Hiring
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7 January 2013 at 22 : 27 PM
You Love Your Job, You Love it Not
You Love Your Job…You Love it Not How can you tell if you are happy at work? What symptoms could there be that would signal a problem? Sometimes it’s easy to miss those signs, which is why we have compiled two lists for you: Ten Signs that you are Happy in Your Job, and Ten Signs that You are Unhappy in Your Job. Ten Signs ...
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10 December 2012 at 19 : 47 PM
The Key to Landing that Hidden Job
Everyone knows that job-hunting can be exhausting. You spend hours online applying for every job you are remotely interested in, later realizing that you are competing with hundreds, possibly thousands, of other applicants for the same job. But then you get one of those LinkedIn update emails telling you that one of your contacts just landed a great ...
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5 November 2012 at 19 : 54 PM
G&A Partners Appoints Bonnie Scherry as Corporate HR Manager
HOUSTON – G&A Partners, a fully-integrated Texas-based human resource (HR) and administrative services company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Bonnie Scherry as Corporate HR Manager. In her new role, Scherry will be responsible for directing HR for G&A’s corporate employees so those employees can in turn deliver expert HR services ...
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17 September 2012 at 20 : 45 PM
Have Young Professionals Forgotten How to be…Professional?
Our culture puts a high value on the “personal right of individual expression”, especially for people in the younger generation. These teens and twenty-somethings are the emerging American workforce, and are increasingly wrestling with the boundaries of professionalism. In a recent article from TLNT, author Eric Chester discussed how this trend ...
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28 June 2012 at 13 : 56 PM
#Hashtags to Use on Twitter to Find a Job
These days, social media powerhouse Twitter gives us tons of information in concise, 140-characters–or-less “tweets” all day, every day. Many of these tweets are from employers, looking for a free way to post job openings at their companies. These employers often use certain hashtags as a way for other Twitter users to search and find their Tweets. ...
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18 June 2012 at 20 : 47 PM
4 Things to Consider When Hiring
It’s important to have a multi-faceted process when hiring someone new; basing your decision only on how someone performs in an interview just isn’t enough these days. In order to ensure that you are getting a qualified candidate, it is usually a good idea to consider the following 4 things: Testing: Results from aptitude or personality tests ...
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29 May 2012 at 19 : 40 PM
4 Resume Lessons You Can Learn from the Yahoo Scandal
You may remember this post from a few weeks ago about Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, who lied on his resume and was later forced to resign after the scandal caused a media uproar. So what can you, the average employee, learn from this high-profile story? Below are 4 simple resume lessons which could save your job and your integrity. 1. ...
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9 April 2012 at 08 : 27 AM
The Importance of I-9
The following is a special guest post from an HR Expert at G&A Partners. Can you imagine being fined almost $800 because your employee forgot to sign a piece of paper? Multiply that one mistake by thousands of employees and the result is a huge headache for business owners who fail to pay attention to I-9 forms. The ...
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26 March 2012 at 19 : 52 PM
Employers Forcing Job Applicants to Hand Over Facebook Passwords
What Employers Are Doing In the past few months, an increasing number of employers have been demanding access to job candidate’s social media pages as a requirement in the application process. Facebook has seen what it calls a “distressing increase” in the number of people being asked to give employers their passwords over the past few ...
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6 February 2012 at 09 : 00 AM
Houston Companies Pay the Price for Illegal Employees
When US immigration officials audited Advanced Containment Systems Inc, last year, it discovered that 44% of the company's workforce comprised of illegal immigrants. They found ID cards supposedly issued by the "Texas Department of Safety", which had misspelled words like "identification" and "department". One even said "novelty item" on the back. The ...
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