Unwanted Habits at Workplace

Here are the list of 10 unwanted habits at work places. They are considered as habits of irresponsible individuals, something of which we want to be without.

1. Dirtying common areas:
There are colleagues who avoid washing their own mugs and plate. They left the sink at the pantry full with unwashed accessories. You may find your friends are dirtying the toilets, conveniently forget to flush it or left the wet tissue paper on the floor.

2. Prolonged Personal Calls
Many colleagues will not mind if you make a short 1 minute personal calls to check you children or talk to your spouses about your dinner or so forth. However, when the personal calls extended to longer periods, then they are nuisances.

3. Dressing inappropriately.
There are the written and the unwritten dress code. We often hear of cases where single girls tend to under dress and act provocatively especially towards their male counterparts  

Engineers That Lead The Economic Growth

The recent American ASQ (American Society for Quality) survey placed the engineers as the unlikely group to have the chance to be at the board room or to get to the top ladder in an organisation. Less than 9% of the respondents think that engineers will succeed as a chief executive.

Despite the outcome of the survey, the fact reminds that there a a number of engineers make good at the helm of established and successful corporations. The good example of high profiled CEO with engineer degree are Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. The other is Marry Barra, CEO of General Motors.

Looking at the making of USA, great engineers contributed to the growth of the States. We had the famous engineer such as Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Herbert Hoover. In fact the engineers contributed tremendously to the building of the military power of Germany, USA and Japan.

Based on the experiences of other nations, it is obvious that a developing country like Malaysia will need the contribution of the engineers spearhead the economic growth of the nation.   

career personality

The career personality is the personal inclination to behave in a certain way in his/her working environment. This is important for a person to understand his own personality to unable him to develop himself.

Here are six common career personality types:

a. multi-tasker
You tend to do many things at the same time. You would like to work under pressur, with your adrenaline rushing to to meet deadline and schedules. At the meeting you tend to take note and sending email at the same time. The likely career is project manager, event planner or advertisement executive.

b. mobile meeter- This is the person that works from his briefcase, a professional always on the move. He is seeking a major deal making dealings in all sort of place, such as the airport lounge, the cafe', hotel room and internet chatroom.
 
c. The disrupter
d. maestro
e. socialiser
f. social worker.

are you entrepreneur

Are you an entrepreneur ?. Probably that is the same question that you had been asking about yourself. If you do that, you are in the right frame of mind. It is always pay to do some research and check it out whether you have the necessary elements to make a successful entrepreneur.

The are some of the points which can be a pointer on your suitability. Like any other indicator, it does not give the absolute truth.

a. Do you have the required self discipline?
As an entrepreneur, you are your own boss. If you are working for another organisation or another boss, someone will be monitoring or demanding a specific performance. Being your own boss, there will no one pushing or checking on you. You are on your own, your plan for your activities and you have to perform them.
The domain of discipline is large. It starts from the basic, waking up on time, dressing for work  and putting the quality standard as you deem fit. It can be a bigger area such as making a strategic decision, on what type of business you should be involved.

b.  Are you self motivated?
There is no one pushing you to drive your self. If you are an entrepreneur you will be riding a roller coaster, it is definitely so, especially for the initial years of operation. There will be the ups and down. A friend of mine had to sacrifice and had to sell almost everything he has had before the tide turned and he made it through.

c. Check on your self esteem.
Being throw out of a job is getting more common now. Most of the time it is not your fault and does not reflect your job performance. It will be a chance to practice whatever skills you had acquired at your earlier work place and turn it into you benefits.

In many a case, you will not know for sure if you are an entrepreneur until it is put into the test. Many learn it the hard way and return the earlier routine of working for another persons or company.

The Choice is Yours

Whether we realize it or not, we are born to make the choice. What we choose, determine the future. Everyday, you have to make the natural choice, in the early morning, in your own bed, you decide whether to wake up late or early, what to take for your breakfast, what to wear and so forth..

Steven Covey realized the important of this and include this in his Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.



1. Yes, people can change himself and re-emerge as a renewed and a better individual.

2. The 7 Habits starts with set of principles, the first is "Be Proactive". Simply said, that there is a "space of opportunity" that you can make the choice to respond to a given environment. The space can be at first "small", but given time, you can work to expand it.

3. The Gurus have been arguing whether we are the products of nurture or nature. Whether we are the prisoner of our past, moulded by the circumstances of our upbringings. Steven is firm to say that we are the creation of our own choices. We may be raised a certain way, but we can still make the choice. The space of decision is in our hand.

Does is mean that you are total in position to determine your future? Does it mean that the there is no such such thing as "FATE" or "destiny". In my opinion, what Steve is promoting is closer to the Muslims thought that the Christianity. Christians believe in the "Original Sin" that a newly born has to be baptized to clean him/her. Muslims do not believe that sins or virtue are inherited. People are given the ability to choose, and you will be rewarded or punished for your choices.

So the choice of your path is in your very hand...

Game Plan for Your New Job

Joining a new post at a new company is not something that you do everyday. If you do, then careful planning is required.These are some of the issues that you may like to consider:

A- Identifying the roles
a. Question yourself and do research on the business of the company. What is the roles of the organisation, especially the division or section that you are working.
b. Build up a description on your roles and clarify this with your boss. Take care on the way you do this, as you need to show that you are capable to handle the situation. It is better to present it as a total solution giving your own version of issues and problems and followed by your solutions of opportunities and corrections.

B. Identify the success factors
a. Know the power of the workers- I was retired and join a new smaller company as a training manager. Some of the trainers are elderly and had been the valuable staff since the company started operating. Their views and cooperation are very important. They have to be on your side for you to be successful.

b. Know your bosses - Everybody has his own strength and weakness, like and dislike. You need to know what your boss likes. He may not be saying it directly, but his comments and stories tell a lot. I present boss is proud of his achievement in the company, what he normally calls "his way of getting done". I need to be careful not attack "his way". Any changes proposed have to grounded on "his way" and suggestions will be an improvement to "his way"

c. Know the culture -No organisation operates at 100% efficiency. There is a thin line of the bosses' vision and the organisation's vision. This is especially so if the company belonged to an individual, as his word is the final rule.

C. Write your strategies and share discretely.
Please never tell everything and all your plan. You have to have a hidden spot for your to hide. Remember the games and plays that we did when we were young... there are something reserved for us alone.

Retire Gracefully

When it is time to move out and exit from a company, please do it gracefully. There may be many reasons for a person to resign, but breaking the news is never easy. The first step is realize and accept the fact that the event is inevitable, and secondly, it should be realizes that it is rarely a stress free situation.

The followings are the tips to leave your organisation professionally:

1. Resign for the right reasons. It is important to consider all the options. The worst is to decide based on emotion or just because you have a bad days or weeks. Think through the reasons and if necessary, write yourself an explanation letter, why you have to resign. It is not easy to pull your resignation back.

2. It is a small world. Do realize that, there is always a chance that you will meet the same people at the other jobs location. It is possible that your present colleagues can be your future bosses, and even the people below you can be your superior.

Always threat your subordinate with respect as they can be your future bosses. If you want to share your frustration, venting your anger, think again as it can have a damaging consequences.

3. Timing is critical. The timing is important for both the organisation and the staff. The company needs to ensure that its operations are nor affected by your leaving. As such, they will require time to plan for the response. It is a mistake to select a time just to create inconveniences for the organisation.

4. The resignation letter. It is the formal document to record your intention. It is normally handed after the resignation meeting with the bosses. The letter should be formal and short, straight to the point. It should cover issues such as the last day at work, any outstanding monetary issues and matters relating to annual leave.

It may not seem important, but to retire gracefully does make sense, never burn the bridge after you have crossed it, you my need it later.

why staff resign

.. extracted from thestar on 5 April 2012)...

If you are running an organisation, staff retention is a critical issue. If there is a trend of resignation, for example, the average length of services for a given position is low, then, it is a good idea to recheck the management style.

While there are many factors that affect why staff resign, the research by the writer came to conclusion that people actually quit their bosses not the job. The exist interview, formal or informal, may not reveal the whole truth. Most people will conceal the truth, as it can be hurtful or damaging.

The followings are some of the quoted factors why people left...

a. Managing style and skills.

While the term managing be can a generic and encompassing word, we can start to view it using the Henry Fayol's words of Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing and Controlling. It is difficult to work with bosses who give unclear instruction or working with multiple organisation structures, both formal and informal. You may come across bosses who will blame the staff for any mistakes while they want to take credits for all the successes.

b. Micro- manage

The bosses may be doing this because they do not trust the staff or probably they do not know a better way to manage. The intervention can be frustrating and after a number of occurrences, the staff may withdraw and leave it to the bosses. You may see some bosses may transgress a couple of levels to "manage the roots of the problems".

c.Hidden agenda

Works or jobs can be viewed in a number of perspectives. When the level of trust is low, the staff may start to question the intents of a certain plans or project. They doubt the sincerity especially when there appear to be disparity of words, actions and attentions. The best way to overcome this problem is to be transparent in the way they relate to the staff.

d. Not delivering promise

It can be at different levels. On personal level, it can a simple promise to pay the salary on time. In fact, this is the basic of the contract of employment. If it is broken, it speaks volume of the integrity of organisation. On the tasks or assignment level, it can the assignment of resources to fulfill the critical mission for the organisation.

While the above are some of the reasons why staff resign, there may be other push and pull factors. The younger generation may like to venture for experiences and opportunities and the elders will be looking for serenity and meanings.

Quality of Good Leaders

In a recent survey, among the top three reasons why people choose to stay in an organization is the quality of the leaders. When asked further, what are the characteristics of a good leader that you prefer to work for?. These are their answers.

a. Open mind and good listeners.

Being a good listeners alone is not enough, what is needed is the willingness to consider the feedback. This will encourage people to speak without fear. It helps the leaders to identify the blind spots which, if ignored, can be detrimental to the organisation.

b. Being Objective and Impartial.

This is one action that can spoil the other good things a leader had done. Being objective are required in the decisions of the leaders. There should be a hidden agenda or what appear to be favoring a certain people.

c. The leaders have to have the competency and the desire to achieve.

The basic element of willing and able to do always discussed in management. To gain respect, a leader had to show that he has the knowledge and skill in the area he is entrusted, and on top of that he need to display his readiness to work to achieve the desired goals.

While leadership quality to steer the organistion to achieve their objective is important, the ability to develop oneself is also strongly seeked upon by the staff. It is rare to find staff who do not like to see himself develop. As such, many of the workers now will be looking for the opportunities to retool and develop himself, especially if you are still young and can look up to bigger and meaningful future.

Lead by Example: The Effective Leadership

Leadership has been an area of interest for both the researchers, academician and the practitioners themselves. The inspired leaders to be will very much interest to learn the job's skills and learn from the experiences of others. The researchers had identified 5 key elements that can produce the highly competitive leaders. They are:

1. Lead by example.

The leader is the role model. The how to elements of effective leaders have to be positively demonstrated by the leaders in such away to encourage the staff to follow his foot-steps. That mean the leader would be able to show how to implement the following stated practices .

2. Inspired a shared vision.

This may have many subsets, firstly he should be able to build up a credible vision, then get it to be shared and trusted by other people to the extend that the vision is owned and driven by the people. There are various ways to get it shared, one of which is to get the staff involved in the formulation of the vision.

3. Challenge the existing processes.

It is too often that we are still stuck or inherit outdated processes or way of doing things. If it was good for the company last year, it does not mean it is acceptable now. Only by challenging it that the processes can be improved.

4. Enable other to Act.

A way to be thought through on how to get other to take the lead. The people below you may need time to learn and they may make mistake or move slower then if you were to do yourself. Every body need time and spaces to grow. You need to encourage and guide them.

5. Encourage them by heart.

People can sense if you are sincere or not and most would like to be successful. Give them chance and sincere guidance, then they will grow and bloom.

The effective leaders would lead by example and make their staff grow. When the people grow, the company will grow too.

skills of good manager

If you are new to the job as a manager, you may be wondering what are skills of good manager. Believe me, this question is being asked even be a seasoned manager.

Why is it so. There are many reasons. To start with, the type of skill set has changed. This is caused by the change of the environment and the changing challenges of business. Twenty years ago, there was no such thing as the internet, now the skillful usage of internet is becoming a necessity.

Enclosed below are the required quality of a good manager. Learn it and you will be respected by your staff and your bosses. Respect and trust are necessary to enable you to get your jobs done.

1. Expertise: It does not matter in what business you are in and in what department you are working, you need to have the basic knowledge of your business. If you work in an airline, you need to know airline business. If you company is offering public training and education, you need to know about training and education.

Having the business knowledge is important to know what is important to the business. It can also become a common trait that unite all the staff an an organisation.

2. People centered. Researches have shown that as you go higher in the corporate ladders, the focus is shifting from task centered to people centered. People centered does not mean that your neglect to focus on getting the result. However the method of getting the result has changed significantly. Instead of focusing on how to do the job personally, as a manager, the focus now is on how to get other people to do the job effectively. The basic definition of manager is getting the job done through another people.

3. Experienced. The experiences are not necessarily translated to mean the number of years in services. It is about the richness and the variety. Your ability to perform multi-task, drive result and manage the scarce resources are important. It is easy to manage in time of abundance, and more demanding at time of hardship.

4. Integrity. It is the ability to uphold principles and know what is right and wrong. The basic business ethic and religious value will shape ones behavior both when hard-pressed or in the absent of observers.

Without the solid foundation, it becomes too easy to sway into 'illegal' or morally questionable decisions of behaviors. The basis ethics study the issue of rights and wrongs and the relationship of means to the ends. It always fall short compared to the religious guidance.

5. Good Communicator. Many may fall into the trap of thinking that good communicator is the ability to deliver good speech or lively presentation. They are known as good orators or presenters. Communication of the process sending and receiving message and it has always have to be two ways.

We may meet leaders or managers who are good orators, and dislike to hear things of not to his liking. This sort of leaders or managers remind me of the old fable of the " The Emperor's New Invisible Clothes" Probably it best to leave him/her on frolic of his own.

There more to the required skills for a good manager. The above act as the foundation or as the basic building block. The other will be built upon a solid base.

tips on negotiation

The following are some of the tips on negotiation.It can be used to get what you want.

This tips is for negotiation while you are on the job. Negotiation in the family life is different, as you have the ample time to do it.

a. BE PREPARED

This is one of the most important preparation.It also shows that you respect his time.

Please be prepared with the data, facts and figures that are needed to build up your case. This will help you to prove your case.

b. DEFINE YOUR GOAL

Before entering the nego, be clear of your goal and what you want.This way you can keep your eye on the objectives.

For example, if you are buying a car, you define the purpose, price range and your budget.

c. BE FLEXIBLE

Many may have the wrong perception that flexibility is a sign of weakness. However you need to set your limit in advance. There are things you can be flexible and there are areas where you should not change.

d. AVOID THEATRICS ACTS

In the TV or movies you may be shown how the hero of the film went through the negotiation with hush words and putting down the other party. This is far from the truth as in real world, such an act will cut off the discussion and you will not get what you want.

showcase your career portfolio

Your career portfolio will be the tool that you need to demonstrate your skills. It acts as the support document to show what you have done. To be effective, it has to be professionally designed and contains the necessary information.

Some of the key points to be included are...

a. your current resume including your education, jobs and the duties and responsibilities. The jobs can be arranged in the reversed chronological order, with the latest job appear on the top.

b. Awards and recognition - This is the area where you can include all your degrees and certificates. Insert in the recognition you had received in school and your contributions to various clubs or society. If you have awards from kings or queen, include them.

c. Sample of work output. For example, if you are an artist, show the a sample of you art. If you are a scientist, take the picture of the published work in the international journals.

The career portfolio will provide the evidence of your capability. Rather than talking about what you have done, you are showing the example of your work. It provides a more credible demonstrationof your capability.

Setting the Path

Selecting your first career is the most critical. This is because it will set the direction or path to your career.

I give my own example. When I join the national carrier as aircraft engineer, unknowingly, I had set the path for my future career. I consider it as unknowingly, as I was too you to think for my own future. I cut off most of the other options, I cannot be a doctor or teacher.

Once your are in your career, these are the tips to move forward in your role:

a. Take stock of your strength. This the most important, as you have to leverage on your strength. This include your natural preference. If you are the type who prefer to study or work alone, you will not excel in jobs that require mass involvement of other people, like marketing or PR. You may be suited to job like doctor or researcher.

b. Evaluate your goal. Ask yourself... what do you want to achieve in your life. The good thing is, if you really want it, your can change your personality. I know a person who was timid and quiet in his early school life, turned to be a powerful politician liked by many.

c. Know the trade. Have the knowledge and skill is important. It will determine your ability to do the job as well as the perception of the people. It is unlikely that people trust you if you lack the knowledge.

d. Attend the trade events. This has multiple benefits. It can help you to upgrade your skills and at the same time increase your contacts.

Identifying Difficult People

The skills at the work place can be broadly divided into 3 groups:

1. Technical Skill - mainly in relation to the production of products, either physical or services.

2. Human skill - or social skill, it is about maintaining harmonious relationship with other co-workers. The skill helps to bind the people as a team and works to achieve a common goal.

3. Conceptual skills - about abstract constructs or ideas.

One of the skills within the human skill is on how to deal with difficult person. Unfortunately we will meet a person who appears to enjoy making things difficult for us. A difficult person can fall into the following categories.

a. Hostile person - he or she is the kind of person who look at you as an enemy. Always looking for an opportunity to hit at you and constantly looking for your faults. He may have some of the sought after qualities, such as confidence or fluency in his speech, and he tend to look down and even bully those who are not within that category.

b. The constant moaner - this is the person sitting next to you who constantly moans and complaints. He complaints about the bosses, his colleagues or even his own workers. He may have the wrong perception that he is the better of the lots. The the constant complaints, he seem to be powerless to incur changes.

c. Unresponsive individual - this is a person who live in his own small enclosed world. He tend to do as little as possible . Possibly he is so afraid of making mistake and blamed for his action and put a facade to hide his lack of knowledge.

d. Know-all - He is looking for recognition and refuse to accept that he may not be knowledgeable.

e. Indecisive - he does not seem to be able to make decision. Or worst still, he changes his mind every few hours. He may be trying to analyse and get the best answer. As data may not be readily available, he cannot decide as yet.

These are some of the quoted examples of difficult people. May be we can help to avoid the pitfall.

competency framework

Organization normally builds its own competency framework to support it business. The components of the framework will be:

- competencies definition

- competencies level

- the clustering

The framework can be arranged in the following way:

- the core competencies that cut across the organisation

- the functional competencies

- the role competencies

1.0 DEFINITION

a.The underlying characteristics of a person which result in effective and superior performance in a job (Kemp 1980)

b. an underlying characteristics of a person that contributes towards job performance.( Boyatzis(1982)

c. Competency is a set of behaviour patterns that the incumbents needs to bring to a position in order to perform its tasks and functions with competence. ( Woodruffer ( Rosemary boam)

- it concerns with behaviour, it is overt,

1.2 Importance of definition

- to guide the search for the specific competencies( rosemary brown mcgrawhill(92).

- enable theoritical contributions

1.3 Competencies and technical skills

Boam suggested that technical skill to not mixed up with competencies.

1.4 Generic Competencies

Universal competencies for ‘ top management’ ( Thornton and Byham 1982)

oral presentation

written presentation

organisation sensitivity

Organisation awareness and adaptibility

delegation

risk taking

negotiation

creativity

1.5 Supra competencies ( Dulewics 1989)

The competencies are clustered

- Intellectual strategic perspective

- analysis and judgement

- planning and organising

2. Interpersonnal persuasiveness

- asseriveness

- oral communication

3. adaptibility

4. Result orientation - energy and iniatives

- business sense

- achievement motivated

1.6 Competencies clusters

By domains

- cognitive

- human

- technical professional

by roles -

- leadership

1.7 Determinants of competencies

1.8 Future Orientation

2.0 EFFECTIVE JOB PERFORMANCE

The effective job performance is the interactive result of three factors:

- Individual competencies

- Job Demands

- Orgnisational Environment

Effective job performance is the attainment of the specific results required by the job through specific action whilst maintaining consistency with policy and procedure.

Boyatzis (1982)

2.0 IDENTIFYING COMPETENCIES

The purpose is to identify the required competencies for the job.

It involves job analysis method.

Technique:

-structured- position analysisi questiomaires

- semi structured- Critical incidents

3.1 ANALYSIS METHODS

a. observation

If unsufficient time, observation to be limited to good employee.

b. Diaries

The actual task per they day are recorded on hourly basis.

c. interview.

structured or unstructured.

d. Critical incident technique

longest established method, 50 years

Describe the occasion you did extremely well.

ASSESSING COMPETENCIES

To measure the extends to which the competencies are held by the individuals

a. analogous method

use of activities directly related to the job- eg groupexercise/ role play,psychomotor

b. analytical method

c. reputational approach

Use othe rpeople to access competencies, reference , supv

d. miscellaneous approach.

COMPETENCY ENGAGEMENT

Objective.

To develop the staff competencies to meet the future needs of the company.

Conceptual Approach

1. Identify the critical future job family

- Strategic

- Tactical

- Operational

2. Identify the competency profile for the job family

3. Assess the staff competency

-it is further divided according to the function.

Job skills - as you can easily develop your personal skills inventory

Before you send in an application, consider your own personal and professional strengths and weaknesses to write a review. Knowing which areas are your strongest gives you trust, and your will impress future employers. And to know your weaknesses helps you avoid, come from so overconfident or cocky - trains, which can be a turn-off for employers who look set to someone that fits well with their organization.

Inventory your skill set

If you do not know what are your skills, you need to show a hard time an employer, what are your skills. This may seem obvious, but many people are so modest is accustomed to their skills and accomplishments, that it is not even time identify their skills take, let alone develop the ability, they present to others. You can be have modest - it is indeed important, as well as your set of skills and abilities while you show (but not show).

You want not as inflated come from, or think you are "everything, what", but neither should your skills in a certain downplaying self-deprecating. If you will be asked about your strengthen, or what sets you apart from other candidates, confident, direct response be prepared with one. Also should your CV and write to an understanding of your strongest skills and points appear selling point.

Hard skills, soft skills

Generally, skills can be divided into two main areas:

"Hard" skills are specific, task-oriented skills, which can be measured and quantified. Enter the height of the qualification or certification with a software application or mechanical equipment, speed, etc..

"Soft" skills are more intangible, but equally important. A team player, without supervision will work and an "even" Starter (identify and do things, which must be carried out automatically) are all examples of soft skills such as organization, enthusiasm and communication skills.

Here some tips for making an inventory are skill set of your:

Previous employment

Make a complete list of all your past employers and the skills you at all the positions, learned that held you. Provide even seemingly trivial details. You have to learn how to fix the copier when it broke? Set in the list under mechanical skills. Were the purchase of ice cream cake, if someone in the retirement or a baby? Listed by vendor relations.

Hobbies

It may seem frivolous, but make a list of your hobbies and recreational activities for your entire life and see the skills you acquired. If you were responsible for the persecution of the average values for a Bowling League, or games for a church or Office softball team plan, shows that not only a talent for organization, but also initiative in volunteering to take over.

And the nature of the school activities can also be said hard range chosen you (or an employer) much about themselves. Were you in the Committee? Writing for the school newspaper? Member of the chess club or planning of Homecoming dance? All these activities require specific interests and specific knowledge instill. And you never know what seemingly small detail meant a lot for a potential employer.

What do you want

Take a hard look at the list of things you'd like to do and things to do you good. It can give you some new insights about the nature of the career that you would be most appropriate. And choose the skills on your list, specifically specified on the applicable job you are looking for. If you a way to working your resume, cover letter or interview in can find, you are your ability to sell to strengthen your suitability for the job to a potential employer.

If you see, look at it

Knowledge, your skills is only the first step. The next step is the certainty that your prospective employer knows it. After you have gone skill set and familiar with her about your, you are in a better position, immediately answer skill-related questions with answers, the employer, which you see in your career command of your skills set and ready show, are to bring it to bear.

John Glover for years helped people find work. On his website [http://blog.freejobhuntingtips.com], he offers tips on how to find and keep that perfect job. If you go from "Fired" "Hired" of tomorrow want to register then you in John's free 10 day job hunting course today at http://www.freejobhuntingtips.com

Job skills - life lessons applied to achieve career goals

That's right! Also search for work at the local drugstore teenager has skills fit the position they are looking for. Believe not me? We take a look on the average life span of a person from age 0 (zero) to 15.

Now obviously there's not much you have earned, that you can remember your life in the first few days or even years, but that doesn't mean that your brain unconsciously they anyway not. Of as you can see things through touch, sight and sound to just different words, these are the skills that will come into play in any given job situation.

Let's fast forward us some years elementary school. You remember the days of read, write and count, right? Of course you do. The ability, this seemingly simple tasks and your success rate they achieve exactly is yet another valuable set of skills are counted in your arsenal. Maybe you were a reader and devoured everything that came your way; You can refer certainly this to, which requires thorough research skills. Were you a writer? Paper certainly get noticed in editorial positions in later life applying for an internship with a local newspaper or even a school.

To remember the important thing is that any skill, you on the way to your dream career get a job skill in the making. The only what you need to do, is the right application for find for your specific set. Away, a great orator, does your grade class President, even something as small as the fight in areas you Excel tuition. These are to shine all opportunities and grow in your current skills. The best advice for the way is open be. Any opportunity that comes your way allows a more open door way to way to go. Are you ready?

Tony Jacowski is a quality analyst for the MBA journal. Aveta solutions - Six Sigma online ( http://www.sixsigmaonline.org ) offers online six sigma training and certification classes for six sigma black belts, to lean green belts and yellow belt.

Job skills - your new training would be closer than you think

When it comes to new job skills, learn how to find career, or more preparation for what has to offer the world of work, you can use many different resources that need the information and training, you. One of the best resources you will find is when you consider that all the information and help, you free, your local library. The library on your site is a great way to help in your career search or ability building without to pay money to classes or resourceful buy tools that could help.

Many different things offer to their local library. If you not have access to print, copy or fax services have at home, you can find them here. You can also find job seminars and again workshops that are planned by your library at certain times. When it comes to the resources you need in the career world, you should check the great free in your area. However, keep in mind that the library is not the only place, that you will find great information. It is to use other great resources for you as well.

Each city or County has a Department of by job services, although it might go by a different name. Mach you worry you about what it means, because all that matters is what it does for you. This is not the Welfare Office, and it is not only for poor people or the an underclass, so these misconceptions of early wipe on your opinion. The public support, available free of charge is immeasurable, helping you to find a job in such a stagnant economy. Make sure that you take the time to consider this, you use resources for career as one of your options with something else.

If you can life, in a city with an adult education center or a community college you these places, as well as check. Although possibly a little money to find payable resources career and participate in workshops or classes in these places is well made it definitely an investment, and because you are a member of the community the cost should be quite reasonable. It doesn't matter where you choose to go, because these great resources, which are either free or cheap a good way, your job capacity building and the search are always optimal. Why pay big bucks for "specific" courses or seminars "exclusive", if it all rights, and is almost free?

Tony Jacowski is a quality analyst for the MBA journal. Aveta solutions - Six Sigma online ( http://www.sixsigmaonline.org ) offers online six sigma training and certification classes for six sigma black belts, to lean green belts and yellow belt.

Do you have a Facebook account? Note your social-media "Footprint".

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The other day, I linked to an article touting the use of social media as a necessary component in a successful job hunt strategy. Like all things in life however, social media platforms like Facebook can have a downside, particularly for those either gainfully employed already or attempting to secure lucrative employment.

From the Sydney Morning Herald:

Your potential new boss may have already checked you out on Facebook.

A new survey by recruitment firm Robert half has found that more than a third of employers in accounting and finance admit to checking potential candidates' Facebook profiles before offering them a job.

"Given this reality, candidates need to be aware of their social media 'footprint' when applying for jobs," Robert half director Andrew Brushfield said, releasing the survey findings on Wednesday.

"As a general rule of thumb, if there is anything online that employees do not want their colleagues or bosses to see, they should remove it."

The survey also found 23 per cent of employers are using social media to recruit, while a third of employees say they are comfortable being "friends" with their boss on sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn.

Still, the survey found that 36 per cent of surveyed employees in the finance and accounting industry have seen the use of social networking sites damage other people's workplace relationships.

"While social media has helped foster a more interactive and sociable working environment, it is completely blurring the boundary between people's personal and professional lives," Mr. Brushfield said.

My advice? Exercise common sense. It might be advisable to create one profile with your given name to be kept strictly professional (meaning, you avoid posting intimate details about your personal life), and one profile using a nickname to be devoted exclusively to fun things like your latest adventures with the girls on a wild weekend cruise.

Girls (and guys) might want to have fun when away from the office, but if they're serious about their careers, they'll keep their private and professional lives separate on social media platforms.

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