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Employee Spotlight: President and CEO Cindy Neese

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Cindy has been on the ComputerPeople team for over 34 years. She started out as a Sales Representative in May of 1984, just 14 years after ComputerPeople first opened its doors. Over the years, she worked hard to progress into the roles of Sales Manager and VP of Sales before she was promoted into her current role, President/CEO of ComputerPeople. Cindy is an excellent example of a selfless leader. She is always putting her team first and coming up with new ways to make everyone at ComputerPeople feel loved, valued, and heard. We sat down with Cindy to find out a little bit more about ComputerPeople and about Cindy herself! Read on to find out what she had to say.
 
What sets ComputerPeople apart in the recruiting/business world?

There are a few things that really set us apart from others. Our longevity in the market, the tenure of our in-house employees, and the relationships that we have built through 50 years of doing business in the Buffalo community definitely set us apart from the crowd. However, I am most proud of the fact that we make it our business to understand our customers culture. We do this in order to do a better job of determining the best candidates for a company to create the perfect employer-employee match for every job order.

What is your favorite office tradition at ComputerPeople?
My favorite office tradition is at Christmas. For this holiday, we always go out for a team lunch and then do a secret Santa gift exchange.  We have shared many laughs together as associates steal gifts from others!
 
What is something most people probably do not know about ComputerPeople?
We were the first privately owned specialized IT Staffing firm in Buffalo.
 
What is something most people probably don’t know about you?

I play the piano and I love flower gardening!

Cindy, we all appreciate everything you do to make ComputerPeople such an amazing place to be!

Written by Kaitlyn Gahagen

5 Resume Tips You Can Implement In 5 Minutes

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Want to spruce up your resume but short on time? Here are a couple of quick fixes that you can implement right now for a resume that already has great content.

Use effective titles. A good resume title will help potential employers to understand your skills, experience, and interests. Titles should be clear and concise. Use an appropriate title and save your accomplishments for the body of your resume.

Proofread. I cannot stress the importance of this one enough. If there is even one misspelling or grammatical error in your resume, and your potential employer catches it, your resume will be tossed immediately.

List the most important information first. This will help with your first impression. Your employer will start to make decisions about bringing you in for an interview after the first few sentences of your resume. The earlier something is in your resume, the less likely a potential employer is to skip over it.

Use a basic font. I know you want to stand out and be creative, but you want to do that with your skills and accomplishments, not your font. Also, in general, for anything in life, do not use comic sands. It’s basically the Nickelback of the font world.

Use bold and italics where appropriate. Your resume will be easier to read, less confusing, and the most important things will stand out. But remember, I said where appropriate. Have a friend double check your bold and italic use to make sure that you did get too aggressive if you are not sure.

Does your resume need some more TLC? Our recruiters at ComputerPeople are resume experts. Contact us at computerpeople@cpstaffing.com for resume help and IT recruiting services.

Written by Kaitlyn Gahagen

Adding Holiday Fun to the Workplace

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I have been working at CP Staffing Solutions a little over a year now, and I still feel that this is the best company I’ve ever worked for, with some of the best people I’ve ever worked with. Part of the reason for this, in my opinion, is because although we take our work very seriously, we also make room for fun and special moments. A good company knows when to take a breather, which in turn makes for happy employees – happy employees deliver good results! So why not add a little holiday fun to your workplace this week?

Holiday Luncheon.

A good way to spread some holiday cheer is to have everyone eat together. For our holiday luncheon we all went to a restaurant called Chef’s, and it was a lot of fun – not to mention delicious. Everyone laughed, shared stories, admired each other’s food, and took home some leftovers. “Breaking bread” together has a way of connecting people and strengthening relationships, so this might be a good fit for your company. If you have a break-room/lunch-room that’s big enough for everyone, you can have that right in your building, but it might be fun to go out somewhere, so keep that in mind. 😉

Secret Santa.

If a big luncheon is not feasible for your workplace, then you may want to try just having a fun Secret Santa party. Here at CP Staffing, we did a blind gift exchange while we were at Chef’s. There was limit on how much you could spend, and the gifts were to be Buffalo themed. Granted, I kept procrastinating on purchasing my gift, so the one I bought ended up not being Buffalo-themed per se, but it still worked 🙂 . If you want to make it interesting, turn it into White Elephant – have people steal other people’s gifts! We did the White Elephant method, and it actually turned out to be really fun. Although, if you decide to do this, make sure that everyone knows ahead of time. You don’t want to be a Michael Scott, changing the game at the last minute and having everyone steal gifts that were meant for specific people… Not cool.

Holiday Event.

If neither of those things suit your fancy, you can arrange an event – you could go ice skating, curling, sight-seeing, etc. We decided to go curling at Canalside, and it was… interesting. Well, I’m currently about six months pregnant, and so the ice was not exactly my best friend. However, I still gave it a shot (twice!) and I had a great time – even when I slid the 40-lb rock by just graciously sliding on my butt. If it’s not too late and it’s doable, try arranging some kind of fun event for everyone – it’s a great way to bring everyone together and have some laughs along the way.

Music!

Okay, so not everyone is crazy about Christmas music. I usually find that there is no in-between – you either hate it or you love it. Nevertheless, if you’re not able to do anything as a group for the holidays, you may want to just sprinkle some holiday cheer into the workplace by having some low Christmas music playing in the office. I’m on the “Love it” spectrum of Christmas music, so I get really excited about having jingle bells play all day long. But even if you’re not all jazzed up about it, I feel that as long as it’s not obnoxiously loud everyone is usually on board with it. So put some tunes on – music always serves to put a smile on our faces.

We hope that your holiday season is filled with much joy and many special moments. From all of us at CP Staffing – Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!

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Written by Nayadee Wilson