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Cheers to the New Year from the MeeDerby team! As we toast the season, our team has been reflecting on the year it has been. We welcomed our 36th year of business, Robin Mee was inducted into the Staffing Industry Analysts Staffing 100 Hall of Fame and recognized on the Global Power 150 Women in Staffing, Kim Whiteley was named Top 100 Staffing Leaders To Watch by Candidately and we welcomed our newest member of the team, Lauren Fenech! We will have more exciting news to share in the new year. This year has been challenging in the Staffing Industry but the MeeDerby team focused on the work with our clients and candidates and placing great talent with wonderful companies in rewarding jobs. Thank you for being part of our community and we look forward to working with you in 2025. Happy Holidays, The MeeDerby Team #staffingindustry #executivesearch #leadershipsearch #jobsinstafffing #happyholidays #happynewyear

Great Opportunity Alert Sales Leader, Commercial Staffing - North Carolina Our client is currently seeking a dynamic Sales Leader to join their team in North Carolina, specifically in the Triad - Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point areas.The ideal candidate will be a player-coach leader who is hands-on and eager to build out capabilities for securing larger deals. You will lead a small sales team and drive new sales, focusing on acquiring new clients and expanding business opportunities, with an expectation of expanding the team in the future. Compensation includes a base salary of $140,000 with additional incentives tied to new business and growth targets. You can read the full job description here: https://lnkd.in/eEuCvfcb Interested in learning more about this opportunity? Contact Sue Jagan ([email protected]) today! #staffingindustry #executivesearch #leadershipsearch #jobsinstaffing #salesleader #commercialstaffing

In this week’s Increase Diversity newsletter, Jenn Tardy shares “Critical Lessons for Increasing Diversity, Equity, and Retention from Lily Zheng’s DEI Deconstructed.” Among the lessons identified: Lesson #1: Intentions Don’t Get Results—Impact Does Lesson #2: Address Power Dynamics and Shift Power Lesson #3: Identity Matters—a Lot Lesson #4: Don’t Stick to One Approach—Expand Your DEI Toolkit You can read more about Zheng’s book and its lessons in the full newsletter below! #staffingindustry #executivesearch #leadershipsearch #jobsinstaffing #increasediversity

Randstad’s State of U.S. Hiring Survey has just been released and among its findings, “Hiring Plans on the Rise: More than 6 in 10 U.S. Companies Plan to Add New Positions in the First Half of 2025.” According to the report, the three prevailing factors that contributed to these findings are company growth, emergence of new projects and employee turnover rates. You can read more about the report via PR Newswire below! #staffingindustry #executivesearch #leadershipsearch #jobsinstaffing #staffingtrends

Thirty six years ago, in a small office in Washington D.C. near the White House on K Street,  Robin Mee, Founder & CEO of MeeDerby, opened the company doors. Today MeeDerby is an award winning search firm with a fully remote team across the United States and Ireland. This picture was taken at our  recent annual strategy meeting in October. Since 1988, MeeDerby has placed thousands of people in hundreds of staffing companies and became the leading executive search firm for the staffing industry. We want to thank everyone who has been part of these last 36 years, and look forward to continued success in our industry through our partnerships, The MeeDerby team #staffingindustry #executivesearch #leadershipsearch #jobsinstaffing #anniversary

Laura Hilgers took to the LinkedIn Talent Solutions blog with her piece “Is Attrition All About Bad Managers? 5 Experts Say It’s More Complex.”  In the article, she shares the responses she received from the question, “There’s an expression in the talent world that ‘People don’t leave jobs. They leave managers.’ What are the qualities of managers that inspire people to stay?” You can read about the response from Stacey A. Gordon, MBA, executive advisor at Rework Work,  Stacy Donovan Zapar, founder of The Talent Agency ★ , Tim Sackett, SCP 🟦, president of HRU Technical Resources, Hung Lee, curator of the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter and  J.T. O'Donnell, founder and CEO of Work It Daily in the full article below! #staffingindustry #executivesearch #leadershipsearch #jobsinstaffing

The MeeDerby team is currently gifting our clients from this year a donation in their name to a charity of their choice for the holidays. One of our clients shared a heartfelt story about why they are picking the charity, SOME. “As a young child, I was an orphan and would sometimes go several days without a meal. I feel very passionate about supporting missions to feed underprivileged families and closely align with the values of this organization. Please consider supporting SOME (So Others Might Eat).” You can learn more about the charity here: https://some.org/ #staffingindustry #executivesearch #leadershipsearch #MeeDerbyGivesThanks

Staffing Industry Analysts report on the latest University of California Los Angeles Anderson Forecast calling “for US GDP to dip below 2% in 2025.” Although “the US economy is expected to outshine its global peers” the impending White House transition and the new economic policies expected, which include the potential of global tariffs, have altered upcoming forecasts. You can read more in the full article below! #staffingindustry #executivesearch #leadershipsearch #GDP #economicforecast2025

Tim Tolan, Managing Partner of The Tolan Group, sat with Hunt Scanlon Media to cover “Executive Search in 2024: Challenges, Trends, and Hopes for a Hiring Resurgence in 2025.” Among the findings of this year and what next year may bring, the focus is on speculative growth despite 2024 being a downturn year, impacts of hiring around RTO policies and the rise of AI in the hiring process. You can learn more in the full article below! #staffingindustry #executivesearch #leadershipsearch #jobsinstaffing #staffingindustry2025

In the spirit of the holiday season, the MeeDerby team put together a playlist for your workdays leading up to the end of the year. You can listen to the full playlist with the link below! #staffingindustry #executivesearch #leadershipsearch #jobsinstaffing #holidayplaylist