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from Prairie Business November 2021

Q. INSIGHTs & INTUITION

HDR is a very entrepreneurial organization. For us it is not about conforming to a set role with a predefined path but embracing the ability to understand what your role is and define your own success. This brings excitement to our professionals as they grow in the organization, knowing their success is based on bringing fresh perspectives and new ideas to fulfill their roles and best serve our clients at the highest level.

My goal is to provide mentorship at various levels in our organization to prepare and empower our professionals for their career growth. I encourage all our staff to build their own individual brand; encouraging them to not only be recognized as an HDR professional but be recognized for what they do specifically to make HDR a great company.

As a leader for HDR in our Dakotas and Wyoming market, our vision and mission has been and will continue to be to think globally but act and service our clients locally. We bring together the right people for each individual client to create engagement and provide the highest level of teamwork. When we work together with our clients and collaborate, we are at our best.

Jason Kjenstad, PE, VP Area Manager/ Vice President HDR Sioux Falls, S.D.

At Dance Elite, our mission is: “The best dancers, and even better humans.” All our families are well aware that we are instilling more than just dance instruction – we’re teaching life lessons along the way.

One way we inspire is by living our motto. We do everything we can to help develop wonderful humans to go out into the world. We donate the cost of our trophies at competitions to Toys for Tots, get out in the community to perform, and also have policies in place to hold our employees and students accountable. We are all responsible on social media, outside of our organization, and to each other. We have a team/ family environment that works well and shows when we are anywhere.

We also study the latest styles, attend furthering education classes, and bring new things to our clients daily. Just like any organization that has “projects,” we have families that we get to watch grow. Creation with our students is the best part of our job and keeps us constantly inspired!

Unemployment Rate

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 194,000 in September, and the unemployment rate fell by 0.4 percentage point to 4.8%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Notable job gains occurred in leisure and hospitality, in professional and business services, in retail trade, and in transportation and warehousing. Employment in public education declined over the month.

NON-FARM PAYROLL

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Thus far this year, monthly job growth has averaged 561,000. Nonfarm employment has increased by 17.4 million since a recent trough in April 2020 but is down by 5.0 million, or 3.3%, from its prepandemic level in February 2020.

Protective Service Occupations

Men accounted for about half of all employed people in 2020, but about three-fourths of workers in protective service occupations were men. Among protective service occupations, nearly all firefighters (95.6%) were men. Men also accounted for large shares of employment in first-line supervisors of police and detectives (87.3%), police officers (82.9%), security guards and gambling surveillance officers (75%), detectives and criminal investigators (73.6%), and first-line supervisors of correctional officers (72.3%). Women accounted for 45.4% of private detectives and investigators, the largest share among protective service occupations.

Quit Rates

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

The total nonfarm quits rate increased 0.2 percentage point to 2.9% in August, the latest numbers available, the highest since data were first collected in December 2000. The number of quits rose by 242,000 to 4.3 million.

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