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New Shoes Are Like Dessert
It started with an idea to buy shoes for The Clothing Closet. But when school social work supervisor Laura Chiarello heard the proposal from CSI Gives Back, she pushed back gently. “New shoes are like dessert,” she said. “You want them, but you probably don’t need them.” What many Duval County students do need are…
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The Questions You Should Be Asking During An Interview [Part 4]
In a previous post, we explored one of the oldest and most common interview questions: the one about your greatest strengths. For all its overuse, it’s still helpful to hear how a candidate perceives himself and how he prefers to work. Most candidates have prepared for the greatest strengths question and feel pretty confident about…
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Birdies for the Brave 2019
What an un-fore-gettable time raising funds for combat-wounded veterans with Birdies for the Brave at TPC Sawgrass! ⛳🎖️💕 A special thanks to our veterans Alex Clifford and Jerry Dedge for playing with Team CSI. To date, Birdies for the Brave has raised more than $17M for organizations including: –Special Operations Warrior Foundation–Homes For Our Troops–Navy SEAL Foundation–Operation Homefront–Military Warriors Support…
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Tips for Coming Back Strong After Maternity Leave
Coming back after having a baby is a time fraught with anxiety for many women. Women who return to work quickly tend to breastfeed less, experience more physical and emotional challenges, and feel more anxious than women who can take more time off to care for their newborn. Therefore, balancing career and earning needs with…
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6 Steps to Winning Your Long-Distance Job Search
Military spouses, new graduates, and workers transitioning to new industries are among those who might have to consider a long-distance job search. Local candidates have several distinct advantages: they may already have a local reputation in the industry or have connections with a recruiter through networking. They can commit to an interview on short notice.…
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Why Running a Household is Like Running a Business
“I actually look forward to coming to work so I can feel more calm and in control,” said one frazzled working mother of four girls. “No matter how crazy things get at work, it’s much easier than the crazy, exhausting road race my weekends have become.” Working parents do it all: they each have a…
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The Questions You Should Be Asking During An Interview [Part 3]
Paul Falcone is an HR consultant and author of 96 Great Interview Questions to Ask Before You Hire. He’s written the definitive guide to asking great questions and evaluating a candidate’s responses. He provides several questions that are best deployed at the beginning of an interview. He recommends going beyond the classic “Tell me about…
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Dear Future Workforce
Read Lessons 1 and 2 here. Lesson Number Three: Stop looking for the “right” answer. There may be no right answer. Sometimes, there may be two or three right answers or good enough answers. There may be a couple of bad answers, but you might have to pick one anyway. Unlike on your Scantron test,…
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Avoid These Interviewing Mistakes
Even in this very tight labor market, candidates must do well in the interview process to be considered. And yes, that dreaded First Impression really does matter. The Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology spoke with 166 interviewers after they’d seen 691 students at a career fair. They asked how quickly the interviewers made decisions about…
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Minimum Wages Are On The Rise
We’re experiencing the lowest unemployment and tightest labor market in decades. Employers are finding it harder and harder to hire and retain quality workers. Companies are responding by raising starting wages, with many including Target, Costco, and Amazon, committing to a $15 an hour minimum wage by 2020. As retail wages rise, companies higher up…