Career Advice

4 Tools for Improving Your Company’s Staff Recruitment

By Elena Stewart Employees are the lifeblood of any organization, and as a business owner, staffing should be a top priority. Finding quality candidates can sometimes pose a challenge, but by investing in your recruitment process, you can ensure that your operation runs more smoothly at every level. These tips from Catapult Recruiting can help you attract more skilled workers…

Top Ten Technologies Driving Portland Companies to Hire

By Michelle Knight The Portland, Oregon area offers vibrant careers in emerging technologies for you to grow and collaborate. The Portland, Oregon area outshines other regions with various emerging technologies and a small collaborative community. Job opportunities range from cloud computing to implementing cyber-product security, applying mechanical and electronic troubleshooting skills to semiconductors, and managing healthcare data. Portland metro hosts…

7 Surprising Things That Freelancers Can Do for Your Small Business 

Thinking of hiring freelance help for your business? If so, you may be thinking about hiring someone to help out with administrative projects. Having a virtual assistant checking your calendar or a bookkeeper balancing your books can certainly free up your time for more pressing matters, but there are so many other powerful ways that freelancers can help your business…

How to Build a Successful Remote Team

Technology has made us more connected than ever, which means businesses have the power to allow employees to work from home. However, many managers are unsure of how to best handle this transition. Fears about communication difficulties, poor productivity, and employee success at home lead many managers to prefer their employees to stay in the office. This approach, unfortunately, benefits…

7 Lessons from Developers’ Job Hunt Reviews

What can a review of your most recent job interview (call it a “post-mortem” or a “retrospective”) teach you about the job-hunting process? As it turns out, quite a lot, including what went well—and what could have gone better. We recently contacted several software engineers who conducted a post-mortem review of their last job search. After analyzing the data and…

5 Ways to Update That Outdated Résumé ASAP

If you have a job you’re satisfied with, updating your résumé might seem like a waste of time. But job loss can arrive unexpectedly; new management might lay off your division, for example, or decide that your project isn’t a priority. In light of that, it can pay to keep your résumé as updated as possible at all times. Spending…