Construction In Boston Is Booming, Employment On The Rise

It seems almost surreal to say, but the Boston-Cambridge region has seen a 5% increase in construction employment over last year. The Downtown Boston area is the biggest leader in the state. In fact, there was some small contraction of jobs in other parts of the state, but Boston was able to compensate to bring…

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Why You Should Use An Employment Agency To Get A Job

Have you ever turned down the opportunity to interview for a position because you found out you were being interviewed by a staffing agency? If so, you may have done a foolish thing. There are so many myths that may stop job seekers from getting a job. People have wrong information about employment agencies and…

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How To Use Interviews To Employ The Best Candidates

How many wrong hires have you made this year? Did you conduct interviews for them? Interviews are a popular means of choosing between candidates or deciding if a candidate should get the job. However, it is very easy to interview wrongly and hire a candidate that would fail. How do you get the best out…

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How To Make Your Employees An Asset

If you are a small business owner who has been in business for a number of years, you would already be aware that employees can make or mar your business. As an entrepreneur, you want your employees to contribute to the success of the business and to justify your faith in them. The success of…

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5 Hiring Mistakes Small Businesses Make

It is a well known fact that a significant percentage of small businesses fail. This is often ascribed to the lack of capital. However, in most cases, the employees are the critical factor in the success or failure of the business. Most businesses, large or small, make mistakes when hiring. This mistakes cost them both…

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Why You Should Take That Low Paying Job

Imagine you are married with three high school age kids. You are earning $150000 a year. Yet you are not satisfied with your job. You feel there is something missing in the job. You would like to do what you love. Unfortunately, what you love pays $90000 a year. What would you do? Many job…

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Five Tips For Hiring Your Next Great Candidate

Would you like to know a surefire way of increasing your profits today? It is simple: pick great candidates to run your business. Every organization lives and dies by the type of employees they hire. Your employees are the key to the success of your business. They make your products/deliver your services and they interact…

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How To Keep Your Top Employees

You know them. The employees that work hardest and helps bring in the most revenue. The employees who are so crucial to your business that they might as well be business partners. What happens to your business if these employees leave? There is no use rehashing what happens to businesses that lose their most essential…

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Five Interview Tips For 2013 And Beyond

This is 2013. As you know, there are fewer new jobs being added to the economy and there are more people competing for these jobs. What worked three years ago may not work this year. So for that reason, we have compiled five tips that you can use to nail the job in your next…

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Keeping A Job In A Down Economy

Imagine you are one of 4000 employees and one day the external consultants hired by the company you work for suggests to the management that they need to cut costs. To do this, two thousand employees must be sacked or somehow convinced to resign. Another five hundred would have to take a pay cut. You…

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