11Mar

Using Social Media to Help Track Down a Job Opportunity (employment opportunity)

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By Dennis Crowe

  Social networking web sites such as Youtube, Twitter, and LinkedIn are undoubtedly considerably more effective than at any time. They tend to be much more than simply a discussion board to join up together with friends and family. These sites can be a fantastic system to interact with individuals on a professional level, particularly when it pertains to seeking out employment. Furthermore, social networking sites now produce more Internet activity as compared with private e-mail.

More and more organizations and business owners, most notably Maxim Healthcare Services, have been working with social networking web sites in order to transmit their particular brand or message. They are even utilising these online sites to post employment opportunities and to set up connections with potential job hopefuls or clients.

According to a newly released article on DMNews.com, social networks empower all parties involved to better search for and reach their niche. Several preferred tactics regarding connecting with companies plus prospective employers on social networking internet sites include:

Seeking out Organizations on Social Networking Internet sites: Organisations such as Maxim Healthcare Services broadcast popular job opportunities along with employment tips on Facebook and Twitter. It is also a great way for you, the applicant, to be able to discover much more regarding the corporation in addition to their respective service lines.

Generating Separate Personal and Professional Accounts: You may likely have your personal page on a social media web site so that you can connect with friends or family, however you might want to also create a professional account when you’re looking for employment. This will definitely make it easy for you to emphasize all of your own professional successes together with employment experience. Additionally , it is advocated that you tailor the Web address to your professional account specifically to you. This will permit you to market this specific site to a potential employer.

Joining In Discussion: Almost all social networking sites are remarkable resources that permit you to connect with people you do not currently know. The same is applicable when searching for work. Enquire your existing connections about positions or career opportunities. This would be carried out through your status updates.

Maxim Nurses, a nurse staffing agency, provides RN nursing jobs on a per diem, contract, temp-to-perm, travel, or direct-hire basis to professional nurses throughtout the United States.


Is Working at Home Legitimate?

By Josiah Walter

  You hear a lot about people making a lot of money working some MLM opportunity but the only problem with these are that you need to make an investment and you have to know a lot of people. I have a guaranteed income each month that covers my rent but I’m at home all the time and not earning any additional money. When my wife and i first arrived in Brunswick we applied at a lot of local businesses but the problem being is that at the present moment we only have one car between us.

I had signed up with Guru over a year ago but pretty much never had pursued it. Guru is a site that says you can make bids on freelance work. The only problem is that you can only have one active profile at a time. With Careerbuilder you can apply for retail sales positions, telemarketing positions, and whatever else gets your fancy. You can do all of this without limitation. I did receive an invitation in some junk mail last week about a low cost trial for a freelance site and i signed up and responded to as many ads as I qualified for.

I got zero replies so I canceled my membership. Otherwise it would have automatically charged my credit card for a full months membership and since I got nothing from the trial i was not about to keep the service. I then did some searches on the Net for articles about freelance, work-at-home jobs, telecommuting, etc. What I learned is that there are a lot of sites that will only give you the right information if you pay a membership fee. These sites are making money off of anybody who signs up but I almost guarantee that none of the members are actually getting and work from these sites.

I spent the day yesterday visiting any freelance work site that didn’t charge any fees up front. They may try to get you to sign up for additional services which have a cost but to look at and reply to jobs cost you nothing. Most of the responses i received though were from people trying to get me into some Biz Opp. Or only offering a job where your only compensation is commission after the sale is made.

I have tried commission only work in the past and at first you are all hyped up about the work. This is the same if you have ever signed up for one of theses MLM companies. After a while you get fed up when you find that you were the only person to get really excited about a certain product or Biz. The recruiter’s for these opportunities are very good about getting you all excited about the possible money you can make.

I did respond to this one ad that went like this;

Make $500 to $1000 a day Just by Returning Calls.

Not MLM, No Selling, No Inventory, no Start up

It gave an email address that I replied to and today i received a phone call about it. The lady asked me a few questions like could i follow a specific business plan and after i responded positively she told me to call a certain number at 3:00 PM today. I called the number which was a conference call and you could hear all these other people on the phone talking about how they were now making six figures a year from this. Some of the people said that they used to be Police Officers, Teachers, Lawyers, and managers from other industries. What it all boiled down to was the reason they got you to make this call is because they wanted you to hear all the excitement from the other people which would then get you excited. For a $3500 Pledge you would then get other people that would pay the same pledge placed underneath you. You had to advertise the prewritten ad and call anybody who responded.

To me this is like the old chain letter schemes but instead of getting an envelope in the mail you got an email. No product, no ebooks, no trials to anything. All you got was the satisfaction of parting with your money. They told me that if I didn’t have the money to go a head and borrow it from somebody. There are so many of these programs out there on the Internet and it never ceases to amaze me how people can actually sleep at night after they have convinced other people to part with their hard earned money. I call these things Scams. No other way to look at it.

Now, i have found that there are some legitimate telework jobs out there. These are opportunities to work on the telephone from your home and actually get paid an hourly wage. I have received some emails today from a few of these companies and I have filled out their applications and gone through their training. The ball is now in their court but if these jobs end up not working out believe me I will not keep this bottled up inside me.

I have come to the realization that you need to stick with sites like Craigslist, Careerbuilder, and Monster and in the search box use keywords like Virtual Employee, freelance, virtual call center, work-at-home call center, or remote employee. Now there are some services out their that will post what you are looking for on a lot of job boards and this is fine if you have the extra money but please be careful with your money.

When you do a search on a site like Google or Yahoo the results that show up first in a box are paid listings. I am under the assumption that these results are MLM or some other type of Biz opp. Remember, any site that is charging a fee is probably only making money by charging you that fee. Guru at least lets you to bid on 10 jobs per month without paying anything. I am giving some though to creating a job board where freelancers will post their portfolio and a company that has a job would then look at thesite for a freelance person. The only money I would make would be from something like Google Adsense or by becoming an Amazon affiliate and letting them suggest books based on a persons search.

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Review of the Citi Professional Card

By Raul Levine

  Citibank renders its quality services to students, business personnel and the frequent travelers. It has brought for the business people, the Citi Professional Card to assist you in running (and managing the finances) your own business.

Features Of The Card

The Citi Professional Card has no annual fee, a reasonable annual percentage rate (APR) and theft protection options. For the initial nine months, there is a 0% APR on the balance transfers. No balance-transfer fee is applicable.

The card acts as the personal assistant.

Benefits Of The Card

The credit card enables you make business expenses, also helping in categorizing these expenses under suitable heads in your monthly statement. This option helps you during tax calculations. The card gives you the opportunity to create separate accounts for all your clients, equipment, supplies and materials.

The credit card can also help you with a phone number, restaurant information, travel arrangements and other office needs. You can avail of the services of amicable assistants for making hotel and travel reservations for you.

The Citi Professional Card provides you with online banking services, helping you pay your bills on time and track your outgoing expenses. This enables you to save your money and time if you are in the habit of missing out on payments.

The card allows you earn rebates and many more benefits from your daily business related purchases. Moreover, you can determine categories for expenses and every time you get a credit card statement, the purchases you made will be placed within your designated categories.

Points And Rewards

The beneficial online expense reporting tool enables you to set up reports for certain clients for helping you observe the transactions that are related to a specific category. The card demands no redemption fees for the points and no fees for the Thank You Network rewards program. The first purchase you make with your card will give you 10000 reward points, which are redeemable for a $100 gift card.

With spending every dollar at the participating retail establishments, like gas stations, supply stores and restaurants, you obtain 3 points. However, for spending every dollar at other locations, you earn one point. The points can always be added to your Thank You Network points balance.

Card Features

In case you already have a business credit card, you can transfer your balance to the Citi Professional Card in order to enjoy 9 months of 0% interest.

The card also provides you with access to a customer service 24/7. You can avail of the toll free number for speaking to a representative or gaining access to your online account for making payments, viewing minute statement details and gaining information on the unbilled activity.

Perks

The card offers you many Internet account related services, fraud and security protection services, lost and stolen card reporting and access to the online expense reporting tool.

It further provides many travel and emergency assistant services, a maximum of $1000000 in travel accident insurance, emergency card and cash replacement, quarterly and end of the year financial statements and many more benefits.

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