“We are thrilled to have made the Best Firms to Work For list again. This award is extremely important to us since it’s based on the feedback of our employees.  Our people are our greatest resource; without them, SkillStorm would not be as successful as it is today.  Being a Consulting Magazine Best Small Firm to Work For means that our employees are happy which is the best measure of our success and being on the list two years in a row means that we must be doing something right – this award proves that our outstanding benefits and ‘out of the box’ perks are well received,” said SkillStorm CEO Vince Virga.

The Consulting Magazine Best Firms to Work For survey is widely considered to be the most comprehensive, independent source of opinion about the quality of life within top consulting firms.  Results from the survey are tabulated across six different categories: compensation, work/life balance, career development, job experience, firm leadership and firm culture.  Approximately 200 companies competed in this year’s Best Firms to Work For survey.  The ranked firms are especially recognized for prioritizing their consultants’ job and their entire workforces despite challenging economic condition.

SkillStorm was founded by Virga and other close friends who all excelled in the Information Technology services industry, but wished for a technology consulting firm that rewarded employees for their hard work; a company that believed that business can still be fun and fast-paced, stimulating and successful.  Knowing they weren’t alone in this dream, they threw caution to the wind and started SkillStorm.  Today, the multi-million dollar company has five offices nationwide and over 275 employees.

SkillStorm offers amazing incentives that keep employees motivated and eager to contribute to the company’s growth and success, including unique employee recognition programs and all-expenses paid vacations to Atlantis, Cancun and Cabo San Lucas.  SkillStorm employees feel that the company is a great place to work because of its fun and rewarding environment, excellent benefits, impressive employee career development and recognition programs, involvement of management in their well-being and family environment.

SkillStorm has received many highly regarded national and state awards.  Most recently, SkillStorm was named to the 2010 Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the Nation by Inc. Magazine and ranked #6 on Florida Trend magazine’s 2010 Best Companies to Work For in Florida list.  The company has also ranked among the top 2010 executive search and employment services firms for the Dallas Business Journal, San Diego Business Journal and Tampa Bay Business Journal.  In 2009, SkillStorm was named one of Consulting Magazine’s top ten Best Firms to Work For and South Florida Business Journal’s Business of the Year and Best Place to Work.  SkillStorm also received the highly esteemed San Diego Better Business Bureau (BBB) Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics in 2008 and ranked as the 13^th Fastest Growing New Company in America in 2006 on Entrepreneur Magazine and PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Hot 100 List.

About SkillStorm

SkillStorm is a national technical consulting, staff augmentation and outsourcing firm specializing in providing adaptable IT and Engineering solutions to both the public and private sectors.  The company fills all positions from contract to contract-to-hire to direct-hire. SkillStorm works with scores of fine companies, including many that rank among the elite Fortune 500 and has been setting the standard for customer service in the industry since inception in 2002. SkillStorm currently has locations nationwide, including Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Dallas, San Diego and Indianapolis.  For more information on SkillStorm, please visit the SkillStorm Website or visit our blog.

About Consulting Magazine

Consulting Magazine is the flagship publication of the consulting profession.  The magazine features the latest information on consulting careers, thought leadership, and corporate strategies.  The magazine is published six times annually by Kennedy Information, the authority in the consulting space since 1970 providing a wide range of research and advisory services offerings.

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August 2010 (New York, NY) – In its September 2010 issue, More magazine deep-dives into what the workplace of the future will look like now that, thanks to the Great Recession, women make up more than half the workforce for the first time.  In the 10-page “Attack of the Woman-Dominated Workplace,” Features Editor Jennifer Braunschweiger speaks with academics, CEOs, working women, government researchers and visionaries to detail how the workplace has not caught up to the evolving workforce, what positive changes are already happening and how we can make those become the new norm.

More also highlights ways women can demand policy change from businesses and the government, such as supporting The Healthy Families Act, which would require employers to provide a minimum of seven days of paid family and medical leave for employees who work more than 30 hours a week.  The bill is currently in committee in the U.S. Senate.

More Editor-in-Chief Lesley Jane Seymour says in her foreword to the piece:  “At this historic crossroads, More decided it was time to stop asking how women can better fit in and start asking how we can reinvent the workplace to finally suit women’s needs, and men’s.”

Also weighing in: 

• Ellen Galinsky (president of the Families and Work Institute)
• Maddy Dychtwald (author of Influence)
• Cecilia Rouse (White House Council of Economic Advisors)
• Carly Fiorina (former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and Senatorial Candidate in California)
• Beverly Taruli (VP of human resources for Pepsi)
• Nancy Hopkins (geneticist and professor of biology at MIT)
• Gail Collins (New York Times columnist and author of When Everything Changed).

Here, a preview of the five key elements of the new workplace and ideas on how to get there:

FORGET FLEXTIME: “We want customized career lattices.”

The idea, pioneered by Deloitte, is that modern careers for men and women no longer progress straight up a ladder, but rather follow the form of a lattice.  At any given time, employees may want to ramp up, increasing their responsibilities, or scale down, requesting more flexibility in order to focus on other parts of their lives. 

UNTETHER US: “We want a post-geographic office.”

To bring the workplace into the future, we have to think beyond the office itself.  Today, 11 percent of all paid workers report working from home at least one day a week.  This percentage could be much higher, because technology has increasingly unleashed us from our cubicles and made face time less important. 

FACE TO FACE IS OVER:  “Move us to results-based evaluation.”

Companies need to stop evaluating their employees by how much time they spend in a chair and measure their productivity instead.  The results-only work environment (ROWE) was put into place by two Best Buy employees, Jody Thompson and Cali Ressler, who have since gone on to start a company called CultureRX, which applies ROWE to corporations across the country.  Productivity tends to rise within weeks as people start finding more efficient ways to work. 

BRING THE LAWS UP TO DATE: “No one should lose a job for taking care of herself or her family.”

Currently San Francisco, Milwaukee and Washington, D.C. are the only three U.S. cities that mandate paid sick days, and only California and New Jersey have standards in place.  Besides The Healthy Families Act, there are 25 state or local campaigns or bills in progress right now that are helping to bring about change; details can be researched at paidsickdays.org.

PROMOTE MORE WOMEN: “And pay us what we’re worth, damn it.”

The exclusion of women from positions of power has become a business liability. Studies show that more high-ranking women means more money at the bottom line.  The evidence is so clear, in fact, that companies like Cisco and PepsiCo. are actively addressing the problem with programs to groom women for positions of power, have created formalized HR processes to identify talent, and have developed mentoring and networking options.  And making equal pay for equal work a reality – so that women no longer bring in 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man – should be understood as an economic imperative, essential to promoting the financial health of families.

Braunschweiger concludes:  “We need more women to storm the male-dominated spaces, banging their drums about problems and demanding solutions that will benefit women and men alike…We need studies to excavate the extent of the problem, independent thinking by small and large institutions and smart, targeted action by the government.”

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This rally is for the constitution the all people believe in less government, not more! This is for preserving democracy and preventing the socialist agenda of the Obama administration. This is for all generations.

Socialist President Obama has spent more money in the 6 months after taking office then any other administration in the past. The group organizing this event is for less taxes and   improving health care. Where this country is founded on free speech, Obama is for intimidation tactics. Obama is for instituting socialism so that there can be government run health care and government run banking system.  The founding fathers are now rolling over in their graves in what they are seeing now.

Rally is going to be held September 12, 2009 at 1pm in front of the United States Federal Courthouse located at 299 E. Broward Blvd.

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One of the greatest tourist attractions to Florida is our fun and recreation on the water. Boating is one of the most enjoyable activities you can don in the sun shine state. Thousands of companies depend on the boating industry and when boats don’t work properly, there are big problems. Well not if you go to http://onsitedieselservice.com/. At http://onsitedieselservice.com/ the best in Fort Myers, you will get great service at a great price. The Fort Myers of http://onsitedieselservice.com/ service your boating needs including; emergency repair, maintenance, and much more. Look no further for the best of Fort Myers than http://onsitedieselservice.com/ . Not only do we offer great service at a great price, we bring it to you. Fort Myers does not mean we only work in Fort Myers as marine mechanics, we will travel anywhere you need us to in order to get your boat running again. We are not only the best Fort Myers, we are the best in Florida and we will prove that every time. To find out more about our Fort Myers services check out our website or call us at 239-671-3025. The best of Fort Myers can help you, just give us a call today. marine mechanic marine mechanic marine mechanic marine mechanic marine mechanic marine mechanic marine mechanic

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Ummm. There is no reason to apologize. The other team has players too don’t they? It is not their fault that the other team sucks so bad that they have to lose 100-0. Suck it up and take it like a man, or in this case a woman.

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By adding the Vetrazzo brand to its list of products, Indian River Cabinets expands on its own green initiative. The company currently recycles its own water in their 19,000 square foot fabrication facility in Pompany Beach, Florida. The company is constantly looking for other ways to use recycled materials in its operations.

Greener is Better

We constantly don’t realize the amount of waste the each of us contributes. Every product that you buy comes from the earth and ends up back in the earth at some later point. The world has a fixed amount of natural resources, many of which are being depleted at an ever increasing rate. So as population growth greatly strains our finite resources, there will be fewer of these resources available.  Granite is one of those non-renewable resources that is typically imported from various countries throughout the world.

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