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5 Ways to Stretch Your Hiring Budget
Many businesses across the country have adjusted business operations to make it through the pandemic. After a period of hardship, many business owners, like yourself, are ready to start recruiting and rebuilding a bigger, more skilled workforce - only now you have to do it with a smaller hiring budget.
How to Ask for a Raise at Work
Here we go again; it’s time to talk money. Whether you’re one year in at a new company or approaching year five on the same team, learning how to ask for a raise should be part of your long-term career plan. These conversations are rarely fun (thanks to society, which has conditioned us to believe that money is taboo), but they are necessary if you want to, well, get paid what you’re worth. Trust us, there’s a lot of money on the table for taking. Below, we’ll discuss tips on timing, approach, and follow-up.
Paralegal Resume Templates, Examples, and Tips
A paralegal job is a great stepping stone to a legal career. As an expert in legal research, paralegals must be organized, strong writers, and a team player with others who require the assistance of the paralegal’s work. Sometimes known as legal assistants, paralegals are a critical part of a legal team’s work. Paralegals work across law firms, corporations, nonprofits, and government agencies.
6 Store Management Resume Tips (with Example)
A retail store manager's job responsibilities aren't easy. Regardless of the parent company's size, it is the store manager's duty to ensure ALL store-related operations run smoothly. Because being an effective leader in retail management can be tough, it is automatically assumed that getting a job is even tougher. But even though the job responsibilities can be tasking, landing a retail store manager position is a little easier... but only if you have the right tools. Most companies do not expect prospective store managers to have a sophisticated educational background. Instead, they select people with convincing skill-set and experience. So, how do you convince recruiters that you're the best candidate for the job? Start by writing a compelling retail store management resume!
How to Maximize Action Verbs in Your Resume
Writing a resume that stands out takes more than using keywords and savvy formatting. It’s not just about having an impressive list of accomplishments. It’s also about how you position them using action verbs and deliberate word choice. So if you are looking for a way to craft a resume that stands out and gets calls back? Start by sprucing up your resume with captivating action verbs.
How to Automate Your Job Search
The internet is ripe with career professionals urging you to be aggressive in your networking and application strategies to land a job. But at what expense? Your sanity? Peace of mind? Energy? Free time? When the job search gets overwhelming—as it inevitably will—leverage automation to take the most tedious tasks off your plate. Here are seven ways to do it.