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Archive for July, 2008

Here are 7 tips to reduce your stress when you are beginning a long-distances job search.  Where are you interested in living?  Working?  Do the local businesses interest you?  Find out about some great online tools that can make this long-distance job search easier.

Tip #1: Looking for work can be difficult. Looking for work long-distance is even tougher! Fortunately, the Internet makes long-distance job searching easier than it has ever been before. Using a job search engine is a great way to find and apply for job openings in the geographic area of interest. Job search engines like Monster can usually be searched by state or zip code.

The Do & Don't of writing a resume to overcome age bias.  How do you show your experience without showing your age?  Creative tips to make your resume a marketing document that SELLS!  When do you highlight your age and when do you not?  Be proud of your age (good experience)!

DO trim your resume back to the most recent 10, 15, or 20 years.

According to Baednoch and Clark's 'Happiness At Work Index' less than half of the UK's Finance and Accounting workers are happy with their job. 

According to Baednoch and Clark's 'Happiness At Work Index' less than half of the UK's Finance and Accounting workers are happy with their job.  For the professional services labour force overall, the figure is around a quarter.

How might you start to get more out of work?

Decide The Type Of Role You Want

It is all too easy to believe that you have no choice.  You have a choice in everything.  Get clear on what it is you want.  It might be:

What is it that makes you stand out from the crowd? 

What is it that makes you stand out from the crowd?  You might be a wizard with technology.  Perhaps you could be the expert source of knowledge that everyone flocks to for advice on sales.  Alternatively you might have the personal qualities that inspire everyone around you. 

So how might you discover your uniqueness?

1. Record your greatest achievements and ask yourself what skills, knowledge and personal attributes that helped you get results

1. Take some psychometric tests to get some objective assessment.  In selecting tests, make sure they cover not just intelligence but also personality traits

Let's face it, Accountants are amongst the most talented people either working for or providing services to businesses.  They have huge potential yet so often never fully exploit it.

Let's face it, Accountants are amongst the most talented people either working for or providing services to businesses.  They have successfully got through a set of demanding and competitive exams and got a whole lot of knowledge.  They have huge potential yet so often never fully exploit it.  Why is that?  From my own experience, there are a number of reasons:

1. They focus their development on technical accounting and IT skills

A personal development plan helps you to grow and achieve.  Take the first step towards to realising and exploiting your real professional and earning potential.

A personal development plan helps you to grow and achieve.  So why do so few people take the time to create one?  Two potential reasons are:

• Lack of know how


• Fear of limiting themselves

There are 5 key steps in creating a personal development plan

1. Do a personal stock-take of your strengths and development needs.  As well as your own assessment get the input of others.  They can often see talents that you don't

Truck driving schools can be your first step to a long-lasting and professional career. But, you've to make sure that you enroll for the well recognized truck driving course…

Witch so many truck driving schools around; yes, even my 4,500 people town has one, how do you find one that fits your expectations perfectly? Just graduating with the CDL that enables me to start a new career, and earn some decent living…