BWBacon is a flute sponsor for Playing for Change Day!

BWBacon is a proud flute sponsor for the next Playing for Change Day event, scheduled for September 22!

PFC Day is a global benefit event to promote peace and positive change through music. The Playing for Change Foundation makes it its mission to create positive social change in the world through music education. By providing children a safe place to learn, flourish and express themselves, PFCF helps provide a creative alternative to the struggles many of these children face daily. To date, they’ve built eight schools, often in locations that suffer from extreme poverty, lack of basic resources, limited medical care and educational resources, past conflicts and genocide, unstable governments, and a host of infectious diseases.

BWBacon has a long history of supporting Playing for Change and it’s missions in a variety of ways. Dave Bacon himself acts on the board of the directors. BWB has also connected them with some of our BWBacon’s friends like HiDef, Inc. and mGive to support last year’s Playing for Change Day event. Recently, BWBacon Group has connected them with Denver’s very own music project, Flobot.org’s Youth Media Studio, being built In the South Lincoln/Mariposa community near the 10th & Osage station.

And finally, if you were appreciating those sponsorship icons, yours truly is thrilled to be able to actively support them through an in-kind donation of design work:

These are the sponsorship icon’s Jacklynn from BWB developed for the event. They feature some of the instruments the children of the Playing for Change school’s learn: the flute, the sarangi, and the djembe.

“6 Ways Recruiters Can Make a Difference”

Never before has the time been riper for recruiters to make a real difference to the profitability of their firms. The differentiator between profits, innovative products, and long-term success is, very simply, the quality of talent.

As gatekeepers, your function is far from trivial. You are key to finding the best talent and therefore ultimately a core player in corporate success. But we continue to act like our job is about as important as sorting screws or stocking shelves. We are rarely influencers or early adopters of technology.

via ERE

Really great article from ERE that might give you some insight into what we do and how we work! (Read the full article here).

01. Narrow the Field.

“Determine who the most critical hires are for your firm — the ones who generate revenue, create new products or services, or build strong customer relationships — and then focus primarily on locating where the best of those people are. Use social media, targeted messaging, and focused branding to attract them. Every recruiter should have a community of interested, qualified, and available talent so that they can quickly fill any open position.“

At BWB we have 15 minute morning stand-ups to discuss what our priorities for the day. This allows us to concentrate our efforts and be more effective.

02. Get relevant data.

“Spend the time to establish measurable and meaningful goals that can be proven by facts and data. Your goals and what you focus on have to be approved and believed by the hiring managers. The best way to establish the measures is to include hiring managers in formulating them.“

Keeping with our pseudo-Agile management, we have burndown charts of specific candidate data which we collect each week in order to establish concrete statistics on our workflow. We also make sure to keep our hiring managers involved and love when the entire team meets with our clients and talks about the requirements for an open position.

03. Go for the Crowd.

“Leverage your employees and seek out connections, referrals, and recommendations of good people. Don’t worry about specific professions or skills. Go for anyone who your employees think is a high performer, unusual thinker, entrepreneur, and doer. You can screen them later and, as work changes and new needs arise, who knows whom your firm may need.“

Did this remind you of our awesome BW Loyalty Program? I thought so. We work with great people. Great people know other fantastic people. It just makes sense. We are proud of the fact that our resources enjoy working with us enough to recommend us to their friends.

04. Move the Transactional Out.

“Outsource or automate whatever is routine, transactional, and doesn’t directly lead to a new candidate, a close, or a hired person. Your job is to find and get great people hired. It’s not to administer paper, write reports, manage budgets, and schedule interviews. Someone else (or a tool) can do this, freeing you and your team to hire the most critical contributors.“

While our team members have specific duties like sourcing or managing our social media (ahem, yours truly), we also work together to “remove impediments” from each other, #Agile. People working with us will notice that we have also switched to e-signatures in order to dramatically reduce the time spent on paperwork—both for us and you. Plus, we have some great things in the works…

05. Empower Hiring Managers.

“Let them do more. This is their hire, not yours. You are the scout, the initial evaluator, and the coach. You should be coaching the hiring managers and advising them how to probe, sell and close.”

If our hiring managers were peanut butter. Man, you know we’d be the jelly. The people we work with are our partners and good relationships are extremely important to us.

06. Use Technology.

“Everything including branding, sourcing, interviewing, assessing, marketing, onboarding and workforce planning can be augmented or even completely offloaded to technology.

For example, social media, and crowdsourcing techniques can relive you of most of the need for Boolean search, job posting, and other time-consuming tasks with low return on your time investment.”

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The Bacon Team!

At long last the BWBacon sign is up on Battery 621! We were so excited, we just had to take some pictures…

Who wouldn’t want to work with us?

Ta-Da!

So, if you’re ever on the corner of 6th & Kalamath, you’ll have to drop in and visit us!

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First Friday at BWB

> Opening stone crabs is super-fantastical fun!

> Marty cracking open a claw

> Sweet victory

A little spontaneity is the spice of life.

At the end of the day on Friday, the BWB enjoyed a little bit of stone crab and mustard sauce (thanks, Dave!).  Then, some of the team was stayed for First Friday celebrations in the Battery621 where we had an awesome time with with the crews of Icelandic, Something Independent, The Public Works, and especially Spyder (to name a few). It is great to work in the same building with inspiring people and companies!

And as a side note from yours truly: I have to say–after  growing up in Nebraska and going to school in Wyoming–there is simply something special about the energy, drive, and ambition of Denver that is unavoidable in the best possible way. And it is my admittedly biased opinion that our Battery crew embodies that amazing spirit of Colorado. You’ll have to catch up with us next First Friday!

- Jacklynn

It’s green o’clock

Do you know what you’re doing on October’s First Friday (October 7th)?

Because I hope it’s coming to Battery 621 for our huge “Launch of Winter” blowout. I mean, obviously it is so I don’t even know why I’m bring it up.

(It starts at 6pm)

So can I talk about this hexadecimal clock screensaver?! I really like clocks, usually only analog, but every computer-geek should have and love this clock as their screensaver. It represents time as its hexadecimal color! Download this immediately.

When Writing Your Resume, Come Legit

Your resume is your professional calling card.  It shouldn’t suck.  Unless sucking is your MO.

Business Insider published an article with some truly exceptional resumes.  Worth your perusal for inspiration, as you prep your resume to email to your friends at BWBacon Group, who are going to help you land your next sweet web development or interactive design job.

Six Degrees of BWBacon

The Bacon number of a technical professional in Colorado is the number of degrees of separation he or she has from BWBacon Group. This is an application of the Erdős number concept to the Colorado technology and interactive sector.  The higher the Bacon number, the farther away from BWBacon the tech professional is.

The computation of a Bacon number for Colorado tech professional X is a “shortest path” algorithm:

• BWBacon Group itself has a Bacon number of 0.
• The Bacon number of tech professionals who have worked directly with BWBacon is 1.
• If the lowest Bacon number of any tech professional with whom X has worked in a contract or full-time capacity is N, X’s Bacon number is N + 1.

What’s your Bacon number?

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