Are You Giving Your Skills from Retail Sales Enough Credit?
Forbes named ‘Retail Salesperson’ the #1 most common job for people in the United States. Moreover, having retail sales skills is a fantastic way for employees to gain hands-on experience in a multitude of areas. For example, customer service, communication, teamwork, sales, and operations. However,…
How to Stop Hating Your Job
If you find yourself in this situation, I’m sure you’re wondering how to stop hating your job…Well, let’s dive into a true story first… There’s a VICE video floating around about a security officer that is driving for Uber during the government shutdown. He won’t…
Looking for a New Job – Here’s 3 Places You Should Start
As cliché as it has become, we’re still proclaiming it: “New Year, New Me!” Amongst the long list of resolutions, taking career control and start looking for a new job rank high on the list as people set forth to improve their circumstances in the…
pw Podcast Ep 15 – What Have We Done?
Oh my lordy be! What in the world have we done to our working world? This is Kim Kelley, the CEO and co-founder of Pepelwerk. And what is our purpose? Our purpose is to change the way we approach our working world. Yes, we are…
How to Search for Jobs – It’s Time to Step Up Your Game
Do you ever ask yourself how to search for jobs in an efficient way and find the ones that fit your skills and abilities? If the answer is yes, then you’re in the right place. Normally, the whole process goes something like this: you search…
4 Reality Checks for Work Culture
Employers last year spent a lot of money to respond to the buzz of work culture. Employee culture, engagement, systems that promise to tell you when someone is going to quit because of their happiness score, work environment, and cool digs to make their working environment look on trend. Culture is the customs,…
A Short Guide to the Evolution of Education
In most places around the world, we have a social expectation, a process, and a structure that is meant to lead to a constant evolution of education. Government and formal universities have defined how we learn, where and when we learn, and the right to say that…
Hiring a Dream Candidate out of a Haystack
Hiring a dream candidate or finding a dream job has been like looking for a needle in a haystack. Neither side of the party can even really define what the dream is in the current hiring system. The way we currently go about hiring is overly…
pw Podcast Ep 14 – Wages
Hey, everyone, it is Kim Kelley, your CEO and co-founder of Pepelwerk, the matchmakers of the working world, and today we are talking about wages. Wages are the biggest component of our working world. They give us the cheddar, the money, the dough, to do…
What Should I Be Paid? – 5 Factors that Influence Your Income
Have you ever heard anyone say, “Find the lowest paying job?” Well, neither has any of the search engines. No one is trying to earn less in this world. That is why the phrase “highest paying job” is one of the most frequently searched sets…
Salary Determination Tips for Recruiters: 7 Outdated Approaches
Determining how much to pay staff is a really important decision as an employer. Your approach to pay, the systems you use, your pay policy, or lack thereof, can create a world of headaches for you or make building a great business easier. We offer…
pw Podcast Ep. 13 Gratitude
Happy Thanksgiving week to all of our pepelwerk listeners. This is Kim Kelley, the CEO and Co-founder of pepelwerk, and this week, we are all about trying to recognize things to be grateful for. Of course, that’s the theme of the week in the United…