Do Your Job Announcements Reflect Unconscious Gender Bias?

September 17, 2019 | Tri-Valley Career Center
Your company, like most organizations, is no doubt compliant with federal and state legislation that prohibits discrimination against applicants and employees based on gender. Several studies have shown that many common words used in job descriptions have male or female associations. Professors from the University of Waterloo and Duke conducted extensive research examining how male gendered words in job descriptions impact the willingness of females to apply.

2020-05-12T17:27:10-07:00September 17, 2019|Employers, Hiring, Job Seekers, Networking, Resume|Comments Off on Do Your Job Announcements Reflect Unconscious Gender Bias?
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Why Overqualified Applicants Could Be Your Best Hires

September 17, 2019 | Tri-Valley Career Center
Are you automatically screening out candidates that you consider overqualified for your open positions? Unfortunately, this routine elimination of applicants with more education and experience than is specified in the job description happens all too often, to the detriment of both job seekers and companies. In fact, you may be losing out on potentially exceptional employees by screening out highly motivated candidates because their resumes are more extensive or impressive than you expected.

2020-05-12T20:57:27-07:00September 17, 2019|Employers, Hiring, Job Seekers, Networking|Comments Off on Why Overqualified Applicants Could Be Your Best Hires
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Tap into the Hidden Job Market to Boost Your Job Search

August 12, 2019 | Tri-Valley Career Center
If you have responded to numerous online job postings and are still not hearing back from companies, consider getting out from behind the computer and tap into the hidden job market. The term hidden job market refers to open positions that aren't advertised or posted online. Many employers try to reduce the time and expense of an online application process by hiring internally, working with recruiting firms and headhunters and requesting referrals from their current employees.

2020-05-12T17:45:22-07:00August 12, 2019|Hiring, Job Fairs, Job Seekers, LinkedIn, Networking|Comments Off on Tap into the Hidden Job Market to Boost Your Job Search
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Target Companies to Find the Right Fit for You

August 12, 2019 | Tri-Valley Career Center
Targeting companies that seem like a good match for your skills and experience and align with your values and goals could be an important step in your job search process. Identifying and researching organizations that feel like the right fit for you can be an effective and possibly more productive approach than applying for every job opening you see.

2020-05-12T20:59:31-07:00August 12, 2019|Interviewing, Job Fairs, Job Seekers, LinkedIn, Networking, Resume|Comments Off on Target Companies to Find the Right Fit for You
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Find and Make Connections Inside Your Target Companies

August 12, 2019 | Tri-Valley Career Center
Once you have compiled your list of target organizations where you think you would like to work, you are ready to focus your networking efforts to find and connect with contacts inside each target organization. There are a number of important steps in this process, including: reaching out to people you know, using LinkedIn to broader your contact list, and using social networks.

2020-05-12T18:13:24-07:00August 12, 2019|Hiring, Job Seekers, LinkedIn, Networking|Comments Off on Find and Make Connections Inside Your Target Companies
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How You Can Help Justice-Involved Individuals Re-enter the Workforce

July 11, 2019 | Tri-Valley Career Center
Darcey McAllister, Principal Consultant, HRT Northwest, admits that she was one of those HR people reluctant to hire justice-involved individuals under the assumption that once trouble – always trouble. However, her husband, who worked in the court system for twenty years, helped her realize the error of this stereotyping. She recognized from hearing his stories that our society often sets up those released from prison for failure through a myriad of barriers to re-entry.

2020-05-12T19:42:19-07:00July 11, 2019|Employers, Hiring, Job Seekers, Networking|Comments Off on How You Can Help Justice-Involved Individuals Re-enter the Workforce
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Justice-Involved Applicants Could be Your Next Great Hires

July 11, 2019 | Tri-Valley Career Center
Every year 700,000 men and women are released from prison or jail and re-enter society. Unfortunately, as SHRM Public Affairs Manager Mary Kaylor points out (#Nextchat: Getting Talent Back to Work with Second Chance Hiring), these job seekers are often locked out of the job market due to outdated employment practices that continue to present barriers to their hiring.

2020-05-12T19:46:56-07:00July 11, 2019|Employers, Hiring, Job Seekers|Comments Off on Justice-Involved Applicants Could be Your Next Great Hires
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Hiring the Long-Term Unemployed Can Bring Experience and Reliability to Your Workforce

July 11, 2019 | Tri-Valley Career Center
If you are finding it difficult to recruit qualified candidates in the current tight labor market, you might expand your recruiting efforts by considering an often overlooked but experienced group of job seekers – the long-term unemployed.

2020-05-12T19:55:47-07:00July 11, 2019|Employers, Hiring, Job Seekers, Networking|Comments Off on Hiring the Long-Term Unemployed Can Bring Experience and Reliability to Your Workforce
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Jumpstart Your Job Search with Inspirational TED Talks

July 11, 2019 | Tri-Valley Career Center
A TED talk is a video created from a presentation at the main TED (technology, entertainment, design) Conference or one of its many satellite events around the world. TED Conferences posts TED talks online for free distribution under the slogan “ideas worth spreading.”

2020-05-12T20:04:32-07:00June 11, 2019|Hiring, Interviewing, Job Seekers, Networking, Resume|Comments Off on Jumpstart Your Job Search with Inspirational TED Talks
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Summer is a Great Time to Look for a Job!

June 11, 2019 | Tri-Valley Career Center
If you’re like many job seekers, you may think that companies tend to cut back hiring during the summer months, but the truth is that employers search for qualified candidates in every season.

2020-05-12T20:06:46-07:00June 11, 2019|Hiring, Job Fairs, Job Seekers, Networking|Comments Off on Summer is a Great Time to Look for a Job!
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