You’ve got a new job! Congratulations. It’s an exciting time. First days are exciting. It’s important to be prepared and do a great job to impress your new employers. Here are some tips on how you can be better prepared. 1) Know Your Route to Work Don’t wait for the first day to figure out… Read more »
If you’ve been hired for a part-time job, you may want it to turn into a full-time position. After all, if you work full-time you make more and potentially have benefits. That might work for your employees too. If they have full-time positions available, it can be more convenient for them to hire someone who… Read more »
Safety on the job is very important. It’s easy to assume that all jobs are safe. However, if you’re working near manufacturing equipment, moving equipment such as forklifts or on floors where something might be spilled, for example, you need to take some safety precautions. And those are just three examples. Here are the top… Read more »
If you’re looking for a job, it can be easy to get discouraged when if you know there are a ton of other applicants. You might wonder if a company will even look at your application. But remember, companies need people to do their work. If you can do the work, you’re valuable to them…. Read more »
If you’ve got an appointment with a staffing agency, you might be wondering what you should wear. Treat an appointment with a staffing agency as a job interview at a company. The staffing agency is the group you want to hire you to begin work. You want to dress as you would for a job… Read more »
When you have a job interview, first impressions are huge. If you show up late with coffee spilled across your shirt, you may have lost the job before you even open your mouth. Why? Because the staffing agency and hiring manager are evaluating you for the job at every minute of an interview. They will… Read more »
When you’re hired by an employer, you need to care about the company enough to do a good job. Companies don’t need just another warm body to fill its order and make its warehouse run smoothly. They need to care. So, how do you show that you’re not just another warm body at work, but… Read more »
Conflicts at work happen enough that it’s a good idea to know how to handle them when they come up. It could be anything from a coworker filling the refrigerator with some special diet ingredients so no one else has space to a supervisor being overly demanding and not understanding that you can’t get everything… Read more »
For most people, job interviews don’t happen that often. If you’re just starting to look, you may feel that the last one was ages ago. If you’ve been looking recently, chances are still feel new at it. Interviews just don’t happen often enough for people to get experienced at it! As you interview, you want… Read more »
Following up with an employer is one of the essential tasks you need to do as part of your job search process. You should follow up every interview with a polite note stating again that you are very interested in the job and thanking the interviewers for their time. This can either be a letter… Read more »