Best Places to Work 2019 | SMALL COMPANIES (15-49 employees):
5. Barnum Financial Group
What are your requirements for employees to update and augment their job skills? We offer training utilizing in-house experts, outside professionals and industry leaders. We also have been incorporating Emotional Intelligence Quotient training, such as mindful communication and feedback.
How would you describe the culture of your workplace? Our work requires teamwork, collaboration and accountability. We work hard and have fun at events such as our annual bowl-a-thon or our kids holiday party. We celebrated National Compliment Day.
Do you have a preference for promoting existing staff or hiring from outside and why? We love to promote existing staff into higher roles. But we do have an in-house talent acquisition team that recruits on college campuses, we post on several job sites and we also encourage referrals.
Employees in R.I.: 39
Founder and CEO Paul Blanco
Questions answered by: Melissa Poli, human resources consultant
