Corporate communications, staffing, employment and economic expert
Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Current
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- consultant at Steinberg Consulting (Self-employed)
- Past
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- Senior Editor and Research Director at Staffing Industry Analysts
- Director of Research & Public Relations at American Staffing Association
- Education
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- Texas State University-San Marcos
- Florida International University
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Bruce Steinberg’s Summary
Strategic research:
+ Research and publish a monthly 30-page report (Employment Trends & Temporary Help Services Data Report) covering employment trends and developments in-depth for staffing industry financial analysts and top executives.
+ Active member (currently executive committee) for five-plus years of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’s (BLS) Business Research Advisory Council (BRAC), which provides private-sector guidance to the BLS on all of its statistical programs, both current and proposed since 1999. Currently co-chairman of Committee on Employment and Unemployment Statistics (since 2001).
+ Conceive, design and conduct research and communication materials (e.g. client newsletters) to advance consensus goals of clients.
Writing/Public Relations:
+ Close working relationships with national consumer and trade journalists who had come to rely on my “coverable” angles and materials – lead to high-profile spokesperson including appearances/quoted on national media outlets.
+ Extensive experience in creating full-cycle (from concept to execution) special events that advance objectives of the organization.
Fiscal and Staff Management:
+ Experience managing personnel, planning equipment requirements, overseeing outside vendors and budgets for special events, conferences, and special projects.
Bruce Steinberg’s Specialties:
corporate communications, employment and economic research, public relations, podcasting, public affairs, website development, media relations
Bruce Steinberg’s Experience
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consultant
Steinberg Consulting (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
January 2003 — Present (6 years 11 months)
+ Consulting projects focus on specialized employment data, government labor and business statistics programs, development of specialized employment and economic indices, and benchmarking individual businesses to overall trends.
+ Developed and maintain monthly widely recognized index of IT employment for business association client.
+ Provide feature stories to business associations’ official publications as well as to other publishers.
+ Developed two “turnkey” tools that take obscure and raw government data and market statistics and transform them into a form and format for business people to easily comprehend and use to determine a variety of market trends, benchmark their operating practices against the market at the local level, and research other industries to market their products and services.
+ Provide ongoing newsletter highlighting IT industry research and developments to business association for members to distribute to their clients/customers. -
Senior Editor and Research Director
Staffing Industry Analysts
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)
July 1998 — November 2002 (4 years 5 months)
+ Established Washington D.C. bureau; covered industry-related legal, covered legislative and financial conferences and events; wrote feature and news stories including annual update and future growth estimates, conducted sector analysis and country overviews; developed news sources and worked with confidential sources; developed first statistical almanac/fact book on the industry.
+ Managing editor of Global Staffing Industry Report; produced weekly e-mail on breaking industry developments to draw new subscribers; supervised – both directly and through a middle manager – a stable of about ten correspondents around the world. -
Director of Research & Public Relations
American Staffing Association
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
May 1990 — June 1998 (8 years 2 months)
+ Research & Strategic Planning: ran numerous research activities to measure industry activities as well as public and congressional opinion surveys to help focus legislative/regulatory and public relations activities; extensive interaction with academic community.
+ Public Relations: developed public relations strategy; primary spokesperson, highly-quoted source and contact for all news media regarding industry issues as well as general economic and employment trends; on-air presentation for industry viewpoints on radio and TV.
+ Staff & Fiscal Management: managed outside PR counsel; prepared annual department budget; evaluated outside vendors (market research, website developers, advertising and public relations firms, specialty advertising items, etc.)
+ Publication management.
+ Website development.
+ Program management: developed industry-wide business education partnership via internal 501 (c)(3) charitable foundation; full management of national “week.”
Bruce Steinberg’s Education
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Texas State University-San Marcos
M.A. , Theatre Management & Speech Communication , 1976 — 1977
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Florida International University
B.F.A. , Theatre , 1974 — 1976
