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When Your Candidate Receives a Counteroffer
With the job market as tight as it is now, employers need to adapt their hiring strategies to a new reality. One challenge employers face when attempting to hire new talent is dealing with counteroffers from their current employer, an entity no doubt anxious to hold...
Your First Job Will Not Be Your Dream Job
Coming out of college, you may picture in your mind the kind of job you would love doing – your dream job. It is one that pays you lots of money, is challenging, enjoyable, exciting. Unfortunately, the odds of finding such a job right out of the gate are very slim,...
College Grads: Tell Your Folks to Back Off
They are called helicopter parents, and for good reason. The term is used to denote parents who hover over their children, inserting themselves incessantly into the lives of their offspring, attempting to micromanage and control their lives. If the above sounds like a...
Working Hard – or Workaholic?
We all believe hard work is necessary for success in life and in our careers. But even hard work can be harmful if we take it too far, because then it slips into something that can take over our life – workaholism. It is similar to an addiction, where we feel the need...
Strengthening Your Nutraceutical Workforce Recruitment
The way your nutraceutical company manages your temporary workforce has a massive impact on your bottom line. Your staffing needs are unique in that your GMP and SOP practices must be met to the absolute letter by your workers. So ensuring that your temporary...
No Job is a Dream Job: All Jobs are WORK
We often think that getting our dream job will make our lives all rainbows and unicorns. But dream jobs are, plain and simple, myths. All jobs involve doing tasks we don’t like – we have to take off the rose-colored glasses and accept that all jobs have both the good...
When You’re Really Asked to Do the Job to Get the Job
It’s fairly common these days for companies to ask job candidates to perform some task or do some assignment to showcase their skills. This is a perfectly reasonable request. In fact, it is a good idea for employers to ask for evidence of a candidate’s work to really...
You’re the Boss of You
You have a terrific job with a stable company. You love your supervisor and your co-workers and they love you. The company is growing and things are good. For now. We can’t emphasize this enough: never become complacent. Things can – and too often do – change in an...
Getting Ready for Generation Z
Talkin’ ‘bout their generation…and we don’t mean millennials. Now it’s time to discuss Generation Z, those born between about 1995 and 2010. These young adults – the oldest of whom will turn 24 this year – are coming to your workplace. Are you ready for them? They...