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Find Good Talent

Recruiting needs to change to fit the current trends.  More than ever, young people in their twenties and thirties are using social media to hunt for jobs.  They are using YouTube to post video resumes or visumes and these are great tools!  With all the new social media tools that are available to young talent, companies need to step up their program to make sure they are monitoring all of the right social media outlets.

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The Girvin Book Collection

The Seattle office of GIRVIN maintains and grows a multi-thousand volume collection of books on design. There is a wide range of reference works that has taken multiple decades to collect.  There are rare books, ranging from signed and numbered limited edition books, to rare books that are centuries old. A hand-illuminated Quran reside beside an ancient cuneiform ceramic cone from ancient Mesopotamia, a first century Greek tutelary epigraph...


Girvin designs many things

 

Known for his exemplary commercial portfolio, Girvin designs many things.  In his studio, he has designed tables crafted from industrially-reclaimed timber, long horizontal sheaths of wood showing the true grain, knots and separation of grain in the wood.  Along the smooth grain, there is the pattern and imagery of a profound level of thinking. Giant symbolic brushstrokes render concepts of [circle] for holism, [the whorl] for...


Top Nails is Tops in Seattle

Rita, a regular customer of Top Nails Salon, said, “From LA to Seattle, I’ve been to scores of nail salons, but I have to confess I’ve never had my nails done this well.” 

Top Nails in Queen Anne may have a word-of-mouth reputation for doing the best nails in the city, but there is something to be said for how caringly the customers are treated by the technicians who work there. Le, Anh, Lan,...


Seattle Reigns as Most Bookish City

Seattle’s long season of dark, rainy days fosters a population that treasures books. A United States Census Bureau survey showed that Seattle had the highest percentage of college and university graduates of any major U.S. city. Seattle was listed as the most literate of the country's sixty-nine largest cities in 2005 and 2006, the second most literate in 2007 and the most literate in 2008 in studies conducted by Central Connecticut State...