LRO Staffing Blog

Why Job Seekers Avoid Recruiters

I know this is going to sound pretty rich. A recruiter explaining why job seekers seem to dislike recruiters. It’s not that we don’t know what’s being said out there. We’ve heard it all, and we understand where it comes from. We even realize there are going to be individuals…

Peter HeuthorstJanuary 30, 2019

Employee Management Hiring

Employee Retention – Top Reasons Employees Want to Stay or Leave

You’ve put all sorts of effort into attracting the right talent for your organization. You’ve sought out the best and negotiated fair contracts for their hire. Now, how do you keep them from jumping ship in the months immediately following their hire? The days of the golden-watch-retirement, having spent an…

LRO StaffingJanuary 15, 2019

Interview Tips Salaries

The Top Salary Negotiation Mistakes to Avoid

When you’re in the final stages of landing a new job, everyone you talk to is going to provide you with heaps of unsolicited advice on how to make sure you end up with the best possible salary. You will likely notice that this advice can range wildly, often be…

LRO StaffingJanuary 4, 2019

Hiring Ottawa Technology

Hiring the Best Tech Talent in a Limited Market (Like Ottawa)

Hiring tech talent can be a challenge. The internet is abuzz with all sorts of ways to go about finding the right person with the right skills to complete your team. However, no matter how much you learn there are always going to be a lot of subtleties to wrap…

LRO StaffingDecember 17, 2018

Job Market Ottawa Salary Guide Technology

Ottawa Technology Salary Guide 2019

The technology sector we serve in the nation’s capital is just one of the business lines that LRO Staffing specializes in. As a result, we have a unique set of insights into what is happening in this dynamic field that continues to grow at a healthy pace. More and more…

LRO StaffingDecember 10, 2018

Ottawa

15 Reasons Working in Ottawa is Better than Anywhere Else in Canada

Canada is a delightful country, and aside from having a year-round tropical vacation province, we have pretty much everything else you could ever want. From sea to sea, we have the islands, the industry, the rocks and trees, the prairies, the Arctic, the mountains, some more islands, and all of…

Glenn McCarthyDecember 3, 2018

Interview Tips Ottawa

How to Effectively Answer “Why Should We Hire You?” – With Sample Answers

To a remarkable degree, it all comes down to one question. All that time spent on your CV. All the interviews and follow-ups. Everything you do to stand out from the crowd eventually boils down to this one question, and we’re here to help you effectively answer it. Why should…

LRO StaffingNovember 15, 2018

Hiring Ottawa

The Costs of Your Hiring Process Taking Too Long

It’s funny that in a world where absolutely everything seems to be speeding up, the hiring process in most organizations seems stuck in the mud. Or, at least, it would be funny if it didn’t cost so many organizations mass amounts of resources and almost more importantly huge opportunity costs…

LRO StaffingOctober 31, 2018

Office Fun Ottawa

1st Annual LRO Staffing Pumpkin Decorating Contest

Halloween 2018 is fast-approaching and so this year we decided to have a little fun around the office in celebration of this spooky day. Enter the 1st Annual LRO Staffing Pumpkin Decorating Contest. The competition was fierce, but the results were absolutely amazing. Congrats team on displaying such amazing creativity.…

LRO StaffingOctober 26, 2018

Job Market Ottawa

Ottawa’s Job Market in 2019

For quite some time, Ottawa had a reputation for being a sleepy government town. Clean, orderly, well looked after, and not many employment opportunities much beyond the federal government and the sectors that support it. In 2018 and looking ahead to next year, this idea could not be further from…

Lee-Anne McDougallOctober 17, 2018