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Shout “I Got the Job!”: Acing the Interview
A resume gets you an interview. Your references and skills back up what a great fit you are for the position. The interview is what gets you the job. On the top of it, that sounds like a lot of pressure: it’s do-or-die time at the job interview! But let us reassure...
Establishing a Successful Internship Program
It’s the end of March and you know what that means: thousands of college students are looking for summer internships!!! If your Los Angeles- or Orange County-area company doesn’t already have an internship program, why not? Whether paid or un-paid (the student...
When You Don’t Want to Be the Boss: the Lattice Career Model
You’ve no doubt heard of someone who is absolutely terrific at sales. He or she meets and exceeds quotas left and right, month after month, year after year. So great is this person’s sales prowess that higher ups decide this individual is so phenomenal, they offer the...
Ghosting Isn’t Right in Romance and it’s NOT Ok to Do to Job Candidates
Have you ever been “ghosted”? That time when a romantic partner just disappears – not returning calls or texts – just suddenly cutting off all communication, as if the relationship never existed? It’s a cruel and immature way to end a relationship. Young people tend...
Signs It’s Time to Get a New Job (Even if the Current One Isn’t Too Bad)
Let’s say you have a job that’s pretty much OK. Possibly even fairly good: you and your boss get along. Your coworkers are nice. You are competent – if not even pretty good – at the tasks assigned to you. It’s simply your average, OK, nothing-special-but-nothing-bad...
We’re More Alike than We Think: Downplaying Generational Differences in the Workplace
You’ve no doubt heard it often: Millennials want to be groomed for advancement while members of Generation X are wanna-be entrepreneurs. And Boomers? They’re definitely not shy about challenging authority. Pretty much accepted as true among most is that the...
5 Tips to Boost Your Interview Confidence
Few of us enjoy going on job interview, which is a shame in a way because interviews are a great way to learn more about ourselves, various companies, different ways of doing things, making new acquaintances – possibly new colleagues – and so on. In fact, learning...
Helpmates Staffing Services Wins Two of Inavero’s 2017 Best of Staffing® Diamond Awards
Once again, our Southern California provider of finance, healthcare, human resources, distribution & manufacturing, and office staffing services has been named to the “Best of Staffing” list. For the 8th straight year! We are beyond thrilled! And honored!!...
Consider the Resume: Time to Say Goodbye?
As much as technology has changed the way we look for work and look for new employees, one thing has remained pretty much the same: the resume. Sure, many automated tools allow us to create out resume, scan resumes, search to see if a resume contains the skills,...