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December 4th, 2008

Is Your Pride Costing You Money?

Have you ever let pride sabotage your career? “Robert,” was a successful TV news anchor who worked in a good-sized TV market. Robert had the classic anchor looks as well as deep booming voice. But he was frustrated that he was unable to move up a better job, which would involve working in a larger city for a much larger paycheck.

Robert’s problem was that he didn’t work much on the craft of anchoring. His delivery could be a bit flat and robotic. Imagine how someone with a good voice would sound reading something dull like a phone book. Robert was good at his job but not great enough to go to the next level.

November 29th, 2008

Career In Video Game

What if I showed you how you can make $2000 per month, just by playing games?
Don’t believe me? By the end of this article your perspective on work will have completely changed. Why? Because you’ll have learned that you don’t need some run of the mill job to make a living. And you’ll have greater insight into how you can slowly accumulate wealth as a video game tester by doing what you love. At the end of this article, I provide a link that will get you started right away. In the meantime, read on to learn more about this fantastic money-maker!

November 29th, 2008

Top 5 Resume Design Musts

Learning how to write a good resume can be quite a daunting task. You need an expert with solid advice to share to help you write a resume that isn’t just OK but is a good resume that helps you get the job. Follow the top 5 design musts for learning to write a good resume.

1) You MUST Use Consistent Structure – make sure everything that is bolded, italicized, underlined, tabbed, etc in one section is done the same way in each section. There should be consistency through the resume to create a “flow”. The readers eye should be easily able to move through the resume without getting caught on inconsistencies. The best way to accomplish this is to have someone else proofread your resume each and every time you revise it for any reason – and periodically when you haven’t revised just to make sure you have the opportunity to catch something you may have missed before.

November 20th, 2008

Tips For Recruitment Of Volunteers

The Recruitment Guide

Are you looking for volunteers for your organization? The hardest task is getting the right people for your organization and programme. Let’s aim at recruiting the best volunteers for the job specified and the management of the same. A volunteer brings a fresh pair of eyes and mind to your organization.

You have to be clear when out to recruit the volunteer as to what will they do and how will you field the questions that will be posed by them. Are you comfortable with an outsider with little knowledge of the job will ask you questions which an employee cannot? The next thing is to prepare a guideline for selection. If you have senior staff then draft the above with them. As they are perhaps better informed about the happenings in the organization.

November 7th, 2008

How To Handle The Stressful Uncertainty Of Company Downsizing Or Outsourcing (via Cobweb/3.1 Planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)

How to Handle the Stressful Uncertainty of Company Downsizing or Outsourcing
By Carolyn McFann

For a variety of reasons, many companies are downsizing their employees, leaving some loyal workers jobless, and others wondering if they’ll be next. Others are taking their companies overseas, leaving all their domestic employees in the lurch. During this time, the uncertainty of it all can make stress almost intolerable for everyone involved. Hours get cut, and those left over may work more to make up for the lost employees not being there. Tempers flare, and people become disillusioned with their jobs as they sense the company winding down. How can everyone cope? What to do? Even if it feels like it, this is not the end of the world. It takes not only being good to oneself, but planning for the future as well.

October 28th, 2008

Taking Charge With A Free Career Test

While choosing a career can be interesting and exciting, after awhile it is not uncommon for many wonder if they have chosen the right calling. Everything has its ups and downs in life but when a career gets into a rut, the average individual starts reevaluating his or her decisions. Sometimes the cure for this is the use of a free career test, found either online or at a local career center. By answering the questions truthfully, one may be able to determine if it is a career change that is necessary or if it is just time to take the career in a new direction.

October 24th, 2008

Job Interview Strategies – The Fine Art Of The Follow-up

There are two main components to following up to a job interview – sending thank you notes and getting agreement on next steps. And you need to do both.

The protocol on thank you notes keeps evolving with the technology. For many years the accepted best practice was to send a hand written thank you note on good quality monarch-sized stationary – hand written and hand stamped. That rule still holds but, in today’s wired society, that note should be preceded by a brief email.

The email should be sent the same day as the interview and the snail mail note within 48 hours. And a different note gets sent to every person you talked to with a reference to something the two of you talked about – even if you were interviewed by a panel.

October 23rd, 2008

Online Payroll Outsourcing

What is Online Payroll Outsourcing? Well, outsourcing service provider will process all payroll activities online and thus making paperless payroll solution. It is emerging as fast outsourcing job in the field of payroll. Online payroll will help getting full information about payroll system of your organization on few clicks anytime. Online payroll will help you even getting the paychecks printed whenever it is required.

Why to outsource payroll jobs?

October 21st, 2008

Customer Service Skills And Interview Questions

How many parties have you been to where the topic of conversation turns to customer service and, usually, some horror story about a bad customer service experience? If you are like me, it happens all of the time. Imagine, if you will, if you were responsible for a customer service organization and the topic of conversation turned to a bad experience with your customer service department. Now what do you do? My guess is you start to examine your customer service department.

Generally, the best place to begin your examination is at the beginning. How are your recruiting and interviewing your customer service representatives? Is there a structured interview process? Is it willy-nilly? Do your hiring managers really know how to interview?