Archive for April, 2007
Attributes of Telecommuting Professional
Some of the key attributes to emphasize in your interview or endorsements when applying for a position that offers Telecommuting as an option, or as a full time work arrangement:
Solid Relationship Building and Maintenance with customers, extended team, colleagues, and management.
- Communicate clearly, sharing information and knowledge according to the “organization” protocol.
- Clarify intention and actions, don’t assume alignment, confirm it.
- Articulate and understand your goals , and those of your key customer.
Proven Accountability to Quality
- Results Matter! So does delivery on time, to specifications, within budget.
- Accessibility and availability regardless of location, when required for key deliverables. Clear availability to your published hours of operation.
- Mutual Performance Goals, Deliverables and Operational Review with your management.
RESOURCES IN THE NEWS:
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Telecommuters Need a Career Plan
CNN 79 Best Companies for Flexible Work and Telecommuting
Microsoft Small Business Tips: Are you self assured enough to be a telecommuter?
MSNBC Top Tips for Telecommuters
The Quiet Success: Telecommuting’s Impact on Transportation and Beyond.
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Telecommuter Professionals Yahoo Group
Work from Home Resources: http://hfcareernetwork.com/WorkFromHome.htm
Career Guide: http://www.hfcareernetwork.com/a-z.html
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Add comment April 30, 2007
$100K Jobs
Many of our newer clients and job seekers do not know as much about our start as a placement service. Helping Friends Career Network started as a good will community effort. We serve all types and levels of employer and job seekers. It was personal for our members because every resume represented a person we knew and had worked with for many years.
Professionals at the $100K level know the importance of being their best competitive selves– relationships and networking creates unique opportunities. As job seekers secured great new jobs, the executives benefited by gaining access to other great job seekers. This in essence created and continued a community of caring, networking to provide opportunities for others. MANY jobs were secured through the power of networking, community sharing and caring for one another.
Executive leaders who identified great opportunities in startups through our open Linked In Business Networks, suddenly became welcome clients and were able to pick from our pool of great candidates. Guess what.. they had friends who had great skills too. Since 2001 we have helped several thousand to find their next jobs.. We are proud of that and we look forward to serving many more companies to identify great talent, and job seekers!
We want your resumes!
We want your referrals to job seekers and job listings!
We are truly successful when we help you be successful.
When did you ever know me to keep a good thing secret? Hey I want your resumes, and I am realistic in the importance of finding the right job. We are here to help you– with content, career referrals, and will work hard to represent all of our excellent candidates.
Several of our friends recommended Helping Friends Career Network to TheLadders and we now publishes jobs and work with partners who use TheLadders.com to advertise career opportunities.
Looking for your next $100k+ job? TheLadders.com is the most comprehensive site for $100k+ jobs, publishing four industry-specific newsletters that cater to the $100k+ professional: FinanceLadder, SalesLadder, MktgLadder and UpLadder. Sign up for the weekly job newsletter today and search over 16,000 job listings per month!
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Career Guide: http://www.hfcareernetwork.com/a-z.html
HFCN Career Network Yahoo Group: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/hf-careernet/
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Add comment April 24, 2007
Best Interviewing Toolkit
How else can we help you? Many of our Friends are Interviewing now, and some have reported that it has been a while since they have presented themselves. Others had shared their darkest secret, that the reasons for leaving their last job have left them uncomfortable interviewing for the next job.
My friends, fear not the interview process.. For the only “secret” that will keep you stuck, is choosing not to challenge yourself to find what is next after the next job. Sometimes the freedom to choose jobs is more liberating, and it lets you gain clear perspective on the environment you want to work in, and is looking for someone with your unique set of skills!
Here are some of the Best Interviewing Resources discovered recently. If you have found others that were helpful, do share!
- Were You Fired? Interview Solution – tips by Judi Perkins.
- Surviving the All Day Technical Interview– great detail by Cameron Moll
- From Classroom to Dream Job — by CollegeRecruiter.com
- Behavioral Interview Questions — by Sunflower
- Telephone Interview Questions — by Sunflower
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Career Resources: http://hfcareernetwork.com/jobseekers2.htm
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Career Guide: http://www.hfcareernetwork.com/a-z.html
HFCN Career Network Yahoo Group: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/hf-careernet/
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1 comment April 19, 2007
IT Service Delivery Executive
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Add comment April 19, 2007
Highlighting some of our Great Candidates
Helping Friends is interested in creating value and delights in serving employers and recruiters in matching great people with great companies, opportunities, and resources. Our database is generously attracting Fortune 500 experienced professionals from the individual contributor to Senior Executives, all with proven results in their field.
Most of our candidates are in IT, Sales, Marketing, Accounting, Executive Level Staff, Program Management, Legal, with experience in startups and from small to Fortune 500 experience.
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HFRecruiting/Business Blog: http://www.blogcharm.com/HelpingFriends/
Hire Talent: http://hfcareernetwork.com/index.htm
Career Guide: http://www.hfcareernetwork.com/a-z.html
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Add comment April 19, 2007
Career Competitive Clips…
Administrative Professionals Week is the last full week of April! This is formerly known as Secretary’s day. Send Administrative Career Pathing Articles and Job Leads and appreciation to the Administrative Professionals in your life. Don’t forget to recognize your supporting players!
Green Environment and Career Implications, Opportunities, and Leadership. What is being done to reduce carbon emissions, arrest global warming, and conduct business with true conservation in mind..
Top 10 Allergy Capitals of America The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (or AAFA) .. counted pollen counts, amount of allergy meds purchased and number of working allergists in the area. [AAFA]
- Tulsa, Okla.
- Dallas-Fort Worth
- Fort Myers, Fla.
- San Antonio
- Tucson, Ariz.
- St. Louis
- Wichita, Kan.
- Little Rock, Ark.
- Charlotte, N.C.
- Atlanta, Georgia.
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Customer Service: What are you gonna do to let em know you care?
Sometimes we forget the possibility and beauty we could offer to the world by becoming willing to care. Here is a lovely story, because it really happened when one person tried to figure out what they could do to create an uncommon experience from their work! One person transformed their whole service and customer operations, so please never say that you can not make a difference. Most often uncommon is radically different because it is a personal touch, straight from the heart, that really reaches people.
Thanks to my friend Chris Lekander of the “Self Help Junkies Blog” for sharing this inspiration of Johnny..
Add comment April 16, 2007
No As**ole Rule & how NOT to be one!
Professor Robert Sutton of Stanford University shared a fascinating idea on the “No Asshole” rule on 50Lessons.com. There is a nice lesson summary on how to avoid working with, hiring, or managing the situations that create disharmony in the workforce. This is all very nice and true, however it is rather “extro-spective”. What if the disharmony is every person feeling it is “their” entitlement to be “the token asshole”? In the company of 2 or 3 really qualified professionals, who gets to stay? The best? The worst? The most indifferent, or the most caring?
I love situations that make you think.. Professor Sutton’s interview certainly did! “Organic” culture is a sort of trusting that whatever “distasteful” material exists is offset by it’s productive good. I favor a more proactive culture– one that is a bit organic with a balance of introspection. The asshole we see in others is often an opportunity to improve our selves.. and sometimes, it has absolutely nothing to do with us.
Indifference is a practical art in productivity, but extended indifference I feel in leadership or team work, is largely impractical. Taken to the greatest extreme, what if the indifference results in you being an asshole.. and thus the asshole you wish to avoid is you!
What are your thoughts in maintaining a healthy balance of responsible self, rational leader, and a respective workforce?
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You shouldn’t allow staff to get away with anti-social or ‘oddball’ behavior, as such behavior is likely to cause office conflict.
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There is an argument for allowing just one ‘asshole’ in your office based on deviance studies. These cite that the presence of one such individual leaves everybody else is better off, as they see how not to behave.
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There will be situations in your working life when it may be necessary to be indifferent and learn not to care.
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Add comment April 15, 2007
From Open Networker Jobs to Nuthin but a Hound.com!
Here a a few more really great resources for career seekers!
WHAT’S THE BUZZ ON “HOUND.COM”? “Every Job on Earth”–5049135 new jobs in the last 7 days searching job sites, newspapers, associations and company career pages. Neat and clean search driven interface.. with results based upon search matches to job seeker needs. Helping Friends Career Network XML feed will soon be featured in this site.
OPEN NETWORKER JOBSEEKER AND RECRUITER GOODNESS: Master Open Networker, Ray van den Bel announces a new and free Open Source Network Resource – JobHuntersOnline.Blogspot. After signing on several thousand members in the first few days, to allow job seekers and recruiters to connect to one another’s website, more specific drill down maps are offered as well.. Job seekers could use a personal intro page to their resume, or Linked In Profile for example.
TIPS FROM RYZE WINNING CAREERS and Ernie Martin THIS WEEK:
- Resumes from Hell and the Lessons they Teach us— sage wisdom here!
- 5 Worst Case Interview Scenarios – how to make lemonade from lemons..
- College Grad Pay outlook is Stronger
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Career Resources: http://hfcareernetwork.com/jobseekers2.htm
Register FIRST STOP: http://hfcareernetwork.com/registerasanewcandidate.htm
Career Guide: http://www.hfcareernetwork.com/a-z.html
HFCN Career Network Yahoo Group: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/hf-careernet/
LinkedIn Helping Friends Business and Career Network
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Add comment April 14, 2007
Outrageous rules for working with me. Hey! You Deserve It!!
I am going to share a personal truth I need to speak. I caught up with a friend who apologized for the feelings they had after being laid off. I was on business travel at the time of their call and unable to break to return their call. They felt uncomfortable reaching out. Feelings of guilt and shame had caused them to question their value. They were shocked about the notification that they had been made redundant, embarrassed to join the masses of underemployed, and ashamed. They were hoping for a change, but bracing for the worst. What business conditions existed to result in the end of their job was nothing compared to the personal feelings, that kept them feeling that they just lost the best thing they ever had… Fact is sometimes we forget that power of resilience, persistence, and positive activity. I would never let someone talk to my girlfriend this way, and I felt I had to also let her see the good in her was always there, and her capabilities did not take flight, only her freedom to explore whats best for her now!
This is YOUR ideal time to work on your career! So lets agree not to waste time or play “common office politics”. You deserve better. And often we deceive ourselves into thinking our history is our future value. There is great opportunity to those rebels, willing to define the rules for their career and manage their professional development!
Come on Rebels, You in?? What’s your career goals??
My friend, I have known you for how long?
You have worked for how many years in your industry, you care about quality and you do great things.
When we caught up there was the discussion of surprise that I still cared to talk to them. Relieved to have someone who remembers the good things they had done, and almost shocked that anyone remembers.
My friends deserve better! I have seen great successes arise out of success or adversity, sometimes we put too much emphasis on the moment and miss the journey. They deserve better than the guilt and shame they feel as a result of business change, and darn it if I am not going to be there for my friends, for your friends, and our friends to be that patient reminder, that it is not so much what is done to you as what we do to ourselves that keeps us stuck. They do the same for me.. That’s what friends are for!
OUTRAGEOUS RULES FOR WORKING WITH ME:
1. I am different than the norm. I did career placement as a volunteer effort for 6 years before I chose to get paid for it. Why? I have a passion for this industry! I would do it if I were NOT paid because it makes me feel good to help employers to solve really big staffing problems, because I love to find a person who tells me “this is what I want to do”, and then help them DO it!. It is my life goal to help more, partner better, and create more value those I represent!
2. Outplacement services will tell you not to discuss dollars before you know of the type of opportunity. I am a realist. Give me tools that can help you. I waste your time, my partners time and our clients time to send candidates that are not a match. When I ask for your range of salary, I am asking for a range of comfort and delight– a tool from which I will help you. I would n’t ask for it if I did not intend to use it to help you.
3. Resumes.. keep em real, keep em accurate, keep em relevant to the career opportunity you wish to attract. Need help? Check our network, your network, or me, for resources to someone who can help you shine if you fear you can not, I have many talented resume writers to refer you to.
4. References.. I know the common advise is not to offer references until you are at a bargaining table. You can trust me NOT to send your supporting career material prematurely, but you can ALSO expect me to be using the endorsements, letters of reference, etc… to help speak volumes of opportunity for you that you alone could not do. However I don’t say that which I can not prove. I KNOW it is common practice to throw lots of resumes on a wall and hope something sticks, but that is not my style. I want employers to find the right candidates for their needs. I want you to be happy in the right job.. When I ask for references, it is because I want to help prepare you for the desired end result.
5. I am a master networker. I know you may have come from a place where you have to never let them see your real career goals. My industry is rewarding because it is rich in opportunity to help people achieve their objectives. Attitude is a big big part of the career search, treat me as your partner, and let me help you. My business is about relationships, I care about win win win success and will work hard to accomplish that. With your equal partnership we can do great things!
You have worked for many years in your profession, or worked hard to begin your profession– does not matter– if you have a quality of creating value for services, you deserve to be reminded of your value. If you need more feedback ask for it.. I won’t play games, but I will support your career objectives to the best of my ability! Its good for all of us!
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Career Resources: http://hfcareernetwork.com/jobseekers2.htm
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Career Guide: http://www.hfcareernetwork.com/a-z.html
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Add comment April 12, 2007
