Going Social To Get A Job

There was some period in the previous century where people, who had a job in a certain organization, would recommend their friends or well-known people to apply for a vacancy in the organization. There used to be a small invisible network of unemployed people, who would suggest each other to apply for vacancies as soon as they came to know about it.

Such thing is happening once again, but using computers and Internet connections. Moreover, we have a name for the network this time – Social Networking. Social Networking has become popular with online population these days. Many organizations are using these sites for marketing their products, people are using to expand their community, and the wise are using it for different other activities like searching for jobs.

If you have an account in a site like Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter, and do not know about searching jobs with it, no problem you still have time to start.

If you don’t have an account in any social networking site at all – still no problem. Choose one and create it now. Hurry! Jobs are waiting.

Nine Basic Steps In Recruiting Process

If you are responsible for the day-to-day operations in human resources department then you have knowledge about the business functions. Recruiting starts with finding the right talent. Managing employees is also a part of recruiting. The following are some basic steps in recruiting process.

Job Opening: Decide who is going to conduct recruiting process. Small companies manage recruiting themselves and large companies go or recruiting firms for the same purpose.

Job Description: You should prepare a job description for replacement position and give the correct job description to the candidates.

Pay: Be clear about your budget for hiring a person for particular posts. Keep in mind, the range of the pay scale.

Advertising the position: You should advertise your vacancy to the candidates through online job board or in print media. Also check for internal candidates whether they are suitable for the current position or not.

Screening Process: Screening Process includes several steps, design each step effectively based on the requirements of the posts for which the interviews are held.

Interviewing Questions: Along with screening process, candidates interviewing questions should be based on the job profile. Create open-ended questions.

Lists of Interviewees: Create list of interviewees and explain their role while recruiting the candidates.

Check Reference: Always check reference and assign this work to one person, apart from his regular duties.

Decision time: Time required for gathering the candidates, interviewing and selecting the appropriate candidates should be determined in advance.

New Guide on Medical Language Translation Published

Medical language is very critical to understand. They use some big complicated terms which make people more worried about their health problem than the intensity of the problem.

I once had a friend who consulted a doctor over some health problem. The doctor said that he is suffering from Dyspepsia and have to be treated with proper medication. Then started trouble; my friend that it is similar to some thing like cancer. He then started developing depression slowly. Even I was frightened with his situation until I confirmed it as some small indigestion problem. He still wasn’t ready to believe it and had to be taken again to the doctor to make him explain what the Dyspepsia is; and also to cure his depression.

This explains the importance of Medical language translator. The International Medical Interpreters Association (IMIA) published a new guide for Medical Language translation, which can be downloaded from the website of IMIA.

Fear - The Success behind Failure

I see many people never trying anything in fear of failure. Even in the cases of silly situations like avoiding climbing a ladder in fear of falling, etc. Life is never predictable. If it is, then it is so boring.

It is common for any normal human being to make mistakes and learn from them. I have studied the success behind many successful persons. And I found one thing common in all of them, and that is overcoming fear of failure and giving their best attempt to what they thought would be successful.

I have even studied the success behind many persons who think themselves as ever-failures. I wondered how they could manage to live a vulnerable life in such depression. The common theme behind them was fear of failure. They have tried some works for two or three trials; when all of them failed they managed to create an impression in themselves that they are born failures and never attempted to do anything.

This fear is called Atychiphobia, and can be easily overcome by some motivation and lots of self-help.

Managing a Marketing Consulting Firm – Its Fabulous

Some of them have a doubt, how does a consultant go for marketing his or her services and products? How does one develop a marketing plan? What about networking? Can a firm providing marketing consulting services market themselves? The following information can be helpful in rectifying the above doubts.

I have collected this information from my friend who runs a marketing consulting company. Investing in their development is not an optional, it is crucial to business growth and profitability.

After deciding you are going for consultancy services, choose a web hosting service. There is wide variety of options for web hosting for your business. Firstly you have to find web host and are you willing to establish your presence on web, whether you want to do website on your own or by hiring a web designer?

Consultants and other companies often find opportunity in holiday times from their clients and gifts are presented to thank you for the past business. Networking is most important in personal marketing. They should know how to find the potential clients and make high effort in providing most significant business.

He said that after taking above necessary steps, it is fabulous experience managing a consulting firm.

Current Challenges on Pension Schemes in US

A growing challenge for many nations is population aging. As birth rates drop and life expectancy increases an ever-larger portion of the population is elderly. This leaves fewer workers for each retired person. In almost all developed countries this means that government and public sector pensions could collapse their economies unless pension systems are reformed or taxes are increased. One method of reforming the pension system is to increase the retirement age. Two exceptions are Australia and Canada, where the pension system is forecast to be solvent for the foreseeable future. In Canada, for instance, the annual payments were increased by some 70% in 1998 to achieve this. These two nations also have an advantage from their relative openness to immigration. However, their populations are not growing as fast as the U.S., which supplements a high immigration rate with one of the highest birthrates among Western countries. Thus, the population in the U.S. is not aging to the extent as those in Europe, Australia, or Canada.

Also the condition of the historical data and its development into a secure database can be an expensive and labor intensive endeavor. Currently, the trend to develop on line electronic calculators that replace traditionally complex spreadsheet calculations performed by Actuaries and Analysts is the industry norm in records management.

Another growing challenge is the recent trend of businesses in the United States purposely under-funding their pension schemes in order to push the costs onto the federal government. Bradley Belt, former executive director of the PBGC (the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the federal agency that insures private-sector defined-benefit pension plans in the event of bankruptcy), testified before a congressional hearing in October 2004, “I am particularly concerned with the temptation, and indeed, growing tendency, to use the pension insurance fund as a means to obtain an interest-free and risk-free loan to enable companies to restructure. Unfortunately, the current calculation appears to be that shifting pension liabilities onto other premium payers or potentially taxpayers is the path of least resistance rather than a last resort.”

Effects on Brain Using Marijuana

Marijuana has a very negative impact on the human beings. It has its effect on the human beings both physically and mentally. Marijuana is one of the commonly used illegal drugs. Marijuana is made from the plant called Cannabis sativa. There is a chemical called “delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol” or “THC” in the drug. This THC is the chemical that makes the person using the drug to feel high. The consumption of marijuana is usually done through smoking. One who is addicted to consume marijuana should undertake marijuana drug test compulsorily. The following are some of the effects of the marijuana on brain.
Effects on brain

• Marijuana is a very powerful drug that initially causes pleasure. Its consumption then affects the brain cells that control the thinking, emotions, mood and the memory. The drug even has its effects on the pituitary gland and thereby regulates hunger, thirst and the release of sexual hormones.
• The drug has its effect on the synapses i.e. the brain connections and there by cause the person to get addicted to the drug.
• Long term use of the drug can even cause the brain to stop producing the chemicals which will be responsible for making the person feel good and then the person gets chemically addicted to the drug.

Drug testing in the United States is usually done by way of a urine test. The tester makes you go into the bathroom or "dry room", (no sinks and blue colored water to prevent diluting with water) expecting you to fill a cup up with your 94-98 degree urine. There is usually a temperature strip on the side of the sample cup these days to stop people from bringing in their non-drug using buddies urine to alter the test. The lab then quickly determines if you are clean with self test kits exactly like we offer. The other alternative they sometimes use is to send it away to get tested through GC/MS, which is really just a gas analyzing test that is a little more advanced. Only difference is they can see if you are using any urine or saliva drug test alternatives.