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Hot Jobs: Call Center Professionals
An Introduction The call center industry has been growing consistently across the world over the past decade, and with growth expected to continue well into the next decade, call center professionals are in demand with employers across Southern California. With this...
The Importance of Succession Planning For Your Business
When it comes to long-term planning for your business, regardless of its size, succession planning should be a key part of the process. Key benefits of succession planning include: Time and cost savings. If your top employees suddenly left tomorrow, your organization...
5 Keys to Successful Onboarding
Is onboarding a high-focus part of your hiring process? It should be! In addition to having a dramatic effect on job performance and satisfaction for new employees, onboarding is also an important team-building tool for your current employees. Put simply, onboarding...
Conduct More Effective Job Interviews
Interviewing can be hard. For HR professionals and recruiters, it can be a challenge, but for managers and other professionals who don’t ordinarily conduct job interviews, it can be terrifying. Yet, effective job interviews are critical for making good hires and...
Understanding Your Social Job Search
A recent study found that nearly 40% of employers use social media to screen potential job candidates. Potential employers are looking for you on social media, which means two things: 1) If you’re not actively searching for jobs on social media, you’re missing out,...
Career Planning as a Strategic Tool for Your Business (And Career!)
Career planning is essential to effectively manage your human capital investment and has a profound impact. How and why it should be a strategic business tool.
3 Creative Employee Retention Tips: Keep Your Team Engaged
Engaged employees are more creative, more productive and more likely to stay with your company – getting all those great results. In an especially competitive market for top talent, employee retention should be a key goal, and engagement is a critical factor. To put...
Differentiating Your Employer Brand to Attract Talent
Branding is a popular buzzword today. Companies use it to effectively market themselves to customers. Candidates build and manage their online brands to attract employers. But what about your company’s branding…from an employment perspective? Differentiate your...
Let the Data Do the Work
Numbers make good decisions It can be pretty easy to argue with a person. It’s harder, however, to argue against data. Cold hard facts stand up well to scrutiny, particularly in the workplace. Data can provide a company with the knowledge of what works and what...