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How Often Do Your Team Members See You? Seriously: How Often?
Everyone it seems – and this really isn’t much of an exaggeration, is it? – is on their phones all. The. Time. Or texting. Or creating/responding to email. And as a result, you may have noticed that we don’t talk to each other much anymore. Face-to-face. Eye-to-eye....
Dealing with “The Gap”
While most of us will work until about our mid-60s, not all of us will work all the time until then: most of us probably will have a gap in our work history either due to illness (ours or a family member’s), raising children, being laid off/quitting outright, or even...
Pay Rates in Southern California
As it becomes harder and harder to find top talent in Southern California, especially for our clients’ temporary workforce needs, we’ve done a little digging regarding what great workers expect in Orange and Los Angeles counties regarding pay rates. Below are some pay...
The Rise in the Minimum Wage and Your Temporary Workforce
The minimum wage rose to $13.50/hour in Los Angeles in July and will rise to $12/hour in Orange County in January. Couple this with the fact that it’s a hot candidates’ market today with unemployment in Los Angeles at 4.1 percent (in May) and in Orange County at an...
Helpmates Staffing Services Named as Best Place to Work by Orange County Business Journal
Helpmates Staffing has been named one of Orange County’s Best Places to Work 2018 by the Orange County Business Journal. Run by the Business Journal as well as the Best Companies Group, an independent research firm located in Pennsylvania, the annual Best Places to...
Acing the Phone or Video Interview
Many companies conduct preliminary screening interview with a phone or video interview before asking candidates in for an in-person interview. Such calls are real interviews and should be treated as such. (You won’t get a chance to shine in person if you don’t “pass”...
Are You STILL Focused on Finding the Perfect Candidate?!
As a hiring manager, are you looking for ways to screen people out instead of looking for ways to find the good in candidates? For example, if you notice a typo on a resume, do you automatically throw it into the proverbial “round file”? What about gaps in work...
When You Chose the Wrong Career
It happens: we spend four – or more! – years studying for a certain type of career or profession and then two or three years after working within it, we come to the conclusion that it’s simply the wrong career. For us. If this is you, don’t panic. Read below to find...
Congratulations on Graduating! Now Get to Work!
Graduation was mere weeks ago. Congratulations on your accomplishments and – if you’ve found one – starting your new “real job.” Your campus’ career center and/or family and friends may have given you lots of great advice and guidance when it came to finding that job,...