The crash of a Boeing 737 MAX Lion Air plane flew into the headlines in October 2018. Five months later, an Ethiopian airline 737 MAX crashed, sparking an immediate call for Boeing’s entire global fleet of the new aircraft to be grounded.
After World War II, the U.S. auto industry zoomed into dominance, setting the bar for the wages and skill levels of America’s industrial workers.
Without competition from foreign manufacturers, the accelerating demand for automobiles powered the success of The Big Three: Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors. Jobs were plentiful, training was accessible, and earnings were exceptional on the blue-collar scale. Auto industry jobs were revered.
Have you made mistakes? Sure. Did something dishonest? Possibly. Maybe you intentionally hurt your mother’s feelings or told a friend you already had plans when you didn’t.
Let’s go bigger: Perhaps you “relocated” some extra office supplies to your home office or parked in the handicap spot to “run in quickly.”
Let’s go bigger still: Maybe you misrepresented your tax deductibles or dented someone’s car and drove away without a note.
Are you satisfied with the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) claims results that your Applicant Tracking System (ATS) or Human Resource Information System (HRIS) vendor captures for you? Should you be? Have you considered what a dedicated WOTC process software and services team could do for you and your business’ bottom line?
Who are the money-makers in your company? Sales? Yes. The staff who provide the services you offer? Yes. HR? Possibly.
Really?
Yes.
Though HR doesn’t posses the power to directly bring in revenue like your sales team, they can perform feats with cost saving ideas that will garner savings and ultimately pad your bottom line.
Most of us probably knew – or were – that odd kid in school that no one wanted to befriend. Dark, sordid stories echoed through the hallways assuming truth about the outcast. The accepted – and expected - attitude was, “don’t talk to that person.” But then someone pushed aside the rumors and judgements and gave that person a chance; they got to know that student and learned about their life…and found an amazing treasure, a friend.
Administrative burdens, technology slumps, and meeting the bottom line. Staffing clients combat many headaches in their efforts to put people to work. For this, they deserve to be rewarded.
CTI sees the value that staffing firms bring to the economy, and we pay that forward by adding value to their bottom line. We can step in and help place them in a better financial situation when we maximize their Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC).
‘Doing without,’ like suffering under the restraints of a constricting budget, often pushes us to get creative with our needs. As many a young person has experienced, I was near-penniless when I set off on my own and moved into my first apartment. Used furniture, borrowed draperies, thrift store flatware, and area rugs rescued from a friend’s attic.
For the past 16 years, thousands of hotel owners and operators have convened in Memphis, Tennessee for the annual Southern Lodging Summit to exchange ideas and expound upon the latest news, trends, and challenges in the hotel industry.
Ride the surging surf, explore ghostly shipwrecks in the deep, survey exquisite historical mansions, ascend the beauty of the Great Smokey Mountains, watch clear water tumble from a fall, sample southern and coastal dishes...The list goes on. North Carolina brims with attractions and adventures, from the lush greenery of Asheville to the bright beacon of Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. And more and more people are discovering N.C.’s abundant natural and man-made allure.
