Known for both a diversified economy and a robust energy sector, Denver has enjoyed steady growth since the 1950swd The city is now home to nearly three million people, and about half the population is…
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What CRM Experience Should I Include on My Resume?
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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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: 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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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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