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By Tony Jacowski

 Competency Skills

Tests are prepared to help assess the competency of a job candidate. The organization wants to assess many different aspects of your skills and personality. Assessment tools have no set pattern of correct or incorrect responses.

Your responses should be truthful and honest. Eventually, it will be a question of whether or not you match what they are looking for.

Adhering To Norms

You should be serious about taking an assessment test. Do not take it lightly or disregard its importance. The dress code for interviewees should be formal and not casual.

Employment Tests

No one is exempt from these types of tests, no matter what your educational level may be. Evaluation and assessment only gets more difficult as you climb the corporate ladder.

The purpose behind personality assessments is to gauge how well the candidate fits in with the organization’s business culture. This is essential for top-level candidates upon whose shoulders much responsibility will lie.

The organization has much more to lose if mistakes are made at this level.

Showing Displeasure

Many senior candidates disregard the need for testing and view it as an unnecessary part of the employment process. This attitude will only hurt their career efforts in the long run.

Complaining needlessly will only reflect poorly on you and hinder your opportunities for advancement within the organization.

You Can Benefit

Pre-employment tests are very accurately constructed and formulated. The tests are planned according to the position that you are applying for.

It needs to be taken seriously and the questions answered honestly, in order to give the employer an accurate assessment about you.

Scheduling Yourself

There is no harm in asking how long your test will take you so that you can schedule yourself for that amount of time. Pre-employment tests can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours to complete.

Assessments can be either oral or written. They may be administered by your direct supervisor or by an independent organization. In some cases, these tests are conducted online when the job is in a different location than the one you are in.

Sometimes a test may be conducted over the phone. Remember to never interrupt the assessor while he is speaking. When you have completed the first round of the interviews, you may be required to complete the next stage in the form of an online assessment.

Becoming Familiar With Tests

It is worth familiarizing yourself with employment or assessment tests that are conducted for employees. These can be found on the Internet.

With practice, you will begin to feel more comfortable with such tests whenever you are asked to take one.

A Test is Not the Final Deciding Factor

If you have performed well in an interview, but have not done too well on the assessment test, it may not count against you.

Sometimes interviewer is not looking for perfect answers. They may be looking for individuals that answer honestly - and that may count for more than giving the “right” answers.

It is important to remember to learn from each experience. Each test and every interview is an opportunity to learn something new.

Tony Jacowski is a quality analyst for The MBA Journal. Aveta Solution’s Six Sigma Online offers online six sigma training and certification classes for six sigma professionals including, lean six sigma, black belts, green belts, and yellow belts.

Tips for a Successful Work at Home Business
By Cory Blanchette

 An at home business is the dream of many people who want to work from home. While a work at home business can be extremely profitable, setting you out on a bright financial future, it is work. Some people find that they just cannot make a work at home business successful because they just don’t have the focus to work the business. A work at home business takes as much effort as a regular job and is not an instant opportunity for easy money. Consider the following tips to ensure the success of your work at home business.

You Have to Focus and Do the Work - You can’t look over at that pile of laundry and choose it over working your business. You must set aside working hours for your work at home business and you must do the work, regardless of whether your favorite soap is on television or you feel like making a run to the grocery store for some chocolate. If you don’t make distraction-free time to work your at home business, it will never be successful. Remember, a work at home business means to “work” - just at home.

You Get Out What You Put In - This goes along with the first tip, but the more you work and put into your at home business, the more you will receive from it. By putting in time and effort now, you will greatly benefit later. Most work at home businesses fail for one of two reasons.

1. People don’t put enough time into their work at home business

2. People give up when starting their work at home business isn’t easy

You Have to Constantly Market - Don’t think you can slack off at your first sale. If you don’t constantly market your work at home business, you won’t repeat that sale. For example, a writer who starts a work at home business writing content for website owners must always be marketing, even while working on current projects. If the writer doesn’t, he won’t have any work or money coming in when the current project is finished. You can’t just start a work at home business and then sit back and wait for customers to come to you. If you don’t market, nobody will know your work at home business exists.

You Must Strive for Constant Knowledge - People who are known as experts in their field run the most successful businesses. Strive for constant knowledge about the subject of your business. Take classes, attend seminars, subscribe to newsletters, and always be on the lookout for new developments and technologies. Write articles for newspapers, industry publications, and provide them on your website. Set out to become the expert of record for your type of work at home business.

It takes time to make a work at home business a success, but by following these tips, you can get a good head start. Stay determined, stay persistent, achieve goals, and enjoy the success that follows.

Cory Blanchette and his associates have specialized in online ventures. They have also tested many programs and have written reviews on these programs that are being sold on the internet.

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How To Email Your Resume To Potential Employers
By Paul Hata

 In order to seek out and apply for the jobs you are interested in, you will most likely post your profile and resume on a job search web site, such as monster,career or hotjobs. These search engines allow you to upload your resume in a Microsoft Word or text file format, or create one using their forms.

Outside of the job search web sites, e-mailing your resume as form of application has become commonplace. However, each employer or headhunter has different rules on the file they will accept via e-mail. Most companies will accept an attachment in Microsoft Word this is why you have to be conscious of the font type and size, as well as margins you are using when composing your resume. If a company is requesting a text file, you should follow these steps to convert your Microsoft Word document into a text resume:

-Select File, Save As

-Name the file; as a best practice, use your name as the file name, and use underscores as spaces

-Under Format, select Text Only

-Select Save.

Now that you have converted your file to a text file, make sure to open it and review how the spaces, tabs, and bullet points have transferred over. You may need to do some edits in order to format the resume to fit the file type. Note that the plain text file doesn’t allow for bolding, italicizing or underlining. Make sure that all your text is left justified and that the spacing is correct.

If an employer asks that you include your resume in the body of an email, treat this as a text file when formatting. Copy and paste your whole resume in an email. Keep the font styles basic; use Arial or Times New Roman fonts and keep the size at 10 or 12 points.

Adjust all the spacing and bullet points as appropriate. A good rule to follow is to keep the email simple is to avoid bolding or italicizing text since you don’t really know the type of email software your recipient is using or if the accept HTML or text emails only.

If you are sending your resume as an attachment, format the body of your email as a cover letter. At the top of the email, include your name and address, as well as the address of your recipient. Typically, the address can be found either on the job listing or at the company’s web site. If you are sending the resume in the body of the email, follow the same guidelines in terms of the email content.

Don’t make an assumption that including a resume in the body of an email is the only information you should include in your message to your potential employer.Even if the resume is copied into the email, you still need to let your employer know a little bit more about yourself via a cover letter. However, since you will include your address at the top of the email, feel free to start your resume with a career objective instead of including the heading with your name and address.

Much like proofing is critical in perfecting your resume, testing how your resume is displayed in a body of an email or how it opens as an attachment via another computer is important.

Rally your friends or family for help, and send them sample emails with your resume included in the body of the message or as an attachment. This will provide a great opportunity for you to assure that your resume is reaching your potential employers in the format that is clean and professional.

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