United Personnel Employee Spotlight

Tricia Canavan, President: Dedicated, Engaged, and Caring

It’s accurate to say that Tricia was born into United Personnel. After all, her parents founded the business in 1984, so she has had plenty of exposure to it starting as a teenager. After a career mix of nonprofit management, education and human resources work, she came back to United to lead the company when her mother decided to retire. She saw it as an opportunity to help both clients and candidates and as a way to make an impact in the community.

Are You Experiencing Job Burnout? Here’s How to Tell.

Burnout is a relatively common type of job stress. It can manifest in mental, emotional and even physical exhaustion. It’s often combined with uncertainties about your abilities and the value of your work.

Look at the symptoms of burnout. If you find that you are experiencing it, you need to face it and deal with it before it becomes a major health issue.

You could be experiencing job burnout if you have any of these symptoms:

Should You Be Using a Skills-Based Resume?

For many years, job hunters have been using a resume that lists their work experiences in a reverse-chronological format. It made sense: Show a prospective employer where you have worked and what your duties were, and start with the most recent.

But what about those fresh graduates who have no experience to list? Or the candidate whose goal is to change careers? Outlining their experiences will not necessarily show the hiring manager that they could be a good fit for the company.

Why You Should be Conducting Reference Checks

It’s a sad reality of hiring: Some candidates are guilty of fudging on their resumes, and others are flat-out lying. In many of these cases, no real harm is done by these embellishments or by the start- and end-date manipulations that applicants use to hide gaps in their employment history. The problem is employers have no way of knowing if these are little white lies or the fraudulent kind that could get them embroiled in a costly lawsuit.

The Top Skills Needed to be a Receptionist

It’s a key position. To anyone who walks through the front door of a business for the first time, the receptionist is the face of the company. It is important that a receptionist possesses the skills for this essential and trusted role in the organization.

Here is what it takes:

How to Balance Productivity and Fun in the Workplace

They call it work for a reason. Your employers expect you to work hard and be productive. After all, that’s what they pay you to do.

On the other hand, there are no rules, written or unwritten, that prohibit you from being productive and having fun at your workplace. Your eight- or ten-hour days can be stressful for you and your team. Lightening things up will make your days flow smoothly and help you be more productive.

Here are a few things you can try:

Make friends

Tips for Hiring the Best Candidate, Not Just Someone Who Interviews Well

If you have been hiring for any length of time, you’ve probably seen and heard it all. So let’s narrow this down a bit and call it a tale of two candidates. This story will likely sound familiar.

Candidate one, Joe, is smooth—real smooth. You can ask him any question, and he fires back a well-prepared answer. He’s a sharp dresser with a firm handshake, and he has been saying all the right things. He seems like the kind of young man who makes friends easily and, despite your vow to always be objective, you come away from the interview liking him yourself.

Strategies for Improving Workplace Communication

Good communication in the workplace is the key to everyone on your team feeling heard and understood. Without it, both you and your workers can feel frustrated, isolated and misunderstood, while morale suffers. With it, however, you’ll have an environment in which people can engage and exchange feedback because there is clear and effective two-way communication.

How to Become an Indispensable Employee

Nobody is indispensable (or so they say). When an exceptional worker leaves, someone will eventually step in and take over the duties of that departed employee. Life goes on.

Well, if that’s the case, why do companies often go to great lengths to retain their superstars by offering top wages, bonuses and promotions as incentives to stay? Someone thinks they are indispensable—or at least all but impossible to replace!

Do your managers see you as indispensable? Do you ever wish they did?

United Personnel Earns Prestigious Best of Staffing® Award for 2018

Each year, the top staffing agencies in the United States and Canada earn Inavero’s Best of Staffing® Award if they can prove superior service quality. The competition is intense, and agencies cannot win the award without stellar ratings from the hiring professionals and job candidates with whom they work.