Online Job Hunting

Why Quantifying Results can Get You Promoted

Promotion is a measure of every worker’s success. There are many strategies to get promoted. With the right timing and good execution, employing them always ends in victory.

Aside from self-promotion and establishing good working relationships with the head honchos, there is one thing that can also provide you with bright hopes –quantifying results. By that, I mean keeping a detailed record of your past and present accomplishments. Career experts say those who get results surely get ahead.

Remember that your achievements and accomplishments are what every organization wants. It makes them look at you in a different light and sets you apart from the rest. By quantifying results, you help yourself stand out and get the career advancement you have always been wanting

Job hunting tips

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There are lots of different website you can use in finding a job. Like Jobsdb the jobsite that is know in Asia because this site has a wide range of companies where in you can apply. JOBSDB also organized job fair that will allow job seeker to apply onsite to different companies, Jobstreet is also one jobsite that is known in the Philippines thru Jobstreet you can apply by submitting or posting your resume online or by searching job vacancies from partner companies by click apply button, I will also refer you to JOBSDB.com because even though its based in the Philippines the system they use originated in Australia it is the candidates behavioral report because by just answering a set of question the system can asses the personality you have that will help the manager or the HR to decide if they will hire you.

Beware and Be Aware

By: Govy

There are a lot of phony job opportunities that has spread on the web…victimizing hopeful job seekers. By creating phony job ads, scammers hope to fool job hunters into sending them personal information (called phishing).

Scammers post their ads on legitimate job sites to be more attractive and real. Phony job ads often use familiar-looking or convincing company logos and verbiage. They even provide links to fake Web sites and these sites usually charge fees for their services which they will never render.

Typically, after a few days the thieves close down the scam and disappear for a while and starts the same routine to look for new victims.

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How to Get a Raise

Career experts agree that to get a raise, you have to master the basics. It includes avoiding tardiness, working beyond office hours and being professional, among others. If you practice these things in the work place, you become a good employee and you prepare yourself for career advancement when the right opportunity comes. And of course, to get a raise, you have to talk to the people who could recommend you for such.

Supervisors are usually the right people to request for a salary increase because you work under them and they are the ones who see how efficient you are as a worker. However, talking to supervisors regarding a raise should be taken cautiously. You know you don’t want your request to fall on deaf ears so make sure you bring up the topic at an ideal time such as during a performance review or when there is a promotion trend.