Memorial Day, first enacted to honor Union and Confederate soldiers following the American Civil War, was extended after World War I to honor Americans who have died in all wars. Memorial Day often marks the start of the summer vacation season. Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on May 5, 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. It is now celebrated in almost every State on the last Monday in May. Another tradition is to fly the US flag at half-staff from dawn until noon local time. One of the longest-standing traditions is the running of the Indianapolis 500, an auto race which has been held in conjunction with Memorial Day since 1911. It runs on the Sunday preceding the Memorial Day holiday. The Memorial Tournament golf event has been held on or close to the Memorial Day weekend since 1976. The National Memorial Day Concert takes place on the west lawn of the United States Capitol. Music is performed, and respect is paid to the men and women who died in war. Thank you to all our Veterans. Let freedom ring.

Bryant Staffing has an opening for a full-time, temp-to-hire Mechanic in the Paterson, New Jersey area.

Main Duties:

Repairs and maintains washers, driers, extractors, condensers, pumps, blowers, presses, and other laundry equipment.

Operates, examines, and dismantles equipment to diagnose cause of malfunction.

Repairs or replaces parts, using hand-tools and measuring instruments.  Replaces components, such as bearings, motors, and micro-switches

Replaces faulty sections of pipe, valves, and fittings, using plumbing tools.  Dismantles steam traps and removes sediment.

Removes faceplate from equipment to clean out dust and lint.  Replaces worn or torn aprons, roll covers, and pads on mangles.

Lubricates mahcines and equipment, using grease gun and oilcans. May order spare parts.

Minimum Requirements/Skills/Qualifications:

High School Degree or GED

Minimum 2-4 years of mechanic experience in a production/operations setting

Ability to manage multiple complex tasks in a fast-moving environment

Ability to manage work in an organized and efficient manner, using effective prioritization skills.

Self motivated an driven to achieve

Detailed orientated, excellent interpersonal skills, analytical and problem solving skills, effective verbal and listening skills, attention to detail and high level of accuracy, very effective organizational skills, possess cultural awareness and sensitivity, team building skills

Deadline-oriented, time management, attention to detail, PC proficiency, productivity, verbal communication, general math skills

Non-negotiable Hiring Critera:

Willingness to work weekend and/or evening hours.

11:00pm – 8:30am and 9:00am – 7:30pm with rototating weekends

Long Term temporary warehouse project is available in the Monroe/Dayton, New Jersey area.  This position is for a minimum of 6 months.  The hours are 8:00am – 5:00pm with frequent overtime which is mandatory.

Requirements

Must be forklift certified

Must have experience with RF Scanner

Attention to detail very important

Must be able to work Overtime

Must have own transportation

Must pass drug and background screening

Pay Rate $13.00/hr

Register in our Jamesburg office at 200 Buckelew Ave, Jamesburg, NJ 08831 732-605-1471

Office hours ar 8:00am-5:00pm

Bryant Staffing is seeking Day and Night Time Laborers as well as Night Time Data Entry applicants to work in a warehouse environment.  These are temp to hire positions and pay $10.00/hr for Laborers and $11.00/hr for Data Entry.  The hours currently are 8:o0am – 5:00pm and 12:00pm to 9:00pm. These hours are changing to 7:00am – 4:00pm and 3:00pm – 12:00pm.  Being flexible will give you the upper hand in obtaining one of these positions.

Drug and background screening is required.

 Please stop in to our Jamesburg office, call 732-605-1471,  or contact Eleanor Souder at esouder@bryantstaffing.com

Bryant Staffing has an immediate opening for a sharp, career oriented individual to work with the sales department as a Project Manager.  Responsibilities include:  planning & managing media, print and fulfillment projects from inception to completion.  Providing daily communication with clients, anticipating potential project issues and providing solutions; contacting clients upon completion to ensure satisfaction.

Must have 4 year college degree, 3-5 years.  Experience in an agency doing print produciton/traffic, strong attention to detail and ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines.

Comprehensive benefits package

Salary $50-60K

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Please remember to set your clocks

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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Bryant Staffing’s local customer is seeking a Power Systems Outside SalesPerson.  This Direct Hire Position is located in in Piscataway, New Jersey and the salary range is $50K-$75K

Responsibilities:

Establish a contact list and call frequency for all contractors, consulting engineers and end user in your territory and perform personal visits to identify new bids and future projects being designed.

Assist end customers, contractors and consulting engineers with system design, application assistance, and product information, budget and project price quotations.

Assist Project Engineer’s with specific project submittals, respond to consulting engineer’s questions, seek and achieve approval and project submittals, respond to consulting engineer’s questions, seek and achieve approval and project release for manufacturing.

Track projects bid, secure purchase orders from customers and negotiate favorable terms and conditions for power systems.

Recommended Qualifications:

Self-starter with independent work habits

Customer-lead

Excellent customer service and communication skills

Proficiency with PC based software including MS Office

Commitment and ability to learn new products and markets

Ability to solve customer problems quickly and effectively

EE/ME Degree or a minimum of 5 years of Generator and Paralleling Switchgear Sales

Bryant Staffing is seeking mechanics on all shifts.  If you have worked in the areas of packaging, produciton of food, cosmetics or pharmaceuticals this may be the perfect position for you.

Responsibilities includepreventative line maintenance, quipment repairs, setup

3-5 years experience with strong mechanical troubleshooting skills required.

Electrical troubleshooting skills are a plus

Must have a High School diploma and or a vocational school certificate

This temp to hire position offers 401k plan, medical and dentalcoverage, paid vacatation/sick time, incentive bonus poan and opportunities for advancement

Shift Hours:

7:00am-3:30pm

3:00pm- 11:30pm

11:00p – 7:00am

$18.00/hr and above pending interview and experience

Bryant Staffing has a client in Monroe Township seeking data entry clerks.  This warehouse environment position is a Temp to Hire with hours 12:oopm to 9:00pm.  You must be able to lift 25lbs. and work on your feet for long period of time.

Drug and Background Screening required

$11.00/hr

send resumes to esouder@bryantstaffing.com

by David Gee

Most of the posts on the pages of Staffing Talk have to do with hiring people, not firing them. And that is as it should be. But when a member of the editorial staff at this fine site sent me a survey about the Top 10 reasons companies fire people, I thought I would share it. As for the source, we found the write-through on Hub Pages, but their source wasn’t credited. Crazy bloggers.

Speaking of crazy, before I get started on the list, I want to share a funny little story. After I posted the headline and wrote the first paragraph, I did a Google image search of “You’re Fired” to see what was available. Of course, there were the usual Donald Trump pictures featuring his colossal combover and pointing finger. But then I saw a very amateurish stick figure drawing that came from a Chicago law firm’s blog. I did a double take and realized it was a drawing I made myself for Staffing Talk last year. Oh, well, I’m sure I ripped a photo off before. Once anyway. I never dreamed there would be a day when my art work would be in demand though. Take that Mrs. Vail, my 6th grade art teacher who told me I didn’t have a shred of artistic talent.

So anyway, let’s going going with the list, best ways to get fired.

1) Dishonesty

This one is kind of a no brainer, even though it tops the list. Of course if you lie to your boss, share proprietary company information, fudge or fake time sheets or expense reports and the like, this is always potential grounds for firing.

Add some social media wrinkles to this one though now. Doing things like tweeting/blogging/sharing disparaging things about your boss, co-workers and/or company can get you in trouble, as can taking a sick day and then posting Facebook pictures of yourself tubing at your friend’s lake cabin. That last one is hypothetical by the way.

2) Lying on a resume

As you well know, increasing numbers of employers are checking every single reference a job candidate provides, although EEO regulations make this more difficult to complete in recent years. Many employers, including staffing agencies, require a candidate provide copies of high school, vocational school, and/or college transcripts and diplomas, as well as certifications and licenses when applicable.

Some employers are even running regularly credit checks on workers. Vendors who can perform bulk credit and background checks make this cheaper to accomplish these days.

3) Refusing to follow directions and orders

This is another one in the no brainer and self explanatory categories. Employers are paying a worker to be there, performing certain duties and functions. If the worker is unwilling or unable to perform those functions, there is going to be a problem. And probably a dismissal.

4) Too much personal stuff at work

Companies consider computers, telephones and so forth to be their property, and using, or misusing, company property on a continual basis for your personal stuff is frowned upon. Endless surfing on the web, engaging in social media sites, excessive chit chat with coworkers is also a waste of company time and could get you fired.

Companies consider computers, telephones and so forth to be their property, and using, or misusing, company property on a continual basis for your personal stuff is frowned upon. Endless surfing on the web, engaging in social media sites, excessive chit chat with coworkers is also a waste of company time and could get you fired.

5) Inconsistency

We all have bad days, right? That won’t get you fired. Usually. But if your productivity and moods are swinging all over the place in a pendulum-like fashion, that could put you in another category.  The fireable kind. This is often the kind of thing that can be addressed in a regular performance review. If you are an employer, you should be conducting them regularly. There are too many tools available today not to. No excuses. And if you are an employee, you should be receiving reviews on an annual, or even more frequent basis.

6) Inability to get along with others

Can’t we all just get along?! Seems like an easy enough ask, but as we all know, the workplace environment is not always a perfectly harmonious one. Isn’t it great to be the person about whom others others say, “They get along with everybody.” Conversely, the lack of an ability to play well with others can derail your career and advancement opportunities.

7) Can’t do the work

With more and more people desperate for work these days, by the time someone reaches the actual serious interview stage, it’s quite possible they might not answer honestly to specific questions about their skills and experience. For jobs that require certification and/or licenses, this scenario won’t happen. But for less technical or more general positions, it’s possible an employer – or even the employee – may not know someone’s true ability to perform work until they are actually on the job. If someone is hired and shown they simply can’t do the job, they will likely be let go. It’s like a blind date, the true you will emerge eventually, you may as well be honest from the start. On both sides for that matter.

Too slow to adapt

With more and more generations in the workplace than at any time in our history perhaps, a willingness and ability to adapt to different work styles, communication methods, motivations, etc., is essential for success. No doubt we have all seen situations where change is instituted by a new boss, perhaps a younger or less experienced one, and that change is resisted by long-tenured or more experienced employees. With the pace of change in the workplace today, we all must be highly adaptable and willing to evolve.

9) High absenteeism rate

I have a very diligent, serial entrepreneur friend who when discussing the correlation between persistence and success, often talks about the importance of simply “showing up.” Of course, not showing up for work carries with it consequences, which may include firing. With many employers aggregating vacations, mental health days, sick time, holidays, and other personal days into one category called “Paid Time Off” or something similar, detailed explanations about the reasons for not being at work may not matter as much. But showing up regularly still does.

Be sure and look for a subsequent Staffing Talk post about a woman who got hired, got sick (very sick in fact) and got fired. It’s an interesting case study.

10) Drug and/or alcohol abuse

Obviously drug and alcohol issues can leads to all kinds of problems in the workplace, such as inconsistent work, errors, accidents, poor interpersonal relationships, increased absenteeism, low morale and so on. It’s bad for the company and bad for the worker. When these problems come up, they certainly transcend the workplace, and losing a job may not be the biggest problem.

That’s our list. It’s fairly comprehensive, but we wouldn’t assume it’s complete. Did we make any obvious errors or omissions? Let us know your thoughts and comments, including perhaps a difficult firing decision you have had to face.