Recruiting & Hiring Insights Blog

You approved the controller requisition in March. It is now August, the position is still open, and your accounting manager has been covering the workload of two roles since spring. The posting has generated applications, but...

Nobody wants to pay a  placement fee. A staffing agency cost shows up as a single visible number attached to a hire, and it raises an obvious question: could we have done this ourselves? The comparison most companies run is not...

Manufacturing demand is accelerating, but hiring isn’t keeping pace.  According to the August 2026 ICIMS Workforce Report, U.S. manufacturing job openings in July closed 29% above their prior-year baseline, the sharpest increase...

Legal departments are usually the result of evolutionary demands of a company. More often, the need becomes impossible to ignore—when legal questions start pulling executives away from their core responsibilities, contracts pile...

Most IT staffing conversations in Utah begin by asking the wrong questions. A platform migration slips for the second time, a security audit sets a hard deadline, or a finance team finally gets approval to upgrade a legacy...

Utah has quietly become one of the country’s most active engineering and manufacturing hubs. Aerospace and defense work along the Wasatch Front, a growing cluster of medical-device makers, and the advanced manufacturing...

Legal hiring leaves little room for error. The wrong associate can quietly cost a firm billable hours and client confidence. The ill-suited general counsel can expose a company to problems that don't surface until they're...

Walk any production floor or talk to any engineering team in Utah right now and you'll hear a version of the same problem: the work is there, but the people to do it are hard to find. Skilled trades professionals  are retiring...

Ask almost any finance leader in Utah what's keeping them up at night, and hiring is likely at the top of the list. A controller gives notice three weeks before year-end close. A fast-growing software company suddenly needs...

Utah’s legal community has always been tight. Ask any hiring partner or general counsel in Salt Lake City and they can name the legal talent they most want to recruit. The challenge is, so can everyone else- and lately,...