Tips on Finding Your Dream Job (physical labor)

October 1st, 2008 admin Posted in employment |

By Michael E Luby Jr

Finding your dream job in today’s competitive job arena and up-and-down economy is no easy business. One thing is certain if you’re a career seeker, the best opportunities for your dream job are on the Internet.

Is there such a thing as a dream job? Yes, All you need to do is rearch, ultilize, keep up to date with current training and trends the job entails to grasp.

Whether you’re looking at a particular company’s job listings posted directly on their website or using an all-in-one job resource service, you’re on the right track. Here are some pointers to get you on your way to finding and landing that dream job soon!

- Carefully consider your career goals. The career you choose and your dream job should match your personality, talents, skills, and resources.

- If possible, don’t limit yourself to one location. The more flexible you are as to where you will go to work, the more marketable you are. Many opportunities are in other neighborhoods, cities, states or countries.

- Keep in mind that in this competitive job market, finding a dream job may take a little longer than it did the last time you were in the job market. It’s common for numerous candidates to apply for a single job. Don’t stress it if you keep trying and don’t give up, then your positive attitude will pay off.

- Update your resume. These days, a professionally written and formatted resume that presents you in your best possible light is a basic prerequisite to finding a job. The biggest mistake job seekers make is being too exhaustive and including everything about themselves. Don’t forget that the purpose of a resume isn’t to get a job right then and there it’s to get a call from a prospective employer! Make sure you stand out by being concise, using keyword phrasing that’s easy to read, and keeping your resume error-free.

- Get out there and start hunting! Try an all-in-one job search site, you can post your resume and portfolio for prospective employers to find, as well as search for work opportunities among international job listings. There’s also a whole section devoted to career resources, including links to leads for increasing your skills and credentials through educational opportunities, finding your personality type, and lots more. My favorites are the RSS feeds and job alerts to my email box.

One the best ways to submit a resume is on Sunday evening so that when the employer arrives into the work place it is the first fresh fax piece to review. I have received 20 interviews with this technique.

Now it is your turn.

Remember you deserve the job of your dreams. Apply well and apply often, and good luck!

Michael Luby is an expert on many issues including writing, poetry and more. A veteran in the internet industy. Michael enjoys helping people be the best they can be. Check out FoundEmployment.com

Improve Your Hiring Process with Pre-Employment Background Checks
By Jim Sirbasku

Pre-employment background checks will reduce your organization’s liability risk and help you trim down the costs incurred by high turnover. This article will provide you with information that can help you learn how to improve your hiring process with pre-employment background checks. Whether you’re an executive, a manager or a team leader, the following information will be beneficial to you.

Excellent for checking criminal records, falsified educational credentials and other serious liabilities, background checks only reveal information when an individual has been caught being deceitful. Of equal or greater value are underlying attitudes, as well as actions at which an applicant has not been caught, to most fully protect your organization against negligent hiring lawsuits and to assure you are hiring reliable, ethical, hard-working employees.

Knowing this information about the people you hire is absolutely essential because a business can be held liable for accidents and crimes committed by its employees.

Pre-employment background checks can include:

Instant Criminal Database Background Checks

- National Criminal Search with SSN Trace

- State Criminal Search with SSN Trace

- Sex Offender Registry

- Watch List

- County Criminal Court Search

- Federal District Criminal Search

Credit Bureau Background Checks

- Credit Bureau SSN Trace

- Employment Credit Report

Civil Record Background Checks

- County Civil Court Search

- Federal District Bankruptcy Search

- Federal District Civil Search

Verification Services

- Education Verification

- Employment Verification

- Professional License Verification

Drug Screening Services

- Urinalysis - 5 & 10 Panel - Quest

- Urinalysis - 5 & 10 Panel - Labcorp

Motor Vehicle Background Checks

- Driving Record

Health Care Sanction Database Services

- OIG LEIE (Medical Exclusion List)

- OIG Plus

- OIG Plus with One State

- OIG Plus with All 50 States

There are also other pre-employment background checks designed not only for hourly position applicants but for any position in your organization, entry-level to executive. They measure and assess job candidates regarding personal integrity, substance abuse, reliability and work ethic. These pre-employment background checks evaluate human resource management challenges that are increasingly eroding companies’ productivity and profitability:

- Theft

- Fraud

- Inventory shrinkage

- Unexcused absences

- Tardiness

- Drug use

- Clocking in or out for other employees

- Revealing confidential information and/or trade secrets to outsiders

- Carelessness

- Sub-par job performance

- Job-hopping

- Unauthorized use of the Internet

- Using company email for personal use

- Disclosing private and restricted computer data

Hiring qualified, honest employees is critical to the success of your business. Every day people with criminal records, falsified education credentials and other serious liabilities are hired by companies who fail to thoroughly check their backgrounds. Knowing the backgrounds of the people you hire is absolutely essential because a business can be held liable for accidents and crimes committed by its employees. The result can be acts leading to expensive negligent hiring lawsuits.

Pre-employment background checks will verify the accuracy and/or completeness of information provided by job applicants - before hiring and training — and thus reduce the costs incurred by high turnover and reduce your risk of liability. By implementing pre-employment background checks into your hiring process, your organization will be able to identify and predict problematic employee issues at all levels of the organization by pre screening prospective employees for patterns in behavior. Additionally, you will be able to identify job applicants that are honest, drug free, reliable, and hard working. Pre-employee background checks give you critical information for making hiring decisions you won’t regret.

Jim Sirbasku is co-founder and CEO of Profiles International, a leading provider of human resource management solutions and employment assessments for businesses worldwide. For more information about using pre-employment background checks, visit our website.

Where The Hell Can I Find Another Job
By Jeffrey Solochek

With my current job I barely get all my bills paid. I need at least a part time position to supplement my income. Referrals from coworkers never pan out. I’ve gone into all the businesses that are located around where I live. I even applied at Target, had all the skills they were looking for, yet they told me that they were looking for somebody different. The only thing I can figure out why Target didn’t offer me a position was because I am 42 years old. It is almost as if they would rather hire somebody who won’t last like somebody just out of high school.

Craigslist is free and companies post jobs over there all the time but the problem I find with Craigslist is there are a lot of postings of junk, scams, and biz op’s. You end up having to weed through 10 junk ads just to get to one that is real. Most of these jobs give no phone number just either a fax number or email address to reply to. If your ;local McDonald’s put a wanted ad in the classifieds locally or hung up a sign then when applying your app will be 1 amongst maybe a thousand others.

This seems to be the concensus with all companies who post a wanted ad on sites like Careerbuilder, Monster, and Yahoo Hotjobs. It takes months before you ever hear back from any of these companies and I want a job now not 3 months down the road. I’ve tried just call companies in the Yellow Pages but it’s September here in Florida and a lot of these companies tell me they will have nothing until the season starts sometime in October.

Is there something wrong with me? Why can’t I seem to get another job? Do I need to go back through some sort of schooling? I have prior Student Loans so without having to apply for more loans how would I even pay for more schooling? My wife just started one of those small colleges that is all over the internet for Medical Assistant training. The total cost of the entire 2 year program is almost $20,000 not to mention the loss of income because while she is going to school she can’t afford the time to work a full time job.

My father paid for my brothers to go through school but I was one of the lucky ones who was told to raise the money myself and if and when I graduate my father would think about reimbursing me. When he was working his income was too great for me to qualify for any financial aid. At least 20 years ago schooling was a lot more affordable. I purposely did not claim my kids as deductions when I filed my yearly taxes thinking this would help them qualify for financial aid. It turns out that these days whether or not you declare your kids on taxes if they are under 24 years of age they are automatically look upon as your liability.

What about the idea of learning new skills on my own? I can find a lot of information online if I could just find some place where I could take the exams and learn all the material on my own I should be able to save a small fortune. I know a lot about computers but yet I don’t have any of the certifications. I know everything the certificates tell employers you know. Is there a place where I can just take the exams rather than have to go to school to learn things I already know. I’ve taken the online tests for these cert’s and passed them all with flying colors. Where do I go from here?

Jeffrey A. Solochek grew up in WhiteFish Bay, Wisconsin but now resides in Brunswick, Georgia. He is an established authority on his niches of life, business, and marketing. Mr Solochek has a lot of great experiences and he writes about everything leaving out any sugarcoating. All his writings containsNo BS, No Fluff

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