Triumvirate Named Best Place to Work by Environmental Business Council

On Friday, September 19th, the Environmental Business Council of New England (http://www.ebcne.org/) named Triumvirate Environmental the BEST large environmental company to work for in New England. This is the second year in a row that the EBC has bestowed this award upon Triumvirate.

This was the second annual Best Places to Work program sponsored by the EBC. The organization issues surveys to its member organization's employees. The awards are presented based on survey results and are given to the top scoring company in four size categories: entrepreneurial, small, mid, and large size.

The EBC also recognized Triumvirate as an Outstanding Corporate Partner to the organization, whose mission is to "support and foster the development of the environmental industry" with a major goal "to enhance business and job growth of both established and emerging environmental and energy businesses".

To learn more about the EBC, check out their site http://www.ebcne.org/ or find them on Facebook.

Happy Labor Day!

Labor Day is a national holiday, giving American workers a day of respite from their usually busy schedules! It comes every year on the first Monday in September.

The holiday came from the American labor movement, and according to the U.S. Department of Labor it is a "national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country".

You can read more about the history of Labor Day at the U.S. Dept. of Labor's website: http://www.dol.gov/opa/aboutdol/laborday.htm.

Enjoy your day off! You deserve it!

Monster.com Doesn't Go Green!

Most people have heard of Monster.com, it is arguably the most widely used job search engine out there. But if you're an environmental job seeker, looking for jobs on Monster has become a lot more difficult. Earlier this year, Monster fixed something that wasn't broken, and restructured their job search categories. The result? Monster eliminated it's Environmental category altogether! Instead, it dispersed hundreds of environmental jobs, burying them into one or two functional areas that are too specific for your "average" environmental job seeker, leaving said job seekers frustrated while browsing for career opportunities. This has forced companies like Triumvirate to post in less-than-relevant categories that environmental job seekers would not intuitively search in. For example, we were advised by our sales representative to post in the "Engineering" section. While our firm does do some engineering, none of our open positions are in this area...and unless you're an environmental engineer, you would'nt even be looking in that area!

While the world looks for ways to get greener and more job seekers than ever are pursuing careers in these fields, Monster has taken a step in the opposite direction. So what's a job seeker to do? My best advice is to voice your concerns to Monster.com. We're working on joining with other environmental companies to do just that. Hopefully we'll see changes soon, meanwhile use sites like CareerBuilder, which does have an Environmental industry option, and Indeed to find the careers you're seeking.

Job Search Tip: Careful Applying for Positions That Don't Exist!

When you're applying for a position, your are often competing against lots of job seekers applying for the same job. You need to make sure that you put your best foot forward! One of the most frequent slip-ups in this process is applying for a position that doesn't exist at the company!

We get TONS of resumes and cover letters where the job seeker applies for a job title that doesn't even exist at the company! We get many responses for our Environmental Specialist position where the job seeker lists the position as an "Environmental Scientist". Or, if we're hiring a Marketing Specialist, some job seekers will list Marketing Assistant or Marketing Coordinator.

This can show one of two things....you are either a) not taking the time to personalize your response to the company and may be using the same cover letter you used to apply to XYZ Corporation...or b) you're not paying attention!

I'm not saying we won't look at the resumes, but if we have a lot of interest in a particular position, those who show that they've taken the time to get things right in their resume submission will stand out against those who didn't.

Choose A Job You Love...

So I was in an interview yesterday for an Accounts Payable position and towards the end of the interview, the candidate I was meeting with, Deena, asked me what I liked about working at Triumvirate. I'll spare you my long-winded answer, but at the end of it, Deena said something profound that really summarized my feelings about my job. Quoting Confucius (way to impress an interviewer!) Deena said "Find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life." WOW.

Every day I stroll in to Triumvirate bright and early, and I never feel disappointed to be there. My job challenges me, my teammates inspire me, and the company's goals motivate me. It makes being at work all the easier.

So no matter where you take your career...make sure you "find a job you love" so that it doesn't feel like work.

Job Search Site: Indeed.com

If you've been looking for a job, chances are it goes something like this...you open up your browster and go to Monster. After checking out the three new jobs since yesterday's search, you switch over to Careerbuilder, and then Yahoo! HotJobs. And if you're really looking for a job, this is what you do every day! Well, meet Indeed.com...the Google of job search. Why do we use Google? We google to search for absolutely anything, and if we can't find it there, it probably doesn't exist. Same goes for Indeed. Indeed uses the same search (and advertising) technology to compile job postings from all across the Net. So, you'll get listings from Monster, Careerbuilder, and HotJobs, as well as from lesser known job sites, state job banks, corporate and instutional career sites, and newspaper's online classifieds. If the keywords that you are using aren't bringing in the results you were hoping for, you can also browse jobs alphabetically by state, company, or industry.

The site does have a couple of drawbacks. First, you will definitely receive duplicate or irrelevant listings in your results if you are using very broad terms in your keyword searching. Lastly, since the site automatically pulls text from other sites, the job listing summaries can be difficult to understand, but if you click the link, it will take you the posting on its original site.

Happy Job Hunting!

Best Places to Work

On Tuesday, June 10th, the Boston Business Journal (BBJ) hosted the awards breakfast for its 2008 Best Places to Work program at the Boston Copley Marriott Hotel. The BBJ honored 60 companies in 3 size categories: small, mid-sized, and large companies.

Triumvirate Environmental earned the 5th spot on the mid-sized list!!!! In 2007, we were ranked 9th, and in 2006, 12th.

Top honors in each category went to Winchester Hospital (large), Google (mid-sized), and Treeline, Inc. (small). Yes, that is not a mistake, Google won in the mid-sized category because they have less than 500 Boston-based employees.