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Dexian Professional Trends Report 1Q24

The U.S. labor market added 353,000 jobs in January 2024, while the unemployment rate changed little at 3.7 percent, according to the June U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Employment ... Read more
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4 Tips for Hiring Creative and Committed UI/UX Professionals in a Competitive Market

How do you even begin to effectively hire a creative genius, technical wizard, and behavioral expert all in one person? That’s the challenge organizations face when it’s time to hire ... Read more
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Can 2 Salesforce Features Skyrocket Sales and Deliver Unforgettable Experiences?

How do you make customer relationships and experiences painless? That’s the question Salesforce has been trying to answer since its inception. If you’re a long-time user, you know how this ... Read more
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Agile Adoption in a Tight Market: Getting There From Here

Market slowdowns present significant business challenges, such as reduced revenue streams and constrained budgets, inhibiting efficient operations. Agile project management (PM) approaches can help firms confront these challenges.   Read more
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4 Technology Trends Enhancing Efficiency, Accuracy, and Collaboration for CROs

For profitable contract research organizations, timing is everything. CROs that facilitate rapid and efficient release of new drugs and medical technology for sponsor businesses can claim a greater portion of ... Read more
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Faster Real-Time Payments: How FedNow Can Revamp Financial Transactions

The dawn of a new era in payments has arrived. With the Federal Reserve's launch of the FedNow Service, financial institutions have access to the first, government-backed, instant-payment infrastructure in ... Read more
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Applier Beware: SCOTUS Overturns Affirmative Action

The U.S. Supreme Court, on June 29, voted 6-3 to “curb affirmative action in higher education,” thus ending about 40 years of precedent that allowed colleges and universities to “broadly ... Read more
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Is Unconscious Bias Affecting Your Hiring Decisions?

Reviewing job candidates’ applications and resumes without any unconscious bias is particularly hard to accomplish. After all, it’s …unconscious: you don’t know you’re doing it/have it. So how can we ... Read more
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Is AI Coming for Your Job?

You may have read that generative artificial intelligence – as in ChatGPT -- has “already” directly resulted in job loss for a few people. Let the panic begin? After all, ... Read more
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Overcoming Ageism in the Job Market: Strategies for Millennials

Yes, unfortunately, it’s starting to happen: the oldest millennials have now reached their early 40s and the millions of members of this generational cohort are aging right along behind them. ... Read more
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New College Grads: Catapult Your Career with Dexian

Recent college graduates who are looking for an exciting and high-paying sales career take note: Dexian is looking for entry-level staffing team members who – after just a few months ... Read more
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5 Awesome Benefits of Being a Contract Employee

​Many people are nervous about transitioning from a 9-5 job with one employer to a contract position with many employers. And that’s understandable—after all, if you’re not in the know, ... Read more
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How To List Contract & Consulting Work On Your resume

​Writing a resume and arranging your resume summary, skill sets, relevant work experience, and education section is tricky— building and organizing a resume when you’re a consultant is even trickier.Why? ... Read more
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How To Get Recruiters To Find, Notice & Contact You On LinkedIn

​Amid the uncertainty of our current climate, many are taking time to consider and discover new home projects, wellness practices, education alternatives and professional opportunities. Whether you are an active ... Read more
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Legit Job or Employment Scam? 8 Red Flags to Avoid Becoming a Victim

​The world has changed because of COVID-19, and our “new normal” continues to change along with it. As many of our routines have been upended, things like the great outdoors, ... Read more
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6 Effective Ways to Research Potential Employers

​When it comes to finding the right job, your chances of being noticed by employers or recruiters is often directly proportional to the time and care you invest in preparing ... Read more
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Top Agile Pitfalls & Why Agile Fails in Large Enterprises

Is Agile Really That Successful? ​When done well, Agile teams enable companies to be responsive to market changes, stay ahead of their competitors, and focus on business value and customer ... Read more
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Dexian Empowers In-House IT Team through Training Solution

The client wanted to grow its in-house Salesforce capability. The goal was to reduce dependence on third-party vendors, and to improve the economics of ongoing systems maintenance. The client also ... Read more
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Dexian Delivers Reskilling Program that Creates New Path for Employees

The client faced a talent shortage for IT resources. They were also looking for an approach to expand opportunities for the existing workforce and to bolster their retention of high-performing ... Read more
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Dexian Successfully Modifies Application Workflow

Legacy database application had cumbersome, difficult to understand, and inefficient input processes and query methods Read more