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26 Event Staffers Hired for ETH Denver 2025 – the World’s Largest Ethereum Innovation Festival

Posted by: Karen Booher on March 7th, 2025

J. Kent Staffing played a pivotal role in hiring event staff for ETH Denver 2025, a week-long festival of innovation focused on Ethereum, the world’s second-largest blockchain after Bitcoin. As a leading event dedicated to empowering the Web3 community, ETH Denver brought together over 25,000 attendees from more than 125 countries, including developers, entrepreneurs, and…

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7 Timeless Interview Questions to Ask Candidates – For Any Position

Posted by: Karen Booher on February 18th, 2025

A key to being able to fairly evaluate candidates is to be consistent with your questions. You may want to consider getting “back to the basics” with your toolbox of interview questions. There’s a reason they’ve been staples in interviews for so long… because they result in good information coming back to the interviewer! Aside…

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J. Kent Staffing – 7 Straight Years of Best of Staffing’s Client & Talent Awards for Service Excellence!

Posted by: Karen Booher on February 10th, 2025

The official results are in! J. Kent Staffing is proud to announce that we have won our 7th consecutive year of “Best of Staffing” awards from both our Clients and Talent. What Were Our Ratings? Clients (companies). We received our highest client rating yet of 94.4% Net Promoter® Score (NPS). For comparison, the staffing industry’s…

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Colorado Convention Center Event Wraps Up With 100% Attendance from our J. Kent Team!

Posted by: Karen Booher on February 7th, 2025

J. Kent Staffing recently hired 18 team members (17 staff and 1 supervisor) to support our client’s Annual Assembly with over 3,000 attendees at the Colorado Convention Center. Our client is a national association of physicians and other medical professionals from many different specialties, with more than 5,300 members. Under the diligent and enthusiastic direction…

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A Glossary of HR’s Newest Lingo – Social Media’s Top Trending HR Buzzwords

Posted by: Karen Booher on December 1st, 2024

Employees have been flocking to social media sites such as LinkedIn, TikTok, and X for quite some time now to share their personal stories and feelings about work, and to get others’ opinions. Out of this, many different HR-related buzzwords have been coined. Some are more commonly used, but others you may be hearing for…

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Happy Holidays from J. Kent Staffing!

Posted by: Karen Booher on November 29th, 2024

As we get ready to usher in the holidays and turn the page on another year, we want to take a moment to express our heartfelt gratitude to our clients, temporary associates, and candidates for making 2024 – our 45th year in business – another memorable one. Our J. Kent Staffing team had an early…

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Minimum Wage Updates Effective Jan. 1, 2025

Posted by: Karen Booher on November 29th, 2024

It’s that time of year again! Yes, the holidays are here, but that’s not what we’re talking about. Here’s our annual update on what’s happening effective Jan. 1, 2025 with minimum wages locally, around the country, and also at J. Kent Staffing. Denver and Colorado’s 2025 Minimum Wage – $18.81 and $14.81 Per Hour, Respectively…

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16 Different Types of Bosses – Which Are You?

Posted by: Karen Booher on October 21st, 2024

National Bosses Day was October 16th, so hats off to all of you BOSSES out there! There are many different types of bosses and many of us are a combination of several different styles. Not any one style is the “secret sauce” for being a great boss. Whichever style(s) is yours, how can you be…

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Making Connections One Neighbor at a Time!

Posted by: Karen Booher on October 18th, 2024

How many of your business neighbors do you know? If you work in an office building or business park, you may say hello as you run into people in the mail room or when walking to and from the parking lot. Odds are, you may not know more than their first name at the most…

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