loyalty. Greyston employees in many instances have been given a second chance at life, and they deliver because they're proud to have an opportunity that no one else was prepared to give them. This comes together in a magical way: employee engagement, profitability and social responsibility working hand in hand. It’s very courageous and bold, it's also very impactful. And who doesn't like brownies? Applying our minds, what other industries could this work in? Check out https://www.greyston.org/ if you want to learn more... #openhiring #animarem #consciousbusiness #strategy #purpose Conscious Capitalism, Inc. B for Good Leaders B Lab U.S. & Canada

As an industry we often talk about what creates a positive culture within a company. Traditions like these give you insight into what builds culture here at Champion.