Archive for December, 2009

career path with a perfect job

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

HOW TO GET A PERFECT JOB | In the standard business world, where everything is measured based on the profit and loss. Large companies would glance at potential candidates who can work diligently and at the same time, translate them into something positive, and finally generate profits for the company

Effectuating results is the center of the business enterprise activity. People need to do what are expected of them and do more usually beyond what is comprehensibly right.

The market is gearing more into a selective machinery where people with the right qualifications and right attitude are fit to be included in its workforce.

Leverage: What’s in a name?

Most of the times, job seekers are not judge according to how much education they have but how much accomplishments they have attained. It matters not how MBA degree have changed the way your resume looks like but how you were able to use that to effectuate changes in your current or previous work environment.

Bringing about change and results in your current work habitat does not mean producing an outcome which are only desirable for a specific time period but should last a lifetime. It must have a specific impact on your current work-related practices and one which benefits every client subscribing to that change.

That’s where leveraging comes into the scene. Selling oneself has had a positive effect on the eye of the employer if it is coupled with descriptive evidences of your professional qualification and preparation.

Job seekers often find their way in a career discussion bumpy for they are unable to delineate job responsibilities and accomplishments.

People need to see more proof of one’s professional competence before they would even get you working on that $250.00   worth seat. People in the corporate world are not stupid trying to figure what encoder means to them. They are more interested in you leveraging the level of competence and contribution you have achieved as part of your previous company and all throughout your entire encoding career.

Accomplishments equals Success

Michelle Watson, a career services assistant director based in Lehigh University, located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, suggest that, “Employers are seeking success stories. Resumes are now focusing not only on “regular” job descriptions, but also include concrete, measurableaccomplishments

More and more people are becoming aware of how accomplishments will make prospective job seeker as an effective candidate to take on that critical job and participate in the company’s drive to success.

Sometimes failures on your previous job gets in the way of preparing for another job but as David Feherty has put it, “It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.” Focus more on what you can do and deal with the bitter taste of life and work on them as you sail along the sea of life.

Trials and failures are a constant thing in life and the better way to deal with them is not by ignoring them but by embracing them and learn from all the lessons it brings you everyday.

Recording Accomplishments to Leverage Success

As discussed above, your achievements are your number one tool in acquiring that perfect job. Leveraging your job accomplishments is not about showing off your contributions to your previous company association but by exemplifying your ability to integrate your learned and acquired potential and become a contributing member of its team.

A more popular PEP Formula (Profitability, Efficiency, and Productivity) tells lot about an applicant’s ability and its appropriateness on the position he or she is applying for.

Did you do something to increase the company’s overall earning/sales output (Profitability)? How did you contribute to the overall success of the company by being able to close a certain business deal promptly while avoiding delays and increasing compliance to the current business standards, and possibly exceeding them (Efficiency)?

Moreover, your tangible contribution to your overall success of the team through various business initiatives and profitable market concepts and strategies will determine your employability (Productivity).

Employers are not there to find someone who will cause liability to their company but the one who will leverage tools at hand to generate income and become part of the companies overall performance inthe market.

Educating Your Audience

Although selling yourself maybe one that will best qualify you to take the must-coveted position, Susan LaPlante-Dube, a top marketing analyst and president of the Precision Marketing Group and New England Women Business Owners (NEWBO), related that educating someone [instead of selling yourself] is better than selling.

Selling is, most of the time, viewed as unrealistic and demonstrates professional rigidness. Education brings about understanding and appropriate proper perspective in delineating path to career success.

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how to find satisfaction in work

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

LINKING JOBS AND HAPPINESS | Very few people are lucky enough to immediately land on a path to their dream job. Few people have their first jobs at their dream company. Few even get a job that they wanted.

Of course, if one wants to be a partner at a law firm, one doesn’t just have to finish law school, pass the bar and be hired as a partner. He or she hasto work hard for several years. But a bar passer can be fortunate if he or she is offered a job by a reputable law firm. Many lawyers find it hard toget a job that allows them to practice law.

So how can one be happy in their jobs? Here are some tips.

* Look for a hobby

You may not be able to use your interests or skills in the job in which you are currently employed, but you can always look for other options to practice them.

If you love writing, perhaps you can be a freelance writer, start a web log (blog) or submit your works to publishing companies. Doing something you enjoy relieves you the stress of doing something that doesn’t catch your interest.

It could also be something that you can look forward to at the end of each task at work, that you will be excited about successfully finishing each assignment at work. It’s like giving you a reward for each job well done.

* Look for a challenge

Some people don’t feel like going to work because their daily work life has been monotonous. A secretary might just have to spend her day typing letters and receiving guests, and this can sometimes be a dull task.

However, she can try to make herself better by learning a different language that she can use when speaking with foreign guests. Moreover, learning new skills can also help in getting a promotion and a raise.

* Spend time to relax

Many people do not really dislike their jobs, but just spend so much time at their desk or at work that they get burnt out.

Doing a hobby, reading a book, seeing a movie, and spending time with family and friends are good stress busters. Also, forget your diet sometimes and just reward yourself with a scoop of ice cream or chocolate.

Or if you really wanted to stick to your diet, just take a walk in the park, visit places that you’ve never been to, do things that you’ve never done, or just play with your dog. After all, animals were proven to reduce stress levels and blood pressure.

* Change your job

If you have tried all of the above and still feel the same, probably, it time to change your job. Maybe, it’s some of your company’s practices that don’t work for you, and then transfer to a different company but have the same job.

Or if you really like your company, but you don’t like your job, maybe you can talk to your human resources personnel about options for transferring to a different department. Or perhaps, you are looking opportunities for growth.

Always make research by asking the HR staff and by checking online on how you can increase your qualifications so you can get a promotion.

Changing jobs can be risky, especially if you are jumping to a different field. You may initially be given a job that is below your qualifications, be given a lower salary than what you were previously receiving, and you will have to undergo an adjustment process. So do this only if you are left with no other options with your current job and company.

These are just some ways on how to love and enjoy what you do. A famous quote says “If you find something that you love to do, you never haveto work again a single day in your life.”

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how to behave toward the interviewer

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

PERFECT ACTION FOR THE INTERVIEWER | Do you know the reason why I wrote the article “how to behave toward the interviewer“? and why the experts advise you to serious in facing an interview?. That an experienced interviewer will be continuously watching your moves closely to evaluate whether he can put his money on you, in spite of your good academic performance. Complacency, lack of knowledge, aptitude and all behavioral traits will be noticed without you being aware of it, and along with your hard skills they determine your selection (or not) for the job.

Your speech is connected to your body language

Statisticians agree that 55-65% of all communications between people is through body language. Of this, about 30-40% is transmitted through voice modulation. This leaves us with just about 10-15% for verbal communication. This set of statistics goes to emphasize that interviewers depend at least equally on what they see if not more than what they hear.

Interpreting non verbal behavior is a new but effective branch of science. If you didn’t already know, it is the same science that detectives use in interrogations. Attempting to lie in interrogations or interviews will meet the same end because of yourbody language. No sooner than you attempt to lie, your body begins to give signals away of it via deceptive body language.

Body manifestations and their interpretations

The manifestations of behaviors begin quickly in the form of restlessness and uneasiness of the subconscious mind. However, the physiology is such that it tends to oppose these abnormal stresses resulting in a build-up of stresses inside you.

How will this manifest and will it show openly? The impulsive stresses begin surfacing as a non-stop shifting in your seat, avoiding eye contact with theinterviewer , faint voice, changed facial expressions and finally a change tone of voice. As failing in a promising interview is probably the last thing you want, you will not want have any misconceptions or misguidance about the importance of your non-verbal behavior in job interviews.

Hidden emotions can further worsen your case in the form of a dry mouth and eyes. But wait..it gets worse. The seasoned interviewer will be preparing to play his next card to check attitudinal changes by using delay tactics.

Delay tactics tighten the screws

Just what are delay tactics? The interviewer may take a brief rest, or pauses between questions and answers to see whether he has done enough to sow suspicion in the mind of the candidate. A dishonest candidate can begin to stutter for words, which is an indication of deceptive attempts. Theinterviewer still needs conclusive proof of this before he makes his final assessment. The available ‘evidence’ is still insufficient at this point.

The interviewer can begin to test you with simple questions. Unsuspecting candidates usually suddenly relax and give up attempts to conceal facts. Some simple examples of such questions are dates of employment, etc.

Now that you are aware how your body language can adversely affect your chances of succeeding in job interviews, you can pay closer attention to the way you behave. The next time you come across someone planning to deceive aninterviewer, you know he is going to be easily exposed.

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some alternative career

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

ALTERNATIVE CAREER OPTIONS | If life is a choice, then so does the career path. Everyone has their choice of careers they want to pursue. Why on earth would anybody object; after all, it is your passion. some unusual career where people do not know to pursue and choose to do so. This is an opportunity to become an alternative choice for you, Especially when the ‘unusual career’ of your choice has a potential to pay more than many common jobs, you are more inclined to pursue it. Here I will list a few unusual jobs that are respectable and pay reasonably well.

list of some alternative career :

Bartending: Well, this is not just about mixing drinks. As a bartender, you will have to put in long and unusual hours, going very late to bed and getting up when it most people are already at work. There is lot of money to be made in this profession in the form of tips, especially if you deal with wealthy customers. Of course, well-known bars and restaurants hire bartenders who have a broad range of skills. A short training course and experience will help you break into this profession. It doesn’t hurt to have some well-placed networking contacts, either.

Disk Jockey: Disk Jockeying can catapult you into stardom, if you are very good. You can have your own way of playing music; you can play with sound and virtually anything that sounds good. You can look at music with a new vision and feed it to your audience while you get paid for just enjoying your music. There are not much responsibilities and instant results from your ‘customers.’ Keep in mind though, that you will need to spend a good deal of time promoting yourself; it doesn’t hurt to have others do the same.

Jewelry Designing: Jewelry designing and gemology are very well paying jobs. As they say, the sky is the limit for a revolutionary jewelry designer. The demand for this profession can be understood by the near tripling of the gold price in the last decade. There will always be high demand for unusual and unique jewelry pieces.

Magazine Editor: The popularity of magazines has taken a beating from a flurry of ezines, TV shows, etc. for the last decade or so. Those which survived did so on the strength of the features covered and their design and layout. But is it really so well paying? Talk to a professional editor. It is not just important to have good features these days, you need to know how to present them well, and in a way that the readers will like. All it takes to being a path-breaking editor is an eye for detail and a quick grasp of what the audience likes.

Funeral Director: Yep, you heard right. This is really a very lucrative profession, although probably not suitable for everyone. There will never be a lack of demand for funeral directors, for obvious reasons. The scarcity of funeral professionals makes life hectic for the few available.

Greeting Card Writer: All those mind boggling, emotional yet simple poetry or short write-ups are not done by the card manufacturers. Just take a minute to think about the profit made if the card manufacturers have to pay a fraction of the profits to only a handful of card writers. Now that qualifies to be called lucrative.

Coffee Tasters: Tea and coffee manufacturers spend millions on researching and perfecting blends that would make their brands blockbusters. And how will they know which blend is the perfect match to the research predictions? Brewers make hundreds of samples and professional tasters taste each one of them and report back to management based on their impressions and notes.

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tips of successful phone interviews

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

WAYS TO HANDLE PHONE INTERVIEW | One major difference between phone interviews and face to face interviews is that you can’t see each other. Secondly, phone etiquette differs from that of personal interview etiquette. Here are some tips to phone interviews that help ensure that you get a call for the actual interview.

  1. When you indicate your willingness for phone interview specify the time that suits you. This allows you to avoid cell phone conversations. Using a cell phone for an interview is a dicey proposition, because of the possibility of dropped calls, bad connections, etc.
  2. If you sense trouble with telephone interview, do a rehearsal or a mock phone interview with a friend.
  3. Ensure that you are available at the chosen time and that your voicemail or answering machine is turned off. If your answering machine comes on, you might annoy the interviewer.
  4. Be prepared at the specified time with your resume, a list of your achievements, and pen & pad for taking notes nearby.
  5. Make sure the kids go out; turn off TV or stereo.

Since you can’t see each other face to face, short pauses can become uncomfortable. The interviewer might be thinking of an additional question related to the previous one. Be patient unless you have to ask something about the question.

Additional Etiquette tips are listed below:

Phone Interview Etiquette

  1. Don’t do anything that could disrupt the interview. Eating, drinking, smoking or over enthusiastic talking all cause unnecessary interruptions.
  2. Never miss the call. If you are not home at the appointed time, a human voice (relative) would be better as an answering machine might annoy the caller. If you think that you will miss the call for some reason, ALWAYS call the interviewer before they call and realize that you are not available.
  3. Ask for the caller’s name and confirm it is for the interview. If you have genuine reasons to reschedule the interview, explain it at this stage and suggest a new time.
  4. Use the person’s title with his or her last name.
  5. It is fine to take a moment to think about your answers. Enunciate clearly, making your answers short and to the point.
  6. Avoid sneezing and coughing while on the phone and when you can’t avoid it, say ‘excuse me’.
  7. Your smile can be heard over the phone. Smile as you would do in an actual interview.
  8. Avoid answering in short yes or no answers. Always elaborate if you can.
  9. Discuss the salary issue only if brought up by the interviewer first.
  10. At no point in time should you get into an argument with the interviewer over any issue.

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