Social media forums such as Facebook present new opportunities for businesses of all sizes. It’s not just the big businesses that can develop a true relationship with existing, new, and potential customers through Facebook and similar social networking. Facebook, however, is the fairest one of all at the moment and the one place you should […]
Job Hunting While Employed – Cover Your Tracks
The job market is tough out there. Even as small signs of recovery are appearing on distant horizons, companies are still reluctant to raise salaries, reduce hours, or hire new employees. This leaves a lot of people in the market for new jobs but unwilling to put their existing jobs at risk in the process. […]
How Can We Improve?
Despite high unemployment, many companies are finding it increasingly difficult to hire and retain the best and brightest skilled employees for their organizations. Today, I would like to ask for your help in evaluating how our company can better address these challenges in the future. We have asked Haley Marketing Group, a consulting services agency […]
Six Job Skills to Recruit for in New Hires
The old ways of scanning resumes in search of the perfect job candidate are producing fewer real results in today’s ever-evolving work force. It’s not enough to simply seek out signs of intelligence or “book smarts” by way of GPA, affiliations, and honors program memberships. In fact, the companies that are making the grades these […]
Classy, Not Trashy – Avoid Letting Your Cover Letter Sound Like a Chain Letter
As an engineering (or other) candidate, one of the most powerful tools in your job search kit is your professional cover letter. Yet, so many job seekers do their cover letter wrong by drafting a letter that sounds more like a form chain letter than an actual letter of interest. This is a big No-No […]
What Workers Want from Bosses this Summer
Summertime is often the time when HR departments are actively searching for new candidates to fill temporary and permanent assignments. Additionally, as current employees are more frequently dreaming about taking vacations at the beach, supervisors are trying to maintain staffing numbers by boosting employee morale. Knowing what workers want from their employer this summer can […]
5 Simple Summer Job Hunting Tips
Summer can be a tough time to keep your head in the game when it comes to hunting for a job. But these tips will help you keep your job search efforts in perspective so you don’t lose track of your main objective. Read on to learn some summer job search tips. Start Your Summer […]
Advice on Attracting and Retaining Generation Y Employees
If your organization is striving to attract one of the most technology-savvy groups of candidates in the job market, then making a plan to recruit Generation Y employees should be a part of your strategy. Generation Y, also known as the “Millennials” is the group of mid-20 to 30-something candidates who were born around the […]
How to Rehearse for Your Next Job Interview
It’s a fact – job interviews are stressful. Even the most qualified candidates who graduated top of their classes in school experience some degree of sweaty palms and nervous tremors at the prospect of going to a job interview. One way to quell those nerves and dry your palms is to rehearse for your next […]
Online Brand Management: Protect Your Company’s Identity
In the world of business, your reputation is everything—especially the way today’s business market moves. The problem is that rumors, whispers, grunts, and grumbles today move at the lightning fast speed of the World Wide Web. In other words, bad news spreads fast on the Internet. Protecting your corporate brand can be a full-time job […]
