Achieve Your Goals with The Squires Group

When you’re seeking out new job opportunities, ensuring your next position elevates your career is a popular goal. Unfortunately, identifying vacancies that make that a possibility is often surprisingly tricky. Plus, job searches and hiring processes can be challenging to navigate, and that can leave you unsure about whether you’ll do well once you find… Read more »


Best Practices for Onboarding New Hires: From Orientation to Integration

Best Practices for Onboarding New Hires: From Orientation to Integration

The new hire onboarding process plays a big role in whether an incoming employee ultimately succeeds. By having a robust process in place, you’re ensuring that new hires have all the critical information they require. Plus, it helps your company gather what it needs to bring the employee onto your payroll, ensuring full compliance with… Read more »


DevOps Interview Prep

DevOps Interview Prep

If you’re a DevOps professional looking for a new job, participating in interviews is an unavoidable part of the process. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or just launching your career, interviewing can be equal parts exciting and nerve-wracking. Fortunately, with effective preparation, you can experience more of the former and less of the latter. Here… Read more »


Managing Stress and Burnout in a Fast-Paced Work Environment

Managing Stress and Burnout in a Fast-Paced Work Environment

Working in a fast-paced environment can be invigorating, as there’s never a dull moment. However, these environments also have a tendency to become stressful, and without properly managing that stress, it’s easy to end up burned out. Mental, emotional, and physical fatigue can come with continuously having to push yourself to meet demands or expectations.… Read more »


Breaking Down the Pros and Cons of Remote Work

Breaking Down the Pros and Cons of Remote Work

During the pandemic, remote work didn’t just become more commonplace; it was an outright necessity for maintaining operations. In the years since, many professionals have diligently tried to keep working remotely as part of their paradigm, and those who’ve yet to have a chance to try it often seek out such opportunities. However, like all… Read more »


The Power of Soft Skills: Proving You’re More Than Your Tech Stack

The Power of Soft Skills: Proving You’re More Than Your Tech Stack

As a tech professional, you know that your technical capabilities are a critical part of your career success. However, relying on your technical expertise alone may not help you advance as far as possible. Instead, your soft skills play a crucial role in that equation, so ensuring they are exceptional is often a must. While… Read more »


The GPA Dilemma: To Include or Not to Include on Your Resume?

When you’re creating a new resume or updating an existing one, deciding whether to include your high school or college GPA is surprisingly challenging. There are times when including a GPA can work in your favor. However, there are also situations where listing a GPA can harm your chances of landing a job. Fortunately, deciding… Read more »


Should You Seek a New Position or a Raise?

When you’re trying to secure your financial future by increasing your salary, you typically have two options. First, you can seek out a raise at your current company to boost your earnings. Second, you can find a new job opportunity that comes with higher pay. Both approaches have unique benefits and drawbacks. If you’re trying… Read more »


3 Ways to Stay Motivated at Work Each and Every Day

Staying motivated at work is tricky at times, regardless of the time of year. However, the holiday season is often one of the most challenging when it comes to maintaining motivation. Often, the holiday season is hectic. Shopping, gatherings, travel, school breaks, end-of-year tasks, and more can make it hard to remain focused. Fortunately, staying… Read more »


Tip or Treat: Don’t Scare Away Employees with These Management Styles

As the saying goes, employees don’t leave jobs; they leave managers. If your company embraces management styles that candidates and workers find distasteful, recruitment issues and retention trouble are almost guaranteed at your company. Fortunately, by steering clear of management styles that employees dislike, you can keep turnover low. Here’s a look at the management… Read more »