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Why You’re Dead Wrong About Staffing Agency Recruiters: 5 Myths Busted!
In the employment world, staffing agencies and their recruiters get a bad rap. Partially due to media portrayal and resume farms masquerading as staffing firms, real recruiters who can help you hire and find a job faster get cast aside without second thought. For...
Job Flexibility: Are You as Flexible as You Think?
If we’ve learned anything living through a pandemic it’s how important adaptability and flexibility are, but being flexible is always easier said than done. Hey, humans are creatures of habit. Fortunately (or unfortunately), the pandemic taught us many lessons the...
The Pros and Cons of Video Interviewing
The pandemic has changed many things about the employment world. For many hiring leaders and job seekers, navigating these new waters can be tricky. With so much up in the air, it’s hard to know what the next week holds for your operations, new roles, interviewing,...
The Pros and Cons of a Hybrid Work Model
Many companies have made or are making changes to their work environment and what returning to the office might look like. While some companies are opting to keep their employees 100% remote, other businesses have and will remain in office as normal. But beyond these...
Ask A Recruiter: Should I Apply for a Job If I Don’t Meet all the Requirements?
I’m sure you’ve seen the job descriptions that look like they’re seeking professionals who can do everything and then some. It’s widely known that writing a job description in this way can be intimidating and turn off a lot of job seekers. What’s less known is that it...
Need Help in the Workplace? These 4 Tips Will Help You Start a Conversation With Your Supervisor
Speaking up in the workplace can be hard. It is natural to feel nervous when expressing your opinion, sharing your ideas, or requesting support from management. It can be intimidating to ask your supervisor for help. You don’t want to send the message that you are in...
9 Little Things That Lead to Big Employee Burnout
In 2020, an alarming number of US employees admitted to feeling stressed or fatigued, with 76% stating that they were experiencing burnout. Regardless of how you define it, burnout is very real. In most cases, the causes of employee burnout are so small, it’s often...
Feeling Burned Out? 4 Tips to Help you Recover
If you haven’t felt some form of emotional fatigue in the past year, you, my friend, are a unicorn. Feeling run down by the weight of the world is nothing new, but the last few years took those feelings and cranked them up to 11. Burnout is a completely normal feeling...
5 Steps To Ensure Your High-Volume Hiring Project Is a Success
As your business changes, there may be times where you will need to find a large volume of talent in a short amount of time. This can be due to a new department creation, the opening of an operation center, or even an internal structural change. When high-volume...
4 Surprising Aspects of Collections Roles That You Probably Didn’t Realize Were Myths
There are many misconceptions about what it is like to work in a collections position. The general myth is that it's a grueling role where you make phone calls to angry people who yell at you all day. In reality, this couldn’t be further from the truth. A career track...
10 Tips to Make Your Job Search More Effective
For many, job searching feels like an exercise in futility; constantly spinning your wheels and waiting for phone calls from employers that may never come. Furthermore, if you’re looking to change up your job search strategy, the lack of employer feedback makes it...
The 9 Core Soft Skills of Top-Performing Insurance Underwriters
In many ways hiring new Underwriters mirrors that of the underwriting process. The process of selecting the best candidate for your open role can also be viewed through the lens of risk mitigation: selecting the wrong candidate opens your business culture, client...