Encourage risk-taking

Reward your employees for brainstorming and asking imaginative questions. If they feel afraid to fail or that their ideas will be rejected, creativity will suffer along with the generation of new ideas. Nurture those ideas with space, materials, and autonomy to develop them.

Hold them accountable without micromanaging. Help your employees create goals that allow them to focus and work independently. Check in every once in a while to encourage, measure progress and ensure efforts are focused on those goals, adjusting them if necessary.

Avoid placing blame

Yes, your employees will make mistakes and some very promising ideas will fail. But it’s your job to help your staff pull out the lessons from these mistakes. Don’t punish anyone! Remember that failures are just little obstacles on the road to success!

Increase learning agility

Train your employees to give and receive feedback constructively. To be successful, your team must employ a growth mindset—accumulating feedback and adjusting strategies without getting frustrated. Equip yourself with an agile workforce who can learn new skills quickly, adjusting to new trends and company goals. Encourage employees to keep data that tracks their own performance and integrates feedback into their development plan. Storing this documentation in a safe place ensures other departments or teams won’t try to reinvent the wheel.

Emphasize collaboration

Encourage your teams and departments to communicate and share knowledge so they’re not duplicating tasks and procedures. This is inefficient and counter-productive and can sometimes lead to squabbles or feuds between departments. Instead, create cross-functional teams with members who have different strengths. Their functionality and capacity is likely to skyrocket. Be able to form teams quickly based on member’s talents and the ever-evolving needs of the company. Fresh perspectives can inspire ideas and alternative approaches.

Rejuvenate and reset

When your staff is overworked and overwhelmed with impossible tasks and pressing deadlines, they’re unlikely to be able to lift their heads and generate some sort of inventive idea. Instead, they’re probably just trying to survive the day-to-day and can become discouraged. Create a culture where it’s safe to take an occasional break—a day off, a short walk or even a vacation—anything to reinvigorate your creative side.

For more tips on how to inspire and facilitate an innovative staff, contact us today.

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Looks for top performers

CulverCareers seeks and locks in top talent and motivating leaders for its clients. Because of CulverCareer’s stellar experience and esteemed reputation, they’ve been able to establish valuable contacts in each niche industry. By collaborating with professionals at client companies, our specialized recruiters can locate, evaluate and onboard leading talent. In fact, six of the top ten recruiting companies in the U.S. engage CulverCareers when they need top talent!

Maximizes sales pros and potential and income

CulverCareers locks in competitive annual salaries for our jobseekers, averaging between $50,000 to $400,000, depending on the industry. Our search market includes most of North America, Great Britain and certain European countries. Such a wide-reaching realm of possibility guarantees we can expertly place candidates in environments where they can grow, find success and take their careers to the next level.

Awards and achievements

CulverCareers was recently named on Forbes’ 2017 Lists of America’s Best Recruiting Firms, one very high honor among many. Earlier this year, we earned one of Inavero’s Best of Staffing® Client and Talent Diamond Awards, after winning the Best of Staffing Client and Talent Awards at least five years in a row for providing superior service to our clients and job seekers. This placed us in the top one percent of recruiting firms in North America.

CulverCareers has also been recognized as an Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private U.S. Company twice; the San Diego Small Business of the Year; and a winner of the California Small Business award. Such success in such a competitive job market takes hard work, expertise and a sophisticated, tailored approach. While blunt, old job boards and website postings are simply ineffective, CulverCareers has mastered the art of finding and placing talent.

At CulverCareers, we pride ourselves on transparency, integrity, sophisticated searches and hard work, making our mark as one of North America’s top recruiting firms. To find out how CulverCareers can help you advance your career or build your company, contact our experienced team today.

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Wake up earlier

Put yourself at ease by allowing extra time for your commute and aim to get to work 10 minutes before you need to be there. Supervisors love early birds! Establish a good attendance record. Stay late and don’t call in sick. Don’t take long lunches, especially before you get to know company culture.

Dress professionally

Well-dressed people are perceived as efficient and reliable. You’ll also feel more confident knowing you look good!

Be willing

Eagerly ask questions or ask for help when you need it. It’s better to ask for clarification now than after you’ve wasted time doing something the wrong way. Listen more than talk, take notes, go to orientation and accept any training opportunities offered. As you grow more comfortable, take initiative. Start slowly so you don’t overwhelm yourself, but as you notch some successes, start to ask for more assignments.

Demonstrate that you’re excited to be part of a team! Show you’re loyal to other team members by awarding them credit and sharing recognition when appropriate.

Set up your workspace

Set up your outgoing voicemail message and email signature right away to help establish yourself. Use a calendar or planner to get and stay organized. Make your actual workspace a place where you feel comfortable. Take cues from your new office-mates and follow their lead—do they have a lot of family photos or are there none? Did they fix up their spaces with personal effects, like items from their alma maters or favorite sports teams?

Schedule a lunch

Learn names quickly. Ask a colleague to grab lunch with you. Ask helpful questions about work, but also ask personal, unrelated questions. You’ll feel better once you get to know people better and form some bonds. But avoid office politics and gossip as long as possible!

Be confident

Work on your self-talk, and when things get challenging, give yourself little pep talks to remind yourself that this is all possible. Show your new colleagues you’re reliable and you remain calm under pressure. Remember that you’re going to do a great job, which is why they hired you.

Track your accomplishments!

This will help to boost your own confidence and personal satisfaction as well as increase your chances of receiving a raise or promotion down the road. Early successes are easy to forget when there’s so much else to remember, so keep a list to help you (and your supervisor) remember.

While starting a new job can be stressful, there’s a lot you can do to make yourself stand out from day one! For more tips as you transition to your new job, contact us today.

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You’re a waste of money

The hiring process is expensive. Training is expensive. Some experts estimate that quick job hoppers can cost a company up to $20,000 per employee. So if your resume is peppered with short spurts of work experience, without a longer, more faithful commitment, employers are not likely to take a chance on hiring you.

You haven’t gained valuable skills

It’s hard to pick up any expertise or accomplish anything when you don’t stay in a position long enough to learn. It also shows that you’re restless and that you don’t have the self-discipline to dedicate yourself to something after the initial excitement wears off. Potential employers might view you as immature and not prepared to really succeed in business.

You’re unfulfilled

Maybe you’re just not passionate enough about the field you’ve been working in. Not every job is a dream job, especially at the beginning. And most employers would be pleased that you’re not satisfied, that you’re always pushing yourself for something better. But there’s also value in paying your dues and remaining focused on one thing as you move up in a company.

If you find a company that you can believe in and where you enjoy working, stay loyal to that company’s mission and corporate culture while you seek out the ideal position there. Aiming for better opportunities is a good thing, but too many jumps is a red flag that you’ll never be content anywhere.

You’re short-sighted

Companies have long-term goals for several years down the road, and if you can’t show that you do, too, they might not waste their time hiring you. Focus on the long game and view companies as career incubators instead of time wasters. Concentrate on the valuable skills and experiences you’re picking up and consider the best interests of the company instead of prioritizing your own boredom. Show that you can be an asset to a company by sticking it out in one job for at least two years, so future companies will be more willing to invest in you.

For more information on how to nurture your career and land your dream job at your dream company, check out our website at https://culvercareers.com.

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