Brenda Varela is a new second-grade teacher in Long Beach, and she said she might not have gotten there without the support of SkillsetGroup. No, we don’t staff public school teachers, but we do support…
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SkillsetGroup: Building a Culture of Retention by Playing to Your Strengths
One of the evidence-based tools we use to build high-performing teams is Gallup’s StrengthsFinder 2.0. This tool typifies and standardizes dozens of personality traits to help employees gauge the best way to contribute to the…
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How Do You Switch Careers Between Aerospace and Medical Devices?
Here in the skilled labor and engineering divisions at SkillsetGroup, we often see candidates career-switch back and forth between aerospace industry and the medical device manufacturing industries. Workers have always migrated between these industries; the…
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The Top Six Advanced Excel Skills Employers Look for
A lot of the administrative and accounting positions SkillsetGroup fills require advanced Excel skills – shipping and receiving clerks, office coordinators, financial analysts, accountants, financial planners, etc. Unfortunately, a lot of employees seeking work in…
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How to Showcase Your Second-Language Skills on Your Resume
In SkillsetGroup’s home territory, the U.S. Southwest, bilingual Spanish speakers are ubiquitous. The greater LA area is also host to many who speak Vietnamese, Chinese and other Asian languages, as well as smaller enclaves that…
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How Do You Prepare for a Job Interview?
The job interview (or series of them) is the final hurdle in securing a great job. This can be a make-or-break moment; the employer wants to find out whether you’re as good in real life…
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What Quickbooks Skills do Employers Look for?
It would be hard to work in the accounting and bookkeeping fields without knowing at least a little bit about Quickbooks. Given that up to 80 percent of U.S. businesses use some version of Quickbooks,…
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How Do You Get a Lean Six Sigma Belt?
Here at SkillsetGroup, we place quality control and process engineers all the time. As a result, we know one of the most prized certifications for this sector is a “Six Sigma” certification. If you’re educated…
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How Do You Explain Employment Gaps in Your Resume?
Gaps in a resume, from an employer’s standpoint, are fairly common. If companies only hired people with perfect employment history, there’d be a lot of empty positions out there. The key to finessing your employment…
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Top 5 Traits That Make A Great Recruiter
Recruiters that have a vast network of contacts make them more valuable. Recruiting is a relationship business. You need the desire and skills to build relationships effectively, and, to some extent, a predisposition to…
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