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- Recruiters vs. Job Boards
Top ten reasons to use a recruiter vs. using a job board. If you're ready to make a career move, allying yourself with a professional recruiter can greatly up your odds of success.
- Job Interview Questions: Are You Manageable?
Knowing the technical aspects of your job isn't enough to convince an interviewer you are the best person for the job. They assess who you are as a person and whether you are manageable.
- Three Easily Avoidable Resume Mistakes
The top three resume mistakes that are easily avoidable. Follow the resume advice in this article and you will increase the chances that your resume will read better than your previous attempts.
- Easy-to-Implement Cover Letter Advice
You should put the same effort into your cover letter as you do your resume. By implementing the following easy steps, you will ensure that your cover letter stands out just as much as your resume.
- Cover Letter Starters and Endings - Five Examples
Do you get stuck on how to start or end your cover letter, so much so that you decide to send your resume without it? Here are sample cover letter starters and endings for you to use when writing your letter.
- How to Reach Outside Yourself to Advance Your Career
Your advancement is limited only by your commitment to your own career development. Involving others in your quest will get you one step closer to who you want to be, personally and professionally.
- Qualified Candidates - Poorly Written Resumes
Using these steps will enable you to create a resume that stands out from the competition in a spirited job market.
- Temporary Employees and Contract Employees
Staffing employees have very positive views of their temporary or contract work experiences, according to the results of a comprehensive landmark survey conducted by the ASA in early 2006.
- Peak Performance - Your Performance Review
Typically, employees have performance reviews once or possibly twice a year. You might have a performance review after your first three months in a new job, to make sure it's a good fit.
- Dress Code - Decoding the Dress Code
In some corporations and industries, it's Casual Friday every day of the week. Yet even with today's relaxed standards, it's still not a good idea to show up for work in torn shorts and a baggy tee shirt.
- Time Off from Work Gains in Importance
American workers are saying they need a break. As their number of hours clocked on the job has crept higher, more time off has become a bigger priority.
- Top Ten Reasons to Leave Your Job
Salary.com's survey results show that inadequate compensation is by far the number one reason that employees want to leave their job within the next three months.
- How to Negotiate the Perfect Salary
If you are considering any new position and you currently are already employed, you should be seeking higher wages, a better working atmosphere, and an overall improvement in your career.
- Effective Cover Letter Techniques - Writing Cover Letters
Sending your resume off through the mail can often seem like you are blindly putting yourself "out there" for everyone to look at and review.
- Tell Me Again, Why Did You Leave Your Last Job After Six Months?
That's not a question you want to field during an important job interview, especially if the details are gory.
- Get all the Facts on Maternity Leave
Having children can be a time of great joy. It can also be a time of major league stress.
- 10 Things You Must Do Before That Successful Interview
The sequence goes like this: the resume gets you an interview; the interview gets you the job.
- Revealing Your Salary History
At some point in the job application process, you might find yourself in a tight spot. What do you do when asked for a salary history?
- Job Search 101 - Inappropriate Questions
Have you ever felt uncomfortable about a question someone asked in a job interview?
- Time Off - Whatever Happened to Leisure Time?
Forty years ago, economists predicted that the U.S. workforce was heading into a crisis of leisure - that people would soon have so much free time they wouldn't know what to do with it.
- Great Interviews Get The Job - Top 10 Job Interview Questions
It can be easy to convince ourselves that the job interview doesn't matter so much, as long as our resume is outstanding, our dress is impeccably professional, and that we are nice people.
- 8 Job Interview Mistakes You Should Avoid
In order to best prepare yourself for that all important interview, make sure you avoid these mistakes that could prevent you from winning that position.
- 10 Signs of Career Burnout
Learning to distinguish normal stress from the deeper issues that lead to career burnout is important in order to effectively deal with the problem.
- Follow Up Letters Win Job Offers
A surefire way to separate yourself from a sea of other qualified candidates is to write a follow up letter after an interview.
- Five Hot Resume Tips
The purpose of a resume is not to land you a job, but rather to get you in the door for an interview. This concept is important because it will help you familiarize yourself with the resume process.
- Some Time Savers - Time Management Articles
In over 2,000 Time Management seminars, which I have conducted for more than 100,000 people from around the globe during the last 20 years, I have shown people how to get more done in less time, with less stress.
- Time Thieves - Time Management Articles
Every day, eleven time thieves gang up on you and work to take some of that precious time away from productive use. Let me introduce you to this inconsiderate troupe.
- The Art of Negotiating a Raise, Promotion, Better Job Title, or Bonus
Negotiation is a give-and-take process until an eventual agreement is reached between two or more parties. To understand the art of negotiation, a jobseeker must understand that it is a give process as much as it is a receiving process.
- It May Be Time to Walk in an Employers Shoes
If you are in a job search and aren't receiving viable hits, it's time to walk a mile in an employer's shoes.
- Build Your Rolodex of Networking Contacts
How important is networking in your job search? Take a look at the astonishing numbers surrounding how job hunters ultimately become gainfully employed.
- Is Your Job Resume On Target?
When writing a resume, create a mental picture of a desk piled high with dozens or even hundreds of resumes next to each other.
- Job Resumes - Do's and Don'ts
Our job resume tips come directly from our professional recruiters, who see countless numbers of resumes (good and bad) every day.
- The Steps to a Successful Job Interview
Compiled by Davidson Staffing's Professional Recruiters. Prepare for your next job interview by following these steps to a successful interview.
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- Civil Electronic Court Filing in District Court - CM ECF
Many Federal civil courts are implementing Electronic Court Filing systems, which require mandatory compliance and participation from counsel.
- Hire Right
Updating your hiring process with some innovative approaches can provide you valuable insight and enable you to hire right.
- Profit Grows With Use Of Temporary Attorneys
Perhaps the greatest benefit of using contract attorneys is not having to be stuck with the extra labor and paying wages when the work ends, and it can end suddenly.
- Creating a Breeding Ground for Successors
You've invested years in your industry and many long hours developing your executive career and supporting team. How do you generate an environment that fosters a breeding ground for quality successors?
- Wasted Time At Work Costing Companies Billions
The America Online / Salary.com survey indicates that employees are wasting about twice as much time as their employers expect.
- Strategic Staffing: Your Competitive Edge
It's no surprise that recent research by the American Staffing Association shows that the benefits companies like most about working with staffing firms are workforce flexibility and access to talent.
- Love Actually: Third Party Recruiters and HR/Staffing
When I first joined a former employer - a large, consumer-oriented company - as head of staffing, I thought my goal was to build an empire and rule over all of the staffing land.
- Give Yourself a Staffing Check Up
With so much competition in the marketplace, you would be doing your company a disservice if you neglect to schedule a yearly staffing "check up" to see how your chosen services fit the bill.
- Streamlining Your Hiring Procedures
You may need to streamline your hiring procedures in order to acquire top talent before someone else does.