It’s hard enough to keep up with a demanding boss and your never-ending to-do list, but finding a new job on top of everything else is enough to make even the most organized and on-top-of-it gal feel a little crazed. If you’re as guilt-prone as I am, then you may feel a little like you’re cheating on your company by sneaking around behind your coworkers’ backs. The long lunches, the extra lipstick stashed in your purse, the secret phone calls behind closed doors…you get the idea. Here are a few tips to keeping your search on the DL.

Nix the guilt: Gone are the days when people would work for the same company for 30 years and get a gold watch at their retirement dinner. Job hunting is a fact of life. Your boss or coworkers may be doing the same thing, so don’t feel like you’re being disloyal. Remind yourself that a new job will give you a better quality of life and help advance your career. Be sure to make it a routine to check online job engines once a day for new opportunities. Monster’s new search-and-match technology will save you time job hunting by returning only a handful of great options that are the most tailored to what you’re looking for, rather than returning hundreds of “so-so” options.

Schedule accordingly: Many interviewers understand that you’re currently employed and are willing to accommodate a request for an early-morning or late-afternoon interview to minimize interference with your current job responsibilities. If someone insists that you meet with them from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on a Monday afternoon and that is wildly inconvenient for you, consider whether you really want to work for someone who is so inflexible!

Give yourself time to breathe: In an ideal world, you’d take the day off to go to several interviews scheduled a few hours apart and allow yourself plenty of time to prepare mentally and physically. (Plus, you’d avoid giving lame excuses to your coworkers.) In reality, you’re probably sneaking out during lunch and praying your boss doesn’t notice that you’ve already had two “dentist appointments” in the past month. I normally take the subway to work, but if I’m unsure of where an interview is or I’m concerned I might be late, I’ll splurge on a cab so I can arrive unruffled and on time. Time permitting, you could scope out the address a few days in advance so you’ll know where you’re going.

Get personal business cards printed: Some companies are totally chill about you fielding calls from recruiters, but my past employers were not. I used VistaPrint to order custom business cards with my cellphone number and gmail address printed on them. That way, I could give potential contacts my digits without scrawling them on a napkin. Personally, I think my cards are a lot better-looking and better reflect my professional brand than my company’s logo.

Excel at your current job: If you’re kicking butt at the office, who can fault you for taking an hour off here and there? Delegate when you need to, but keep plugging along so you’ll earn a solid reference from your boss. Though she’ll be sad to see you go, she’ll be happy that you’re off to bigger and better things.

About Nicole:

Career expert and best-selling author of Girl on Top, Nicole Williams is redefining the world of work — making it glamorous, entertaining and relevant to modern women. Nicole founded WORKS by Nicole Williams in 2006 with the vision of building the first media and content company focused on career development specifically for the highly dynamic and powerful market of young professional women. Her Web site, Nicolewilliams.com, is the go-to destination site for modern working women.

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• Location:
  Montgomery, AL
• Industries:
  Banking
  Accounting and Auditing Services
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Tax Professional

H&R Block is the world’s largest tax services provider and a leader in tax preparation. We are committed to providing our clients with the highest level of customer service, and are looking for Tax Professionals.

Position Overview

Our Tax Professionals are our greatest assets. To become a Tax Professional, you’ll start by taking the H&R Block Income Tax Course. If you’re already a Tax Professional, you may be able to test out of the Income Tax Course and go straight to the interview phase.

Advantages

Once you become an H&R Block Tax Professional, you’ll enjoy a challenging job that offers you:

-Extra income

-A flexible schedule

-Opportunities for career growth

-The chance to learn new, valuable skills

About Us

We’ve prepared over 400 million tax returns since 1955. Year-after-year our Tax Professionals enjoy the flexibility and opportunities that come from being part of the H&R Block team.

**Enrollment in or completion of the H&R Block Income Tax Course is neither an offer nor a guarantee of employment. Enrollment restrictions apply. Book or other fees may also apply.

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SUMMARY: The Accounting Clerk is responsible for processing the ISD payroll deduction checks/registers and for performing routine administrative, clerical and data entry work under general supervision.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Receive ISD payments, reconcile to ISD payment register, enter into database and prepare for deposit; troubleshoot/correspond with ISD offices when required.
2. Enter IMR payments into the database.
3. Prepare register summary.
4. Coordinate and maintain filing system for ISD payments/registers.
5. Correspond with and assist payroll members and ISD offices to address payroll authorization / deduction questions and resolve issues; prepare debit/credit memo to resolve balances and forward to Payroll Deduction Specialist for processing.
6. Review ISD account balances monthly and prepare /send payment reminders as needed; maintain a tickler system of correspondence and issues.
7. Coordinate, with the Local Unit Coordinator, the implementation of the annual Membership Rollover; includes annual phone bank project with ISD payroll offices and preparation of member rollover lists.
8. Prepare annual ISD letter /mail-out to collect information sheets from ISD’s.
9. Assist with the annual rollover phone bank and preparation of annual ISD rollover information sheets and rollover member lists.
10. Sort and distribute accounting department mail.
11. Maintain effective relationships with and among staff at all levels of the association and maintain good working knowledge of general association issues to be able to provide excellent assistance to members and staff upon request.

NON-ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Make recommendations for improving service to members.
2. Maintain and update accounting procedures and checklists for the ISD payment/register system.
3. Assist with other accounting department filing as assigned.
4. Complete special projects as assigned.
5. Primary back up for bank deposits and post office mail

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES:

1. Good analytical, data gathering and attention to detail skills.
2. Good organizational and time-management skills.
3. Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing

QUALIFICATIONS:

1. High school diploma or equivalent.
2. Accurate data-entry skills with a minimum of 8000 keystrokes per hour.
3. Intermediate skills level in Excel, Word and Outlook.
4. Minimum of 1 year experience in customer services.
5. Minimum 1 year experience in accounts receivable preferred.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• General office environment

PHYSICAL DEMAND:

• · Ability to lift 25 pounds.

FLSA STATUS: Non-exempt

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Yet most of us give little thought to our nonverbal actions while these verbal activities are going on. We may consciously raise our voice, or use anger to try to carry the day, or even stand up to physically dominate the room. But beyond that, we’re clueless about nonverbal means of persuasion.

We miss some of the most powerful means of persuasion humans have when we don’t consciously use nonverbal gestures to support our arguments. Nonverbal persuasion is subtle, it works more slowly, and it works mostly on the unconscious. As such, it can allow all sides to save face and avoid getting too deeply dug into a difficult negotiation. Try the nonverbal argument right from the start. It may save you a lot of time and trouble.

Here are three basic steps for winning the nonverbal argument when emotions are running high. All must be done so subtly they are not consciously noticed.

First, mirror your adversary. Mirroring builds agreement; you can often head off potential trouble by establishing a strong basis of nonverbal agreement before the real negotiating begins. But you mustn’t be obvious. The idea is simple enough: When the other party adopts a certain seated or standing position, try to adopt a similar one yourself. You want to move slowly until you more or less match the other person’s stance.

The idea is to take some time standing or sitting in roughly the same position as the other person. That will send an unconscious message to the person that you are on an equal level and generally in agreement with them. They will begin to trust you. But remember not to be obvious about it.

If they start arguing, heckling, or violently disagreeing with you, don’t mirror; align. Often strong verbal argument comes from a desire to be heard and acknowledged. If you align yourself with the person–that is, sit or stand facing in the same direction–you’ll be surprised how often all protest will cease. Alignment looks and feels different from mirroring. With alignment, you stand shoulder to shoulder with someone, looking in the same direction.

This action can be quite difficult to undertake; your natural instinct is to back away from anyone who is heckling you–or move in very close to pick a direct fight. But try alignment and watch the confrontation fizzle.

If tension still remains high, use the hands-down gesture to dampen it. When tempers flare and feelings run high, spread your hands out, palms down, at about waist height, and gently push them down a couple of inches. If you’re sitting at a table, you’ll have to bring your hands above the horizontal plane of the tabletop. Again, this must be done so subtly that it probably isn’t consciously noticed. Repeat as necessary. This gesture sends a clear message that it’s wise and safe to calm down now.

These gestures won’t remove the need for hard verbal bargaining, of course, but they can begin to defuse tense situations more easily. Use the power of your nonverbal messages before you have to resort to verbal fisticuffs.

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Provide photographic support for the University in meeting research and instructional needs.

Provide photographic support for the University in meeting research, instructional, and administrative needs. Provide photographic coverage of events, portraits, copy work, studio set-ups, and location photography. Miami University is an EOE/AA employer with smoke-free campuses.

Campus Crime and Safety Report – www.muohio.edu/righttoknow. Hard copy upon request. Employment will require a criminal background check according to University guidelines. For this search, applications will be accepted online only. www.miamiujobs.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=51103

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What do you need to do to find the kind of enjoyment or progress you want in your career? Joel Garfinkle, founder of Dream Job Coaching, a consulting firm specializing in personal fulfillment and professional transformation based in Oakland, California, offers these suggestions.

Determine Which Aspects of Your Job You Like

Then find a way to do more of whatever that is. When you are engrossed in a project you like, your workday will be energizing rather than draining. You may also find that the tasks you enjoy are the same ones a coworker or boss dislikes. Find out if you can work out a win-win situation.

Learn from the Best Around You

Who in your office seems to really enjoy — and excel — at their work? What can you learn from them? People who like coming to work radiate positive energy, and their spirit can be infectious. Let the energy rub off on you.

Determine Your Career Signature

If you had to write down one statement that would encompass who you are (or want to be) professionally and personally, what would it say? Take some time to clarify your unique signature, and use this statement as a guiding force in pursuing what you want to do and whom you want to be.

Recognize What You Can and Cannot Control

Write down the things that stress you out at work. Circle the ones you have control over, and cross out the ones you don’t. Vow to stop spending energy on the crossed-out items; redirect your energy on finding solutions to the problems you can change.

Do the Job Above Your Current Position

Offer to take on some of the responsibilities in the position just above you. Becoming familiar with that role makes you an obvious choice for future promotion.

Accomplish Projects That Directly Affect Your Resume

When taking on new projects, try to select those that will most likely benefit you. Be sure to quantify the results of your work and add these accomplishments to your resume, which you should be updating regularly.

Cultivate Friendships at Work

Your coworkers can understand and appreciate what life is like in your office better than anyone else. Take the time to develop friendly relationships with them. You’ll benefit personally and professionally from the time you invest in getting to know them.

See the Big Picture and the Little Pictures

What is the big picture — your overall vision — for your professional life? Now what are the small daily steps or little pictures that will get you there? Make a small goal, like joining a professional organization or finding a mentor – something you can accomplish today.

Make Sure You’re on the Right Path

Are you really doing what you want to do? Does what you think you should be doing interfere with what you want to be doing? None of the above suggestions will work if your career isn’t aligned with your true interests, personality traits and natural abilities. If a career assessment is in order, make this your first priority.

Originally posted 2009-12-10 06:23:37. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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When it comes to connecting with the right job opportunity, timing isn’t everything, but it’s certainly something. Tuning into industries’ and employers’ annual recruitment cycles just might give you a decisive edge.

That’s the consensus of recruiters and employers with fingers on the pulse of seasonal variations in hiring. Here’s a quarter-by-quarter summary of how these hiring dynamics play out.

First Quarter: A New Year’s Wave of Hiring

Sometimes peaks of hiring correspond with workplace factors that are only loosely related, like when people take vacation. “Hiring seems to be done by consensus more than any other decision,” says Scott Testa, chief operating officer of Mindbridge Software in Norristown, Pennsylvania. “So most hiring decisions have to be made when people are in the office.”

Major hiring initiatives may follow close on the heels of the holidays and summer. “The big months for hiring are January and February, and late September and October,” says Testa. “Job seekers who make contact right at the start of these cycles have the best chance of being hired.”

Strong hiring periods like the first quarter, when demand for talent may outweigh the supply of qualified candidates, may be a good time to go for a job with more responsibility or higher pay. “If you’re currently employed and looking to improve your status, you’ll want to look during the peak hiring season,” says Glenn Smith, president of search firm Precise Strategies in O’Fallon, Illinois.

Second Quarter: Gearing Up for Summer

For those whose livelihood depends substantially on fair weather, spring is when hiring peaks. In the construction industry, hiring in April, May and June proceeds at double the pace of December, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS).

Tourism and hospitality hiring is also very strong in the spring. And businesses looking to hire professional workers before fall often do so now, before key decision makers start rotating out for summer vacation.

Third Quarter: Recruiters Relax a Bit, and Vacation Plays a Role

Hiring slows down in July before picking up at the end of August. For those with nontraditional but impressive employment backgrounds, there’s an advantage to looking in relatively slow hiring months like July and December, says Smith.

For example, recruiters, less pressed for time than in peak months, may be willing to take a longer look at an experienced professional woman seeking to return to work after taking years off to care for children.

Fourth Quarter: A Rush, Then a Lull

The fourth quarter presents the most complex hiring dynamics of the year, with its mix of fall activity, holiday retail hiring, Thanksgiving-to-New Year’s slowdown, and end-of-year financial and budget maneuvering.

“Hiring managers and bank CEOs will typically try to reduce their operating profits by incurring search fees towards the end of each year, to avoid paying taxes,” says Josiah Whitman, an executive recruiter with Financial Placements of Lake Oswego, Oregon. His firm’s job orders are distributed this way: first quarter, 23 percent; second quarter, 21 percent; third quarter, 20 percent; fourth quarter, 36 percent.

Although December hiring is at low levels in many industries, recruiters are determined to fill the year’s remaining openings by December 31, and the supply of applicants dwindles as Christmas and the new year approach.

Major industries classified as information, financial services, and professional and business services, having hired heavily in the second quarter, see their lowest level of hiring in December, says JOLTS.

But December isn’t as slow as it used to be, say some observers. And applications tend to slow down during the holiday season more than openings do — tipping the balance in favor of those who do apply.

“It seems that business just keeps going through the holidays,” says John Challenger, CEO of outplacement and search firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas in Chicago. “There doesn’t seem to be the kind of letup that there used to be.”

So playing the recruitment peaks doesn’t mean waiting out the rest of the year. “You need to be out there looking for opportunities, not finding excuses to avoid looking,” says Tom Johnston, CEO of SearchPath International in Cleveland.

Originally posted 2009-12-10 05:43:48. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Equinox Terrace Nurses Needed 1st and 2nd Shift Please email or fax resume to Mary Ellen medunham@terracecommunities.com or fax 802.362.3374

Originally posted 2010-03-24 23:06:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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LPN – Meds Nurse: Sellati & Co., Inc. / RPMC

2 Positions available: Charge Nurse and Staff Nurse

Meds nurses needed for Adult, Outpatient, Substance Abuse Clinic in Willow Lawn area.

Full time – 5 days a week – Early AM hours

Presently clinic is open – Mon – Fri 5:30 am – 1:30 pm, Saturday 7:00 am – 11 am – work schedule includes Saturday.

Company has been in business 18 years, clinics in VA and NC.

Competitive salary depends on experience.

Email resume to: resume_hr@cox.net

Originally posted 2010-03-24 23:10:29. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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