California Employment Law Updates & HR Compliance Seminars

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Employee Onboarding Best Practices

Your employee recruitment and retention strategy should begin with onboarding. Make sure your new hire orientation includes these best practices.

Tips for Getting the Candidate Experience Right

It’s a job seeker’s market, but the ball is in your court to provide an exceptional candidate experience. Here’s how to make it a competitive advantage.

Talent Solutions: 3 Ways to Drive Record-Breaking Employee Retention

What can companies do to drive retention in a job seeker’s market? Here are 3 ways Helpmates does it that results in record-breaking retention

Talent Solutions: 50 Reasons to Choose Helpmates As Your Staffing Agency

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. 

The Upside of Employee Turnover

The Upside of Employee Turnover

Employee turnover: is it really as black-and-white as we’ve been led to believe? Here’s how a healthy balance of turnover can invigorate your organization.

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Showing Empathy When it’s the Last Thing You Want to Do

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...

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Keeping the Human in Human Resources

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...

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Making the Most of Your Meetings

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...

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How to Lead by Example

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...

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Best Texting Practices for Recruiting

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...

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Boosting Employee Productivity and Morale

Boosting Employee Productivity and Morale

Employers need happy and productive workers. Yet if employees don’t have autonomy, the freedom to make mistakes, learning and growth opportunities, a sense of mission, etc., morale and productivity often plummets. Two Sides of the Improved...

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Helping Employees Embrace Negative Feedback

Helping Employees Embrace Negative Feedback

None of us succeeds in our careers without receiving negative feedback at least once. Many of us understandably melt into a puddle of despair and never recover believing that if feedback is true (and when done correctly, it is) then we are losers...

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