News November 2015

Every time you lose a direct-care professional, you can expect to spend $3,700, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health. And your service to people with developmental disabilities declines, at least temporarily.

So it’s in your best interest to reduce turnover. We asked Barbara Lehrer — founder of The Beacon Group, which places direct care professionals in facilities serving special needs clients on Long Island, in New York and Westchester County – how to do that. She said:

Hire well – It’s not just a matter of looking at a resume. Do the criminal background check. Check with New York’s Office for People with Developmental Disabilities or similar agencies in other states, which often maintain READ MORE

(Originally Posted on December 13, 2011) 

Barbara Lehrer was quoted recently in a fourtune.com article. Job hunting? Don’t overlook nonprofits NOT-FOR-PROFITS ARE ADDING NEW JOBS AT A HIGHER RATE THAN THEIR CORPORATE COUNTERPARTS.

“But not all nonprofits are alike. Some of the very large ones can match the compensation that business offers,” says Barbara Lehrer, president of a staffing and headhunting firm called the New York Beacon Group that sometimes recruits managers from for-profit companies to run nonprofits in New York City and its environs.

Besides, people change jobs for all kinds of reasons other than money, she notes, like “the chance to work for a cause they really believe in, but also the prestige, or a better title, and a chance to apply their skills on a broader scale.”

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