Document Generation Solutions For Your Business Needs

By Scott Duglase

Job Vacancy Indonesia, Employee, Vacancy 

It's like an evil catch twenty two aimed directly at your business's bottom line. All that time it takes for document generation costs you money; but, alas, those reports are absolutely necessary in order for the business to actually make any money. The question is, are there solutions out there that will give you the quality reports you need while not sucking a ton of money out of your bottom line? The answer is a resounding yes, and any business owner worth his or her salt will start their research on the many solutions immediately, if not sooner. For those of you who are not immediately convinced of the importance of innovative document generation solutions, I've got three ways it can directly benefit your business's bottom line.

Efficiency is King of any business. Is efficiency that important? Ask any business owner or CEO and they will answer with a resounding yes. They will also let you know, unfortunately, that no one has come close yet. Without wasting resources and man hours, document solutions are the best way to boost the efficiency of your business and allowing your employees to spend more time on other items besides generating reports. And, because all employees and actually create and alter the reports on the spot, the business gets the reports exactly when they need them without having to wait hours or days for programmers to do the 'behind the scenes' coding work. Ah, efficiency!

But don't think that just because you are cutting your reporting time in half that you have to settle for lackluster quality. Most document generation solutions will work directly with your basic Microsoft Office packages to generate very high quality reports in programs that all of your employees are already familiar with. Your audience is looking for clarity and detail, and with the solutions out there, these reports give them what they need. It doesn't take a genius to understand that better reports lead better presentations, which usually leads to an increase in business for you.

Finally, these types of solutions can give you the flexibility to provide all of the different types of reports you need for the different departments, partners, and investors that have a stake in the business, whether it needs to be formatted in DOCX, XLSX, PDF, XML, HTML, or whatever else it might be. The bottom line is that one report can give each different audience exactly what they need.

Work at Home Search Job Tips - No Fee Work at Home Jobs

By Alison Doyle

Job Vacancy Indonesia, Employee, Vacancy

There's a very simple rule when it comes to looking for work at home jobs. Don't pay a fee - for anything. You shouldn't pay for job listings, you shouldn't pay to apply for jobs, and you shouldn't pay a fee to get on the payroll.

Legitimate companies don't charge you to hire you. They pay all the expenses of recruiting, training, and hiring. Legitimate employers also don't charge you for start-up kits, for work at home directories, for lists of work at home jobs or for anything else related to getting hired.
Fees Can Indicate a Scam
In fact, companies or websites charging fees for work at home job listings or information on working at home are high on the list of red flags you should watch out for when trying to stay clear of online job scams.
Paying for Equipment
The only time you may have expenses, and remember, you are not paying to get hired, is that some call center work at home jobs may require you to invest in home office equipment after you have been hired for the job. Before you invest in an office or equipment, carefully check out what you'll need to spend, and, decide if the investment is worth it.
Work at Home Job Search Tips
Tips for finding legitimate work at home jobs, finding companies to work for, and avoiding job and employment scams.
Job Scams
Information about job scams including how to check out job listings, how to avoid employment scams, how to report a scam, and where to find lists of scams.
Disclaimer:
You may see advertisements for work at home jobs on this page, because that's the topic of the article. Just because you see an ad here, that doesn't make it a legitimate company. Carefully investigate companies that you are interested in.

How Cyberstalkers Obtain Your Personal Information

From Alexis A. Moore

Job Vacancy Indonesia, Employee, Vacancy 

Jan 8 2009

This is seventh in a series of articles on women and cyberstalking written for About.com by cyberstalking expert Alexis A. Moore, founder of the national advocacy group Survivors in Action. Today anyone can conduct an internet search typing in such key words as

• license plate records
• people locate
• employment locate
• bank account locate
• employment locate
• phone record trace
• social security number trace
• property records information

Searching with these words will bring up hundreds of internet-based datafurnishing companies that supply consumer records online. Some even provide these types of records for free. Experiment a little and you'll quickly discover that you don't need to hire a private investigator to obtain personal information; with a little ingenuity and the help of the internet, you can find it yourself. Internet-based information brokerages and datafurnishing companies are surfacing all over the country. The information age has created a new revenue source for those who provide consumer records. Datafurnishing is a billion dollar industry that includes the three national credit bureaus, companies like Lexis Nexis, Accurint, Choicepoint and the thousands of others that pop up daily. All provide consumer private records with the click of a mouse.
Currently, a convicted felon in California is operating one of the nation's largest information brokering businesses. Yet the hands of local law enforcement are tied because information brokers are neither licensed nor regulated nearly as well as they should be. Simply stated, anyone at any time can hire one of these datafurnishing agents or an information broker and obtain data that the majority of us believe is private.
In California, I have been working with State Assemblywoman Fiona Ma's office in San Francisco to help introduce legislation that will mandate licensing of all information brokers that sell a Californian's private records and information to a third party. Such licensing is not presently in place, enabling many of these so-called information brokers' practices to remain unnoticed by law enforcement and our nation's law makers.
Over the years I have spoken with members of the justice department, local and state law enforcement including the FBI and political figures. All have had the same response: They aren't aware of anything that protects people's records. Most of the time they shake their heads and tell me it's crazy how easy it is to get access to personal information on the internet.

A Dangerous Trick - Caller ID Spoofing

Many people erroneously believe they are safe from cyberstalking because they are rarely online. But technology has extended beyond the reach of the computer and where technology goes, cyberstalkers can follow.
Caller ID spoofing is simple to do. Google the topic and you'll instantly locate sites where you can purchase the technology yourself. By buying pre-paid time, you can then call someone else, changing the number and the name you're calling from on their call display. The person picks up the phone thinking they're talking to National Bank, and instead it's a stalker after personal information. Using these tricks, cyberstalkers can locate victims by fooling friends and relatives into revealing the victim's whereabouts. Or they can obtain critical personal information to access a victim's private records.
In one case I was involved in, a woman received two texts from what purported to be her bank, asking for personal information. She responded without thinking about it, only to find out later that someone broke into her bank account and paid all of her bills several times. Nothing that could be proven as "stolen". As far as the bank was concerned she was the one who chose to pay bills several times. But it left her completely broke until her next payday -- over two weeks away. Even worse, now an identified person had her social security number and other key pieces of information that allowed him to do it again. And there was nothing she could do to have him arrested.
Legislation banning caller ID spoofing has been created and passed in the House and referred to the Senate, but as of this writing it has gone no further. Until laws are on the books banning the sale of caller ID spoofing technology, it is simple to purchase this technology anonymously online.

Cyberstalking and Women - Facts and Statistics

From Alexis A. Moore 

Job Vacancy Indonesia, Employee, Vacancy   

an 8 2009This is third in a series of articles on women and cyberstalking written for About.com by cyberstalking expert Alexis A. Moore, founder of the national advocacy group Survivors in Action.

Cyberstalking is such a new phenomenon that the media and law enforcement have yet to broadly define and quantify it. The available resources are so few and limited that there is little information for victims or for professional victim service providers to utilize. What stats there are reveal millions of potential and projected future cases. The epidemic of identity theft indicates technology abuse is one of the fastest growing areas of crime and those same techniques are easily applied to a specific, targeted victim.

Here’s what we do know:

• More than one million women and 370,000 men are stalked annually in the United States. An astonishing one in twelve women and one in forty-five men will be stalked in their lifetimes. The average duration of stalking is nearly two years and even longer if the stalking involves intimate partners.
• Within the past twelve months, 9.3 million Americans were victims of identity theft. Identity theft is often present in situations of domestic abuse and can become a form of economic abuse once the woman has left her partner. One and a half million of those reporting identity thefts in 2004 also reported that they suffered from domestic abuse and harassment from their exes. These latter stats could be more correctly re-categorized as cyberstalking incidents.
• National figures show victims of cyberstalking tend to be females during the college ages 18-29 but women are not the only targets. A survey of 765 students at Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania found 45 percent of stalkers to be female and 56 percent to be male. National figures show most stalkers to be male by overwhelming margins (87 percent.) Men represented over 40 percent of stalking victims in the Penn-Rutgers study.
• The Department of Justice statistical report of June 29, 2006 indicates that, on average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in this country every day. The FBI reports that domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women between the ages of 15 to 44 — more than car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined. Cyberstalking provides astonishingly easy and cheap tools for an abuser to locate women who have tried to move away or go into hiding.

Cyberstalking and Domestic Violence Victims

Domestic violence victims are one of the most vulnerable groups to traditional stalking, so it’s no surprise they are vulnerable to cyberstalking as well. It’s a myth that if women “just leave” they will be okay. Cyberstalking is a way to continue to maintain rigid control and instill fear into a domestic partner, even when she has already left the relationship.

This can happen even to those who one would think would be more prepared. Marsha was an accountant — a working mom with kids — and after her husband Jerry’s rages got more and more severe, she decided it was time for a divorce. She told him in the safety of the lawyer’s office, where terms for their separation were laid out. To say he was angry was an understatement — he vowed right then he’d “make her pay.”

This threat had new meaning when she went a couple of days later to buy groceries. When all her credit cards were politely and embarrassingly declined, she went home to discover that Jerry had cancelled them and her cell phone, and drained her bank accounts, literally leaving her with just fifty cents. She was forced to get a loan from her folks to make it to the next court date.

We're All Potential Victims of Cyberstalking

In my work with victims I’ve learned that the ease with which someone can perpetuate a cyberstalking crime has made potential victims of us all. Individuals have been cyberstalked for the most minor reasons by people they've angered in the past. Victims were targeted because they dumped a guy after dating less than a month, fired an employee, were part of a business deal gone bad or -- no joke -- parked in the wrong parking spot.

One of my most traumatized clients was a well-off white male -- a senior Vice President of a well-known tax firm. A fired employee began sending hundreds of emails with Photoshopped pornographic images of the VP to every single person throughout the company for months before it was stopped. The executive was so humiliated he not only left his job, he left his life – changing his name and moving to a different state. The ease of causing someone trouble through technology, without having to leave the house, makes cyberstalkers out of people who would have normally fumed in silence.

The media learned that Barack Obama’s Verizon cell phone records were accessed after he became President-Elect. Now think about that. If an incoming President, with his reams of security teams and careful management is not able to protect his information, what chance do the rest of us have?

Sound scary?

I mean it to be. We have all grown so complacent about our information and how it is stored and managed; we have no idea how easy it is to access essential personal data that would unlock the safeguards to our finances, our personal and economic safety and our lives. The havoc a cyberstalker can wreak is painful, frustrating and long-lasting, and the technological tools and resources commonly used by cyberstalkers are all available online for affordable prices.

Salary Negotiation

From Rachel Deahl

Job Vacancy Indonesia, Employee, Vacancy

The other major consideration for your media salary negotiation is the job market. If it’s a really tough market an employer has the upper hand and asking for more money, when there are myriad candidates waiting in the wings, might not be the best move. If you really need a job, and can’t afford to have the offer retracted, then trying to negotiate a higher salary is a bit like Russian Roulette -– do it at your own peril.

Do I Have Time to Decide?

Yes. If, and when, you get offered a job, it is more than ok to ask what the position pays and then request a short time to consider the offer. A short time being a day or, if the offer’s made on a Friday, the weekend. (Don’t ask for a week to mull the offer over.)

Take that time to consider what the salary is and whether or not you want to try for more or whether, taking into account all the variables, you want to accept the offer as is.

Retail Salesperson: Career Information

By Dawn Rosenberg McKay


Job Vacancy Indonesia, Employee, Vacancy
 

Retail Sales Job Description:

Salespersons help customers find what they are looking for and try to interest them in buying the merchandise.

Employment Facts for Retail Sales:

Retail salespersons held about 4.5 million jobs in 2008.

Educational Requirements for Retail Sales:

Although there aren't any formal educational requirements for retail salespersons, many employers prefer a high school diploma or its equivalent.

Other Requirements for Retail Sales:

The following traits are necessary for a career in retail sales:

• tact and patience to deal with difficult customers;
• an interest in sales work;
• a neat appearance;
• the ability to communicate clearly and effectively;

Advancement Opportunities in Retail Sales:

Salespersons with experience and seniority usually move to positions of greater responsibility and may be given their choice of departments in which to work. They often move to areas with potentially higher earnings and commissions. In larger stores salespersons may move into managerial positions, first becoming assistant managers. In smaller stores these opportunities for advancement vary since store owners may handle all managarial responsibilities.

Job Outlook for Retail Sales:

The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that, of almost all occupations, retail sales will have the greatest number of job openings through 2018. It is expected to grow as fast as the average for all occupations during this period of time.

Earnings in Retail Sales:

Median Annual Earnings in the Industries Employing the Largest Numbers of Retail Salespersons (U.S., 2008)

• Automobile dealers: $18.91
• Building material and supplies dealers: $11.95
• Other general merchandise stores: $9.22
• Department stores: $9.14
• Clothing stores: $8.94

Use the Salary Calculator at Salary.com to find out how much retail salespeople currently earn in your city.

A Day in a Retail Salesperson's Life:

On a typical day a retail salesperson will:

• describe a product's features;
• demonstrate its use;
• show various models and colors;
• explain the features of various models;
• provide information about warranties, the meaning of manufacturers' specifications, and the types of options and financing available;
• make out sales checks;
• receive cash, checks, and charge payments;
• bag or package purchases;
• give out change and receipts;

Job Searching Discrimination

By Jamie Berke 

Job Vacancy Indonesia, Employee, Vacancy

Deaf Job Searcher Loses to Hearing Job Searcher
This is a story which happened to a friend of mine. He is hard-of-hearing and uses strong PSE. He had applied for a job working with young deaf children in a mainstream progam through our local [school district]. There were 2 positions vacant and 3 people applied. They had him show up for an interview and had him spend a day with the student in class. After that, he was never called back. The [district] ended up hiring the other two people (hearing), one had minimal signing skills and the other was a house-wife from the local community who never even knew how to sign! Eventually, the [district] realized she wasn't going to work out, so they fired her just before her probation time was up (90 days according to the Union rules).
All during this lady's time of hire, my friend went and made sure he was "hire-worthy". He checked to see if there was some kind of "glitch" in his application process. None was found. The [district] still had the position posted...they never called him back. Three quarters of the way through the school year... a CODA finally applied and got the job.
Deafblind Professional's Frustration
I am deafblind and a computer professional.
I was laid off from the job due to office restruction. Since the last day, I have been faxing and emailng my resumes to recruiters and now am taking computer classes to upgrade my skills. At the beginning, I used the relay number along with my phone number on the resumes and I didn't receive any phone calls. Then I left out the phone number and replaced with my email addresses. I got many good results from the recruiters asking me to call them using their phone numbers. Sometimes, I would disclose myself that I'm hearing impaired and using the relay operators. So many times, I heard nothing from them after the calls. Very few times, the recruiters would email me with list of questions. One time there was a job opening for a help desk analyst and I had a very good talk with the recruiter and at the end all of a sudden this job required managerial experience.
It seems that many recruiters first probably realize that I use the relay operators regardless I mentioned of my deafness or not and they usually screened me out and overlooked things I have pretty good computer skills and work history. I am continuing looking for job openings over the internet. My favorite job search is www.monster.com because I got many replies from the recruiters and I had a few job interviews. My job counselor has excellent job networking with companies and government agenies.
Operations Manager Can't Get Promotion
My husband who is deaf has been an Operations Manager for 7 years with a company that teaches vocational training for the disabled. He does not have a degree but has been a very loyal employee and is willing to do everything they throw at him. A certain position became open on three seperate occassions all of which he applied for. His boss told him that he was not qualified. This, despite his 7 years with the company and the fact that she herself had just been promoted without a degree. They ended up filing the position with a staff less qualified than my husband. They later had to let her go only to fill the position with another applicant that was eventually let go. We thought by this time he would be a shoe in. Of course this did not happen and they went with a staff from another office that was looking to transfer closer to home. During his search outside of his current company, I received a call from a perspective employer via the relay service, I answerd for him and as him and was surprised when she told me (under the assumption she was speaking with my husband)I wasn't what they were looking for. I was angered and asked "Didn't you look at my resume before you called?" She responded yes, and I then questioned why, if after seeing my qualificatins on my resume would you call me if I wasn't qualified. What had changed." Her only response was that she was just calling to check. He is still at the same company but still seeking other opportunities including furthering his education.

SEO Your Way to Success – The Basics of Search Engine Optimization

By Lahle Wolfe

Job Vacancy Indonesia, Employee, Vacancy

If your business relies on the Internet you need to embrace SEO (search engine optimization) as a way of web-life. If people cannot find you on the Internet your business will suffer. If your site is confusing to robots and humans your business can suffer.

What is SEO?

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a term to describe how material posted to the Internet is formatted, presented, and identified. SEO strategies apply to content (text) on websites and blogs, images (including pictures), and meta data and meta tags. Robots read this information and some meta data can also be seen on a web page by humans.
What are Robots, Spiders, WebAnts, and Worms? Data collecting companies find and explore your website using robots. It is also important to understand what robots are so that you can create meta data and optimize your website and to keep malicious robots from taking over your site.

Why Good SEO is Necessary

Understanding What SEO Does for a Website: A website with good SEO attracts robots and provides instructions, descriptions, and content that robots can understand, analyze, and assign relevance to. A site with poor SEO will either get ignored, or worse – tagged as spam or blacklisted.
Think of SEO as advertising your site to search engines. If robots do not know about you, like what they see, or cannot understand what you are saying, you will not get search engine “air time.”
SEO Tips - How to Write Winning Meta Titles: A meta title can name a web page. This title is displayed by the browser, and tells a reader what page they are on. Meta titles are read by search engine robots, and seen by site visitors. It is important to write good meta titles for successful SEO.

Does Anyone Really Know How to SEO?

Yes. There are many reputable companies and freelancers that can help you optimize your website. But there are far more that will take your money, copyrights to your SEO data, and that can and will ruin your website without a second thought. Creating valuable meta data and optimizing a website requires certain unique writing skills and an extensive knowledge of how robots work. Think of it this way, anyone can write an advertising slogan, but not all advertising slogans will help to sell a product.
Because there are so many companies now offering scam SEO services be sure you know what the basics of SEO, read fine print in SEO contracts. A common unethical practice is for an SEO company to take the copyrights to your meta data and then charge you a monthly fee to use it. When you cancel the contract, they wipe your website clean of all meta data.

Interview with John Barremore, SEO Expert

By Lahle Wolfe

Job Vacancy Indonesia, Employee, Vacancy

After stumbling upon an outstanding SEO company's website, the Visible Dentist, I contacted the owner of the business, John Barremore, and asked for an interview. He graciously responded and offered valuable information and tremendous insight into the SEO industry, as well as his own favorite SEO resources.

Even if you are not looking for an SEO expert in the dental industry, the Visible Dentist still serves as an excellent business model to compare any other SEO company to.

Who is John Barremore?

John Barremore is an independent SEO (Search Engine Optimization) expert who has built, managed and promoted websites over the Internet for a variety industries since 1999. Mr. Barremore also wrote "The SEO Tutor," a leading tutorial for do-it-yourself SEO. Today, John specializes in positioning websites in the search engines for dentists.
When asked how his SEO service differs from competitors, Mr. Barremore says, "as a private sector vendor, I'm able to be very flexible in my decisions and offer clients a highly customized service. This is especially important when you consider the many departments and bureaucratic constraints often associated with large or even smaller companies."
Together with single, one-time fees, John represents one of the few SEO services who stand behind their work with a 100% risk-free guarantee. With an impressive list of references and client base to match, his commitment to provide ranking results before getting paid is apparently winning him clients. In the often unmapped region of SEO, it's easy to see why John's customers find his willingness to shoulder the risk to be an attractive offer.
Contact Mr. Barremore:

• Phone: 713-812-9474 (Houston, TX)
• Website: The Visible Dentist

An Interview with SEO Expert John Barremore, SEO Expert

WIB: The Internet is full of bloggers and forum posters that say SEO is a waste of time and not worth paying a professional for SEO services. Why is good SEO so important?
Mr. Barremore: I suspect these are "armchair experts" offering opinion without sufficient insight. There are any number of well-founded reasons for hiring a professional SEO service.
It's well-known that the lion share of website traffic originates with a search engine query. Coupled with the fact that most people seldom venture past the first or second page search results, the importance of search engine ranking becomes immediately self-evident. For industries where a single new customer can represent thousands in revenue, competition online can be tough.
Most business owners have neither the luxury of time nor the inclination to learn, master and apply SEO themselves. With the huge potential for search engine ranking to attract customers, this is a situation where businesses will want to hire an SEO professional rather than rely upon an amateur or only chance.
A pro will have a well-defined strategy. He or she will also have the requisite experience to understand the importance of keyword research, know how to weave topic sensitive keywords into a document's HTML to emphasize its subject and be patient enough to monitor position changes and tweak the site for improvement.

Internet Job Hunting

By F. John Reh

Job Vacancy Indonesia, Employee, Vacancy

Earlier, we did a Letterman-like top ten list - How To Tell If You Are Management Material. Here are some key skills and abilities that help anyone be a better manager.

Need For Good Managers Increasing

The need for good managers is not going away. It is intensifying. With ‘flatter’ organizations and self-directed teams becoming common; with personal computers and networks making information available to more people more quickly; the raw number of managers needed is decreasing. However, the need for good managers, people who can manage themselves and others in a high stress environment, is increasing. I believe anyone can be a good manager. It is as much trainable skill as it is inherent ability; as much science as art. Here are some things that make you a better manager:
As a person:

• You have confidence in yourself and your abilities. You are happy with who you are, but you are still learning and getting better.
• You are something of an extrovert. You don’t have to be the life of the party, but you can’t be a wallflower. Management is a people skill - it’s not the job for someone who doesn’t enjoy people.
• You are honest and straight forward. Your success depends heavily on the trust of others.
• You are an includer not an excluder. You bring others into what you do. You don’t exclude other because they lack certain attributes.
• You have a ‘presence’. Managers must lead. Effective leaders have a quality about them that makes people notice when they enter a room.

On the job:

• You are consistent, but not rigid; dependable, but can change your mind. You make decisions, but easily accept input from others.
• You are a little bit crazy. You think out-of-the box. You try new things and if they fail, you admit the mistake, but don’t apologize for having tried.
• You are not afraid to “do the math”. You make plans and schedules and work toward them.
• You are nimble and can change plans quickly, but you are not flighty.
• You see information as a tool to be used, not as power to be hoarded.

Take a look at yourself against this list. Find the places where you can improve and then get going. And , if you need help, remember that's what this site is all about - Helping new managers get started and experienced managers get better.