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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SkillsetGroup Top Sales Exec: Business Leaders Value Authenticity
SkillsetGroup staffing and consulting firm’s top-performing sales executive Lupita Baca celebrates her fifth anniversary with the company this summer, and she already has great advice for her colleagues. “Be organized, and be yourself,” said the staffing wunderkind who spends her…
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Hire C-Suite Leaders with SkillsetGroup Executive Talent Division
We provide our clients with CEOs and other top management talent with the right executive skillsets to take the helm as soon as they sign a deal.SkillsetGroup provides supremely effective people who not only have…
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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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Infographic: How Much Thanksgiving Turkey Do Americans Eat?
Billions of pounds of turkeys, millions of pounds of potatoes and untold trillions of cranberries will wind up in American stomachs Thursday for Thanksgiving. Food production and processing companies are…
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SkillsetGroup Opens New Oxnard Staffing Office
Always on the lookout for new business opportunities, SkillsetGroup is opening its seventh office in Oxnard, California to serve the agricultural and manufacturing industries there. Oxnard is a quiet town on the coast north of…
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Account Manager to Sales VP in 5 Years: ‘Sky is the Limit at SkillsetGroup’
Dennis Avery, after five accomplished years at SkillsetGroup, said working in the firm’s team environment has pushed his career to new heights. Dennis, who started as an account manager, said the limitless growth opportunities working…
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