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How Seasoned Employees Add Value to Your Young Team

In 2023, employers will be more actively hunting for seasoned employees, i.e., experienced professionals who possess the expertise, skills, and know-how required to steer their teams in the right direction.

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What’s the Difference Between Overemployment and Moonlighting?

Ever since the pandemic made working from home normal, a lot of companies are now encountering unethical abuses of the freedom, from quiet quitting to overemployment. While we’ve covered quiet quitting in a previous blog, and it may have similar symptoms to overemployment, overemployment is when a professional works two or more full-time jobs without notifying the respective employers.

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How to Handle a Counteroffer from a Job Candidate

Do you think the candidate is engaged in a bidding war with another firm? If that's the case, it's best to withdraw your offer and wish the candidate the best for their new job.  

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Qualities to Look for in a Content Marketing Specialist

Content Marketing involves reaching out to your customers and prospects with information that is helpful and valuable, not merely promoting your company or its offerings. The blog you are reading right now is an example of content marketing.

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Companies Must Be Flexible, Attractive, and Decisive For Today's Hiring

Brookwoods Group CEO John Sweney wrote an Opinion/BizVoice article for the Houston Business Journal which appeared in the print edition July 29, 2022.  (Click on the HBJ image to read the article as published.) Job seekers are finding themselves in the driver’s seat when it comes to today’s job market, and companies are learning that hiring top professionals is a series of fleeting opportunities. Even with generous financial packages, organizations are seeing dramatically fewer applications for open professional positions because candidates simply aren’t interested in changing. This means that organizations are in the unfamiliar position of hunting for the people [...]

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Interview Questions that Help Reveal the Most About Professional Job Candidates

Whether you’re interviewing professionals over the phone or in person, there are questions that you might always ask, but a few you should ask in order to understand whether they are the right fit.

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Here’s Why Hiring the Right Civil Engineer for Your Renewable Development Project Is So Critical

As you kick-start your renewable development project, make sure you hire a qualified civil engineer. Why is this recommended? Find out.

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A Closer Look at Hiring Corporate Communications Professionals

It’s vital that corporate communications team members understand and buy into your organization’s mission, vision, and values, and are a perfect cultural fit. After all, they will be charged with communicating the company’s brand messages with authenticity.

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How to Offend Job Candidates and Never Have to Interview Anyone Ever Again

Hiring candidates is a pain in the ass. There. We said it. It’s a lot of work and nobody needs that, right? So here are 4 sure-fire ways to drive as many candidates away as possible and ensure that they never want to work for your company… ever.

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Seven Mistakes for Post-Pandemic Hiring

If you find a good candidate with talent skills, knowledge and experience who can fit your team, hire them.  Really, just hire them.  In the post-pandemic world, this is a sellers' market!

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