Customer Relations Management (CRM) skills are in hot demand as employers search for job candidates who know how to communicate with their customers. CRM experience can include either soft skills or technical skills, depending on…
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How Do You Become an Electrician in California?
The demand for electricians will only grow in the next decade as the U.S. electrical grid retools to accommodate renewable energy, off-grid power banks for homes and businesses and the growing prevalence of electric cars…
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How Do You Get a Welding Certification in Texas?
Welding, like other skilled trades, is suffering from a shortage of new welders as the experienced ones retire. That means companies across industries all over the U.S. are scrambling for skilled welders. Couple that with…
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Los Angeles-Orange County Demographics, Cost-of-Living and 2023 Salary Data
Droves of people are leaving California in general and LA specifically to escape the high cost of living and scarce housing stock. This is the biggest labor market story in California; how can businesses compete…
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SkillsetGroup: ‘Always Ready to Help Me Grow in My Career’
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 making a career transition in engineering back and forth between aerospace industry and the medical device manufacturing industries. Workers have always…
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How to List a Second Language on Your Resume
In SkillsetGroup’s home territory, the U.S. Southwest, bilingual Spanish speakers are common. The greater LA area is also host to many who speak Vietnamese, Chinese and other Asian languages, as well as smaller neighborhoods with…
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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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How Do You Explain Employment Gaps in Your Resume?
Gaps on 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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