Posts by Taylor Maurer
2 Minute Tuesday | Cracking the Code: Mastering Interview First Impressions to Secure Your Success
Taylor Maurer Senior management partner with Heavy Civil Resource Consultants back with another 2-MT tip of the week and adding to our interview preparation and strategy sessions. You can more interview advice on our website at hcrc.us. Alright, today we discuss interview first impressions. Let’s dig in… Interview first impressions really set the tone for…
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Building a Better Balance: Transforming Construction Companies with Work-Life Initiatives
Receive a Free Resume Audit Hi, I am Taylor Maurer Senior Managing Partner and Founder of Heavy Civil Resource Consultants and today I wanted to share some recent feedback we received from polling our vast network of civil construction professionals regarding Quality of Life in the Industry. The results are an affirmation of what…
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Poll Results – What is Your Outlook After Q2 for the Construction Market for the Rest of 2023?
Download Talent Capture Blueprint How is confidence in the civil construction market after the second quarter of 2023? Let’s take a look at our exclusive poll results which paint a different picture from the same poll we conducted after the first quarter of this year. Hi, my name is Taylor Maurer. I am the Senior…
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Poll Results – Reasonable Salary Increases for Great Candidates
Download EVP Assessment Do you know how much it costs to attract top tier talent in the heavy civil construction and engineering industries? I’m Taylor Maurer with Heavy Civil Resource Consultants, a boutique executive search firm specializing in talent discovery and engagement for exceptional contractors and engineering firms and I would like to…
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2 Minute Tuesday | The Importance of Pre-Interview Research
Receive a Free Resume Audit My name is Taylor Maurer, Senior Managing Partner with Heavy Civil Resource Consultant and welcome back to another 2MT where we are going to start digging into Interview Best Practices: We will break these down into small chunks but we will also be posting them all in a…
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2 Minute Tuesday | Pro-Tips for Navigating Career Changes
2MT – Discussing Career Changes Part 2 My name is Taylor Maurer, Senior Managing Partner with Heavy Civil Resource Consultant and welcome back to another 2MT Part 2 on Preparing for the Interview: Today we are discussing how to plan to discuss your previous career moves. When it comes to discussing previous career moves…
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2 Minute Tuesday | How To Build a Professional Network
Networking is the proven hands-down winner of how most people get a job. As an executive search consultant for the heavy civil construction industry for nearly 20 years, I like to think I know a thing or two about networking since I do it for a living. Here I will share my secrets of how…
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2 Minute Tuesday | The Compensation Question During Interviews
Taylor Maurer Senior Managing Partner with Heavy Civil Resource Consultants back here with another 2 MT. Whether you are a seasoned Project Manager, an Estimator, a Project Engineer with a few years of experience, or a Superintendent in the construction industry being prepared for a compensation question and knowing when the right time is…
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The Contribution of Millennials to the Construction Industry
The Contribution of Millennials to the Construction Industry Employment of construction managers is projected to grow ten percent over the next ten years, faster than the average for all occupations. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 2019, the U.S. construction industry added approximately 12,000 jobs a month. Yet while the last of the…
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2 Minute Tuesday | Are You An MPC?
Receive a Free Resume Audit I am going to let you in on an inside recruiting industry secret: the MPC and why you should want to be one. MPC stands for Most Placeable Candidate. But what makes a candidate the “most placeable”? It’s simple – a candidate who has the highest probability of getting…
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