2023 marks our 50th anniversary of being one of the best staffing agencies in California! Here, we share our top 50 reasons to choose Helpmates.
Employer Resources
Reasons to Outsource Hiring Your Skilled Labor Workforce
One way to reduce costs while keeping your business productive is outsourcing hiring as a talent solution. Here’s how staffing agencies can help.
Customer Service Staffing Success for a Data Management Company
A data management company required 70 CSRs within 21 days. Helpmates was the customer service staffing agency who exceeded their expectations. Here’s how.
Managing Remote-Work Employees for the First Time
We’re several weeks into our stay-at-home orders here in the Los Angeles and Orange county regions and many companies are in the thick of managing work-from-home employees. Many of you no doubt have worked the kinks out and things are going...
Getting Through Challenging Times
So. Things now are, shall we say, a tad dicey. The coronavirus pandemic has caused the stock market to decline precipitously, and now many economists are predicting a global recession. Fun times, right? You may be worried that your employer will...
Showing Empathy When it’s the Last Thing You Want to Do
What’s that old saying? “Life would be so much better except for the people”? Is that it? You’ve no doubt heard something similar. After all, as wonderful as people can be, they often … aren’t. And this especially is true of employees. Or at least...
Keeping the Human in Human Resources
Technology is great … until it becomes a substitute for the human touch. Many experts are worried that too many of us are relying on technology in our day-to-day lives. This extends, of course, to relying on tech to do away with tasks we find...
Making the Most of Your Meetings
Oh no, not another meeting! At some companies, meetings have become synonymous with wasted time. When a meeting is announced, employees immediately begin to think of ways to get out of it. It doesn’t have to be this way. If done properly, meetings...
How to Lead by Example
Good leaders, it is said, never ask their subordinates to do anything that the leader would not do. This is what leading by example means – showing your people how to get things done rather than just telling them. It is the kind of leadership that...
Does Your Business Really Have a Healthy Culture? Questions to Ask Yourself
A healthy culture at your company is critical today because you can neither attract/retain top talent, nor maintain high productivity, yet culture is often something that companies pay little attention to, regarding it as nonessential. Turning a...
Best Texting Practices for Recruiting
Texting is becoming ever more critical in the recruitment process. It’s a great way to contact job candidates quickly to deliver short messages. This post will take a look at how texting is being used and offer some advice on recruitment texting...
Negating the Parent Trap: Helping Working Parents Move Up the Career Ladder
Career ambition isn’t just for the childless: parents have career dreams, too. However, too many unwritten rules in the workplace keep parents trapped in lower-level positions. We’ll first delineate some of these “rules,” and then we’ll offers some...