Why ‘Quiet Firing’ is Bad for Business
We’ve all heard about Quiet Quitting—when employees slowly disengage from organizations, doing the bare minimum to stay employed. Now, a…
Natasha Jeshani
Navigating Performance Reviews During Long-Term Leave: Essential Tips for Employees and Employers
As a fractional HR consultant at Career Contacts, I often encounter employees and employers uncertain about how to handle performance…
Natasha Jeshani
Insights and Strategies on “Quiet Vacationing”
Topic: Supporting Employee-Centered Time Off Policies Our clients know we are not fans of gimmicky terms lick quiet quitting, and…
Natasha Jeshani
Effective Interviewing Techniques
Asking the Right Questions and Assessing Cultural Fit Interviewing is a critical step in the hiring process, allowing you to…
Natasha Jeshani
Navigating the Candidate Experience
Creating a Positive Recruitment Journey The candidate experience plays a pivotal role in attracting top talent and shaping their perception…
Natasha Jeshani
The Role of Soft Skills in Recruitment
Identifying and Evaluating Essential Traits In today’s dynamic work environment, soft skills play a crucial role in determining an individual’s…
Natasha Jeshani
Understanding the Holiday Burnout Phenomenon: Managerial Training to the Rescue
The holiday season, with its festive cheer and family gatherings, is often considered the most wonderful time of the year.…
Natasha Jeshani
Retention Starts with Recruitment
Strategies for Hiring and Retaining Top Talent Hiring and retaining top talent is crucial for the long-term success of any…
Natasha Jeshani
Boosting Employee Engagement and Retention as Q4 Begins
As the final quarter of the year approaches, businesses are presented with a unique opportunity to reenergize their workforce and…
Natasha Jeshani
The Pay Transparency Act
Promoting Fairness and Equity in British Columbia In recent years, the issue of pay equity and transparency in the workplace…
Natasha Jeshani
Effective Employee Retention Strategies
Building a Strong and Engaged Team In today’s competitive job market, attracting and retaining top talent is crucial for the…
Natasha Jeshani
The Gig Economy: Harnessing the Power of Part-Time and Temporary Workers
In recent years, the gig economy has emerged as a significant force, transforming the way people work and the nature…
Natasha Jeshani
The Evolution of Retirement: Preparing for a New Era
Retirement has long been viewed as a well-deserved period of relaxation and leisure after years of hard work. However, the…
Natasha Jeshani
Embracing the Arrival of AI
Exploring the Impact on Jobs and Industries As the digital revolution continues to reshape the business landscape, one of the…
Natasha Jeshani
Leveraging AI* to Empower HR Leaders
Exploring Opportunities and Considerations In today’s fast-paced and technologically driven world, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful tool…
Natasha Jeshani
Rethinking KPIs
Keeping People Inspired, Informed, Involved, and Interested In today’s fast-paced and data-driven world, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) have become the…
Natasha Jeshani
Maintaining Motivation to Develop Work Skills
Maintaining motivation to develop work skills is crucial for professional growth and success. For today’s blog, we wanted to provide…
Natasha Jeshani
The Importance of Employee Wellness
The importance of employee wellness cannot be overstated when it comes to the success of a business. A healthy and…
Natasha Jeshani
Effectively Motivating your Employees to Achieve Success
Motivating employees is a critical part of managing a successful team. While there are many different approaches to motivating employees,…
Natasha Jeshani
Building Strong Employee Relations: Tips for Success
Building strong employee relations is essential for any business that wants to succeed. When employees feel valued and respected, they…
Natasha Jeshani
Having Difficult Conversations with Direct Reports
Having difficult conversations with employees is an inevitable part of being a manager. Whether it’s addressing poor performance, addressing inappropriate…
Natasha Jeshani
Team Communication: The Key to Success in the Workplace
In today’s fast-paced and constantly changing work environment, effective team communication is more important than ever. Whether it’s sharing ideas,…
Natasha Jeshani
How to leverage Fractional HR support after undergoing a layoff
Fractional HR support can be a valuable resource for companies that are operating leaner after layoffs. It provides cost savings,…
Natasha Jeshani
Effective Corporate Pay Transparency Models
Pay transparency laws in the US, such as the Paycheck Fairness Act and the Executive Order on Advancing Pay Equity,…
Natasha Jeshani
Layoffs & Offboarding: Where to Begin
As layoffs continue, social media is inundated with all the ways leadership missed the mark. No matter how a layoff…
Natasha Jeshani
Building an Effective Onboarding Program
Many organizations have new hires beginning in the new year – a fresh start after the busyness of the holidays…
Natasha Jeshani
Supporting Your Remote Team
As the new year approaches, organizations need to ensure that they are keeping their remote teams top of mind. January…
Natasha Jeshani
How to Effectively Negotiate at Work
Asking for more of anything at work is generally a daunting task. As much as we hope that our work…
Natasha Jeshani
Offboarding – Our Step-by-Step Support for Your Team
Is your company in the process of conducting offboarding and in need of support? Career Contacts and Training Arch are…
Natasha Jeshani
Women In Business – 5 Ways to Support Women in the Workplace
Lately (or maybe I’ve just become acutely aware of it) when I read posts of women in leadership, the post…
Natasha Jeshani
People-First Recruitment & HR – Our 4 C’s
Focused on being people first, our team cares about what we do and how we do it. We put our…
Natasha Jeshani
The “No Update” Update – Revising Your Recruitment Process
If you spend any time at all on LinkedIn, you have seen the barrage of candidates who continue to feel…
Natasha Jeshani
Learning & Development – From Perk to Permanent
Learning and development or training and development (L&D or T&D) programs have become a hot topic of discussion among workplaces…
Natasha Jeshani
Who’s on Your Personal Board?
Consider the last time you needed advice; who were the people in your life that you trusted enough to turn…
Natasha Jeshani
What to Look for in a Recruitment Firm
Need help finding outstanding talent for your business or some assistance in taking the next step in your career journey?…
Natasha Jeshani
5 Tips for Finding Success in Your Job Search
Job searching can be daunting, especially if you have been on the hunt for a while. From networking, to researching…
Natasha Jeshani
5 Questions To Ask in an Interview
If you’ve been to a formal interview or if you’ve been researching how to prepare for one, you are most…
Natasha Jeshani
HR Burnout Part 3 – Mental Health
In parts one and two of our three-part breakdown of HR burnout, we’ve focused on many aspects of the additional…
Natasha Jeshani
HR Burnout Pt. 2 – Remote Work, Layoffs, and Staffing
In part two of our deep dive into HR burnout, we’re exploring the effects that the pandemic has had on…
Natasha Jeshani
HR Burnout – What is it and why is it happening (now more than ever)?
The term “burnout” is one that you may have heard around the office, especially in the past 19 months.…
Natasha Jeshani
Building a Better Future Together – Giving Back and Team Building at the Same Time
While it’s well known that team building exercises and events are beneficial for a workplace, it’s less commonly considered that…
Natasha Jeshani
The Golden Circle – Finding Your Company’s “Why”
What is The Golden Circle and what does it mean to “find your Company’s Why”? Created by author and inspirational…
Natasha Jeshani
Creating a Workplace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee – Where to Start
Please enjoy this sponsored post brought to you by our HR Consultant and client, Jeff So, HR Manager at Indochino…
Natasha Jeshani
WFH vs WFO* – How to Decide Which is Best For You
*Work from home (WFH) vs Work from office (WFO) As the world begins to transition into our new reality in…
Natasha Jeshani
How Your Team Feels Matters – Here’s Why
How often do you consider the feelings of your team when you make a company-wide decision? How your team feels…
Natasha Jeshani
Terminating an Employee – The HR perspective
Terminating an employee is something that no employer or manager looks forward to. When it is necessary however, you may…
Natasha Jeshani
Returning to the Office (Post-Pandemic)
The past year and a half has been an unprecedented time in the world and that includes in the workplace.…
Natasha Jeshani
Challenging Stigma: Mental Health in the Workplace
We at Career Contacts are proud advocates of mental health awareness and wellbeing in the workplace, so in recognition of…
Natasha Jeshani
A Note to New Graduates
A lot of the work we do at Career Contacts is centered around supporting candidates in their job search. One…
Natasha Jeshani
Change Management
This past year has been a year of change. Many of our clients have transitioned into fully remote or hybrid…
Natasha Jeshani
Dealing with Money: The Recruiter’s Guide to Talking about Money During your Job Search and Interviews
It’s the reason why we work, isn’t it? Money is one of the most important drivers in our day-to-day life.…
Natasha Jeshani
Interview with Tolu Aladejebi – Black in Hospitality
When Tolu and Natasha first met, it was amazing how connected they both felt. It wasn’t an if, but a…
Natasha Jeshani
My Journey to Recruitment
The moment I landed at Career Contacts, I was excited that this was a place where I was free to…
Natasha Jeshani
Mentorship during your job search
As someone that has been on the giving and receiving end of mentorship, I think that when done right, the…
Natasha Jeshani
Tips on Staying Safe at Work – on a worksite
This week we want to discuss a few pro tips on how to remain safe on a worksite! A typical…
Natasha Jeshani
Top 5 Ways to Stay Safe at the Office
At Career Contacts, we often write blogs based on the conversations we are having with hiring managers and candidates. Top…
Natasha Jeshani
6 Tips to Make a Great First Impression at Work or In a Job Interview
Making a great first impression can be deal maker, or a deal breaker. First impressions are made in the first…
Natasha Jeshani
Checking in with your teams; a message on mental health in the workplace
Checking in with your teams is really about starting from a place of authenticity, genuine care and compassion. As many…
Natasha Jeshani
Top 5 reasons to use an employment agency
At Career Contacts, it is so important to us that our teams believe in the work we do, and how…
Natasha Jeshani
How to Transition to a New Role without Burning Bridges
At Career Contacts, we are constantly supporting candidates as they transition from one company to the next. It is so…
Natasha Jeshani
Five Tips to Ace Your First Virtual or Zoom Interview
As we are all practicing social distancing due to COVID-19, job interviews and our point of contact with one…
Natasha Jeshani
Looking for a Job after Graduation – a few ideas to get started
Starting a job search after graduation, especially during COVID is new for all of us. Breaking into your new profession…
Natasha Jeshani
5 Industries That Are Still Hiring
We know the job market has taken a steep dive in the last few months. In BC, according to our…
Natasha Jeshani
What to wear to a remote job interview
When going to a job interview, first impressions really count. Now that a lot of interviews are going remote, many…
Natasha Jeshani
Guest Blog: The New Customer Relationship
At Career Contacts, we are firm believers in #collaborationovercompetition and we have built our company on that premise. We are…
Natasha Jeshani
10 Ways to Organize and Optimize for the Future of Work
As we entered a new year and a new decade, we as a global society were thrown into unprecedented times…
Natasha Jeshani
Effectively Onboarding your Remote Teams
Our favorite part of onboarding is the feeling of knowing that you are welcoming someone new into your fold. Onboarding…
Natasha Jeshani
Effective Strategies to Offboarding Teams
Employee exit management (often referred to as offboarding), is an intentional process of separating an employee from their employer.…
Natasha Jeshani
How to feel “unstuck” while feeling “stuck” at home
Most of us are currently following the stay at home orders that have been instituted all over the world. I…
Natasha Jeshani
5 ways to show your remote teams you care
Now that we are working as a 100% remote team, being away from each other daily has been the hardest…
Natasha Jeshani
Podcasts I’ve Been Listening to While Working From Home
Now that I’ve been working from home, I’ve been taking advantage of the extra downtime by doing things I normally…
Natasha Jeshani
Supporting Your Teams Suffering From Anxiety
Anxiety is essentially our brain’s response to imminent danger; for someone with an anxiety disorder that signal functions less like…
Natasha Jeshani
Keeping Remote Teams Connected
We are officially on week 3 of a 100% virtual Recruitment and HR team and although we miss being in…
Natasha Jeshani
The Power of the Phone Interview – Part 1
This is day 11 of total social isolation for our team due to COVID-19. That means in some of our…
Natasha Jeshani
Working From Home Blog Series
Part 1: The Benefits of Your Employees Working From Home Employees have been asking to work from home (or remotely)…
Natasha Jeshani
How to Answer the “What is Your Weakness” Question Effectively?
Interviews are stressful – you want to be organized and appear to be fully qualified for each job you apply…
Natasha Jeshani
Should I Send a Thank You Card After a Job Interview?
When we interview or meet people who are looking for a job or a new career opportunity, we are often…
Natasha Jeshani
Highly Effective Career Strategies for Success
To be at the top of your game at work, advance in your jobs, get promotions and land all the…
Natasha Jeshani
Informational Interviews – Here is What They Are and What They Can Do For You
As a person looking for a job or doing research to find out more about a new career, informational interviews…
Natasha Jeshani
Gen Z – Are You Hiring Them? This is What You Should Consider
Move over Millennials, make way for Generation Z! Gen Z – Who are they? They are the generation born after…
Natasha Jeshani
Planning for 2020 – What are your Career Goals?
Welcome to 2020 – this will be the best year ever! If you are like me, this the time to…
Natasha Jeshani
What is an HR Policy?
HR policies have always been a staple within HR Departments. Now, in the information age, it is expected that organizations…
Natasha Jeshani
What are Transferable Skills?
When interviewing employees or candidates, a recruiter or hiring manager looks for many things. This can include education, qualification, experience,…
Natasha Jeshani
HR
What is HR? What does HR mean? The acronym HR has endless possibilities. HR definitions can include Heart Rate, Human…
Natasha Jeshani
What Should You Do After a Job Interview?
Searching for a new job or career is often a full-time job in and of itself. Many people find looking…
Natasha Jeshani
Tips to Be Your Best at Your Next Job Interview
Getting called for a job interview is just the beginning of you receiving a job offer. We want you to…
Natasha Jeshani
What is a Statutory Holiday?
Statutory holiday days are great for employees – a day off with pay. In British Columbia there are 10 statutory…
Natasha Jeshani
Starting a New Job – Tips for your First Week at Work
Congratulations on starting a new job! With your job search ending, you can now file away those resumes and emails…
Natasha Jeshani
7 Steps to Land your Dream Job
When you know what your dream job is, but aren’t sure how to get it, we can help. The career…
Natasha Jeshani
3 Ways to Motivate Your Employees to Give Back and Volunteer
As organizations increasingly incorporate philanthropy into their corporate culture and values, the onus is placed on the employees to get…
Natasha Jeshani
What is the meaning of Recruitment?
Interested in learning more about what we do as Recruitment Professionals? Recruitment is defined as the process of attracting, shortlisting,…
Natasha Jeshani
Genuine Time Off
A prior article about genuine time off yielded some unexpected responses from leadership. Among the messages I received, I saw a number…
Natasha Jeshani
What to Do When You Don’t Get the Job
Your work isn’t over when you don’t get the job. Be sure to check these things off the list! As…
Robert
References: Let them help you land your dream job!
I am always a little surprised when I conduct a bad reference since the candidate/employee is the one who is…
Natasha Jeshani
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