One of the strangest and most confounding questions that you will ever get in a first interview – or at any other stage of hiring – is the question: “what is your biggest weakness?” Whether you’re looking for jobs in Ontario, CA or anywhere else – this is a… Read more
Hiring for Potential: How to See the Bigger Picture When Hiring a New Employee
How do you really assess someone’s holistic fitness for a job? We’re not talking about work history and skills — that stuff is pretty old hat, and often, it’s cut and dried. Instead, we are suggesting that hiring managers should really look for more than just technical qualifications. But, potential is… Read more
Is It Acceptable to Put Significant Volunteer Work on Your Resume Even if it was Not Done Through an Organization?
Sometimes it’s hard to figure out exactly how to craft a winning resume – you have so many choices, and there are so many things you can include — so how do you get the best chance of landing that dream job? Let’s look at one of these big questions… Read more
Why It’s Critical to Look Back on 2017 to Prepare Your Team for 2018
Have you ever had a manager who said it’s never good to look back, and you should always be looking forward? Okay, sometimes you know what people mean when they say this, but in reality, they’re leaving quite a bit out. Most experienced leaders understand that there are times when… Read more
A Look Back at the Top Three Job Seeker Posts from 2017
As this year comes to an end, we can look back on what we reported on over 2017, to give our readers an idea of what’s been important this year. What are the issues that people were talking about? Here are three of the most popular blogs for job seekers… Read more
A Look Back at the Top Three HR Posts in 2017
Over the year, we’ve put out several dozen posts in an attempt to help busy human resources people and hiring managers to know what to do in a range of situations. With a flood of candidates at your door, some of this essential knowledge can help make your HR department… Read more
Should I Include All of my Work History in my Resume (I’m a Recent Grad)
Writing a resume can be a lot more complicated than it might sound. Some job seekers feel like it’s simple — you put your name and your contact information at the top, your work experience in the middle, and your references at the end. But a lot of job experts… Read more
Trust Us – A Simple Thank You Goes a Long Way
How do you manage your workers? (It’s a question that we hear a lot as one of the most engaged staffing agencies in Stockton, California). Everybody has different management and leadership styles. People can argue all day about which one’s best. But in general, there is a consensus that displaying… Read more
Is Your Posture Impacting Your Long-Term Health?
Poor posture is a bad habit — but it can also determine how well your body stands up to aging – not to mention your long-term quality of life. Make sure that you practice good posture to improve muscle and joint abilities, and to protect your spine and body structure… Read more
How Can You Change Your Thinking to Improve Your Mentality This Afternoon?
Most of us career professionals have gotten the doldrums from one time or another. It might be a slump that lasts a week or a month — or it might just be a crash from running out of adrenaline in the middle of the afternoon. Maybe you didn’t get enough… Read more