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10 Time Saving Tips To Use for Job Search
Is it taking too long to find a suitable job? Try these few tips that I have given in this article. These will surely help your hunt for a new job in less time.
1. Mention more than one contact sources on your resume
You should keep a telephone answering machine or voice mail system in place and then sign-up for a professional sounding email address. Mention your cell phone number on your resume so that you can be followed up in a timely manner.
2. Keep an Updated Resume with you
Always keep an up-to-date resume with you, even if you are not currently looking for any job. This is for the reason that you never know when an opportunity that is too good to pass up might come along.
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Unemployment Rises, Stocks Fall
According to government records jobless rate is 9.5%, which is slightly less than what was expected, but nonfarm payrolls make 467,000 people jobless.
It was said by the Labor Department that in June US employers have cut down more jobs than what was expected by the analysts raising the unemployment rate up to 9.5%.
It had been the headline number that 467,000 jobs has been trimmed from nonfarm payrolls, investors were also greatly concerned about a decline that is observed in the average workweek, it falls to 33 hours in June from 33.1 in May. It has been indicated by this figure that a growing number of workers are underemployed, implying further declines in wages.
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Why You Should Never Do a Job? Part – 1
The alarm buzzes which forces John to wake up and turn it off. Just as a trained laboratory rat acts according to his training, likewise he automatically does all his daily work; it seems as if he has been programmed to do these works for years. He gets up, makes a cup of coffee to stimulate him, takes a shower, wear his office outfit and leave for his work.
What we All Do Daily at Work?
Now what John will do in office? He will spend whole day working for someone else on the property owned by someone else, performing someone else’s bidding. And for the rest of his life he is bounded to lead his life in the same way. This is what all of us do. But the sad thing is that John considers this life, which is filled with restrictions and obligations, as a normal and healthy life.
“Get A Good Job”- Why Should It Be the Only Aim of Our Life?
Most of workers live with an ambition to “get a good job” and work for another person or business. In this article you will be explained that why, for most of the people, a job is only the first short-term step which they take on a long road towards financial independence. Almost anything else is nothing but just a blind waste of time, money and financial security.
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To Do List By A Jobless Person
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How to Answer 5 Common Interview Questions
Every one who has ever given an interview knows the common interview questions that people ask you about you. These questions appear innocent, but in reality they are potential job killers. To answer these common interview questions right is very important.
As an experienced headhunter I will share with you the best ways to answer those questions so you can get the edge on other applicants. I will provide you the ultimate secrets to crushing these questions. Here is how I think you should answer five of the most common interview questions about yourself.
Tell me about yourself.
This is a tricky question for a lot of people. You don’t want to sound egotistical, but you have to sell yourself. It’s best to prepare a short statement in advance covering you’re accomplishments and future goals. Then, memorize and rehearse your statement out loud either in front of a mirror or video camera. It’s also a good idea to practice on a friend or spouse and get their feedback.
Why did you leave or want to leave your current job?
The secret to this common interview question is to stay positive and be honest. No matter how much you’re tempted, don’t say anything negative about previous employers. If you were let go from your last job, don’t lie. When they do a reference check they’re likely to find out. It’s better they hear it from you up front. When they ask what happened, tell your story in the best possible way for yourself as you can, and no matter what, stay positive about your previous employer.
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Telemarketing Tips and Phone Selling
- If things start out badly on the phone, they may never progress beyond the first call. Whether you use your phone skills for customer service or for sales calls as part of a telemarketing strategy, telephone manners and etiquette are critical components of a professional image.
- Smile when you are talking on the phone; your customers will hear it!
- Answer the phone pleasantly and maintain a pleasant demeanor while on the phone.
- Never answer the phone with food in your mouth or try to eat quietly while talking. Drinking, chewing gum or sucking on a mint are amplified over telephone lines.
- Return all phone calls within 48 hours.
- When you place a call that you know might be lengthy, ask if it’s a good time to talk before you dive into your spiel.
- Know what you want to say before making an important call. Practice the words out loud until they feel comfortable.
- Don’t read from a script during a call. Instead either memorize your script as an actor would or use “thought starters” such as a word or two on index cards to guide you from one idea to another.
- Make a telephone appointment when you want to have a focused, longer (15 minutes or more) conversation with someone who is normally busy.
- Don’t do things such as open mail, flip through the newspaper or do paperwork while on the phone. The person you’re talking with will know you’re distracted.
- Listen and respond to the person on the other end of the line. When you focus on them rather than on what you’re going to say next, the phone call becomes much more conversational.
- When you’re doing a lot of telephone work, energize yourself after every hour.
Through experience, you will develop your own telephone skills into a personal style. You will also find customers and prospects responding positively when you smile, listen and show personal interest.
The following phone skills training tips will help you use your “telephone tool” to its fullest:
- Pitch – Is your voice too shrill or strained? Do you speak in a monotone? In normal speech, pitch varies. These variations are known as inflection. The more inflection you use, the more interesting your tone of voice is. Keep in mind that when you are under emotional stress, the pitch of your voice will tend to rise and become shrill or strained. Watch it! The pitch of your voice is an index of confidence and poise.
- Volume – Check the volume or loudness of your voice. (You might want to get a friend to help you with this.) Is it too soft or too loud? Often when people are tired or upset their voices tend to fade, and they will be asked to “speak up.” Be sure to speak loud enough to be heard, but not so loud that you sound forced.
- Rate – If you speak too slowly you’ll likely lose the attention of the listener. Conversely, your listener won’t be able to follow you if you speak too rapidly. In either case, your message won’t get through.
- Quality – The quality of your voice is its most distinctive and individual characteristic. This is where the essence of warmth, understanding and “likability” come into play. Smiling as you speak enhances your vocal quality. Being angry, upset or in a hurry negatively affects your vocal quality.
- Articulation – The price of poor articulation is high, particularly in business. You must enunciate or pronounce your words very clearly or your listeners will misunderstand you. Faulty articulation and incorrect word pronunciation give your listener the impression that you are sloppy, careless and lack knowledge.
Give Your Voice Some Telephone Sales Skills Training
Your voice is your personality over the telephone. It makes an immediate impression that can portray you as friendly or distant, confident or timid, spontaneous or mechanical, relaxed or nervous.
So, how do you come across over the phone? Make a tape recording of yourself while on the telephone and evaluate the following attributes:
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Top 100 Marketing Ideas
Top 100 Creative Marketing Ideas and Selling Tips for Small Business Marketing in the USA and Canada
GENERAL MARKETING IDEAS
- Never let a day pass without engaging in at least one marketing activity.
- Determine a percentage of gross income to spend annually on marketing.
- Set specific marketing goals every year; review and adjust quarterly.
- Maintain a tickler file of ideas for later use.
- Carry business cards with you (all day, every day).
- Create a personal nametag or pin with your company name and logo on it and wear it at high visibility meetings.
TARGET MARKET
- Stay alert to trends that might impact your target market, product or promotion strategy.
- Read market research studies about your profession, industry, product, target market groups, etc.
- Collect competitors’ ads and literature; study them for information about strategy, product features and benefits, etc.
- Ask clients why they hired you and solicit suggestions for improvement.
- Ask former clients why they left you.
- Identify a new market.
- Join a email list related to your profession.
- Subscribe to an Internet newsgroup that serves your target market.
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
- Create a new service, technique or product.
- Offer a simpler/cheaper/smaller version of your (or another existing) product or service.
- Offer a fancier/more expensive/faster/bigger version of your (or another existing) product or service.
- Update your services.
EDUCATION, RESOURCES AND INFORMATION
- Establish a marketing and public relations advisory and referral team composed of your colleagues and/or neighboring business owners to share ideas and referrals and to discuss community issues. Meet quarterly for breakfast.
- Create a suggestion box for employees.
- Attend a marketing seminar.
- Read a marketing book.
- Subscribe to a marketing newsletter,
- Subscribe to a marketing teleseminar.
- Subscribe to a marketing blog.
- Train your staff, clients and colleagues to promote referrals.
- Hold a monthly marketing meeting with employees or associates to discuss strategy, status and to solicit marketing ideas.
- Join an association or organization related to your profession.
- Join a leads club. If you can’t find a good one, start one.
- Maintain a consultant file for designers, writers and other marketing professionals.
- Hire a marketing consultant to brainstorm with you. (John says “Pick me! Pick me!”)
- Take a “creative journey” to another progressive city or country to observe and learn from marketing techniques used there.
PRICING AND PAYMENT
- Analyze your fee structure; look for areas requiring modifications or adjustments.
- Establish a credit card payment option for clients.
- Give regular clients a discount.
- Learn to barter; offer discounts to members of certain clubs/professional groups/organizations in exchange for promotions in their publications.
- Give “quick pay” or cash discounts.
- Offer financing or installment plans.
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A glimpse from Airline Buyer’s life
Running an Airline is big business, everything is upscale there. every thing is larger than life. Those who are big know how difficult it is to be big. Ever went buying for an XXL shirt? most people don’t have them. Likewise, when you are buying for an airline, you just can’t go to local hardware shop and buy stuff. It is very difficult to source vendors in a competitive industry. To give you an idea of how difficult and bizarre it is to buy stuff for an airline, here is how airlines buy Paint. (believe me they buy shit loads of them)
First, a summary of how ordinary hardware stores sell their paint…
Customer: Hi. How much is your paint?
Clerk: We have regular quality paint for $18 a gallon and premium paint for $25. How many gallons would you like?
Customer: Five gallons of regular paint please.
Clerk: Great. That will be $90 plus tax.
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How to Become An Outstanding Negotiator
One thing you should be convinced about is that negotiating skills can be learned. Some people do seem to have more natural ability to negotiate than others. But it is a misconception that great negotiators’ innate temperaments have endowed them with unique insight and skills. This romantic notion grossly undervalues the importance of systematic analysis and development of strategy, and it gives short shrift to the impact of learning by doing and formal training.
Regardless of inherent ability, everyone can learn to be a better negotiator. To ask, “How can we develop negotiating ability?” is in essence to ask about the nature and development of expertise. How does the expert mind differ from the novice mind? What mental capacities do skilled negotiators employ that are absent in their less accomplished colleagues? How might such capacities be enhanced?
Developing Individual Expertise
Research suggests that experts manage complexity better than novices and that they do so because of superior abilities at pattern recognition, mental simulation, parallel management, and reflection-in-action.
Pattern recognition is the ability to see patterns, such as potential coalitional alignments, in complex and unstructured situations.
Like expert chess players, skilled negotiators filter out irrelevant clutter; they see configurations that represent threats and opportunities.
Mental simulation is the ability to envision promising courses of action and to project them forward in time imaginatively. This skill equips experienced negotiators to develop provisional action sequences, anticipate reactions and contingencies, and refine or discard plans as necessary.
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How To Read Body Language Like a Pro!
Your mother probably taught you that it’s rude to stare. But when you negotiate a business deal, close observation of your opponent makes sense.
By inspecting your opponent’s every physical move, you can often determine whether he or she is holding something back or not telling the truth. The key is not to stare so much that you make your opponent uncomfortable, but to be aware of his or her movements through casual glances and friendly eye contact. It will almost certainly give you an edge.
What should you look for? Experts who study body language suggest a two-step process.
First, identify a subject’s mannerisms during the initial, friendly stages of a discussion. As the negotiation unfolds, see whether your opponent suddenly adopts different behavior. “You have to watch people a long time to establish what their baseline mode is,” said David Hayano, author of “Poker Faces.” “Once you know how they normally behave, you may be able to tell when they start to put on an act.” 
Hayano is a retired professor of anthropology at California State University at Northridge, who has analyzed the body language of poker players, and he’s found that the rapport-building stage is a valuable time to study your opponent. Why? Because that’s when you get to know someone’s “natural” behavior. “If you are dealing with a very talkative executive who all of a sudden gets meek during the heat of the negotiation, then something strange is going on,” he said. It may be a clue that your opponent is hiding something; other clues are exaggerated movements or excessive enthusiasm.
Hayano says that in poker, for example, a player who throws chips forcefully on the table or suddenly behaves in a brash, aggressive way may be masking his being stuck with a weak hand of cards. The same goes for executives who loudly and repeatedly proclaim that they’re making a major concession, when in fact they’re not giving up much. “When you’re negotiating with someone who starts overtalking and backslapping, this can mean they really have little to offer,” Hayano said.
A range of nonverbal clues may serve as red flags during a negotiation. Experts suggest paying special attention to a person’s hands and face. “There are many revealing body signals that may indicate a hidden agenda,” said Donald Moine, an organizational psychologist at the Association for Human Achievement in Rolling Hills Estates, Calif.
Examples include hair pulling, lip biting, eye blinking, gulping and throat clearing. According to Moine, a negotiator who starts breathing rapidly may not be telling the truth. “The way to tell how someone is breathing is to notice their shoulders,” he said. “With more rapid breathing that’s higher up in the chest, you will see their shoulders rise and fall a lot more than normal.”
When coaching executives to improve their negotiation skills, Moine finds that many of them miss opportunities to read others’ body language. “They often make the mistake of looking down at papers instead of being observant,” he said. The next time your opponent gestures for you to study a document or presents a written contract for you to scrutinize, don’t fall for the bait. Instead of cutting off eye contact, Moine suggests that you say, “Tell me about it. What does it say?” As long as you keep your eyes on your negotiating partners, you can assess whether their nonverbal behavior conflicts with what they tell you.
Even the most experienced deal makers who know how to mask their expressions may still betray themselves with their bodies. “Watch for signs of deception,” said Raymond McGraime, author of “Silent Seduction.” “Deception is shown by such movements as covering of the mouth with the hands, rubbing the side of the nose, jerking the head quickly to the side, and leaning away from you. If these things occur when they’re saying something critical to the negotiation, that’s even more significant.” Although these behaviors may simply result from nervous tics, McGraime warns that they can also expose a liar. “When most people lie, they subconsciously want to apologize for it,” he said. “They feel guilty for lying, and that shows in their nonverbal behavior.”
On a more positive note, body language can sometimes help you trust a speaker. Look for expansive, welcoming gestures that seem to flow naturally from the person’s behavior. “When someone opens his palms towards simultaneously, that’s a sign of openness and honesty,” McGraime said. “The further the palms come out from their body, the better. In depictions of the great prophets, you see this. It’s like saying, ‘I have nothing up my sleeve.’”
Now that you know what to look for while negotiating, beware of attributing too much meaning to every little move your opponent makes. Resist drawing rash conclusions based on someone who suddenly starts scratching or acting jittery. “The danger of reading your opponent is that you lean too much on just one sign,” said Richard Heslin, professor of psychology at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. “But when you can put several things together, maybe there’s something there that’s worth paying attention to.”
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