Every day prospective clients ask us, “How are you better than the competition?” The reality is, there is no true comparison. We have an unparalleled approach that sets us apart from traditional career services. Simply put, The Barrett Group is in a league of its own.

It is undeniably painful to be laid off. No question about it. You might wonder: Why is this happening now? Where is the silver lining? But there is life after being laid off – and very often it’s an improvement!

Career growth requires intention. Really making progress in your career (and not just settling for what comes along) requires effort, clear-headed guidance, and a plan. If your career is no longer living up to your expectations, it’s time to exert a little energy and combat entropy’s creeping erosion....

Before making a career transition, it’s important to understand your underlying motivations for wanting a change. Identifying your pain points – the source of your stress or anxiety – is the first step in resolving that pain and moving towards a better place in your professional life.

Sometimes our clients are surprised at first to hear about paid search. They ask, why should I pay for career management services? Well, the return on investment for using career management services can be 30-fold or more. So, the better question is, why incur the opportunity cost of not employing...

Demand for engineering talent has certainly seen changes in some industries – sometimes radical changes. But there is no lack of interesting opportunities for engineers, rather a lack of understanding about how to discover them. And the areas of fastest hiring growth are, in some cases, surprising.

While some market segments are indeed slowing down as economies cool, one in particular is busy booming: the Non-profit Executive Market. It promises a lot of opportunity—the kind that The Barrett Group renders attainable every day.

Last week, six executive clients found jobs, 40 landed positions between June and July, and 75% of them landed through the unpublished market. How did they do it? Much of it had to do with being the right person at the right time.

At the end of July a hiccup in the labor market spooked stock markets and many investors headed for the exits. Indeed, there may well be reasons to consider stocks overvalued, but not because of the labor markets, and especially not the market for executives.