You want to make yourself indispensable at job? You want to duck the tide of lay offs during the time of recession? We are passing through hard times and instead of hiring, firing has become the norm for companies. So How to protect your job at this time? How to make yourself indispensable? Try to follow some simple steps.
Take Account of Your Strengths and Weaknesses: Making yourself indispensable at job requires you to make some analysis of yourself, your strengths and weaknesses. Taking stock of your strengths and weaknesses will help you narrowing down your area of expertise. And you will know for sure where you can excel and others can notice you too. Devise two plans for yourself, long term and short term.
Look for Broader Picture: If you are working for a company, make some changes in your attitude too. Instead of seeing things from a narrow perspective try to take into account the overall picture of your company. That will help you in taking right decision for the company. It will increase your understating and you can come out with right kind of solutions to your problems.
Update Your Knowledge Base: You are responsible for your career advancement. No one else come to do so during recession time. Develop your knowledge base that might prove beneficial for your company. Take part time courses to update your skills and knowledge base.
Develop Problem Solving Skills: Every company requires this skill. Normally employees fret and fume over problems or suggest ways how this problem can’t be solved. But instead going for this self indulgence, try to gather materials regarding the area you are working in. Read how other companies have faced similar problems and how they solved it. This will enrich your problem solving skills and you might find completely new solutions to the problems your company is facing.
Suggest Ways to Cut Down Expenses: This is an endearing quality of employees. Every company wants to minimize expenses and maximize profits. If you know of some ways to cut down expenses don’t keep it to yourself. Suggest it during meetings and give it in written to the concerned person.
Don’t Encroach on Others Rights: While enriching your knowledge base and self improvement you should not send out signals that you are out to do two peoples job. This will create negative feeling for you among your peers and rumor mongers can unleash their full force against you. Instead of sending feelers that you can do others jobs too, try filling the gaps that nobody is looking at or even aware that these shortcomings. If you deals with data, try to arrange it in such manner that even non-technical person can be able to find out what he is looking for. If you deal with recruitment, find out the efficient pool of candidates in less expensive manner.
Good Salesmanship: This need is required by everyone, be it an artist, self employed entrepreneurs or the president of a country. Don’t expect that you keep on providing excellent services and others will naturally take notice of you. You have to show the results of your hard work to the concerned persons. If your policies resulted in cost savings prepare a balance sheet and show it to the concerned person.
Be Good at What Your Boss is Weak At: Think of your boss’s weaknesses. He/she might be good at something but not at other things. Pay attention to his weaknesses and try to do that work yourself. Your boss might not be good at writing proposals but he might be good at pointing what is lacking in a proposal. To speed up the work, you can draw the first copy of the proposal and your boss will finalize it by pointing out what else should be incorporated in the existing copy. That will save time of the both.
Develop a Brand for the Company You Work: It doesn’t mean that you take over your brand manager. It simply means be your company’s spokesperson whenever the need arises. But your superiors too should know of your efforts.
Making yourself indispensable at the job is not difficult at all. You have to keep your eyes and ears open. You have the knack to sense opportunity and making the most of it.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
How volunteering can land you a job
When you volunteer your time, you open yourself to a plethora of job opportunities. If you are currently unemployed, you might ask, "If I cannot find a paying job, why would I use my time to work for free?" You'd have a very valid question, and this article will help you to see why working for "free" may pay you more for your time than you thought possible. There are many reasons people volunteer their time. Some people are retired and enjoy spending time sharing their expertise with the community in their spare time. Other people have a very strong passion for some issue, whether it is poverty, the environment, civil rights, or some other issue personal to them, so they spend time working toward improving the conditions affecting their cause. Working for some goal in that way is incredibly gratifying in itself; however, there are ways you can work toward a passion while gaining some powerful benefits outside of improving the lives of others.
* Gaining New Skills: Volunteering is a great way to acquire experience that your past jobs or internships did not provide. Examples could be: Organizing a fundraiser to gain project management skills or coordinating a project for leadership and management skills.
By volunteering your time for an agency or a group, you can not only gain valuable work experience, but you can inherit important points of contacts as well as a reputation for the good things you do in your community. Aside from gaining those benefits which can help you acquire a good job, you may be able to learn what you need to learn so that you can launch your own business. The contacts you make and the knowledge you gain from your volunteer work will expose you to key concepts of many types of businesses.
* Make Networking Contacts: You never know who you might meet while volunteering. In fact, almost 43% of volunteers have at least a bachelor’s degree—so there is a good chance you will meet a professional while volunteering. If you volunteer at places related to your target career, you may meet people who are working in jobs similar to the one you want.
If you have a specialty, whether it is music, art, writing, or a more technical specialty such as computer programming, you can volunteer to teach a class for one day a week with your local Adult and Community Education Center. Those centers are usually part of the public school system, and they generally offer paid positions, but they sometimes solicit for volunteer teachers. By volunteering your time, you can show that you are adept at teaching the skill, and you can show that you are an asset to the center as an instructor. You might gain a paid position with the center, but you will also connect your skills to the community. A future employer can see that you taught a class on a subject and may hire you if that subject is in any way significant toward the skills needed to perform the job you are seeking.
* Emphasize your ambition: Volunteering shows you have a sense of civic responsibility and that you have a charitable side. Employers are looking for future employees that have passion and involvement with the community.
* Add New Experience: Be sure to include your responsibilities on your résumé. Mention duties, accomplishments, results, and awards just as you would for employment. Be sure to include the organization name and dates.
Volunteer experience is also professional experience. List the organization and dates, and instead of using the title "volunteer," use your responsibilities as a title -- "project coordinator" or "instructor." Mention your accomplishments, results, or awards like any other job, without being misleading.
Using your time to gain new skills and help your community -- either while looking for employment or while working -- highlights your willingness to jump in, learn new things, and do more.
* Gain Self-worth and Confidence: Volunteering can help you impact the lives of others. There are opportunities to tutor, plan events, coordinate programs, etc. Volunteering will give you the feeling that you have made your community a little better.
* Gaining New Skills: Volunteering is a great way to acquire experience that your past jobs or internships did not provide. Examples could be: Organizing a fundraiser to gain project management skills or coordinating a project for leadership and management skills.
By volunteering your time for an agency or a group, you can not only gain valuable work experience, but you can inherit important points of contacts as well as a reputation for the good things you do in your community. Aside from gaining those benefits which can help you acquire a good job, you may be able to learn what you need to learn so that you can launch your own business. The contacts you make and the knowledge you gain from your volunteer work will expose you to key concepts of many types of businesses.
* Make Networking Contacts: You never know who you might meet while volunteering. In fact, almost 43% of volunteers have at least a bachelor’s degree—so there is a good chance you will meet a professional while volunteering. If you volunteer at places related to your target career, you may meet people who are working in jobs similar to the one you want.
If you have a specialty, whether it is music, art, writing, or a more technical specialty such as computer programming, you can volunteer to teach a class for one day a week with your local Adult and Community Education Center. Those centers are usually part of the public school system, and they generally offer paid positions, but they sometimes solicit for volunteer teachers. By volunteering your time, you can show that you are adept at teaching the skill, and you can show that you are an asset to the center as an instructor. You might gain a paid position with the center, but you will also connect your skills to the community. A future employer can see that you taught a class on a subject and may hire you if that subject is in any way significant toward the skills needed to perform the job you are seeking.
* Emphasize your ambition: Volunteering shows you have a sense of civic responsibility and that you have a charitable side. Employers are looking for future employees that have passion and involvement with the community.
* Add New Experience: Be sure to include your responsibilities on your résumé. Mention duties, accomplishments, results, and awards just as you would for employment. Be sure to include the organization name and dates.
Volunteer experience is also professional experience. List the organization and dates, and instead of using the title "volunteer," use your responsibilities as a title -- "project coordinator" or "instructor." Mention your accomplishments, results, or awards like any other job, without being misleading.
Using your time to gain new skills and help your community -- either while looking for employment or while working -- highlights your willingness to jump in, learn new things, and do more.
* Gain Self-worth and Confidence: Volunteering can help you impact the lives of others. There are opportunities to tutor, plan events, coordinate programs, etc. Volunteering will give you the feeling that you have made your community a little better.
Starting your own business. Is it the answer?
Have you given starting you own business a thought? Have you thought of leaving your present job for you own personal business? Whether starting your own business is something you have always dreamed of or it is one option after an unexpected layoff or after a long period of job search, there are several points to consider before striking out on your own.
A new business is like a new baby. Starting your own business is like giving birth to a new baby and taking care of your baby. A baby is very tender therefore you need to take adequate care of the baby. Taking care of a baby in the real sense can lead to a lot changes in your lifestyle. For example : you many stop keeping late night or maybe stop smoking at home or stop seeing a number of friends .The same principle applies to your business start-up . Your new “baby” requires constant attention and will keep you up at night. But with your commitment, time and energy, it will grow and hopefully make you proud.
Being an entrepreneur does not mean success You may be very passionate about being a business owner, but take a minute, putting your passion aside, ask your self these questions:
Do people want my product or service?
Take an unbiased opinion poll of what your supposed market thinks about your product or service. Do people really need what you are about doing. Can the product or service drive the market? What is the future of the business? Will it die off soon?
Do you have the interest and ability to constantly market it to new consumers?
Interest without ability won’t work and vice-versa, with the ability and interest, your business will grow. Your start-up and your business skills must carry it to success.
Do I have entrepreneurship traits?
Not everyone is an entrepreneur If you cannot live with uncertainty, you cannot make a good entrepreneur. If you can’t control people or be a good team lead then starting up a business is not for you. If you possess the traits listed below, you can live in uncertainty:
You are not sure of your pay at the end of the month. Your income depends on your effort and “fate”
You can delay gratification: starting a business may mean investing “all” or nearly all you have in the business. This may leave you broke for a period of time.
You are persistent: You do not give up easily. You can try doing the same thing, different ways many times, even if it is not smooth.
You can bounce back after disappointment
If disappointment does not deter you from doing what you want to do ,then you can make an entrepreneur.
You can find creative solution to problems
You are in good health-Running your own business can be exerting. It is not advisable for people with ailments that worsen under immense stress to run their own business because the success and failure of the business depends on “you.”
You have an optimistic mindset.
Entrepreneurs need stamina to persevere in the face of setbacks and failures they will inevitably face. Be honest you can live the life of a not -yet -successful business person.
The boss cleans the trash.
Working for yourself can be liberating – no boss to answer to or office gossip to listen to .But there is no receptionist to screen your calls or attend to people, no cleaning service to tidy up your office and no messenger to run errands.
New entrepreneurs often neglect to prepare their minds for the unwanted roles they must take on to keep their business up and running. If your ego cannot handle these stuffs, you may have problems adjusting.
It is going to cost you.
Starting a business can be a huge financial drain until you become profitable. Think seriously about whether you have enough money saved to survive without an income for one or two years. Not only will you be spending money on this new venture, but you will also be spending a great deal of time on it. If you do not have support and encouragement from the important people in your life (wife, parents, siblings,etc), your starting may be a lonely, uphill battle.
A new business is like a new baby. Starting your own business is like giving birth to a new baby and taking care of your baby. A baby is very tender therefore you need to take adequate care of the baby. Taking care of a baby in the real sense can lead to a lot changes in your lifestyle. For example : you many stop keeping late night or maybe stop smoking at home or stop seeing a number of friends .The same principle applies to your business start-up . Your new “baby” requires constant attention and will keep you up at night. But with your commitment, time and energy, it will grow and hopefully make you proud.
Being an entrepreneur does not mean success You may be very passionate about being a business owner, but take a minute, putting your passion aside, ask your self these questions:
Do people want my product or service?
Take an unbiased opinion poll of what your supposed market thinks about your product or service. Do people really need what you are about doing. Can the product or service drive the market? What is the future of the business? Will it die off soon?
Do you have the interest and ability to constantly market it to new consumers?
Interest without ability won’t work and vice-versa, with the ability and interest, your business will grow. Your start-up and your business skills must carry it to success.
Do I have entrepreneurship traits?
Not everyone is an entrepreneur If you cannot live with uncertainty, you cannot make a good entrepreneur. If you can’t control people or be a good team lead then starting up a business is not for you. If you possess the traits listed below, you can live in uncertainty:
You are not sure of your pay at the end of the month. Your income depends on your effort and “fate”
You can delay gratification: starting a business may mean investing “all” or nearly all you have in the business. This may leave you broke for a period of time.
You are persistent: You do not give up easily. You can try doing the same thing, different ways many times, even if it is not smooth.
You can bounce back after disappointment
If disappointment does not deter you from doing what you want to do ,then you can make an entrepreneur.
You can find creative solution to problems
You are in good health-Running your own business can be exerting. It is not advisable for people with ailments that worsen under immense stress to run their own business because the success and failure of the business depends on “you.”
You have an optimistic mindset.
Entrepreneurs need stamina to persevere in the face of setbacks and failures they will inevitably face. Be honest you can live the life of a not -yet -successful business person.
The boss cleans the trash.
Working for yourself can be liberating – no boss to answer to or office gossip to listen to .But there is no receptionist to screen your calls or attend to people, no cleaning service to tidy up your office and no messenger to run errands.
New entrepreneurs often neglect to prepare their minds for the unwanted roles they must take on to keep their business up and running. If your ego cannot handle these stuffs, you may have problems adjusting.
It is going to cost you.
Starting a business can be a huge financial drain until you become profitable. Think seriously about whether you have enough money saved to survive without an income for one or two years. Not only will you be spending money on this new venture, but you will also be spending a great deal of time on it. If you do not have support and encouragement from the important people in your life (wife, parents, siblings,etc), your starting may be a lonely, uphill battle.
How To Become A Successful Project Manager
To be a successful project manager you must wear multiple hats and be able to switch the quickly. Successful project managers are people who are driven to succeed at all costs and never lose sight of the big picture. To deliver a project, on time, on budget with a high quality product.
Successful project managers need to learn many skills if they do not already have them. If you want to be a successful project manager learn to be a good manager, a good negotiator, a good leader, someone who can easily adapt to inevitable changes and make the right decision on the spot.
Most of all understand successful project managers are not superhuman. Maintain your drive and focus, but do not allow a project to become an obsession that consumes you.
There are many traits that make a good project manager. Having these to start with is almost essential. Project management is one of the most challenging roles one can take on. There are many things you need to know, but here are ten skills that will help you to become a successful project manager.
Manage Your Time Well: Project managers always have demands on their time. Time management skills are essential to succeed as a project manager. You will find yourself pulled in all directions, sometimes all at one time. You must know how to effectively schedule your time and prioritize your action items. Don’t forget to schedule in some time for the unexpected because they will happen and having time blocked out allows you to deal with them.
Learn to Effectively Use Project Management Tools: There are a vast number of project management tools available today. They can be an enormous aid to a project manager that can mean the difference between a project succeeding or failing. You should learn to effectively use these tools. Not just learn them, but become a master of them.
Learn to Anticipate Problems: Project management does not come with a crystal ball, but there are times when you will wish it did. Instead you must be diligent in overseeing all aspects of the project looking for issues before they become problems. Don’t want until an important piece of equipment is overdue before you check with the vendor. Check in often with every vendor, contributor and team member to be sure they are still on time and on track.
Be Effective at Conducting Meetings: Meetings are a necessary evil that comes with project management. To be a successful project manager you must learn how to hold effective and productive meetings. Don’t let meetings wander off the topic, you do not have time to waste. Control the meeting, effectively relay or collect the needed information and move on.
Become an Effective Decision Maker: As a project manager you must make decisions all the time and they always have to be the right one. To complicate matters you do not have the luxury of spending much time to make a decision. Sometimes they must be made on the spot. Team members look to you for yes or no, not let me get back to you. While you should never make an uninformed decision, the better honed your decision-making skills the easier your job will be and the more successful you will be at it.
Be Receptive to New Ideas: A “know-it-all” does not make a good project manager. Even though you are expected to know it all, there is no way you can. You rely on your team members, other project managers and anyone else who can help you out. When issues arise and it is time for new approaches or new directions, trust in the people you surround yourself with. This is a good reason you need to surround yourself with a talented and diverse team.
Keep the Focus on Quality Not Milestones: Too often project managers get caught up in reaching their milestones as if they were the determination whether the project fails or succeeds. Milestones are important, but the true test of the success of a project is the quality of the product it produces. It does not good to cut corners to reach milestones if you produce a poor quality product. Quality, quality, quality. The rest will speak for itself.
Address Issues Right Away: Issues always arise, unknown, out of the blue and you have to deal with them. You may have two team members fighting about how an important part of the project should be done that is putting the project at risk. Step in right away, tell them this is how it will be done and be specific so everyone understands. Leave an issue lying around too long and it will grow large enough to derail your entire project.
Roll With The Punches: Things will go wrong. Vendors will fail to delivery hardware when they promise. Programmers will fail to delivery software to the proper specifications. A successful project manager must have a sense of composure during times like these. It even helps to have a sense of humor, though at times it may be hard to find. What you cannot do is allow issues to consume you to the point you lose sleep and do not take care of yourself. If this happens it is a warning sign that you need to deal with.
You Are a Project Manager, Not a Project Micro-Manager: In the same way you can not be a “know-it-all” and must rely on your team for support, you cannot be a “do-it-all” and try to do all the tasks yourself. Your job is to manage the project and focus on the big picture. Delegate tasks to your team and let them do their job. Follow-up, but don’t helicopter each team member to be sure they are doing the job right.
Successful project managers need to learn many skills if they do not already have them. If you want to be a successful project manager learn to be a good manager, a good negotiator, a good leader, someone who can easily adapt to inevitable changes and make the right decision on the spot.
Most of all understand successful project managers are not superhuman. Maintain your drive and focus, but do not allow a project to become an obsession that consumes you.
There are many traits that make a good project manager. Having these to start with is almost essential. Project management is one of the most challenging roles one can take on. There are many things you need to know, but here are ten skills that will help you to become a successful project manager.
Manage Your Time Well: Project managers always have demands on their time. Time management skills are essential to succeed as a project manager. You will find yourself pulled in all directions, sometimes all at one time. You must know how to effectively schedule your time and prioritize your action items. Don’t forget to schedule in some time for the unexpected because they will happen and having time blocked out allows you to deal with them.
Learn to Effectively Use Project Management Tools: There are a vast number of project management tools available today. They can be an enormous aid to a project manager that can mean the difference between a project succeeding or failing. You should learn to effectively use these tools. Not just learn them, but become a master of them.
Learn to Anticipate Problems: Project management does not come with a crystal ball, but there are times when you will wish it did. Instead you must be diligent in overseeing all aspects of the project looking for issues before they become problems. Don’t want until an important piece of equipment is overdue before you check with the vendor. Check in often with every vendor, contributor and team member to be sure they are still on time and on track.
Be Effective at Conducting Meetings: Meetings are a necessary evil that comes with project management. To be a successful project manager you must learn how to hold effective and productive meetings. Don’t let meetings wander off the topic, you do not have time to waste. Control the meeting, effectively relay or collect the needed information and move on.
Become an Effective Decision Maker: As a project manager you must make decisions all the time and they always have to be the right one. To complicate matters you do not have the luxury of spending much time to make a decision. Sometimes they must be made on the spot. Team members look to you for yes or no, not let me get back to you. While you should never make an uninformed decision, the better honed your decision-making skills the easier your job will be and the more successful you will be at it.
Be Receptive to New Ideas: A “know-it-all” does not make a good project manager. Even though you are expected to know it all, there is no way you can. You rely on your team members, other project managers and anyone else who can help you out. When issues arise and it is time for new approaches or new directions, trust in the people you surround yourself with. This is a good reason you need to surround yourself with a talented and diverse team.
Keep the Focus on Quality Not Milestones: Too often project managers get caught up in reaching their milestones as if they were the determination whether the project fails or succeeds. Milestones are important, but the true test of the success of a project is the quality of the product it produces. It does not good to cut corners to reach milestones if you produce a poor quality product. Quality, quality, quality. The rest will speak for itself.
Address Issues Right Away: Issues always arise, unknown, out of the blue and you have to deal with them. You may have two team members fighting about how an important part of the project should be done that is putting the project at risk. Step in right away, tell them this is how it will be done and be specific so everyone understands. Leave an issue lying around too long and it will grow large enough to derail your entire project.
Roll With The Punches: Things will go wrong. Vendors will fail to delivery hardware when they promise. Programmers will fail to delivery software to the proper specifications. A successful project manager must have a sense of composure during times like these. It even helps to have a sense of humor, though at times it may be hard to find. What you cannot do is allow issues to consume you to the point you lose sleep and do not take care of yourself. If this happens it is a warning sign that you need to deal with.
You Are a Project Manager, Not a Project Micro-Manager: In the same way you can not be a “know-it-all” and must rely on your team for support, you cannot be a “do-it-all” and try to do all the tasks yourself. Your job is to manage the project and focus on the big picture. Delegate tasks to your team and let them do their job. Follow-up, but don’t helicopter each team member to be sure they are doing the job right.
How to become a great marketer
Marketing is a process of understanding consumers and devising ways of providing goods or services based on the demands of the consumers. Marketing is one of the most important aspects of corporate strategy, the end result for which is efficient revenue generation for the firm. The marketing process of an organization aims at getting out a message to the segment that the company is targeting, regarding the product or service that it is offering to these customers.
Good marketing is not all about spending money on advertising, or offering free products as a promotional offer. There are many critical steps involved in efficient marketing. First of them is to know the target market, through a process called Market Research. By researching, the firm identifies the demographics and requirements of the society, who might become potential customers. The Firm has to apply the dynamics of Segmentation, Positioning and Targeting, once the research has been performed. A good marketing strategy cannot be developed by a firm without doing proper groundwork on its potential customers.
Every business (small, medium or large) needs marketing. A product or a service needs to be marketed to be sold. Marketers do the marketing. But what if you don’t have marketing personnel? How can you generate sales and achieve profitability? Actually, anyone can be a good marketer. Whether if you are an owner, ordinary sales personnel, production personnel, or just anyone in a business organization, you can be a good marketer that can play a very important role in boosting your company’s sales and revenue. A great marketing system can run without the need of high profile marketers or a million dollar marketing budget. Likewise, a person can be a better marketer without the need of a college degree in marketing, long years of marketing experience and or a previous high marketing profile. We only need to understand the following simple and basic ways to become an outstanding marketer.
1. Offer quality products or services: Marketing is not all about product promotion. It starts from the production of products to be offered to consumers. Furthermore, marketing does not end at the time you have sold a product to a consumer. It doesn’t stops there. It continues until the customer is satisfied on the product he has purchased or on the product he will buy in the future. Hence, the first thing to do to become a great marketer is to produce and offer the best products to your customers or render the best services to your clients. If you are a marketer in a company who offers poorly manufactured product, then you better tell them to produce more quality products. And if they will not listen to you, you better protect your integrity and reputation and get the heck out of that organization – you can always find a better company.
2. Make a reasonable price: After you have assured the quality of your products, the next step is to set the most reasonable price. The perfect price for a product doesn’t matter how high or low it is. It should follow your target market or consumers. Can you sell a N10,000 naira worth pair of high – quality shoes to people in the lower class? On the other hand, can you convince a corporate executive to buy a N1000 naira cost manufactured pair of shoes from you? If you want to be a good marketer, you need to set the right prices to the right costumers.
3. Choose the right store: A store as it sounds doesn’t only mean the physical store where you put and display your merchandise for sale to customers. It can be an online store, mobile store or a human store. It is the gateway or the medium where you can transfer or exchange your products or services for consideration. An online or an internet based store is today’s breakthrough in marketing. It is less expensive and even more efficient than offline store. Mobile phones can also become a medium of exchange. But of course direct selling is still effective as of today. To be an exceptional marketer, you need to choose the right place where consumers can access your products and services. You need to find the best geographical area, the best website, and the best persons who will knock upon your customers’ doors to showcase your products.
4. Make a convincing promotion: There can never be more convincing words than words that are true. This means a marketer should be honest and shall not commit lies to people. Who says all marketers are liars? Great marketers don’t lie. His words are convincing because they are true. A foolish marketer lies and exaggerates to make a sale. But his false marketing will punish him in the future. If you have a great product and a perfect price, then tell all the truth about it. That’s a great marketing that multiplies and lasts for long. Again, if you or your company cannot produce quality products and cannot set the right price, then you must get out of it. Defend your reputation and integrity. Keep yourself away from committing lies.
5. Be helpful: By helping clients and customers solve their problems, a marketer can become personally closer to them. His customers will start building lasting trust and confidence to him and to his products. Thus, if you help your customers, your customers will also help you.
6. Consider importance and usability: Even if you’re selling the most sophisticated and most powerful stethoscope in the world, you can’t sell it to an accountant. A medical doctor needs and uses it but not an accountant. Simply find the right buyers by considering your product’s usability and importance to them. If you run a website where you place your products for sale, perform a search engine optimization (SEO) technique for attracting relevant visitors who likely need your product. If you are marketing an MBA program course, you may promote it on an online forum of business and entrepreneurship enthusiasts.
7. Give guarantee: Even if a marketer tells the truth and showcase a number of positive testimonials, prospective buyers will not absolutely bite his products. So to hit the complete marketing strategy, a great marketer should guarantee those products. Money back guarantee and product warranties are examples of guarantees you can give to customers. If you are telling the truth, then guarantees will never let you down.
8. Be the no.1 user of your product or service: You can never know better what you do not use. You cannot talk correctly what you do not know. You cannot sell what you cannot talk. So to achieve excellence in marketing, use what you sell. Of course there are some exceptions to this like the use of coffin (don’t be afraid, this is business), but whether we can practically use or not our products – we must know them just like how we know our best friends.
9. Value and reward people: If you want to become a good marketer, you should learn how to say “Thank you”. As I said in the previous list, marketing doesn’t ends at the time you have sold a product to a customer. It is a continuous cycle that needs a good rotation. A great marketer continues and preserves the marketing chain between him and a customer. You sell a product… the buyer buy and give you money…you reward your buyer…then you sell again a product…then the buyer buy and give again money. Rewarding your customers strengthens this cycle.
10. Create lasting relationship: If you have successfully followed the previous nine ways to become a good marketer, then you have probably created now a good relationship with your clients and customers. A great marketer preserves this relationship by giving tender continuing customer and client care.
Good marketing is not all about spending money on advertising, or offering free products as a promotional offer. There are many critical steps involved in efficient marketing. First of them is to know the target market, through a process called Market Research. By researching, the firm identifies the demographics and requirements of the society, who might become potential customers. The Firm has to apply the dynamics of Segmentation, Positioning and Targeting, once the research has been performed. A good marketing strategy cannot be developed by a firm without doing proper groundwork on its potential customers.
Every business (small, medium or large) needs marketing. A product or a service needs to be marketed to be sold. Marketers do the marketing. But what if you don’t have marketing personnel? How can you generate sales and achieve profitability? Actually, anyone can be a good marketer. Whether if you are an owner, ordinary sales personnel, production personnel, or just anyone in a business organization, you can be a good marketer that can play a very important role in boosting your company’s sales and revenue. A great marketing system can run without the need of high profile marketers or a million dollar marketing budget. Likewise, a person can be a better marketer without the need of a college degree in marketing, long years of marketing experience and or a previous high marketing profile. We only need to understand the following simple and basic ways to become an outstanding marketer.
1. Offer quality products or services: Marketing is not all about product promotion. It starts from the production of products to be offered to consumers. Furthermore, marketing does not end at the time you have sold a product to a consumer. It doesn’t stops there. It continues until the customer is satisfied on the product he has purchased or on the product he will buy in the future. Hence, the first thing to do to become a great marketer is to produce and offer the best products to your customers or render the best services to your clients. If you are a marketer in a company who offers poorly manufactured product, then you better tell them to produce more quality products. And if they will not listen to you, you better protect your integrity and reputation and get the heck out of that organization – you can always find a better company.
2. Make a reasonable price: After you have assured the quality of your products, the next step is to set the most reasonable price. The perfect price for a product doesn’t matter how high or low it is. It should follow your target market or consumers. Can you sell a N10,000 naira worth pair of high – quality shoes to people in the lower class? On the other hand, can you convince a corporate executive to buy a N1000 naira cost manufactured pair of shoes from you? If you want to be a good marketer, you need to set the right prices to the right costumers.
3. Choose the right store: A store as it sounds doesn’t only mean the physical store where you put and display your merchandise for sale to customers. It can be an online store, mobile store or a human store. It is the gateway or the medium where you can transfer or exchange your products or services for consideration. An online or an internet based store is today’s breakthrough in marketing. It is less expensive and even more efficient than offline store. Mobile phones can also become a medium of exchange. But of course direct selling is still effective as of today. To be an exceptional marketer, you need to choose the right place where consumers can access your products and services. You need to find the best geographical area, the best website, and the best persons who will knock upon your customers’ doors to showcase your products.
4. Make a convincing promotion: There can never be more convincing words than words that are true. This means a marketer should be honest and shall not commit lies to people. Who says all marketers are liars? Great marketers don’t lie. His words are convincing because they are true. A foolish marketer lies and exaggerates to make a sale. But his false marketing will punish him in the future. If you have a great product and a perfect price, then tell all the truth about it. That’s a great marketing that multiplies and lasts for long. Again, if you or your company cannot produce quality products and cannot set the right price, then you must get out of it. Defend your reputation and integrity. Keep yourself away from committing lies.
5. Be helpful: By helping clients and customers solve their problems, a marketer can become personally closer to them. His customers will start building lasting trust and confidence to him and to his products. Thus, if you help your customers, your customers will also help you.
6. Consider importance and usability: Even if you’re selling the most sophisticated and most powerful stethoscope in the world, you can’t sell it to an accountant. A medical doctor needs and uses it but not an accountant. Simply find the right buyers by considering your product’s usability and importance to them. If you run a website where you place your products for sale, perform a search engine optimization (SEO) technique for attracting relevant visitors who likely need your product. If you are marketing an MBA program course, you may promote it on an online forum of business and entrepreneurship enthusiasts.
7. Give guarantee: Even if a marketer tells the truth and showcase a number of positive testimonials, prospective buyers will not absolutely bite his products. So to hit the complete marketing strategy, a great marketer should guarantee those products. Money back guarantee and product warranties are examples of guarantees you can give to customers. If you are telling the truth, then guarantees will never let you down.
8. Be the no.1 user of your product or service: You can never know better what you do not use. You cannot talk correctly what you do not know. You cannot sell what you cannot talk. So to achieve excellence in marketing, use what you sell. Of course there are some exceptions to this like the use of coffin (don’t be afraid, this is business), but whether we can practically use or not our products – we must know them just like how we know our best friends.
9. Value and reward people: If you want to become a good marketer, you should learn how to say “Thank you”. As I said in the previous list, marketing doesn’t ends at the time you have sold a product to a customer. It is a continuous cycle that needs a good rotation. A great marketer continues and preserves the marketing chain between him and a customer. You sell a product… the buyer buy and give you money…you reward your buyer…then you sell again a product…then the buyer buy and give again money. Rewarding your customers strengthens this cycle.
10. Create lasting relationship: If you have successfully followed the previous nine ways to become a good marketer, then you have probably created now a good relationship with your clients and customers. A great marketer preserves this relationship by giving tender continuing customer and client care.
Secrets Of Successful Self-Employed
Running a one-person business is a creative, flexible and challenging way to become your own boss and chart your own future. It is about creating a life, as it is about making a living. It takes courage, determination and foresight to decide to become an entrepreneur. From the relatively safe cocoon of the corporate world, where paychecks arrive regularly, you will be venturing into the unchartered territories of business.
Is there a way to determine whether you can be a successful entrepreneur, or you are better off to work for somebody else? Alas, there is no formula for success. However, most successful entrepreneurs share these ten characteristics. Check if you possess any one of them:
1. Think success: To attain the kind of success that you want, you need to dream big. Every success story starts with big dreams. You need to have big dreams for yourself - which you want to be somebody rich, famous or fulfilled. You need to have a clear vision of what you want to achieve. But it doesn't stop in dreaming alone. You should actively visualize success in your mind that you can almost feel it, touch it or it is within your reach. Play this image back at every opportunity. What does it feel to triple your current income? How will your life change? What will your business look like if you achieved the million-dollar mark?
Successful entrepreneurs possess an attitude of openness and faith that you can have what you want if you can simply envision it as the first step on the path of action to acquiring it. Management gurus have taught us the power of visualization - seeing yourself in your mind as having accomplished your dreams. If you want to be a successful writer, envision yourself signing books for a throng of people who have lined up to have your autograph. If you want to be rich, picture yourself in luxurious surroundings holding a fat bank account. And the process of envisioning success for you should be a constant activity! You need to think that you are successful (or will be one) every single waking hour.
A personal development coach shared me her secret to help her continuously visualize her goals for the moment: when climbing stairs, recite your goal with every step you take. So if you want more money, say "I will have money" in every step of the stairs. This technique will reinforce your goal and keep it fresh in your consciousness.
2. Be passionate with what you do: You start a business to change any or all part of your life. To attain this change, you need to develop or uncover an intense, personal passion to change the way things are and to live life to the fullest. Success comes easily if you love what you do. Why? Because we are more relentless in our pursuit of goals about things that we love. If you hate your job right now, do you think you will ever be successful at it? Not in a million years! You may plod along, even become competent at the tasks, but you will never be a great success at it. You will achieve peak performance and do what you have to do to succeed only if you are doing something that interests you or something that you care about.
Entrepreneurs who succeed do not mind the fact that they are putting in 15 or 18 hours a day to their business because they absolutely love what they do. Success in business is all about patience and hard work, which can only be attained if you are passionate and crazy with your tasks and activities.
3. Focus on your strengths: Let's face it; you cannot be everything to everybody. Each of us has our own strengths and weaknesses. To be effective, you need to identify your strengths and concentrate on it. You will become more successful if you are able to channel your efforts to areas that you do best. In business, for example, if you know you have good marketing instincts, then harness this strength and make full use of it. Seek help or assistance in areas that you may be poor at, such as accounting or bookkeeping. To transform your weakness to strength, consider taking hands-on learning or formal training.
4. Never consider the possibility of failure: As an entrepreneur, you need to fully believe in your goals, and that you can do it. Think that what you are doing will contribute to the betterment of your environment and your personal self. You should have a strong faith in your idea, your capabilities and yourself. You must believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have the ability to recognize and fulfill them. The more you can develop faith in your ability to achieve your goals, the more rapidly you can attain it. However, your confidence should be balanced with calculated risks that you need to take to achieve greater rewards. Successful entrepreneurs are those who analyze and minimize risk in the pursuit of profit. As they always say, "no guts, no glory."
5. Plan accordingly: You have a vision, and you have enough faith in yourself to believe that you can achieve your vision. But do you know how to get to your vision? To achieve your vision, you need to have concrete goals that will provide the stepping-stone towards your ultimate vision. Put your goals in writing; not doing so just makes them as intangible fantasies. You need to plan each day in such a way that your every action contributes to the attainment of your vision. Intense goal orientation is the characteristic of every successful entrepreneur. They have a vision, and they know how to get there. Your ability to set goals and make plans for your accomplishment is the skill required to succeed. Plan, plan and plan - because without which failure is guaranteed.
6. Work hard! Every successful entrepreneur works hard, hard and hard: No one achieves success just by sitting and staring at the wall every single day. You work eight hours per day for survival; everything over eight hours per day is for success. Ask any successful businessperson and they will tell you immediately that they had to work more than 60 hours per week at the start of their businesses. Be prepared to say goodbye to after-office drinks every day, or a regular weekend get-away trip. If you are in a start-up phase, you will have to breathe, eat and drink your business until it can stand on its own. Working hard will be easy if you have a vision, clear goals, and are passionate with what you do.
7. Constantly Look for Ways to Network: In business, you are judged by the company you keep - from your management team, board of directors, and strategic partners. Businesses always need assistance, more so small businesses. Maybe the lady you met in a trade association meeting can help you secure funding, or the gentleman at a conference can provide you with management advise. It is important to form alliances with people who can help you, and whom you can help in return. To succeed in business, you need to possess good networking skills and always be alert to opportunities to expand your contacts.
8. Willingness to Learn: You do not need to be a MBA degree holder or PhD graduate to succeed in your own business. In fact, there are a lot of entrepreneurs who did not even finish secondary education. Studies show that most self-made millionaires have average intelligence. Nonetheless, these people reached their full potentials achieved their financial and personal goals in business because they are willing to learn. To succeed, you must be willing to ask questions, remain curious, interested and open to new knowledge. This willingness to learn becomes more crucial given the rapid changes in technologies and ways of doing business.
9. Persevere and have faith: No one said that the road to success is easy. Despite your good intentions and hard work, sometimes you will fail. Some successful entrepreneurs suffered setbacks and resounding defeats, even bankruptcy, yet managed to quickly stand up to make it big in their fields. Your courage to persist in the face of adversity and ability to bounce back after a temporary disappointment will assure your success. You must learn to pick yourself up and start all over again. Your persistence is the measure of the belief in yourself. Remember, if you persevere, nothing can stop you.
10. Discipline yourself: Do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you like it or not. Self-discipline is the key to success. The strength of will to force yourself to pay the price of success - doing what others don't like to do, going the extra mile, fighting and winning the lonely battle with yourself.
Is there a way to determine whether you can be a successful entrepreneur, or you are better off to work for somebody else? Alas, there is no formula for success. However, most successful entrepreneurs share these ten characteristics. Check if you possess any one of them:
1. Think success: To attain the kind of success that you want, you need to dream big. Every success story starts with big dreams. You need to have big dreams for yourself - which you want to be somebody rich, famous or fulfilled. You need to have a clear vision of what you want to achieve. But it doesn't stop in dreaming alone. You should actively visualize success in your mind that you can almost feel it, touch it or it is within your reach. Play this image back at every opportunity. What does it feel to triple your current income? How will your life change? What will your business look like if you achieved the million-dollar mark?
Successful entrepreneurs possess an attitude of openness and faith that you can have what you want if you can simply envision it as the first step on the path of action to acquiring it. Management gurus have taught us the power of visualization - seeing yourself in your mind as having accomplished your dreams. If you want to be a successful writer, envision yourself signing books for a throng of people who have lined up to have your autograph. If you want to be rich, picture yourself in luxurious surroundings holding a fat bank account. And the process of envisioning success for you should be a constant activity! You need to think that you are successful (or will be one) every single waking hour.
A personal development coach shared me her secret to help her continuously visualize her goals for the moment: when climbing stairs, recite your goal with every step you take. So if you want more money, say "I will have money" in every step of the stairs. This technique will reinforce your goal and keep it fresh in your consciousness.
2. Be passionate with what you do: You start a business to change any or all part of your life. To attain this change, you need to develop or uncover an intense, personal passion to change the way things are and to live life to the fullest. Success comes easily if you love what you do. Why? Because we are more relentless in our pursuit of goals about things that we love. If you hate your job right now, do you think you will ever be successful at it? Not in a million years! You may plod along, even become competent at the tasks, but you will never be a great success at it. You will achieve peak performance and do what you have to do to succeed only if you are doing something that interests you or something that you care about.
Entrepreneurs who succeed do not mind the fact that they are putting in 15 or 18 hours a day to their business because they absolutely love what they do. Success in business is all about patience and hard work, which can only be attained if you are passionate and crazy with your tasks and activities.
3. Focus on your strengths: Let's face it; you cannot be everything to everybody. Each of us has our own strengths and weaknesses. To be effective, you need to identify your strengths and concentrate on it. You will become more successful if you are able to channel your efforts to areas that you do best. In business, for example, if you know you have good marketing instincts, then harness this strength and make full use of it. Seek help or assistance in areas that you may be poor at, such as accounting or bookkeeping. To transform your weakness to strength, consider taking hands-on learning or formal training.
4. Never consider the possibility of failure: As an entrepreneur, you need to fully believe in your goals, and that you can do it. Think that what you are doing will contribute to the betterment of your environment and your personal self. You should have a strong faith in your idea, your capabilities and yourself. You must believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have the ability to recognize and fulfill them. The more you can develop faith in your ability to achieve your goals, the more rapidly you can attain it. However, your confidence should be balanced with calculated risks that you need to take to achieve greater rewards. Successful entrepreneurs are those who analyze and minimize risk in the pursuit of profit. As they always say, "no guts, no glory."
5. Plan accordingly: You have a vision, and you have enough faith in yourself to believe that you can achieve your vision. But do you know how to get to your vision? To achieve your vision, you need to have concrete goals that will provide the stepping-stone towards your ultimate vision. Put your goals in writing; not doing so just makes them as intangible fantasies. You need to plan each day in such a way that your every action contributes to the attainment of your vision. Intense goal orientation is the characteristic of every successful entrepreneur. They have a vision, and they know how to get there. Your ability to set goals and make plans for your accomplishment is the skill required to succeed. Plan, plan and plan - because without which failure is guaranteed.
6. Work hard! Every successful entrepreneur works hard, hard and hard: No one achieves success just by sitting and staring at the wall every single day. You work eight hours per day for survival; everything over eight hours per day is for success. Ask any successful businessperson and they will tell you immediately that they had to work more than 60 hours per week at the start of their businesses. Be prepared to say goodbye to after-office drinks every day, or a regular weekend get-away trip. If you are in a start-up phase, you will have to breathe, eat and drink your business until it can stand on its own. Working hard will be easy if you have a vision, clear goals, and are passionate with what you do.
7. Constantly Look for Ways to Network: In business, you are judged by the company you keep - from your management team, board of directors, and strategic partners. Businesses always need assistance, more so small businesses. Maybe the lady you met in a trade association meeting can help you secure funding, or the gentleman at a conference can provide you with management advise. It is important to form alliances with people who can help you, and whom you can help in return. To succeed in business, you need to possess good networking skills and always be alert to opportunities to expand your contacts.
8. Willingness to Learn: You do not need to be a MBA degree holder or PhD graduate to succeed in your own business. In fact, there are a lot of entrepreneurs who did not even finish secondary education. Studies show that most self-made millionaires have average intelligence. Nonetheless, these people reached their full potentials achieved their financial and personal goals in business because they are willing to learn. To succeed, you must be willing to ask questions, remain curious, interested and open to new knowledge. This willingness to learn becomes more crucial given the rapid changes in technologies and ways of doing business.
9. Persevere and have faith: No one said that the road to success is easy. Despite your good intentions and hard work, sometimes you will fail. Some successful entrepreneurs suffered setbacks and resounding defeats, even bankruptcy, yet managed to quickly stand up to make it big in their fields. Your courage to persist in the face of adversity and ability to bounce back after a temporary disappointment will assure your success. You must learn to pick yourself up and start all over again. Your persistence is the measure of the belief in yourself. Remember, if you persevere, nothing can stop you.
10. Discipline yourself: Do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you like it or not. Self-discipline is the key to success. The strength of will to force yourself to pay the price of success - doing what others don't like to do, going the extra mile, fighting and winning the lonely battle with yourself.
Monday, November 15, 2010
How To Use Social Network To Get A Job
Companies will often try to fill positions before paying for a listing in either the newspaper or on a job site. Networking and word of mouth recommendations are still the best way to get a job. In modern times, using social media networks is the new way to do networking and word of mouth. It certainly beats waiting on long lines at your local job fair. You never know who may have a job for you or who may know someone who knows someone that could have a job for you. For each different type of media, a different job search strategy should be utilized.
Social network websites are not just for fun and games - used in the right ways, they can help you get a job. Social networking websites such as LinkedIn and Facebook offer many opportunities to network with potential employers and job referral sources. Whether you're just joining the ranks of social networkers, or you're a veteran of making connections and adding friends, you can ramp up your job search with the help of social networking tools online.
Facebook
* Communicate to the members of your friend’s list that you are looking for work, what your credentials are and what you’re looking for.
* Join a group or page dedicated to your industry and let them know you are looking for work.
* Don’t ask for a job that you are not qualified for.
* There is no shame in letting your friends and family know you are unemployed. They could be your best allies and resources.
* Thank the people who assist in your job search publicly. This is an effective way to remind everyone that you are still looking for a job without spamming them while also acknowledging that you appreciate any help you receive.
LinkedIn
* Investigate the structure of the organization you’re interested in by using LinkedIn’s Company Profile feature.
* Build your network before you need it. Ask colleagues and supervisors to recommend you on LinkedIn. It is best to get these recommendations while you are still employed, but if you’ve already left the company, it is still worth it to contact former colleagues and especially your supervisor to get recommendations.
* Review the resumes of people with similar credentials to yours to see what jobs they were hired for.
* Learn where people with similar credentials to yours worked before their current positions.
* Learn which companies people tend to go to after they leave the company.
* Perhaps you know someone who knows someone at the company. Contact that person to see if they can get your resume to the hiring manager. A resume handed to the hiring manager from a colleague is much more likely to be taken seriously than one sent through the mail.
Twitter
* Sell yourself in your bio.
* Use a professional image for your avatar.
* Tweet about your job search.
* Use your twitter background to highlight your credentials.
* Include a link to your resume in your bio.
* Establish yourself as an expert in your field on Twitter.
* Research the many additional profiles dedicated to job searches on Twitter.
In order to find a job, it is important to utilize all effective strategies. That job you haven’t gotten yet may be waiting for you through one of your social networking contacts. Make sure you connect with that person.
Social network websites are not just for fun and games - used in the right ways, they can help you get a job. Social networking websites such as LinkedIn and Facebook offer many opportunities to network with potential employers and job referral sources. Whether you're just joining the ranks of social networkers, or you're a veteran of making connections and adding friends, you can ramp up your job search with the help of social networking tools online.
* Communicate to the members of your friend’s list that you are looking for work, what your credentials are and what you’re looking for.
* Join a group or page dedicated to your industry and let them know you are looking for work.
* Don’t ask for a job that you are not qualified for.
* There is no shame in letting your friends and family know you are unemployed. They could be your best allies and resources.
* Thank the people who assist in your job search publicly. This is an effective way to remind everyone that you are still looking for a job without spamming them while also acknowledging that you appreciate any help you receive.
* Investigate the structure of the organization you’re interested in by using LinkedIn’s Company Profile feature.
* Build your network before you need it. Ask colleagues and supervisors to recommend you on LinkedIn. It is best to get these recommendations while you are still employed, but if you’ve already left the company, it is still worth it to contact former colleagues and especially your supervisor to get recommendations.
* Review the resumes of people with similar credentials to yours to see what jobs they were hired for.
* Learn where people with similar credentials to yours worked before their current positions.
* Learn which companies people tend to go to after they leave the company.
* Perhaps you know someone who knows someone at the company. Contact that person to see if they can get your resume to the hiring manager. A resume handed to the hiring manager from a colleague is much more likely to be taken seriously than one sent through the mail.
* Sell yourself in your bio.
* Use a professional image for your avatar.
* Tweet about your job search.
* Use your twitter background to highlight your credentials.
* Include a link to your resume in your bio.
* Establish yourself as an expert in your field on Twitter.
* Research the many additional profiles dedicated to job searches on Twitter.
In order to find a job, it is important to utilize all effective strategies. That job you haven’t gotten yet may be waiting for you through one of your social networking contacts. Make sure you connect with that person.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Jobs today
Vacancies: General Managers, Admin/Personnel Managers, Marketing Managers
The New Management of Duncan Group of Companies (Maritime and Logistic Company) based in Abuja, Lagos and Jos wishes to fill the following vacancies
Position: General Managers
Qualification Requirements
■Candidates for this position MUST possess B.Sc or HND in Accounting, Economics, Business Administration or related Field in Social Science with 3-5 years working experience
■Additional Qualification will be an added advantage
■Candidates must be computer Literate, be resourceful and with Good communication skills
■Candidates with experience in Logistics, Courier Services, Terminal Operation and the maritime World have an added advantage
Position: Admin/Personnel Managers
Qualification Requirements
■Candidates for this position MUST possess B.Sc or HND in Accounting, Economics, Business Administration or related Field in Social Science with 3-5 years working experience
■Additional Qualification will be an added advantage
■Candidates must be computer Literate, be resourceful and with Good communication skills
■Candidates with experience in Logistics, Courier Services, Terminal Operation and the maritime World have an added advantage
Position: Marketing Managers
Qualification Requirements
■Candidates for this position MUST possess B.Sc or HND in Accounting, Economics, Business Administration or related Field in Social Science with 3-5 years working experience
■Additional Qualification will be an added advantage
■Candidates must be computer Literate, be resourceful and with Good communication skills
■Candidates with experience in Logistics, Courier Services, Terminal Operation and the maritime World have an added advantage
Applications
All applications with C.V should reach the address below not late than 11th NOVEMBER 2010
The Managing Director/CEO
Duncan International Cargo Express Limited
1st Floor Oyo State House,
Central Business District, Abuja
Or
E-mail:
abjduncan@yahoo.com
info@duncanmaritime.com
duncanicdjos@yahoo.com
Vacancies: Administration Manager, Accountants, Administration Officers
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill the below positions in a Shipping, Aviation and Logistics Services Organization.
Position: Administration Manager – Ref. 01
The Administration Manager will report directly to the Chairman / Managing Director and co-ordinate all activities of the organization for growth and efficiency. The ideal candidate must demonstrate ability to be a team leader who has ability to take initiative and can work under pressure.
Qualification:
■The ideal candidate must not be less than 40years old, should posses at least a first degree in any of the social sciences with a minimum of l0 years post qualification experience and the last a similar position.
Position: Accountants – Ref. 02
Qualification:
■The ideal candidate must possess a first degree or HND in Accountancy with at least 5 years cognate experience in the profession with good knowledge of financial and credit control procedure including accounting software.
■Possession of ACA will be an added advantage.
■Age: Not less than 30 years.
Position: Administration Officers – Ref. 03
Qualification:
■B.Sc. or HND in Business Administration /Management.
■Must have minimum of 3-5 years in a structured organization and have ability to adapt to situations.
■Age: Not more than 40years.
Vacancies for all positions exist in Lagos and Abuja offices.
Method of Application
Interested candidate should send their applications and CV’s to the
Advertiser
Advert No 2004
Guardian Newspapers Ltd, Isolo, Rutam
House, Apapa-Oshodi Exp. Way, Lagos,
P.M.B 1217, Oshodi – Lagos
On or before 9th November, 2010
Quoting the Ref. number of the position you are applying for.
The New Management of Duncan Group of Companies (Maritime and Logistic Company) based in Abuja, Lagos and Jos wishes to fill the following vacancies
Position: General Managers
Qualification Requirements
■Candidates for this position MUST possess B.Sc or HND in Accounting, Economics, Business Administration or related Field in Social Science with 3-5 years working experience
■Additional Qualification will be an added advantage
■Candidates must be computer Literate, be resourceful and with Good communication skills
■Candidates with experience in Logistics, Courier Services, Terminal Operation and the maritime World have an added advantage
Position: Admin/Personnel Managers
Qualification Requirements
■Candidates for this position MUST possess B.Sc or HND in Accounting, Economics, Business Administration or related Field in Social Science with 3-5 years working experience
■Additional Qualification will be an added advantage
■Candidates must be computer Literate, be resourceful and with Good communication skills
■Candidates with experience in Logistics, Courier Services, Terminal Operation and the maritime World have an added advantage
Position: Marketing Managers
Qualification Requirements
■Candidates for this position MUST possess B.Sc or HND in Accounting, Economics, Business Administration or related Field in Social Science with 3-5 years working experience
■Additional Qualification will be an added advantage
■Candidates must be computer Literate, be resourceful and with Good communication skills
■Candidates with experience in Logistics, Courier Services, Terminal Operation and the maritime World have an added advantage
Applications
All applications with C.V should reach the address below not late than 11th NOVEMBER 2010
The Managing Director/CEO
Duncan International Cargo Express Limited
1st Floor Oyo State House,
Central Business District, Abuja
Or
E-mail:
abjduncan@yahoo.com
info@duncanmaritime.com
duncanicdjos@yahoo.com
Vacancies: Administration Manager, Accountants, Administration Officers
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill the below positions in a Shipping, Aviation and Logistics Services Organization.
Position: Administration Manager – Ref. 01
The Administration Manager will report directly to the Chairman / Managing Director and co-ordinate all activities of the organization for growth and efficiency. The ideal candidate must demonstrate ability to be a team leader who has ability to take initiative and can work under pressure.
Qualification:
■The ideal candidate must not be less than 40years old, should posses at least a first degree in any of the social sciences with a minimum of l0 years post qualification experience and the last a similar position.
Position: Accountants – Ref. 02
Qualification:
■The ideal candidate must possess a first degree or HND in Accountancy with at least 5 years cognate experience in the profession with good knowledge of financial and credit control procedure including accounting software.
■Possession of ACA will be an added advantage.
■Age: Not less than 30 years.
Position: Administration Officers – Ref. 03
Qualification:
■B.Sc. or HND in Business Administration /Management.
■Must have minimum of 3-5 years in a structured organization and have ability to adapt to situations.
■Age: Not more than 40years.
Vacancies for all positions exist in Lagos and Abuja offices.
Method of Application
Interested candidate should send their applications and CV’s to the
Advertiser
Advert No 2004
Guardian Newspapers Ltd, Isolo, Rutam
House, Apapa-Oshodi Exp. Way, Lagos,
P.M.B 1217, Oshodi – Lagos
On or before 9th November, 2010
Quoting the Ref. number of the position you are applying for.
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