7 Strategies to Credit Crunch Proof Your Career
Every time you open a newspaper nowadays, the first thing you see is the current fear of a recession, the credit crunch, the banking crisis and the difficult days ahead with a downturn of the economy. It seems obvious that there will be cost cutting measures within some organizations, which in turn triggers fears of downsizing. Keeping this in mind, it is better to credit crunch proof your career when there is still time. Even if your company is not affected right now, it is necessary that you build up a strategy to safeguard yourself. There are no magic answers or sure shot solutions but these tactics can help to give you confidence and an added edge.
9 Keys to Job Search & Career Success
In recent months, the job market has become increasingly competitive. But even as the economy slows, and there are increasing numbers of job seekers in the job market, there are many professionals who have been incredibly successful in conducting fast, effective job searches. What do they have in common? How are they doing it? Here are nine tips to speed your own job search and drive it to a fast, successful conclusion.
How to Succeed Within the Interview….and Your Career
We all know that a well designed job search requires much more than help with your CV and job interview tips. Usually it’s good to get advice from the experts and career counselors or coaches. But, it is far more important to know yourself and to know where you want to end up. Do you have a picture in your mind of where you’ll be in 5 years..10 years? Can you describe it? Have you written it down ? With this picture or goal in mind, can you now plan for tomorrow’s career strategy? What can you do, tomorrow, that will lead to the better job or the promotion?
Revealing: Career Management, it options and opportunties.
Career Management - Revealing Its Options And Opportunities
One confusing and rather elusive business is career management, or more precisely called “career planning.” Anyone needs career management; however, only not many people employ or do it. Why? Because many just don’t know how important career management is. A lot of people think that they need not seek other people’s help for they can find suitable jobs for themselves. To find out if career planning would benefit you, you have to know the definition of career management. Actually, career management has more than one definition. The meaning is actually dependent on your purpose: are you planning for a new job or are you looking for ways to develop your present job? To find out what will be good for you, you should search for the meaning of career management. Then you will know if you need career planning or not, and if you do need it, what kind do you exactly need.
CIPD and Acas publish "five-a-day management fundamentals" to help raise UK productivity
Link: http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2390
Business leaders and government are today urged to take a stand against poor people management, which is too often the cause of bullying, conflict and stress in the workplace and a significant factor in the UK's productivity gap.
The call comes as CIPD and Acas publish joint guidance on how to be a better boss, and urge government to help address the UK's people management skills deficit.
CIPD chief executive Jackie Orme and Acas Chief Executive John Taylor are launching the 'five-a-day' fundamentals of good management at their joint Resilience through recession conference because of their belief that the country faces a huge challenge to raise the level of people management skills among its 4 million managers if it is to improve the productivity of UK plc..
Business Etiquette and Professional Presence
Business etiquette is made up of significantly more important things than knowing which fork to use at lunch with a client. Unfortunately, in the perception of others, the devil is in the details. People may feel that if you can’t be trusted not to embarrass yourself in business and social situations, you may lack the self-control necessary to be good at what you do. Etiquette is about presenting yourself with the kind of polish that shows you can be taken seriously....
Lion HR Solutions are delighted to announce Peter Emelone an official goodwill Ambassador for the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).
Peter Emelone has demonstrated the ability to work efficiently and have acted as an active part of various HR projects. His greatest asset gained whilst working within an HR environment is being responsible for advising and leading all HR issues falling within various organisations and being able to maintain a professional and effective relationship with CEOs, managers, directors and employees to support them in dealing with HR issues. Peter has also been involved in numerous, H&S, ER and HR projects and activities which are counted on to make recommendations to improve overall business operations.
Mock Interviews with our recruitment team.
It takes practice to ace the interview. Our team knows what employers are looking for. This is your chance to try out your interviewing skills with professionals who will review your resume in advance, prepare questions to gauge your skill and experience level, and provide you with valuable feedback. Contact us to Sign up for an interview time, and don’t forget to forward your CV to us before the mock interview.
Date: Friday 24th July 2009
10:00am, Harley street, London
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Team Building workshop
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Suitability: This course is recommended for companies that wish to increase their productivity. Especially useful for newly promoted Managers, Team Leaders and HR Personnel
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