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How Did You Hear About This Position? 9 Ways To Answer
What is one strategy for answering the interview question, "How did you hear about this position?" To help you answer the interview question, “How did you hear about this position?”, we asked career experts and HR managers what their strategies would be. From...
7 Mistakes Job Seekers Make When Using Social Media
As exemplified by the departure of executive John Demsey from Estée Lauder after posting an insensitive post on his personal Instagram account, social media can affect anybody in the workforce. It doesn’t matter if you are a seasoned executive or a newly college...
12 Tips For Working With Recruiters
What is one basic thing to get right when working with a recruiter to land a job? To help job-seekers best work with recruiters, we asked business owners and recruiting professionals this question for their best advice. From asking questions to qualify the recruiter...
16 Ways To Make Your Online Profile Stand Out On Career Platforms
What is one way to make your online profile stand out on a career-related platform? To help your online profile stand out, we asked social media managers and business leaders this question for their best advice. From using a unique background color in your headshot to...
How to Reject a Job Offer: 13 Candidates Share How to Politely Decline
How can a candidate politely reject a job offer after a lengthy interview process? To help you decline a job offer with grace, we asked HR specialists, recruiting professionals, and business leaders this question for their best insights. From being empathetic to...
13 Ways to Attract More Diverse Candidates to Your Company
What is one way a company can attract more diverse candidates to apply for open positions? To help you attract a diverse pool of candidates, we asked HR/recruiting professionals and business leaders this question for their insights. From including details about...
Candidates
Why Should We Hire You?: 10 Things Employers Want To Hear
What is one thing an employer wants to hear from a candidate when they ask the question, Why should we hire you? To help you know what employers expect from prospective employees, we asked hiring managers and CEOs this question for their best insights. From your...
Why Do You Want to Work at This Company? 8 Interview Question Tips
How should you answer the question “Why do you want to work at this company?” To help you best answer “Why do you want to work at this company?,” we asked HR leaders and CEOs this question for their best ideas. From being honest about your experience and skills...
How Did You Hear About This Position? 9 Ways To Answer
What is one strategy for answering the interview question, "How did you hear about this position?" To help you answer the interview question, “How did you hear about this position?”, we asked career experts and HR managers what their strategies would be. From...
7 Mistakes Job Seekers Make When Using Social Media
As exemplified by the departure of executive John Demsey from Estée Lauder after posting an insensitive post on his personal Instagram account, social media can affect anybody in the workforce. It doesn’t matter if you are a seasoned executive or a newly college...
12 Tips For Working With Recruiters
What is one basic thing to get right when working with a recruiter to land a job? To help job-seekers best work with recruiters, we asked business owners and recruiting professionals this question for their best advice. From asking questions to qualify the recruiter...
16 Ways To Make Your Online Profile Stand Out On Career Platforms
What is one way to make your online profile stand out on a career-related platform? To help your online profile stand out, we asked social media managers and business leaders this question for their best advice. From using a unique background color in your headshot to...
Recruiters
Get Clear On Your Long-Term Career Vision with 9 Tips
What is one tip to define your purpose and get clear on a long-term career vision? To help you define your purpose and get clear on your long-term career vision, we asked business professionals and leaders this question for their insights. From establishing...
13 Ways to Attract More Diverse Candidates to Your Company
What is one way a company can attract more diverse candidates to apply for open positions? To help you attract a diverse pool of candidates, we asked HR/recruiting professionals and business leaders this question for their insights. From including details about...
10 Recruiting Strategies To Attract Passive Job Seekers
How can an employer attract passive job seekers? To help employers during the recruiting process, we asked HR managers and small business CEO’s this question for their best advice. From crafting attractive job postings to attending industry events, there are several...
10 Synonyms to “I am confident I would be a great candidate.”
Interviews are your chance to make a strong impression on a company. It is your moment to show off your skills and knowledge. But we often find ourselves using the same terms as everyone else while trying to stand out.
13 Great Personal Development Goals for Work
It can be difficult to think beyond the bounds of your everyday duties on the job, but there is a huge benefit to setting and executing personal development goals with regard to work. The more you invest in yourself as a professional, the greater your chances of advancing your career through your newfound skills or knowledge.
Diversity Series Part 1: What’s Your Favorite Food?
With everything that has happened over the last few weeks, I thought about the above concept, as colleagues and media outlets contacted me to gain perspective on the diversity conversation. They wanted to know how hiring practices would be affected as we move forward from the ash and rumble of the riots.
Employers
13 Ways to Attract More Diverse Candidates to Your Company
What is one way a company can attract more diverse candidates to apply for open positions? To help you attract a diverse pool of candidates, we asked HR/recruiting professionals and business leaders this question for their insights. From including details about...
Online Reviews: It Impacts the Employer Brand
Think about what we all do when buying something new. We research it to death, almost. We search different sites to compare pricing, we try to become “experts” in the field of what we’re searching (e.g., buying a new TV results in trying to understand LCD, LED, OLED,...
10 Recruiting Strategies To Attract Passive Job Seekers
How can an employer attract passive job seekers? To help employers during the recruiting process, we asked HR managers and small business CEO’s this question for their best advice. From crafting attractive job postings to attending industry events, there are several...
10 Things To Do When Offboarding an Employee
What is one thing you should do when offboarding an employee? To help HR professionals during the employee offboarding process, we asked HR experts and business leaders this question for their best advice. From conducting exit interviews to setting up knowledge...
What to do when there are no job advancement opportunities.
What should you do if there are no job advancement opportunities in your current role? To help you with figuring out your next steps if there are no advancements in your current role, we asked business leaders and HR experts this question for their best advice. From...
While the political climate may subside a bit soon, your company staff plans for 2021 may still be a hot button.
Got to imagine that the on-going issues affecting us all - the political climate, racial and diversity issues, the pandemic, etc., has had and still is impacting how we conduct ourselves in business. A recent Morning Consult research report noted: More than 70%...
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The Story of vCandidates.com.
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would have launched a career platform when I began my career in the recruiting industry. I grew tired of being in the entertainment industry and wanted my sons to be proud of what I do for a living.
How vCandidates.com Flips the Script on Passive Job Seekers and Recruiting.
For the sake of this post, “passive job seekers” are: 1. People who are employed and happy with their current positions or; 2. People who are working, but actively thinking about their next steps in their career.
Why I love helping people as “The Employment Therapist™”
Employment Therapist Definition: A nickname given to LT Ladino Bryson based on the wisdom, isms and anecdotes she has shared with candidates looking for career growth and clients to help bring light, knowledge and humor in what can be painful and confusing times...
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AZ Big Media Identifies vCandidates.com as One of the Top 20 Tech Start-Ups in Metro Phoenix.
We are thrilled to be named one of the Top 20 Tech Startups in Metro Phoenix by AZ Big Media.
2020 Best Tech Startups in Tempe
Tempe, Arizona. In doing our research, we considered several factors including but not limited to: Revenue potential Leadership team Brand/product traction Competitive landscape Additionally, all companies must be independent (un-acquired), privately owned, at most 10...
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