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Over the past six years, real estate markets in Gainesville and across Florida have strengthened, but not for a reason many would expect. According to Tim Becker, director of the University of Florida Kelley A. Bergstrom Real Estate Center at the Warrington College of Business, the slow growth of the U.S. economy has allowed for...

Talent acquisition, candidate experience, employee engagement, employee development, benefits administration, risk management…..Oh my! These are just a few things that HR professionals have to focus on during a given day. Long gone are the days of HR being a paper-pushing department that’s locked away in the corner of the office where it has no interaction...

Your application for the job you’ve been eyeing has been accepted. Now, it’s time for the in-person interview — and you don’t want to blow it! The following are some key interviewing “Do’s and Don’ts” to help increase your chances of landing your ideal job:     DO: Research the company before submitting your resume....

As business persons, we all have business plans. Whether they are a written formal plan or a plan kept in our memory. Our business plans are integrated into our daily life as we work on our business. As we close the books on 2017 you will most probably take some time over the holidays to...

60 Years of Impact In 2017, United Way of North Central Florida celebrated its 60th year in the community. When we opened our doors in 1957, we were first operating under the name The United Community Fund of Gainesville. In the 1960s we changed our name to United Fund of Alachua County and later, in...

Say the words “human resources” to ten different people, and you’re likely to get ten different explanations about what it means. There are so many myths surrounding what this profession (or mysterious department of your company) actually does that it’s easy to get the wrong idea and avoid it altogether. So, let’s take a closer...

A University of Florida research team has been approved for a five-year, $11.9 million award to directly compare the potential benefits and harms of proton therapy to standard radiation therapy when treating prostate cancer. Nancy Mendenhall, M.D., medical director of the UF Health Proton Therapy Institute, leads the team that received funding from the Patient-Centered...

Just as HR professionals nationwide are beginning to figure out how to effectively recruit and retain millennial workers, an even more perplexing generation is entering the workforce: Generation Z. Generation Z includes people born during the mid-‘90s to about 2010, putting the oldest members of the generation around the age of 22 or 23. As...

Alachua County was awarded a Justice Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP) Grant by the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance. Alachua County was one of seven new jurisdictions nationwide to be awarded Category 1 JMHCP funding in 2017. This grant provides a total of $152,435 over two years to support a countywide...

Public Consulting Group, Inc. (PCG) announced yesterday that it is expanding its focus on workforce development, training, and placement solutions through the acquisition of Focused Management Solutions (FMS), based in Gainesville, Florida.  Additionally announced is that all Gainesville-based FMS leadership and staff will be retained. With the addition of FMS, PCG gains new and innovative...