Archive for April 2020
How to Productively Work from Home with Kids in the Mix
If you find yourself suddenly working from home due to COVID-19, tech support, staying focused, communication, and maintaining productivity are all new challenges. When you through kids into the mix, it can end up feeling like one of the hardest things you’ve ever done. Below are a few tips on how you can keep your…
Read MoreTop Salary Negotiation Strategies to Include in Your Job Search
As if finding a potential new job isn’t hard enough, negotiating salary can make a job search that much harder. Salary negotiation can be a difficult undertaking for those who don’t have a solid grasp of employers’ compensation expectations. When you don’t know what companies are willing to pay, you risk asking for something far…
Read MoreManeuvering Your Job Search Through COVID-19
Right now times are very uncertain, very stressful and even a bit frightening. The COVID-19 outbreak has not only caused a health crisis but an economic crisis, as well. In a matter of days, millions of people found themselves suddenly out of work. Millions more are weeks or even days away from losing their jobs,…
Read MoreBenefits of Maintaining Strong Communication With Your Candidates Through A Crisis
Communicating with your candidates is always important, but maintaining strong communication with them during a crisis can set you apart from your competitors. Thanks to COVID-19, our economy came to a grinding halt in March, and businesses are facing unique challenges. On one hand, millions of businesses were deemed “non-essential” and were forced to close…
Read MorePrevent Hiring Mistakes with These 4 Tips
While the occasional bad hire is going to happen to any company, persistently making bad hires can be very costly to an organization. Considering the costs linked with hiring and training a worker, as well as potential unemployment claims, the price of replacing a single worker can range from 30 to 150 percent of the…
Read More5 Career Skills Automation Will Never Replace
From chatbots to massive industrial fabrication machines, automation is everywhere in the workplace, and it’s here to stay. Understandably, people are apprehensive about the rise of automation. We’ve all heard the horror stories about automation replacing humans in the workplace. Still, the cold reality is that we’re a long way off from automation and artificial…
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