For Crying Out Loud

Tears can undermine your competency and have a negative impact on promotability, performance reviews and your credibility with colleagues and/or supervisors. Leadership may equate crying with vulnerability or weakness and anyone looking to advance needs to keep this in mind when emotions start to surface.

Positive Leadership

Positive, happy people attract other successful and similarly happy people. They make others want to work for them, produce for them and grow…

8 Things You Must Know When Working With a Recruiter or Choosing A Staffing Firm

So, you have decided to make a career change and find a new job. Suddenly you find yourself spending an innate amount of time searching job boards, talking to former colleagues, tweeting members of trade associations, networking with personal contacts and hoping that you will see the perfect job posted online, or that someone you know can suggest something terrific for you through their own circles.

A Culture of Cooks

We find that at LLoyd we have a mix of gardeners and chefs – there must be some relationship to finetuning and putting ingredients together the same way there is to effectively matching talent and employers.

Does Bad Credit = A Bad Job Candidate?

There is no clear connection between a credit history and job performance and many job seekers consider it to be an unfair way of screening candidates; however, no Federal discrimination law specifically prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of a bad credit report.

The Almost Job – when your offer is withdrawn

Usually, a job follows a job offer, but not always.
Some unfortunate job candidates find themselves in difficult circumstances when a job offer is rescinded by a company that may only recently have extended a job offer. How can this happen?