Three key advantages of using a staffing firm are experience, insights and confidential opportunities. Sometimes a job search can feel isolating. You’re spending hours upon hours searching for opportunities, working on your resume and applying to job openings, often without having any outside feedback about what you’re doing right or wrong. That isolation can add a lot of emotional stress to an already nerve-wracking experience. What you may not realize is that you don’t have

Many recruiters find LinkedIn invaluable. According to data collected in 2013, 89% of recruiters have used the professional network to fill a position. One of the things that recruiters look at on LinkedIn is the recommendations section of a prospective job candidate. Unlike the one-click skills endorsements on LinkedIn, a recommendation is a written statement of recommendation from a connection. From a recruiter’s point of view, this written statement could provide valuable

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The Job Shop was happy to take part in the Career Mentorship Symposium held at Golden Gate University. The goal of the symposium was to give job seekers more face time with a recruiter and to really understand what they are doing right and wrong. Below, please find some of the topics that were discussed: Attention to detail What are some of the most egregious resume faux paus, i.e. “references available upon request” Using social networking How to prepare for an interview? Ho

by Anthony Balderrama, CareerBuilder.com writer When microblogging and social networking site Twitter debuted three years ago, plenty of people wrote it off as yet another pointless addition in the overcrowded networking world. Little by little, users proved the site’s worth to nonbelievers. Considering the site only allows people to post, or Tweet, messages of 140 characters or less, you can’t blame early skeptics. Last year, student James Karl Buck was traveling in Egypt an

The Job Shop was started with a unique concept in mind – provide our clients and our candidates with the respect that they deserve. We offer guarantees on every placement that we make. This is to give both parties the ability to make a comfortable decision when hiring and accepting a job. The Job Shop places candidates in direct hire, temporary and temp-hire positions at various companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our clients range from small start-ups to international F