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.