HOW TO BE DIFFERENT FROM OTHER JOBSEEKERS

Far too many job seekers do not see the value or the importance of setting themselves apart from their competition on their resumes. They get stuck thinking they’re supposed to blend in or look like other ideally qualified candidates. What they miss is the importance of being who they are and showing the employer the unique value they offer that other similarly qualified applicants can’t bring to the table.
You want to strike the perfect balance between showing you meet the requirements but also pointing out the benefits they’ll reap from choosing you over the competition.

DO YOU WANT TO BUILD A GOOD SALES TEAM? THEN, FOLLOW THESE STEPS

Here’s what YEC community members had to say about building out a sales team:

1. Set Up a Solid Incentives Structure

“Don’t start building your sales team until you know exactly what you want them to accomplish. Do they need to deliver a certain amount of revenue? Build your presence in a specific market sector? Figure this out and set up your incentive structure (i.e. compensation) to reflect that.

2. Measure Leading Indicators

“Make sure you work with your sales team to set goals at every stage of the funnel.

HOW TO IDENTIFY SCAM JOBS

From the ad, the job reads like a dream. It’s in your area of expertise (yay!), paying a salary slightly more than the current rate (yippee!) and you can work from home (woo hoo!) fulltime. But as you reread the job ad, something just doesn’t seem “right” to you. Maybe it’s the typos or the AOL business reply address. For every real job posted online, there are dozens that are fake, meant to entice you to hand over your hard-earned cash. Here’s how to read between the lines and discover if the job you’re about to apply for is real — or not.

There’s no experience necessary. Even if you’re a fresh-faced college grad, you’re going to need some type of work experience (i.e. from previous jobs or even internships) in order to get hired. Be wary of ads that make it seem like anyone can do the job, because frankly, not everyone should be able to do any job.

The salary is too high. You’ve been out of work for quite some time, so when you read the job ad (and its salary), all you can think is, “Cha-ching!” But before you start dreaming of all that you’ll do with the money, do a little digging to see what the position you’re looking to apply for generally pays. Job scammers will post a much too high salary — sometimes thousands of dollars higher — to lure in desperate job seekers.

You need to wire money. A company wants to offer you a position but they’ll need you to process transactions for them. It doesn’t make sense, though, since you’re looking to work as a botanist, not a banker. In order to score a job, there should be no reason for you to wire money, process payments or even transfer funds.

You’re offered the job on the spot. You know that you’re a qualified candidate, but how does the hiring manager know? Hiring a candidate on the spot — and sight unseen — is a big sign that there isn’t a real job. Overzealous employers are generally a tip off that a job isn’t genuine. Actual employers take their time to research and get to know potential job candidates — going through many rounds of job interviews — before offering a position.

You’re receiving email from a non-business address. Legit hiring managers will have their company’s name as the ending of their email address (think: name@mashable.com) When a potential boss reaches out with an AOL, Gmail, Hotmail or any other non-company email address, though, red flags should be waving madly at you. Hiring managers and recruiters will send their correspondence from their business email address, not their personal one.

You’re asked to do an IM interview. Sure, we live in a tech-driven world, but today’s job interviews are still mainly conducted in person, via Skype (if the job is a telecommuting one) or via phone. When a recruiter contacts you and wants to do the interview via IM — or worse, via text — the job may prove to be a scam.

You’re asked for personal info. You’ve finally been offered the job position, but are then asked to supply personal information about yourself — such as your bank account and routing number. While a boss may give you several bogus reasons why they “need” the info — to run a credit check, to deposit initial funds into your account — there is never a real reason for a potential employer to ask for personal financial info about you.

The ad is written poorly. You noticed a couple of typos in the job ad. But then you also saw some mixed tenses and a description of the job that didn’t make a whole lot of sense. When an ad reads like it’s been translated, (or it’s unclear what the job actually entails) you can bet that it’s a job scam.

They contact you at odd hours. The business world operates 24/7. But hiring managers don’t. So if you’re consistently getting emails at 2:00 a.m. from a potential boss, take heed. For the most part, work emails will be sent — and answered — during normal business hours.

You have to pay for the job. Savvy job scammers are no longer demanding cash up front in order for a job seeker to get a job. They will ask for it in a seemingly innocuous way, such as asking potential employees to pay for their proprietary software or to pay monthly for insurance on a laptop they will loan you for work. You should never, ever have to shell out money in order to be hired to work.

When you’re job hunting, it can be easy to fall prey to a job scam. Stay one step ahead of the job scammers and you’ll find a legitimate job in no time.

For job vacancies, visit careergong.com and apply
Visit  10 signs a job is a scam for more info.

KEYS TO BEING SUCCESSFUL

According to the free dictionary, Success is defined as "the achievement of something desired, planned or attempted. It is a feat that many would want to be identified with.

Napoleon Hill wrote a famous book “Keys to Success” reveals the 17 principles he found in the successful men he interviewed. Maybe these traits could help you too. When you look at the chapter headings you will see listed many of the requirements necessary to set up or improve a business successfully or in fact to live a successful life.

Develop Definiteness or Purpose

Basically to be successful in reaching your destination you need a “road map” or plan to show the direction you wish to go and where you want to arrive, whether it’s a journey to another town or a journey in life.

Establish a Mastermind Alliance

In the book, his group is an imaginary group of famous successful men he admired. He visualizes them after studying their characters. He holds council with these men in his imagination. We may not choose to do that; we may consider how someone successful would tackle a problem however we all need the help of others to reach our true potential. We may get our help from studying books, the internet or meeting people.

Assemble an Attractive Personality

Ill mannered, bad tempered and irresponsible people that don’t consider others aren’t going to be very successful. Develop a pleasant demeanor; get along with people give that little bit extra in all you do.

Enforce Self-Discipline

Plan what you do and work your plan. If you plan to do something, do it, don’t procrastinate. Don’t let others down. Be reliable, on-time and enthusiastic.

Learn from Adversity and Defeat

 “Every cloud has a silver lining”, learn from your mistakes, turn failure around, stay positive and don’t give up.

 Cultivate Creative Vision

 Be creative, visualize what you want to happen practice as the athletes do in their minds. Use mind power for an easier journey to success.

Budget your Time and Money

As in self-discipline, don’t spend what you haven’t got, invest wisely, both money and time. Time is a finite resource don’t waste it.

You can also visit careergong.com to view job vacancies.

For further reading (reference) 17 Keys to success

MOTIVATION

Motivation has to do with reasons for acting or behaving in a particular way. Motivation is a necessary tool for actualizing our objectives in an efficient and effective manner.

What are the steps one needs to take to be fully motivated and get desired results? Some of these are:

Know your goals!

To know your goal is to understand it, to love it and eventually live it. It is not good enough to merely set goals. The key (and here is the difficult bit) is to really understand your goal and to visualise it in all its glory. What does success look like? How will it make you feel when you achieve it?

One of the secrets of the ultra-successful, whether they are athletes or entrepreneurs is to visualise their success and the level of performance that it will take to get them there.

Work out who can help?

Every great individual stands on the shoulders of others and there is no reason why you should be any different. The people that surround us have a crucial part to play in keeping our spirits lifted. Knowing that you are not alone and that you have the support of others can be a vital step in remaining motivated.

Make a list of the people that can help you towards your goal.

Reward yourself along the way

The road to success can be a long and arduous journey with many a set-back along the way. Without littering the road with the odd reward it can feel like thankless task and before long your motivation will be gone with the wind.

Break your goal down and set markers where you can reward yourself for the hard work that you have done. For example if your goal is to change career or get into a new job, you could reward yourself once you have completed a particular training course or applied for a certain number of jobs.

Visit careergong NOW for job vacancies.

For further reading (reference) jobs.ac.uk

FINDING THE RIGHT PEOPLE

Recruitment is not just about finding the right people to work for you, but finding the right people that will want to stay with you to get the desired results. This is because companies are now on high purchase for staff members who would yield good results for them. Therefore addressing long-term goals during the recruitment process becomes necessary, if not vital.

It has been well established that recruiting is important, and so is retaining top talent. To be good at it finding the right people that will help you get the desired results, you will need to make the best use of your interview to get what you really want.  There are few things you can do to get the best result, they include;

1. Ask simple but tough and intelligent questions. 

Try to find out how employees will handle situations by asking them very challenging questions, their response to the questions will determine how capable they will be to handle any situation if the need for such arises.

2. Be consistent. 

The tone of the interview, the intent of the questions, and the information looking to be collected should be the same. It helps determine both cultural fit and makes it easier to see which employees stand out most.

3. Remember, don’t be afraid to eliminate employees if they aren’t the right cultural fit. Such changes can lead to success, or at least help reduce risk. For many successful companies it’s all about finding the right people and keeping them.


For job vacancies, visit careergong NOW

CV WRITING TIPS

Your CV is the most important tool you have to sell yourself; so how can you make yours stand out?

Don’t sell yourself short

Many professionals think two pages is the maximum length for CVs – but it doesn’t have to be. 

Looks matter

Keep your CV neat and well presented – use readable fonts and logical formatting. 

Always proof read

Double check spelling, grammar and dates –

THINGS ENTREPRENEURS SHOULD FOCUS ON TO BE SUCCESSFUL

Statistics have shown that between 80 percent to 90 percent of start -ups fail. This means that about only two businesses out of ten will still be up and running some years from now. Since entrepreneurs are expected to be optimistic people, there are certain things they should focus to be successful. These are outlined below.

Setting the company vision, communicating it and holding the line

An entrepreneur who wants to be successful must be able to create, define and maintain the vision of his firm.

WHAT ARE THE REASONS WHY YOUR PARENTS MAY NOT WANT TO SUPPORT YOUR CHOSEN CAREER?

When choosing your career, you must consider certain things; things like your hobbies, what subjects you liked best, the economy of your country, and most of all, your parents’ decision. Your findings on all these will determine what suits you best as a career choice. Although some of them have little or more roles to play in your decision making process, the one that has a really major role to play is that of your parents’ choice.

However, for a number of reasons, your parents may not want you to choose a particular career. This is because they may not feel equipped to fully help or support you with those career decisions. This can happen because they have your best interest at heart and would want something that will yield good fruit for you in the future. They would want you to make your choices from careers in law or medicine, or even something more practical instead of your dream of being a painter or an artist, etc. Well, below are the some of the reasons why your parents may not support your choice of career.

 

A TARNISH TO THEIR IMAGE  There is this belief that the career

QUESTIONS TO WATCH OUT FOR IN A JOB INTERVIEW......

When you are going for a job interview, just like I would always say , be prepared for any kind of question that would be thrown at you. Most times employers will want to give you questions that they feel you might not answer in order to know your weak points. Most of these questions might seem like a trap; but then, you cannot  run away from them, but you can use those questions to talk about your strengths and things you can do. Here are some questions that job-seekers are asked all the time;

1.   Why are you the best person for this job?

2.   What  makes you uniquely qualified for this role?

IMPORTANT INGREDIENTS OF A COVER LETTER

Cover letters are a great way to market your self to a prospective employer. This means that you must package your self in your Cover Letter and resume in such a manner that the employer will be willing to buy. Some job-seekers still ask if a cover letter is really important. The answer to that question is yes. This is because, the cover letter and resume are the document a prospective employer sees before meeting you in person. Your Cover letter should be customized and should be able to highlight how your skills will be relevant in the position you are applying for.

For a Cover Letter to be effective, it needs to have the following 5 ingredients:

1. It should be addressed properly. This means that you must find out the name of whom the letter needs to be addressed to. if it is to be addressed to say "Mr Chukwudi Ebube", address it that way and in so doing avoid using general salutations like "Dear Sir", or "To whom it may concern"etc.

2. Highlight your strengths. Let your employer be convinced that you are the best fit for the job. You don't have to exaggerate but make sure your relevant skills are well highlighted.

TIPS FOR RECRUITING TOP TALENTS

Just as in sports, the organizations that have sustained success in business aren't the ones with superstars all trying to further their individual legacies. Rather, they are the businesses with talented role players and managers who know how to get all of their personnel to work together. Here are five ways for startups to put together a winning team.

1. Build your team before actually building your team

For starters, the principals of a startup will need to identify their own roles and how they plan to delineate responsibilities when it comes to decision making, hiring and external communications.

There may be an impulse to hire smart people with great credentials and then sort out their responsibilities after. Don't do that. Identify very specific roles (and budget responsibilities and salaries for each of them) and seek out employees who are ideal for those tasks and have skills that can compliment each other.

2. Make sure each person understands how the entire company works

In a startup environment, which will likely have an initial staff of a dozen or fewer employees,  it's important that each staffer understands how the entire business functions. Each person should have a specific job responsibility, but it will ultimately help a marketing person if he’s familiar with supply chain management and vice versa.

3. Hire people who share your passion

Launching a startup is never going to be a 9-to-5, 40-hour per week job. That goes for both the founders and for any employees who join the initial launch team. Everyone involved has to be personally invested in the success of the company.

For a social enterprise, it’s critical that each hire not only feels passionately about making an impact, but they must also have a firm understanding of the problem the business is addressing and the solution it is working toward. 

4. Get input from the rest of the group when it comes to adding staff

In a small team setting, one bad hire can completely disrupt the chemistry of the rest of the organization. While the founders have the ultimate say over who they add to help grow the business, the entire group will have to work with the new hire in some capacity.

5. Don't stop after assembling them

Bringing a group together is just one element of building a successful team. Even with success, building chemistry is an ongoing process. The best organizations keep engaging their employees and are frequently assessing what's working and how they can improve the way they work together.

For further reading, (reference) Enterpreneur

Visit careergong.com NOW for job vacancies

TIPS FOR RECRUITING TOP TALENTS

Just as in sports, the organizations that have sustained success in business aren't the ones with superstars all trying to further their individual legacies. Rather, they are the businesses with talented role players and managers who know how to get all of their personnel to work together. Here are five ways for startups to put together a winning team.

1. Build your team before actually building your team

For starters, the principals of a startup will need to identify their own roles and how they plan to delineate responsibilities when it comes to decision making, hiring and external communications.

MOTIVATION

Motivation has to do with reasons for acting or behaving in a particular way. Motivation is a necessary tool for actualizing our objectives in an efficient and effective manner.

What are the steps one needs to take to be fully motivated and get desired results? Some of these are:

Know your goals!

To know your goal is to understand it, to love it and eventually live it. It is not good enough to merely set goals. The key (and here is the difficult bit) is to really understand your goal and to visualise it in all its glory. What does success look like? How will it make you feel when you achieve it?

One of the secrets of the ultra-successful, whether they are athletes or entrepreneurs is to visualise their success and the level of performance that it will take to get them there.

Work out who can help?

Every great individual stands on the shoulders of others and there is no reason why you should be any different. The people that surround us have a crucial part to play in keeping our spirits lifted. Knowing that you are not alone and that you have the support of others can be a vital step in remaining motivated.

Make a list of the people that can help you towards your goal.

Reward yourself along the way

The road to success can be a long and arduous journey with many a set-back along the way. Without littering the road with the odd reward it can feel like thankless task and before long your motivation will be gone with the wind.

Break your goal down and set markers where you can reward yourself for the hard work that you have done. For example if your goal is to change career or get into a new job, you could reward yourself once you have completed a particular training course or applied for a certain number of jobs.

Visit careergong NOW for job vacancies.

For further reading (reference) jobs.ac.uk

EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS

One of the problems faced by job-seekers in our country today is unemployment or inability to land a good job. The search for good jobs for some has become a burden too hard to bear. This is because the available number of jobs is far fewer than the number of available job-seekers. Every year, over a million graduates are released into the job market with no corresponding job opportunities. As a result of this, one has to go the extra mile of  acquiring certain skills to add to their education. Today, having a degree or a diploma is not a ticket to securing a job. One needs to have those skills that employers are really looking for in order to have an edge over other job-seekers.

So, what are these critical employability skills that employers demand of job-seekers?

Communications Skills (listening, verbal, written). By far, the one skill mentioned most often by employers is the ability to listen, write, and speak effectively

Analytical/Research Skills. Deals with your ability to assess a situation, seek multiple perspectives, gather more information if necessary, and identify key issues that need to be addressed.

Computer/Technical Literacy. Almost all jobs now require some basic understanding of computer hardware and software, especially word processing, spreadsheets, and email.

Flexibility/Adaptability/Managing Multiple Priorities. Deals with your ability to manage multiple assignments and tasks, set priorities, and adapt to changing conditions and work assignments.

Interpersonal Abilities. The ability to relate to your co-workers, inspire others to participate, and mitigate conflict with co-workers is essential given the amount of time spent at work each day.

Leadership/Management Skills. While there is some debate about whether leadership is something people are born with, these skills deal with your ability to take charge and manage your co-workers.

Multicultural Sensitivity/Awareness. There is possibly no bigger issue in the workplace than diversity, and job-seekers must demonstrate a sensitivity and awareness to other people and cultures.

Planning/Organizing. Deals with your ability to design, plan, organize, and implement projects and tasks within an allotted timeframe. Also involves goal-setting.

Problem-Solving/Reasoning/Creativity. Involves the ability to find solutions to problems using your creativity, reasoning, and past experiences along with the available information and resources.

Teamwork. Because so many jobs involve working in one or more work-groups, you must have the ability to work with others in a professional manner while attempting to achieve a common goal.

Visit www.careergong.com NOW for job vacancies.

For further reading (reference) QuintCareers

KEYS TO SUCCESS

According to the free dictionary, Success is defined as "the achievement of something desired, planned or attempted. It is a feat that many would want to be identified with.

Napoleon Hill wrote a famous book “Keys to Success” reveals the 17 principles he found in the successful men he interviewed. Maybe these traits could help you too. When you look at the chapter headings you will see listed many of the requirements necessary to set up or improve a business successfully or in fact to live a successful life.

Develop Definiteness or Purpose

Basically to be successful in reaching your destination you need a “road map” or plan to show the direction you wish to go and where you want to arrive, whether it’s a journey to another town or a journey in life.

Establish a Mastermind Alliance

In the book his group is an imaginary group of famous successful men he admired. He visualizes them after studying their characters. He holds council with these men in his imagination. We may not choose to do that; we may consider how someone successful would tackle a problem however we all need the help of others to reach our true potential. We may get our help from studying books, the internet or meeting people.

Assemble an Attractive Personality

Ill mannered, bad tempered and irresponsible people that don’t consider others aren’t going to be very successful. Develop a pleasant demeanor; get along with people give that little bit extra in all you do.

Enforce Self-Discipline

Plan what you do and work your plan. If you plan to do something, do it don’t procrastinate. Don’t let others down. Be reliable, on-time and enthusiastic.

Learn from Adversity and Defeat

 “Every cloud has a silver lining”, learn from your mistakes, turn failure around stay positive and don’t give up.

 Cultivate Creative Vision

 Be creative visualize what you want to happen practice as the athletes do in their minds. Use mind power for an easier journey to success.

Budget your Time and Money

As in self-discipline don’t spend what you haven’t got, invest wisely both money and rime. Time is a finite resource don’t waste it.

You can also visit careergong.com to view job vacancies.

For further reading (reference) 17 Keys to success

JOB INTERVIEW TIPS

Before you go for any interview, you need to prepare yourself adequately. Research on the company and review the details of the position you applied for. Evaluate your expertise and strengths, and ways in which you can use your skill set to be an asset to the hiring organization. Anticipate how you will confidently answer questions asked.

First impressions are very important in the hiring process.

Here is how to answer two key interview questions:

“Tell Us about Yourself”

This is a common question. So, where do you even begin? Do you treat the question as if you are on a date and start talking about your interests, dislikes and whatnots? I will tell you this, the HR doesn’t want to know about where you grew up, or the kind of hardships you went through to get to the position you are in today.

When asked this question, you have to first focus on your academic background and professional experience. Give a brief overview of the two. For example: 

My name is Anastacia Kihoti, a communications graduate from Africa Nazarene University. I am currently a customer service manager with four years of experience working for SMEs and large organizations in the service industry in East Africa....

The next step is to talk about your career progression as well as what you have learnt or achieved through the years. Capture the HR’s attention by mentioning the accomplishments that you are most proud of. For example: 

As the customer service manager,  I managed a team of  fifty customer service representatives in introducing call center systems by developing customer interaction and voice response systems, and executing user acceptance test plans...

Finally, you should give a summary of what you want your next career step to be. Make sure this logically ties in to the responsibilities of the position you are interviewing for. For example:

I am looking to move away from customer service to coaching and developing team leaders and agents, managing the daily running of a call center and driving performance of the team leaders to meet the business KPIs...

What Are You Looking For in a New Position?

Start by mentioning that you are looking for a job which has the potential for advancement. Talk about the desire to work in an environment where you will be challenged and in which you can grow your skills while being mentored. Highlight the experience you expect to get from the position.

If you strive to work in a place that you’re excited to go to every morning or where you’ll be mentally stimulated, be honest about it. Tell the recruiter that those are the crucial aspects you want in a new position.

To view job vacancies or to have your CV written, visit careergong.com

For more information (reference) She leads Africa

TIPS ON WRITING A PRO CV

Your CV is the most important tool you have to sell yourself; so how can you make yours stand out?

Don’t sell yourself short

Many professionals think two pages is the maximum length for CVs – but it doesn’t have to be. 

Looks matter

Keep your CV neat and well presented – use readable fonts and logical formatting. 

Always proof read

Double check spelling, grammar and dates –

HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED FOR THE PERSONAL DATA SECTION OF YOUR CV...

Your personal details section is the first part of your CV, and it has the priority over all other sections. It is located at the top of the CV, and is the first thing your reader/ employer will see. You should therefore keep it as best, truthful and detailed as it should be; it holds the information that will be needed to contact you anytime.  

This information can be the header of your CV with your name heading it. However, you should know that your header should be written in the best way you like it: there is no such thing as the perfect CV; it’s your personal sales brochure, so you decide ultimately how you want to present yourself. But then, below are the things that are essential to include in the personal details section of your CV
· Name (in big, bold writing)
· Address
· Telephone number
· Email address

These ones below are things that are optional to Include in the Personal Details section
· Nationality
· Date of Birth
· Gender
· Marital Status
· Photograph
· Driving licence details
· Health status

Since your CV can only be two pages long, it will be a good idea if you keep this personal details section brief on your CV. Make sure to keep your CV and personal details professional!

Also ensure that you use an appropriate email address on your CV. It may not make your chances of getting an interview but it sure can destroy your chances if you get it wrong.

EVER THOUGHT ABOUT HAVING THE BEST RECRUITMENT COMMITTEE FOR YOUR HIRING PROCESS? HERE'S HOW...

The new form of staffing your company suggests that you make use of a recruitment  committee to recruit and select staff. A recruitment committee is a group of individuals formed for the purpose of assisting the recruiter in recruiting and screening the application of a posted vacancy. It also ensures that applicants selected for the interview stage and final consideration are evaluated by more than one individual to minimize discrimination due to bias.

Recruitment  committee members should be selected either from the unit or units most affected by the search, or selected from diverse units within and sometimes outside the division. This choice should be related to the level of the vacant position. As the level of responsibilities of the vacant position increases, the search committee members should be more widely representative of the entire campus and outside community; the main thing is that they should have a thorough knowledge of what the job is all about.

                             

Sometimes, the recruitment committees do not know what is expected of them, that is why it is necessary for you to clearly state their roles and duties in writing. Also, if they are selected from diverse units within and sometimes outside the division, it is vital that they are well trained regarding the necessary qualifications.

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