Skills and Qualifications in Today’s Job Market

by Sharlene Massie | May 25, 2026 | Industry Insights, Workplace & Career Insights

In today’s rapidly evolving job market, one thing is clear: what you can do matters, but how you’ve learned to do it still plays an important role. At About Staffing, we analyze hiring trends and compensation data every day. By leveraging tools like the Hays Salary...

Alberta Oil Jobs: Why High Oil Prices Are Not Creating a Hiring Boom

by Sharlene Massie | May 11, 2026 | Industry Insights, Workplace & Career Insights

Oil prices are high, and company profits should be strong. By Alberta standards, this should feel like a boom. However, rising costs for both businesses and everyday life are cutting into what would traditionally fuel rapid expansion and hiring. For many employers and...

Healthy Workplace Design: Creating Spaces Where Employees Thrive

by Sharlene Massie | May 1, 2026 | Workplace & Career Insights

For decades, the conversation around workplace health has focused on the obvious: physical safety, hazard prevention, and compliance. And rightly so. At About Staffing, our 30 years of experience conducting hazard assessments and workplace evaluations has shown us...

Love Is Everywhere at Work

by Sharlene Massie | Feb 12, 2026 | Workplace & Career Insights

Let’s be honest. Work can feel serious sometimes.Deadlines. Meetings. Messages marked “urgent.” Repeat. So for Valentine’s Day, let’s press pause on all that and remember something simple: love shows up at work more than we think. We just don’t always call it that. At...

Capability and Capacity: Your Team Is Capable — But Are You Asking Too Much of the Same People?

by Sharlene Massie | Jan 21, 2026 | Hiring Tips & Trends, Workplace & Career Insights

In today’s business environment, constant change, economic pressure, tight timelines, and heavier workloads are pushing teams to the limit. One of the biggest mistakes organizations make is confusing capacity with capability. At About Staffing in Calgary, serving...

We Don’t Want Your Job

by Sharlene Massie | Jan 7, 2026 | Founder's Thoughts, Workplace & Career Insights

We bid it. We hope. We try hard. We work in chaos, caffeine, and pure emotion. From the job sites to the boardrooms, from steel-toed boots to spreadsheets, we have seen it all in staffing and recruitment. Overtime? Rarely.No time? Usually.Deadlines?...