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There are a plenty of problems in the world, but none more devastating than poverty.

Poverty keeps people’s opportunities for growth extremely limited and exposes people to disease. Even the worst of natural disasters do not come close to being as destructive as poverty. 164,000 kids were killed by measles and 881,000 lives were taken by malaria in 2011. These diseases prey on those in poverty’s grip because of unstable living conditions such as poor sanitation, a lack of access to clean, potable water, and malnutrition. Therefore, from these two stats alone, over 1 million people died from preventable disease in 2011 as a direct result of poverty.

Fortunately, there are some ways to fight this injustice. The most common means of attempting to help people in the world is through providing relief. Peter Greer of HOPE International, a microfinance organization defines relief as a “rapid provision of temporary resources to reduce immediate suffering.”

Money, medicine, food, water, and clothing are examples of potentially helpful forms of relief. However, to truly help people out of poverty, we must move from providing relief to influencing development.

Continuous relief only builds up a dependence on those who are willing to give; whereas continuous development creates an opportunity to further the gift.

I truly believe the most beneficial form of development is found in business.

And it’s certainly true for the refugees our clients employ. Simply by providing meaningful work for the refugees we serve, business is having a tremendous impact. Beyond employment, finding fulfillment in their work fosters a sense of dignity, respect, and pride.

Atlanta recruiting can be a nightmare especially when your turnover rate is already higher than you would prefer. We do staffing Atlanta with excellence and will place refugees with your company that are intelligent, legal and loyal. We are excited to serve you and help equip your business to have an even greater impact!

Creative Capitalism

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At a Harvard graduation commencement speech in 2007, the most successful Harvard dropout, Bill Gates, addressed the crowd with this message:

“We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism. If we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit or at least earn a living serving people who are suffering from the great inequities. If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor and ways that generate profit for business, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. Conscious efforts to meet this challenge CAN change the world.”

This is our calling and our challenge as business people in the work place. It is nothing short of complex. This type of “Creative Capitalism” will reduce and even eradicate poverty in the world.

Let the innovation begin…
Step 1: Make a list of 10 problems that occur in the world
Step 2: Make a list of 5 unique strengths you possess
Step 3: Choose a problem to tackle that best utilizes all 5 of your unique strengths
Step 4: Pursue the solution to the problem
Step 5: Surround yourself with people that will not allow you to fail

In following these steps, you will begin to see the problems you are uniquely equipped to solve. For one season in my life, I carried around a notecard with three problems written on it I wanted to solve and felt I had some potential to make an impact. This forced me to be constantly looking for clues on how I could contribute to the solution.

One problem from my list was the disconnect between job-seekers & job-creators. No matter how useful online job boards and the latest employment apps, there are great jobs that go unfilled or are filled with ill-equipped staff and great people who are overlooked are ignored all together.

This is our attempt at making a dent in this problem. There are ample jobs available and ample people willing to work. When it comes to talented refugee workforce, they are invisible to Atlanta recruiting companies. Those who work in staffing Atlanta easily ignore this workforce, but at Amplio recruiting, we believe they have way too much to offer to be ignored.

Leadership is all about Influence

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I began playing in the middle school band in sixth grade. The saxophone was my woodwind weapon of whimsical wonder.

I poured hours into memorizing Greensleeves and practicing scales at home. I became passionate seemingly over-night to master my new trade. I was the only kid in my grade dragging my saxophone, in its less than convenient to carry case, to all my athletic practices and quiz bowl competitions that occurred after band class.

I look back on that time and realize my teacher’s presence is what brought the best out in me.

Mr. Carter’s passion became my passion.

When it comes to leadership, there are few better examples of influence than that of the orchestra conductor. My sixth grade band class was far from an orchestra, but Mr. Carter’s leadership was obvious, nevertheless.

1.) A conductor empowers the musician to perform, despite never actually playing an instrument himself
2.) A conductor inspires individual responsibility and corporate unity
3.) A conductor instills specific role clarity for each musician
4.) A conductor deposits his passion into each performance

Leadership is all about influence. Be determined to influence individual responsibility that results in corporate unity. Allow your passion to spill over onto all those involved. Lastly, and quite possibly the best lesson we can grasp is to create as much role clarity as possible for each person in our area of influence. Influence comes after consistently delivering excellence.

We want to help you with Atlanta recruiting so that you can focus on influential leadership. Staffing Atlanta is our specialty and much like learning to play the saxophone, we want to be excellent at our area of focus. It’s our passion to place talented refugees with great Atlanta companies. We desire to take all the guess work out of the hiring process and introduce you directly to your next great employee.

 

Heads-Up Thinking

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If your passion for excellence in your work manifests itself in borderline obsession, I know how you feel. As the snow piles up from the blizzard settling in for the weekend in Denver, Colorado, part of me longs to be productive. However, nature’s intermission on my work week gives me the amazing opportunity to catch my breath.

This tension is common among many Americans. It is a form of workaholicism that leads to a special type of chronic neck pain caused by “heads down” thinking. We should strive to engage in “heads up” thinking regularly to prevent charging off the intended course. Therefore, let’s consider a few very important questions:

1.) Do you have an intentional, planned time in each day for solitude and reflection?
2.) Do you plan the work and then work the plan, leaving the rest for the next day?
3.) Are there any habits that you need to stop or start in order to be more efficient?
4.) Do you remind yourself daily of the precious gift you have in life and work and put today’s worries in perspective?

In answering these questions, you will begin to realize that life is bigger then your work, but at the same time you may recognize how vital your work is to your identity. Finding fulfillment in your work is integral to experiencing life to the full.

We provide this same experience for refugees settling in Atlanta. If you are looking for an Atlanta recruiting company or Staffing Atlanta, we can connect you with the talented refugee workforce.

Look back at question four. Share the precious gift you have in life and work with refugees looking for an opportunity to provide for their family and find fulfillment in their life and work.

We would love to help you better equip your company for growth and we believe we are experts at Atlanta Recruiting and Staffing Atlanta.

Responsibility in Business

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As always, I place a high emphasis on stewardship when it comes to the conversation on how involved businesses should be in social justice efforts.

In the end, this quote by Steve McKee, president of McKee Wallwork Cleveland sums it up quite candidly:

“There is nothing wrong and everything right with companies’ doing good. But the first and best way for a company to do good is to do well.”

May we be business leaders that impact social change over the long haul, not just when it is popular.

However, even more importantly, may we be great stewards of all of our resources in the process.

Chief among our resources, are our teams. The people we have been entrusted with to lead and have the opportunity to serve.

Engaging our people and helping them find fulfillment in their work is one incredible  way we can do well. In fact, the people we bring on our team each have a story.

For refugees, their story begins in their home country with meaningful employment. For a host of reasons they were forced to flee to neighboring country most often without their family. In their newfound home, they could hopefully find work and make ends meet while attempting to locate their family. For some, they’ll be connected with the United Nations and potentially take residence in a refugee camp for an extended period of time. A few will have the opportunity to start over in a new country as a legal resident, most of which end up in the United States. These refugees will be resettled in one of thirty cities around America. Of approximately 40,000 refugees resettled in the United States each year, nearly 4,000 will be brought to the Clarkston community just Northeast of Atlanta.

They’ll wake up in America, the land of opportunity, with very little to their name. Giving them a chance to work is giving them a chance at starting over. This is the talented refugee workforce and we are the staffing Atlanta experts.

Let us focus on Atlanta recruiting so you can do well.

Verse for the Entrepreneur

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2 Timothy 1:7 – For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

These words penned by Paul in an effort to spur on his mentee, Timothy, can be best grasped by the modern day entrepreneur. The disciplined risk-taker with courageous passion is just the type of person God uses to positively impact the world.

These are also the kinds of companies we enjoy recruiting for here in Atlanta. We love to partner with bold, innovative businesses with a strong culture of stewardship and creativity. Humbition is possibly the best word to describe our favorite partners to provide staffing for. Companies that have ambition and humility baked into their culture will be able to sustain the ebb & flow of the startup stage and build a sustainable foundation for long-term growth. These types of companies hire people that show up at work everyday ready to do their best to move the company’s vision forward.

With all the complexities in finding the right people for your team and giving excellent service/creating excellent products in the current marketplace, it’s hard to imagine a one line from the Bible offering much insight or direction. However, this verse stands as a proclamation to business people to work with an optimistic and courageous outlook for the future, be decisive, graceful, and stay focused. Our power resides not in our ability to demand results, but in our propensity for being proactive. Love in the workplace is characterized by treating each other with dignity and respect, especially those that are new hires we helped recruit! Self-control involves the ability to be patient count the costs of our words and actions. With this combination of attributes at your disposal, you can properly represent the character of Christ in your workplace.

We’re grateful to serve Atlanta companies and help them meet all their recruiting and staffing needs!

 

Book Review: The Secret by Mark Miller & Ken Blanchard

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I enjoy the wisdom of a good book and the opportunity to share it with others. However, instead of another boring book review, I’ll simply compile my favorite quotes from some incredibly insightful books and add my two cents in along the way. I hope Atlanta companies who are looking for help in recruiting and staffing will find resources like this helpful.

Today’s book, The Secret by Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller is chock full of simple, yet profound leadership guidance.

Blanchard & Miller use a storyline to expound on a huge secret in leadership: serving others.

The following are my top 3 quotes.
1.) Creating vision is the privilege of a leader.
2.) If you stop learning, you stop leading.
3.) With every pair of hands you hire, you get a free brain.

It is imperative as business owners that we are humble and strategic. Humble in that we never take the opportunity to lead for granted and never stop learning. Strategic in that we inspire and influence those working for us.

Some additional thoughts surround the idea of Servant Leadership popularized by Robert Greenleaf just after the industrial age of business in the United States. Miller & Blanchard discuss ways in which to engage your employees deeply. Hopefully these are employees we have placed with your company! They use the acronym SERVE to discuss each letter:

S – See and Shape the future

E- Engage & develop others

R- Reinvent Continuously

V-Value Results & Relationships

E-Embody the Values

These important aspects of servant leadership are integral to our process of recruiting the best possible candidates for your open positions and ensuring we are staffing your company with people who truly “embody the values.” We also desire to see the companies we partner with to provide great talent have a culture of engaging and developing others.

Book Review: Good to Great by Jim Collins

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I enjoy the wisdom of a good book and the opportunity to share it with others. However, instead of another boring book review, I’ll simply compile my favorite quotes from some incredibly insightful books and add my two cents in along the way. I hope Atlanta companies who are looking for help in recruiting and staffing will find resources like this helpful.

Today’s book, Good to Great by Jim Collins will inspire you to greatness.

Collins produced the book based on a research project conducted to explain what makes average companies great, while others, with the same opportunities, remain average and eventually fail.

“Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.”
Collins explains from page one that a mindset of excellence is imperative to being unsatisfied with GOOD and achieving GREAT.

“Great vision without great people is irrelevant.”

“When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great performance.”
Collins begins by describing the character of the CEOs of the Good to Great companies he profiled. Discipline and a strong work ethic were not surprisingly some of the most evident qualities of these men.

“People are not your most important asset. The right people are. ”

“In retirement, Smith reflected on his exceptional performance, saying simply, ‘I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job.’” One of the more surprising traits discussed in the book and epitomized in Darwin Smith, CEO of Kimberly-Clark, is humility. Level 5 leadership, the pinnacle of great leadership as Collins describes it, cannot be reached without a sincere dose of humility.

“The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with people who are not achieving.” (My favorite quote from the book.)

“Get the wrong people off the bus and the right people on the bus and in the right seats.”
The dominant metaphor that Collins creates throughout the book is that of a company as a bus. It is not just important to get the right people, but the Good to Great companies got the right people on the right seats on the bus.

Lastly, Collins dictates an effective principle he calls the hedgehog concept. It surmises the sweet spot in which the Good to Great executives were most effective. The sweet spot includes the overlap in the areas of the business you know, the work you are passionate about, and the effort you can be the best in.

All this has strong correlation with the businesses we partner with to do Atlanta recruiting and staffing. Allow us to help you find the right people so your company can grow to its full potential!

The Way People Learn

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“The way people learn determines how you teach.” – Howard Hendricks, Teaching to Change Lives

Early in my management stead in the food-service industry, I was faced with a dilemma.

Our restaurant was not receiving consistent sizes and weights of a certain product from one of our suppliers. In our effort to serve our customers an excellent product, we promptly contacted the supplier to resolve the problem. The supplier owned the problem and without any further discussion assured us that he would rectify the situation immediately, almost as if he was walking out of the door to his office at that very moment to confront the issue.

After the next shipment arrived, we were not surprised to see the problem had in fact been rectified and the product did meet our specifications. Unfortunately, the story is not over.

One month after the first phone call to the supplier was made reporting bad product, we begrudgingly called again to report the same exact issue. The response: “I will personally see to it this never happens again.”

In response, we asked one very insightful question: “How was this supposedly handled last time and how do we know the outcome will be any different this time?”

He seemed somewhat confused by this question, as if we should already know the answer. He said they would “initiate a lock down.” In further explanation, the plant manager illustrated a scene in which hundreds of people at their plant are individual contributors to a massive assembly line that results in the product we receive.

In a “lock down,” all conveyer belts are halted which causes all the people to stop working. The manager would step out of his office overlooking the factory and proceed to berate all the workers for their errors and threaten them with their jobs if their performance did not improve. At that point, the belts would be turned back on and the workers would return to their positions.

This company did a great job of owning the problem, but there was poor execution in the attempt to eliminate the issue.

Had the supplier treated their employees with dignity and respect and attempted clearer communication, some progress might have been made. However, the main point in recounting this experience is to grasp Hendricks’ quote: Your business’ success is sustained over the long-term, when you allow the way people learn to determine how you teach.

In our Atlanta recruiting and staffing process, we place people with initiative and work ethic. Our desire is that each Atlanta company we work with will treat them respect and dignity.

Stewardship & Recruiting

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The passage in the Bible from Matthew 25:14-30 is one of Jesus’ most intriguing parables and is about the stewardship of three servants. It even provides insight for companies looking for recruiting and staffing help in Atlanta.

In the parable, the master goes on an extended trip and entrusts specific investments to servants who were expected to be entrepreneurial with the funds and earn a profit for the master to be presented upon his return.

This arrangement would have been familiar for those in the audience, as this practice was a common way for property owners to continue to earn money while away. The owner would keep most of the profit from new ventures, but the servant could gain the respect of their master as well as a meaningful return if the master was impressed.

Two servants acted with integrity and loyalty by being good stewards of their master’s investment. However, the final servant was too lazy and ignorant to even consider earning interest off the investment in a bank account.

The important distinction is these men were stewards, not owners.

We should be living our lives from the same perspective; we do not own anything, but are blessed to be stewards of God’s resources.

We should begin to see all we own as God’s and use whatever He has entrusted us with for His gain.

We should consider our time, talents, and most importantly our treasure to be leveraged for our master’s gain upon his return.

Specifically in business, we should strive to use the skills and opportunities God has afforded us to produce excellent work.

How can you be a better steward of the time, talent, and treasure God has entrusted to you?

How can you help those you are hiring to steward their resources wisely?

We’re grateful to serve Atlanta’s staffing and recruiting needs and encourage you in your stewardship.