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Residential Mason and Concrete Helper

2 days ago

Buffalo

Job Description Possibly the most character building experience of my life was setting concrete forms during my summers while at college. My girlfriends uncle operated a concrete construction company and if I was to date his niece, then I had better be able to handle concrete. If you've ever been to Ellicottville and seen the condo's that overlook Holiday Valley Ski Resort–I helped pour those foundations. I was a scrawny, 155 lb computer science geek at the time. I'd milked cows as a kid, but I never worked as hard as I did for Ray. We worked from sun-up to sun-down, six days a week. The forms I set weighed more than me! Concrete laboring is like signing up to do a military boot-camp. If you survive it, you'll come out as a stronger person. I know of just such an opportunity. Help Wanted: Masons Helper • Learn to set block and brick, • Learn to mix concrete, • A no quit attitude, • A strong back, • Reliable transportation Our clients are the kind of companies good people want to work for. Most are based in Buffalo and the surrounding area, with some reaching into Rochester and Jamestown. Some call us when a project creates a temporary labor need, but most are looking for permanent, lasting additions to their teams. They have earned their reputations by treating people well: vendors are paid fairly and promptly, customers trust them enough to refer them, and employees are treated with respect, dignity, and compassion. A great job is completely subjective. We are not particular about the type of job we recommend to a person, as long as it is in everybody’s best interest. When the right connection is there, we often see it before anyone else does. And when we do not see a match with strong long-term potential, we do not force one. That is part of our promise. We would rather pass on a sale than make a recommendation we do not believe in. We have earned a trusted place in the trades community by helping good people find better employers, giving educators, nonprofits, and the media real insight, and doing our job better than people expect. The hiring market is noisier than ever. Job seekers can see thousands of openings in seconds, and companies can collect piles of resumes just as quickly, but more choices have not made better decisions easier. That is where our advantage comes in. We see the market from a better perspective. We've achieved a certain critical mass that an individual scrolling through a job board simply cannot. Every day, we talk with hundreds of tradespeople, contractors, service companies, manufacturers, educators, and workforce programs. Your options for referral include nearly 500 Western New York companies. Our technology helps us search, sort, and recognize patterns, but the final judgment is still human. Our values are the guidelines by which we make decisions, and we hold each other to the same standard. We have learned that the hiring companies, job seekers, career coaches, agencies, vendors and staff that work best with us are those who share similar truths. —We always put the other person’s needs first. Generally, we are talking about a person’s livelihood. We put each person before our commission. —We practice personal accountability. In other words, in every situation, we ask, “Is there something I could have done to facilitate a better outcome?” —We are impeccable with our word. We hold ourselves to the same standards that we hold others, and we enforce those standards unilaterally. —We always try to “do the right thing.” —We follow up. And we keep our word. —We always remember these values, and that our job here is to make excellent connections.Construction Personnel Group Inc is a recruiting services firm that sources, screens, and onboards new employees for some of Western New York’s fastest-growing construction companies. Broadly speaking, we service companies that employ skilled tradespeople. These are construction, service, and certain manufacturing companies.\r\n\r\nMost of our efforts are centered around skilled tradespeople. Because of the relationships we’ve cultivated, our clients also look to us to staff positions in management, administration, and sales and marketing.\r\n\r\nWe have solid and lasting relationships with some of the best places to work in every trade.\r\n\r\nWho are our client companies?\r\n\r\nOur clients primarily operate in Buffalo and the surrounding area. They extend as far as Rochester, and Jamestown.\r\n\r\nOccasionally, they are companies doing projects that require contingent labor. However, for the most part, they are companies looking to make permanent and lasting additions to their teams.\r\n\r\nEvery single one of them has a reputation for being a great place to work.\r\n—They treat their vendors well. They pay them fairly and promptly. They return phone calls.\r\n—Their customers have grown to trust them, and refer them often.\r\n—Their employees are proud to represent them because they are always treated with respect, dignity, and compassion. What they say and do has a direct impact on how the company operates.\r\n\r\nOur client companies are comfortable with our price. They do not continually shop us against our competition. They already know that if they find an agency that is giving away their service, then their quality will not be worth anything either.\r\n\r\nOur client companies are able to plan for the future. Even if they have contingencies, they at least have a plan. They extend to us the courtesy of being a part of that plan.\r\n\r\nThe jobs we fill\r\n\r\nA great job is completely subjective. For some folks, a great job equals decades of absolute stability and a pension. For others, it may mean a quick project to put food on the table. We are not particular about the type of job we recommend to a person, as long as it is in everybody’s best interest.\r\n\r\nOur place in the community\r\n\r\nNot every Tradesman in Buffalo NY works with us, but most of them know who we are. If they used to see our service as a crutch, they now consider it a luxury.\r\n\r\nIf a construction company is not doing business with us, it’s either because they cannot afford us, or we just don’t have enough capacity to service them.\r\n\r\nEvery non-profit, job readiness program in town knows what we do and always refer their best people to us.\r\n\r\nThe education community invites us in to advise, educate, and recruit their students.\r\n\r\nThe media sees us as industry insiders. If they have a question pertaining to construction or skilled trades employment in Buffalo, they ask us. We always have tracking systems and data analysis to support our opinions.\r\n\r\nThose who have actually worked with us, admire us for having set the bar so high. They are genuinely impressed with not only the speed and efficiency that we made a high-quality connection; but also that the referral was way more than they ever expected (even for themselves).\r\n\r\nHow we do what we do\r\n\r\nIn an age where a job seeker has thousands of job openings at his fingertips with a keystroke, and companies can have tens of thousands of resumes for the same effort, it has become even more impossible for a person down in the trenches to make the right decision on who to work with. There are tools that we use and methods that we employ that give us what I call “the 30,000-foot view”. Because of our ability to look at thousands of job seekers and thousands of companies at the same time, we have a distinct advantage. From our perspective, the potential connections become obvious. We make it look easy. And further, we continue to stick to Our Promise that if we don’t see the perfect match, then we won’t make the recommendation. We would rather not make the sale then make a recommendation to a person (or company) that has less than excellent long-term implications. That would go against our core values.\r\n\r\nEvery day we touch hundreds of companies and hundreds of people. We’ve cultivated relationships. People trust us. We’ve earned their respect. People refer us....all the time.\r\n\r\nWe have cutting-edge technology. Our CRM/ATS holds the resumes of more than 50,000 tradesmen that we’ve interviewed over the last twenty-one years. We have keywords, and algorithms, and searches to help our human brains to not miss a thing.\r\n\r\nCore Values\r\n\r\nOur values are the guidelines by which we make decisions, and we hold each other to the same standard. We have learned that the hiring companies, job seekers, career coaches, agencies, vendors and staff that work best with us are those who share similar truths.\r\n—We always put the other person’s needs first. Generally, we are talking about a person’s livelihood. We put each person before our commission.\r\n—We practice personal accountability. In other words, in every situation, we ask, “Is there something I could have done to facilitate a better outcome?”\r\n—We are impeccable with our word. We hold ourselves to the same standards that we hold others, and we enforce those standards unilaterally.\r\n—We always try to “do the right thing.”\r\n—We follow up. And we keep our word.\r\n—We always remember these values, and that our job here is to make excellent connections.

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