While many people have grown up to believe that full-time employment is the safest and most stable way of getting continuous income, working as a consultant comes with a variety of benefits that are often unheard of. This is especially true when you are working with a firm such as Q Consulting in Minneapolis who […]
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Q Consulting is comprised of the most collaborative, driven, and accountable problem-solvers in the Twin Cities. Today I caught up with Adam Fisher, Q Consultant Program Manager, who took a leap of faith into consulting and plans to never look back! Adam’s technology background includes experience in software training, infrastructure, web and app development, and […]
Q Consulting is honored to be named a 2020 Best Places to Work by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. To achieve this award, the organization received a nomination and participated in an employee-led survey. The survey results landed Q Consulting on the list of Best Places to Work in the Twin Cities. I met with […]
What is “normal?” What is “chaos?” Normal and chaos are not always opposites. Chaos is not always a bad thing. I often think we live in a state of balanced chaos. But right now, we are most definitely in an unbalanced, chaotic economic state. So, what do we do? It’s easy to get discouraged and want to […]
In February 2020, the unemployment rate in the United States was the lowest we have seen in over 50 years. Since a national emergency was declared mid-March, the unemployment rate in the US has increased rapidly. According to CNBC, over 26.5 million people have filed for unemployment in the last 5 weeks. Those numbers are shocking […]
We are living in crazy times. Everything has changed from a few short weeks ago. Almost every part of our lives has been impacted by this pandemic. As I sat at my kitchen “desk” trying to figure out my new reality, I thought about how I can continue to do what I am best at: […]
In my career as a Recruiter, I’ve heard statements such as “maybe you don’t need to know all of this”, “am I sharing too much?”, and “I don’t mean to bore you with the details.” Well, I am here to tell you all… I LOVE the details! I’ve found that to best represent candidates and […]
If you asked me a year ago what I’d expect to learn in my first year of Recruiting, I wouldn’t have even been able to scrape the tip of the iceberg on the amount of knowledge that I would gain in such a short period of time! I was told my first year of Recruiting […]
Many of the consultants I work with today are candidates I’ve worked with for several years. I strive to take a proactive approach to recruiting and I encourage candidates to do the same when working with Recruiters. Having trusted Recruiters on your side will not only help you find positions that will increase your skill […]
As we quickly approach the end of the decade, “data” has become a much more popular topic than it was in 2010. Data is now everywhere! According to bigdata-madesimple.com, “Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the […]