• Local Photographer Part of Nationwide Effort to Create 10,000 Free, Professional Headshots to Help America Get Back to Work

    Local Photographer Part of Nationwide Effort to Create 10,000 Free, Professional Headshots to Help America Get Back to Work

    Nothing says “I’m ready to work” more than a freshly pressed suit, an updated resume, and – of course – a professional headshot. Regardless of profession, COVID-19 sent millions of Americans to the unemployment line without warning. That is why Isolde “Iba” Baylor, a Paoli-based photographer and the proprietor of Images by IBA, is participating…

  • Is Your Company Ready to Emerge from COVID-19? RKL Offers To-Dos and Tips for Successful Recovery Planning

    Is Your Company Ready to Emerge from COVID-19? RKL Offers To-Dos and Tips for Successful Recovery Planning

    The future is coming and companies need to be ready. While no one can fully predict the new normal, a corporate recovery plan is the best way to rally a workforce and streamline operations as a company emerges from the crisis. The team of operations experts and business strategists at professional services firm RKL LLP…

  • Forbes: Salons, Barbershops Looking at Many Changes to Ensure Patrons Feel Safe Visiting Their Facilities

    Forbes: Salons, Barbershops Looking at Many Changes to Ensure Patrons Feel Safe Visiting Their Facilities

    Once salons and barbershops restart serving customers, most of them will implement significant safety changes to ensure their patrons feel safe while visiting their facility, writes Marc Weber Tobias for Forbes. Among other things, these changes will include legal waivers, the spacing between customers, a reduced number of people allowed in at the same time,…

  • Blue Bell’s IPS-Integrated Project Services Positively Impacting Lives at a Time When It’s Needed Most

    Blue Bell’s IPS-Integrated Project Services Positively Impacting Lives at a Time When It’s Needed Most

    Because of its immersion in the life sciences industry, IPS-Integrated Project Services, LLC (IPS) – a Blue Bell-based provider of engineering, procurement, construction management, and validation (EPCMV) services – is positively impacting the lives of so many people throughout the world at a time when it’s needed the most. With a global staff of nearly…

  • Sheltering in Place Creates Trash and Jobs at J. P. Mascaro

    Sheltering in Place Creates Trash and Jobs at J. P. Mascaro

    As the coronavirus places a severe strain on a company’s day-to-day operations, managers must weigh draconian cost-cutting options, including sadly, whether to lay off workers or cut back the hours existing employees work each week. Managers at J. P. Mascaro & Sons, privately owned and family operated business with nearly 60 years of servicing Montgomery County…

  • With Vigilant Employee Monitoring, J. P. Mascaro Continues to Serve Their Clients and Communities

    With Vigilant Employee Monitoring, J. P. Mascaro Continues to Serve Their Clients and Communities

    Audubon-based J. P. Mascaro, one of the largest and most successful waste management companies in the country, issued a letter Monday underscoring the company’s commitment to the health and safety of their employees, clients, colleagues and the communities they serve. Even though none of the company’s 850 employees or their families have tested positive for…

  • RKL Makes Managing Partner Available to Address Business Issues Related to Coronavirus

    RKL Makes Managing Partner Available to Address Business Issues Related to Coronavirus

    RKL, a 500-person professional services firm with roots in finance, is making Barry Pelagatti, the firm’s Exton managing partner, available for consultation about issues related to guiding companies and nonprofits through the coronavirus crisis. Pelagatti has more than 20 years of experience in public accounting and advising financial service organizations on operational improvement and complex…

  • Answering the Toughest Interview Questions

    Answering the Toughest Interview Questions

    By Express Employment Professionals According to a recent study by GoDaddy, one in four seniors graduating college doesn’t feel ready to enter the job market, with 30 percent of seniors having the opinion that there aren’t any jobs available at all. Along with the trepidation many seniors have about the job market overall, interviews can…

  • Here Comes the Pup In Conshohocken Provide Dog Owners With Tips On Involving Their Pooches In Their Weddings

    Here Comes the Pup In Conshohocken Provide Dog Owners With Tips On Involving Their Pooches In Their Weddings

    Ashley Summa and Ashley Holt, owners of Conshohocken-based wedding pet service Here Comes the Pup, believe that dogs definitely have their place at a wedding – but also know that some planning must be involved, writes Gina Tomaine for the Philadelphia Magazine. For example, one of the best ways to test a dog’s modeling skills…

  • Pottstown and Goodwill Firehouse Gets First Female Career Firefighter

    Pottstown and Goodwill Firehouse Gets First Female Career Firefighter

    Pottstown has its first female career firefighter in Goodwill Firehouse’s Jamie Kreidler, writes Evan Brandt for the Reading Eagle. Forty-one-year old Kreidler has loved firefighting since she was a child. She began volunteering with a fire company in her native Easton in 1998, but when it was time to choose a career, she opted to…

  • MONTCO County Careers – Henkels & McCoy

    MONTCO County Careers – Henkels & McCoy

    Headquartered in Blue Bell, Henkels & McCoy, Inc. is a leading utility construction firm providing critical infrastructure for the Power, Communications, Oil & Gas Pipeline, and Gas Distribution markets throughout North America. Fleet Coordinator – Power This position establishes and maintains cooperative working relationships with operations, staff, and regional fleet teams; schedules equipment within the business units;…

  • Blue Bell’s BrightView Acquires Two More Regional Services

    Blue Bell’s BrightView Acquires Two More Regional Services

    Blue Bell-based BrightView Holdings is continuing its expansion by acquiring two more regional services, writes Joseph N. DiStefano for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The commercial landscaping, pest control, and snow removal services company bought Signature Coast Holdings, based in Napa, California. The company has nine locations and 600 employees in wealthy areas north and east of…

  • Audubon’s J.P. Mascaro & Sons Awarded $2.5M in New Municipal Contracts

    Audubon’s J.P. Mascaro & Sons Awarded $2.5M in New Municipal Contracts

    J.P. Mascaro & Sons, the Audubon-based family operated waste service company, was recently awarded around $2.5 million in new municipal waste collection and recycling contracts. The company will now add Boroughs of Royersford, Bridgeport, and Mount Penn to the areas it services. Among the reasons for the company being awarded the contracts, company President Pat…

  • Montgomery County Community College Celebrates 55 Years Of Making Higher Education Accessible To All Learners, Raises Nearly 16K for Day of Giving

    Montgomery County Community College Celebrates 55 Years Of Making Higher Education Accessible To All Learners, Raises Nearly 16K for Day of Giving

    Montgomery County Community College celebrated its 55th anniversary on Founders’ Day Dec. 10, remembering the vision of its founders, acknowledging its milestones, and looking ahead to the future with new plans. “Today, we’re celebrating the 55th anniversary of Montgomery County Community College by remembering the early founders who had the vision, determination, and grit to…

  • Pottstown Photography Studio Offering Free Photo Session to Families Fighting Cancer

    Pottstown Photography Studio Offering Free Photo Session to Families Fighting Cancer

    Husband and wife couple Dan and Britney Eppenhimer are offering free photo sessions in Valley Forge National Park to families battling with cancer, writes Beccah Hendrikson for 6abc. Their company, BlackLevel Photography in Pottstown began with a Facebook post offering the free photo sessions which quickly grew from there. “When we first did it, we…

  • Bala Cynwyd Startup Wants To Flip The Script On Gift Buying

    Bala Cynwyd Startup Wants To Flip The Script On Gift Buying

    Givzie, a Bala Cynwyd-based startup, wants to redefine the gift buying process by offering an alternative that combines wish lists and crowdfunding, writes Victor Fiorillo for the Philadelphia Magazine. Amanda Olsen, the founder of the company, got the idea from all the “cheap plastic crap” her sons received and gifted at birthday parties and at…

  • NBC Survey Reveals Catholic Worker Views on Key Church Issues

    NBC Survey Reveals Catholic Worker Views on Key Church Issues

    An NBC survey of the Roman Catholic workforce, showed divided opinions on key issues, writes Chris Glorioso and Evan Atulberger for nbcphiladelphia.com. The survey was distributed to 32,000 employees in the Official Catholic Directory. Of those, 2,700 responded. Some, like Drexel Hill Rev. Eileen McCafferty DiGranco of St. Mary Magdalene Community, felt that progressive reforms…

  • Audubon Waste Company Awarded Two Whitemarsh Township Contracts

    Audubon Waste Company Awarded Two Whitemarsh Township Contracts

    P. Mascaro & Sons, the family-owned Audubon waste company, has been awarded two comprehensive three-year waste service contracts by the Whitemarsh Township. Each contract includes two one-year renewal options. The two contracts start on January 1 and are valued at more than $10 million. The first contract covers the collection, transportation, and disposal of Whitemarsh…