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Getting Your Job-Search Mojo Back
Looking for work is hard and it certainly isn’t a night out on the town with your friends. It’s hard and a slog whether you’re looking while employed or whether you’re unemployed, making it quite easy to lose your “passion” for the endeavor. But persist you must,...
Getting More Commitment from Temporary Staff
Temporary workers on assignment at your company…leave. After all, it’s right in their description: they are “temporary.” So why should they even expect any type of commitment from you? And why should you expect any commitment from them? Excellent questions! But here...
If You Don’t Know Where You Want to Go in Your Career, How Can You Get There?
If you don’t know where you want to go, going anywhere will do, right? But do you really want to “go anywhere” when it comes to something as important as your career? We know of a truly and genuinely nice man, nearing retirement, who has worked in the cut-throat,...
So You Trashed Your Career When Young
Let’s say you were – like all of us – young and foolish. Let’s also say that you were so foolish that you trashed your career in some way: You told your boss you were sick so that you could take the day off to see a ball game, but who should you see at the game but...
Lying Liars Who Lie….On Their Resume
When it comes to our jobs and careers, just about all of us are liars: more than four-fifths of us (85 percent) lie on our resumes. (And that number – from 2017 – is a big increase: just 66 percent of job applicants lied on resumes or applications in 2012.) Still,...
You Got the Job Offer! Should You Take It?
You applied for a job opportunity. You were called in for an interview. You aced it. You were called in for another interview. Ditto. The hiring manager tells you she’ll make her decision in a week and in that week you hear from her and she offers you the job! You’re...
Helpmates Staffing Services Once Again Is Named to the Best of Staffing® Awards for the Tenth Year in a Row
It’s a 10-peat!!! Helpmates Staffing – once again! – has been named to ClearlyRated’s Best of Staffing® Client and Talent Diamond Awards. This is our 10th straight year of earning this award! Helpmates Staffing Services has earned ClearlyRated’s Best of Staffing®...
Hacking the College Job Fair
Yep, it’s February. If you’re a college senior, you’re busy. And one of the things your busy with is getting ready for your campus’ college job fair this spring. What? It’s not on your radar!!! Why not!? College job fairs are a terrific way for you to land job...
Everyone’s Leaving My Employer. Should I Go, Too?
Today’s hot, hot, HOT candidate market means many people are leaving one job for another. And it feels as if everyone is doing so. Why? Because they can. With unemployment in Los Angeles County at 4.6 percent (in October, the latest figure available) and 2.9 percent...