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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SkillsetGroup: In-Step with the
Business Community
SkillsetGroup knows how important it is to keep in-step with the local business community. We make sure we support our local chambers of commerce wherever we have offices — like here at the Santa Ana…
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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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SkillsetByte: Worker Satisfaction Can Increase a Company’s Stock Value
In recent decades, US stock market performance seems divorced from what’s happening to the average worker. This is for a variety of reasons, but it’s clear that strong human capital and worker satisfaction can raise…
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How to Recognize, Treat and Prevent Heat Injury and Illness at Work
Heat-related illness and injury can come on suddenly – you may be working in the heat as normal when a wave of nausea hits you… The nausea worsens as you start to pour sweat and…
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SkillsetByte: Could Cannabis Deregulation Spark Job Growth?
The cannabis industry is booming in the states where it’s legal, employing hundreds of thousands and racking up billions in sales. Industry groups hope this economic activity will spur lawmakers to update federal regulations on…
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SkillsetGives Golf Tournament Aims to Provide Economic Opportunity to Angelenos
This summer, community leaders will gather in the heart of LA to support the next generation of Angelenos with an afternoon of golf, camaraderie, and great food at the Inaugural SkillsetGives Charity Golf Tournament. SkillsetGives…
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