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What to do on job fairs and job interviews?
Having a stable job is an ultimate dream for every individual. It is because there is this unique dignity it brings for man. In a world of needs and competitions, it is an advantage to have a job- especially the job you enjoy.
However, pastures are not that green everywhere. Unemployment and underemployment are two of the leading social and economic problems in the modern times. To date, governments are struggling on how to give sufficient number of jobs for all. Every year the number of job-seekers increases but the number of jobs available is not that increasing as what it was expected to. Most localities hold job fairs to give opportunity for those are still looking for one.
A job fair you once neglected and did not believe to might have been the great twist for a lifetime. Are there good things on job fairs? Yes there are, and for you to win them, you have to take note of the following especially on how to make it on a job interview:
Have a picture of the job you want. Go to a job fair with a clear target. Think of what job, position and what are the skills you have in order to get the position you planned. You must also consider if these skills are valuable for an employer or employers. Attitude is another important element. Employers look for people who are zestful and willful towards work.
Prior to the job fair as well as the interview, be sure to plan ahead if who are the employers you want to work for. Dressing up for the fair or the interview is a helpful tip. Dress professionally and do not wear too much make up. Dress up in a conservative but decent way. Do not be too conscious and just carry your self with the confidence needed.
Do not forget to bring correct and credible resume. They serve as the mirror of what you are as an applicant- qualified or not. There are sites which could guide one in preparing a resume. You could visit these sites and seek help. Also, prepare an interesting yet sincere introduction. Besides your basic information, include your reason for applying, and the skills that are relevant to what the company looks for. Show how much you are interested with the job but never manifest your aim for salary above anything else.
This dictum is not true in all cases but try your best in order to build a good picture in the employer’s mind. “First impression lasts”- as many say.
More than asking questions
We would usually think that tips for the job interview would only be intended for interviewees but there are also important reminders for those who are the ones asking questions, we call them interviewers. For applicants, they are the tickets to an employed you.
As an interviewer should you roast interviewees to sweat because of nervousness? Should you be very intimidating to put the applicant to the biggest test of his or her life? Should you ask fiery questions that would fry him or her in his own oil? These and more would be answered.
- Before you conduct the interview, be sure to take note of the questions you are going to ask your applicant. This would help you remember questions you need to raise.
- Take note of the objectives you have, associate them with the questions you will be asking the applicant.
- Have in mind a place that would have an atmosphere for a conversation. See to it that the place has no elements that could interrupt the interview.
- Never intimidate the interviewee. You want to know the person, do not put him on the hot seat where he would become so unnaturally intimidated.
- Let the interviewee speak, you have to be attentive so that you would be able to get important messages.
- Use questions that would hit the motives of the applicant.
- Give the interviewees the chance to ask questions.
With these, you would be able to get what you really want to know from the interviewee. The most important thing is that you would not have regrets by hiring the wrong person.
JOB INTERVIEWS and how to WIN them
Why do people go to school? We all know that the primary reason is basic education for personal growth and development. This reason is still the top most even these days. In these practical days, going to school is more of a preparation for the future. A future that is envisioned to be something of progress is what parents want for their children. Getting a college degree and land a stable job is what they dream of.
After years in college or university, one will then face the challenging real world. To find a job or to quit the next level is a question for future-seekers. Finding a job especially the one you want is not that easy these days. Competition is so stiff and qualifications are demanding. Both unemployment and underemployment are social problems greatly affecting a country. Every year, the employment world welcomes many hopeful young people to have jobs. In response to this, localities launch job fairs almost annually with the aim of helping job seekers find the job for them. Thousands try, many get hired and others go home- still jobless.
Job fairs are good venues for fresh graduates to find their first job. For those who wish to change their current job, job fairs offer many options to choose from and try out. There are a huge number of applicants from everywhere. How could one win the heart of his or her target company? Some say that a job fair is just a drop-your-resume and try-your-luck thing. No it is not. Be proactive and come to think of it: you could introduce your self to 20-more companies in just a couple of hours.
Did you know that there is a huge chance to win a job? Yes, that is by making it big in a job interview.
The ability to make it bigger than hundreds of those other job seekers is the responsibility of every aspirant. Considering some really a couple of useful tips like as follows would help them out a lot. In a job interview when you try your luck at jobs fair, remember these few of reminders.
Applicants prepare the most detailed resume since employers would base their judgment over those pages of paper. An impressive resume is not actually the first means to make an employer be interested to your application. He or she will only be looking forward to read your resume if you look impressive from the very start, it will make good impressions will come your way. Dress up and act as a professional you must not come in the thickest make-up or the flashiest clothes. Come on time, wear your skin and flaunt what you have. Answer questions sincerely and remember to relax while answering. Pay attention to the interviewer and flaunt your assets.
Job Fairs may lead you to your first or last job. Job interviews are your keys to the doors of opportunities.
Breathers before the interview
You could not cut off the wings of those butterflies in your stomach. You could not tame that mouse running in your chest. Being nervous before an interview is of course very normal. Though you are a well-experienced person when it comes to conversing with people, you would not avoid the fact that you still feel the shivers of your nerves.
What must be done? You have to be very determined in doing things that would make you feel relaxed before being interviewed. These matters a lot for the way you answer in the interview would be affected if you are too much nervous.
The following are the things you could do in order for you to ease those monsters in your chest:
- Images for your ease
Imagine a picture of peace or serenity. This would really give you the peace of mind and the atmosphere to think and be relaxed. You have to try this method out. A couple of minutes for this would give a huge benefit.
- Breath and smile
Breathe deeply like you exhale the pessimism within you. Do it for several times until you feel relieved from your nervousness.
- Carry a sweet memory
Choose a picture you like that would remind you of an inspiration. You could paste it in a notebook. Stare at it and recall beautiful memories. This would definitely help you get inspired for the interview.
- Oath of esteem
Remind yourself by being in silence, telling your self that you are the best for the job, you could answer the questions and you could be hired. Being positive move mountains and it could build muscles of hope.
These three activities before the interview would definitely ease your emotional burden. You are but human and it is natural to feel those rushing shivers within but hey! This is a once in a lifetime chance and you could not afford to miss, could you?
And the phone rings – The Phone Interview
There is one way of job interview that is practiced by most companies before the actual interview and that is phone interview. Well, if you are about to experience such, do not panic down to your bone marrows. This is something you could handle and it is somehow a polish for you for an actual interview.
The following are the things you have to have in mind so that you would be able to pass a telephone interview when you are able to do the following well:
- As you wait for the interviewee’s call, place your resume near you for guidance.
- Bring a paper and pencil for you to take notes
- Be sure to turn off call waiting options or whatever features that may disturb you while taking the call.
- Make sure that there is silence for it may disturb your conversation if there are children crying and other forms of noise.
- No stereo, no TV please.
- Beware of eating or drinking anything while on an interview. You could take a sip of water when the interview is that long.
- Speak clearly and smile while you answer.
- Address the interviewee politely.
- Listen well and do not interrupt the interviewee.
- Answer briefly but straight to the point.
- Say thank you and appreciate compliments.
Though you do not see the person on the other line, you have to act as if you are talking face-to-face. It is good to be relaxed while taking the call. It would be sensed by the interviewee, whether you are sincere or you are too pressured.
When the phone rings, take a deep breath, lift the receiver and say to yourself that you are indeed going to make it for that job.
With the reminders above, you would definitely be able to make it well for the phone interview.
What Do People Do in Captcha Entry Jobs?
Websites have been using Captchas since around 2000. Still, many people have never heard of it or don’t exactly know what it is. So you can just imagine how clueless they would get even more if they’re asked about a captcha entry job.
If you belong to the “triple W” generation and you don’t know what Captcha is, it’s all right. It’s a bit on the usually ignored technical aspect of websites that’s why many internet surfers still don’t know about it even if they’ve already encountered it countless times.
Captcha stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.” (Good thing they coined the acronym, right?) It is what we almost always see whenever we fill out sign up or registration forms online. Usually placed near or at the end of online sign up forms, Captcha comes in the form of an image in which there are slightly distorted letters and numbers. The user should read the image and type the alphanumeric combination in the text box provided to proceed with whatever he/she wants to do on the website (e.g., sign up, post a comment, do a search, etc.).
As its full name implies, Captcha is a way to counter spamming bots, or online programs that “crawl” websites to read information, fill out forms, and post comments. Captchas had been effective until programs were developed to “read” the images. So, companies designed more complicated Captchas that couldn’t be decoded by programs. Hence, Captcha entry jobs started.
With Captcha’s background already explained, you should more or less have an idea on what people do as Captcha encoders. Some companies wanting to send promotional materials and invitations to millions of internet users bypass anti-spam measures by using bots to fill out forms and comment boxes and employing humans to decode the Captcha images.
The number of spam entries bots make is more or less equal to the number of images that should be decoded—and there could be hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of Captchas. This is why there are countless online job posts for Captcha entry projects. However, when it comes to earning through this job, it wouldn’t be biased to say that it indeed is one of the most low-paying home-based jobs you can get.
You’d be lucky to get a rate of 25 cents per image. However, most companies post their ads in freelancing sites where freelancers have to bid for prices to get the project. So the tendency is, the buying price gets lower as more sellers (freelancers) try to outbid each other. And when we say gets lower, we mean really, really low. Captcha entry projects could pay as low as $1.00 for 2,000 Captcha images. Some even had teams of encoders to produce as much as 100,000 entries per day.
It is said that bypassing such anti-spam automated test is against the law and constitute a cyber crime, but many still continue doing it to earn money however low the pay is.
What to Avoid When Getting Online Jobs
With almost every business expanding its operations through the internet today, it’s no wonder that we see almost all sorts of jobs posted online. And while many of these could help you earn and even build a career, many online jobs could also just waste your time, effort, and even that which you want to earn—money.
So how do you sort the good job offers from the not-so-trustworthy ones? Here are a few guidelines on what to avoid when grabbing online job opportunities.
Promises that are too good to be true. Employers looking for employees make their job opening advertisements catchy and enticing. They put every benefit and positive point that an applicant would want to get in the job. Unfortunately, not all job ads should be trusted down to their last word. Some would talk about overblown salary rates and benefits, saying for example, you can earn thousands of dollars every week. Not that there are no jobs that pay that high, but come on, we need to be realistic. It’s very rare to find such kinds of job on the internet.
Sign-up and start up fees. If you’re a regular internet surfer, you might have probably seen web sites and paid advertisements saying you can earn this much amount of money if you sign up with them. But chances are, once you click their sign-up or register button, you will be asked to fill in not only your personal information, but also your credit card for their sign up fee. Most of these sign up fees cost only less than a hundred bucks, so why should you be scrupulous about them? You see, the thing here is you are looking to earn money online, so in some way it’s sort of contradictory if you’ll be asked to pay any fees. The same goes for job offers that ask you to pay for so called start up fees and start up kits.
A little disclaimer though, not all companies that ask for start up and sign up fees are mere bogus entities that won’t really help you earn. There are some that require registration fees to somehow insure the credibility of transactions between their clients and their service providers or employees. Before paying such fees though, be sure you have understood how the company works and what you will be doing for it.
Job description and qualifications for applicants. When it comes to job ads, there’s nothing catchier and more attractive than a high numerical figure for salary and a line that says “No experience needed.” They don’t only tell your brain outright that you can earn big money, but they also give you the illusion (which you might believe at least for a millisecond) that you are already qualified for the job. Again, be critical of what you’re told. If the job posting seems too good to be true and does not even explain what your responsibilities will be, then better be careful with it. Or don’t mind it at all.
There are many jobs online that pay well and don’t involve doing illegitimate or unethical things. It’s not hard to find them. You just need to research a bit so sort through the not-so-good ones.
What to Consider When Getting An Online Teaching Job
Are you thinking of getting an online tutoring or teaching job? Well, many people are now turning to the internet to get a degree, to get help with their current studies, or simply to learn some new skill. And with the boom of online teaching, you might as well take advantage of it—that is, of course, if you want to teach and got something to teach.
Unfortunately, desire for teaching and being knowledgeable in a certain field of study aren’t enough to land you a teaching job online. Somehow, online learning centers have put up standards to maintain their credibility as well as the quality of education they offer.
Almost all online learning institutions require applicants to have at least a bachelor’s degree. Of course, depending on the education level that you will teach, they may require you to have a post-graduate degree; you must have finished a masters or doctorate degree.
In language teaching, however, you may not be required to have a degree. As long as you are proficient in the language you’ll be teaching, you may get hired. You’ll get bigger chances of landing the job, though, if you are a native speaker, have prior language teaching experience, and/ or have passed language proficiency certification programs (which are sometimes required).
Now, if you fill in the educational background requirements, proceed to the other not-so-hard-to-meet-but-equally-important requirements. Firstly, do you have a stable net connection and a reliable computer? Many online tutoring are done real time through voice chat. If you have a lousy internet provider, you better change it. You wouldn’t want to start your three-hour teaching session with how to divide fractions only to end it still discussing the same thing, just because you and your student couldn’t hear each other because your net connection keeps on lagging.
Taking on the job when you know your net connection or computer isn’t dependable is simply unprofessional. Everyone has a right to commit mistakes or to have emergencies that sometimes prevent one from delivering their job properly. However, knowing beforehand that you’ll be having many of those preventable glitches is a different matter.
After the technical stuff and educational requirements comes your working environment. Chances are you’ll be teaching from your home—the usual setting of most online jobs. Now, working at home does have its benefits. You wouldn’t have to be caught in traffic jams to “meet” your student. You can easily grab a bite in the kitchen if you get hungry. And you don’t have to really dress up for your session. However, the question is: Is your home conducive for online teaching sessions?
If you have kids at home running around and creating all sorts of noise all the time, then you should know that it’s no way a good condition to teach in. Even if you’re good at tuning out such disturbances while at work, you can’t always get a student who can do the same. Unless the tutoring job involves only correcting and answering assignments via email exchange or IM chat, you better find yourself a room in your house which you can keep to yourself during sessions.
If you meet all these necessities for online teaching, then what are you waiting for? Polish your resume and brush up on your mentoring skills for that teaching job you want—now!
Why Opt For Online Jobs?
After you have finished college or maybe a little earlier than that, people—especially members of your family—would expect you to have at least one decent job. There are those who are looking forward to work in offices for regular day jobs but there are also those who prefer to stay inside their homes and work from there. If you belong to the latter, then finding online jobs would be the best option for you.
It is a common notion that people only make money by working in a certain office and holding a specific job title or position. But, making money in the comforts of their own home using just a laptop and an Internet connection is the perfect job some people could ever have.
These days, more and more people prefer to get online jobs because they want to take a control of their own working patterns. Many of them are discovering the wonders of working at home because they can indeed set their own working hours. Plus, they don’t need to create resumes, don’t have to attend job interviews, and don’t have to adhere to any dress codes.
Also, more and more people decide to take online jobs because they can work whenever they like. They can work with no particular hour—morning, noon, night and even midnight depends upon their working mood. It doesn’t matter because nobody will bug and pressure you unlike in a regular office setting.
Maximizing the use of Internet
One of the common online jobs these days is writing articles online websites or for search engines. All you have to do is do some write-ups on the topics given to you. After following specific instructions of keyword content and word count, you make money from home on a per article basis.
Another prevalent online job that is creating a trend is by acting as “consumers” for a specific product and write something about it. You can submit reviews by trying out new products, expressing your opinions about these products, writing your views on just about anything, participate in online focus groups, and you will definitely make money from home.
Just like the cycle of mutualism where both parties benefit from each other, more and more companies and groups are giving people the chance to make money from their home because they can benefit it from it as well. If you decide to take an online job, you can try being an “online surveyor.”
Here, all you have to do is to surf the net and find hosts that would complement your working lifestyle. You should be careful in committing in these online jobs because they designate deadlines that you have to meet. If you then found a host that will suit your needs—in schedule and profit—you can start earning from home by simply logging in to that specific site. Various survey forms to be filled out are available and you will make money from home for the time you rendered. Aside from these, there are so many online jobs available out there based on your interest and skills. Always remember that if you decide to work on your own, you should consider very well its pros and cons.
Online Jobs
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