Ways to Enjoy Your Job in the Office (Part 1)

Working is something that the people do to in order to fulfill their needs in life. This activity sometimes makes us lazy and bored. This may be caused by many factors; the routines, the unfinished duties, the setting of the office, etc.

In this case, there are many things that you can do to avoid the boredom and stress so that you can work well. Stress is another factor that makes the people unproductive in doing their job. Here are some ways to get away from the stress and to enjoy your working in the office.

Stay in the area near to the office

Staying in the place where you can not access the office easily needs a hard try so that you will go to the office. Long distance that you have to journey may make your body feel tired after you reach the office in the morning and collapse when you reach home in the afternoon. The nearer office from our home will make us fresher because we do not have to think about the long trip that we have to take.

Do the task in the office not in the house

House and surroundings are the setting where we have to do our task as the social. This is a must not to bring the jobs home. Do your jobs in the office and never bring them home. If you bring your jobs to home, it may create the problem with social relationship in the home and its surroundings. The problems occurred can be with your husband/wife, children, parents, neighbors, etc.

Make a good relationship with coworkers and the people in the office

Pretend that your friends and boss in the office as your family. This atmosphere will make you comfort in doing your jobs in the office. You will help and support each other when you face difficulties in the jobs that you are working at. Try to make a good relation with everybody in the office so you will have a good condition to do your jobs.

Make a concept that working is not only for money

Although you have many jobs to do, do not forget to do your must to your God. Money is not everything although it is very important for our life. Make your job as the dedication to your God then you will feel peace, calm in doing your jobs. In addition, do not forget to share with other. For instance, give your money to the charity. If you believe, your giving will be a great thing for you and you will get the replacement from God for what you have shared.

Find a way to make your jobs easier to do

Always thinking about the new method or ways which can safe your time to do certain jobs is the best way to make your jobs easier to do. You can do it by trying to learn the latest technology and new office features. You can also join the seminars, try the error trial, ask to the senior or the experts etc. This will make you always have ways to finish your jobs without feeling bored and stressed.

Search for more conveniences

This way can be done when we get position that is not suitable with what we want. For example, we like to work in front of the computer, but we are placed in the field for days. You can talk this matter with your boss. This will make you get the chance of getting the jobs that you like. Show your dedication in order to get the position that you want. This is important to do the jobs that we like, so we will do the jobs well.

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Jobs For 15 Year Olds - The Only Things You Need Are Free Time and Internet

A lot of 15 year old teenagers feel that they are ready to look for a job and start working to earn some money. But in most cases companies still consider 15 year olds as too young for the jobs that they have available. If you are looking for jobs for 15 year olds do not panic, because there are other kind of jobs available that maybe you have not thought of as a job.

Modern technology has made it possible for younger teens also to have jobs. If you are still doing old fashioned jobs like baby sitting and delivering newspapers, it is time to wake up and smell the world wide web. The internet is a great way for teens to keep connected. But now it has also become the place for teens to find online jobs. It does not matter what skills you have or where in the world you live. It is possible to apply and start working the very same day for the so-called "get paid to" sites.

Most teenagers that have chosen online jobs share the opinion that those online jobs are way better than traditional jobs for teens. At the moment one of the most popular online jobs for teens is taking online surveys. It works this way: you give your opinion through surveys about products and topics and you get paid for giving your opinion. The best thing about these jobs is that you can choose where and when to work, without having to worry about transportation to your job and hurrying to get there on time. You can not find this kind of freedom with traditional teen jobs.

Taking surveys and doing other offers online is not difficult at all. You only have to fill in the information that is required. After finishing every offer or survey you can see the amount of money you have earned so far in the current month. The more you work, the more you will earn.

A free to join survey site is one of the ideal jobs for 15 year olds. It is even possible to make more money by referring your friends.

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Interview Tips - Pre-Interview Dos and Don'ts

Here are some tips regarding pre-interview behaviour that I have utilised myself. Notice this article refers to pre-interview, but also understand that the interview really starts as soon as you arrive at the designated location.

DOs

Arrive 10-15 mins early - Turning up with several minutes to spare let's you cool down and relax; go to the bathroom; check your hair, teeth and nose, wipe your brow and generally de-stress. By aiming to be there early, it also means you avoid arriving flustered as a result of rushing to be on time. If need be, practice a dry run of commuting to the interview destination at the same time on a previous day.

Eat and be well hydrated - Sure these are two things you should be doing anyway, but many people forget to as a result of preparing or travelling to the interview. Nourishment will aid your concentration during the interrogation, and being hydrated will ensure your mouth isn't dry when answering those difficult questions.

Smile - Nobody likes a sourpuss so ensure you're smiling when you arrive. Smile in the elevator, smile at the receptionist and most certainly smile when greeting your interviewer. Practice your smile at home if you have to and verify that it's sincere - people can spot a fake grin a mile off. As Tyra Banks would say on America's Next Top Model, "You have to smize", that is smile with your eyes too. By the way I don't actually watch ANTM, but overheard it when switching channels the other day.

Firm handshake - Sometimes the best first impression you can make is with a firm handshake. I've interviewed hundreds of graduates and it never ceases to amaze me how many falter on this aspect. Whenever meeting anyone that doesn't shake my hand firmly, it immediately puts me off and presents the other person as weak and lacking confidence - definitely not the impression you want to make with an interviewer. There's further handshake etiquette you should be mindful of by running a search on the internet.

Initiate small talk - You know that period when your interviewer is leading you to the interview room? Well that's not meant to be awkwardly silent. In fact it's the perfect opportunity to make small talk and break the ice. If you're not an adroit conversationalist then ask/make some preconceived questions/comments. Examples I have used before:

* "Great views from this office, I don't know how you get any work done?"

* "Some great artwork in this building; I especially liked the mural in the lobby"

Such remarks will often spark a hearty conversation and demonstrate you're an affable human being.

Be well-dressed -

Martin Frohm: What would you say if a man walked in here with no shirt, and I hired him? What would you say?

Christopher Gardner: He must have had on some really nice pants.

I love the above dialogue from one of my favourite movies, The Pursuit of Happyness. I definitely don't recommend executing it though, unless you have a spectacular story to match. So for the rest of us that aren't Will Smith, make sure you dress appropriately for your particular industry. Law graduates can assume business formal when interviewing at a firm whereas science graduates might be required to wear less formal attire. Either way, ask the interviewer beforehand if you're unsure.

Find out name of receptionist - I especially like this one. I used this tactic before successfully when interviewing at a multinational firm some years back. When arriving at the designated offices of the company I greeted the receptionist and found out her name was Jenny. I also engaged her in some cheerful banter (but not too much as she was busy answering calls and welcoming people). Then as the interviewer lead me away to the location of the interview, I give her a wave and said "Thanks Jenny". It brought a smile to her face and I could tell by the expression of the interviewer, he was highly impressed. Also note that receptionists are asked to observe you as you wait and then report their feedback about your body language to managers.

DON'Ts

Don't use your phone - Do not talk, text, play games or listen to music on your phone while waiting at reception for your interviewer to arrive - even if you installed the coolest iPhone app. This is an increasing problem among youth today as technology becomes more mobile and they become more technology savvy. Turn off your phone completely! Silent will not suffice. It's just as disconcerting for yourself and the interviewer if they hear the sound of vibrations in your jacket pocket during the interview. Any calls received during this time can go straight to voicemail.

Don't smoke - This is something I advocate at all times, but if you happen to be partial to a puff of the cigarette then don't do it before the interview. Personal space can sometimes be compromised in small interview rooms and the last thing an employer wants to smell on you is a waft of foul tobacco induced odour. It's such an obvious smell especially on chronic smokers so save your cancer stick for post interview. It could also indicate to your future employer that you'll be less productive at work as you take frequent breaks to support your ailing habit.

Don't overdo the perfume - Some cologne or perfume is recommended for both males and females, however it shouldn't be overpowering. When the fragrance is excessive it can be quite nauseating for people around you.

Don't bring too many bags - Avoid carrying a lot (gym bag, laptop, luggage) to the interview as it proves to be very cumbersome. Try and schedule appointments such as the gym or guitar lessons well after the interview to leave you enough time to go home first. Steer clear of shopping beforehand and save the stocktake sales for after.

Don't drink coffee - Coffee smells really nice in a cup but revolting on someone's breath. As per smoking, save your caffeine addiction for after the interview.

Don't interview if you aren't well - In such instances avoid the interview and call up the potential employer with your sincerest regrets. Ask them if it's possible to reschedule and affirm your enthusiasm for the position. In most cases this won't be a problem, even if the interview is conducted in a group setting. Just be genuine and your future hiring manager will be sympathetic to your situation; if not, then it's probably not somewhere you want to work anyway.

Well I hope these tips will help you ace the pre-interview stage.

Copyright 2010 Andrew C Abraham

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Power Performance - Tips For a Job Interview

Are you looking for some great tips for a job interview? Many people feel nervous and unprepared going into these situations, often because it is such an unfamiliar experience. After all, most people do not spend much of their lives meeting with strangers and selling themselves on their background and value. When you have finished this article you will realize that these great tips will help you ace your next job interview by learning to treat the interviewer as a fellow human being, portray yourself as a consultant, and maintain the balance of confidence and power you need to perform your best.

Your Interviewer is a Person

When people research the best tips for a job interview, they often focus so much on the research process and practicing their stories and examples that they forget the hiring manager is just a person like themselves. Managers and human resources folks get up and put their pants on one leg at a time in the morning, just like you. Don't get so caught up in rehearsed and scripted behavior that you forget to make it a friendly and warm dialogue between two people. You want them to feel comfortable with you and get a feeling for what you would be like to work with day to day.

You Are a Consultant

Try to approach the interview as if you are an expert consultant and the interviewer is a client who as asked for your help. During the interview you want to be identifying problems and challenges facing the organization. Craft your responses to showcase examples from your background that show how much value you will add to the position if you are hired.

Maintain the Balance of Power

Unfortunately, many people walk into a job interview feeling nervous and disadvantaged. The best job interview tip I can give you is this: don't walk in to the interview with your hat in your hand like a beggar. Even if you are desperate for work, you need to portray yourself as a valuable asset and a talented professional that the company would be crazy not to hire. Don't be arrogant or cocky, but make sure you express confidence in your attitude and demeanor. Your future boss needs to know right away that you are the perfect choice for this job.

These tips for a job interview can really make the difference between getting the job and losing it to your competition. Always remember, the interviewer is just a person like you! If you can portray yourself as a confident and valuable consultant rather than someone desperately hoping for any job that will have them, you will find yourself in the driver's seat when it comes to negotiating the final terms and salary of your new job.

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Top Ten Tips For Your Job Interview

Job Interviews are daunting, mainly because there is so much riding on them and yet you have so little time to make the right impression. Being prepared and being in the right 'head space' are key to making them successful.

Here are some tips to help you through the process.

1. Know Your Audience

Interviews are not a one size fits all kind of affair. As with all aspects of going for an interview, you need to prepare. This includes not just knowing about the company, but also about your particular interviewer. Having some information about them will really help to put you at ease as well as help you to prepare your approach.

2.Forget about the fact that you really want them to hire you

This may sound odd, but often in life we are so focused on other people liking us, we forget to consider whether we even like them. Before you even get to the interview stage, really consider whether you want to work for this particular company.

There is no point in going to all the trouble of changing your career, only to find yourself working somewhere that doesn't fulfill you. Again.

3. Now Consider Why You Want to Work There

So, you've decided that this is definitely somewhere you want to work. Now you need to clarify why. You will definitely be asked, so be sure to have a coherent, intelligent answer. Base your reasons around how you can contribute to the company, and why you want to contribute to this particular company.

4. Be Confident, but not Overly So

It's important to appear confident, but no one likes a know-it-all, or a display of arrogance. Know what you are talking about, but ask questions too. Be careful about how you sit as well - it has been known to put interviewers right off to have someone sitting far too casually in front of them.

5. Be Polite to Everyone

Don't make the mistake of thinking your don't need to be polite to anyone except the person interviewing you. It is common practice for an interviewer to ask the receptionist or secretary for their opinion, as the will have seen you somewhat 'off guard'.

6. Build Rapport

Of course your qualifications, experience and suitability to the role are going to be taken into account, but if it comes down to you and someone else with a very similar credentials, you can bet it will come down to who they liked the most. So, be sure to work on building a good rapport during the interview. There are many techniques you can employ to do this - for instance, matching and mirroring the interviewer's posture, language and tone.

7. Don't use Abbreviations without Explaining them

This is just really annoying and can put someone off you straight away. If you use an abbreviation, explain straight afterwards what it means. If they already know, they will tell you, and if they don't they will appreciate your clarification.

8. Don't ask about Holidays and Sick Days

If all you focus on is when can you get out of work...well, it just doesn't give the right impression, does it?

9. Don't Complain about Previous Employers

No one likes to listen to someone complaining, and it certainly doesn't bode well in an interview. If you are willing to complain about your old job in a formal setting, you will probably do the same about your new job - that is how the interviewer will see it.

10. Dress Well

It's an obvious one, but really think it through. You need to be smart and clean, of course, and also don't show too much flesh. As well as that, don't forget about the conditions you are going to be in. If you're likely to get hot and sweaty, consider this in your choice of clothes and fabrics. Sweatiness will make you look unappealling as well as overly nervous.

Bebhinn O'Loingsigh is a Life Coach at Hightail Coaching Solutions. She works with professionals who feel unfulfilled, stuck in a rut, or burnt out and want to make some big life changes.

Whether you want to take a career break to get a fresh perspective, change your career, start your own business or completely overhaul your life, Bebhinn can coach you through the process and out the other side.

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Quick Internet Tips to Help Find a Job

When a job seeker says "I don't have Internet access," or "I'm not Internet savvy," it cannot be an excuse in this competitive environment the job market has become. Here are some quick thoughts:

- Sorry, but faxing doesn't cut it anymore.

- Get email account for FREE at Yahoo, Hotmail or Google.

- Go to a friend's house with Internet or to your local library because THEY HAVE INTERNET!

- Enroll in a free or sometimes VERY cheap, local "Learn How to Use Internet" classes at Library or community colleges, high schools, etc. - sign up for a $25/class to learn basics of internet terms, navigation, etc. Even Microsoft Word to develop your resume and cover letter.

- Post your resume onto general and niche specific job boards as well as company portals. Almost all companies post their job openings on their website...so go to a company website, find the CAREERS section and enter that career section (called a portal)...sometimes you can even setup an account before applying to a job, post your resume onto that company career account and setup keyword alerts....thus, if you're a mechanical engineer and they post a job a month later for an mechanical engineer, the company will let you know via this alert to your email, which will allow for you to apply as soon as it's posted...this can allow for you to be on top of the application list too for recruiters, because sometimes recruiters at companies will only look at the top 100 applicants as opposed to all 1000 candidates who applied (and being one of the 1st to apply, can make you higher on that list, thus in the top 100).

- Setup Google news and Yahoo news alerts for the word "'relocating' or 'relocation' and the job seeker's city or near-city's name" to find companies who are relocating to the job seeker's area; "expansion" and "growth" to identify growth companies and emerging opportunities for you to seek out hiring decision makers and recruiters at those companies.

- Review leading online and published newspapers like Forbes and Wall St. Journal to keep up on those growth industries (as well as your local paper).

- DON'T BE INTIMIDATED OR ASHAMED! YOU WANT/NEED TO LEARN! YOU ARE BETTERING YOURSELF! THIS IS THE RIGHT STEP FORWARD! IF YOU AREN'T DOING IT, YOUR COMPETITION IS!

- Finally (non-Internet related), try to place yourself into growth industries (biotech, nutrition, energy & renewable energies, photonics, and IT) that you can fit into in respect to your transferable skills as opposed to dying industries (textile, printing, apparel manufacturing & general manufacturing such as steel, and airlines).

Matthew Warzel

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Advancing Your Career with Social Network Sites

Should Your Boss Be a Facebook Friend?
by Robert DiGiacomo, for Yahoo! HotJobs


The invites to join Linked In, Facebook, MySpace, Ryze.com and other social networking sites are flooding your inbox from friends, colleagues, ex-coworkers, college classmates, and even your boss. Do you accept them all or weed some out? And how can you build upon these relationships to advance your career?

Like much of our virtual existence, the rules for online networking follow those of the real world: Follow-up is key, flattery works, and don't put something in writing if it could hurt your prospects.

Networking Made Easier

Adding online contacts is just the first step of networking -- you must also keep in touch with them, says Alexandra Levit, a career consultant, blogger, and author of "They Don't Teach Corporate in College."

"Mind your networks, and make sure you're using them to keep track of people," Levit says. "One of the biggest mistakes is to make a valuable contact and let it drop."

Maintain Distinct Identities

If you would rather your boss not find out the details of your Cinco de Mayo fiesta, separate your virtual personal life from work, via dedicated social networking pages, according to Anastasia Goodstein, founder of the YPulse.com blog and author of "Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online."

"Tell your boss you're setting up a page for professional contacts -- here's the link and 'friend' me there," Goodstein says. "Find a way to do it graciously, but keep it separate from your personal page."

Invitations and Recommendations

Rather than rejecting an unwanted "friend," accept the invite, but limit your interactions. "Just accepting them as a contact isn't going to do you any harm," Levit says. "Where I would draw the line is writing any kind of recommendation or endorsement of that person."

Use social networks to garner recommendations, and strengthen ties to business associates and colleagues by posting referrals for them.

"Nothing will endear you to the person more than telling them what you think of them and doing something nice," Levit says.

Keep It Confidential

Check your company's privacy policy before conducting certain kinds of business on a social network. Many companies are using search engines to monitor blogs, so watch what you say and where you say it.

"If you're talking about your top-secret product with a coworker on Facebook, I'm sure the IT department won't be very happy," Goodstein says.

At the same time, Goodstein adds, employers should spell out what's appropriate for chatting or blogging -- and what's meant for internal correspondence only.

Context Is King

When posting personal information or photos, leave out any revealing images, references to drug use, or material that might be considered politically incorrect. "Don't have anything on there you'd be embarrassed to have grandparents or religious officiants see," Levit says.

Managers shouldn't discount automatically a candidate with a questionable photo or posting, depending on whether the material violates company policy or can be chalked up to a youthful indiscretion.

"It's a great opportunity to ask them about it in an interview," Goodstein says. "Younger people have been online for most of their lives, so it could be something they posted 10 years ago, but they've probably evolved since then. You can tell by how they answer if somebody's going to be a good fit."

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