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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...
Motivating a Remote Workforce: 4 Strategies
By the time you read this, we’ll be almost three months from the start of safe-at-home orders and also well on our way to seeing Southern California “reopen.” Yet many companies will still be asking employees to work from home. Because their team members have been...
Building a Company Culture with Remote Workers
At the risk of using a platitude that is becoming (frankly) more and more clichéd, your employees need you to be their rock more than ever in these unprecedented times. This particularly is so if a good portion – if not all – of your workers work remotely. But there’s...
Getting the New Normal Right for Your Workers
Things have started a (slow) return to “normalcy” here in California as Governor Newsom okayed a slow re-opening of the state’s economy on May 8. The fact is, more and more businesses soon will start to bring workers back to work and as the state’s economy very slowly...
60 Call Center Specialists Transition To Remote Work in Just Three Days
Discover how Helpmates transitioned 60 call center specialists to remote work in just three days during the pandemic, ensuring seamless customer service.
Helpmates’ Proven Performers Prepared for Work in Our New Normal
We have oriented and prepared our top specialists in Covid-19 work safety best practices and they are ready to deploy quickly. Whether you’re an essential business and still operating during our current safe-at-home reality or you’re hoping to reopen your business as...