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Mock Away! Why Mock Interviews are Useful in a Job Search

Mock interviews are useful in a job search because they allow the candidate to practice their introduction, answers to common interview questions, review their resume information, and more. Whether you practice with a friend, spouse, or with a career coach, your introductions, interviews, and interactions with recruiters and human resources personnel will be much smoother […]

The Keys to Great References That Get You Hired

When potential employers check your references, they are looking for direct confirmation of your skills, experience, personality, and work ethic. In other words, they’re looking for information on whether you’ll make a good employee for them. Since companies no longer give details about past employees, recruiters and hiring managers rely heavily on both verbal and […]

Conflict Resolution Strategies to Improve Retention

Step Up Recruiting improves your employee retention by finding candidates who are the best possible fit for your corporate culture and the open position, and we are experts at onboarding and initial support for our candidates after they become new hires. However, we recognize that you also want to retain the great employees you have […]

Top 4 Reasons for Employee Turnover

A 2008 Gallup Poll found that the top 4 reasons for employee turnover were career advancement opportunities, pay or benefits, and poor fit, with management issues coming in strong at 4. Since then, multiple studies have continued to find all these causes of employee turnover remaining in the top 7, consistently, for the next eight […]

Is It Time to Look for a New Job? The Top 5 Signs

How do you know when it’s time to look for a new job? The simple answer is when your current position no longer works for you or your employer. That can be because there is no more upward mobility for you, or because your skills and experience have outgrown your employer’s pay band, or perhaps […]

Stay Positive During Your Job Search

It can be hard to stay positive during your job search, but there are strategies that can help you stay hopeful and motivated. Keeping on the bright side of the search means you’ll have more confidence, more resilience, and more forward momentum from start to finish. Step Up Recruiting has put together a short, easy […]

Are you crazy? Look for an internship now?

Are you in your 2nd or 3rd year of college? If so, then read up. Think about internships now and what you would like to be doing next summer. I know, it seems like I’m crazy!  Look at internship a year before? YES! Many companies start hiring interns in October for the following year. If […]

Onboarding or Orientation?

Does your organization welcome new hires with onboarding or orientation? Step Up Recruiting strongly recommends onboarding, and can help you expand your support for new hires from orientation to a full onboarding experience. What’s the difference? Orientation is the traditional new hire support services, and is the same for every new employee from janitor to […]

Recruit to Retain in 5 Steps

Every good manager knows that retention is key. Replacing an experienced associate with a new hire can cost 25% of the position salary in upfront recruiting costs alone, and that doesn’t even include the costs associated with training, lowered production, the institutional knowledge drain, and the added slowdown in both internal and external business relationships […]