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Site of the Month for October 2011

Admin — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:40:03 +0000

Site of the Month for October 2011 relates to Career Directory. Work Dir is career guide and directory of jobs and careers with an extensive selection of links to career reference, advice, job search, employment and career planning and more.

How to become a programmer for Blizzard?

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 03:07:11 +0000

Blizzard has several different programming positions available. Programmers are needed to work on Battle.net, individual games, 3D and graphics, tools, and other areas. All of these positions require an extensive understanding of C and C++. Once you have a solid foundation in this area, other skills can be acquired. Knowledge of probability, statistics, geometry, and other math sciences is helpful. Please refer to the jobs section of our website for further details on programming positions.

Broadcast Online Presence And Social Media Resume

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:37:52 +0000

Social networking and an online presence can propel your job search. If you already have a blog, adding your social media resume creates a powerful platform for making others aware of your skills. If you don’t have your own blog yet, or your own personal URL you are willing to make toward expanding your social networking efforts. A blog should to be regularly updated and kept ‘fresh’ at least once per week, but preferably daily or at least numerous times per week. This doesn’t mean hours of work-just a brief period of time for an update. That might mean a couple of paragraphs of fresh content around your area of expertise-perhaps some views on your industry, commentary around new products, a fresh opinion on some business aspect, and so forth. Adding something of value to the community in which you would like to be gainfully employed can be a tremendous advantage when it comes to your job search.

If you haven’t yet done so, it is highly recommended that you register your name in the form of your own URL and with the “.com” extension ideally. Registration is easy and inexpensive at one of many domain name registrars (a fancy name for a place to ‘register’ your own name/URL). GoDaddy is just one popular and cost-effective option. As of this writing, one domain name will cost approximately $10 per year. Simply visit one of these domain registration sites and do a lookup for it in the search box tool to make sure no one else with the same name already “owns” it. If the name you’d like is taken, consider one of several related suggestions the registrar company might offer that would still contain your name.com in the URL.

Search engines like Google and Yahoo are more likely to list such a Web site when people do a search on your name because they assume that sites with such addresses are highly relevant to the person doing the search. So acquire it right away. It’s also important to remember that you will need to re-register one year later and for every year after that. Otherwise someone with the same name can grab “your” URL out from underneath you, leaving you with a bit of a problem in finding/choosing a new URL name.

Jobs in Insurance Companies

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:11:05 +0000

Jobs in insurance companies are attractive options for all finance professionals in India. With 15-20 percent growth rate per annum and the entry of private companies, Jobs in India have become more demanding. A host of facilities including an attractive salary package and encourage growth handsome and career stability offered by most insurance companies in India. Anyone who wants to go for a good job in the insurance sector can also pursue a course in management that will give him an edge in the job market.

Insurance management courses offered by several renowned institutes across the country cover the nitty-gritty related to the insurance sector so that students can get a clear idea of the sector and grab better positions in any insurance company after the completion of the courses. Anybody can opt for an insurance course after graduation. Some insurance management institutes in India conduct admission test while some other institutes select students for the course through CAT and MAT entrance tests. Working professionals can also opt for insurance management programmes as the hospital also provides correspondence courses and part-time.

As far as jobs in insurance companies are concerned, both national and international insurance companies are ruling the job market. Some of the big names in the insurance sector in India include Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company Limited, Birla Sun Life Insurance Company Limited, HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited, Max New York Life Insurance Company Limited, Tata AIG Life Insurance Company Limited, Aviva Life Insurance Company Limited, SBI Life Insurance Company Limited and many more.

Anyone planning to make his or her career in insurance sector can apply for several positions. Some positions that insurance companies mainly hire people are as follows:

• Insurance Advisor: Many insurance companies in India hire skilled professionals such as insurance advisors. The job of an insurance advisor is to serve all the policyholders of a company. An insurance advisor is responsible for assisting policyholders to choose the best possible plans for them, enabling policyholders to understand various risks and find out the right way to avoid the risk.

• Insurance Associate: A finance professional interested in insurance jobs can also apply for the position of insurance associate. Generally, an insurance associate is responsible for achieving sales target, creating and maintaining relationship with customers, implementing various promotional schemes, just to name a few.

• Back Office Support: Any commerce graduate willing to start his or her career path in the insurance sector can opt for the position of back office support. A professional working as a back office support has to shoulder various responsibilities. He has to attend all the service related queries of customers, send the MIS report to the concerned authority, assist teams at the time of log and many others.

• Sales Development Manager: Sales development manager position in any insurance company is a great reward for finance professionals. The responsibilities attached to the position include identifying insurance agents and recruiting them, reviewing the performance of the team, providing training to his team, setting target, improving the productivity of his team and many more.

Outplacement Services

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:56:41 +0000

Outplacement services are dedicated to helping people who are looking to move on with their careers – taking their careers to the next level. Outplacement has developed in recent years with the growing move towards online consultancy and support, with a vast amount of online resources used to support the process. However, there is still a huge amount of work done on a personal level, whether it’s on the phone, in one-to-one meetings, in group sessions or in other ways. An outplacement service offers more than just support and guidance, they often demonstrate their expertise and specialist advice parallel to good connections within industries and experience in a wide range of different industries to tailor advice and guidance in precisely the right way.

The objective of an outplacement service is to find the client new roles which works for them as quickly and painlessly as possible. Outplacement consultants often specialize in industries they have a lot of experience in – this helps them to have a perspective from both the employers and the candidate’s point of view, this can be invaluable to clients who otherwise would have no such access to the employers. One of the main flaws in the current employment market is it is often employer-led; outplacement services have started to bridge the gap between candidates and jobs and work for the candidates instead of the employers.

It has been proven that very few people escape being negatively effected by unemployment, especially for any length of time (3+ months). Often, the result of this is a short-term low for the unemployed individual, but sometimes it can have much longer-term damaging consequences on their effectiveness, self-esteem, confidence, etc. Outplacement services are therefore a necessary component of the market as they improve the all-round job-seeking experience for a huge number of their clients. Welfare of the company the client has left, is joining, and might join in the future are all benefiting parties of outplacement services. If you go on the assumption that everyone can eventually find work then if nothing else this effect on happiness and morale of everyone involved is a key selling point of outplacement services.

Outplacement Services

Tue, 04 May 2010 07:24:33 +0000

Outplacement has developed in recent years with the growing move towards online consultancy and support, with a vast amount of online resources used to support the process. However, there is still a huge amount of work done on a personal level, whether it’s on the phone, in one-to-one meetings, in group sessions or in other ways. An outplacement service offers more than just support and guidance, they often demonstrate their expertise and specialist advice parallel to good connections within industries and experience in a wide range of different industries to tailor advice and guidance in precisely the right way. A good service is a flexible service: the job market is such a varied and unique one it simply isn’t possible to standardize a service such as this to any particular formula, hence the emphasis of outplacement is often on personal contact, one-to-one organization and unique support.

Online Jobs – Make Money Online

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:00:33 +0000

Are you always tired from work and feel like you are not being compensated well for it? Do you think it’s time for you to be your own boss? Do you prefer to be doing your own schedule rather than others imposing it on you? Do you simply want to be home-based? If you answered yes to any one of these, or have other important reasons for wanting to work at home instead, then online jobs could do the magic for you.

Nowadays these online jobs and contracts pay well. These are relevant jobs from legitimate companies. These companies require people to work online or rather telecommute. You will require skills required for the job, a good computer and a reliable internet connection. These key requirements are the most important when you are looking for an online job as well as after you land one of these well paying jobs.

The advancements in the Internet technology have led to the progress from a simple e-recruitment or job advertising boards to online jobs. Thus, your durable computer as well as your typing, written English skills, programming skills, etc. will play important roles in your quest for earning money online.
There are a lot of outsourcing and freelance sites that one can sign up to, such as oDesk and LinkedIn, where employers or buyers post online jobs to. You will only need to create an account, provide a comprehensive resume and portfolio, and then apply for these online jobs. The buyers then select from a number of applicants and interview them, until they are able to select the skilled professional who they think is qualified and can do the project well.

You can find these types of jobs from web-based work resources like Yahoo, Career Builder and Work At Home websites. There are a variety of jobs available. They range from engineering jobs, to journalism and research work. There many reputable companies overseas including consumer behavior survey companies that want to recruit people and pay them to work for them online. Hordes of lucrative jobs like graphic design, marketing executive positions, research analysts and even accountants are now available online. This means you can work virtually and get paid well.

Because of the stiff competition, it is advised that the provider or person looking for the job start with a low hourly rate or bid low on particular project, and just raise the rates through time, when clients have already proven the provider’s credibility. Just be serious about the online jobs and be able to finish them on time at the highest possible quality, and you are all set to earning loads of bucks from these online jobs.

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