Over the last decade both employers and employees have complained that there is a lack of loyalty in the workplace. Workers who leave after one year of employment are labeled as “job hoppers” and their multitudes of short term assignments become red flags for future hiring managers. However, it is important to look at the… Read more »
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Local DFW Staffing Company Picks Up Two Awards For Excellence
CornerStone Staffing (Dallas / Fort Worth, Texas) CornerStone Staffing wins the 2013 prestigious Consumers’ Choice Award, which is an award given to Businesses servicing their marketplace (DFW) with excellence. After surveying buyers of staffing services and financially qualifying CornerStone Staffing, CCA made the award to CornerStone Staffing this July for the DFW marketplace. CornerStone Staffing… Read more »
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Act Quickly in a Candidate Driven Market in Texas
The economic downturn that we faced for several years created an interesting problem for employers. For years they were in the driver’s seat when it came to employment negotiations. A market that was saturated with unemployed professionals allows for businesses to pay less for specific skills. However, as the tide has begun to turn the… Read more »
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Improve Your Job Descriptions to Land Top Talent
You are probably required by your Human Resources department to make sure that a proper job description is on file for each of your employees. Many managers slog through the process and develop very dry and legal sounding documents. However, when advertising for a job it is too easy to copy these lackluster descriptions into… Read more »
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Help CornerStone Donate $1,000 to your Favorite Charity!!
CornerStone Staffing is participating in a contest called Social Madness which is sponsored by American City Business Journals. This contest measures a company’s social media engagement on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google Plus. A local winner in each of the three categories (small, medium and large) will be named on July 9th and go on… Read more »
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What Does Your Email Address Say About You?
[Career Tip] What does your email address say about you? Your username might have been cute back in college but now that you are looking for a career it is time to say goodbye to PartyMan21@hotmail.com in favor of John.Doe@gmail.com. Just like your appearance, resume, and speech, your email address is part of the professional… Read more »
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Stand Out Above the Crowd
You know there is a lot of competition for each available job advertised on the Internet. In order to be in consideration it is important to stand out as a candidate. What are the best ways to do this and how can you show you are the best potential employee for that company? Here are… Read more »
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CornerStone Staffing – Pack For A Purpose
In February, during a trip to Mexico’s beautiful Fairmont Mayakoba in Play del Carmen, CornerStone Staffing colleagues packed with a purpose. What was their purpose? To make an impact on the community they were visiting with a meaningful contribution. CornerStone Staffing worked with the Pack for a Purpose organization and identified two groups they wanted… Read more »
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Interview Questions that Reveal All
Interviewing is an art as well as a science. We all want to know if the candidate we are interviewing will be “right” for the position. It is easy to allow the candidates to walk you through their job history point by point, but here are three questions you can ask about each of their… Read more »
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The Real Deal: “Overqualified Candidates.”
It’s not unusual for hiring managers to be overwhelmed with resumes…sometimes hundreds for a single job posting. And with more resumes, comes a likelihood of overqualified candidates applying for work with your company. What’s the real deal with overqualified candidates? Don’t miss out on a potential superstar for your organization by overlooking candidates who appear… Read more »