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Tips For Dressing For An Interview

On paper Joy is the perfect candidate. She has all of the credentials the company looks for in a candidate. She has aced her phone interview with her pleasant personality and thoughtful answers. As she walks into her first face-to-face interview with the company, her flip flops smack across the tile floor while she adjusts the strap on her loose fitted tank top.

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Resume Questions With Peter

Drake & Company’s Office Coordinator and Resume Specialist Peter Jenkins answers some questions about what employers look for in a job seeker’s resume. In this video he addresses common resume mistakes, what job seekers can do to stand out and how applicants benefit from the use of a resume service.

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Cover Letters: Why Are They So Hard to Write?

If you asked me to rate the top five things that are difficult for me, I’d probably say, in this order

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Short and Sweet Advice from Drake’s Resume Pro

If you Google the words “resume advice” or “resume help”, you’ll find there’s no shortage of advice on every possible nuance of resume format. However, what if you have questions related to what’s in your resume as opposed to what kind of format to use or how many pages it should be? Or, maybe you’re trying to make a career change and wondering how to best craft your resume.

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Olympic Athletes: What They Can Teach Us About the Job Search

The first weekend of activity has officially wrapped up at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, and it’s absolutely impossible not to get sucked into the action. While I can’t say that I follow the world of figure skating, biathlon, alpine skiing, or slopestyle snowboarding on a regular basis, it’s the competition and the athlete stories that consistently draw me in.

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Hiring for Cultural Fit: Why It’s Important & How to Do It

Before I started my position as Marketing Coordinator at Drake & Company, I worked as a Marketing Manager for a small co-ed independent PreK through Grade 8 school in Lake Forest, Illinois. Last summer, my husband found a job in Madison, and we jumped at the opportunity to get back to Wisconsin.

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7 Misconceptions About Working With Staffing Firms

At Drake & Company, applicants come to us through several channels. Sometimes we’ve worked to place them in a temporary or full-time position before. Other times, they come to us as a referral from someone we’ve placed. However, the majority of the applicants registering with us are new to the staffing industry. Whenever we speak with a new applicant, we are reminded of the many misconceptions there are regarding the staffing industry—and we thought we’d take the time to dispel them here with regard to Drake & Company:

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