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Staying Motivated During Your Job Search While in a – Hello! – Freaking Pandemic!
We don’t have to tell you that it’s rough out there: about 31.8 million plus folks are out of work nationwide (as of early July). In fact, Los Angeles County itself had an unemployment rate of 19.4 percent in June. So it’s understandable that, if you’ve been looking...
Prepare Today for the Post-COVID Hiring World
Getting to a post-COVID19 world is going to take some time. Even as we gingerly make our way to reopening our economy, California has been hit with a big increase in infections and some business restrictions have been reinstated. But whether it takes months or a year...
The Skills in Demand in a Post-COVID World
The Skills in Demand in a Post-COVID World While the COVID-19 pandemic has changed pretty much everything in our world in these past three or four months, one thing that remains the same – in many ways – are the skills employers will be looking for now and for the...
Moving Beyond the “Hive Mind” When Recruiting
Bees. The golden with black stripes heroes of pollination. You no doubt have heard of their “hive mind”: the coordinated behavior they appear to exhibit, all in the benefit of the hive. It’s as if the there’s a single mind controlling each bee’s behavior. This is the...
Resume Rules for the 2020s
Technology has made work more complicated because it requires more sophisticated job skills. It’s also made looking for work more complicated because it takes longer to explain exactly what we accomplished and how. Plus, many recruiters and HR professionals now use...
Putting Candidates at Ease During a Social-Distanced Interview
If you’re one of the many Southern California employers that are starting to bring employees back to corporate offices and other on-site locations, you may need or want to hire new employees. While many employers have decided to continue interviewing via video...
Using Your Layoff to Change Careers
If you’re among the 40 million-plus people in the U.S. who have been laid off or furloughed by your employer, you may be thinking that if ever there was a good time to change careers, this might be it. And you could be right. Could be, because deciding to change...
Motivating Passive Candidates When It’s Damn Scary “Out There”
Getting passive candidates to move from their current employer to your company is difficult in the best of times; it’s exceedingly so during a pandemic. After all, even though companies are still laying off workers – or even shutting down altogether – great employees...
Landing Your First Job Out of College – During a Pandemic!
Talk about rotten luck! To be a newly minted college graduate in 2020 means you’re headed to job market unlike anything you, your parents and possibly even your grandparents have ever seen before. Many people are likening the current job market worldwide to that of...
