Last week, as part of our Cares Program, Healthcare IT Leaders' staff built 25 backpacks for Backpack Love, an organization that identifies hungry children in the Hall County (Georgia) school system and discretely provides them with three dinners, two lunches, two breakfasts and two snacks (enough meals for the weekend) for a family of five. […]
Though losing weight is the most popular New Year’s resolution, getting organized is the second most popular. If you’ve already cleaned out your closets, car, kitchen cabinets and home office, maybe it’s time to get your technology act together. And as a bonus, if you’re staring at your smartphone or laptop less often, you’ll have […]
For full-time employees, the end of the calendar year typically means vacation days start over or roll over after Dec. 31, but as soon as the bottle of New Year’s Day champagne is empty, both IT consultants and FTEs begin planning their year ahead – including vacation days. Because self-employed consultants don’t receive vacation days in […]
It’s that time again – time to recap the best excuses for missing work for the year. And whether you label them “best excuses” or “worst excuses,” it’s certain that the excuses are even crazier than 2013’s excuses. An annual CareerBuilder survey included a representative sample of 3,103 workers and 2,203 hiring managers and human […]
Out with the days of factory work and assembly lines, in with the desk jobs and computers. If you’re an IT consultant, you may spend many hours sitting at a desk, reviewing lines of code, programming new computer systems and testing for software bugs – but what you probably aren’t doing is moving around a […]
Whether you call it recruiting or staffing, the business of putting other people to work is full of all six basic emotions: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise. In the office, a theme that connects all of those feelings is "humor," as sometimes recruiters want to laugh from happiness - and other times from total desperation. Nowhere […]
Through our Cares Program during the last couple of weeks, we collected school supplies for homeless children of all ages in the Atlanta area for the Children's Restoration Network (CRN), a non-profit agency with programs and special events for children and their mothers to ease the transition through homelessness. For the 20th year, CRN hosted its Back […]
Whether it’s at a holiday party, company retreat, project milestone celebration or happy hour, business and booze are frequently intertwined. Just like attending other after-hours work-related functions, having a drink with coworkers and superiors with can help you bond with your team or even move up the corporate ladder, depending on the situation. But since […]
As a health IT consultant, you're too old to say the dog ate your homework and too young to retire, so you must show up to work. Of course, we want ALL of our consultants to always arrive at work on time, when you're supposed to. But just in case you needed a laugh to […]
As a group, we participate in a few volunteer activities or outings per quarter, which are found and chosen by the employees. This quarter, we've sponsored and attended the Kauffman Tire Spring Baseball Classic for Kids, provided dinner for 45 youth at the Covenant House of Georgia and last week, built 260 ham and cheese sandwiches […]
Listening to music at work can lift your mood, increase your endurance, improve your memory and boost your productivity. Melodious sounds encourage the release of dopamine in the reward area of the brain, similar to eating something decadent, seeing something attractive or smelling a pleasant aroma, said Dr. Amit Sood, a physician of integrative medicine […]
Walt Whitman said, "Keep your face toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you." Sunlight and shadows aside, if you have a positive attitude at work, you’ll not only have more friends, but you’ll be a more productive employee. A positive attitude boosts your energy level and makes others want to help you, according […]