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Marketplace is seeking experienced and motivated sales professionals to join our growing team in Greenville, SC. If you are a strategic, competitive team player with energy and a commitment to excellence, let's hear from you!
Responsibilities include acquisition of new clients, developing and implementing sales strategies, working with our recruiters to identify opportunities, and partnering with customers to understand hiring needs and facilitate exact-match delivery of talent. Candidates with a Bachelor's degree, 3+ years in sales, a proven track record, and staffing experience should visit our website for full details. |
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Lattimore Named To
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Marketplace President and CEO Ray Lattimore was named to Greenville's "50 Most Influential" list for 2010 in the January issue of Greenville Business Magazine. He was saluted for being a "champion of entrepreneurialism and minority business growth, and his active involvement in the community, while noting that in 2010, he earned his Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) title and hosted the 2010 Business Opportunity Conference, which attracted over 1,000 minority businesses. |
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GADC Relaunches
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The Greenville Area Development Corporation, the non-profit organization established by Greenville County Council to promote and enhance the economic development of Greenville County, has relaunched its website (www.goGADC.com) to provide site selectors, media and the business community with resources and tools to further the region's economic growth and prosperity. The site offers information about business climate, market conditions, workforce and quality of life criteria to engage those considering Greenville County for a new or expanded home. Marketplace is a proud investor in the GADC. |
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If your company is looking for top quality talent to add to or maybe supplement your existing staff, we hope you'll give us a call. From light industrial to IT, office administrative to accounting, we have the people you need to succeed. Please email us or call 864.286.3900.
Ray Lattimore
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Workforce Happiness:
Your Competitive Advantage |
 The single greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged work-force. That is no longer just conjecture.
That is now a confirmed scientific fact.
Ground-breaking author and researcher Shawn Achor, a leading expert on human potential, has documented through scientific studies - as well as work with dozens of Fortune 500 companies - that the "happiness advantage" proves that nearly every single business outcome improves when a brain is positive as opposed to negative, neutral, or stressed. Waiting to be happy limits the brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.
Achor points to what happens right after someone is primed for positivity. It turns out that happiness gives us a chemical edge by flooding our brains with dopamine and serotonin, chemicals that not only make us feel good, but dial up the learning centers of the brain to higher levels. They help us organize new information, keep that information in the brain longer, and retrieve it faster later on. And they enable us to think more quickly and creatively, become more skilled at complex analysis and problem solving, and see new ways of doing things.
Not convinced? Read Achor's manifesto with full details here. |
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Know the Keys to Better Interviewing
 Interviewing candidates has never been easy; today, it's fraught with legal peril. To stay out of trouble, remember:
Listen a lot. Ask relevant questions and focus less on discussing the company and job specifics
Focus conversations.Avoid topics like religion; focus on topics that facilitate making a good, legal hiring decision
Write down questions. Have a list of questions for all candidates, male and female, before interviews start
Organizational fit. Compatibility is key. How will this candidate fit with your culture?
Multiple interviews help. Conducting multiple interviews lets you probe deeper
Don't try to "make it work". Just because you like a candidate or appreciate their technical skills, don't assume you can make it work out. Keep looking
Avoid promises. Legal vulnerability can start with casual statements about job security or promotions
Test for relevant skills. Only test for skills directly related to performance on the job a candidate is seeking
Pre-employment interviewing is a critical part of the employment process. Be smart about information you seek from candidates and you'll make better decisions. |
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Payroll Taxes Reduced for 2011
 The Tax Relief Act of 2010 provides a "payroll tax holiday" designed to invigorate the economy in 2011by reducing the employee-share of Social Security taxes from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent for wages earned up to $106,800 in 2011. The Medicare component stays the same, as does the employer's tax rate.
Unlike the now-expired Making Work Pay credit, the two-percent reduction is available to all wage earners irrespective of income level and does not phase out, meaning any individual regardless of income level can receive a tax benefit in 2011. Of course, any individuals who do not pay into Social Security, including some public employees, will not benefit from the payroll tax rate reduction, although they did benefit from the prior Making Work Pay credit.
Given the late passage of this tax act, it may take time for some employers to implement this payroll tax cut. If you have questions about how this may impact your employee base or payroll, be sure to talk with your Marketplace account manager. |
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