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Specialty Spotlight: Accounting Careers
If you’re practical minded with a strong attention to detail, a love for numbers, and a penchant for solving logical problems—and also enjoy working with figures, columns, and spreadsheets—then accounting is a great career for you. There’s more good news for...
How to Define Your Employment Brand. And Why It Is Important
Branding has become an essential part of marketing your business to customers. However, many employers don’t realize that branding strategies can also help you sell your company to current and potential employees—resulting in a stronger workforce that pays off in big...
When to Start Your Job Search
Job seekers have plenty of details to worry about, like what to include on resumes and cover letters, how to dress for interviews, and what to say when they’re asked the tough questions like “Why do you want to work for this company?” But there’s another concern that...
Enhancing Productivity: Get More Out Of Your Day!
American workers spend 27.3 hours per week doing “non-essential” tasks, according to a study by leading productivity consultants PEPworldwide. The majority of this time is spent handling email. Keeping yourself on track not only improves your quality of work but will...
Use your Alumni Network | Southern California
Establishing a connection to your university’s alumni association is not only good practice while searching for a job right out of college, but it can also provide great connections throughout your career. Regardless of how long it has been since you graduated,...
Who’s Hiring? Job Forecast in Southern California
While the California unemployment rate is still high, it is slowly improving in line with national economic growth. In fact, the California annual gain was slightly higher than the national labor market in 2011. With the unemployment rate just slightly over ten...
Halloween Costume Ideas for the Office
With Halloween just over a week away, it’s that time of year when we all embrace the spookiness and silliness that is Halloween in the United States. It can be great fun at the office too, with tastefully created costumes that give people a chuckle, or maybe leave...
Handbook How-To’s | Southern California
When was the last time you actually read your employee handbook? Chances are high that it has been too long. Your handbook is an infinitely useful tool for you and your employees, and can significantly reduce your company’s liability if written correctly. Further,...
Think your dream job is out of your league? Maybe not!
In your search for a job, have you ever read a job posting and thought, “This is my dream job!”, but then you didn't apply? There is an interesting phenomenon that might explain why. Some 70% of Americans struggle with what is known as “Impostor Syndrome” at some...