Here are some excellent updates to household employment law sent to us from LivHOME in Santa Barbara, CA. It is essential for your career and for the protection of employers and employees that you understand all the applicable rules governing in-home employment. Enjoy. Dear Partners, In an effort to keep you abreast of the recent…
Your resume could be killing your job search and you don’t even know it! Having someone review your information is critical to avoiding mistakes and also understanding how another person “flows” through the content. This article hits a few good points to work with. Not only is your resume essentially your career summed up on…
Some of the worst mistakes in interviews come from the simplest of questions. If you don’t review and get ready for the most commonly used ones, then you only have yourself to blame. While not the most common interview question, the failure question—should you get it—is rather perplexing. How do you answer this honestly while…
The more tips you can apply, the better your skills and chances are in the job interview. Here’s an article with a video after the link. There’s more to acing an interview than a good resume and solid answers to their questions. Body language plays a big part as well. If you’re not sure what…
Background services are not all equal. Know what is checked and have a representative who can explain the different elements and search process. This is NOT an area to cut corners and take the cheapest provider! Before offering a prospective employee a job, many companies will first perform a background check. As with credit reports,…
Here are a few good thoughts on personality, especially relevant in the interview phase and also relative to providing genuine service to others. Self-esteem and self-confidence seem like pretty much the same thing, but they’re not. For example, maybe you can easily get in front of a crowd, give a speech, and command a room,…
Good job hunting basics are important. Here are a few ideas to help in your search. If you want to find a job you love, you have to have high standards. You have to know what you want and what you’re worth, and you can’t be willing to settle for anything lower than that.But that…
It is good to see that employees can find legal protection from vindictive employers. Whether or not true, the public slandering of ex-staff won’t be tolerated. LOS ANGELES (CNS/FOX 11) – A Los Angeles judge overseeing what may be the first Instagram-related libel case ordered rapper The Game to pay more than $200,000 to a…
Some good thoughts on how to be honest and positive in interviews, even with negative information… Humblebragging is notoriously obnoxious. But sometimes, it feels necessary. For example, in a job interview, we’re often told to answer the dreaded “what’s your biggest weakness” question with something sly, like, “I’m too much of a perfectionist.” People see…
This is a nice article about making career choices. There are infinite possibilities and opportunities, no matter how good or bad the choice seems. I recently received a call from a distressed former graduate assistant who was working in a new full-time job. In a downtrodden voice she told me, “I made a huge mistake…