Author Archives: Q Consulting

5 Game-Changing Hiring Tips

5 Game-Changing Hiring Tips Changes and competition in the market significantly affect the hiring landscape and this year is no different. Since joining the IT and Management Consulting industry almost 4 years ago, I’ve witnessed the quickly changing hiring landscape and companies struggling to hire effectively. If you’re a hiring leader, you may have witnessed […]

Suit Yourself: Standing Out in a Casual Marketplace

Let’s take it back to the 90s! There’s no doubt that a lot has changed since VHS cassette tapes (“be kind, rewind”), fax machines, and Palm Pilots. Many of these changes have positively impacted the world we live and do business in. There is one thing, that without a doubt, has had a massive change in […]

Just Thinking Out Loud… Is it Time for a New Fare?

After receiving our Best Places to Work survey results, the word that our employees and staff used most to describe their experience with Q Consulting is FUN. What’s a more fun topic for Minnesotans than the State Fair? In my personal life, I wake up and workout at the same time each day (4:45 am), leave […]

Q Consulting Voted Best Places to Work 2019

The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal is the longest-running awards program recognizing great workplaces in the Twin Cities. Best Places to Work honorees are determined through confidential employee surveys. The survey questions are answered on a scale ranging from “Strongly Disagree” to “Strongly Agree” and questions asked may include: “I believe this organization will be successful […]

Building a Community Within Your Organization

Company culture has been a hot topic in recent years and it’s clear that “culture” is more than a buzzword. Company culture builds the foundation for hiring and reflects the goals of an organization. Company culture provides guidelines to help build a team of people to collectively accomplish goals. Having a defined company culture is […]

Just Thinking Out Loud…Is it All Luck?

A family member of mine recently went through a significant career change. He stepped into a failing branch of a global organization and within a few short years led the team to be the most profitable branch in the company. He poured his passion, knowledge and soul into leading this branch and ultimately found success! […]

10 Year Challenge: The Hiring Crisis in Minnesota

10 Year Challenge

With unemployment rates at a 50-year low, it comes as no surprise that the job market and hiring landscape in Minnesota look vastly different than 10 years ago. According to the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, in Q2 of 2009 there were 31,000 job vacancies and 232,000 unemployed people. Ten years later in Q2 […]

Just Thinking Out Loud… Is Speed Better Than Quality?

Speed vs Quality

We recently received a testimonial from a great Fortune 500 client. The hiring manager stated, “Q Consulting is our go-to consulting company! They’re consistently able to find candidates and consultants that 30 of our other vendors cannot find and at the same price” he then went on to ask, “how is this possible?”. Organizations are […]