Defining Your Culture: A Guide to Writing Core Values

At Compass, we define culture as the acceptable behaviors in an organization. Conversely, culture can be deemed as the unacceptable behaviors in an organization. Playing on positive psychology, we prefer to focus on the affirmative behaviors or core values that should guide every decision, interaction, conversation, and work product of a team. Every organization has … Read more

Our Secret Sauce of Recruiting

When I first started my recruiting career in the staffing industry, I was overwhelmed at the thought of learning enough about a variety of different roles, clients, and industries to successfully fill open roles. At this point, I can confidently say I figured out the secret formula! In college, I majored in Spanish Literature and Language with … Read more

Merged or Acquired? Don’t Panic!

The following statement of uncertainty is becoming more and more common in the market: “My company has been acquired, I don’t have much information, and I’m not sure what will happen next.”    It can be both unfortunate and easy for an acquiring company to focus primarily on maintaining seamless service to the external client … Read more