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Portland West, OR Staffing Agencies

The best jobs in Portland West, OR are right here. As the Owner/Strategic-Partner for PrideStaff’s Portland West office, Robert Cohen takes specific steps, including one-on-one…

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Are Your Tattoos Costing You a Potential Job?

For many, tattoos are a fun form of self-expression. In fact, a total of 21% of adults — one in five — has at least one tattoo, according to a 2012 Harris Interactive poll. As rewarding as it can be to use your body as a canvas, if you have a tattoo, you’ve probably realized [...]

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3 Signs Your Resume Needs Updating

Resume trends have changed drastically in recent years. But … if you think about updating your resume in terms of “years,” you are already setting yourself up for failure. You should review and refresh your resume every six months or so. This way, when the next awesome career opportunity arise, you’ll be ready. Recruiters spend [...]

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Should You Use the Same Cover Letter for All Interviews?

Your resume will be stacked up against more competition than ever before – so be sure to make your cover letter stand out from the crowd. Because unless a recruiter or hiring manager is impressed by your cover letter, they won’t even get as far as your resume. Six Crucial Seconds An employer or recruiter [...]

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How to Show Off Your Awesome Company Culture to Job Seekers

As potential candidates look at employers, they value company culture just as much – and sometimes more – than a steady paycheck, particularly the millennial generation, which will soon make up almost half the workforce. The reality is that you need to advertise yourself to candidates just as much as they have to show their [...]

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Have You Outgrown Your Employer?

It happens to almost everyone at some point in their career. You reach a point where you hit a wall in your current position and are unsure what steps to take. When you’ve outgrown your job, your feelings of boredom, underutilization, lack of challenge and plain old unhappiness can be devastating. The Writing is on [...]

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3 Ways to Rein in a Problem Employee

Difficult employees will always be there. Your job as a manager is to determine the best path to ensure that your team is productive, despite this reality. Seek First to Understand If you look beyond the disruptive behavior of problem employees, there is probably much more going on. It’s important to understand these underlying factors [...]

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Why Employee Recognition is so Powerful

  • April 11, 2016
  • Posted in News

We’ve all heard the stories about the employee in the large company who feels like just one more cog in the giant corporate machine, doing a thankless job and getting no recognition aside from a paycheck and a W-2. And as an employer you might make the legitimate statement that you simply don’t have time [...]

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