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Take a Self Assessment. What's Your Type?

Understanding your type as well as being able to understand the type of others surrounding you including co-workers, your spouse, family members and friends can be invaluable.  What am I referring to when I say “type”?  Well, it’s your personality type, of course! A commonly used personality test is called the Myers Briggs Type Indicator…

Interactive vs. Digital vs. Online Marketing Jobs

I get approached with this question often. Are Interactive, Digital, and Online Marketing synonyms or does each hold a different job description? Quickly put Interactive, Digital, and Online Marketing jobs are each unique. Each requires different product and strategy knowledge. It is quite common for these titles to be used interchangeably in today’s marketing industry…

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Plucked for an Impressionable Interview

We have all heard the clichés, “Putting your best foot forward” and “First impressions make lasting impressions.” They ring ever more true when interviewing for that job.  Regardless of the job title many opportunities are lost on first impressions.  The winning edge to landing that job can be as simple as getting back to the basics.  Here…

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Advice to those Seeking Telecommuting Jobs

Relative to the type of person that you are, telecommuting can provide a new and positive type of working environment, or can be a difficult transition from the typical working environment. Either way, it is imperative that each employee understand the pros and cons of telecommuting to determine your ability to be productive under such…

The Contingency Search Agency Fee Agreement

Over the years, Search Agency Fee Agreements have gotten increasingly complicated as the Legal and Financial Departments have weighed in with their two cents, adding a multitude of insurance, co-employment, confidentiality, arbitration and audit clauses (to name a few). While legally necessary, from the standpoint of recruiting quality candidates, these additions have no bearing on…

Design and the Modern Workplace

Is your workplace stuck in the 1980s? Images of oversized cubicles and formal, private offices come to mind. Today, organizations strive to be leaner, promote teamwork and communication, and facilitate cross-functional decision-making rather than the bureaucratic, hierarchical process of the past. However, ineffective workplace design often fails to support these goals, critical to a successful…

Capture In-Demand IT Professionals for your Job Offers

When UX designers, developers, and in-demand IT professionals are receiving multiple offers, what are you doing to make your position stand out? As part of Profiles recruitment process, we prepare all of our candidates prior to their phone or face-to-face interview. As staffing experts, our “preps” include interview best practices, the culture of the team,…

Happy 4th of July from Profiles!

Our hottest national holiday is right around the corner, and with the heat wave we’ve got cooking now, it doesn’t look like there’s much relief in sight. Another “bonus” is that 2012 awards us with the most inconvenient day for a holiday (Wednesday) which, no matter how you slice it, does not quite nudge itself…