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Is THIS Why the Candidate Said No to Your Job Offer?
Yours is a nice company filled with nice people who work hard and aim to do their best in their jobs. Your receptionists are pleasant. Your HR department is filled with people-persons. You feel your managers are professional and have great communication skills. Then...
The Quick-Start Job Search Guide
Even though this definitely is a candidate-driven market (and it should continue to be so at least through all of 2018) and employers are practically on bended knee “proposing” to talent, Los Angeles-area workers could see themselves suddenly without a job: layoffs...
Is This Why No One’s Sharing Your Job Postings on Social Media?
Your company has what you believe is a pretty nifty job-referral program for employees: if they refer someone who ends up working for you for at least six months, the referring worker gets a few hundred dollars. So you ask your employees to let their friends and...
Making the Gig Economy Work for You
The Great Recession definitely “did a number” on many individuals’ careers. Mid- or late-career professionals were downsized and unable to find a similar position at a similar income. New college grads struggled mightly to even find their first post-college position....
Ideas for Revamping Your Employee Rewards Program
As the new year begins and new starts….start, it may be a good time to take a look at your current employee rewards program to make sure it’s one that helps your employees feel valued and engaged. Take a look below for five ideas you may want to consider for revamping...
3 Things Your Staffing Firm Can’t Control
As much as your staffing firm works – and works exceptionally hard – to ensure that its temporary associates show up on time to your assignments and provide exceptional value for you while they perform the tasks and complete the projects you need done (placing many...
Hiring Managers’ New Year’s Resolutions
The Big Day is behind us. Now on to the next chapter: New Year’s. Most of us probably have some personal and career-oriented New Year’s Resolutions we’re considering: get fit, take a class/get some technical certification, eat better, go to more networking events. If...
All I Want for Christmas is a Great 2018
Chances are good that you want your career/job situation to be the greatest it can be. With Christmas and the season of giving gifts upon us, it’s understandable if you’re hoping that this coming year will give you all you hope for and desire. And it can, so long as...
Finding Those Elusive Creatures: Top Talent
Non-news flash: the best talent is incredibly hard to find today. With the unemployment rate at its lowest in 17 years, most people who want to work more than likely have found it This low unemployment rate means that employers are willing to look the other way in...