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Tips for GovCon M&As

  HR: The Friendly Ghost of M&As! Let HR haunt your pre and post-M&A processes so everyone can live happily ever after(life)! The role of HR is crucial in ensuring a smooth transition and maximizing the success of mergers and acquisitions. If you don’t include the human factor in your planning from the beginning, your […]

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Planning for FY24: EOFY GovCon Tips

  Seriously With a Government Shutdown? In what is now an annual rite of passage, federal contractors face another potential government shutdown. This one looks more likely to happen than in years past. But fear not, it’s not our first rodeo. Click here for some quick, actionable advice. Is it different from any other article […]

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GovCon’s Golden Ticket: September’s GovCon Tips

With the end of the government fiscal year looming, we are sure you have no time left to breathe, let alone read a newsletter, but this one is actually worth a pause. Let’s face it, you are either in the middle of proposal development (OASIS+ folks we are thinking of you!) or you are waiting […]

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Welcome Back To GovCon School: August’s GovCon Tips

Unlocking GovCon Success: The Key Role of Interview Training for Hiring Managers No, not just any questions, but the right questions. It is crucial to emphasize interview training practices for GovCon hiring managers to avoid conducting ill-fated interviews that lead to hiring the wrong candidates or having to contact your lawyer because you asked the […]

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Don’t Let Taxes Rain on Your Parade

Government Contractor’s Business Taxes: Five Essential Truths You Can’t Afford to Ignore Recent world-wide events have rocked the business world, causing many to adapt and revamp their operations. With remote work and multi-state operations becoming the norm, it’s opened up a whole new can of worms for business owners: taxes. That’s right, as business owners […]

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FAQs

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Dog Days of Summer – BOOST’s July GovCon Tips

Unleash Your Teaming Agreement Potential If there were a GovCon Iditarod, it would be wise to know how to run with the pack. Whether you are interested in winning business from a new USG branch or agency, ghosting other bidders or a multitude of other potential reasons, how you decide to build or be a […]

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Retention Versus Recruitment

While most Government Contractors (GovCons) agree that investing in relevant retention strategies will get them closer to a stable and high-functioning workforce, many ultimately devote more resources to recruiting than retention.

This may be because recruiting is a well-defined set of activities with a beginning, middle, and end. It involves activities such as job description development, job posting, resume screening, interviewing, and making job offers to the selected candidates. It begins with the need for a new employee and ends when that role is filled.

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So, you signed an onerous subcontract. Now what?

GovCon or no, we have all been there.  We have made the bad deal.  We signed the paper without really reading and understanding it.  Whether we committed to the 3-year deal with the home alarm company with shoddy equipment and worse customer service or signed the exclusive teaming agreement thinking, “This is the ONE!”, only to end up with a one-sided subcontract with a fraction of the work share that we were promised, we have all experienced the rush of wind leaving our sails the moment we realize that we have been had.  That rush is the sound of your company’s growth plan moving backwards.