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Get Better Prepared for Your First Day on the Job With These 4 Tips
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…

How Do You Turn a Part-Time Job into a Full-Time Job?
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…

Top 5 Ways to Stay Safe on The Job
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…

How to Get the Job When There Are a Ton of Other Applicants
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…

How Should You Dress for an Appointment With a Staffing Agency?
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…

4 Tips To Help You Nail First Impressions at Interviews
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…

Don’t Be Just Another Warm Body At Work
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…

How Do You Take a Day Off When You Work for a Staffing Company?
When you work for a staffing company, you work for the staffing company even though you’re at another company for your shifts. So it’s a good idea to know how day off requests work. If…

How to Deal with Conflict at Work the Right Way
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…

Are You Stressed and Want to Quit? Try These Strategies Instead
If you feel stressed at work, you likely have plenty of company. Sixty-five percent of Americans report that work is their top source of stress. One-third have chronic stress from their jobs. Stress, especially if…

Avoid These All Too Common Interview Mistakes
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…

Why Is Following Up to an Interview Essential?
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…