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The Four C's To Successful Interviewing by Ebookkeeper.org For Some people interviewing can be nerve racking. What do I say? How do I make a good impression? What should I wear? etc. With so many tips and advice out there, here are some suggestions for interviewing from a Bookkeeping and Accounting Employer to help you out. Remember the four C's of interviewing: 1. Confidence 2. Communication 3. Curiosity 4. Class 1. Confidence - Confidence is a learned skill. It is also the skill that I think is the most important to have and portray in any job interview. You cannot easily fake it without coming across as arrogant or a know it all. But again you can learn it. So how do you learn to have confidence? Well for starters understand what it is. Confidence is the outward expressions that displays to others through verbal language, body language, and eye language that you believe in who you are and what you can do. You may have noticed the term eye language in the previous sentence. It's sometimes said eyes are the window to the soul. It is important to look people in the eye when interviewing. Constantly looking down at the floor or off to the side can lead someone to believe you are not very confident in what you are saying. To help you feel more confident in job interviews remember the following. The person who is interviewing you is a lot of times more interested in how they are interviewing then listening to everything you are saying. This may sound strange but it is often true. Sometimes the people giving job interviews have not given enough interviews to feel comfortable. You can use this to your advantage in many situations. If you recognize you are interviewing with this type of person you can subtly make them feel better by being relaxed, and making them feel like they are doing a good job. For an example say the interviewer's boss comes into the room to speak with you or see how things are going. You can make a comment like, "(interviewer_name) has given me a really good description of the job and it makes me even more interested in working for the company." 2. Communication - Remember communication is a two way street. One of the quickest ways to get in the unemployment line is to constantly talk in an interview without taking time to really listen to the other person. Slightly nodding your head every once in awhile affirms you understand what the other person is saying. Also it is important to speak clearly and intelligently. You can sometimes control the tone of an interview by how you answer questions, make comments, and ask questions. The tone of the interview can summarize how the interview went. If you sound like a pre-programmed robot then the interviewer may walk away feeling like the interview was boring. Be relaxed and remember that it's not all about your skills, education, and experience only. A big part for interviewers is determining if you would "fit in" to the group. 3. Curiosity - If curiosity kills the cat then non-curiosity kills the chances of you getting the job you want. To clarify, by curious, I don't mean asking question after question or making sure you understand every single detail of the position. Since this is your career, and what you will be doing, (if you accept the position - notice the confidence J ) make sure you ask questions when it is not clear. Sometimes when I interview candidates I feel like I could stop in the middle of my sentence and say "as part of this position you will be eating ant hills" and not receive a blink of a response from the candidate. 4. Class - Last but not least, make sure you have class about you. Always dress professional, be polite, don't cuss, or park in some ones spot. Sometimes it is the little things that you do or don't do that can turn your employment search into a long adventure. About the Author http://www.ebookkeeper.org offers free bookkeeping and accounting resources to businesses, bookkeepers, and job searches.

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7 Steps to Happiness by Pablo Golub Although there are people who are chemically depressed, which means that they are depressed for no reason, happiness is a choice for most of us. Happiness is gained by doing, not by thinking. When you begin to think whether you're happy or not, you are no longer happy. You are happy only as long as you don't think, just do, and eventually you'll be happy. Below are seven steps or keys to happiness. Remember, in order for any of these techniques to work you must actually be bold and try to do them. Again, they will not work through intellectualization because once you begin to intellectualize whether you're happy or not, you are no longer happy for you lost that elusive moment of happiness which you may have had. So work hard at these steps, practice them all at once, practice them one at a time if you want to, but be bold, and practice them - to transform your life. 1. Smile Smile right now. No matter what you're doing, or what you've been through today, you feel a lot better now because you smiled. Smiling is a huge turn-on to people, it makes you and others feel good. However, that's not all, smiling projects an aura of self-confidence. It tells people, "I'm in charge of myself and therefore I want to make you feel better. If you want people to come to you, project a healthy smile at all times. Even when you're sad, fake it. Your brain can't tell the difference between a fake smile and a real smile, you will become happier automatically when you smile. 2. Be bold Always remember Goethe's quote, "boldness has genius, power and magic in it." When you are bold and go after what you want with reckless abandonment, magical forces come together to create a series of "coincidences" to make your dreams become a reality. If you aren't bold, then there's no hope for you - you won't reach your hopes and dreams. Be bold at all times and you will eventually reach your hopes and dreams. 3. Exercise Exercising releases endorphins which make you happy. Any type of exercise is fine, treadmill, weights, dancing, etc. Just as long as you do it and enjoy it. Then be bold, a bit more magic will begin to occur, as happiness will mysteriously strike your life. Of course, you know that they are not coincidences that you had to perform the "magical tricks," or boldness to make these coincidences become a reality in your life. 4. Be in the present moment As far as you're concerned, only the present moment exists, as it's the only moment you can do anything about. Yesterday and tomorrow are out of your control at the present time. Only today can be changed, so it's the only thing that matters. When you concentrate on yesterday or tomorrow, you stifle your ability to take advantage of the present moment which you can change. Moreover, the present moment has magic in it, as well. 5. Have confidence You now know that smiling portrays a feeling of self-confidence. However, there are also other factors that show that you're confident. Any positive interaction you can have with people portrays confidence. This means doing things that make the other person feel comfortable. This includes smiling as mentioned earlier, but it also includes making eye contact, and nodding your head when somebody is talking to you. Any positive interaction you can have with a person raises your self-esteem and your confidence level, as well. It shows you that you can interact with people and get the most out of conversations. Confidence is also gained by all the steps covered here: being in the present moment, exercising, being bold, etc. Happiness is a domino effect, if you're happy (perhaps by making yourself feel happy through smiling), other people will see that you're happy and will want to join in on your party. If you let them join your party, you will become even happier. When you're confident, no matter how much nonsense you may say, people will still listen to you a lot more than if you were to say something profound but you were to say it with a lack of confidence. In summary, confidence gives you power over yourself, and having power over yourself brings you happiness. 6. Have a positive attitude Your outside is a reflection of your inside. If you are positive on the inside, your outside will appear as a positive world. If you are negative on the inside, the outside will seem gloomy. The point of all of this is that you should work on the inside, your attitude, and eventually your outside will seem bright. Your attitude determines your altitude. You can only go as high as determined by how positive your attitude is. If you have a positive expectancy inside that things are going to go well for you, good fortune will soon come to you. If the opposite is true, you have a negative expectancy, then negative events will keep reoccurring in your life. 7. Don't take things personally There is only one perfect way to deal with people who tease you or put you down: do absolutely nothing. If you take it personally, and get aggressive, then they will find more ways to put you down, and you will become very unhappy. You try to punch them, and you sink down to their level. However, if you don't take things personally, instead, be quiet and let them speak their "nonsense," they will soon become baffled. They will look and feel dumb as they will have nothing more to say (that anyone will hear) and eventually they will have to shut up. It's like a class clown who eventually shuts up when nobody is laughing. Doing this avoids conflict and solves the whole problem without any effort being expended on your part and plenty of energy being expended on theirs. Understand that they themselves must have low self-esteem if they feel that they have to put somebody down in order to make themselves feel better. If you feel bad, and retaliate, then you are showing them that you have low self-esteem yourself, again, but it bears repeating, you will sink down to their level. For if your self-esteem is high and you're happy, you won't care what anybody else says because you will be happy no matter what. Always remember Abraham Lincoln's quote, "people are only as happy as they make up their minds up to be." --- So there you have them, those are the seven steps to happiness. Hopefully you realize, from these seven steps, becoming happy is a lot easier than we think. Just getting in the habit of smiling all day will increase your happiness tremendously. The problem for most of us is that we get lazy and expect the world to cater to our needs. That's never going to happen because everybody else wants their own needs catered to. Therefore, we must become happy ourselves, so we can radiate energy to help other people. 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Talent stops at the border

Paul Brent
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

To hire someone from a U.S. state with no taxes, he would have to raise the salary nearly 30% says Jim Yager of KPMG.
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To hire someone from a U.S. state with no taxes, he would have to raise the salary nearly 30% says Jim Yager of KPMG.

Canadians love to gripe about their taxes. But it seem s all that complaining has made its way beyond our borders, exacerbating the already difficult task firms have attracting foreign talent from places such as the United States and Europe. And no where is this crunch expected to hit harder than in financial services.

"I see it all the time," says Jim Yager, a partner with KPMG Canada's international executive service, whose group consults on hundreds of cross-border relocations every year. "The company or the headhunter will come to me and say, 'This guy is making $100,000 in the U.S., what do we have to pay him to give him the same amount of take-home pay?' I'll do a gross-up calculation and usually they will fall off their chair when they hear the [salary] differential."

The higher cost of living north of the border, a function of taxes, the lack of mortgage deductibility and relatively high home prices in cities such as Toronto and Vancouver, generally proves to be the chief stumbling block for recruiting U.S. talent, Mr. Yager says.

The KPMG consultant uses the example of a Texas executive, with a wife, two children and a salary of US$150,000. He pays deductible mortgage interest of US$25,000 and works in a jurisdiction with no state tax. To take home the same amount of after-tax pay, he would require a 28.2% raise, or an annual salary of US$192,322. "That's an impediment to bringing people up here," he observes.

"You find that with any position because even at lower levels of income the tax rates in the United States are a lot lower than in Canada."

Taxation is less an issue in Europe, which generally has only slightly lower taxes than in Canada. Here though, our government does not offer the level of tax benefits to attract foreign executives as do some European countries such as Britain or the Netherlands.

Last month, a Deloitte study found Toronto's financial services industry is heading for a critical shortage of key talent which "could undermine revenue growth and productivity in Toronto's main industry."

The study found 25,000 of the city's financial services workers are today 55 years of age or older, with the average age of retirement for the sector in the early sixties. That soon-to-retire group of Boomers has also more than doubled in the past decade, which will make the shortage even more dramatic in five years or so when they leave the workforce seemingly all at once.

The study concludes Toronto's financial services industry needs to attract more international talent, but acknowledges it is easier said than done. While Canadians considering a move to the country's financial capital worry about the cost of living, traffic and lifestyle, it is lower compensation, health care and a perceived lack of advancement opportunities that concern non-Canadians thinking about relocating to Toronto.

Canadian employers must first deal with the basic ignorance of foreign candidates about the level of our federal and provincial taxes and living conditions, says Marty Parker, managing partner of Waterstone Human Capital Ltd., who finds Americans, in particular, think taxes in Canada are more punishing than they really are.

"Second, of all, even if you deal with that, there is a low probability [of successful recruitment] unless you make a link to Canada," he said. "Either they went to school here, they lived here briefly as a child [or] their spouse lived in Canada," he says. "There has got to be a connection, or else your odds are so low."

Mr. Parker's firm, currently attempting to recruit foreign doctors to staff a private clinic, is encountering this lack of connection with Canada. "We are finding that unless there is the educational or familial link, it is just impossible -- and they can earn really well --more money let's say, substantially."

He finds it is easier to recruit from some parts of Europe, such as the United Kingdom, the Benelux countries (an economic union between Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemborg) and France. The sticking point is often not money, but cherished benefits such as vacation time. "Even at a senior level, when they hear that it is a maximum of four weeks, their eyes glaze over."

Waterstone Human Capital is having some success with eastern Europe countries such as the Czech Republic and Poland. "It depends on the country," he said. "Try to recruit somebody from Vancouver to Toronto." His firm has found it is not much more expensive to relocate a prized employee from Europe than it is from Canada's West Coast, for example.

Canadians take pride in being citizens of the world but fall down when compared to countries such as Australia, where people in business are more aware of employment opportunities overseas, Mr. Parker contends. His firm is mining the ex-pat community in Europe to identify talent who may consider moving to Canada. Foreign upheavals and terrorism also provide a spur for people in Europe to consider moving to Canada, which remains easier to enter and work in than the United States.

The "safe and friendly" Canada card is often played by headhunters. "A lot of people see Canada as a consistently friendly environment that is safe, with a strong economy," said Minto Roy, president and chief executive of Vancouver recruitment firm PCMG Canada. "Because it is easier for people to qualify for landed status or work permits, this becomes a natural choice as long as they are willing to take a bit of a pay cut to get a better lifestyle and a better political climate. But safety, political climate, health, clean air, friendliness, better opportunities for their kids, these are all very attractive values and principles."

"At the end of the day it is not all about money," Mr. Roy says.

His firm places many South Africans, who have "been living very lucrative lives," but desire to get away from the violence and political uncertainty.

Still, the job of international recruiting is not getting any easier, which could mean some major headaches on Bay Street when all those fiftysomethings start retiring.

"In general, relocation is getting more difficult," Waterstone's Mr. Parker says. "People are getting more dug in, they don't need to relocate for senior jobs like they used to."

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Monster.ca - Ten Common Misconceptions About Being Fired

 

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Monster.ca - Ten Common Misconceptions About Being Fired

 

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Monster

 

content.monster.ca/13043_en-CA_p1.asp

Career Centre

19.6.2007 Archives / Employment Law

"You're Fired" - Now What?

By Howard A. Levitt and Voula Michaelidis
No one wants to hear those dreaded words. Whether you are told that you have been “fired”, “terminated”, “dismissed”, “let go”, “downsized”, “restructured” or “laid off” it all means the same thing - you no longer have a job with your employer. How you handle the termination meeting and the days following can be critical in preserving the relationship with your employer and building bridges to move forward. The following guidelines will assist you in managing the loss of your job and handling the shocking news:  

1. Listen carefully during the termination meeting. You may be stunned by the news that you have lost your job. This may make it difficult to concentrate and listen. Try not to get angry. You may be tempted to jump up, storm out of the room, cry or yell at the person who is delivering this bad news. However, it is important to focus and act in a professional manner. You may be advised of the reason for the termination and whether it is for just cause or without cause.
   Do not be surprised if the termination meeting is very brief and that you are asked to leave the workplace directly from the meeting. Some people are escorted from out of the workplace by security or meet with an outplacement officer.
   Also, do not be surprised if you are offered a cab ride home to ensure that you get there safely.
2. Do not sign anything. You may be provided with a termination package at the meeting. You will likely be too shocked to properly read and concentrate on the contents. Take the termination package home with you and review it carefully within the next few days. Most termination packages contain a letter outlining a severance offer as well as a release.
3. Your personal belongings. Remember to collect your personal belongings. Only take what belongs to you from the workplace. This may include any pictures you have at your desk, your favourite coffee cup or any other personal items. Do not remove any of the company’s property or documents. 
4. See a lawyer. It is important to make an appointment with a lawyer to review the termination package and release as soon as possible. There will be legal language in the documents which may make them difficult to understand. The lawyer can assess whether the severance package you are being offered is reasonable based on your circumstances, such as your age, position and length of service. It will be important to bring all of the documents related to your employment to the meeting with the lawyer. This includes any offer letter or employment agreement you may have signed. You may have also signed other agreements during your employment such as a confidentiality agreement, an intellectual property agreement, or a non-solicitation and/or non-competition agreement which determines your rights and obligations upon the termination of your employment.
5. Understand your obligations going forward. You may have entered into various agreements with your employer that place limits on what you can and cannot do in future employment. For example, you may have signed a non-solicitation agreement stating that you will not contact or solicit your employer’s customers for a certain period of time. You need to review these obligations with your lawyer so that you do not find yourself being sued by your pervious employers. 
6. Start planning your future career. Try to look at the cup half full and move forward. It is important to start your job search right away. Try to get a reference letter from your previous employer to assist you in looking for new employment. Put together a list of your contacts and begin networking. Also, start looking at newspapers and conduct internet searches for job opportunities.

Although it may not seem like it in the beginning, losing your job may be the best thing that ever happened to you.

Source: Monster

Monster

 

content.monster.ca/13043_en-CA_p1.asp

Career Centre

19.6.2007 Archives / Employment Law

"You're Fired" - Now What?

By Howard A. Levitt and Voula Michaelidis
No one wants to hear those dreaded words. Whether you are told that you have been “fired”, “terminated”, “dismissed”, “let go”, “downsized”, “restructured” or “laid off” it all means the same thing - you no longer have a job with your employer. How you handle the termination meeting and the days following can be critical in preserving the relationship with your employer and building bridges to move forward. The following guidelines will assist you in managing the loss of your job and handling the shocking news:  

1. Listen carefully during the termination meeting. You may be stunned by the news that you have lost your job. This may make it difficult to concentrate and listen. Try not to get angry. You may be tempted to jump up, storm out of the room, cry or yell at the person who is delivering this bad news. However, it is important to focus and act in a professional manner. You may be advised of the reason for the termination and whether it is for just cause or without cause.
   Do not be surprised if the termination meeting is very brief and that you are asked to leave the workplace directly from the meeting. Some people are escorted from out of the workplace by security or meet with an outplacement officer.
   Also, do not be surprised if you are offered a cab ride home to ensure that you get there safely.
2. Do not sign anything. You may be provided with a termination package at the meeting. You will likely be too shocked to properly read and concentrate on the contents. Take the termination package home with you and review it carefully within the next few days. Most termination packages contain a letter outlining a severance offer as well as a release.
3. Your personal belongings. Remember to collect your personal belongings. Only take what belongs to you from the workplace. This may include any pictures you have at your desk, your favourite coffee cup or any other personal items. Do not remove any of the company’s property or documents. 
4. See a lawyer. It is important to make an appointment with a lawyer to review the termination package and release as soon as possible. There will be legal language in the documents which may make them difficult to understand. The lawyer can assess whether the severance package you are being offered is reasonable based on your circumstances, such as your age, position and length of service. It will be important to bring all of the documents related to your employment to the meeting with the lawyer. This includes any offer letter or employment agreement you may have signed. You may have also signed other agreements during your employment such as a confidentiality agreement, an intellectual property agreement, or a non-solicitation and/or non-competition agreement which determines your rights and obligations upon the termination of your employment.
5. Understand your obligations going forward. You may have entered into various agreements with your employer that place limits on what you can and cannot do in future employment. For example, you may have signed a non-solicitation agreement stating that you will not contact or solicit your employer’s customers for a certain period of time. You need to review these obligations with your lawyer so that you do not find yourself being sued by your pervious employers. 
6. Start planning your future career. Try to look at the cup half full and move forward. It is important to start your job search right away. Try to get a reference letter from your previous employer to assist you in looking for new employment. Put together a list of your contacts and begin networking. Also, start looking at newspapers and conduct internet searches for job opportunities.

Although it may not seem like it in the beginning, losing your job may be the best thing that ever happened to you.

Source: Monster

MSN Careers - 5 Key Traits of Great Leaders - CareerBuilder.com

 

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