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Lesley Vos

Lesley Vos is a career strategist for college students and professional web writer contributing to publications on education, career, and digital marketing. Feel free to follow Lesley on Twitter to see more works of hers.
Picture of Lesley Vos

Lesley Vos

Lesley Vos is a career strategist for college students and professional web writer contributing to publications on education, career, and digital marketing. Feel free to follow Lesley on Twitter to see more works of hers.
Hiring Women in 2017

That’s What No One Tells You About Hiring Women in 2017

Picture this: It’s 2017, but gender imbalances still occur in companies. Managers know that gender diverse boards perform better, but female talents still face gender bias and stereotypes, which turn into challenges for ladies to overcome if they want to thrive. Recruiting and hiring stats from Uptowork reveals that women are 82% more likely to believe men are paid more for the same work; and that is among many reasons why hiring managers might find it more difficult to recruit ladies. Other reasons include: women choose careers differently as compared to men, and working environment in some companies might be nothing

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People Oriented

5 Tips For People-Oriented HR Management

What makes a professional hiring manager? Dealing with budgets, business priorities, and tons of paperwork is essential; but is it what employees need and expect to see from us? After all, human resources are about people, aren’t they? In 2016, 70.6 percent of HR professionals called “influencing the company culture to have more authentic, people-oriented managers” their top priority. With more than $2 billion plunged into HR technology, the emergence of new, more people-oriented, trends seems clear. Together with gamification, video hiring, and other HR trends of 2016, this year brings more tech challenges for us to implement in order not

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252 Powerful Words to Avoid Apocalypse at Job Interview

In the beginning was the Word. Have you ever wondered why some writers can’t hook us while others simply toy with your emotions? Why do we listen to some speakers carefully while others make us nothing but fall asleep? Words. They use different words to influence readers and listeners. When written in resumes or said during job interviews, words become your powerful weapon. The better you use them, the bigger your chances to influence recruiters are. So, how to do that? Next time you write a resume, make sure you use strong and powerful words, as they increase your chances of

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