December 12th, 2011
A phone interview sounds much easy. You don’t have to panic to choose a dress for interview, move to a company’s office or have to appear in an interview as one-on-one. Instead, you are easy at your home and interviewing on the phone. But it is not as easier as it sounds.
You usually have less time in telephone interview as compared to in-person interview. So it is necessary to focus on questions that will help you to be assessed rapidly. You intend to turn it into a face-to-face interview, so be concise in your answers. As a rule of thumb, your answers should be less than two minutes. If interviewer wants to know something more, he/she is free to ask.
Tell me a little about you is often the first question. Try to assess, interviewer is not interested in your life story; but they want to have basic information about your work history and experience to assess if meeting with you is a good use of time. Your answer should be concise with a short work history with clear words to show how each job and project helped you to get experience for this job, also give an outline about your professional abilities that address your skills and relate to this job well.
What experience do you have in? Not the second but a common asked question in telephonic interview. Discuss any of your experience and precise skills you have in a good way. Discuss everything you do professionally but its core should be concerned with identification, solution of problems and prevention within your area of liability.
What are your strengths? Incline your answer toward your particular skills and needs of the job, your problem avoidance, solution headset, and your control of the moveable expert skills such as Critical Thinking, Multi-tasking and Communication skills that motivate success in every job.
What are your weaknesses? You can securely and sincerely say that finding time for all new technologies that are needed in your work is your biggest weakness and you take it as a challenge. Then you give an example of how you have made time to expand an in-demand new skill.
How much amount do you expect? If the interviewer asks about your salary expectation, be clear and say, you don’t have sufficient information about job responsibilities and company, to answer at the time. Say like “I have no understanding of the job or post responsibilities, your company or any kind of benefit that could be offered by the company, so I can’t tell my expectation without all information. However, after analysis of other employment sites and talking with colleagues, I would surely expect in the range of 000000-000000.”
The telephone interview usually comes to an end with the question “you have any questions”. So this is time to take the initiative, “yes I want to ask, when we can meet?”
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December 8th, 2011
A career counselor provides guidance for what job you can do with your present skills, experience and educational background. He also guides you for what career paths you should choose to secure a bright future for yourself. A career counselor also helps you in your job development, job assessment and work planning. Career counselor helps individuals to put their abilities in a job with good skills and help them to move forward in their career.
Fields related to Career Counseling
Working environment varies at every workplace. The time you spend at your job differs according to your changed responsibilities and managing with new people.
Responsibilities of a Career Counselor
A career counselor has many duties and responsibilities that he has to carry out on daily basis. His duties and responsibilities are divided according to the different positions.
Career counseling is helpful for the people who are looking for new jobs or are successful in their job but they are confused in how to move forward in their career? Career-counselors help these people to manage difficult process for job search in a more efficient and effective way or do a career change.
The career counselor counsels students or job seekers to move further in their career.
He is responsible to guide and help the job seekers in making decision about their career.
The career counselor finds out what is the interest of student and what steps should he take to further improve his CV.
He is responsible to formulate a good plan or job opportunities for the job seekers.
A career counselor should be able enough to answer the different questions of the students or job seekers to satisfy them for chosen field or offered job.
The career counselor usually keeps in touch with teachers of different institutes to find out the suitable student for a position.
A career counselor is also responsible to provide educational group sessions where students can learn about different career choices.
A career counselor should have good contacts with individuals like business owners, college administrators and managers. This will help the counselor to give the best possible opportunities to job seekers.
Significance of career counseling in Pakistan
In the job market of Pakistan, we see many of the candidates who have skills and qualification but fail to get a job. We also see many job opportunities that are available in different fields but are unfilled. This is actually because our youngsters lack information and don’t get proper career counseling. The lack of counseling leads them to suffer in their career goals.
Career counseling supports and helps the individuals to realize the actual responsibilities and have a realistic approach to the job market. It also adds motivation to the individuals by learning the best possibilities for them. Career counseling encourages every individual to have a career in their related field. Youngsters must also talk with their teachers and other professionals to have career advice.
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December 2nd, 2011
A cover letter is a short document to tempt a recruiter to call you for an interview you actually wish. Many of the experts are of the view that one or two interesting sentences in your cover letter are enough to influence the recruiter to read your resume. The resume is a way to take you to the interview and interview leads you to have a job. Getting a job is a three-step process where the first step is most important that is your cover letter.
Potential employers say that applicants add all the things in their cover letters that are unnecessary. So you must be very careful while tailoring your cover letter.
Prepare your cover letter by putting yourself in the position of recruiters. If you don’t show recruiters what they want to read, they won’t read it. You should tailor your cover letter in a way that it should catch the attention of arecruiter right from the beginning.
Recruiters say “received cover letter that begin with an error, usually fail to take attention of the employers”. For instance, I received an application by an applicant who had crossed out his cell and telephone numbers and written his new number manually. His application was directly filed to garbage. Tailor your cover letter short and to the point.
The Dos and Don’ts of a Stand-Out Cover Letter
Give your basics for what post you are applying and the name of the organization. Also mention your reference with name.
Find out who is hiring manager before applying. Take your time to research on internet or reading suitable business journals to find the name and title of the hiring manager. This research will help you to take a step forward.
Also use official language, open your letter with Mr. or Ms. instead of Dear Sir or Madam, it does not sound official.
Carefully read the posting for the job and tailor your cover letter to emphasize the skills and qualifications that is required. Use precise phrases from the posting of the job.
Other tips:
- If you are applying through an ad, mention a job number or a code in your cover letter.
- Add something incredible that makes your resume a unique one.
- Check again and again to make sure that your letter is without any typing mistake. Ask your friend or a family member to go through once.
- If you are sending your letter through an email, make sure that your document is opening properly and your posted document is virus-free.
- Don’t make your cover letter lengthy. A few concise sentences will be enough.
- Avoid repeating your resume in your cover letter.
- Don’t mention anything that is unrealistic (any certification or skill ).
- Avoid using funny fonts and different colored papers. Make your cover letter easy to read.
- A customized approach always wins the meeting.
With a little common sense and a lot of flair, you can make sure that you would successfully get an offer of your desired job.
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November 30th, 2011
You have performed your duties for many years in an entry-level job, you think that you have enough experience and it is time to move up and apply for a mid level job. It is good, but you must keep in mind that experience is not the only way to show employers that you are most suitable candidate for the job. Employers are not only in search of someone with good experience but leadership qualities and proven effectiveness is also important for them. So it matters a lot that how you advertise and even sell your skills in these circumstances that may help you to move forward from an entry level career. It is quite easy. Just assess how you can improve your resume specifications to your practical area. Following is a summary of strengths that you should follow.
Write in sentence that how your existence effects and improve work. Pick at least three to four unique values and write shortly how those values are relevant to you.
Mention some goals with some defined skills to show your efficiency with your assigned tasks. Give facts and figures to connect your strengths with achievements to define yourself a golden person. If your job mainly works with soft skills, you have to be creative in presenting your skills.
Make a list of your duties, employers and dates of employment. Keep your education details in last of your resume. Mention it just before your references. Employers usually take interest to know whether you can get the job or not. They have less interest in what you have studied in your college. Keeping your strong points in the start will create the interest of a potential employer reading on.
Tailor your cover letter especially according to the position and organization, you are applying for. Thoroughly read the company’s website, explore its values and demands by the customers and demands from the company. Also add those things in your cover letter that highlights your capabilities to compete with needs of customers and the organization.
Staying positive is a great way to success. You can look at market as an opportunity for you to recreate yourself that would make you to stand out. Apart from where you stand in your career, it is better to move horizontally to a related field or just totally starting over another time, try to imagine the offered opportunity.
What to highlight in your Resume?
- Highlight your basic skills, accomplishments and responsibilities
- Tailor your resume according to your job search
- Make format of your resume attractive and reader-friendly
- Emphasize on your work not on your qualification
While tailoring your resume, keep in mind that it is not your personal statement; it is your business objective.
So try to make it a branded statement, That is “who are you and what you can do for their business”.
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November 24th, 2011
A Network Engineer is responsible for supervising and designing the LAN and WAN networks within an organization. He is also responsible to choose the software and hardware for the use of organization and introducing new equipment and systems for an organization. The Network Engineer is also responsible to ensure the maintenance and keep a backup of all valuable data that is updated on existing systems.
Redesigning analysis and upkeeping of network to continue with altering requirements of organization, is also the responsibility of a Network engineer. Required skill sets of network engineers are almost similar to Network Administrators but network engineers work on higher levels. At this level, the expert in IT also needs to fine tune communication and interpersonal abilities as well. Responsibilities may include:
- Implementation and possible design of remote and local systems
- Execution and potential design of joint networks
- Expansion and supervising of network VPN or dial-up Connection
- Analyzing commercial client-server environments and network applications
Private networking and wireless technology have powered network engineers to turn out to be very flexible in their responsibilities and positions. As the effectiveness and speed of networks goes on to impact a company’s base line, the responsibilities of this role go further to become more important to organizations across the world.
Opportunities of advancement:
Candidates with soft skills and strong communication are usually preferred for the position. The individual with these skills are moved from Network Engineer into management positions.
Various Positions or Titles:
Senior Systems Administrator, WAN Administrator, Network Architect, Infrastructure Engineer, Network Analyst and Network Designer are the titles for network engineers.
Educational Requirements:
Certifications and training is necessary for network engineers because companies prefer Cisco technologies for their networking needs. Novell and Microsoft certificates are common in the marketplace. A bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer science or a related field with at least an experience of 5 years is required to become
Industry Certifications:
There are various certifications that can help a Network engineer to strengthen his career.
These certifications include:
• A+ 2003
• CCIE
• CCDA
• CISSP
• LPIC2 Linux Junior Level
• LCPI2 Linux Intermediate Level
• Linux+
• Master CIW i-Accelerate
• Master CIW Administrator
• MCSA 2000
• MCNE
• MCSE 2000
• MCSA 2003
• MCSE 2003
• NetWare 6 CNE
• NetWare 5 CNE
• Network+
• RHCT SCE
• RHCE
• SCM
• Security+
• SCP
• Server+
• Solaris 9 SCNA
• Solaris 8 SCNA
• Solaris 9 Security
• TICSA
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November 16th, 2011
Roles of an Office Manager
Office manager has a wide and diverse job responsibilities. Exact roles and responsibilities of an Office Manager differ from company to company, in smaller sized companies office managers also act as HR managers and have dual responsibilities. Office manager administrates and plans various business affairs and coordinates with employees working in office on different positions. He is a bridge between employees and employers. He keeps accurate information about the presence of all the staff associates and visitors. He is responsible to provide a quality service to the customers according to their level of satisfaction. He is also accountable to have a professional environment in the workplace. Hiring and firing of employees is also one of the important roles of an office manager. Office manager is also incharge and responsible of office building, paying office rent and utility bills. An office manager should also have a skill of problem solving. To conclude office manager should have a multi tasking skills and he should be a good leader.
Office Manager Job Responsibility
- Office manager is responsible for maintaining the efficient operations of office and keeping office environment in a professional manner.
- Office manager is responsible for Hiring and conducting interviews for jobs candidates.
- Office manager is also responsible for payrolls and recommending salary increaments.
- The office manager is responsible for the distribution of necessary incoming post or courier.
- Office manager is responsible to verify the accessibility and set status of each supplies of office.
- Office manager is liable to provide a support to clerical staff for keeping database of office plans.
- He is responsible to lessen each of the faults in reserves like scanner, fax and printer services.
- He is liable to oversee the meeting halls, organizing needs of conference.
Office Manager Job Requirements
In a company a manager plays a very important roles. A good manager needs the following key elements and skills.
- Good at taking decisions, accepting responsibilities and acting upon the taken decisions.
- Always ready to negotiate.
- Be self-controlled and self-motivated.
- Be able to depend on lesser.
- Keep good connections with others.
- Good to assign resources according to preferred concerns.
- Good to assess worker’s performance neutrally.
- Keeping the picture in view for which the problem had occurred.
- Reading the warning signals is also one of the responsibilities of the manager.
- A manager should have good ideas with good vision.
Office manager Must be attentive to keep a focus on the reasons of failure whether outside the organization and within the organization. To predict the causes of problems, a manger should have the aptitude of analyzing the problems of the past and applying that information to the present condition.
A good manager always looks at the way that can be adopted to develop business and takes different steps to make it competent.
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November 10th, 2011
For many organizations project management is an important part in their business and so the project manager does also have great importance and responsibilities. The project manager has to perform the general management, execution, completion, direction, implementation, and control of different projects related to the business. The project manager ensures the goals, proper company strategy and commitments in all projects with finest quality and reliability. They also supervise the production projects of the company.
Project Manager Job Responsibilities
- Direct the planning and execution of the project.
- Increasing full-scale measurements for different projects.
- Describe the tasks of the projects as well as the necessity of reserves.
- Assembling and coordinating the staff during the whole session of project.
- Deal with the resource allowance of the project.
- Deal with the budget of the project.
- Directing the deliverables of the project along with the use of suitable tools.
- Planning and programming the project timelines.
- Providing support and direction to the team engaged in the scheme.
- Continually accounting and monitoring the project development.
- Guaranteeing the final product of the project and superiority of the work.
- Evaluation and Assessment of project outcomes.
- Overseeing of the problems, solutions and progress of the projects.
- Manage and apply the scheme changes and interferences for having project results.
Skills required for a Project Manager
The project manager holds a special position in an organization. His position is described by a high degree of confidence on organizations over which the executive has a limited or no managerial authority. The project manager has to face different situations like increased complexity of regulatory, project financing, environmental and political issues. All these issues need very special kinds of skills.
The project manager should be able enough to incorporate all ingredients of the project system and give a proper leadership to team members of the project. His or her efficiency will rely on human, conceptual and negotiating skills in addition to a lesser level on technical skills. He must be confident enough to communicate verbally and in writing. Good communication is considered one of the most required skills for a project manager. Visionaries lead the companies for change and give an opportunity to draw new boundaries. So an inspired visionary is the basic required skill for a project manager.
The project manager should also be a decision maker, enthusiastic, empathetic, and competent in his work. He should also have leadership skills with good behavior, team building and problem solving skills.
Study guide to become a Project Manager
The need for Project manager is increasing day by day with the increase of IT in our businesses and different organizations. According to estimation about 80% of the projects fail to meet their goals because of budget and sometimes for the reason of shortage of time.
You will have very little choice to have a certification for Project management. PMP (Project Management Professional) by PMI (Project Management Institute), Project+ by CompTIA. CompTIA Project+, SMP (Software Management Professional) are the recognized certifications not only in Pakistan but globally.
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November 3rd, 2011
Most of the working employees, especially in private sectors are “employees at will”. It means that they can be fired at any time without an obvious reason. There are several reasons that may cause your termination. It can happen at any time even without a reason. We are not trying to scare you off with this article, rather you can avoid these circumstances and do good at the job. Following are ways to get thrown off your job.
Most Frequently remain Absent from Office
Take your sick leaves when you are sick but taking too many in the busy schedule can work against you. If you remain absent in the company on a busy season, it reflects your work dedication. Repeatedly leaves on weekends are also one of the basic reasons of getting fired
Inability to actually do assigned job tasks
The employees tell a lie on their resume or during an interview, stating that they can do many different tasks, but remain unable to perform these duties on the job. They will surely be getting fired soon if they fail to quickly learn these tasks. However, some technical tasks are never possible to learn quickly. These shortfalls will expose the employee as incapable to perform their duties and their lie during the application process. The employee needs an orientation and a little help in earlier days. If you feel lack of guidance speak up in a professional manner and ask for proper guidance.
Lie on a resume
The candidates strengthen their resumes with the thought that once they get the job, the resume is no longer important. But they forget that their job duties are assigned according to their mentioned skills and certificates on the resume. If your resume is having wrong detailed notes or any verifiable certifications, means you are at the risk of being fired for fraud.
If anyone guides you to make a strong resume with wrong information, he is trying to get you into problem. If the employers get dissatisfied with any of your given information they can get you fired any time. Understand the truth that reference checking carries on after you are hired.
Not showing your talent
Boasting up is never appreciated but if you always keep silent, never show your achievements to your managers, and are not a familiar face to your employers, you are surely going to be ignored in every matter.
Working hard, being intelligent and staying late at work is not enough. It may also give an impression that you are not a team player. If you don’t share your ideas or speak up in meetings, you will be considered an uninterested person with no ideas instead the one who meets deadlines by late working.
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November 1st, 2011
Accountants are responsible to see that businesses are well directed to remain commercial, by upholding the systematized and organized records of credits and debits, income statements, balance sheets and other applicable and relate able secretarial facts and figures that are essential records of any unit for better understanding of business.
The Accounting is a wide field, having different responsibilities according to the designations. The designation like account manager, chartered accountant and accounts supervisor all are included in accounts department. But the common job responsibilities include:
Academic Background:
It is a difficult task to decide what certification is best suited to you in the field of Accounting. The days have passed when the only best option was to become a Chartered Accountant by getting a degree of M.com by a recognized university. Other than above certifications ACCA, and CIMA issued by the IMA are also the valuable certifications. All the certifications are designed to become an accountant but it is up to you to choose one of them according to your choice.
A special institute has been established in 1951named Institute of Cost & Management Accountants of Pakistan. For the regulation of the profession of Cost and Management Accounting, the institution was granted statutory status under the Cost and Management Accountants Act, 1966. The institute is known not only on national but also on international levels for its high standard testing and education.
ICMAP has certified over 5000 members, who hold senior positions in commerce, trade, industry and government in Pakistan and also on international levels.
Accountant Job Responsibilities
- Arrange financial statements on a monthly basis and sometimes on daily basis.
- Prepare and put in order all the files and tax reports, essential company incomes at the local, federal and state levels.
- Support assessment activities
- Preparing all the records of profit and loss statements, monthly cost and closing accounting records.
- Accountable in compiling and in analyzing financial stuffs for better understanding of financial entries that is essential for broad ledger accounts.
- Review and Monitor accounting process for comprehensiveness, efficacy and accuracy.
- Analyze expenditures and revenues and give suitable suggestions and proposals in financial planning and other accounting fears.
- Resolve accounting problems by carrying out the essential inquiry and setting up a more well-organized auditing system.
- Explain accounting policies and billing invoices to vendors, staff and clients.
- Determine accounting inconsistencies.
- Maintain and develop financial data supports, manual filing system and computer software systems.
- Interrelate with external and internal auditors as well in completing audits.
- Completing other assigned duties.
Skills required for an accountant
- An accountant should be confident enough to converse on procedural information. He must be able to converse evidently at all levels of the business.
- He must be a good team player to work well with others to deliver and get information that makes their job easy.
- He should have the quality of interacting confidently with others. It is very important for accountant to build a good relationship with people. It will help to carry out your role.
- He should be able to meet confronts so it is significant to find a way to overcome problems.
- To work as accountancy is not an easy work, so he should be Committed and motivated to his work.
- Written and statistical reports are essential in accounts. It is a skill that helps to develop a career.
- A minor mistake of even “0” in accounts can lead to misinterpretation, so he should be able to pay attention to small details.
- An accountant has to work on several projects at one time so he should be able to manage the time according to the different preferences.
- Accountant must behave as a professional with all ethics. His work performance, behavior in the work place and way of handling the secret information all are included in it.
Typical examples of Sales Managers jobs on Bayrozgar.com are listed below:
Accounts Officer Job in Faisalabad
Accountant (ACCA) Job in Lahore
Accounts Assistant Job in Rawalpindi
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October 27th, 2011
It has never been easy to turn in your resignation. Even if you are fed up with your job, hate your co workers and don’t want to continue for the next day or even if you are about to be fired, it is difficult to resign delicately. Following are some points to consider before you resign from the job.
Don’t resign unless you have a job offer: This is one of the most important tip. Be practical; never resign unless you have a job offer. The successful persons always put their plan in place first and then resign.
Don’t resign before thoroughly weighing the new job opportunity: Never resign unless you have understood your responsibilities in the next company thoroughly. Also take notice of offered salaries and expenses. Discuss your idea with your friends and industry expertise.
Be professional in resigning: Never leak out any shared information during your job. This is a type of theft and it’s liable to be punished by a court of law.
Don’t resign for bad review: Bad reviews give you a chance to overcome your shortcomings in the job and get better. If you feel that you are unable to manage, these reviews will even then give you a considerable time to plan a positive and graceful exit.
Don’t resign because you are bored with the routine: How much bore you are, but can’t be more than waiting for the call of employment. If you’re so elegant in your profession, you will surely have an opportunity but never resign before you have a good opportunity.
Following your friend or a colleague: Also don’t resign in following your friend or a colleague. No one else can think better of you than you can.
Surely follow the above statements in your mind. But even If you are sure that you actually want to resign, handle your resignation carefully. You never know when you can need your past employers for a reference.
Always work with the saying that anger is your enemy not the energy. May be you are fed up with your job and hate your boss but don’t let your anger show. Never, ever show your thinking about the job or the boss.
Give Notice: If you have made any employment contract that states a notice of some time, give it. Otherwise, a two week notice is enough.
If your employer asks you to keep on more than two weeks, you have no obligation to stay. Your next employer will surely be waiting for you to come and take your responsibilities in a timely manner. Yes you can offer your help after working hours for some days.
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