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Eliminate Stress to Help Your Success
Having an occasionally high stress day at work is nothing to worry about. When excessive stress starts to become the norm it however, can interfere with how successful an employee is in their career. Impacts on mental, emotional and physical health can become...
9 Ways To Shine In A Group Interview
Companies in Orange County, Los Angeles and the surrounding counties often adopt the fast pace lifestyle of their residents. A job posting opens and the race is on to find the most qualified and talented candidate in the region. Resumes are uploaded, phone interviews...
6 Tips To Finding Candidates Who Will Stay For The Long Haul
Recruiting candidates takes time, and searching for ones who can be retained for the long haul can be even more time consuming. Jerome Ternynck provides 6 tips to finding and retaining long term candidates in his Inc.com article, “Hire for the Long Haul.” These tips...
Not Recruiting Overqualified Candidates? Here’s Why You Should Be.
When HR departments and hiring committees look to recruit new employees it sometimes seems that there are not enough qualified candidates, or too many overqualified candidates. For years the thought of hiring an overqualified candidate was taboo as they could quickly...
How a “Thank You” could be the difference between getting or losing the job
Everyone leaves an interview with a genuine “thank you” and good handshake. But what can saying “thank you” after the interview mean? It may seem like a small gesture, but sending an email and an actual thank you note can mean the difference between getting the job or...
The 4 Rules of Modern Recruiting
Modern recruiting is rapidly changing and evolving around mobile platforms and social media. Here in Southern California where most job searching is done on-the-go by workforce ready millennial’s, finding and hiring qualified candidates within a stack of resumes can...
The Business Leader’s 11 Resourceful Characteristics
To be a manager or a part of a company’s leadership team takes a great deal of effort, planning and resources. These teams require a broad spectrum of knowledge and a good handle on all aspects of their job. John Hall, Inc.’s article points out 11 characteristics...
Eight Secrets to Employee Happiness – Without the Raise
There are many things managers and companies do to ensure employee happiness. Offering raises, bonuses, paid vacation, and external perks are some ways this happens, but these factors won’t necessarily retain a company’s best employees. What is more gratifying is...
Are You Hiring For Experience Or Personality?
Hiring new employees can be a challenge for HR departments and hiring committees. Especially in Southern California, where a variety of industries and an even larger variety of people call home, finding a job that fits with a job seeker’s abilities and personality can...
The Science of Working a Meeting
For postdoc, graduate students and job seekers in the science and technological fields, conferences and conventions can be a prime place to network. Counties across Southern California boast companies in the pharmaceutical, medical, biotech, science and laboratory,...
4 Tips On Being An Effective Performance Manager
In highly demanding and regulated fields where quality is the name and quantity is the game, getting the most out of employees can be a challenge. As a manager or boss, performance management is not about dealing with poor performers but recruiting the right people,...
College: What Is It Good For?
It’s not unusual for college graduates to be apprehensive about entering the job market. With so many employees keeping their job for fear of being unemployed, graduates sending out applications into their field of study are not guaranteed a job right away. The...