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Whether you’re looking to land a new job, grow into a leadership role, make a career pivot or reenter the workforce after a break, working with a career coach can be a game-changer. Once you’ve decided to take that first step, the real work begins. Career coaching can look differently depending on your coach, your […]

In today’s workforce, the average person will have four to five careers. This means you’ll jump between positions, companies or industries more than once – potentially taking away that straight line of career progression that past generations followed. The responsibility for charting your career path is firmly in your court, and that path isn’t always

When making their next hire, most companies focus on the resume. Skills, experience and education are all important pieces of the puzzle, but they aren’t the whole picture. What’s often missing is alignment with a company’s core values – a critical component in identifying true culture fit. Too often, this is overlooked during the hiring

Change is a fact of life, especially in business. People come and go as their career goals and trajectories shift, but sometimes those shifts are hard to plan for. When seats in your organization become vacant, it’s natural to initially focus on the immediate impacts transitions cause like lower team capacity, timeline delays due to

The job market is weird right now. Top talent flies off the market, and more candidates are directly recruited  from other companies than hired from direct applications. On the other side of that, companies are proceeding cautiously to make decisions about additional resources or new directions in times that feel uncertain. Hiring is a multi-faceted

Have an open position but don’t have the time or resources to manage the hiring process? At Barrel Recruiting, that’s what we do best. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), each unfilled position costs companies an average of $4,129 over a 42-day vacancy period. For sales roles, that number can soar to

The hiring landscape is always changing, and 76% of companies report that filling empty seats in their organizations has been difficult in 2025. At Barrel Recruiting, we constantly monitor economic trends and workforce shifts, as they impact both employers and job seekers. A closer look at the numbers from early 2025:  The U.S. economy added

At Barrel Recruiting, we specialize in connecting growing companies with elite leaders, ensuring organizations and individuals reach their full potential.  Founded in 2024 by Tim Johnson, an expert with 25 years of experience in HR, recruiting, and leadership development, Barrel Recruiting is driven by a passion for building strong teams and nurturing company cultures so