By Neal J. Fay
There are many benefits to using third party payroll services. Primarily companies like the flexibility of using a temporary or an on demand workforce. What is often missed is the failure to properly classify the employee and to protect the company from liability by using a payroll service provider for temporary hires they make on their own.
Payrolling Service Providers can help a...
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Benefits to Hiring an Unemployed Candidate
There are many benefits to hiring a candidate that is unemployed. The candidate will be eager to work, and will be able to start the new position right away, which can make for an easy transition. Another benefit is they may have used this time to get extra training, certifications, and learn new skills that will be helpful to their employer.
To read more about the benefits of hiring an unemploye...
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Where is the hiring activity going to be in 2014?
In this New Year there may be people who have been unemployed and their unemployment is expiring but they don’t know what industry to pursue. Here at King & Bishop we have seen continued growth in the job market, and looking ahead we want to tell you where those new jobs will be.
On the national front, both business and consumer confidence strengthened in 2013. The US economy added an average...
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Objectives vs. Summaries
By Tasha Schlake Festel
Before the odd or juvenile email address, before the typos and misspellings and inconsistencies in language, tense, or formatting, before the irrelevant “interests,” and before the pattern of job hopping, one thing that can lose a candidate a job before even being considered is a bad Objective.
When it comes to writing an objective, take the advice of John F. Kennedy when...
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Where are the jobs? Fox 25 interview with Brendan King
January is another big job hunting season as many try to get back to work. For a whole host of reasons, we are seeing job growth for 2014. Depending on the industry, our clients are telling us that they are looking to do more hiring in the coming year which is great news for job-seekers. As a contract recruiter near Boston, we are seeing many trends that bode well for hiring in 2014.
Our own Bren...
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Networking: Online or in person?
By Tasha Festel
Sometimes it’s not what you know, but who you know that gets you in the door. Right or wrong, networking is key to a job search.
Technology has infiltrated our daily lives, and it also has our professional lives in its clutches. The world has gotten both bigger and smaller at the same time, thanks to technology. With the emergence of social networking and its evolution outside of...
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