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The Talent Bus Does Not Have to Feel Like the Struggle Bus!

January 31, 2022 By EMI

This is a guest post by Jacob Valentien, PE 
The Talent Bus Does Not Have to Feel Like the Struggle Bus! - Team members

As I am sure everyone in the civil engineering industry and associated disciplines would agree, it seems like there is always a need for more help. With how fast it seems that things are moving and how quickly some markets are growing, building a quality team in a timely fashion is no easy endeavor. Balancing the backlog with the appropriate number of team members has always been challenging.

I want to tell you…

Over the last couple of years, I have been helping grow a satellite office of a larger firm from less than five people to now close to 20 — and still growing. I wanted to share some of the helpful guidelines and thought processes that we use as navigational beacons for recruiting, interviewing, and hiring to build our team.

Getting the Right People on the Bus

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Filed Under: Civil Engineering Tagged With: building a quality team, cultural fit, culture, dilution, hiring, individual goals, interviewing, Jacob W. Valentien, Personality evaluations, potential team members, Recruiting, Reward and acknowledge, team chemistry, team members, Workload diversification

TCEP 168: The Importance of Having a Vision-Driven Company (and Developing Your People)

April 21, 2021 By EMI

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Vision-Driven Company

In this episode, the third in our Civil Engineering Entrepreneurs series, I talk to Jenny Snape, P.E., Managing Partner at Batture, LLC about building a vision-driven company with a social mission that does both profit and pro-bono work.

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Filed Under: Civil Engineering Entrepreneurs, TCEP-The Civil Engineering Podcast Tagged With: BATTURE LLC, Civil Engineering Entrepreneurs Series, company culture, cultural fit, dedicated to the mission, Developing Your People, firm’s biggest asset, Jenny Snape, mission and vision statements, non-profit organizations, pro-bono work, social mission, Vision-Driven, Vision-Driven Company

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