Employer Resources

Employee Development Strategies

Your employee development strategy should include upskilling and reskilling, individual support, and a continuous learning culture. Here’s why.

Employee Onboarding Best Practices

Your employee recruitment and retention strategy should begin with onboarding. Make sure your new hire orientation includes these best practices.

Tips for Getting the Candidate Experience Right

It’s a job seeker’s market, but the ball is in your court to provide an exceptional candidate experience. Here’s how to make it a competitive advantage.

Talent Solutions: 3 Ways to Drive Record-Breaking Employee Retention

What can companies do to drive retention in a job seeker’s market? Here are 3 ways Helpmates does it that results in record-breaking retention

How to Find Great Accounting Professionals

How to Find Great Accounting Professionals

It’s not your imagination: it is tough to find great accounting professionals today. Accounting Today reported in April 2020 that about 68,000 accounting and bookkeeping positions were eliminated just in the two months or so since the pandemic...

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Tips for Hiring Great Temporary Specialists in SoCal

Tips for Hiring Great Temporary Specialists in SoCal

Your Los Angeles or Orange County company may need more workers as your business starts growing again as the economy continues to improve. Yet you probably don’t really know how fast you’ll grow, in what areas you’ll grow and if you’ll be able to...

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Why Your Job Candidates Want You to Text, Not Call

Why Your Job Candidates Want You to Text, Not Call

Yes, it’s true: job candidates much prefer a text from a recruiter than receiving a phone call. You probably can guess why from your own experience: a phone call is very disruptive. You don’t know if the call will take one minute of your time or...

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Avoid These Recruiting Marketing Mistakes

Avoid These Recruiting Marketing Mistakes

Does your company start hiring someone only as soon as you have a need? That is, do you whip up a job posting only when a hiring manager requests a replacement or needs to fill a new position? If so, do you find yourself scrambling to source and...

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Real Life Virtual Networking Advice

Real Life Virtual Networking Advice

It's now been more than a year since the first case of COVID-19 appeared in the United States. As the pandemic drags on, most everyone has had to make major changes in how they work and live. Many now work remotely to avoid close contact with...

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Giving Yourself a Recruiting Degree

Giving Yourself a Recruiting Degree

No college offers a recruiting degree or one in sourcing. Although there are some very good training programs available, most of what recruiters learn, they pick up on the job. One of the most important parts of recruiting is sourcing candidates....

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Performance Review Strategies for the 2020s

Performance Review Strategies for the 2020s

No one enjoys performance reviews – neither managers nor workers. But when done well, they truly can help a supervisor gauge a person’s progress, or lack thereof. Here are a few strategies to use to make your performance reviews as effective as...

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