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		<title>Working Portal for April 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working Portal for April 2012 is concerned with Careers Directory. Working Portal provides career links &#038; resources related to jobs, job opportunities, employment, resume, career planning, career education, changing careers, recruitment &#038; staffing.]]></description>
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Working Portal for April 2012 is concerned with <a href="http://www.workingportal.com/">Careers Directory</a>. Working Portal provides career links &#038; resources related to jobs, job opportunities, employment, resume, career planning, career education, changing careers, recruitment &#038; staffing.</p>
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		<title>Resume Service: Reasons To Use It</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 06:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Resume Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resume Writer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It may seem wasteful to spend the money on a resume service, but in this competitive market this is exactly the time you should spring for the service. Many companies are receiving hundreds of resumes for each open position. A majority of recruiters spend less than three minutes reviewing a resume. Does your resume have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It may seem wasteful to spend the money on a resume service, but in this competitive market this is exactly the time you should spring for the service. Many companies are receiving hundreds of resumes for each open position. A majority of recruiters spend less than three minutes reviewing a resume. Does your resume have what it takes to get noticed?</p>
<p>Your resume is not just a list of your experiences; it is a document advertising you and your accomplishments. Companies spend thousands of dollars on advertising campaigns. They do market research, conduct focus groups, and pitch several different ideas &#8211; all to get your attention. Your resume is your only way to get the attention of a hiring manager.</p>
<p>There are the obvious changes that can be made to your resume. If you have a simple typo or grammatical error, your resume could be tossed aside no matter how relevant your experience. But, this is something you can edit on your own. A good resume writing service offers more than just proofreading.</p>
<p>Resume writers do just that &#8211; they write resumes, every day. A resume writer sees all different kinds of formats and styles and can transform your resume in ways that highlight your key points. A professional resume writer knows how to make your resume visually stand out.</p>
<p>Resume writers know what recruiters want, and just as important what they don&#8217;t want to see on resumes. Professionals know what keywords and buzzwords need to be present for your resume to stand out. Many recruiters search resumes online and will only find your resume if certain keywords are present. </p>
<p>Since resume writers are always working with resumes they know the latest trends and techniques that recruiters are using. They attend conferences and participate in webinars, so their skills set is always improving.</p>
<p>Many people become attached to certain details on their resume. There may be some parts that should not be included, but they are so important to the individual that they have a tough time deleting them. Having a resume writer work on your resume will help it to be more objective.</p>
<p> After talking with you about your experiences, there may be other skills that they will highlight on your resume. As individuals we tend to down play several of our best abilities.</p>
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		<title>Site of the Month for August 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 03:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Site of the Month for August 2011 deals with Career Information. Directory Work is the online resource for career. Provide employment, job search, recruitment, careers, agencies, job references, job fairs and much more.]]></description>
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Site of the Month for August 2011 deals with <a href="http://www.directorywork.com/">Career Information</a>. Directory Work is the online resource for career. Provide employment, job search, recruitment, careers, agencies, job references, job fairs and much more.</p>
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		<title>Finding Aviation Employment for Helicopter Pilots</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Stewards</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helicopter Pilots]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Becoming a helicopter pilot involves a much different type of training than the more traditional pilot&#8217;s license. The ability to safely control a helicopter both in the air and at landing sites is imperative and requires a different skill level than a commercial pilot who typically has a standard landing and takeoff location that is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Becoming a helicopter pilot involves a much different type of training than the more traditional pilot&#8217;s license. The ability to safely control a helicopter both in the air and at landing sites is imperative and requires a different skill level than a commercial pilot who typically has a standard landing and takeoff location that is well marked and prepared for their arrival. Helicopters may be used for a wide variety of purposes and consequently a helicopter pilot must be prepared to handle any number of conditions and situations. Just as with traditional pilot jobs, helicopter pilots have a number of different areas that they can focus on for employment. For helicopter pilots that want to work with medical emergencies, hospitals typically enlist a private service to handle their emergent air lifts. The helicopter pilot is typically contracted to the hospital or to an emergency medical unit company.</p>
<p>Aviation employment for helicopter pilots can also be found with organizations that provide search and rescue assistance for local law enforcement agencies or government agencies that support areas such as the national parks. These types of helicopter pilots typically have to be trained for jobs such as mountain rescues, avalanche search and rescues, supporting efforts in dangerous areas including wild fires. Other specialized helicopter skills that can help a pilot when seeking aviation employment is the ability to support water rescues and night flying for spot light or heat sensitive searches.</p>
<p>Being a helicopter pilot isn&#8217;t all about the adrenaline rush from emergencies. There are also opportunities to work for news agencies, particularly for assistance with traffic reporting. The travel industry also utilizes helicopter rides for private events, such as private, picturesque views of major city skylines. Some industrial and corporate opportunities exist for helicopter pilots who would provide transportation into or out of difficult areas for people or for supplies such as in the mining industry. When seeking aviation employment, it can be helpful to truly determine what type of pilot you are interested in being, whether it is emergency assistance, private support or the travel industry.</p>
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		<title>Simple Home Business Ideas For Beginners</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Johnson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Self Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Employment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many advantages of running your own home business rather than working for a company. You have a more flexible schedule. You work in your own space and at your own time. In other words, you get a chance to spend more relaxing and quality time with your friends or loved ones. Depending on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are many advantages of running your own home business rather than working for a company. You have a more flexible schedule. You work in your own space and at your own time. In other words, you get a chance to spend more relaxing and quality time with your friends or loved ones. Depending on the number of hours you put in, the effort you expend, and other factors, you can earn as much money as you wish. You might be more relaxed with no boss to check on your work. Hence, you might be capable of higher productivity and better quality of work. Due to the advent of the worldwide web, it is possible to try out various home business ideas online these days.</p>
<p>Once you have determined your specialty, setting up your business is much easier and simpler. Some people are good at baking and designing lovely wedding cakes or cakes for other special occasions. Others might be good at baking various types of cakes like chocolate cakes, banana cakes and orange cakes. They may even have their own unique recipes, perhaps, passed down from one generation to another. Homemade cakes can be best sellers if they taste better than the store-bought variety. Alternatively, you can bake homemade cookies or cup cakes for special occasions.</p>
<p>For those who are skilled at sewing, you can offer your services for plain sewing or embroidery stitches. Simply purchase some colorful pieces of plain material. Then, make some embroidery stitches to create eye-catching designs and colors. After some cutting and plain sewing, you can sell the embroidered cloth as coverings for sofa, tablecloths, cushion covers, pillow covers or other items. Other than selling products, you can sell your service. If you are a qualified accountant, writer, plumber, engineer or any other profession, simply set up your business online and offer your services as a freelancer. Do not be worried about the possible income. Some of the aforementioned products would most probably cost much more in shops, especially embroidered materials.</p>
<p>By buying in bulk, you can save much money on raw materials. If you use a particular shipping company, you can negotiate for special discounts on shipping charges. The trick to a successful home business is the pricing of your service or product based on quality and customer service. Many people prefer to buy homemade cakes or other foodstuff at good prices, rather than buying at shops. In the case of freelancing services, many companies are outsourcing their work to cut down on operational costs. Hence, there are various job opportunities for those who are serious about setting up their own home based business.</p>
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		<title>The Importance of Employers Liability Insurance Quotes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insurance Quotes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Businesses]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You can find in many pro-business sources information about employers liability insurance quotes. These sources are usually good in giving accurate information when it comes to quotes about employers insurance. In case the sources do not give the exact information when It comes to these types of quotes then it could mean not so good [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can find in many pro-business sources information about employers liability insurance quotes. These sources are usually good in giving accurate information when it comes to quotes about employers insurance. In case the sources do not give the exact information when It comes to these types of quotes then it could mean not so good things for your business. vFinance and other venture capital firms may be good sources too and may even able to give you appropriate information as an employer. </p>
<p>There are many people who are for small businesses and want the business owners to know what options they have when it comes toemployers liability insurance quotes. If these quotes are too high for them and they won&#8217;t get one, jobs may be lost as they are not able to afford the needed insurance premiums. You want to ensure that many people who own businesses, even those in rural counties, to not have to deal with so much when it comes to liability insurance quotes for employers. Business entrepreneurs in rural places like in New Mexico don&#8217;t have the time, more often than not, to deal with all of the aspects comprising insurance details. Those simple owners of orange groves for example also need to know about these insurance quotes so that they can speak with their farm workers about the bad inevitability of an accident in a small grove.</p>
<p>These details are very important to be keen on as an employee. The employers liability insurance quotes would not only protect them from any accident but in the instances of injuries as they are working on the farm or a grove, no matter how small the area of the workplace is. If the employer does not have this, even if that employee wasn&#8217;t the exact person with the injury, he or she is still affected by this as he or she may lose her job if the business will be shut down for good. This would be a good for a particular area&#8217;s local economy. </p>
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		<title>How to Get Hired in Job Fairs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Stewards</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Job Fairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Job Fair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Job Interview]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a new year, and what better way to start the year than to get hired in a good company where you&#8217;ll grow personally and professionally. If you are having a hard time looking for jobs you can attend job fairs so you can have a lot of companies you can apply at in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is a new year, and what better way to start the year than to get hired in a good company where you&#8217;ll grow personally and professionally. If you are having a hard time looking for jobs you can attend job fairs so you can have a lot of companies you can apply at in one day. There are a lot of upcoming job fairs this coming months so you have to look and feel your best before attending these events. In coming into these job fairs, make sure that you bring your updated resume with your active number, and be ready to bring a lot. There are a lot of participating companies in job fairs, and you never know how many companies are going to catch your eye. If you bring only one resume, you are going to waste the opportunity to apply in different companies in a day. Bring at least 5 copies of your resume just to be sure.</p>
<p>Also, dress as you would during a job interview. A lot of companies also conduct the interview on the spot, especially if they see that your resume is good enough to be considered. However, they might be turned off with you when you show up wearing jeans or shorts. Appearance is very important when you&#8217;re applying, but it doesn&#8217;t just mean the way you dress, but how you carry yourself overall. Also, don&#8217;t pass your resume to just any company because you might get called that same day and if you don&#8217;t know anything about the company, you are not only embarrassing yourself in front of them but in front of other companies and applicants as well.</p>
<p>Lastly, when you get invited to sit down for an interview, be calm and confident. These two qualities are the first things the interview is going to notice about you. If the interviewer sees that you are prepared and answers the questions properly, then you have a big chance of getting hired on the spot. However, if you seem like someone just forced you to attend the job fair and you&#8217;re not prepared, it&#8217;s going to show as well. The most important thing to remember when you&#8217;re attending job fairs is to think that you&#8217;re already going in several different interviews. Set your mind to it and be ready for such opportunities. Also, think positive. Being optimistic emanates from within, and if you believe that you can get the job on the spot because you&#8217;ve prepared for it, there&#8217;s a big chance that you actually will.</p>
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		<title>How to Apply for Employment Insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 03:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment Insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Employment Insurance is more popularly known as unemployment insurance for it kicks in to action when your job has been wrongly snatched away from you. Having this insurance scheme necessitates your employer to pay a part of your salary to the government. The idea is, if you are denied your job, your government can take [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Employment Insurance is more popularly known as unemployment insurance for it kicks in to action when your job has been wrongly snatched away from you. Having this insurance scheme necessitates your employer to pay a part of your salary to the government. The idea is, if you are denied your job, your government can take up the task of providing for you, by sending you a monthly or weekly sum of money. Thus, it is all about getting insurance for work when you are currently unemployed!</p>
<p>However, this is most definitely not a life-long luxury that you can afford. The time period for which the government will bear the burden of your maintenance is a fixed time span. And you definitely have to get a job within that time limit. Employment insurance options therefore secure your future and for this you only have to go through a bureaucratic procedure of application.</p>
<p>The steps involved in insuring your job in this way are simple and quite easy to follow. Having access to the World Wide Web is actually optional for all you need to do is gather information about certain things. Although having access to the internet would have undeniably made the process easier, it does not imply that the inaccessibility would translate into impossibility of securing work insurance.</p>
<p>Firstly you will need to assess your eligibility because only when you have met certain basic conditions pertaining to the amount of salary earned, duration of your employment etc will the government agree to shoulder your responsibility during moments of crisis.</p>
<p>These criteria vary from state to state and hence it is advisable that you gather first-hand information about your job insurance options by contacting your state&#8217;s respective Department of Labor (DOL).</p>
<p>Secondly, you have to collect and collate all personal information before applying for your employment insurance scheme. This includes your social security number, your birth and residential proof, the list of your current employers etc. Armed with these details, you can go ahead and file your job insurance. While most states have to provision of online application others allow you to apply over the phone.</p>
<p>Your benefits start pouring in within a week&#8217;s time. That is just how easy applying for employment insurance is! And from then on all you have to do is certify weekly and file various reports from time to time such as research report, work report etc.</p>
<p>So hurry up and ensure your financial security and stability by applying for employment insurance. This is perhaps the best way to combat job insecurity in the world of privatization!</p>
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		<title>Understanding Your Employment Contract</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 03:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Stewards</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contract Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment Contract]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Job]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An employment contract is an agreement between an employer and an employee; which sets out their employment rights, responsibilities and duties. These are referred to as the &#8216;terms&#8217; of the contract. An employment contract can be made as soon as you accept the job offer, therefore meaning you accepted the terms offered by the employer. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An employment contract is an agreement between an employer and an employee; which sets out their employment rights, responsibilities and duties. These are referred to as the &#8216;terms&#8217; of the contract. An employment contract can be made as soon as you accept the job offer, therefore meaning you accepted the terms offered by the employer. Having a written contract could cut out later disputes and help you understand your employment rights. The contract binds you and your employer until it ends; by giving notice or until the terms are changed in agreement between you and your employer.</p>
<p>There is a term referred to as &#8216;flexibility cause&#8217;, where your employer reserves the right to change the terms and certain conditions. However your employer&#8217;s changes won&#8217;t be unreasonable, as many contracts have an implied term of mutual trust and confidence, requiring them to act honourably. There may be times when either you or your employer wants to change some terms of the contract; this can&#8217;t be done without each other&#8217;s agreement. If you wish to make a change to one of the terms, speak with your employer and explain why. If they want to change something, they should consult you, explain their reasoning why, and be open to alternative ideas you may put forth.</p>
<p>If you or your employer has broken one of the terms set out in the contract, this is referred to as &#8216;breach of contract.&#8217; If you believe your employer has broken one or more of the terms, check your contract to be sure. If there has been a breach of contract, talk with your employer directly and try to resolve the issue, before making any further decisions. If you do decide to take legal action, you can do this through an employment tribunal or through a civil court. However it is cheaper and quicker to go through an employment tribunal, but going through a civil court may get you more compensation. One thing to keep in mind is that your employer may be prompted to take out a counter claim against you if they feel they have one. If you are the one that breached the contract, your employer should come to you directly to try and resolve the issue. If there is a suffered financial loss for your employer because of you, they may make a complaint for damages against you.</p>
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		<title>The Benefits of Employment Contracts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 03:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Stewards</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contract Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment Guide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment Insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From confidentiality to ownership of inventions, employment contracts cover a wide range of legal employment matters. Like any contract, employment contracts can be written or verbal, implied or explicit. Having a good written contract benefits both the employer and the employee because the contract makes a clear, definitive record of the terms each party is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From confidentiality to ownership of inventions, employment contracts cover a wide range of legal employment matters. Like any contract, employment contracts can be written or verbal, implied or explicit. Having a good written contract benefits both the employer and the employee because the contract makes a clear, definitive record of the terms each party is agreeing to at the time. For example, the confidentiality agreement mentioned earlier is a contract in which the employee promises not to reveal any of the employer&#8217;s secrets. It is implied in this contract that as long as the employee keeps up their end of the bargain, the employer promises to continue offering the employee that position. Because of the larger issues surrounding this agreement, it may stand alone or be incorporated as a clause in a larger contract.</p>
<p>A well-written contract offers a simpler and less-expensive way for both sides to settle employment disputes, should they arise. Employment contracts protect both sides in the event of a disagreement. At the first sign of a dispute, a contract comes in handy and can simply be reviewed to confirm each side&#8217;s rights and responsibilities. In due course, a lawsuit might be filed if the employer or employee is not upholding their side of the contract. Thus the most important function of a written contract is to avoid litigation. Matters of who is right and who is wrong are decided quickly, and you can avoid drawn-out arguments of &#8220;he said-she-said.&#8221; Each side should retain a proper copy for their own reference. A contract&#8217;s purpose can&#8217;t be fulfilled if it&#8217;s lost in a storage box somewhere at home or in the office. Besides, memories fade and disputes can arise long after the initial employment period begins. A written copy ensures that both parties know what they have agreed to and that they can be reminded of their duties whenever necessary.</p>
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