Holiday Networking 10 Ways to Job Hunt While You Party!
Attending holiday events is the best thing you can do for yourself during the next six weeks. Where else can you meet so many new people who can potentially contribute to your job search and in such a brief span of time? Your goal during these holiday soirees, festive potluck dinners, or open houses is to meet people and form friendly social relationships. Here’s how to do just that!
1. Attend social events and office gatherings when invited. The New Year is just around the corner and these social events could lead to exciting opportunities in January and February!
2. Get ready to shine! Anticipate the kind of questions you’ll be asked and develop a strategy for dealing with each of them. You want to appear relaxed, friendly, interested, and interesting.
3. Bring your business cards. Be ready to provide one when someone asks. Your card should include your name, address, phone number, email address, and offer information about the kind of work you do. Your cards should have the look and feel of quality since in the days ahead they will be a reminder of you.
4. Prepare your sound bite. Develop and rehearse a 15-second message to use when people ask, “What do you do?” Make it simple, funny, interesting, or intriguing. It should invite questions and
make others want to spend at least a few minutes talking with you.
5. Be outgoing and friendly. Focus on other people. Set a goal for the number of people you want to reach out to at each event. Ask plenty of questions about their families, hobbies, spouses and other things that relate to their lives before and after work.
6. Avoid over-indulging in alcoholic beverages. They can prevent you from being as sharp as you need to be, and if you appear out of control you will never be recommended for anything.
7. Listen to what others say rather than worrying about what you are going to say next. People like and remember people who seem interested in them!
8. Keep the conversation brief and upbeat. Avoid monopolizing individuals. If you want to talk with someone further, say, “I’d like to get your ideas on a project I am working on. Would it be okay for me to call you next week?”
9. Ask for a business card when appropriate. Jot down notes about the person on the back of his or her card so you can easily remember them when you call to follow up.
10. Follow up with a telephone call, note, or email to those folks with whom you developed a connection. Mention something you discussed or send a link to an article you think they will appreciate.
Be sure to send the host or hostess a thank you note!
Mary Jeanne Vincent is the author of Acing the Interview tip cards featuring scripting ideas for the top 20 “killer” interview questions. Also included are tips for interviewing in the new economy, ideas for responding to illegal and trick questions, and suggestions for avoiding deadly interview mistakes. You may reach her online at http://www.2bworkwise.com.
Janitorial Personnel Employee, Sub-Contractor or Franchisee
Regardless of what company you hire to clean your building, you need to know WHO they give the keys to. That is to say, who are they paying to do the work.
Bear in mind, that the smooth talking salesperson will NOT be cleaning your building. You hired them to find the best possible person to do the work. But, how do you know that the person they choose is ‘the best’, and not simply the ‘most available’?
Below are some of my Pro’s and Con’s regarding the three legal groups of janitors that may be in your building. (Illegal immigrants are not listed, because a wise business owner would never allow them into their facility.)
The first group is the most common one. It is called the Employee Group. This group has an established Employee-Employer relationship with the company you hired to service your facility. The Pro’s of this group are quite limited. Outside of the legal protection that you receive against their injury or legal claims, there is little advantage to hiring them. Typically, the Employee Group is the lowest paid group of the three. They also have the highest turnover and the highest occurrence of theft and damage of property.
The second group is the Sub-Contractor Group. This group is often times another janitorial company, which has a standing contract with the company that you hired. They are called upon to service your account, in the name of the other company. The only reason a company would become a ‘Sub’ is to keep their employees busy. Sub-Contractors are used by large national companies to service areas in which they are not established. If you have several locations, you might hire one company, which would in turn ’sub-out’ several various locations to other smaller companies. This large company has made itself a broker or middleman between you and the actual company doing the work, thus earning them a nice commission. Expect to pay more to the ‘middleman’ for finding and paying the Sub-Contractors that clean your building.
The final group is the most successful group, that being the Franchisee model. Many companies like McDonald’s, Subway and others have grown their businesses by using this model. Large national companies like Jani-King and Coverall, as well as regional companies like Alliance Maintenance, have done the same in the janitorial industry. The Franchise Model establishes a legal relationship between the Franchisor (the company) and the Franchisee (the worker), thus offering you the same protect the company has in place. Furthermore, the Franchisee is compensated on a larger percentage of what you pay the Franchisor, since they are part owner of the company. Most importantly, the Franchisee is paid on the production of the account, and not by the hour. This means that they take a higher sense of pride in their work. In addition, the Franchisee typical stays in an account much longer than a Sub-Contractor or Employee does. Again, this is due to the higher rate of compensation they receive, and their status as ‘owner’.
Given a choice, the Franchisee model is the best route to go for security, affordability and long-term cleaning success.
D. Brownlee
http://www.BreakTheCycleOKC.com
D. Brownlee currently works as a Territorial Area Developer for a large janitorial company. He manages in excess of $1.5 million dollars of volume, overseeing hundreds of janitors. For more information on his company, you may contact him at http://www.BreakTheCycleOKC.com
Commercial Secured Loans – Ideal Finance for Your Business
A perfect combination of discipline, hard work and proper training can take your business to new heights helping you in accomplishing the desired success. Discipline is needed in every area in an organisation ranging from managing the employees, maintaining the environment of the organization, coordinating the work in the organisation or the finance.
Maintaining discipline in the field of finance is the primary function of every businessman. It is truly said that money moves the world around. And the same applies to the world of business. Every business needs adequate finance for its smoother running and managing it is a tough task. Need for funds may arise anytime in a business, in such circumstances, commercial secured loans can be the best source of finance for the UK businessmen.
Commercial secured loans as the name indicate are tailored for businessmen who need funds for commercial purpose. These loans are very flexible and come in variety of structure to meet the diverse needs of the UK businesses.
An important feature of commercial secured loans is that the borrower needs to put a security against the loan. Any of these – commercial property, equipments, invoices or order books can work as collateral against the loan.
Big as well as small business projects can be financed with commercial secured loan. These loans are multi-purpose loan and can be put to diverse uses namely the purchase of business premises, expansion, residential and commercial investment or property development and for many other commercial purposes.
Commercial secured loans provide affordable and effective solution to access the required capital. Loan terms attached with commercial secured loans are usually longer ranging from 10 to 30 years. Borrowers with commercial secured loans get an opportunity to withdraw an amount ranging from £75,000 to £15 million depending on your business trading history, borrower’s Credit rating, industry type and the collateral kept as a security against the loan. Some lenders can also provide you the loan of even a higher amount if they find your financial status worth.
The loan market at present is swamped with large number of lenders competing to grab more and more customers. You can make use of this opportunity and can seize the best loan deal. Many banks, financial institutions and online lenders can offer you commercial secured loans. But, in case you are looking forward to get the best deal in the most convenient way online lenders are the best option.
Online loans offer complete ease and comfort in getting a loan arranged. You just need to fill in a small application form online and the lenders will contact you as soon as they find appropriate loan deal that matches your individual circumstances to the best. You can search online commercial secured loan providers through various search engines namely google, yahoo or any other. Browse through the lending websites, you will definitely find the loan deals amazing. Don’t choose any loan deal you are offered blindly, collect loan quotes from all the lenders and compare among them. Thorough research will help you get the best loan deals that attach best loan terms with it.
Shortage of funds in a business can be easily met with commercial secured loans. Stay focused on your goals, try to keep track of your funds, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were you just need to work a little harder.
Tim Kelly is an expert in finance having completed his LLM in Finance (Master of Laws in Finance) from Institute for Law and Finance at Frankfurt University.To Find Commercial secured loans,Business Commercial Secured loans,Bad Credit Commercial loans visit http://www.commercialsecuredloan.co.uk