Saturday, April 21, 2007

Three Myths About The Translation Business

The native speaker principle is overrated, and the academic concept of ‘quality’ means little in a business context. Statements such as these may sound offensive to translators and clients alike. Yet those who plan to start up a translation business should be aware that the received views of the translation establishment may have little to do with reality.

There are countless languages in the world, most of which have many thousands and some even billions of monolingual or bilingual speakers. The laws of statistics would seem to dictate, therefore, that any attempt to set up a translation business is futile, if only because the number of potential competitors is overwhelming. However, once you have begun your translation business you will realise that serious competition – i.e., from rivals with business acumen and the nerve to question translation myths – is in fact comparatively scarce.

Native speakers are generally held to be indisputable authorities on translation issues. This leads us to the first myth about the translation business: the native speaker is infallible. When you start up your own translation business you will soon discover that most customers, especially the more knowledgeable ones, will demand that the translation be done by a native speaker, on the assumption that a native speaker is automatically a good writer. Not so. While there may be over a billion native speakers of English worldwide, only a fraction of them can be relied upon to possess the judgement it takes to decide whether a translation is linguistically sound in a given business context. We should not automatically assume that a native speaker is a good writer in his own language, and even less that he is a good translator. For one thing, translation requires thorough insight into the source language as well as the target language. When you hire translators for your business, you should never forget that while a good translator is usually a native speaker of the target language, not all native speakers are good translators.

The second myth about the translation business has to do with client priorities, and the assumption that more than anything else, clients want quality. People can be excused for taking this myth seriously. Anyone in his right mind would expect that the client’s main concern when engaging a professional translation agency is to get a high-quality translation. Not so. Studies have shown that most clients are in fact more interested in speed than in quality. This is not to say that your client will be pleased to accept any trash as long as he gets it fast; the point is that quality standards in a business context are different from those in an academic context, and may be overshadowed by practical concerns. University students are trained to achieve linguistic perfection, to produce translations formulated in impeccable grammar and a superbly neutral style. Yet the fruits of such training may not be quite to the business client’s taste. In fact, there are probably as many tastes as there are clients. A lawyer will expect you first and foremost to build unambiguous clauses and use appropriate legalese; a machine builder requires technical insight and authentic technical jargon; and the publisher of a general interest magazine needs articles that are simply a good read. What all clients tend to have in common, however, is a reverence for deadlines. After all, when a foreign client has arrived to sign a contract, there should be something to sign; when a magazine has been advertised to appear, it should be available when the market expects it. In a business environment, many different parties may be involved in the production of a single document, which means that delays will accumulate fast and may have grave financial consequences. So, starters should be aware that ‘quality’ equals adaptability to the client’s register and jargon, and that short deadlines are as likely to attract business as quality assurance procedures.

And if you manage to attract business, you will find that the translation industry can be quite profitable, even for business starters. The third myth we would like to negate is that translation is essentially an ad hoc business with very low margins. Not so. Various successful ventures in recent years, for example in the Netherlands and in Eastern Europe, have belied the traditional image of the translator slaving away from dawn till dusk in an underheated attic and still barely managing to make ends meet. It is true that the translation process is extremely labour intensive, and despite all the computerisation efforts, the signs are that it will essentially remain a manual affair for many years to come. Nevertheless, if you are capable of providing high-quality translations, geared to your client’s requirements and within the set deadlines, you will find that you will be taken seriously as a partner and rewarded by very decent bottom line profits.
The native speaker principle is overrated, and the academic concept of ‘quality’ means little in a business context. Statements such as these may sound offensive to translators and clients alike. Yet those who plan to start up a translation business should be aware that the received views of the translation establishment may have little to do with reality.

There are countless languages in the world, most of which have many thousands and some even billions of monolingual or bilingual speakers. The laws of statistics would seem to dictate, therefore, that any attempt to set up a translation business is futile, if only because the number of potential competitors is overwhelming. However, once you have begun your translation business you will realise that serious competition – i.e., from rivals with business acumen and the nerve to question translation myths – is in fact comparatively scarce.

Native speakers are generally held to be indisputable authorities on translation issues. This leads us to the first myth about the translation business: the native speaker is infallible. When you start up your own translation business you will soon discover that most customers, especially the more knowledgeable ones, will demand that the translation be done by a native speaker, on the assumption that a native speaker is automatically a good writer. Not so. While there may be over a billion native speakers of English worldwide, only a fraction of them can be relied upon to possess the judgement it takes to decide whether a translation is linguistically sound in a given business context. We should not automatically assume that a native speaker is a good writer in his own language, and even less that he is a good translator. For one thing, translation requires thorough insight into the source language as well as the target language. When you hire translators for your business, you should never forget that while a good translator is usually a native speaker of the target language, not all native speakers are good translators.

The second myth about the translation business has to do with client priorities, and the assumption that more than anything else, clients want quality. People can be excused for taking this myth seriously. Anyone in his right mind would expect that the client’s main concern when engaging a professional translation agency is to get a high-quality translation. Not so. Studies have shown that most clients are in fact more interested in speed than in quality. This is not to say that your client will be pleased to accept any trash as long as he gets it fast; the point is that quality standards in a business context are different from those in an academic context, and may be overshadowed by practical concerns. University students are trained to achieve linguistic perfection, to produce translations formulated in impeccable grammar and a superbly neutral style. Yet the fruits of such training may not be quite to the business client’s taste. In fact, there are probably as many tastes as there are clients. A lawyer will expect you first and foremost to build unambiguous clauses and use appropriate legalese; a machine builder requires technical insight and authentic technical jargon; and the publisher of a general interest magazine needs articles that are simply a good read. What all clients tend to have in common, however, is a reverence for deadlines. After all, when a foreign client has arrived to sign a contract, there should be something to sign; when a magazine has been advertised to appear, it should be available when the market expects it. In a business environment, many different parties may be involved in the production of a single document, which means that delays will accumulate fast and may have grave financial consequences. So, starters should be aware that ‘quality’ equals adaptability to the client’s register and jargon, and that short deadlines are as likely to attract business as quality assurance procedures.

And if you manage to attract business, you will find that the translation industry can be quite profitable, even for business starters. The third myth we would like to negate is that translation is essentially an ad hoc business with very low margins. Not so. Various successful ventures in recent years, for example in the Netherlands and in Eastern Europe, have belied the traditional image of the translator slaving away from dawn till dusk in an underheated attic and still barely managing to make ends meet. It is true that the translation process is extremely labour intensive, and despite all the computerisation efforts, the signs are that it will essentially remain a manual affair for many years to come. Nevertheless, if you are capable of providing high-quality translations, geared to your client’s requirements and within the set deadlines, you will find that you will be taken seriously as a partner and rewarded by very decent bottom line profits.

posted by zzzzzzzzzzz at 3:46 AM

How to become a successful freelance translator

After completing their translation training programmes at higher professional education or university level, many students can’t wait to set up as a freelance translator. However, gaining a foothold as a freelancer in a very competitive translation market may turn out to be a pretty complicated business. Translation agencies are not usually keen on contracting inexperienced translators, business clients are difficult to find without commercial tools, and the tax authorities won’t just accept anyone as a self-employed person. So what do you need to do to set up shop as a successful freelance translator?

Translation agencies
Most translation agencies are wary of admitting new freelancers into their networks. After all, it takes a while before it really becomes clear whether a freelancer can live up to their expectations: does he/she stick to agreed deadlines, offer a consistent level of quality, consult relevant reference resources, deal effectively with various registers and specialisations (commercial, technical, medical, financial, IT, etc.)? Many translation agencies begin with a ‘trial period’ in which they closely monitor the work submitted by new freelance translators. To reduce the risk of a fiasco – and avoid the associated costs – translation agencies normally only accept applications from freelance translators who have had at least two or three years’ fulltime experience in the translation business.

Business clients
In their attempts to introduce themselves directly to companies, freelancers usually find it difficult to gain access to the people that matter and, once they are there, to secure orders. Companies tend to prefer outsourcing translation services to partners that are able to offer comprehensive solutions. They look for agencies that can fill their translation needs in a range of different languages, are always available, can take on specialised texts and have the procedures in place to ensure that all deadlines are met. In view of their need for continuity, capacity and diversity it is hardly surprising that many companies select an all-round translation agency rather than individual freelancers. An agency may be more expensive than a freelancer, but the additional service and quality guarantees justify the extra investment.

Tips to achieve success as a freelance translator
What steps will you need to take after graduation to develop into a successful freelance translator?
1. After completing your studies, it’s best not to present yourself on the market straightaway as a freelance translator, but first to find employment at an all-round translation firm and spend a couple of years there to gain the necessary practical experience. As a salaried employee your income will be less compared to what you might potentially earn in a freelance capacity, but don’t forget that without experience you’re never going to be successful in the first place. In many cases, you will be assigned to a senior translator who revises your translations, monitors your progress, and makes you aware of your strengths and weaknesses. This will enable you to acquire the skills and baggage you need on your way to becoming a professional translator, and will give you the opportunity to experiment with various types of texts and disciplines.
2. If you can’t find a position in paid employment, try to find a post as an (unpaid) trainee. A translation agency may not have the capacity or resources to take on new staff, but it may still be able to offer you an excellent training post to help you gain practical experience in a commercial environment. A traineeship may serve as an effective springboard for a career in the translation business, perhaps even within the same agency that offered the traineeship.
3. After having whetted your skills at a translation agency for a number of years, you may decide that the time has come for you to find your own clients. Ideally, you should move on to a part-time contract so that you have enough time to recruit clients and work for them, and enough money to live on. It is important to make clear arrangements with your boss at this stage, to avoid a conflict of interests. The best strategy is to send your personal details and CVs to a selected group of professional translation firms and translation departments within companies and governmental institutions, explicitly referring to your work experience. Don’t forget to highlight your willingness to do a free test translation.
4. Make sure to register as a self-employed person with the relevant tax authorities and seek their advice if necessary.
5. Once you have managed to find enough freelance work to keep yourself busy for around 20 hours a week, you might consider terminating your employment contract and devoting the extra time to attracting new business. In 20 hours most experienced freelance translators tend to earn around as much as a full-time translator in salaried employment.

These are obviously very general guidelines, and your personal career may evolve along quite different lines depending on your preferences, skills and personal conditions. Whatever your circumstances, however, you will find that experience and a certain amount of business acumen are the things that matter most in a successful freelance career.
After completing their translation training programmes at higher professional education or university level, many students can’t wait to set up as a freelance translator. However, gaining a foothold as a freelancer in a very competitive translation market may turn out to be a pretty complicated business. Translation agencies are not usually keen on contracting inexperienced translators, business clients are difficult to find without commercial tools, and the tax authorities won’t just accept anyone as a self-employed person. So what do you need to do to set up shop as a successful freelance translator?

Translation agencies
Most translation agencies are wary of admitting new freelancers into their networks. After all, it takes a while before it really becomes clear whether a freelancer can live up to their expectations: does he/she stick to agreed deadlines, offer a consistent level of quality, consult relevant reference resources, deal effectively with various registers and specialisations (commercial, technical, medical, financial, IT, etc.)? Many translation agencies begin with a ‘trial period’ in which they closely monitor the work submitted by new freelance translators. To reduce the risk of a fiasco – and avoid the associated costs – translation agencies normally only accept applications from freelance translators who have had at least two or three years’ fulltime experience in the translation business.

Business clients
In their attempts to introduce themselves directly to companies, freelancers usually find it difficult to gain access to the people that matter and, once they are there, to secure orders. Companies tend to prefer outsourcing translation services to partners that are able to offer comprehensive solutions. They look for agencies that can fill their translation needs in a range of different languages, are always available, can take on specialised texts and have the procedures in place to ensure that all deadlines are met. In view of their need for continuity, capacity and diversity it is hardly surprising that many companies select an all-round translation agency rather than individual freelancers. An agency may be more expensive than a freelancer, but the additional service and quality guarantees justify the extra investment.

Tips to achieve success as a freelance translator
What steps will you need to take after graduation to develop into a successful freelance translator?
1. After completing your studies, it’s best not to present yourself on the market straightaway as a freelance translator, but first to find employment at an all-round translation firm and spend a couple of years there to gain the necessary practical experience. As a salaried employee your income will be less compared to what you might potentially earn in a freelance capacity, but don’t forget that without experience you’re never going to be successful in the first place. In many cases, you will be assigned to a senior translator who revises your translations, monitors your progress, and makes you aware of your strengths and weaknesses. This will enable you to acquire the skills and baggage you need on your way to becoming a professional translator, and will give you the opportunity to experiment with various types of texts and disciplines.
2. If you can’t find a position in paid employment, try to find a post as an (unpaid) trainee. A translation agency may not have the capacity or resources to take on new staff, but it may still be able to offer you an excellent training post to help you gain practical experience in a commercial environment. A traineeship may serve as an effective springboard for a career in the translation business, perhaps even within the same agency that offered the traineeship.
3. After having whetted your skills at a translation agency for a number of years, you may decide that the time has come for you to find your own clients. Ideally, you should move on to a part-time contract so that you have enough time to recruit clients and work for them, and enough money to live on. It is important to make clear arrangements with your boss at this stage, to avoid a conflict of interests. The best strategy is to send your personal details and CVs to a selected group of professional translation firms and translation departments within companies and governmental institutions, explicitly referring to your work experience. Don’t forget to highlight your willingness to do a free test translation.
4. Make sure to register as a self-employed person with the relevant tax authorities and seek their advice if necessary.
5. Once you have managed to find enough freelance work to keep yourself busy for around 20 hours a week, you might consider terminating your employment contract and devoting the extra time to attracting new business. In 20 hours most experienced freelance translators tend to earn around as much as a full-time translator in salaried employment.

These are obviously very general guidelines, and your personal career may evolve along quite different lines depending on your preferences, skills and personal conditions. Whatever your circumstances, however, you will find that experience and a certain amount of business acumen are the things that matter most in a successful freelance career.

posted by zzzzzzzzzzz at 3:45 AM

The pros and cons of personnel in the translation business

To be or not to be: operate as a freelancer or as an employer?

By Fester Leenstra

Are you planning to set up a translation business? Then there are two or three fundamental questions you will need to consider if you want your business to be a success. One of these, and in fact the most obvious one, is how to attract clients. However, the marketing effort and insight needed to tackle the issue of client acquisition is the subject of another article. In this specific issue I would like to concentrate on a fundamental dilemma that many self-employed translators will face: to work as a freelancer or to take staff on board.

The answer to this question depends in part on you ambitions as a translator. If translation is a job on the side for you, if you are able to combine your translation work with a host of related business concerns, from technical to administrative, and if you don't mind working in solitary confinement, then it is probably a good idea for you to set up shop as a freelancer. From that position you will be able to work for translation agencies and specific clients alike, decide for yourself how much work to take on and when to take days off. One drawback is that you will not always be able to satisfy your clients, especially in terms of volume, forcing them to also engage the services of other translators who may be more specialised or have more capacity. Another drawback is that you will generally be working on your own, without the company of colleagues to chat with or consult. Most of the people you do get in contact with will probably never be known to you other than as a person at the other end of the telephone line. In addition, you will always be responsible for all the aspects of your business, without having the possibility to delegate tasks to people who may be more suitable for them than yourself. This means, for example, that you will have to generate your own business and find ways of attracting clients. On the upside, however, if your translation work is of good quality and you acquire a reputation as a reliable partner, even among a few clients, then you may soon find that business generates itself.

If a freelance existence does not appeal to you, one alternative is to hire people - translators or other specialists - and to become an employer, rather than principally a translator. This strategy offers a number of obvious and significant benefits. The most important advantage is that by setting up a team you will be able to generate far more turnover than as a freelancer - provided that you generate sufficient business to keep the team running. By multiplying your translation capacity you will be in a much better position to land large-scale orders. If you also manage to find high-quality marketing & sales specialists, moreover, you will be able to convince bigger, high-profile companies of your professional approach and ensure them of the continuity of your business, even when you are not there yourself.

There is an adage that says that big companies prefer to do business with big partners, and even if there are many exceptions to that rule, there is no denying that highly reputed global businesses will obviously tend to select high-profile suppliers for whatever it is they might want to purchase. Even so, you don't need to be a mega-employer to provide translation services to major industry names. In the commercial translation business, individual agencies with five employees already count and those with twenty or more are the major players.

Of course, employees are a mixed blessing. They will need to be seen to. Employees need attention, encouragement, and guidance. Even if no problems occur, you may find that you are spending more time sorting out employee-related administrative matters than working as a translator - unless of course you hire other employees who can look after employee issues. As long as business is booming - which it may well be if your agency is run effectively, because demand for translation services is immense - there is a risk of ending up in an employment spiral. The dialectics of progress rule that the more you grow, the less benefit your growth will bring, so clearly this is a situation you want to avoid. Carefully controlled expansion is crucial.

In summary, a freelance business offers a great deal of personal freedom but imposes clear and inevitable limits to the scope of your work. Another downside is that it condemns you to a solitary and essentially domestic career. If you prefer a more dynamic business environment and do not fear employee issues or serious competition, you might consider setting up an agency and taking on people to work for you. The size and success of your business will ultimately depend on your professional and commercial ambitions.
To be or not to be: operate as a freelancer or as an employer?

By Fester Leenstra

Are you planning to set up a translation business? Then there are two or three fundamental questions you will need to consider if you want your business to be a success. One of these, and in fact the most obvious one, is how to attract clients. However, the marketing effort and insight needed to tackle the issue of client acquisition is the subject of another article. In this specific issue I would like to concentrate on a fundamental dilemma that many self-employed translators will face: to work as a freelancer or to take staff on board.

The answer to this question depends in part on you ambitions as a translator. If translation is a job on the side for you, if you are able to combine your translation work with a host of related business concerns, from technical to administrative, and if you don't mind working in solitary confinement, then it is probably a good idea for you to set up shop as a freelancer. From that position you will be able to work for translation agencies and specific clients alike, decide for yourself how much work to take on and when to take days off. One drawback is that you will not always be able to satisfy your clients, especially in terms of volume, forcing them to also engage the services of other translators who may be more specialised or have more capacity. Another drawback is that you will generally be working on your own, without the company of colleagues to chat with or consult. Most of the people you do get in contact with will probably never be known to you other than as a person at the other end of the telephone line. In addition, you will always be responsible for all the aspects of your business, without having the possibility to delegate tasks to people who may be more suitable for them than yourself. This means, for example, that you will have to generate your own business and find ways of attracting clients. On the upside, however, if your translation work is of good quality and you acquire a reputation as a reliable partner, even among a few clients, then you may soon find that business generates itself.

If a freelance existence does not appeal to you, one alternative is to hire people - translators or other specialists - and to become an employer, rather than principally a translator. This strategy offers a number of obvious and significant benefits. The most important advantage is that by setting up a team you will be able to generate far more turnover than as a freelancer - provided that you generate sufficient business to keep the team running. By multiplying your translation capacity you will be in a much better position to land large-scale orders. If you also manage to find high-quality marketing & sales specialists, moreover, you will be able to convince bigger, high-profile companies of your professional approach and ensure them of the continuity of your business, even when you are not there yourself.

There is an adage that says that big companies prefer to do business with big partners, and even if there are many exceptions to that rule, there is no denying that highly reputed global businesses will obviously tend to select high-profile suppliers for whatever it is they might want to purchase. Even so, you don't need to be a mega-employer to provide translation services to major industry names. In the commercial translation business, individual agencies with five employees already count and those with twenty or more are the major players.

Of course, employees are a mixed blessing. They will need to be seen to. Employees need attention, encouragement, and guidance. Even if no problems occur, you may find that you are spending more time sorting out employee-related administrative matters than working as a translator - unless of course you hire other employees who can look after employee issues. As long as business is booming - which it may well be if your agency is run effectively, because demand for translation services is immense - there is a risk of ending up in an employment spiral. The dialectics of progress rule that the more you grow, the less benefit your growth will bring, so clearly this is a situation you want to avoid. Carefully controlled expansion is crucial.

In summary, a freelance business offers a great deal of personal freedom but imposes clear and inevitable limits to the scope of your work. Another downside is that it condemns you to a solitary and essentially domestic career. If you prefer a more dynamic business environment and do not fear employee issues or serious competition, you might consider setting up an agency and taking on people to work for you. The size and success of your business will ultimately depend on your professional and commercial ambitions.

posted by zzzzzzzzzzz at 3:44 AM

What Is SAP

SAP, started in 1972 by five ex-IBM employees in Mannheim, Germany, states that it is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company and the world's fourth-largest independent software supplier, overall. To have a comprehensive range of applications the tangible SAP idea was to provide customers with the capacity to cooperate with a common corporate database and so the applications have been assembled gradually and today the number of corporations such as IBM and Microsoft are also using SAP products for running their own businesses. SAP applications, built around their latest R/3 system, provide the capability to deal with financial, asset, and cost accounting, production operations and materials, personnel, plants, as well as archived documents. The R/3 system runs on a number of platforms including Windows 2000 and uses the client/server model. The most recent version of R/3 includes a comprehensive Internet-enabled package. In recent times SAP has recast its product offerings under an inclusive Web interface, called mySAP.com, and added new e-business applications, with customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM). But in early 2001, SAP, a publicly traded company, had 21,500 employees in more than 50 countries, and 30,000 installations. Now a days SAP is whirling its full attention to small-and-medium sized businesses. A recent R/3 version was supplied for IBM's AS/400 platform.

SAP Skills that are in demand (USA market):

After the September 11 tragedy, the job market has went down very badly. By the contribution of unimaginable rates, lot of recruiters is taking gratuitous advantages of the market conditions. Many existing SAP clients have been holding on to new projects for variety of reasons and consultants who have been waiting for new projects for a while are now organized to get into any project at the recruiters terms and conditions. Besides market condition is forcing many consulting companies to cease their full time employees straight away after their current project gets over. These are employees who have been serving these companies for a long period of time and are now facing annihilation at any point of time. Independent consultants and full time employees of consulting companies that were laid off recently are the nastiest to suffer, and even they do not have the option to get a full time job, because there is no one available and there is a freeze on hiring in lot of companies. Benefits include low cost and on-time implementation, client driven project and active participation of employees. Key for survival in today's market is to expand experience in countless areas of SAP, rather than specializing in one particular thing.

Skills that are still in demand are as follows:

• Functional consultants: Experienced functional consultants in any module will always be in demand for a long time.

• ABAP programmers: This skill has lost good market value but will continue to be around forever because of changes done to existing projects and new developments. Demand for HR ABAP programmers have vanished. But programmers with experience in multiple modules, ESS, SAP Script, BAPI, and RFC etc. will persist to be in demand.

• Human Resource (HR): Specialized knowledge of Travel and Expenses module, Recruitment, Tax configuration, extremely good Payroll functional consultants are still in good demand.

• BASIS consultants: Consultants that have good experience in upgrading new versions, UNIX or Windows NT skill and database administration will be in demand.

• APO (Supply chain)

• Business Warehouse (BW): many were thinking BW will be the next hot skill. Due to weakness in economy and tools created by third party, this module has not picked up like expected.

Skills that have good potential are as follows:

• Project Management: Customers that are planning to upgrade will need experienced Project Managers & Team leaders to drive the project from scoping and planning all the way through implementation.

• Human Resource (HR): SAP 46X version of HR is very user friendly and has many added functionalities. Good payroll and time functional consultants will continue to be in demand.

• ALE: Very few consultants get opportunity to do ALE, so there is still shortage of expert ALE consultants.

Modules that may not provide better rates due to more supply of consultants are all modules in general, HR ABAP and functional and SAP workplace.
SAP, started in 1972 by five ex-IBM employees in Mannheim, Germany, states that it is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company and the world's fourth-largest independent software supplier, overall. To have a comprehensive range of applications the tangible SAP idea was to provide customers with the capacity to cooperate with a common corporate database and so the applications have been assembled gradually and today the number of corporations such as IBM and Microsoft are also using SAP products for running their own businesses. SAP applications, built around their latest R/3 system, provide the capability to deal with financial, asset, and cost accounting, production operations and materials, personnel, plants, as well as archived documents. The R/3 system runs on a number of platforms including Windows 2000 and uses the client/server model. The most recent version of R/3 includes a comprehensive Internet-enabled package. In recent times SAP has recast its product offerings under an inclusive Web interface, called mySAP.com, and added new e-business applications, with customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM). But in early 2001, SAP, a publicly traded company, had 21,500 employees in more than 50 countries, and 30,000 installations. Now a days SAP is whirling its full attention to small-and-medium sized businesses. A recent R/3 version was supplied for IBM's AS/400 platform.

SAP Skills that are in demand (USA market):

After the September 11 tragedy, the job market has went down very badly. By the contribution of unimaginable rates, lot of recruiters is taking gratuitous advantages of the market conditions. Many existing SAP clients have been holding on to new projects for variety of reasons and consultants who have been waiting for new projects for a while are now organized to get into any project at the recruiters terms and conditions. Besides market condition is forcing many consulting companies to cease their full time employees straight away after their current project gets over. These are employees who have been serving these companies for a long period of time and are now facing annihilation at any point of time. Independent consultants and full time employees of consulting companies that were laid off recently are the nastiest to suffer, and even they do not have the option to get a full time job, because there is no one available and there is a freeze on hiring in lot of companies. Benefits include low cost and on-time implementation, client driven project and active participation of employees. Key for survival in today's market is to expand experience in countless areas of SAP, rather than specializing in one particular thing.

Skills that are still in demand are as follows:

• Functional consultants: Experienced functional consultants in any module will always be in demand for a long time.

• ABAP programmers: This skill has lost good market value but will continue to be around forever because of changes done to existing projects and new developments. Demand for HR ABAP programmers have vanished. But programmers with experience in multiple modules, ESS, SAP Script, BAPI, and RFC etc. will persist to be in demand.

• Human Resource (HR): Specialized knowledge of Travel and Expenses module, Recruitment, Tax configuration, extremely good Payroll functional consultants are still in good demand.

• BASIS consultants: Consultants that have good experience in upgrading new versions, UNIX or Windows NT skill and database administration will be in demand.

• APO (Supply chain)

• Business Warehouse (BW): many were thinking BW will be the next hot skill. Due to weakness in economy and tools created by third party, this module has not picked up like expected.

Skills that have good potential are as follows:

• Project Management: Customers that are planning to upgrade will need experienced Project Managers & Team leaders to drive the project from scoping and planning all the way through implementation.

• Human Resource (HR): SAP 46X version of HR is very user friendly and has many added functionalities. Good payroll and time functional consultants will continue to be in demand.

• ALE: Very few consultants get opportunity to do ALE, so there is still shortage of expert ALE consultants.

Modules that may not provide better rates due to more supply of consultants are all modules in general, HR ABAP and functional and SAP workplace.

posted by zzzzzzzzzzz at 3:44 AM

SAP Modules

The SAP FI (Financial Accounting) Module has the competence of meeting all the accounting and financial needs of an organization. Along with other managers, Financial Managers within your business and same module can review the financial position of the company in real time as contrasted to legacy systems which necessitate overnight updates before financial statements frequently and can be generated for management review. The real-time functionality of the SAP modules allows for better decision making and strategic planning. The FI Module incorporates with other SAP Modules such as MM (Materials Management), PP (Production Planning), SD (Sales and Distribution), PM (Plant Maintenance), and PS (Project Systems). The FI Module also assimilates with HR (Human Resources) that includes PM (Personnel Management), Time Management, Travel Management, Payroll. Document transactions occurring within the precise modules generate account postings by means of account determination tables.

The SAP CO (Controlling) Module endow with supporting information to Management for the purpose of planning, reporting, as well as monitoring the operations of their business. Management decision-making can be achieved with the level of information provided by this module. The Cost Element Accounting component provides information which includes both the costs and revenue for an organization. These postings are updated automatically from FI to CO. The cost elements are the foundation for cost accounting and facilitate the User the ability to display costs for each of the accounts that have been assigned to the cost element. Cost Center Accounting provides information on the costs incurred by your business. You have the ability to assign Cost Centers to departments and managers responsible for certain areas of the business as well as functional areas within the SAP. Cost Centers can be created for such functional areas as Marketing, Purchasing, Human Resources, Finance, Facilities, Information Systems, Administrative Support, Legal, Shipping/Receiving, or even Quality.

Some of the benefits of Cost Center Accounting:

(1) Managers can set Budget/Cost Center targets
(2) Cost Center visibility of functional areas of your business
(3) Planning
(4) Availability of Cost allocation methods and
(5) Assessments of costs to other cost objects.

Internal Orders provide a means of tracking costs of a specific job, service, or task. Internal Orders are used as a method of gathering those costs and business transactions that are linked to the task. This level of monitoring can be very detailed but allows management the ability to review Internal Order activity. Activity-Based Costing authorize a better definition of the source of costs to the process driving the cost and it also enhances Cost Center Accounting that allows for a process-oriented and cross-functional view of your cost centers. Product Cost Controlling allows management the capability to examine their product costs and to make decisions on the optimal price to market their products. The methods which can be utilized for EC-PCA (Profit Center Accounting) are period accounting or by the cost-of-sales approach. Profit Centers can be set-up to identify product lines, divisions, geographical regions, offices, production sites or by functions. Profit Centers are used for Internal Control purposes enabling management the ability to review areas of responsibility within their organization
The SAP FI (Financial Accounting) Module has the competence of meeting all the accounting and financial needs of an organization. Along with other managers, Financial Managers within your business and same module can review the financial position of the company in real time as contrasted to legacy systems which necessitate overnight updates before financial statements frequently and can be generated for management review. The real-time functionality of the SAP modules allows for better decision making and strategic planning. The FI Module incorporates with other SAP Modules such as MM (Materials Management), PP (Production Planning), SD (Sales and Distribution), PM (Plant Maintenance), and PS (Project Systems). The FI Module also assimilates with HR (Human Resources) that includes PM (Personnel Management), Time Management, Travel Management, Payroll. Document transactions occurring within the precise modules generate account postings by means of account determination tables.

The SAP CO (Controlling) Module endow with supporting information to Management for the purpose of planning, reporting, as well as monitoring the operations of their business. Management decision-making can be achieved with the level of information provided by this module. The Cost Element Accounting component provides information which includes both the costs and revenue for an organization. These postings are updated automatically from FI to CO. The cost elements are the foundation for cost accounting and facilitate the User the ability to display costs for each of the accounts that have been assigned to the cost element. Cost Center Accounting provides information on the costs incurred by your business. You have the ability to assign Cost Centers to departments and managers responsible for certain areas of the business as well as functional areas within the SAP. Cost Centers can be created for such functional areas as Marketing, Purchasing, Human Resources, Finance, Facilities, Information Systems, Administrative Support, Legal, Shipping/Receiving, or even Quality.

Some of the benefits of Cost Center Accounting:

(1) Managers can set Budget/Cost Center targets
(2) Cost Center visibility of functional areas of your business
(3) Planning
(4) Availability of Cost allocation methods and
(5) Assessments of costs to other cost objects.

Internal Orders provide a means of tracking costs of a specific job, service, or task. Internal Orders are used as a method of gathering those costs and business transactions that are linked to the task. This level of monitoring can be very detailed but allows management the ability to review Internal Order activity. Activity-Based Costing authorize a better definition of the source of costs to the process driving the cost and it also enhances Cost Center Accounting that allows for a process-oriented and cross-functional view of your cost centers. Product Cost Controlling allows management the capability to examine their product costs and to make decisions on the optimal price to market their products. The methods which can be utilized for EC-PCA (Profit Center Accounting) are period accounting or by the cost-of-sales approach. Profit Centers can be set-up to identify product lines, divisions, geographical regions, offices, production sites or by functions. Profit Centers are used for Internal Control purposes enabling management the ability to review areas of responsibility within their organization

posted by zzzzzzzzzzz at 3:43 AM

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Fax Resume Distribution - Submitting Your Resume through Fax

The resume is considered to be one of the most important documents you need to submit when you are applying for a job. It will tell the employer about your qualifications for the position you are applying for and it also tells them why you are more qualified than the other people who are also lining up for the same job.

When you watch TV or when you look at the classifieds section in your newspaper, you will usually see companies advertising a vacant position in one or more of their departments. If you are unemployed and you see this kind of ad, you can't help it but list down all the details in order for you to apply for the job.

However, you also need to face the fact that there are certain deadlines for resume submission. If you submit your resume a day late, then you can be sure that your resume will not be entertained. It is very important for you to submit your resume on time in order to be one of the people in front of the line for the job interview. So, how will you be able to submit your resume if the company is located at another state? Surely, traditional postal mail will not make it. One of the best ways to submit your resume is through the fax machine.

With a fax machine, you will be able to submit your resume with just a phone call to the company. Another great thing about submitting your resume through fax is that you will be able to submit it on time and way before the deadline.

However, before you do submit your resume through the fax machine, you still need to keep a few things in mind.

Before you submit your resume, it is important to include a resume cover letter. This is your formal introduction of yourself to the company or to the employer. With a resume cover letter, you can be sure that you will increase your chances of getting noticed by the employer and be one of the people to be considered for a final interview. Always remember that hundreds of equally qualified people will want to get the job too. It is the cover letter's job to tell the employer about why you should be the one chosen for the job.

It is also important to proof read your resume and your resume cover letter in order to make sure that there are no grammatical errors and any typos. A resume with mistakes will be more than likely to be sent off to the recycle bin than getting considered for that final interview.

Always remember that a perfect resume also reflects the person who wrote the resume. If there are typos and grammars, it will mean that you don’t even care to get the job offered as you didn’t even care taking a look at your resume to check for errors.

Besides, after faxing it to the company, there absolutely is no way you can retrieve your resume once you submit it unless you want to drive out to the company building in another state and inform the human resources department about the mistake.

These are some of the things you have to remember when submitting a resume through fax. Just remember that before you even distribute your resume and your cover letter through fax, you need to check and double check it for any grammatical errors, typos and if necessary, triple check it to ensure a professional looking resume.
The resume is considered to be one of the most important documents you need to submit when you are applying for a job. It will tell the employer about your qualifications for the position you are applying for and it also tells them why you are more qualified than the other people who are also lining up for the same job.

When you watch TV or when you look at the classifieds section in your newspaper, you will usually see companies advertising a vacant position in one or more of their departments. If you are unemployed and you see this kind of ad, you can't help it but list down all the details in order for you to apply for the job.

However, you also need to face the fact that there are certain deadlines for resume submission. If you submit your resume a day late, then you can be sure that your resume will not be entertained. It is very important for you to submit your resume on time in order to be one of the people in front of the line for the job interview. So, how will you be able to submit your resume if the company is located at another state? Surely, traditional postal mail will not make it. One of the best ways to submit your resume is through the fax machine.

With a fax machine, you will be able to submit your resume with just a phone call to the company. Another great thing about submitting your resume through fax is that you will be able to submit it on time and way before the deadline.

However, before you do submit your resume through the fax machine, you still need to keep a few things in mind.

Before you submit your resume, it is important to include a resume cover letter. This is your formal introduction of yourself to the company or to the employer. With a resume cover letter, you can be sure that you will increase your chances of getting noticed by the employer and be one of the people to be considered for a final interview. Always remember that hundreds of equally qualified people will want to get the job too. It is the cover letter's job to tell the employer about why you should be the one chosen for the job.

It is also important to proof read your resume and your resume cover letter in order to make sure that there are no grammatical errors and any typos. A resume with mistakes will be more than likely to be sent off to the recycle bin than getting considered for that final interview.

Always remember that a perfect resume also reflects the person who wrote the resume. If there are typos and grammars, it will mean that you don’t even care to get the job offered as you didn’t even care taking a look at your resume to check for errors.

Besides, after faxing it to the company, there absolutely is no way you can retrieve your resume once you submit it unless you want to drive out to the company building in another state and inform the human resources department about the mistake.

These are some of the things you have to remember when submitting a resume through fax. Just remember that before you even distribute your resume and your cover letter through fax, you need to check and double check it for any grammatical errors, typos and if necessary, triple check it to ensure a professional looking resume.

posted by zzzzzzzzzzz at 2:43 AM

How To Become A Full-Time Grantwriter

Most people learn grant writing accidentally; their employer needs funding and there is no one else to tackle the grant applications. This learning involves a lot of trial and error – mostly error in the beginning. Get a head start and teach yourself grant writing. By taking the steps below, I went from knowing nothing about grant writing to becoming a full-time grant writer.

Improve Your Writing Skills

Grant writing will be easier if you already enjoy writing, but that doesn’t guarantee you will good at this form of writing. You must be able to write persuasively and in a detailed, yet concise, manner. If you are not confident in your writing skills, take a writing course at your local community college or online.

Research the Craft of Grant Writing

Read as many “How To” grant writing books as your brain can hold. The two books that I found to be the most helpful are Grant Writing for Dummies by Bev Browning and Writing for a Good Cause by Joseph Barbato and Danielle Furlich.

You can find all the books, grant listings and information you need at your nearest Grant Information Center, which is a free funding information center provided by the Foundation Center. Find the closest Cooperative Collection in your State at visit the Foundation Center’s website.

If, after reading several books, they all start to sound the same - this is good! It means the grant writing process is getting etched in your mind.

Read Grants

Get ahold of some grants from friends, colleagues or a quick Google search. There are successful sample proposals available online at School Grants.

Read these and take notes on the similarities: what kind of writing is effective in presenting a clear project? What makes the Objectives section work? What elements of an Evaluation section have you believing in the project’s success, which cause doubt? Which budgets would you give your money to?

Have you noticed a feeling that you are reading the same thing repeatedly? That is because most grant applications ask the same fundamental questions, just in a different order or with a focus specific to their group’s mission. Become familiar with this application and understand the best way to address each section. Check out a common application forms available here.

Volunteer To Write Grants

There is no shortage of under funded non-profits strapped for cash and time that would love you to write and research grants for them, despite your utter lack of experience. Ask everyone in your social, professional, and family networks if they know of an organization fitting that description.

Bring to this position the knowledge you have amassed from your reading and a strong desire to learn and help. If you start to feel like an indentured servant, remind yourself that the experience you are gaining is the reward. Meanwhile, do your best work and keep track of what grants you research, identify, and write. These are all the first seeds to plant in your grant-writing portfolio.

Find a Good Editor

Find a strong writer (preferably someone with experience writing grants) to look over your work and offer honest feedback. The Executive Director, Director of Programs or even a friend will do. You do not have to always follow their advice, but begin to look for patterns. Do your objectives always score high marks while your evaluation plans confuse people? Focus on improving the areas that constantly come up as needing improvement.

Apply for Grant Writing Jobs

When you have succeeded in researching and writing grants that have been funded - you have arrived! Now go out and apply for full-time grant writing jobs. List your volunteer experience under relevant work experience and highlight not only the grants you wrote, but also the research and planning that you did.

Be sure to quantify your success – this is a skill needed in writing grants. Plus, if you can quantify your own success, any employer will be confident that you can quantify theirs.

Congratulations!

You are well on your way to becoming a full-time grant writer, leaving only one thing left to do. Start at your printer and time exactly how long it takes you to get to Fed Ex. This information will be very handy in future deadline planning!
Most people learn grant writing accidentally; their employer needs funding and there is no one else to tackle the grant applications. This learning involves a lot of trial and error – mostly error in the beginning. Get a head start and teach yourself grant writing. By taking the steps below, I went from knowing nothing about grant writing to becoming a full-time grant writer.

Improve Your Writing Skills

Grant writing will be easier if you already enjoy writing, but that doesn’t guarantee you will good at this form of writing. You must be able to write persuasively and in a detailed, yet concise, manner. If you are not confident in your writing skills, take a writing course at your local community college or online.

Research the Craft of Grant Writing

Read as many “How To” grant writing books as your brain can hold. The two books that I found to be the most helpful are Grant Writing for Dummies by Bev Browning and Writing for a Good Cause by Joseph Barbato and Danielle Furlich.

You can find all the books, grant listings and information you need at your nearest Grant Information Center, which is a free funding information center provided by the Foundation Center. Find the closest Cooperative Collection in your State at visit the Foundation Center’s website.

If, after reading several books, they all start to sound the same - this is good! It means the grant writing process is getting etched in your mind.

Read Grants

Get ahold of some grants from friends, colleagues or a quick Google search. There are successful sample proposals available online at School Grants.

Read these and take notes on the similarities: what kind of writing is effective in presenting a clear project? What makes the Objectives section work? What elements of an Evaluation section have you believing in the project’s success, which cause doubt? Which budgets would you give your money to?

Have you noticed a feeling that you are reading the same thing repeatedly? That is because most grant applications ask the same fundamental questions, just in a different order or with a focus specific to their group’s mission. Become familiar with this application and understand the best way to address each section. Check out a common application forms available here.

Volunteer To Write Grants

There is no shortage of under funded non-profits strapped for cash and time that would love you to write and research grants for them, despite your utter lack of experience. Ask everyone in your social, professional, and family networks if they know of an organization fitting that description.

Bring to this position the knowledge you have amassed from your reading and a strong desire to learn and help. If you start to feel like an indentured servant, remind yourself that the experience you are gaining is the reward. Meanwhile, do your best work and keep track of what grants you research, identify, and write. These are all the first seeds to plant in your grant-writing portfolio.

Find a Good Editor

Find a strong writer (preferably someone with experience writing grants) to look over your work and offer honest feedback. The Executive Director, Director of Programs or even a friend will do. You do not have to always follow their advice, but begin to look for patterns. Do your objectives always score high marks while your evaluation plans confuse people? Focus on improving the areas that constantly come up as needing improvement.

Apply for Grant Writing Jobs

When you have succeeded in researching and writing grants that have been funded - you have arrived! Now go out and apply for full-time grant writing jobs. List your volunteer experience under relevant work experience and highlight not only the grants you wrote, but also the research and planning that you did.

Be sure to quantify your success – this is a skill needed in writing grants. Plus, if you can quantify your own success, any employer will be confident that you can quantify theirs.

Congratulations!

You are well on your way to becoming a full-time grant writer, leaving only one thing left to do. Start at your printer and time exactly how long it takes you to get to Fed Ex. This information will be very handy in future deadline planning!

posted by zzzzzzzzzzz at 2:43 AM

Heavy Equipment Operators

Heavy Equipment Training, Behind the Wheel and You

Each and every day, long before the average individual awakens from their deep rest, long before an alarm clock beeps, and before tea across our country begins to simmer, an event happens that a few select men and women dream of. They aren't of the typical breed. They are driven, from deep within. They were born to drive extreme machines: Grades, Backhoes, Dump Trucks, Loaders, Semi's, Excavators and giant equipment made to do one task, things you already know about and stuff you’ve never even heard of or knew existed. We're talking about tasks that have 1 vital thing in common: it requires a seriously huge machine to get the job done.

Ordinary, common persons get up, attempt to fully wake up with the help of a hot shower, grab their fast food, drive-through breakfast, sit in traffic for what seems like a lifetime or more, to do the exact same thing hundreds of thousands of men and women are destined to do: be chained behind a desk, questioning their career choice.That’s the glimpse of what you may be, but you know deep in your gut, that "ain't" for you.

That’s the glimpse of what you may be, but you know deep in your gut, that "ain't" for you.

The rest of that pathetic job force aren’t too far off from that, but add a clip-on tie, a brightly colored blazer, a tool of their trade: a mop or broom, a spatula, and / or the inevitable frustrating feeling that the choice they made is a dead wringer for years on end of boredom, and the degree of humiliation that results in them having a reason to legitimately bang their head against the wall.

Before that single ignition is turned on and you pump that beast's pedals, releasing a surge of thunderous power to vibrate from your heel to to the end of your hairs, like you’ve just dangled a Easter ham in front of a shark, ever happens, the rest of the world carries on in their usual, predictable way.

That’s the glimpse of what you may be, but you know deep in your gut, that "ain't" for you.

The rest of that pathetic job force aren’t too far off from that, but add a clip-on tie, a brightly colored blazer, a tool of their trade: a mop or broom, a spatula, and / or the inevitable frustrating feeling that the choice they made is a dead wringer for years on end of boredom, and the degree of humiliation that results in them having a reason to legitimately bang their head against the wall.

But, that is not you (thankfully). You were born with unbridled toughness. You’re not the kind of decision maker who drops to the ground, wearing a grimace from ear to ear whenever you stub your finger. Not you. Johnny Cash described a person like you as having gravel in your gut and spit in your eye. Before the common folk crowd ever has the chance to slap their snooze button on their alarm clock, hoping for another 10 minutes, you are already in the seat of an envious combination of steel, fuel, and attitude driven by earth commanding muscle. Sucking in fresh air, sun on your face, and a view few will ever personally witness, there you are, large and in charge. You’re the one who wisely decided long ago, there was no way you were ever going to having your future decided by somebody else or have your destiny dictated to you by some yahoo with a self-appointed, ego stroking title. Go figure. Heavy equipment training obviously isn’t for just anybody, of all people, you definitely already know that.
Heavy Equipment Training, Behind the Wheel and You

Each and every day, long before the average individual awakens from their deep rest, long before an alarm clock beeps, and before tea across our country begins to simmer, an event happens that a few select men and women dream of. They aren't of the typical breed. They are driven, from deep within. They were born to drive extreme machines: Grades, Backhoes, Dump Trucks, Loaders, Semi's, Excavators and giant equipment made to do one task, things you already know about and stuff you’ve never even heard of or knew existed. We're talking about tasks that have 1 vital thing in common: it requires a seriously huge machine to get the job done.

Ordinary, common persons get up, attempt to fully wake up with the help of a hot shower, grab their fast food, drive-through breakfast, sit in traffic for what seems like a lifetime or more, to do the exact same thing hundreds of thousands of men and women are destined to do: be chained behind a desk, questioning their career choice.That’s the glimpse of what you may be, but you know deep in your gut, that "ain't" for you.

That’s the glimpse of what you may be, but you know deep in your gut, that "ain't" for you.

The rest of that pathetic job force aren’t too far off from that, but add a clip-on tie, a brightly colored blazer, a tool of their trade: a mop or broom, a spatula, and / or the inevitable frustrating feeling that the choice they made is a dead wringer for years on end of boredom, and the degree of humiliation that results in them having a reason to legitimately bang their head against the wall.

Before that single ignition is turned on and you pump that beast's pedals, releasing a surge of thunderous power to vibrate from your heel to to the end of your hairs, like you’ve just dangled a Easter ham in front of a shark, ever happens, the rest of the world carries on in their usual, predictable way.

That’s the glimpse of what you may be, but you know deep in your gut, that "ain't" for you.

The rest of that pathetic job force aren’t too far off from that, but add a clip-on tie, a brightly colored blazer, a tool of their trade: a mop or broom, a spatula, and / or the inevitable frustrating feeling that the choice they made is a dead wringer for years on end of boredom, and the degree of humiliation that results in them having a reason to legitimately bang their head against the wall.

But, that is not you (thankfully). You were born with unbridled toughness. You’re not the kind of decision maker who drops to the ground, wearing a grimace from ear to ear whenever you stub your finger. Not you. Johnny Cash described a person like you as having gravel in your gut and spit in your eye. Before the common folk crowd ever has the chance to slap their snooze button on their alarm clock, hoping for another 10 minutes, you are already in the seat of an envious combination of steel, fuel, and attitude driven by earth commanding muscle. Sucking in fresh air, sun on your face, and a view few will ever personally witness, there you are, large and in charge. You’re the one who wisely decided long ago, there was no way you were ever going to having your future decided by somebody else or have your destiny dictated to you by some yahoo with a self-appointed, ego stroking title. Go figure. Heavy equipment training obviously isn’t for just anybody, of all people, you definitely already know that.

posted by zzzzzzzzzzz at 2:42 AM

When to Say No to the Money and Yes to Yourself

"Happiness is the state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values" - Ayn Rand

It is often the case that people find themselves in the dilemma of either choosing to stay at a job because it is a guaranteed pay check or leaving to pursue their passion and lose their income - at least for a while - and worse, and uncertain amount of time.

In my experience this is one of the most difficult decisions to make. You are unhappy in your work, you dread Monday mornings, you know you are better suited for something else and that the only way to really go after what you truly want is to let go of the job that demands all of your time and take that risk. But, as usual, easier said than done.

We have all heard those stories of people who have risked everything to pursue their dreams. For example, what about the high-powered New York couple who was earning 7-figures and left it all to open their own pie shop in a small norther Michigan town? And, these people had never made pies before! Or the couple who spent years losing their money on various entrepreneurial ventures and finally found outrageous success baking bread.

The problem is, for every 1 who is successful, many many more fail to reach their objective and many end up right back where they started....and often nearly broke.

So, how do you do what is right for you, go after your passion, and make sure you end up on the side of outrageous success?

Here are 5 Keys to Transitioning Intelligently and Achieving Career/Life Satisfaction and Success

1. Learn About Yourself,

This takes time. I have worked with several clients who come to me in this exact situation and want to get out of their current situation so desperately that they decide to go after the first thing that peaks their interest. These are often ventures that sound exciting or romantic but either have no teeth or aren't their true passion. So, take the time and do the work involved in getting to know yourself and what you really want. Identify your core values, those values that you are not willing to compromise on and that your work must allow you to express. When you have an idea, try imagining yourself in that role all day, day after day and see how that feels. If you are truly uniting who you are with what you do, it will feel effortless.

2. Research

Once you narrow your options down, research. Get out there and talk to people. Spend a day with someone who does what you would like to do. Seek out a mentor. Find out everything you can - the good and the bad - and then see where you want to go.

3. Set Goals - Make a Plan

This is perhaps the most critical step. Setting clear, measurable, and time-specific goals and then committing to achieving them will be the difference between your success and failure. You must set goals and you must commit to achieve them. Clarify them and make sure they are your goals and not the goals of a parent or husband/wife or friend. Create short term goals to help you get there and spend a minimum of 10 minutes every day focusing on what you want to achieve and how you are going to do it.

4. Take a Step

Taking one step in the direction of your goals can have a dramatic affect on how quickly you achieve them. It is very often the case that as soon as you move in the direction of your goals, no matter how small a step, you will begin to feel happier and more successful. Goals create a vision and a direction and they help your mind to focus and pay attention to what really matters to you. Make a movement every day in the direction of your dreams.

5. Go For It and Be Willing to Accept the Consequences

What are you willing to live with? Before you make any radical life change you have to anticipate the consequences of it not going exactly how you want. This is not to deter you but rather to help you plan for the obstacles - because there will be plenty in front of you. Decide what you are willing to live with, determine the price you are willing to pay to achieve your dreams and get busy paying. There comes a time when you just have to lay it all out there and go for it. When you find yourself hesitating ask yourself "what is the worst that can happen?". It is usually not enough to stop successful people form taking the leap. Remember, you have endured a lot and you can bounce back from anything but if you don't give it a try, you will be saying yes to mediocrity when you could be embracing unlimited success.
"Happiness is the state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values" - Ayn Rand

It is often the case that people find themselves in the dilemma of either choosing to stay at a job because it is a guaranteed pay check or leaving to pursue their passion and lose their income - at least for a while - and worse, and uncertain amount of time.

In my experience this is one of the most difficult decisions to make. You are unhappy in your work, you dread Monday mornings, you know you are better suited for something else and that the only way to really go after what you truly want is to let go of the job that demands all of your time and take that risk. But, as usual, easier said than done.

We have all heard those stories of people who have risked everything to pursue their dreams. For example, what about the high-powered New York couple who was earning 7-figures and left it all to open their own pie shop in a small norther Michigan town? And, these people had never made pies before! Or the couple who spent years losing their money on various entrepreneurial ventures and finally found outrageous success baking bread.

The problem is, for every 1 who is successful, many many more fail to reach their objective and many end up right back where they started....and often nearly broke.

So, how do you do what is right for you, go after your passion, and make sure you end up on the side of outrageous success?

Here are 5 Keys to Transitioning Intelligently and Achieving Career/Life Satisfaction and Success

1. Learn About Yourself,

This takes time. I have worked with several clients who come to me in this exact situation and want to get out of their current situation so desperately that they decide to go after the first thing that peaks their interest. These are often ventures that sound exciting or romantic but either have no teeth or aren't their true passion. So, take the time and do the work involved in getting to know yourself and what you really want. Identify your core values, those values that you are not willing to compromise on and that your work must allow you to express. When you have an idea, try imagining yourself in that role all day, day after day and see how that feels. If you are truly uniting who you are with what you do, it will feel effortless.

2. Research

Once you narrow your options down, research. Get out there and talk to people. Spend a day with someone who does what you would like to do. Seek out a mentor. Find out everything you can - the good and the bad - and then see where you want to go.

3. Set Goals - Make a Plan

This is perhaps the most critical step. Setting clear, measurable, and time-specific goals and then committing to achieving them will be the difference between your success and failure. You must set goals and you must commit to achieve them. Clarify them and make sure they are your goals and not the goals of a parent or husband/wife or friend. Create short term goals to help you get there and spend a minimum of 10 minutes every day focusing on what you want to achieve and how you are going to do it.

4. Take a Step

Taking one step in the direction of your goals can have a dramatic affect on how quickly you achieve them. It is very often the case that as soon as you move in the direction of your goals, no matter how small a step, you will begin to feel happier and more successful. Goals create a vision and a direction and they help your mind to focus and pay attention to what really matters to you. Make a movement every day in the direction of your dreams.

5. Go For It and Be Willing to Accept the Consequences

What are you willing to live with? Before you make any radical life change you have to anticipate the consequences of it not going exactly how you want. This is not to deter you but rather to help you plan for the obstacles - because there will be plenty in front of you. Decide what you are willing to live with, determine the price you are willing to pay to achieve your dreams and get busy paying. There comes a time when you just have to lay it all out there and go for it. When you find yourself hesitating ask yourself "what is the worst that can happen?". It is usually not enough to stop successful people form taking the leap. Remember, you have endured a lot and you can bounce back from anything but if you don't give it a try, you will be saying yes to mediocrity when you could be embracing unlimited success.

posted by zzzzzzzzzzz at 2:42 AM

Are You Dissatisfied With Your Job?

Are you dissatisfied with your job? Are you looking for a New Career? Do you dream of finding a job that you love?

You can have a career that you love, the only problem is, most people are afraid to make a move. What if it's not what they hoped for? What if they end up losing their current job? What if it does not work out and they lose money? The steps below will help you if you are thinking about a change in your career.

1. Why Do You Want to Change?

The first and most important step is to discover why you want to change your job. If the problems you are trying to avoid have nothing to do with your job but involve external circumstances (such as a troublesome co-worker or disrespectful supervisor), you may be able to improve your current position and love the job you already have by bringing your issues to the attention of your superiors.

2. Do Your Homework.

Research the position you are looking into. Making a career change can be a very exciting experience, but make sure you do not dive in without properly thinking it through and researching it.

3. Get Experience.

How do you know if you are even going to enjoy the job once you have it? If possible, get experience in the field you are looking into. Talk to current employees that are doing what you want to do. If you have friends who are working in the job you are thinking of applying for, get in contact with them. Find out what they like about it. By doing this, you will have a better idea of knowing if the change you are thinking about making is the right change for you.

4. Give It Time.

Before you do anything, put the idea of changing careers in the drawer for at least a few weeks to let the initial excitement die down. This will ensure that you're not making a life-changing decision on a whim or passing phase. Best of luck!
Are you dissatisfied with your job? Are you looking for a New Career? Do you dream of finding a job that you love?

You can have a career that you love, the only problem is, most people are afraid to make a move. What if it's not what they hoped for? What if they end up losing their current job? What if it does not work out and they lose money? The steps below will help you if you are thinking about a change in your career.

1. Why Do You Want to Change?

The first and most important step is to discover why you want to change your job. If the problems you are trying to avoid have nothing to do with your job but involve external circumstances (such as a troublesome co-worker or disrespectful supervisor), you may be able to improve your current position and love the job you already have by bringing your issues to the attention of your superiors.

2. Do Your Homework.

Research the position you are looking into. Making a career change can be a very exciting experience, but make sure you do not dive in without properly thinking it through and researching it.

3. Get Experience.

How do you know if you are even going to enjoy the job once you have it? If possible, get experience in the field you are looking into. Talk to current employees that are doing what you want to do. If you have friends who are working in the job you are thinking of applying for, get in contact with them. Find out what they like about it. By doing this, you will have a better idea of knowing if the change you are thinking about making is the right change for you.

4. Give It Time.

Before you do anything, put the idea of changing careers in the drawer for at least a few weeks to let the initial excitement die down. This will ensure that you're not making a life-changing decision on a whim or passing phase. Best of luck!

posted by zzzzzzzzzzz at 2:41 AM

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Helena Employment Agency

The employment agencies in Helena or Helena Employment Agencies are helping the job hunters get better jobs at different companies in Helena by recruiting the suitable candidates for the vacant posts.

The employment agencies other than giving the vacancy lists in the websites are also known for coaching and mentoring the job seekers. The Helena employment agencies need to full fill the needs of various companies and organizations by providing qualified candidates on the immediate basis. So, they work with a deadline. The employment agencies seek talented job seekers and guide them to get better jobs. The individual staff of the employment agencies is each specialized in the recruitment of a particular industry, for example, recruitment of Information Technology professionals or non-IT professionals. They recruit exceptional candidates in the areas technical, marketing, sales support and management. As they need to achieve a timely goal of staffing, they speed up to catch the right candidates. With the need for meeting the deadline, the recruiters also need to meet the guarantee of quality candidates. That is why they search for candidates with professional spirit.

Employment agencies screen the candidates based on the demands of the clients, who will give specifications and select candidates that are best qualified for particular jobs and submit them to the clients for interview. Some times, on the demands of the client, the recruiters themselves schedule the interview and also negotiate with the client companies the salary demands of the candidate.

Those senior individuals that wish to change their job can approach the employment agencies. Companies can also consult the recruiters to get better human force for their company. Those companies in Helena, who want a talent from its rival company, can also consult the recruiters. The recruiters will approach the person and try to persuade the person to change his company with the promise of higher salary and other benefits. Recruiters with better knowledge of the market and the workings of business organizations can assess the needs of the client companies. So they will try sincerely in perusing the fitting candidates. It is also a matter of reputation for the employment agencies that their recruitment for a company will build them a name and fame, and future projects. So, they work under a pressure to find and select ideal candidates.
The employment agencies in Helena or Helena Employment Agencies are helping the job hunters get better jobs at different companies in Helena by recruiting the suitable candidates for the vacant posts.

The employment agencies other than giving the vacancy lists in the websites are also known for coaching and mentoring the job seekers. The Helena employment agencies need to full fill the needs of various companies and organizations by providing qualified candidates on the immediate basis. So, they work with a deadline. The employment agencies seek talented job seekers and guide them to get better jobs. The individual staff of the employment agencies is each specialized in the recruitment of a particular industry, for example, recruitment of Information Technology professionals or non-IT professionals. They recruit exceptional candidates in the areas technical, marketing, sales support and management. As they need to achieve a timely goal of staffing, they speed up to catch the right candidates. With the need for meeting the deadline, the recruiters also need to meet the guarantee of quality candidates. That is why they search for candidates with professional spirit.

Employment agencies screen the candidates based on the demands of the clients, who will give specifications and select candidates that are best qualified for particular jobs and submit them to the clients for interview. Some times, on the demands of the client, the recruiters themselves schedule the interview and also negotiate with the client companies the salary demands of the candidate.

Those senior individuals that wish to change their job can approach the employment agencies. Companies can also consult the recruiters to get better human force for their company. Those companies in Helena, who want a talent from its rival company, can also consult the recruiters. The recruiters will approach the person and try to persuade the person to change his company with the promise of higher salary and other benefits. Recruiters with better knowledge of the market and the workings of business organizations can assess the needs of the client companies. So they will try sincerely in perusing the fitting candidates. It is also a matter of reputation for the employment agencies that their recruitment for a company will build them a name and fame, and future projects. So, they work under a pressure to find and select ideal candidates.

posted by zzzzzzzzzzz at 2:59 AM

Greensboro Employment Services

Employment services are the business of recruitment agencies. Every global leading company needs an official employment services firm, where they can set up a business unit in the city. Greensboro has a number of recruiting service companies that have been providing services to local and international clients. The agencies in Greensboro keep consistency in services by providing relevant job positions to fit the company culture.

Employment service providers divide their service into two ways to satisfy the candidates and employer companies. They serve under the process that fits both the job seekers and employers in the same platform. They use standard methods of recruitment that ever one knows. They use database, software applications and online informative websites on the Internet for the purpose of serving the clients and candidates faster and openly.

Service to Candidates:

Under the recruiting process they find potential candidates for their business. They add value to the candidate and make them more valued in their database. They present the valued candidates to the clients as per the requirement. They scrutinize the candidates to present the undisputed candidate for the client companies. They do a preliminary interview of the candidate when they encounter for the first time. They come to know the strengths, weaknesses, attitudes, interests, skills, technical and general knowledge etc. They put more effort in if the candidate is good and honest. In order to add value to the candidate, the consultants teach the candidates career lessons. In the career session, they provide some tips such as how to approach systematic, utilization of smartness, utilization of past experience, how to increase office productivity with reduced rates of turnover, customization in office environment and delivering process etc. The session makes a guaranteed “perfect” candidate for workplace.

If the candidate is well aware of the requirements, work processes, tool knowledge, communication style, clients service, business development strategies experience, understanding of business goals, sensitivity to risk, the advantages and disadvantages in work environment are plus point for getting through the recruitment process. Creativity, leadership, implementing, undependability are additional qualities candidates may take forward for career growth and good appraisals.
Employment services are the business of recruitment agencies. Every global leading company needs an official employment services firm, where they can set up a business unit in the city. Greensboro has a number of recruiting service companies that have been providing services to local and international clients. The agencies in Greensboro keep consistency in services by providing relevant job positions to fit the company culture.

Employment service providers divide their service into two ways to satisfy the candidates and employer companies. They serve under the process that fits both the job seekers and employers in the same platform. They use standard methods of recruitment that ever one knows. They use database, software applications and online informative websites on the Internet for the purpose of serving the clients and candidates faster and openly.

Service to Candidates:

Under the recruiting process they find potential candidates for their business. They add value to the candidate and make them more valued in their database. They present the valued candidates to the clients as per the requirement. They scrutinize the candidates to present the undisputed candidate for the client companies. They do a preliminary interview of the candidate when they encounter for the first time. They come to know the strengths, weaknesses, attitudes, interests, skills, technical and general knowledge etc. They put more effort in if the candidate is good and honest. In order to add value to the candidate, the consultants teach the candidates career lessons. In the career session, they provide some tips such as how to approach systematic, utilization of smartness, utilization of past experience, how to increase office productivity with reduced rates of turnover, customization in office environment and delivering process etc. The session makes a guaranteed “perfect” candidate for workplace.

If the candidate is well aware of the requirements, work processes, tool knowledge, communication style, clients service, business development strategies experience, understanding of business goals, sensitivity to risk, the advantages and disadvantages in work environment are plus point for getting through the recruitment process. Creativity, leadership, implementing, undependability are additional qualities candidates may take forward for career growth and good appraisals.

posted by zzzzzzzzzzz at 2:59 AM

Greensboro Employment Agency

The company’s establishment is partly supported by consultants related to business, technologies and human resources. HR resources issues are very critical when the company needs a huge numbers of candidates who are efficient and fit the business. They need highly professional candidates for various levels. The ever expanding market here has compelled these companies to give better things to their customers, and to work with the old and new rival companies. Every company is in need of talented candidates. Most of the companies recruit employees with the help of local Employment Services. Greensboro has a number of employment agencies serving job seekers and employers.

Agencies in Greensboro are very particular in the pre-employment screening of candidates. They never neglect hiring and substituting drawback lawsuits in vogue. Background checks are carried out to ovoid the future dismissal or unnecessary bother for the client. They check the candidates’ credibility, self-assessment and attitude before taking them on as a candidate. The self- description helps to access the attitudes, professional and personal qualities, and communication skills of the candidate. The staffing agents are have experience in human resources; office technology and administrative fields helping the job seekers get the right job suiting their skills. Agencies can recruit candidates faster, who are disciplined, self-motivated, an executive presence, high personal integrity, business experience, desire to build and maintain long term client and interpersonal relationships.

The various agencies provide candidate services like placement with prestigious companies, career improvement, training and access to other services. Most of the agencies in Greensboro carry out pre-employment, background checks and screening before recruiting a candidate.

Recruiting businesses serve the needs of employers in business and industry. Agencies are responsible for providing the management tools to help clients hire and promote employees. They use modern psychological methods to measure candidates in a way that helps to assure they will succeed in the jobs they are assigned. Agencies create employer-employee relationships in which both obtain success.
The company’s establishment is partly supported by consultants related to business, technologies and human resources. HR resources issues are very critical when the company needs a huge numbers of candidates who are efficient and fit the business. They need highly professional candidates for various levels. The ever expanding market here has compelled these companies to give better things to their customers, and to work with the old and new rival companies. Every company is in need of talented candidates. Most of the companies recruit employees with the help of local Employment Services. Greensboro has a number of employment agencies serving job seekers and employers.

Agencies in Greensboro are very particular in the pre-employment screening of candidates. They never neglect hiring and substituting drawback lawsuits in vogue. Background checks are carried out to ovoid the future dismissal or unnecessary bother for the client. They check the candidates’ credibility, self-assessment and attitude before taking them on as a candidate. The self- description helps to access the attitudes, professional and personal qualities, and communication skills of the candidate. The staffing agents are have experience in human resources; office technology and administrative fields helping the job seekers get the right job suiting their skills. Agencies can recruit candidates faster, who are disciplined, self-motivated, an executive presence, high personal integrity, business experience, desire to build and maintain long term client and interpersonal relationships.

The various agencies provide candidate services like placement with prestigious companies, career improvement, training and access to other services. Most of the agencies in Greensboro carry out pre-employment, background checks and screening before recruiting a candidate.

Recruiting businesses serve the needs of employers in business and industry. Agencies are responsible for providing the management tools to help clients hire and promote employees. They use modern psychological methods to measure candidates in a way that helps to assure they will succeed in the jobs they are assigned. Agencies create employer-employee relationships in which both obtain success.

posted by zzzzzzzzzzz at 2:58 AM

Chicago Employment Services

Employment service in Chicago solves the human resources issue of the city. There are huge crowds of job seekers and hiring companies needing each other in Chicago. Employment agencies are performing as coordinators providing employees resource solutions for employers and to candidates providing jobs. They are providing employee solutions and resolving personal issues related to jobs and other obstacles to employment and career success.

Services to Job seekers:

The services provide full time or temporary jobs depend on the location and the companies other matching criteria. Agencies provide regional staffing service and world openings. There are wide ranges of jobs such as administrative, clerical, accounting, customer service and Light Industrial to technical jobs. Temporary & Permanent jobs are normal operations to hire conditional jobs offered by the employers. There are Proactive workers seminars and programs are designed to prevent the job crisis in Chicago. The strategic plans are taken in such programs for avoiding any urgent crisis at companies and job less situations of candidates. The career programs include Writing of resume & other career letters, Research Chicago Employers, Consulting Firms and Employment Agencies, Recruiters, Networking to find jobs, Consider a Career Coach, Employment Agency or Recruiter, Prepare for job interviews, Keep career and job skills current, Negotiate a job offer, Celebrate your new job success, Accept a job offer and Resign current job.

Online services for Chicago job seekers are Career coach tips, Career Books, Career Web Directory, Chicago Job Books, Education links, Education Tips, Grad School books, Interview books; Interview questions tips, Interview Response Tips, Salary Books, Salary links, Salary tips, Human Resource Books, Human Resource Tips etc.
Employment service in Chicago solves the human resources issue of the city. There are huge crowds of job seekers and hiring companies needing each other in Chicago. Employment agencies are performing as coordinators providing employees resource solutions for employers and to candidates providing jobs. They are providing employee solutions and resolving personal issues related to jobs and other obstacles to employment and career success.

Services to Job seekers:

The services provide full time or temporary jobs depend on the location and the companies other matching criteria. Agencies provide regional staffing service and world openings. There are wide ranges of jobs such as administrative, clerical, accounting, customer service and Light Industrial to technical jobs. Temporary & Permanent jobs are normal operations to hire conditional jobs offered by the employers. There are Proactive workers seminars and programs are designed to prevent the job crisis in Chicago. The strategic plans are taken in such programs for avoiding any urgent crisis at companies and job less situations of candidates. The career programs include Writing of resume & other career letters, Research Chicago Employers, Consulting Firms and Employment Agencies, Recruiters, Networking to find jobs, Consider a Career Coach, Employment Agency or Recruiter, Prepare for job interviews, Keep career and job skills current, Negotiate a job offer, Celebrate your new job success, Accept a job offer and Resign current job.

Online services for Chicago job seekers are Career coach tips, Career Books, Career Web Directory, Chicago Job Books, Education links, Education Tips, Grad School books, Interview books; Interview questions tips, Interview Response Tips, Salary Books, Salary links, Salary tips, Human Resource Books, Human Resource Tips etc.

posted by zzzzzzzzzzz at 2:58 AM

Chicago Employment Agency

The Chicago Employment Agencies have the mission to provide diligent, cost effective staffing to the customers of Chicago. The customers are the Chicago employers who are the resource of employment for the city. The agencies are co-ordinate with the employers and manage the high productivity of human resources and make defect free workmanship in the city. They build long term partnerships with their customers providing on-site supervision and management for continually monitoring and improving the employee performance and process.

Chicago job seekers can either go to an employment agency or refer the wanted advertisements in the local papers. They can find online employment agencies serving exclusive for Chicago. Employment agencies make the most of the resource work for the employers. The job openings are advertised in websites and in local newspapers are done by the agencies. They conduct job fairs or Career fair to network for jobs and many other opportunities for career and job networking.

Chicago recruiting agencies have been helping Chicago job seekers connect with employers throughout the USA. They aim for more effective, reliable employment, affordable and recruiting resources, rather than then available job boards and newspaper classifieds. They help in the best possible way to provide information to the job looking candidates or an employee who wants to change jobs in Chicago. They are constantly striving to improve the technology and resources for recruiters as well as job seekers of Chicago.

The recruiting agencies in Chicago design job resources for the Chicago job seekers to help them find the most Chicago jobs they focus. Many job boards have thousands of jobs, but they need the help of agencies to liquefy the actually jobs in Chicago. Agents are in Chicago or nearby areas make every attempt to ensure the quality of job postings. Dozens of neighbor employers also search candidates from Chicago resume database every day. The agencies have been helping Chicago companies with faster, affordable and quality candidates. They try to offer the same technical advancements as the major job boards with local focus and cost effective.

Job seekers can opt for a job that takes advantage of future career. Searching the online resume database the candidate can receive huge openings. The agencies offer banner advertising and targeted email advertising campaigns, designed to help the candidates to know the hot jobs. Job boards offer recruiting and candidate screening services where the candidate can take participation.

KoreOne provides a wide range of employment opportunities and work hard to put candidates in the most favorable positions and the best assignments at client companies. In other words KoreOne strives to provide the best services from vacation / peak production employees to complete management and supervision of your office or production areas in Chicago.
The Chicago Employment Agencies have the mission to provide diligent, cost effective staffing to the customers of Chicago. The customers are the Chicago employers who are the resource of employment for the city. The agencies are co-ordinate with the employers and manage the high productivity of human resources and make defect free workmanship in the city. They build long term partnerships with their customers providing on-site supervision and management for continually monitoring and improving the employee performance and process.

Chicago job seekers can either go to an employment agency or refer the wanted advertisements in the local papers. They can find online employment agencies serving exclusive for Chicago. Employment agencies make the most of the resource work for the employers. The job openings are advertised in websites and in local newspapers are done by the agencies. They conduct job fairs or Career fair to network for jobs and many other opportunities for career and job networking.

Chicago recruiting agencies have been helping Chicago job seekers connect with employers throughout the USA. They aim for more effective, reliable employment, affordable and recruiting resources, rather than then available job boards and newspaper classifieds. They help in the best possible way to provide information to the job looking candidates or an employee who wants to change jobs in Chicago. They are constantly striving to improve the technology and resources for recruiters as well as job seekers of Chicago.

The recruiting agencies in Chicago design job resources for the Chicago job seekers to help them find the most Chicago jobs they focus. Many job boards have thousands of jobs, but they need the help of agencies to liquefy the actually jobs in Chicago. Agents are in Chicago or nearby areas make every attempt to ensure the quality of job postings. Dozens of neighbor employers also search candidates from Chicago resume database every day. The agencies have been helping Chicago companies with faster, affordable and quality candidates. They try to offer the same technical advancements as the major job boards with local focus and cost effective.

Job seekers can opt for a job that takes advantage of future career. Searching the online resume database the candidate can receive huge openings. The agencies offer banner advertising and targeted email advertising campaigns, designed to help the candidates to know the hot jobs. Job boards offer recruiting and candidate screening services where the candidate can take participation.

KoreOne provides a wide range of employment opportunities and work hard to put candidates in the most favorable positions and the best assignments at client companies. In other words KoreOne strives to provide the best services from vacation / peak production employees to complete management and supervision of your office or production areas in Chicago.

posted by zzzzzzzzzzz at 2:57 AM