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Your Resume is Your Story: Podcast with Simón de Swaan and David Arraya 

At times, candidates can feel like their resumes get lost in the mix. Senior Recruiting Partner, Simón de Swaan, explains in this podcast how candidates can find greater success with their resumes by becoming storytellers. Your resume is your story, and it’s okay to be professionally boastful. In fact, it’s encouraged! Simón suggests that as a…

Goodwin Recruiting: Changing Lives for 25 Years

This August, we’ll be celebrating our 25th anniversary! 🎉 Over the course of this year, we’ll be sharing fun content around the number ‘25’, and stories from the amazing candidates and clients we’ve had the pleasure of working with.   To kick things off, we wanted to share what a privilege it has been this past…

Showing Your Support on Trans Day of Remembrance

Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR) is here, a day when we remember transgender individuals who lost their lives due to violence and discrimination. It’s a day to think about the tough times faced by the transgender community and to show love and support.   Learn from Real People with Real Stories An important thing to…

The Creation of the Weekend: Almost 100 Years Later

Did you know that the “two-day weekend” concept started only 97 years ago? The eight-hour workday and 40-hour week are relatively new concepts in the American labor force and worldwide.   A more reasonable workday was first discussed during the Industrial Revolution (1760 – 1840) across the world as strikes broke out across Europe and…

Veterans Day Now Has a Whole New Meaning to Me

I was born and raised in the United States. Texas to be exact. My entire life has been surrounded by red, white, blue, stars, and stripes. I was educated about U.S. history. I was taught how to respect and handle the American flag. And I was taught to be grateful for the quality of life…

An Interview with Mickey Bakst, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Ben’s Friends

The food, beverage, and hospitality industries are known for their high-stress work environments and long and irregular hours. They rank among service industries with the highest proportion of workers who experience substance use disorders (SUD). If you, your employees, friends, or family in these industries struggle with addiction, watch this interview with Mickey Bakst, co-founder…

The Growing Role of Advanced Analytics in Finance and Accounting

Big data and advanced analytics are transforming the ways finance and accounting organizations and professionals perform their roles. Analyzing financial data from across an organization and third-party sources, and extracting and acting on those valuable insights, are dramatically improving how organizations manage finances, make strategic business decisions, understand customers, and excel in risk management.   Advanced…

Basic Sign Language Everyone Should Know

September is Deaf Awareness Month, dedicated to raising awareness around deafness and the issues faced by the deaf and those experiencing hearing loss in our communities. There are a large number of people impacted by hearing loss in our world today – over 1.5 billion, in fact. In the United States and Canada alone, it’s…

I Encourage You to Get Involved in World Humanitarian Day

For talent recruiters, helping others is in our DNA. It’s why we do this work and why we’re good at it. This inherent trait includes wanting to bring greater awareness to humanitarian work and the people who commit their time and lives to it. Understanding the significance of humanitarian workers around the globe is something…

5 Reasons Why Candidates Struggle to Find a Job 

Are you getting discouraged with your job search, or starting to wonder why you’re not being hired? I’ve been in the professional recruiting world since 2019, and wanted to share 5 common reasons I’ve seen as to why candidates might struggle to find a full-time job. You Feel Lost in the Crowd There are tons…

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