January 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm 
Job, Career & Employment
Companies are taking a closer look at who they hire today. From heightened security concerns to an increase in negligent hiring lawsuits, companies understand that bad hiring decisions can cause them big problems.
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January 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm Job, Career & Employment
The end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century have seen some massive changes in the ways that people can make a living. With the increased business of everyone else, more and more individuals are beginning to find success in areas that three decades ago would never have been imagined. The number of home cleaning services, yard clean up businesses, and other businesses that focus on taking care of the home needs of individuals has skyrocketed. One area which has also seen a lot of growth is the area of interior decorating.
As both men and women are working full time jobs that require a lot of focus, there is more need for a person to come into the home and fix it up in a way that is relaxing for the people that live there as well as making a comfortable place in which to entertain. This involves picking furniture and other items of d
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January 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm Job, Career & Employment
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January 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm Job, Career & Employment
We have all heard that are somewhere between 12 and 24 million illegal aliens in our nation now. We have hears that 34% of those in Federal Prisons are illegal aliens and that in Arizona has over 38% illegal immigrants in their prisons. We have heard that there have been some 80 hospitals close in California due to all the illegal aliens showing up at their emergency rooms. But have you ever asked yourself who is hiring all these folks?
Well let me tell you that a couple of weeks ago I was in a medium sized city where quite a bit of construction was going on and it was 1 am in the morning and a company was putting up a tilt up industrial building, so it was so noise I walked over to have a look, apparently they were working nights due to the heat in the day or so I thought? You see when I went over there every single worker spoke no English and I am certain they were all illegal aliens. So this is only one example of what we already know, many illegal aliens work in construction.
Where else do illegal aliens work? Well in San Diego a government contractor doing corrosion control inside a US Navy Nuclear Submarine were found to be illegal aliens? So I guess we can find them on our military bases along with the Chinese Spies?
But Perhaps you might like to stop some of these illegal aliens and make difference? Sure that is easy just go down to the local car wash and take some digital pictures then call the Border Patrol and get an official to give you
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January 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm Job, Career & Employment
Attending a job interview requires careful preparation. The more you prepare the more confident and informed you will be, increasing your chances of creating a good impression. It is vital that your first impression leaves the interviewer feeling positive about you. In some cases it’s the only opportunity you will have to impress the interviewer with your knowledge and skills, so make the most of it. There are no second chances.
Some of the most important things to remember are:-
Be sure you know the exact location of the interview and where to report when you arrive.
Recheck the job requirements. Become familiar with the requirements of your potential employer
Have all your paperwork to hand that maybe required including any references.
Prepare your answers to anticipated questions. You know the job requirements so think of other questions which may be asked about you and such as your ideas, opinions and general interests.
Do some research on the Company which is recruiting. This is important. It will enable you to ask pertinent questions, proving that you are sufficiently interested in the company by having spent time and effort in gleaning as much information as possible about it. Such research reflects a keen enthusiasm for the job on offer.
Try not to display any signs of nervousness. Always be confident and positive and be clear and concise in your answers to questions. Self assurance rather than arrogance is often the key to a successful interview. On no account resort to “waffle”. It will only make you look foolish. There are several things you can do to make the interview pleasant and successful, depending on your approach.
When you attend an interview always take care with your dress. Dress smartly without being overdressed or too casual. We have mentioned before the need to appear confident and it is essential to appear confident when first meeting the person or persons who are carrying out the interview. As we have said you only get the one chance to make a good impression. It is particularly important to be punctual. Being late for an appointment is inexcusable as it indicates you are unreliable. It is far better to err on the safe side and be an hour early rather than five minutes late. If you are too early you can always brush up your interview preparation, have a coffee or go for a walk until the appointed time.
When you enter the office where the interview is being held, show that you’re at ease, smile at and offer a handshake to the interviewer. Wait until you are asked before you sit down and hold on to any papers or brief case you carrying until you’re actually sitting down. Never put any of your belongings onto the desk or table at which the interviewers are seated. Assume a polite expression and don’t slouch. Once you have met the interviewer(s) and the introductions are completed you can now relax. Take a look round, be observant, interested and alert.
Now is the chance to show how proficient and experienced you are. This is the moment to exhibit your professionalism along with your knowledge and skills. If there’s a question you don’t understand ask for it to be repeated. If you still don’t understand the question say so. If the interviewer outlines a problem within their company offer a solution, or at least make a suggestion on how the problem may be overcome. Always be positive, accurate and clear. Showing these attributes helps to convince the interviewer that you have self control, a requirement for any person who needs to exercise control in the workplace. To add to your credibility always ask questions about the company, its plans and past performance in addition to what developments are due to take place. Also ask what your prospects will be if you prove you have the ability to control, develop and improve on the current job under offer.
At the end of the interview you will be told you’ll be informed of the outcome. Thank the interviewer(s) for their attention and time and confirm you are still interested in the job (if you are) before you leave.
The above points will help you to perform well at a job interview. Think about them and apply them and you’ll have a considerable advantage over all the other applicants.
Michael Russell
Your Independent guide to Interviews
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January 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm Job, Career & Employment
So you think that you should be promoted. You are irritated also that why your promotion is getting delayed. You are working hard and doing your work satisfactorily. Why should you not get promoted? You want to ask your boss, but do not know how to ask? Can you we find out if you deserve to be promoted? If you are sure that you deserve promotion, you can approach your boss with surety and put forward your case. Let us quiz your promotion.
Quiz your working style – are you working very satisfactorily in your present responsibility? Have you improved the efficiency? Are your colleagues happy with you? Is your immediate superior happy with your performance? Have you learnt all that any body could in your present job? Please quiz yourself about these factors.
Quiz your ability- what is your ability in different specializations that your organization may demand. You think that you deserve a promotion, but what about your ability for that responsibility? You are working well with the present job. Will you be able to do justice to the new responsibility or you were only equipped to do the present job? A new responsibility demands new qualities. Do you have them? Or you will make a mess of that job? Unless you are yourself sure about your ability to handle the new posting, please do not approach your superiors for getting promotion. Once you are sure that you can handle the new responsibility well, go ahead. Sometimes, we invite trouble by getting promoted. Please avoid that.
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The author C.D.Mohatta writes fun quizzes and fun tests on topics like love, personality, dating, relationships, friendship, movies, tv, music, business, etc. The author also writes for free ecards and greetings on holidays, birthday, love, friendship, family, expressions, celebrations and all events and occasions. One more site associated with the author has free sports games which surfers can play online.
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January 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm Job, Career & Employment
Advising others to change career sounds very simple and a workable proposition. When it comes to us, it becomes one of the toughest decisions to implement. A career change needs lot of mental preparation. If you have a family, that may get disrupted by your career change. The income may stop for some time. The decision itself may turn out to be a wrong one. It needs mental strength to change career. Let us see what it requires.
A change of career shifts us from a comfort zone to a zone full of discomfort in the beginning. For a full time production engineer, a change to a career as human resources consultant may need a total about turn, back to school and learning new skills for the new job. Some people change careers so totally that it looks incredible. Let us talk about changes that can be done more smoothly. I am talking about learning about a new career along with the old one and then shifting to the new career slowly. This process also requires mental strength, because it needs lot of extra work.
The first barrier that one encounters while thinking of career change is- how did I get into a wrong career? What if my new decision also turns out to be wrong? What if I continue with my present career? Why should I change my career? Some of these questions need head to answer and some questions are for the heart such as asking why did I chose the wrong career to begin with, may involve damage to self esteem, and acceptance of failure.
Before thinking of changing career, one needs to do analysis of life goals, and deciding about how the present career does not satisfy those goals. Only after deciding that something drastic needs to be done can one think about changing career. One has to develop mental and emotional strength to undergo these changes and emerge a winner again.
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The author, C.D.Mohatta writes for screensavers and desktop wallpapers on topics like nature, spirituality, motivation, love, holidays, animals, etc. He also writes fun quizzes and fun tests on topics like love, personality, dating, relationships, friendship, movies, tv, music, business, etc. The third site associated with the author has free flash games which anyone can play online.
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January 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm Job, Career & Employment
In a world of lengthening commutes, longer workweeks, and high-stress, gridlocked suburban sprawl, we may often wonder about the undeclared “values” that are motivating us to live the way we do (and how to get back on the right track).
When we find ourselves envying the gleaming new SUV in the next lane over, or the larger home a friend has just bought, or the private university tuition the neighbors can afford, it may help us to stand back and ask ourselves about the “distinctive” lifestyles that so many of us seem to yearn for, and the sacrifices in family togetherness, joy, and satisfaction that the “distinctive” lifestyle demands.
Indeed, after some thought on the trade-offs — pollution, rampant materialism, rootless waves of people ebbing and flowing around us and our children — you may well conclude that the “distinctive suburban way of life” everyone is chasing is actually what we have come to call the DISTINCTIVE suburban way of life: Dual Income Striving to Impress Neighbors and Co-workers yet Tormented by Increasing Vexation and Emptiness.
With this in mind, maybe instead of trying to live the distinctive lifestyle, we should be trying to leave the distinctive lifestyle.
TELEWORK & FARM-FAMILY VALUES
It’s one of the great ironies of the high-tech world: We leave our small towns and farms — sacrificing family life, roots, and healthy values — to settle in sprawling suburbs close to technology-enabled jobs, and now technology is allowing us to return to small towns and farms, and rediscover the joy and strength of family and neighborhood bonds.
How is this happening? Virtual work. With the spread of the Internet and broadband communications, coinciding with the strong growth of outsourcing, it’s becoming easier and easier to stay at home and earn a decent living doing interesting, legitimate work. No longer must both parents in a family commute to an office. (It may help put things in perspective by considering that work is no longer a “place,” but an activity.) Indeed, as far-fetched as it sounds, it’s now possible for both parents — depending on their qualifications, of course — to get off the “gerbil wheel” of suburban living altogether, and work at home pretty much wherever they choose.
VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS, VIRTUAL PROFESSIONALS, and JETBLUE AIRWAYS
The virtual work movement has come a long way since the birth of the Virtual Assistant industry in the mid-1990s. (Virtual Assistants, if you’re unfamiliar with the term, are independent contractors who provide business-support services to other small businesses and independent professionals via email, phone, fax and courier.) In those days, it was highly unusual to find someone working from home exclusively, and using email and other electronic tools to handle workflow from faraway clients. It was also unusual to find anyone handling other than administrative-oriented projects.
Today, however, virtual workers under many guises — Virtual Assistants, Virtual Professionals, Virtual Service Providers, Virtual Freelancers, etc. — offer well over 80 areas of expertise, ranging from word processing and bookkeeping to high-end corporate consulting, psychotherapy and even surgical assistance. And while most of these workers are independent contractors, companies such as JetBlue, AIG and Travelers now actually require that many of their employees (primarily “call center” personnel) work from home almost all the time.
WHO HIRES “VIRTUAL HELP”?
Because smaller businesses are usually more ready to innovate and embrace change than are their larger, Fortune 500 brethren (whose processes and outlook become rigid through custom and age), the majority of Virtual Assistants work with young companies and solo professionals, such as Realtors, smaller law firms, import-export firms, and professional speakers. VAs may also provide one-to-one support to senior management in larger companies (i.e., as a virtual “executive administrative assistant” to a Vice President).
Similarly, virtual workers with advanced degrees (aka Virtual Professionals) often offer consulting services to smaller outfits and soloists (think of a marketing consultant, for example, advising a company on its marketing or advertising strategies), and virtual workers in a professional niche such as medicine (e.g., an RN or MD) may also consult to insurance firms, malpractice law firms, and hospitals.
A WIDENING TREND
As we enter our ninth year of research in this field, most exciting to us is the broadening we see in virtual, legitimate work opportunities overall, which coincides with the spread of broadband Internet and the outsourcing phenomenon. Now, we’re encountering a wider variety of “virtual employee” positions (full-time, home-based work from a fixed employer), freelance work (e.g., proofreading, editing, graphic artwork, and help desk specialists, along with the conventional Website design projects), and virtual teaching positions (community colleges and distance learning institutions, for example), as well as the online tutoring of individuals (elementary school and up).
Equally impressive is the emergence of the Ebay “mompreneurs,” as detailed in an article in the June 7, 2004, issue of Business Week (“The Rise of the Mompreneurs”). The article, which is available at the Business Week site (www.businessweek.com), contains the following eye-opening statistics:
“Today, upwards of 430,000 people in the U.S. alone — more than are employed worldwide by General Electric Co. (GE ) and Procter & Gamble combined — earn a full- or part-time living on eBay selling everything from fashion to farm equipment, with the highest-sellers grossing up to $1 million a month.”
HOW DOES THIS AFFECT THE FAMILY?
As you might guess, these trends have significant potential consequences for the family, and not only in the realm of homeschooling and other preferences. First, if at least one parent has a skill that is “virtually marketable,” then
* that parent may now stay home with the children;
* the family may now be free to move to a more family-friendly location;
* the stresses of the two-commuter life — and their toll on the couple and the family — will be significantly reduced; and
* the children will be able to learn valuable work-related lessons firsthand, from the best teacher of all — a parent.
WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?
Although no one can predict the future — and working from home, be it as a freelancer or an employee, is certainly not for everyone — these trends do indicate that the old-style concept of “telecommuting” (an employee working at home a few days per month) is steadily being overtaken by a radically different model: full-time, home-based virtual careers, founded on a steadily-growing supply of legitimate virtual-work opportunities. Moreover, additional progress in communication technologies will soon enable real-time, high-definition interviews between virtual workers and their hirers (even cell phones can already transmit and receive videos), which will further accelerate these trends.
Since virtual workers can be based anywhere, these trends carry obvious potential consequences for rural areas and small-town life, and again by extension, the family. The transient, anonymous suburban “communities” that now house over 80% of Americans (essentially, ghost towns by day, motels by night) no longer need be the only alternative for working parents and their families. A virtual worker can operate from a town in rural Kansas, an island off Maine, a farm in Nebraska, or even a houseboat on a Minnesota lake.
Moreover, in addition to the mobility, the virtual worker enjoys several significant advantages, not the least of which is savings on auto-related expenses. Perhaps most important is that he or she is not locked in to local wages or other economic conditions. The small town in Kansas (whose three-bedroom homes, with emigration, have fallen to rock-bottom prices), can be a lovely place for a family whose employer or clients live in Manhattan, or London, or Los Angeles, or even Kansas City, where hourly fees for business services are much higher than they would be locally.
WHERE TO LEARN MORE
The best place to learn more about virtual opportunities is (of course) online. A few Google searches using such terms as “telework,” “virtual assistant” and “freelance” will point you in the right direction. A visit to such organizations as Staffcentrix (www.staffcentrix.com), the International Virtual Assistants Association (the industry association for VAs, at www.ivaa.org) and the International Telework Association & Council (www.workingfromanywhere.org) will also help fill in the gaps.
Although it may feel like a “brave new world” at first, the world of virtual work is already populated with a host of potential friends, supporters, and erstwhile pioneers, who long ago settled the frontier. Although not without its risks, you may very well discover that it holds the keys to a lifestyle you and your family always thought might only be a dream. But regardless of your path, we wish success to you and to those who take so many cues from how you live and what you choose to do — your children.
Article Source: http://www.articledashboard.com
Chris and Mike are the co-founders of Staffcentrix, the leading provider of Virtual Assistant training to the US armed forces and the US Dept. of State. They also publish the Rat Race Rebellion, a weekly bulletin of prescreened telework and freelance opportunities at www.2secondcommute.com.
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January 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm Job, Career & Employment
Many in the business world associate an MBA with reaching the pinnacle of success while others view it as more of a requirement to be taken seriously in the employment market of the business world. While both viewpoints certainly have their merits, neither encapsulates the true purpose of earning a Master’s in Business Administration degree. Certainly, there are those who hold MBA degrees and have poor business acumen or are incapable of ever becoming productive leaders in the business community. Likewise, not all MBA programs are of the quality that will truly benefit the postgraduate students enrolled in them. These truths aside, the real benefit of an MBA degree lies in what can happen when a motivated individual enters a program that provides instruction on how to be successful in the face of adversity.
Without a doubt, technical knowledge of current business practices is something that most MBA programs cover in-depth, and for good reason. Running a company isn’t a matter to be taken lightly, especially with all the finite details that must be attended to by all levels of corporate management on a daily basis. Still, what many fail to consider is the importance of leadership curriculum and how it can shape the thought processes that allow many to effectively manage their enterprises.
Even those who are not traditionally adept at dealing with others can gain a wealth of experience through an MBA degree program. In addition, self confidence for having completed a difficult course of study can provide a sense of achievement that will carry over into the workplace. Online MBA programs are especially proficient at instilling a sense of self discipline that consummates a better understanding of the inherent capabilities many never realize they have.
An MBA does indeed look impressive on a resume, and by its very nature can open doors that otherwise wouldn’t be available to be opened. More importantly, though, it can provide those in the business world a better understanding of what it takes to be a leader, a visionary and someone who can find success and opportunity where others have found failure and status quo.
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January 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm Job, Career & Employment
Are you a perfectionist and/or a workaholic? In today
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