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Pertamina vacancy for bachelor degree

2009-09-26T08:10:00.000-07:00

PT Pertamina (Persero) is a corporately owned Negara (BUMN) which the field’s oil and gas (oil) in Indonesia. As the national oil company, Pertamina is committed to achieving a balance between achieving the benefits to the quality of public services. With 51 years experience in the environmental challenges facing the geology of Indonesia, Pertamina is a pioneering development of liquid natural gas or Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG).

Pertamina, including the scope of business in the oil and gas exploration and production, refinery processing, manufacturing and marketing of energy products and Petrokimia; development of vegetable oil, geothermal energy resources and alternative energy.

Operations and infrastructure facilities in all Pertamina of Indonesia. Pertamina to serve the energy needs for more than 220 million people of Indonesia.

In order to strengthen competitiveness to the national oil company and a world-class gas, PT. Pertamina (persero) the need reliable professional to fill the position:
New Graduates
(Fresh GRADUATES)

S1 or S2
Faculty / Department

1. Industrial Engineering
2. Informatics Engineering / Computer
3. Mechanical Engineering
4. Metallurgy
5. Electrical Engineering (Electrical)
6. Electrical Engineering (Instrument)
7. Engineering geodesy
8. Engineering Geology
9. Engineering Geophysics
10. Technical Oil
11. Engineering Physics
12. Chemical Engineering
13. Environmental Engineering
14. Civil Engineering
15. Technical Oil
16. Shipping Engineering
17. Mechanical Engineering Ship
18. Ship Engineering Development
19. Mathematics and Natural Sciences – Chemistry
20. Economics (all majors)
21. Law
22. Communication
23. Psychology
24. Social Science & Politics
25. Community Health
26. Health & Safety
27. Administration
28. Secretary

A. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

1. Advanced computer use and application (especially the Open Office)
2. Preferably fluent in English oral and written.
3. Willing to follow the stages in the selection process, the cost to and from the selection of participants to be dependent.
4. This position is open to the public.
5. GPA minimum 2.75 (scale 4) to D3 and minimum GPA 3.00 (Scale 4) for the S1/S2
6. High body at least 160 cm for men and at least 155 cm for women

B. AGE Limit

* For groups of applicants D3: A maximum of 24 years (born after 31 December 1984)
* For groups of applicants S1: Maximum 27 years old (born after 31 December 1981)
* For groups of applicants S2: Maximum 32 years old (born after 31 December 1976)

C. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL positions:

1. Have high integrity and high commitment.
2. Willing to work in a situation full of challenges and pressure.
3. Enerjetik, full of perseverance, and able to work independently and in teams.
4. Having a good self-control, and a broad perspective.
5. Own initiative, encouragement and dedication of achievement is high.
6. Like the work of a variety of detail and especially for functional work groups
7. And diligent in work have a high accuracy.
8. Terms of technical competence and experience can be seen in the terms in each position.

D. OTHER PROVISIONS:

1. Applications can only be delivered through an on-line (click the registration link on-line at the bottom of the specification of office). There is no other path that is used for shipping applications.
2. Applicants must have an e-mail address of the active time to be able to follow this selection process. We do not serve the e-mail address is incorrect input by applicants. Applicants are prohibited from using e-mail address of the office or any other person for this registration process.
3. After completing the application form and send it back on-line, applicants will receive confirmation of registration. Confirmation contains registration number that will be used during the selection process. You can not receive e-mail when the registration e-mail address that you input or wrong and is not active, so you can not log-in to the next.
4. Applicants only allowed to do a one-time registration on-line. To make sure that you had written all the data correctly, before pressing the button SEND.
5. Applicants must fill out an application with the data / information is real because this data will be clarified with the correct implementation of the verification when the document / information.
6. The period of time on-line registration for groups Fresh Graduate is throughout the year (opened application). Announcement of the test phase and will be divided into several waves during the year. The period of time on-line registration wave was first closed on 23 March 2009 at 24.00. The period of time of registration on-line will be the second wave began 24 March 2009 to 6 April 2009. Announcement of the second wave is the date 14 April 2009. Registration on-line will be the third wave after wave of the second closed.
7. Applications that do not go on-line, is considered not valid.
8. Results of the selection decisions are absolute and can not be inviolable.
9. At each stage of selection, only the best candidates who will follow the next selection stage.
10. Candidates who pass through the announcement stated on the website Pertamina will contacted to go to the next stage of selection.
11. Applicants are not permitted to contact the officer / employee relationship with Pertamina in the process of recruitment and selection and / or come to the office of Pertamina. Applicants permitted only come when there is the officially. Applicants who to contact / visit Pertamina than stated at the time of autumn tests.
12. Recruitment and selection process is not cost you anything.

E. Prepared IMPORTANT TO:

For you who then passes the selection stated administration, will be present in the Phase I test in the location and time will be assigned to the document and bring the following:

1. The Identity Card is valid, original and photocopy.
2. Copy of certificate in accordance with the requirements of education and has dilegalisir by authorized officials
3. Copy of transcripts that have been rated legalized by the authorized officer
4. Copy of certificate expertise of other relevant
5. Data CVs that must be downloaded from the website Pertamina after you log in, the life history data that has been filled in the form of print out
6. Participant Selection card that must be downloaded from the website Pertamina after you log in. Please completed and submitted in the form of print out
7. Photo color size 4 x 6 sheets of 2

All files included in the folio folder, which is written the name and registration number with the provisions of:

1. Map for the red group of applicants D3
2. Map green group applicants for S1 or S2

Please prepare all documents with complete and correct. If the document is found incomplete and / or inconsistency of data in the document with the application file, you will be stated in the autumn Test Phase I

F. ONLINE APPLICATIONS

1. Provide enough time. Charging this online application requires a full time about 30 – 60 minutes.
2. Read carefully the instructions provided
3. Prepare all the data you need at the time of application, among others:
KTP *
* Employment history / Register CVs
4. Fill in all fields with the correct and complete
5. Make sure all the Fields already fill you with the correct before you send (submit) your application

for further information, visit www.pertamina.com

Chevron vacancy for Bachelor Degree

2008-11-10T06:40:00.001-08:00

Our client, Chevron - the global energy company most admired for its people, partnership and performance invites qualified, self-motivated and excellent track record executives to join professional environment as:

Experienced (4 years and above) - Job Vacancies

General Qualifications:

D3/S1 (see Job Title)
At least 3 or 4 years experience (see Job Title) in Oil and Gas/Geothermal Industry
Willing to relocate to one of Chevron operations locations (East Kalimantan/Riau/West Java)
Able to work hardly and under pressure condition.
Strong in ensuring quality results, mentor others
Desiring to work in a multicultural and diverse organization
Able to identify issues, problems and opportunities
Strong in exploiting technology by challenging paradigms; think expansively and evaluated multi-solutions

Please click Job Title below:

Job Title	Discipline	State
Lab Analyst (LAB-EXP/LA)	D3 degree Geology	Riau
Geosciences Technical Assistant (ES-EXP/TA)	D3 degree (Computer, Mechanical Eng, Mining Eng, Petroleum Eng, Chemical Eng or Electrical Eng)	West Java
Flow Measurement Specialist (OPS-EXP/FMS)	S1 (Engineering of Electrical, Electronic, Physics and Physic Science-Instrument)	East Kalimantan,Riau, West Java

Registration CPNS Grobogan district in 2008

2008-11-01T13:06:00.000-07:00

Announcement of Registration CPNS Grobogan district in 2008
Registration 4 - 16 November 2008

About
Candidates for the procurement of the Civil Service Regional
Applicants from the General
Grobogan district government
Formation Year 2008

This is notified that the Government Grobogan district will hold a selection of candidates Procurement Officer of the Regional Civil Affairs General Applicants with the following provisions:

TYPE, TOTAL FORMATION needed, and that required EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
a. Staff: 267 formation
b. Health workers: 74 formations
c. Powerhouses Others: 45 formations
d. Athletes real achievement: 4 formation

III. REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
Registration time: 4 to 16 November 2008 per Cap POS
at 08.00 am until 17:00 WIB, and must be received by the Procurement Team CPNS at the latest 2 (two) days after the last day registration.
For the Registrar to send the applications directly / POS services do not use and submit applications before and after the specified date not declared valid / invalid / autumn.
Terms:
Applications written their own hands without Building to the Regent Grobogan, attaching:
a. 1 (one) photo copy of the last certification (not a temporary certification / pass information / evidence yudisium) and one (1) photo copy of academic translation, each has been legalized by the authorities and photo copy of Act IV (legalized) for applicants The formation of the register required as listed in Appendix III.
b. One (1) Copy of photo ID (Identity Card) is still valid and legalized by the Village Head / Head of the local villages.
c. 4 (four) sheets of black and white photographs latest (Max last 3 months) the size of 3 x 4, was written the name and address of applicants.

The application file is included in the envelope sealed envelope size 35 x 24.5 cm, is intended to PO BOX CPNS District. Grobogan, in the left corner of the written code of formation and the formation applied accordance with the announcement of the government agencies, Grobogan district, and sent by way of coming directly to the nearest Post Office (Example which stated as in the attachment II).

Shipping registration fees and replies become the responsibility of applicants, which is required by Indonesia's PT POS services through special registration CPNSD.

IV. IMPLEMENTATION TEST
1. Written examination was conducted simultaneously across Central Java, on Sunday the date of 07 December 2008

V. RESULTS ANNOUNCEMENT SELECTION
1. Announcement of the results of the selection is based on the results of written examination in order of ranking the highest per formation and educational qualifications.
2. Announcement of the results of the selection will be delivered by the team through the procurement board announcement paste in the Regional Secretariat, BKD, the Office of P and K and the District Health Office. Grobogan on 31 December 2008.

VI. OTHER.
1. CPNS entire procurement process from the start the registration process / registration, the implementation of the selection until the determination of graduation with no charge (except for mail delivery of applications by each of the applicants through PT POS Indonesia) and the free practice of corruption, collusion, nepotism and fraudulent documents CPNS.
2. For applicants who do cheat proven and giving false information or fails the stated / and will be subject to sanctions applicable law.
3. During the implementation of CPNS, the procurement team did not receive the file serving applications submitted directly.
4. All the documents have been submitted, become the property of the team and can not be asked back.

art and creative job opportunities in Indonesia

2008-05-24T02:06:00.000-07:00

This is the list of art and creative job opportunities available in indonesia (lowongan kerja). Suitable for those who have creative and art talent. Apply your desired job in indonesia here!
Freelance writer
WorldsBestBars.com is the world’s most popular global bar scene website. It is visited by 300,000 people from around the world each month. The bars we feature are premium and extraordinary in some way, whether it be the drinks, the atmosphere, the design, the music or the fact that they are nigh on impossible to find. Our audience is young and affluent professionals who don’t have time to seek out these establishments themselves but like to be in the know and have insider knowledge. Fashion graphic designer. Have knowledge and experience in apparel business? Waiting for improvement and wide opened future ? This is maybe the opportunity you are waiting for. We offer a BIG NEXT STEP in Apparel Division of our nation-wide operation groups of companies.. And, as we implemented open income policy, it’s mean a wide opened future for you. If you are strong willed, experienced, smart, passionate, and confident of your ability, send your complete application and resume to us.
Product in apparel business
Have knowledge and experience in apparel business? Waiting for improvement and wide opened future ? This is maybe the opportunity you are waiting for. We offer a BIG NEXT STEP in Apparel Division of our nation-wide operation groups of companies.. And, as we implemented open income policy, it’s mean a wide opened future for you. If you are strong willed, experienced, smart, passionate, and confident of your ability, send your complete application and resume to us.
web designer
PT. Enmeds is looking for highly talented professional WEB DESIGNER to join our development project in Jakarta, requirements include: 1. Bachelor degree majoring Computer Sciences/Software Engineering with min. GPA 3.00 2. Expert in web design using Macromedia Dreamweaver, CSS 3. Full time It would be advantageous if you have: 1. Previous experience for Medical/Hospital implementation 2. Knowledgeable related to Frameworks Interested to join us? drafter architect
General Requirements -Male or Female (maximum age 35 years) -University Graduate - Major in Architecture preferred but NOT necessary -Flexible with working hours -Job location will mainly be Sanur but ocassionally in Seminyak -Experience not necessary -Highly Organized Technical Abilities : -Good command of English; both oral and written -Basic Accounting and Invoicing -Export Document Experience an advantage -Excellent in Photoshop and Corel DRAW -Excellent in Architectural Softwares eg. Archi CAD etc

How to organize your job search well

2008-05-09T22:50:00.000-07:00

You should space your attempts to identify a job in a way that does not affect your enthusiasm. Schedule your job search activities two hours a day, six days a week. It is essential to take a break to recuperate and recharge, mentally and physically.
Proper Planning

Attempt a career quiz
Subscribe to newsletters with extensive career classifieds
Be alert and identify career and internship opportunities
Identify institutions that could enhance your prospects to meet career goals
Find out about distance learning opportunities

Organizing Yourself
Update yourself regularly on the kind of competition you are facing in your chosen career. Constantly analyze your chances, on the basis of your skills and experience and make constant efforts to establish new contacts and widen your network.Attempting to organize your job search involves keeping track of all information and communications. some of them include:
The size of the organization.

Its geographical location.
Potential for your growth within the organization.
Your Own Portfolio, Complete With:
Several copies of your resume.
Copies of references and letters of recommendation.
Samples of your experience, like essays, research and published articles.

Tips preparing for job interview

2008-05-03T00:45:00.000-07:00

Interviewing is just that simple when it’s broken into it’s simplest components. Focus on preparing answers to all of the scenarios above, and you will be ahead of the game. Remember to clearly articulate in each and every sound bite exactly what you did. Practice with a tape recorder to critique yourself, or with a friend to repeat back to you exactly what you did in a situation to make sure you’re preparing correctly. Follow these five rules to got your desired job! Use TODAY to develop additional sound bites of your experiences. TODAY stands for Teamwork, Overcoming Obstacles, Duties of your past positions, Achievements, Your strengths and weaknesses. Remember to clearly describe exactly what you did in each situation.

Research the company. Search the internet for any recent press releases and check out the company’s website. Know what they do, and develop some idea as to how the position you are hiring for fits within the company.
Think of questions to ask an interviewer. Look at the job posting and your research about the company and think of 3-5 questions you can ask during the interview. What are you curious about? Do they manufacture a product you are familiar with, or never even knew existed before you started to research the company? Where does this department fit in the grand scheme of the company? What projects is the department currently working on?
Look at the job posting you are applying for, and develop sound bites that address the needs of the employer. Think of examples where you demonstrated the skills that appear in the job posting and develop answers that clearly show an employer that you are the perfect candidate for this position. All sound bites should be 2-3 minutes in length.
prepare answers to the following questions: Tell me about yourself, Why did you leave your last position, or why are you looking for a new job, Why should I hire you, and The Salary Question. You know that these questions will be asked in one form or another, so there is no excuse to not have prepared an answer.

Go to work while pregnant

2008-03-27T08:49:00.000-07:00

You will need to incorporate your post-baby plans into your interview conversation, so that you're ready to answer questions about your return to work, your ability to manage your job with a newborn, and so on.
But the fact that you're expecting shouldn't be the primary, or even a major, focus of your discussions during interviews. The important thing to know about pursuing a job search during pregnancy is that it can be done.
While your pregnancy is a factor in your job search — and more of a factor if your due date is coming up quickly or if, for instance, you're expecting more than one baby — being pregnant is no reason to put off a job search.
A woman is laid off while she's pregnant and finds herself job-hunting as her due date approaches. Another woman's organization tanks, and she finds herself out of work just as she realizes that that she's expecting. A third finds her consulting business too slow to sustain her financially, so she starts a job search during her second trimester.
It doesn't hurt to look for family-friendly organizations when you're a pregnant job seeker. Ask your friends (or use a friendly, free, women-focused e-mail discussion group such as www.worldwit.org) who these employers are in your city. Ask the moms in your Lamaze class or ask your doctor which employers are known for family flexibility.

Lawyer Job Description

2008-01-24T02:15:00.000-08:00

Job Description of Lawyer, as Corporate Lawyer Job Description, Career as a Corporate Lawyer, Salary, Employment - Definition and Nature of the Work, job, Education and Training Requirements, therefore, job for a lawyer include several stages, those :

Lawyer job is to conduct criminal and civil lawsuits, draws up legal documents, advises clients as to legal rights, and practices other phases of law:
Gathers evidence in divorce, civil, criminal, and other cases to formulate defense or to initiate legal action.
Conducts research, interviews clients and witnesses, and handles other details in preparation for trial.
Prepares legal briefs, develops strategy, arguments, and testimony in preparation for presentation of case. Files brief with court clerk.
Lawyer can represents client in court and before quasi-judicial or administrative agencies of government.
Interprets laws, rulings, and regulations for individuals and businesses. May confer with colleagues with specialty in area of lawsuit to establish and verify basis for legal proceedings.
Lawyer job include act as trustee, guardian, or executor.
Lawyer job include draft wills, trusts, transfer of assets, gifts, and other documents.
Lawyer job include advise corporate clients concerning transactions of business involving internal affairs, stockholders, directors, officers, and corporate relations with general public.
Lawyer job include supervise and coordinate activities of subordinate legal personnel.
Lawyer job include prepare business contracts, pay taxes, settle labor disputes, and administer other legal matters.
Lawyer job include teach college courses in law.
Lawyer job include specialize in specific phase of law. (edited from careerplanner.com)

Accountant Job Description

2007-12-17T22:44:00.000-08:00

Accountant acts under direction of a Division Manager, performs professional accounting work, including auditing, analyzing and verifying fiscal records and reports, preparing financial and statistical reports, providing information to City staff regarding accounting practices and procedures, and reconciling general ledger accounts; assists in preparing the City’s annual and mid-year budgets; prepares year-end audit reports and schedules; trains and provides technical advice to lower-level accounting personnel, and performs related work as required.
Equivalent to graduation from a four-year college or university with major coursework in accounting, finance, economics or a related field and one year of general fund accounting experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience is a must for accountant work. Generally accepted accounting practices and principles;
Fund or governmental accounting practices and principles; Auditing practices and principles; Public agency budgeting practices and principles; Computer applications related to the work; Standard office practices and procedures; Applicable laws, codes and regulations; and Techniques for dealing with a variety of individuals from various socio-economic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, in person and over the telephone.
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions for accountant job is describe as follow:
Must possess mobility to work in a standard office setting and to use standard office equipment, including a computer, stamina to maintain attention to detail despite interruptions, strength to lift and carry files weighing up to 10 pounds; vision to read printed materials and a computer screen, and hearing and speech to communicate in person and over the telephone. News from ci.san-ramon.ca.us

Job Description of Architects

2007-12-10T22:48:00.000-08:00

Job Description of Architects: Architects design buildings and other structures. In addition to considering the way these buildings and structures look, they also make sure they are functional, safe, economical and suit the needs of the people who use them. Educational Requirements for Architects: There are three types of professional degrees in architecture offered through colleges and universities:

5-year Bachelor of Architecture programs intended for students entering programs from high school or with no previous architectural training
2-year Master of Architecture programs for students with a preprofessional undergraduate degree in architecture or a related area
3 or 4-year Master of Architecture programs offered to students with degrees in other disciplines

Other Requirements for Architects: In the US those who want to provide architectural services must be licensed. To become licenced one must earn a professional degree in architecture, complete a period of practical training or internship, and pass all divisions of the ARE (Architect Registration Examination).Generally, the professional degree in architecture must be from a school of architecture accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). Individual states may not have this requirement.

Advancement of Architects: A licensed architect, after gaining experience, may take on increasingly responsible duties and eventual managing entire projects. Architects may advance to supervisory or managerial positions in large firms. Some become partners in established firms while others set up their own practices.

Earnings of Architects: Median annual earnings of wage and salary architects were $60,300 in 2004. Recent graduates working on internships will earn much less. Those starting out in private practices will go through a period of time when they are operating at a loss. Source: careerplanning.com

Why Companies Lose Candidates?

2007-12-07T05:44:00.001-08:00

Following are ten of the most frequent causes—according to specialists— of this failure to attract and retain high-level minority and female employees.

1. Senior management isn't sending the "diversity message" down the lines.

2. Informal networking channels are closed to outsiders.

3. In-house recruiters are looking in the wrong places.

4. Job descriptions and requirements exclude certain qualified people.

5. Differences in life experience are not taken into account.

6. Negative judgments are made based on personality or communication differences.

7. Prospective employers are afraid of potential problems.

8. The candidate is not introduced to people who are like him or her.

9. Organizations are not able or willing to take the time to do a thorough search.

10. Early identification is missing from the recruitment program.

This post is dedicated to the human resource department and employers in general.

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Choosing The Right Job Offer

2007-12-07T04:15:00.001-08:00

Congratulations…You have received a job offer… Now what do you do?
Ask Yourself:
• Does it seem like an organization you could work for?
• Is the company’s vision consistent with yours?
• Are you comfortable with the position and what is expected of you?
• Have you negotiated a compensation package that is agreeable to both of
you?
You must answer these questions before you jump into a new career. If you have
more questions do not be afraid to ask. They have already offered you the job
and put a lot of time and effort into choosing you.
Selecting a job offer is not easy. When you choose a job, you will want to think
through the relative importance of the things that matter most to you.
Training:
Smart job seekers know that the learning opportunities are ultimately
more valuable than the money. What kind of training will you get? Does the
company have an effective mentor program? The more training you get the more
valuable you become.

Challenges:
What kinds of challenges will you face in the job? If you spend your days doing
routine repetitive work you will be unsatisfied regardless of how much money you
make. But if you are engaged in stimulating work, you will look forward to each
working day and you will feel totally fulfilled.

Money:
For many people money is the most important factor in choosing a job or at least
a very powerful incentive. But you should not be looking only at the salary.
Consider the entire compensation package. Does the company offer a pension or
retirement plan with matching contributions? What about profit sharing? Does the
offer include full medical and dental coverage and when does the coverage start?
Does this position include a bonus and on what criteria does it depend? Think
through what your expenses are and keep in mind intangibles such as cost of
living, your new wardrobe, etc.

Prestige:
A company’s prestige can be an investment, redeemable in future job
opportunities. In certain industries, where the turnover rates are high, prestige
plays a major factor in choosing which job offer to accept. All else being equal,
having a blue-chip company on your resume will get your resume noticed

Lifestyle:
Determine what kind of work/life balance you can expect with each offer and
know what kind of lifestyle you want to live. If you prefer to play a power
role in the company then an all consuming 24x7 job is right for you. However, if
you like to watch the sun set or eat dinner at six every night with your family, then
you’ll want to consider a job that doesn’t require late nights.

Personal Fit:
How you fit into a company is a deciding factor for how long you stay. You will be
spending at least 40 hours a week at work so choose your company the way you
would pick a roommate. Corporate Culture is an important factor to consider.
Some people love companies where there is an established protocol for
everything; others prefer a less structured environment. Companies are like
people, they have personalities. Some you will really like, others you won’t like at
all.

Location:
If you want a life outside the office, you will probably want to consider the location
of your prospective employer .What do you like to do in your free time? If being
close to your family or living in a place where you can enjoy the outdoors
are important issues, then pick a place to work accordingly. If you are
considering jobs that require extensive travel ask yourself whether living out of a
suitcase is really the life you want.
In taking a job, you will want to think through all of these issues and base
your decision on the things that are most important to you. It is a
personal decision and one that is going to be a part of your life
every day. Evaluate your priorities and then act upon them.

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How to Know That You Are Underpaid?

2007-12-01T08:04:00.000-08:00

You can start by checking industry salary surveys on the Internet. But you probably won't learn enough: In a recent study published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, researchers found that internal pay comparisons (how much you make compared with the person down the hall) were more important to employees than external comparisons (how much the people at the competing firm across town are paid).

You really want to know what people are earning at your place.

The best way to get those data is to have a chat about your salary with whoever is your mentor in the office. You don't have to get specific; just say something like "Lou, I believe I've done a good job here and I'm planning on asking for a raise. Can you clue me in on what the company is paying now?"

If Lou is plugged in and knows what your job's salary range is, he can offer the guidance without betraying any confidences.

Here's another tactic: If you're with a large group of similarly ranked colleagues at, say, a bar, you can play the party game where each person writes his or her salary on a slip of paper, folds it up and places it in a hat.

Mix the hat up and read the numbers aloud. The results should tell you all you need to know, and no one's feelings are hurt since the data are anonymous.

Here's what not to do: stomp into your boss' office and scream "Why the hell aren't I making as much as Kovics?"

She's likely to shoot back, "Because Kovics doesn't come in 45 minutes late every day, take two-hour naps after lunch and insult as many clients as you do."

There's nowhere you can go from there but the help-wanted ads. Learning that you are underpaid compared with a colleague needs to inform a discussion, not become the heart of one.

After all, you don't knowthat much about Kovics. Perhaps he negotiated a better deal when he was hired, took on more responsibility, or has more experience.

On the flip side, knowing that someone on your level earns more than you do means that you can earn more than you do. "Your salary is most likely defined within a range," says Salary.com's Coleman. "Once you know what that range is, you can talk about moving up within it." Nobody reacts well to "I want more money."

A much better way to frame the demand: "What would I have to do to get more money?" Most bosses are happy to answer that question because now you're saying, "I am willing to work harder and smarter for you." The more you can emphasize that message, the more likely it is that some extra money will flow your way.

Source: Money.CNN.com

Interview Tips

2007-11-23T04:51:00.000-08:00

Preparing for an interview so that you can project the best first impression under any circumstances is just the first step in the process. Once you walk through the door, the journey is far from over. There is always the potential for something to be thrown by the wayside or forgotten by complete accident that could make or break your interview experience with an employer. For this reason, I have compiled a list of items one would need during an interview, be it an interview for a job at a store in the mall or at corporate headquarters in New York City.

First and foremost, you will want to appear extremely prepared—perhaps more prepared than you actually feel. When you first meet a person and he is fumbling through his pockets for something or cannot seem to remember his own phone number off the top of his head, it impacts your long-term perception of him. Some of the items on this list may not seem particularly significant, but they are just as important as the major issues that may come up during an interview.

Documents:

The firm has probably already seen your resume and/or cover letter if you are going in for an interview, but that does not let you off the hook when it comes to preparedness. A couple of extra copies of your resume are absolutely necessary, especially if you know you will be interviewed by multiple people. If, for some reason, an employer has seen the documents but does not have copies on hand, you will not only appear efficient and prepared, but you will also help him or her save face with colleagues.

Creating one document heading to be used on all application documents is an excellent way to appear to be an organized professional. To this end, if you have any references to provide, be sure you print them in a cohesive, organized list format using the same heading and the same type of paper. Remember that you want to look like the "total package" for the position. If requested, it is also appropriate to list salary requirements with your references—but only if specifically requested. You will want to be as open to opportunities as possible.

Supplies:

If you are not at least carrying a portfolio into the interview, you are not thoroughly prepared. Along with your resume, cover letter, and list of references, you should have at least one black and one blue pen, a notepad to write anything down that you want to remember from the interview, and business cards, if you have them.

Business cards are not usually necessary because your document headings should all contain your contact information right below your name, but if you are asked for a business card anyway, it is better to hand one over than it is to correct potential employers by reminding them that they already have the information they have just requested.

Carrying two pens of different colors may also sound like a minute detail, but black, as everyone should know, is the universally acceptable ink color. However, blue is best when signing any type of legally binding document because it allows one to make a clear distinction between originals and copies.

I previously mentioned showing up early for interviews. If you have the time, show up in the general area early enough to go through a final checklist in your head. Do I have everything I am going to need? Have I checked the mirror one last time to make sure there are no crumbs left over from lunch stuck in my beard? Are my pantyhose visibly snagged?

Who knows? Maybe attending to these small details will give you the confidence boost you need to have a great interview.

Source: Resume Apple

The Web job description

2007-11-19T03:38:00.000-08:00

t is hard to believe that the Web was only invented in the early 90’s. Over that time it has dramatically altered how organizations communicate with their customers, clients and members as well as created new, web-based, services. As web operations begin to mature after the early efforts, many organization have started to formalize web-related roles and responsibilities. This leads inevitably to the crafting of job descriptions. Starting from a blank page this can often be a challenging exercise and few resources exist specifically for drafting web job descriptions.

This article will provide a starting point for executives designing positions that will support an enterprise web site. The major areas of responsibility that are generally needed to support a web site are reviewed below. Executives can adapt the sample text supplied here as they craft job descriptions that will support the unique needs of their organization.

Areas of Responsibility

The sections below identify 5 major areas of responsibility for web positions: content management, design, online community, administration, and strategy and planning. These areas must be covered either through staffing or outsourcing in order to develop and maintain a web site.

Content Management

Content management covers activities required to generate new content and maintain existing content on the organization’s web site. While all the areas are important, content management is likely to take up the largest chunk of an organization’s staff resources in developing and maintaining its web site.

Lead the planning and implementation of Web content and design for organization’s web sites including the development and oversight of the team’s project management methodology.
Maintenance of content on the organization web site, including copyediting.
Working with staff to develop and maintain information on the Web.
Design and implement the information architecture of the organization’s web site ensuring ease of navigation for visitors.
Working creatively with staff from other organization publications to create unique opportunities for interaction between the Web and the other communication vehicles.
Work with organization staff to identify, index, and make available knowledge resources.
Continually develop and maintain organization’s thesaurus (keywords) for use in indexing content.
Ensure that organization’s web sites are designed and deployed in a manner that is as accessible and user-friendly as possible.
Develop and implement the editorial calendar for the home pages and other areas of the site.
Represent the web staff to other units on issues related to content management.
Serve as expert consultant to staff on the development of Web content in support of organization’s objectives.

Design

Design encompasses the creation of graphics and html templates for the organization’s web site as well as multimedia.

Oversee the design of the organization web site, making sure that a consistent look and feel is maintained.
Serve as art director for the visual and multimedia content of organization’s web sites. Develop and maintain the overall look and feel of organization’s web sites.
Manage and design the creative aspect of web projects, including serving as an expert resource to organization staff involved in specific projects.
Design HTML templates and supporting graphics that are consistent with organization’s design standards.
Develop and maintain visual design guidelines for the web site ensuring that outside advertisements to placed on the web site meet organization standards.
Design graphical user interfaces for web-based applications on organization’s web sites.

Online Community

Online community covers any activity related to connecting members, customers or clients electronically. The most common activities are online forums and e-mail listserves. Online communities require hands-on attention by staff in order to really flourish.

Monitor and maintain online forums on a daily basis, including topic pruning, archiving, creating new forums and moving topics.
Notify appropriate staff about online discussions or inquiries that should receive a response from the organization.
Schedule and prepare special speakers and participants for online events.
Provide ongoing technical support to customers, clients or members using the organization web site.

Administration

The technical administration of web servers and software ensures that the web site is operating efficiently and meets performance requirements for availability.

Develop monthly activity reports on activity in the online community and on organization’s professional site.
Maintains network and data security including controlling user access, insuring OS security patches are tested and applied promptly, data backups, Internet firewall configuration and virus and worm prevention and elimination.
Monitors web site performance and makes necessary adjustments to insure maximum availability and performance including web site capacity planning.
Performs technology needs assessments, evaluates new technology to determine whether it could be beneficial for the organization web sites, and installs, configures, and tests hardware and software.
Maintains synchronization of production and development web servers.

Strategy and Planning

The elements in this section are intended to make sure that your web efforts are aligned with overall organizational goals and to emphasize the planning required to develop complex systems.

Lead the development of knowledge management tools and infrastructure that will provide access to organization’s knowledge resources to customers and staff.
Lead the development and implementation of a strategic plan for organization’s web sites. Includes consulting with staff and leadership to assess needs and develop plans.
Develop functional specifications for Web related projects. Manage RFP process, vendor selection and management for these projects.
Ensure that Web site content and online communities are developed and supported according to organization’s strategic objectives.
Liaison with all staff units in order to effectively plan and support web-based services related to their goals and objectives.
Market the Web site to customers and relevant segments of the public.

Titles

Job titles for web positions vary quite a bit across organizations. The same title might have significantly different responsibilities in different organizations. Given that, it is most important for titles to have meaning internally to staff and externally to potential employees. A title that clearly conveys the position’s major responsibility to other staff will reduce confusion about what they do. The title should also make sense outside the organization so that you will attract the best qualified candidates when you are filling the position.

Conclusion

Hopefully the sample language above will help executives as they get started on the sometimes daunting task of writing an organization web job description.

Source: High Context

How to Write a Job Description

2007-11-19T03:20:00.000-08:00

Think of a job description as a “snapshot” of a job. The job description needs to communicate clearly and concisely what responsibilities and tasks the job entails and to indicate, as well, the key qualifications of the job – the basic requirements (specific credentials or skills) – and, if possible, the attributes that underlie superior performance.

Following is a quick look at the categories that make up a well-written job description:

* Title of the position
* Department
* Reports to (to whom the person directly reports)
* Overall responsibility
* Key areas of responsibility
* Consults with (those who the person works with on a regular basis)
* Term of employment
* Qualifications (necessary skills and experience required)

Educational requirements and experience requirements are the areas where inadvertent discrimination may occur. Educational requirements must be a real necessity for the job. If someone could accomplish the work with equivalent job experience but who lacks a specific credential, the job description should be modified. And to avoid age discrimination, experience should not include an upper limit.

Sample job description:

Title of the position
Senior Mailroom Clerk

Department
Operations

Reports to
Building Services Supervisor

Overall responsibility
Supervise mailroom staff and interface with all levels of management regarding mail and supply deliveries

Key areas of responsibility

Maintain established shipping/receiving procedures
Sort and distribute mail on a timely basis
Maintain all photocopiers, fax machines, and postage meters
Order, store, and distribute supplies
Facilitate all off-site storage, inventory, and record management requests
Document current policies and procedures in the COS Department as well as implement new procedures for improvement
Oversee the use of a company van when needed
Ensure that water and paper is available for customers on a continuous basis

Consults with

Building Services Supervisor
Mailroom staff
All levels of management

Term of employment
12 months

Qualifications

Strong sense of customer service
Good organizational skills
Ability to lift a minimum of 25 pounds
Supervisory experience in a corporate mailroom environment
Good driving record

Tips:

Don’t rely solely on a job’s history as you’re putting together a job description for today. Focus instead on what the job needs to be in light of the organization’s current needs and long-term objectives.
A task is what the person in the job will actually do. Qualifications are the skills, attributes, or credentials a person needs to perform each task. Clarify the actual tasks and responsibilities before you start thinking about what special attributes will be needed by the person who will be fulfilling those responsibilities.
A well-written job description consists of more than a laundry list of the tasks and responsibilities that the job entails. It reflects a sense of priorities.
Credentials (such as degrees and licenses) are absolute necessities in some jobs. The thing you want to make sure of, however, is that whatever credentials you establish have a direct bearing on the candidate’s ability to become a top performer.
The job you describe must be truly doable. When you’re lumping several tasks into the same job description, make sure that you’re not creating a job that very few people could fill.
Use specific language. For example:

Too General	Specific
Computer literate	Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, QuickBooks
Good communication skills	Ability to communicate technical information to nontechnical audiences
Handles administrative chores	Receives, sorts, and files monthly personnel action reports

Warning! A job description is generally regarded as a legal document. Any references to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin or nationality, or physical or mental disability is illegal.

Source: Judith Lindenberger

To do What You Love

2007-11-16T02:44:00.000-08:00

This is a very nice article, taken from Paul Graham at paulgraham.com.

To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We've got it down to four words: "Do what you love." But it's not enough just to tell people that. Doing what you love is complicated.

The very idea is foreign to what most of us learn as kids. When I was a kid, it seemed as if work and fun were opposites by definition. Life had two states: some of the time adults were making you do things, and that was called work; the rest of the time you could do what you wanted, and that was called playing. Occasionally the things adults made you do were fun, just as, occasionally, playing wasn't—for example, if you fell and hurt yourself. But except for these few anomalous cases, work was pretty much defined as not-fun.

And it did not seem to be an accident. School, it was implied, was tedious because it was preparation for grownup work.

The world then was divided into two groups, grownups and kids. Grownups, like some kind of cursed race, had to work. Kids didn't, but they did have to go to school, which was a dilute version of work meant to prepare us for the real thing. Much as we disliked school, the grownups all agreed that grownup work was worse, and that we had it easy.

Teachers in particular all seemed to believe implicitly that work was not fun. Which is not surprising: work wasn't fun for most of them. Why did we have to memorize state capitals instead of playing dodgeball? For the same reason they had to watch over a bunch of kids instead of lying on a beach. You couldn't just do what you wanted.

I'm not saying we should let little kids do whatever they want. They may have to be made to work on certain things. But if we make kids work on dull stuff, it might be wise to tell them that tediousness is not the defining quality of work, and indeed that the reason they have to work on dull stuff now is so they can work on more interesting stuff later. [1]

Once, when I was about 9 or 10, my father told me I could be whatever I wanted when I grew up, so long as I enjoyed it. I remember that precisely because it seemed so anomalous. It was like being told to use dry water. Whatever I thought he meant, I didn't think he meant work could literally be fun—fun like playing. It took me years to grasp that.

Jobs

By high school, the prospect of an actual job was on the horizon. Adults would sometimes come to speak to us about their work, or we would go to see them at work. It was always understood that they enjoyed what they did. In retrospect I think one may have: the private jet pilot. But I don't think the bank manager really did.

The main reason they all acted as if they enjoyed their work was presumably the upper-middle class convention that you're supposed to. It would not merely be bad for your career to say that you despised your job, but a social faux-pas.

Why is it conventional to pretend to like what you do? The first sentence of this essay explains that. If you have to like something to do it well, then the most successful people will all like what they do. That's where the upper-middle class tradition comes from. Just as houses all over America are full of chairs that are, without the owners even knowing it, nth-degree imitations of chairs designed 250 years ago for French kings, conventional attitudes about work are, without the owners even knowing it, nth-degree imitations of the attitudes of people who've done great things.

What a recipe for alienation. By the time they reach an age to think about what they'd like to do, most kids have been thoroughly misled about the idea of loving one's work. School has trained them to regard work as an unpleasant duty. Having a job is said to be even more onerous than schoolwork. And yet all the adults claim to like what they do. You can't blame kids for thinking "I am not like these people; I am not suited to this world."

Actually they've been told three lies: the stuff they've been taught to regard as work in school is not real work; grownup work is not (necessarily) worse than schoolwork; and many of the adults around them are lying when they say they like what they do.

The most dangerous liars can be the kids' own parents. If you take a boring job to give your family a high standard of living, as so many people do, you risk infecting your kids with the idea that work is boring. [2] Maybe it would be better for kids in this one case if parents were not so unselfish. A parent who set an example of loving their work might help their kids more than an expensive house. [3]

It was not till I was in college that the idea of work finally broke free from the idea of making a living. Then the important question became not how to make money, but what to work on. Ideally these coincided, but some spectacular boundary cases (like Einstein in the patent office) proved they weren't identical.

The definition of work was now to make some original contribution to the world, and in the process not to starve. But after the habit of so many years my idea of work still included a large component of pain. Work still seemed to require discipline, because only hard problems yielded grand results, and hard problems couldn't literally be fun. Surely one had to force oneself to work on them.

If you think something's supposed to hurt, you're less likely to notice if you're doing it wrong. That about sums up my experience of graduate school.

Bounds

How much are you supposed to like what you do? Unless you know that, you don't know when to stop searching. And if, like most people, you underestimate it, you'll tend to stop searching too early. You'll end up doing something chosen for you by your parents, or the desire to make money, or prestige—or sheer inertia.

Here's an upper bound: Do what you love doesn't mean, do what you would like to do most this second. Even Einstein probably had moments when he wanted to have a cup of coffee, but told himself he ought to finish what he was working on first.

It used to perplex me when I read about people who liked what they did so much that there was nothing they'd rather do. There didn't seem to be any sort of work I liked that much. If I had a choice of (a) spending the next hour working on something or (b) be teleported to Rome and spend the next hour wandering about, was there any sort of work I'd prefer? Honestly, no.

But the fact is, almost anyone would rather, at any given moment, float about in the Carribbean, or have sex, or eat some delicious food, than work on hard problems. The rule about doing what you love assumes a certain length of time. It doesn't mean, do what will make you happiest this second, but what will make you happiest over some longer period, like a week or a month.

Unproductive pleasures pall eventually. After a while you get tired of lying on the beach. If you want to stay happy, you have to do something.

As a lower bound, you have to like your work more than any unproductive pleasure. You have to like what you do enough that the concept of "spare time" seems mistaken. Which is not to say you have to spend all your time working. You can only work so much before you get tired and start to screw up. Then you want to do something else—even something mindless. But you don't regard this time as the prize and the time you spend working as the pain you endure to earn it.

I put the lower bound there for practical reasons. If your work is not your favorite thing to do, you'll have terrible problems with procrastination. You'll have to force yourself to work, and when you resort to that the results are distinctly inferior.

To be happy I think you have to be doing something you not only enjoy, but admire. You have to be able to say, at the end, wow, that's pretty cool. This doesn't mean you have to make something. If you learn how to hang glide, or to speak a foreign language fluently, that will be enough to make you say, for a while at least, wow, that's pretty cool. What there has to be is a test.

So one thing that falls just short of the standard, I think, is reading books. Except for some books in math and the hard sciences, there's no test of how well you've read a book, and that's why merely reading books doesn't quite feel like work. You have to do something with what you've read to feel productive.

I think the best test is one Gino Lee taught me: to try to do things that would make your friends say wow. But it probably wouldn't start to work properly till about age 22, because most people haven't had a big enough sample to pick friends from before then.

Sirens

What you should not do, I think, is worry about the opinion of anyone beyond your friends. You shouldn't worry about prestige. Prestige is the opinion of the rest of the world. When you can ask the opinions of people whose judgement you respect, what does it add to consider the opinions of people you don't even know? [4]

This is easy advice to give. It's hard to follow, especially when you're young. [5] Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you'd like to like.

That's what leads people to try to write novels, for example. They like reading novels. They notice that people who write them win Nobel prizes. What could be more wonderful, they think, than to be a novelist? But liking the idea of being a novelist is not enough; you have to like the actual work of novel-writing if you're going to be good at it; you have to like making up elaborate lies.

Prestige is just fossilized inspiration. If you do anything well enough, you'll make it prestigious. Plenty of things we now consider prestigious were anything but at first. Jazz comes to mind—though almost any established art form would do. So just do what you like, and let prestige take care of itself.

Prestige is especially dangerous to the ambitious. If you want to make ambitious people waste their time on errands, the way to do it is to bait the hook with prestige. That's the recipe for getting people to give talks, write forewords, serve on committees, be department heads, and so on. It might be a good rule simply to avoid any prestigious task. If it didn't suck, they wouldn't have had to make it prestigious.

Similarly, if you admire two kinds of work equally, but one is more prestigious, you should probably choose the other. Your opinions about what's admirable are always going to be slightly influenced by prestige, so if the two seem equal to you, you probably have more genuine admiration for the less prestigious one.

The other big force leading people astray is money. Money by itself is not that dangerous. When something pays well but is regarded with contempt, like telemarketing, or prostitution, or personal injury litigation, ambitious people aren't tempted by it. That kind of work ends up being done by people who are "just trying to make a living." (Tip: avoid any field whose practitioners say this.) The danger is when money is combined with prestige, as in, say, corporate law, or medicine. A comparatively safe and prosperous career with some automatic baseline prestige is dangerously tempting to someone young, who hasn't thought much about what they really like.

The test of whether people love what they do is whether they'd do it even if they weren't paid for it—even if they had to work at another job to make a living. How many corporate lawyers would do their current work if they had to do it for free, in their spare time, and take day jobs as waiters to support themselves?

This test is especially helpful in deciding between different kinds of academic work, because fields vary greatly in this respect. Most good mathematicians would work on math even if there were no jobs as math professors, whereas in the departments at the other end of the spectrum, the availability of teaching jobs is the driver: people would rather be English professors than work in ad agencies, and publishing papers is the way you compete for such jobs. Math would happen without math departments, but it is the existence of English majors, and therefore jobs teaching them, that calls into being all those thousands of dreary papers about gender and identity in the novels of Conrad. No one does that kind of thing for fun.

The advice of parents will tend to err on the side of money. It seems safe to say there are more undergrads who want to be novelists and whose parents want them to be doctors than who want to be doctors and whose parents want them to be novelists. The kids think their parents are "materialistic." Not necessarily. All parents tend to be more conservative for their kids than they would for themselves, simply because, as parents, they share risks more than rewards. If your eight year old son decides to climb a tall tree, or your teenage daughter decides to date the local bad boy, you won't get a share in the excitement, but if your son falls, or your daughter gets pregnant, you'll have to deal with the consequences.

Discipline

With such powerful forces leading us astray, it's not surprising we find it so hard to discover what we like to work on. Most people are doomed in childhood by accepting the axiom that work = pain. Those who escape this are nearly all lured onto the rocks by prestige or money. How many even discover something they love to work on? A few hundred thousand, perhaps, out of billions.

It's hard to find work you love; it must be, if so few do. So don't underestimate this task. And don't feel bad if you haven't succeeded yet. In fact, if you admit to yourself that you're discontented, you're a step ahead of most people, who are still in denial. If you're surrounded by colleagues who claim to enjoy work that you find contemptible, odds are they're lying to themselves. Not necessarily, but probably.

Although doing great work takes less discipline than people think—because the way to do great work is to find something you like so much that you don't have to force yourself to do it—finding work you love does usually require discipline. Some people are lucky enough to know what they want to do when they're 12, and just glide along as if they were on railroad tracks. But this seems the exception. More often people who do great things have careers with the trajectory of a ping-pong ball. They go to school to study A, drop out and get a job doing B, and then become famous for C after taking it up on the side.

Sometimes jumping from one sort of work to another is a sign of energy, and sometimes it's a sign of laziness. Are you dropping out, or boldly carving a new path? You often can't tell yourself. Plenty of people who will later do great things seem to be disappointments early on, when they're trying to find their niche.

Is there some test you can use to keep yourself honest? One is to try to do a good job at whatever you're doing, even if you don't like it. Then at least you'll know you're not using dissatisfaction as an excuse for being lazy. Perhaps more importantly, you'll get into the habit of doing things well.

Another test you can use is: always produce. For example, if you have a day job you don't take seriously because you plan to be a novelist, are you producing? Are you writing pages of fiction, however bad? As long as you're producing, you'll know you're not merely using the hazy vision of the grand novel you plan to write one day as an opiate. The view of it will be obstructed by the all too palpably flawed one you're actually writing.

"Always produce" is also a heuristic for finding the work you love. If you subject yourself to that constraint, it will automatically push you away from things you think you're supposed to work on, toward things you actually like. "Always produce" will discover your life's work the way water, with the aid of gravity, finds the hole in your roof.

Of course, figuring out what you like to work on doesn't mean you get to work on it. That's a separate question. And if you're ambitious you have to keep them separate: you have to make a conscious effort to keep your ideas about what you want from being contaminated by what seems possible. [6]

It's painful to keep them apart, because it's painful to observe the gap between them. So most people pre-emptively lower their expectations. For example, if you asked random people on the street if they'd like to be able to draw like Leonardo, you'd find most would say something like "Oh, I can't draw." This is more a statement of intention than fact; it means, I'm not going to try. Because the fact is, if you took a random person off the street and somehow got them to work as hard as they possibly could at drawing for the next twenty years, they'd get surprisingly far. But it would require a great moral effort; it would mean staring failure in the eye every day for years. And so to protect themselves people say "I can't."

Another related line you often hear is that not everyone can do work they love—that someone has to do the unpleasant jobs. Really? How do you make them? In the US the only mechanism for forcing people to do unpleasant jobs is the draft, and that hasn't been invoked for over 30 years. All we can do is encourage people to do unpleasant work, with money and prestige.

If there's something people still won't do, it seems as if society just has to make do without. That's what happened with domestic servants. For millennia that was the canonical example of a job "someone had to do." And yet in the mid twentieth century servants practically disappeared in rich countries, and the rich have just had to do without.

So while there may be some things someone has to do, there's a good chance anyone saying that about any particular job is mistaken. Most unpleasant jobs would either get automated or go undone if no one were willing to do them.

Two Routes

There's another sense of "not everyone can do work they love" that's all too true, however. One has to make a living, and it's hard to get paid for doing work you love. There are two routes to that destination:

The organic route: as you become more eminent, gradually to increase the parts of your job that you like at the expense of those you don't.

The two-job route: to work at things you don't like to get money to work on things you do.

The organic route is more common. It happens naturally to anyone who does good work. A young architect has to take whatever work he can get, but if he does well he'll gradually be in a position to pick and choose among projects. The disadvantage of this route is that it's slow and uncertain. Even tenure is not real freedom.

The two-job route has several variants depending on how long you work for money at a time. At one extreme is the "day job," where you work regular hours at one job to make money, and work on what you love in your spare time. At the other extreme you work at something till you make enough not to have to work for money again.

The two-job route is less common than the organic route, because it requires a deliberate choice. It's also more dangerous. Life tends to get more expensive as you get older, so it's easy to get sucked into working longer than you expected at the money job. Worse still, anything you work on changes you. If you work too long on tedious stuff, it will rot your brain. And the best paying jobs are most dangerous, because they require your full attention.

The advantage of the two-job route is that it lets you jump over obstacles. The landscape of possible jobs isn't flat; there are walls of varying heights between different kinds of work. [7] The trick of maximizing the parts of your job that you like can get you from architecture to product design, but not, probably, to music. If you make money doing one thing and then work on another, you have more freedom of choice.

Which route should you take? That depends on how sure you are of what you want to do, how good you are at taking orders, how much risk you can stand, and the odds that anyone will pay (in your lifetime) for what you want to do. If you're sure of the general area you want to work in and it's something people are likely to pay you for, then you should probably take the organic route. But if you don't know what you want to work on, or don't like to take orders, you may want to take the two-job route, if you can stand the risk.

Don't decide too soon. Kids who know early what they want to do seem impressive, as if they got the answer to some math question before the other kids. They have an answer, certainly, but odds are it's wrong.

A friend of mine who is a quite successful doctor complains constantly about her job. When people applying to medical school ask her for advice, she wants to shake them and yell "Don't do it!" (But she never does.) How did she get into this fix? In high school she already wanted to be a doctor. And she is so ambitious and determined that she overcame every obstacle along the way—including, unfortunately, not liking it.

Now she has a life chosen for her by a high-school kid.

When you're young, you're given the impression that you'll get enough information to make each choice before you need to make it. But this is certainly not so with work. When you're deciding what to do, you have to operate on ridiculously incomplete information. Even in college you get little idea what various types of work are like. At best you may have a couple internships, but not all jobs offer internships, and those that do don't teach you much more about the work than being a batboy teaches you about playing baseball.

In the design of lives, as in the design of most other things, you get better results if you use flexible media. So unless you're fairly sure what you want to do, your best bet may be to choose a type of work that could turn into either an organic or two-job career. That was probably part of the reason I chose computers. You can be a professor, or make a lot of money, or morph it into any number of other kinds of work.

It's also wise, early on, to seek jobs that let you do many different things, so you can learn faster what various kinds of work are like. Conversely, the extreme version of the two-job route is dangerous because it teaches you so little about what you like. If you work hard at being a bond trader for ten years, thinking that you'll quit and write novels when you have enough money, what happens when you quit and then discover that you don't actually like writing novels?

Most people would say, I'd take that problem. Give me a million dollars and I'll figure out what to do. But it's harder than it looks. Constraints give your life shape. Remove them and most people have no idea what to do: look at what happens to those who win lotteries or inherit money. Much as everyone thinks they want financial security, the happiest people are not those who have it, but those who like what they do. So a plan that promises freedom at the expense of knowing what to do with it may not be as good as it seems.

Whichever route you take, expect a struggle. Finding work you love is very difficult. Most people fail. Even if you succeed, it's rare to be free to work on what you want till your thirties or forties. But if you have the destination in sight you'll be more likely to arrive at it. If you know you can love work, you're in the home stretch, and if you know what work you love, you're practically there.

Notes

[1] Currently we do the opposite: when we make kids do boring work, like arithmetic drills, instead of admitting frankly that it's boring, we try to disguise it with superficial decorations.

[2] One father told me about a related phenomenon: he found himself concealing from his family how much he liked his work. When he wanted to go to work on a saturday, he found it easier to say that it was because he "had to" for some reason, rather than admitting he preferred to work than stay home with them.

[3] Something similar happens with suburbs. Parents move to suburbs to raise their kids in a safe environment, but suburbs are so dull and artificial that by the time they're fifteen the kids are convinced the whole world is boring.

[4] I'm not saying friends should be the only audience for your work. The more people you can help, the better. But friends should be your compass.

[5] Donald Hall said young would-be poets were mistaken to be so obsessed with being published. But you can imagine what it would do for a 24 year old to get a poem published in The New Yorker. Now to people he meets at parties he's a real poet. Actually he's no better or worse than he was before, but to a clueless audience like that, the approval of an official authority makes all the difference. So it's a harder problem than Hall realizes. The reason the young care so much about prestige is that the people they want to impress are not very discerning.

[6] This is isomorphic to the principle that you should prevent your beliefs about how things are from being contaminated by how you wish they were. Most people let them mix pretty promiscuously. The continuing popularity of religion is the most visible index of that.

[7] A more accurate metaphor would be to say that the graph of jobs is not very well connected.

Thanks to Trevor Blackwell, Dan Friedman, Sarah Harlin, Jessica Livingston, Jackie McDonough, Robert Morris, Peter Norvig, David Sloo, and Aaron Swartz for reading drafts of this.

Source: Paul Graham

Lists Of Tips On Making A Great Resume

2007-11-15T01:20:00.000-08:00

Resume is the face of yourself before the interviewers asked you. The interviewers will first look at how you present yourself inside your resume. Your resume also reflect the writing skills that the author possess. Here are some tips gathered from top job advisers around the globe (all about resume, of course).

Katharine Hansen of Quintessential Careers states the Ten Easy Ways to Improve Your Resume. She states the useful do and don't which an applicants always faced. For example, in there, she mentioned that an applicant shouldn't list too many experiences in their resume. The rule of thumb for someone at the senior level is to list about 15 years worth of jobs. Age discrimination, unfortunately, is a reality, and even more likely, employers may think you're too expensive if you list too much experience on your resume. Similarly, don't give the date of your college graduation if it was more than about 10 years ago.

The tips from LifeClever about resume layouts is a must! The author (which is I am not familiar with) is listing all that can bring up your resume's look. In the term of design and professionalism, the advice is considered as top notch by job advisor. The tips are talking about the better typefaces, indentation, spacing, etc.

And the last tips is coming from CNN, about 25 Words That Hurts Your Resume. The words that you must avoid at all cost in writing your resume.

64 Common Interview Answers

2007-11-14T22:25:00.000-08:00

Q1 Tell me about yourself.
Q2 What are your greatest strengths?
Q3 What are your greatest weaknesses?
Q4 Tell me about something you did – or failed to do – that you now feel a little ashamed of.
Q5 Why are you leaving (or did you leave) this position?
Q6 The “Silent Treatment”
Q7 Why should I hire you?
Q8 Aren’t you overqualified for this position?
Q9 Where do you see yourself five years from now?
Q10 Describe your ideal company, location and job.
Q11 Why do you want to work at our company?
Q12 What are your career options right now?
Q13 Why have you been out of work so long?
Q14 Tell me honestly about the strong points and weak points of your boss (company, management team, etc.)
Q15 What good books have you read lately?
Q16 Tell me about a situation when your work was criticized.
Q17 What are your outside interest?
Q18 The “Fatal Flaw” question
Q19 How do you feel about reporting to a younger person (minority, woman, etc)?
Q20 On confidential matters
Q21 Would you lie for the company?
Q22 Looking back, what would you do differently in your life?
Q23 Could you have done better in your last job?
Q24 Can you work under pressure?
Q25 What makes you angry?
Q26 Why aren’t you earning more money at this stage of your career?
Q27 Who has inspired you in your life and why?
Q28 What was the toughest decision you ever had to make?
Q29 Tell me about the most boring job you’ve ever had.
Q30 Have you been absent from work more than a few days in any previous position?
Q31 What changes would you make if you came on board?
Q32 I’m concerned that you don’t have as much experience as we’d like in
Q33 How do you feel about working nights and weekends?
Q34 Are you willing to relocate or travel?
Q35 Do you have the stomach to fire people? Have you had experience firing many people?
Q36 Why have you had so many jobs?
Q37 What do you see as the proper role/mission of… …a good (job title you’re seeking); …a good manager; …an executive in serving the community; …a leading company in our industry; etc.
Q38 What would you say to your boss if he’s crazy about an idea, but you think it stinks?
Q39 How could you have improved your career progress?
Q40 What would you do if a fellow executive on your own corporate level wasn’t pulling his/her weight…and this was hurting your department?
Q41 You’ve been with your firm a long time. Won’t it be hard switching to a new company?
Q42 May I contact your present employer for a reference?
Q43 Give me an example of your creativity (analytical skill…managing ability, etc.)
Q44 Where could you use some improvement?
Q45 What do you worry about?
Q46 How many hours a week do you normally work?
Q47 What’s the most difficult part of being a (job title)?
Q48 The “Hypothetical Problem”
Q49 What was the toughest challenge you’ve ever faced?
Q50 Have you consider starting your own business?
Q51 What are your goals?
Q52 What do you for when you hire people?
Q53 Sell me this stapler…(this pencil…this clock…or some other object on interviewer’s desk).
Q54 “The Salary Question” – How much money do you want?
Q55 The Illegal Question
Q56 The “Secret” Illegal Question
Q57 What was the toughest part of your last job?
Q58 How do you define success…and how do you measure up to your own definition?.
Q59 “The Opinion Question” – What do you think about …Abortion…The President…The Death Penalty…(or any other controversial subject)?
Q60 If you won $10 million lottery, would you still work?
Q61 Looking back on your last position, have you done your best work?
Q62 Why should I hire you from the outside when I could promote someone from within?
Q63 Tell me something negative you’ve heard about our company
Q64 On a scale of one to ten, rate me as an interviewer.

Source: http://www.crackinterview.info

Recruitment for CPNS 2007 - Updated

2007-11-11T23:53:00.000-08:00

There are many listed of jobs recruitments in government institutions employees (lowongan PNS) available in Indonesia recruit for employees, researcher, lecturer, and expert, those are=
Universitas Brawijaya (Unibraw) Malang recruits for lecturers and administration staffs, information for this Universitas Brawijaya CPNS recruitment can be found at www.brawijaya.ac.id
Universitas Negeri Malang (UM) recruits for lecturers and administration staffs, information for this Universitas Negeri Malang CPNS recruitment can be found at www.malang.ac.id
Politeknik Negeri Malang (Poltek Malang) recruits for lecturers and administration staffs, information for this Politeknik Negeri Malang CPNS recruitment can be found at www.poltek-malang.ac.id
Politeknik Negeri Semarang (Polines) recruits for lecturers and administration staffs, information for this Politeknik Negeri Semarang CPNS recruitment can be found at www.polines.ac.id
Departemen Kelautan dan Perikanan RI (DKP) recruits for government employees, information for this DKP recruitment can be found at www.dkp.go.id
Badapn Pertanahan Nasional (BPN) recruits for government employees and staff, information for this BPN recruitment can be found at www.bpn.go.id

recruitment for goverment institution employees (CPNS)

2007-11-09T17:30:00.000-08:00

job application example

2007-10-28T11:47:00.000-07:00

this section show you how to make a job application letter. this is the most important thing, because this is how you sell and branded yourself. the first thing you have to do is put the date when you write down this letter. and next, give a regards, and describe how you can find their job application advertisement. the next thing you have to do is to describe your bio. Like a normal person, in meeting someone new, of course you will do a fast judgement, even many people said that the firs three second is the most important. And so with this job application letter. Give them a nice first impression.

And next, sell yourself by describe your background knowledge, and why they should hire you. A lot of applicant fail to get the company's attention because they can't sell. Remember, if you think that you and yourself are commodity, a resource, a bargaining price, you have to be to good not to have.

Show your attachment files and documents here, and next, describe how they can reach you. And the last thing, appreciate them to read and respond your application letter. So then, write down your name, and your title.

curriculum vitae example

2007-10-28T11:43:00.000-07:00

This section show you how to make a curriculum vitae as an attachment file for your job application letter. The first thing is you have to wrote down your bio, those are full name, place/date of birth, age, sex, marital status, postal address, phone number, and e-mail address. Next, describe your educational background with alphabetical order, a-z, or z-a.

occupational background example

2007-10-28T11:37:00.000-07:00

This section shows you how to make your occupational background letter, as an attachment file for your job application letters. Write your occupational background in alphabetical sorting, a-z, or z-a, both of them is allowed.

senior civil engineer-2

2007-10-28T04:26:00.000-07:00

from yahoo milis:

Our Client, the biggest Gold Mining Company urgently looking for
potential National candidate, proficient, efficient, and highly
motivated individuals for the following positions:

Senior Civil Engineer (211-82)

1. Monitoring EPCM and Site Earthworks, preparing check sheets
2. Monitoring Soil, Compacting, UCS Concrete test and surveys
3. Daily reporting to Project Manager and Cost Controller for process
plant, tailing dam and any other duties as required

Requirement :
1. Male/Female, Single
2. Bachelor degree (S1) in Engineering
3. Has at least 2 years working experience similar experienced record
in Civil Engineering Project
4. Technical, detail oriented problem solver
5. Willing to work and relocate in remote location for long term
6. Active in English is a must
Your application will be treated confidentially and only short listed
candidates will be followed up. Please send your applications with CV
and recent photo resumes@mbp-skill.com And quote the above listed
reference number of position.