Good Help is Better Outsourced

Good Help is Better Outsourced 3 Raise your hand if you like to clean up. If your arm is vertical, you'll want to know that you can easily cash in on that enjoyed pastime of yours. Most people are different than you are, they do all they can to avoid cleaning like the plague. As a result, demand increases for those skilled workers like yourself that can appreciate a broom and squeegee. Ozeret.co.il (Hebrew) claims to have the largest database in Israel of experienced cleaners (‘sanitary engineers', if you like funny job titles), home helpers and even babysitters. The database is always growing thanks to an easy signup process and a model that puts the onus on clients to do most of the legwork in finding the right candidate for their job. You just sign up and wait for clients to find you. One unnerving aspect of the Ozeret site is that it clearly expects its members to only be women and I'm not sure why that is. Although I've never met a male home helper, of course they exist, even in Israel. Also, in all the schools that I attended, the janitors were almost always men. Strange choice on the part of Ozeret's management, as it limits their target market. I've added the Ozeret wonder cleaners' and home helpers' RSS feed to the Ultimate RSS Feed Collection for the Israeli Job Seeker and the JobMob Bloglines account. Get Help!

Savvy Social Strategies for Job Seekers

Savvy Social Strategies for Job Seekers In today’s crowded job market, it can be extremely difficult to get any viable leads for jobs. I know from personal experience that I have had a ludicrously low response rate when searching for work. 1 or 2 good prospects from a vast slew of inquiries and even then, those prospects are difficult to follow up on. The digital nature of job search, while it allows you to find and outreach to potential employers en masse, also means that employers receive more inquiries than ever before and it is easy for your application to fall through the cracks. So, how can you utilize the internet and social media to help you land a job and stand out from the crowd? Here are some tips that will help guide you on your way to gainful employment Make Your Resume Stand Out With digital resumes and CVs as well as LinkedIn based applications, you have a limited amount of time to make your credentials pop off the page. This is true of traditional resumes as well, but particularly true in digital communications. The general rule of thumb is that you have six seconds to make an impression. In this very short period of time, a potential employer will decide whether or not your credentials are a good fit for the position. So, how can you tell if your credentials pop? One tool that is extremely useful here is Resunate. This web-based software extracts the top information from your resume and tells you how well your displayed credentials match your target job. It also gives you a score based on the strength of other applicants. This feedback helps you determine your prospects and tweak your resume as needed to match that particular target. Find a Job Using Social Studies show that social helps 1/6 job seekers land a position. This is a combination of personal networking via Facebook and more professional “cold networking” through Twitter and LinkedIn. While it can be awkward at times treating your friends as business associates, there are often jobs that are not easily discoverable through traditional channels that your friends may be aware of, and it is often easier to acquire a position through a referral than when you are just one resume in a daunting pile. You may want to consider setting up a professional avatar on twitter and engaging with other industry professionals. One thing I have personally found to be a great networking resource is meetup.com. Join and attend local meetup groups in your area of expertise. I work in marketing and web development and have attended a fair number of these meetups. Often, the first place people go to advertise open positions is their personal network, and this is a great place to build one. LinkedIn is the obvious choice to go for professional networking. Over 93% of recruiters use LinkedIn. You can apply directly through this network as well as connect with employers, recruiters, fellow alumni and more. When conducting my own Job search, I found it particularly fruitful to connect with recruiters. I actually applied for one job and was denied by the company directly, but was able to get a second and third interview while working with a third party recruiter. These third parties are often contracted by the companies themselves to find good candidates for these open positions. They are highly motivated to get those positions filled and have deadlines to do so. This can make them great advocates for you and help you tremendously in following up with the employer and getting interviews. I found this relationship to be tremendously valuable and it took out a lot of the personal pestering that often comes with following a job lead. There are a variety of other ways to leverage online communications in your job search. However, the most important thing to take away is that building relationships matters. Use your personal and professional networks to help you extend your reach and leverage those relationships to get a foot in the door. It really is about who you know, and you can use social and other online mediums to extend your reach. In today’s day and age, communication really has gone digital, and in order to stand out, it is more of a necessity than a recommendation. So go forth and follow, tweet and get linkedin and take steps towards a successful job hunt today.

Convert Social Media Leads into Sales for Your Personal Brand - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Convert Social Media Leads into Sales for Your Personal Brand - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career In the era of online networking it is important to make meaningful connections to make your personal brand stand out. In order to attract new leads you need to be an active user on one the most powerful social networks, LinkedIn. How can your personal brand bring attract more connections on this premier online networking tool? It all begins with meaningful communication and engagement. LinkedIn makes this freely available to its users with groups, InMail, publishing, and more. In today’s business economy it’s all about attracting your target market, and nurturing those relationships for continued sales. Here are some ways your personal brand can begin building a stronger network on LinkedIn for more leads and sales. Building Great Relationships On LinkedIn The first place to begin is a fully optimized LinkedIn profile that stands out to potential connections. You will want to complete your targeted brand information as much as possible before starting these steps: • Personalized Communication Matters Hundreds of InMail correspondence is being sent out each day, but just how many are being passed up simply because they are not addressing contacts and prospects in a personal way? It takes just a little extra time and effort to craft a template that can be tailored for your recipients. This conveys that your personal brand has a vested interest in meeting their needs with an open invitation to contact you. After sending an InMail it’s equally important to follow up to answer questions, offer tips or advice, a free product, ect. This will greatly increase your brand’s chances of people not only opening your messages, but responding favorably. • Keep Your Contacts Updated Once your brand has received a response continue to nurture your leads with updates, new information, a special event, and so on. This is a great time to showcase your knowledge and expertise while at the same time offering a solution to their problem(s). • Stay active in your network Your personal brand can greatly benefit from meaningful interactions in professional groups as well as posting and interacting on posts on LinkedIn. Group members and commenters are potential new connections that can become leads for your business. Additionally LinkedIn has a great option to publish your content, which can be commented on and shared like any blog post. As networking and sales become more prominent on social media, and especially on LinkedIn, your personal brand has the golden opportunity to build genuine and trusted relationships who will become brand ambassadors. By keeping in touch with your network you can attract qualified leads for for improved conversion rates.

Why Employee Engagement is the Key to Employee Advocacy

Why Employee Engagement is the Key to Employee Advocacy We spoke to  Dave Hawley,  VP of Marketing and Sales Development at  SocialChorus  about why is employee engagement is critical to boosting employee advocacy and what the benefits of employee engagement are. You can listen to the podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud (embed below) or keep reading for a transcript of our conversation. Daves mission to  bring work to life: One of the key things that we look at SocialChorus is how can we get better information to employees? How can we allow employees and the enterprises they work for to better connect? One of the problems that weve noticed, and were solving for large enterprise customers, everyone would agree that employees are your greatest assets, but its difficult for them to keep up with the amount of content. Theyre largely not engaged with the enterprise mission, values, and priorities lots of research out there on that topic. And they certainly generally are not empowered to represent, advocate, or refer for the enterprise, and that costs the enterprise billions. The good news is that mobile has changed how we live. Your personal life, you have a smartphone, youll get your news, your recommendations, your files, your social networks, your apps. You can organise those in a way that you can see the signals from the noise. And its very easy for the average person with a smartphone thats using them to go ahead and say These are the things that are important to me, and that I want to stay focused on in my life. Your enterprise life does not do that for you. Company updates, access to people who have the information, getting to files, getting your business apps all happens really on the desktop across a series of different applications. Its not easy to find what youre looking for. Its not easy to surface the signals from the noise. And so, thats really what we do with SocialChorus we build mobile employee engagement applications that allow you to connect whats happening in the company; the people, the value, the experiences, to be more engaged with relevant content and projects at your work life. And to help you as an individual grow as an employee, which of course has a myriad of benefits for the enterprise itself. And so thats how we think about it bringing work to life. The benefits of an engaged workforce: Time  Employees in any modern enterprise today are looking at intranets, theyre looking at emails, theyre looking at the company blog, theyre looking at Twitter handles from  executives, theyre looking at HR systems, the list kind of goes on, and on, and on. Its difficult to look at all those systems to know everything you need to know. And so what our app does is it brings, it aggregates all that information into a single feed, it allows the enterprise to say These are the things my employees need to know today. And it makes it really simple and easy for them to access that information, to know whats prioritised, and when its appropriate to share that information with their social networks as well. Aligning  Aligning to the employee, aligning and bringing work to life. You know, one of the things that we see consistently is that organisations use intranets that were never really designed for news communication to send information to their employees. That and email were the primary methods. And if you ask any employee how theyd like to get the information, well, theyd like the enterprise to meet them where they are. For us that means providing that kind of information in a mobile news app that they can read in two minutes a day, while they are at line for coffee, and they can know whats important, and kind of move on. And they can access all the other applications they need when they need them, but theyre not digging through lots of applications as well, and this saves lots of money for the enterprise, in terms of making sure theres no confusion, theres no misunderstanding of whats happening. Employee advocacy  So once you have an engaged employee who has relevant content and youve answered the question What do they need to know today?, many organisations will then make it easy for their employees to go ahead and share. Theres tons of data around this,  youll see employees, their reach is more trusted, and its about 10 times your brands reach as well. Engaged employees are 2X as productive as non-engaged employees #AdvocateU pic.twitter.com/49JnrS10hq SocialChorus (@SocialChorus) December 4, 2014 How employee engagement boosts employee advocacy: Engage to encourage sharing If your goal is simply to get the employees to share you will drastically limit your appeal to the employees, and youll limit your ability to roll out enterprise wide. And so what weve said is without truly engaging your employee youll never get the benefits of employee advocacy beyond a small group of people who are already inclined to socially share typically thats marketing and sales. Provide valuable content  Its a big miss for large and mid-size enterprises to only look at whats usually less than 5% of their employees as potential sharers of information. The other 90%, 95% of your employees will not share. Theyre not naturally inclined to do so unless you give them something thats valuable to them, because when you give them something valuable for them, for example the news and content they need to know on any given day, then theyre very likely to say Hey, my network would benefit from this, and they start sharing. The 4 steps to launching  an employee engagement and advocacy programme in 30 days: 1) Create a team Start with a group that is inclined to learn more. So you wanna start with a motivated group, you want to sit down, and you want to engage them with the kind of content, the information that theyre looking for. 2) Content-  Provide content  on a regular basis, so everyday theres a place for them to go to see what the news and content is, you want to get their feedback very quickly. 3) Feedback Do things like support surveys in-app, so you can start to get a sense of where theyre headed for. And you want to make sure that theyre trained, and that they understand the social media policies what to share, what not to share. And if you can, as you do with our app, theres certain information you can and you cant share. 4) Expand to the whole company Roll the content  out company-wide and get all employees involved. The  common  pitfalls that companies should avoid: Providing information that you want them to share only. We see that time and time again, where theres a new product launch, theres a message from the CEO, there is corporate social responsibility content. That is all great content, absolutely, and you want your employees to be aware of it, but we see it time and time again, that people just put that content in there. So thats one. You wanna look more broadly, you wanna think whats on the mind of the employee, things like whats happening internally, company culture, whats the competition up to, what does the broader market landscape look like and how is it changing. These are the kinds of things that employees want to read as well. So you have to really balance it with things you want them to share, and things that they need to know, thats number one. They dont update the content frequently enough. If you want a news app and you wanna keep your employees informed of the news, well, if they go back to the same application, they go there one day to get some news. They come back to the application the next day and its the exact same information, youve probably lost a lot of them right away because they expect real time updates, they expect the information to be curated, and they expect it to be timely. Make it easy. I think if you look at the average enterprise application user, if they cant figure out how to use your platform in 20 or 30 seconds, youve probably lost them. People are stretched for time. They have a very, very high bar for their consumer applications.The average enterprise user is going to bring those expectations that are set very high by application providers on the consumer side, and if they dont get that same experience theyre very unlikely to use it unless theyre told to use it, they have to, for things like HR, for example. How to  measure your return on investment: A  more engaged workforce.  If you read any of the research out here, the number of disengaged employees ranges anywhere from 70% to as high as 90%. What this means really is that employees are in there, theyre not engaged with their work, theyre not really sure whats going on, whats happening. What this really leads to is lower productivity and higher attrition. So people do less and they leave more often. And any business leader will tell you those are two things that can kill a company. So what you really want to look for is people reading the information, understanding what the organisation stands for, and what the near-term goals are, and then youd see more employees falling in line with those visions, those goals, and making sure that their work is aligned. Speeds up communication And its not just the productivity benefits but also the speed at which information gets moved around the organisation. What we talk a lot about here at SocialChorus is surfacing the signals from the noise, so actually understanding what the organisation wants you to do, whats happening more broadly, get you as an employee to a place where your day starts earlier, you can get more focused, and you actually can get a lot done. The next big thing for employee advocacy and engagement: Relevancy I think that relevancy and personalisation component is going to be huge, in the sense that people, or employees, are able to just kind of cull the information that they want very quickly and easily out of the system. Personalisation And I think were seeing things like location-based content personalisation,  as well as the ability to measure this beyond just the share. Again, looking at the engagement that youre creating, getting feedback from employees, and then tying that to real direct ROI. Learn more at SocialChorus and follow Dave on Twitter @DaveHawley33.  [Image Credit: Shutterstock] Subscribe to Social Media Know-How:

Writing a Resume For the Post Office With No Experience

Writing a Resume For the Post Office With No ExperienceIf you want to write a resume for the post office, it can be difficult because you might have no idea where to start. Writing a resume for the post office is much easier if you follow a few simple steps.Think about what you would want to accomplish by applying for a job at the post office. Write down your goals and then figure out how to achieve those goals. Then you can choose a job area that matches your goals.The easiest way to find out about these things is to do some research online. There are many online sites that offer information on how to go about filling out the forms. Often times you will find that the paperwork will be much easier if you have little or no experience in the field you want to fill out the application for.In this case, you should have a look at the different jobs available and then choose the one that best fits your skill set. This may mean learning a skill or getting a degree that gives you more specia lized knowledge. Some online sites may also offer free samples of the application so you can see what they are like.Once you know all of the different jobs and how they are filled out, you can narrow down your choice of employment by finding out more information on each position. Remember, your resume has to be clear and concise and easy to read. This means that you will have to use words that make sense to someone who will be reviewing your resume.So how can you use this knowledge? It can help you if you write a resume for the post office with no experience. Since you don't have any experience, you will be able to convey your professional and organized skills much better than someone who has been in the field for many years. It may be more difficult to write a resume for the post office with no experience but you should be able to manage just fine.Writing a resume for the post office with no experience is much easier than writing one for a specific job. When you are applying for a job that requires some specialized knowledge, you will have to use your skills and knowledge as a part of your resume to explain why you are a good fit for the job. With a typical resume, you are a good fit for just about any job that you apply for.Just, by following these easy things you can be more successful when it comes to writing a resume for the post office with no experience. You will be able to use this information to get you more job interviews.

The Secret Bypass Around Applicant Tracking Systems - CareerEnlightenment.com

and determine whether I want to turn my career in this direction. Do you have 15-20 minutes to talk on the phone with me about the work that you’re doing? I’m not looking for a job â€" what I’m seeking is advice. I’m open Monday and Wednesday afternoons next week, but if those times don’t fit your schedule, please let me know what works well with your calendar, and we’ll find something that suits both our schedules. Thanks!”Asking substantive questions during your phone call, such as, “I’m curious about the path you took to your position, even if it’s not typical” (this question gives you a strong sense of who they are and allows you to naturally make connections that you might use in your thank you note to them) and “What advice would you give someone like me â€" recognizing that I’m not entry-level, yet I’m missing some key experience?” and “Are there specific training programs or credentials or conferences that you recommend I explore?”Keeping th e meeting to the promised 15-20 minutes and ending with, “If I think of more questions over the coming weeks and months, is it okay for me to loop back to you?”Staying in touch with the people you resonate with using authentic and natural springboards (you’ll have joined a LinkedIn group that they recommended and then you might tell them how helpful a discussion thread was to you, for example).If you follow this formula, you’ll get advice that will help you infiltrate the network of the profession you’re targeting. You’ll begin to create relationships and find opportunities that aren’t posted online (or, if they are, you’ll have people who might champion you from within the organizations you’re targeting).

How to Consider Retirement While Working - Margaret Buj - Interview Coach

How to Consider Retirement While Working Considering retirement while you are still working can be difficult, especially if you are on low wages or have large amounts of expenditure. However, while you might be focused on the stresses of daily life, it is still important to consider retirement as early as possible. The financial experts at Portafina have created a list of eight top tips you need to be aware of for how to save for retirement while you’re working. Save When You Can While you may think that it is enough only to pay into your pension regularly, your pension should see your ups and downs too. If you experience a massive windfall, make sure that your pension benefits from it; add to your pension funds when you can, not only when you have to. Opt-in to a Workplace Pension Check to see how you apply for your workplace pension scheme and how you can make contributions. Everyone over 22 should be offered a workplace pension if they earn more than £10,000 and, since your employer has to contribute to them, these can make a big impact on the overall amount in your funds. Consider a Pension Review Although you may be too caught up in your career to consider reviewing your pension, it is vital that you do so. Pensions can be diminished by interest rates and poor growth over time. You can speak to a financial advice service like Portafina who can review your pension for you, or you can track this yourself to understand whether your pot is growing as you expected. Add to Your State Pension You should also ensure that you are eligible for a state pension, which you can find out more about on Portafina’s Facebook page. If you have worked for over 35 years and paid into National Insurance, you will be eligible for a state pension, which gives you around £168 a week in 2019. However, if you have not paid National Insurance regularly, such as due to self-employment, you may want to consider making voluntary contributions. Remember Old Pension Schemes Your current job is probably not your first, and nor will it be your last. By remembering the old pension schemes that you once paid into, you can boost your retirement fund by ensuring that you can access these when you need them. Work Around Annual Allowance If you don’t want to find yourself at the end of large tax bills, you should consider carrying over your annual allowance from the past three years. If you want to pay over £40,000 into your pension fund in one year, including the amount from your employer, then you can carry your allowance over as long as you have used it up. Receive Full Tax Relief If you pay into a pension, you will be able to claim tax relief on your payments. This is an easy way to ensure that you can pay into your retirement while working, as this is essentially free money that you can then put towards your pension and finances. Seek a Financial Advisory Service If you are struggling to combat the ins and outs of pensions while working, then you should seek the advice of a financial advisory service. At Portafina, they can help you to improve your pension’s growth and prepare for the future through their specialist advisors. If you want to find out more about Portafina and your pension, then you should click here, or follow Portafina on their social media channels: Portafina’s Facebook page, @portafina_uk, LinkedIn, and Youtube.