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Captivate Your Eyes With These Planets Wallpapers

Kleigh Heart — Mon, 28 May 2012 05:18:04 +0000

Planets makes up our Solar system. From our small world, we have gazed upon the majestic beauty of the cosmic ocean.

Here are some of our favorite Planets Wallpapers with stunning beauties. We’ll leave everything as you stare at our captivating Planet Wallpapers!

Eclipse, Milky Way, Galaxy, Earth, Planet, Moon, Starlight, Shadow

Planets, Purple

Alien Landscape, Planets, Starlight

Alien Landscape, Planets

Star Trek, Enterprise, Starship, Planet

Shuttle, Moon, Earth, Planet

Planets, Starlight, Blue

Planets, Nebula, Chair, Reflection

Planet, Abstract, Dock

Planets, Sunlight, Starlight

Planet, Star

Planet, Spaceships, Collision, Impact, Evacuate

Crater, Planets

Planets, Starlight

Earth, Planet, Starlight, Stars

Earth, Planet

Explosion, Planet

Planets, Stars

Planet, Stars

Planets

Unmasking the Taken for Granted Job Interview Question “Do You Have Any Questions?”

Ben Daggers — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:50:33 +0000

Although you did well at the entire Job Interview session, you don’t want to miss the very last chance to make yourself stand out and show your potential employer how awesome you are. As I was saying, prospective employers frequently ask the same old “Do you have any questions?” question which sometimes are taken advantage by interviewees. When the Interviewer asks you this, what would you do? Some weak ones just fire out anything that comes out of their mouth. But NOT YOU. You have to be extra careful of what you ask. You need to leave them with the finest impression you can give. Asking the right questions will help you achieve that simple goal which can lead you to your high paying dream job.

SO, WHAT SHOULD BE THE RIGHT QUESTIONS TO ASK?

It really sounds cliché but asking about the company can start a good conversation. But don’t just settle with a vague question asking “What does your company do?” At least give your job interviewer some decent questions, something that he/she will be interested to be asked and enjoy answering. Add some depth to your questions.

Personal advice based on personal experience, try asking about what would prevent them on not hiring you as their new employee. Really works for me. This would give you an opportunity to directly address any concerns that the interviewer might still have. It can also clear any misconceptions about you from the viewpoint of the job interviewer.

People always (and never fails to) talk about themselves. Ask them about what are the things they like about the company, why they chose to work there and what made them decide to work for them.

This is also the chance to ask about the position you’re applying to. Ask about the responsibilities lined up for you. This will establish an image that you’re very interested in the position. Let them feel that you are very excited to be there as a new addition to their roster of competitive people. You can also try to ask what the typical day for someone in that position is. Ask them about the biggest challenge that the previous employee encountered and how they resolved that. Though Job Interviewers might return you with a detailed answer, but at least you made them talk and be hooked in the conversation. Ask them about the workload, how they manage their time while working.

Do not ask for anything that relates to salary or compensation or anything that is quantifiable in money. It is very early to ask for this. There’s an appropriate moment for that and that is the time when they make a job offer to you.

As much as possible, avoid any question that can be answered by a yes or no. You’re not there to conduct a lie detector test so don’t limit the answer you receive from the interviewer with one word. There are tons of questions lined up across the internet if you just do a little research about this. You must not also ask any obvious questions that even you can find the answers just by using the web.

Don’t ask question that is already addressed during the course of the job interview. Asking the same question which the Job Interviewer just relayed to you ten minutes ago will leave a negative impression of you. There’s no harm in asking the same question as long as you have to clear something about. It’s a matter of delivery on how you ask same questions.

You should prepare for a follow up question to make the conversation more memorable. A good conversation will leave a great impact on the employers’ mind if you manage to establish a good and fun one.

To wrap up the conversation, ask about the next steps. What are things that you should do? Should you submit any requirements? Ask them when you will hear about them regarding the feedback of your job application. When the Job Interviewer is finished talking, say thank you for the opportunity they had given you. Restate that you are eager to work with them and you’re looking forward to work with them.

The end of the interview session puts the ball in the hands of the Interviewee and should be used properly to make their final pitch. Take advantage of it, use it wisely. Well-thought, clear, interesting and intelligent questions are the ones that leave the highest recognition from the job interviewer.

Even if a person is in his/her 50’s and still undergoes Job interviews, it’s a fact that the basics of job interview process don´t change. Being reminded about them and getting new tips is of great help.

10 Questions You Can Ask:

What strengths do you feel I bring to the position?
What concerns do you have about my skills/experience?
What potential do you see in me?
What’s the most important thing I can do to help within the first 90 days of my employment?
Do you have any concerns that I need to clear up in order to be the top candidate?
How closely do my qualifications match the requirements for the open position?
What is your idea of a good colleague?
What are the most rewarding and the most challenging parts about working here?
What kind of professional development opportunities are available?
I am more concerned about the Job position, can you describe what would be the possible duties and responsibilities that will be assigned to me?

Intelligent questions adds points to your overall score with employers. Good luck to your job interview and don’t forget, ask questions wisely. For more Job Interview Question, try reading my previous post about Surviving the 15 Possible Killer Interview Questions.

Do you have any questions?

Pag-IBIG Membership Identification Numbers In 15 Minutes!

Kleigh Heart — Sun, 20 May 2012 11:21:52 +0000

As a Regular Employee, each one is required to acquire Government Identification Numbers. This will be used by our employers for our benefit remittances. I, myself had completed securing all the required Membership including SSS, Philhealth and Pag-Ibig.

Question, do you know what is your Pag-Ibig Membership Identification Number? Think of it? Did you know that years ago, Pag-Ibig allows every employee to just use ther SSS Number for their Pag-Ibig Remittances. But this year, pag Ibig requires every one to have their own Pag-Ibig Membership Identification Number. Starting July 1, 2012, Pag-IBIG will only use Pag-IBIG Membership Identification (MID) numbers as basis for membership contributions. All employees, therefore, must register for and acquire an Pag-IBIG Membership ID number to ensure that the contributions are properly remitted to and recorded with the Pag-IBIG Fund. But How can you do it without the hassle? Simple, you do the Pag-ibig Membership Identification Number Application online!

To start of our tutorials on how to apply for your Pag-Ibig Membership Identification Numbers, you are required to have your SSS Number and TIN Number ready. If you don’t have it yet, then get one. Visit the official website of Pag-Ibig. Under the Benefits and Program Tab, click on the Membership Programs. I have also provided in this blog screenshot images for your references in case you’re lost. (Important: Enlarge the images by clicking it!).

After the page loads, scroll down at the bottom of the screen and you can see three (3) tabs.

Registering at the Branch for your Pag-IBIG Membership Identification Numbers which I really don’t recommend for you to do, honestly. It’s just too time consuming. I’d rather sleep than to pay a visit the local Pag-Ibig Branch. The Flow chart which I’m really sure you’ll not be interested after seeing it. But you can try to look at it, (it’s a free country!). And the last one is Register via Internet which is you should click select. It will open a small window and will show you the next items.

Since you are trying to register and want to secure your Pag-Ibig Membership Identification Numbers, you should select Register as New Member (Click the radio button to select your choice). At the bottom, click the button that says Continue.

The next page is all about CAPTCHA. Just enter the Letters or Numbers displayed in your screen correctly. This is a security feature which helps to avoid infestation of bots in using the Pag-IBIG Membership Identification Numbers webpage. Enlarge the image on I’ve shown to be sure. No extensive discussions needed here.

Once you’re done with the captcha, you will now arrive at the first page of your Online Membership Registration Form for your Pag-Ibig Membership Identification Numbers. The first page of your Pag-Ibig Membership Identification registration page includes basic information about you. Fill up the required fields such as your complete name (First, Middle and Last names) and the name of your Mother and Father. Click the Next button below to proceed to the second page.

The Other info tab requires you to supply your Date of birth under the mm/dd/yyyy format. The Place of birth is a little bit tricky. You don’t need to type it in. Under the box, click the “Click to get Place of Birth link” , It will open another window and check IF you’re birth place is outside the Philippines (meaning Abroad) or IF not, select you’re Region. I was born in National Region so I will select it under my region. Then the City where I was born which is in Makati City. Click Ok and it will be automatically populated.

The next information you’ll be filling up is your Gender, TIN Number, SSS ID Number and GSIS ID Number if available. Don’t forget also the information at the right side which are the Citizenship (mostly Filipino), your Civil Status (if you’re Single, Married or It’s in Complicated status on Facebook. lol). The Spouse name is required depending on your answer on Civil Status. Click Next at the bottom to continue your Pag-IBIG Membership Identification Numbers registration.

On the Address Tab of Pag-IBIG Membership Identification Numbers registration, supply your correct Address. Your Address should be entered correctly based on spaces provided. This requires a little bit of thinking on how you gonna do it. If you arrived at the City/Municipality Text box, you need to click first the ZIP CODE link at the right hand. Again, it will open a new window and you have to select the correct Region, City/Municipality and Baranggay. After your selections, click OK button and it will automatically populate the require field in you address.

In my case, my Baranggay is not listed. What I did is I just selected the CPO or Central Post Office. I believed that as long as it’s in the same city and correctly entered your address, everything is fine.

Check the “Check if same as above” to copy what you have written previously. It saves time. “Check if Abroad” if you’re in foreign country and enter your correct address. If you have different address which is your present location, correctly type it in. On the bottom of the page, (Preferred Mailing Address ) check where you want any mails to be delivered.

On the contacts tab, type in the email address. Enter (if available) your Home Telephone Number, Office Telephone number and the most important, your Mobile phone number. Click next to move on to the next Pag-IBIG Membership Identification Numbers Tab.

As a Member of Pag-Ibig, you are entitle of benefits. Especially when youre dead! (hahahaha) Well, all I can think of about this page (Beneficiaries) is about death. lol. Anyway, If you’re unmarried you can simply enroll your closest family member which can be your Parents and Siblings. You cannot enroll someone without legal relationship with them.

Sorry, you cannot enroll your neighbors or your girlfriends as your Beneficiary. lol.

After finishing the Beneficiary Tab, you are now set to fill up the Member Category. In this tab, you are about to classify yourself whether you are an Employed under Private or Government Company or a Private Household, Self Employed, an OFW, Individual Payor or not yet Employed. Once you select one, the page will automatically load information that you need to fill up. The information required is all about your Employment Information which you can easily fill up.

The next tab is only applicable to those members with Employment History, if you’re not ever been employed then you can skip this part. Click the Add Employment Detail Link and it will open another small window. Click Next to continue your Pag-IBIG Membership Identification Numbers application.

The Employment details requires the Pag-IBIG Membership Identification Numbers applicant to fill out the Company Name, its address and the month and year when he/she was employed. Click Save and it will appear on the list. Add another Employment detail if applicable. Click next for the final and last step of Pag-IBIG Membership Identification Numbers application.

We’re almost finished! (Hoooray!). You are in the Summary Tab, and there’s only three button.

The BACK button, if you want to review everything what you have written before which I don’t suggest to use. Because the page has a navigational bar whenever you need to go back to a certain tab.

The second button is the “REVIEW MDF”. The function of this button is to show you your accomplished Pag-IBIG Membership Identification Numbers application / Member’s Data Form. You can review it if there’s typographical errors. Review it carefully, I beg you.

The third button is the “Submit Registration”. Whenever you’re satisfied on what you’ve written then you can submit it.

Success! You’re done, after clicking the Submit Registration button, you will be led to this page. Read it if you like. It just states that your Pag-IBIG Membership Identification Numbers Application is successful. If you have available printer, you can print it. If you don’t. You can just leave it for a while.

If you submit it you will be then receive a SMS message by Pag-ibig about your application and as confirmation that they have received your application for Pag-IBIG Membership Identification Numbers. The message says:

You are now registered with Pag-Ibig Fund. Your Tracking No. is 912141003647. Use this when remitting your contributions while waiting for your Pag-Ibig ID No.

Sent by: +639178884363

Take note of the Tracking Number. You’ll need it to verify your application. You can also View your registration using this Pag-Ibig Tracking Number. Imagine that this is your Key to stardom!.

By the way, to give you an example how you’re MDF or Member’s Data Form look like, you can see it right just here.

Whenever you want to see again your Pag-IBIG Membership Identification Numbers application, you should go directly here. I know you’re familiar with this page right? Well if you forgot, you can go back to the official website of Pag-Ibig. then Benefits and Program Tab then click Register via Internet. The page will load again the 3rd image in this blog, make sure that you selected the “View Registration Information” then click Continue. Enter your Registration Tracking Number, your First name and Last Name and the Captcha below and click Proceed. The website will show you the image on the next item below.

The page will allow you to print your Pag-Ibig Member’s Data Form by pressing the Print MDF button.

Frequently Asked Questions!

Q: I don’t know if I am already a Pag-IBIG member, what should I do?
A: Register as New Member. If you are already a member, your old Pag-IBIG number will be overwritten by the new Pag-IBIG MID number. If you are not a member yet, a Pag-IBIG MID number will be generated for you.
Q: I am already a Pag-IBIG member, do I register as New Member? What will happen to my old Pag-IBIG number?
A: Yes, you have to register as New Member. Your old Pag-IBIG number will be overwritten by the new Pag-
IBIG MID number.
Q: How long will I wait for my Pag-Ibig Membership identification Number?
A: To be honest, we cannot tell how long you’ll be waiting for your Pag-Ibig Membership identification Number. We’ve just tried it out. Just be patient. Pag-Ibig will contact you as soon as possible. Just be patient.

Pag-Ibig Membership Identification Number Application

You’re done applying for your Pag-Ibig Membership Identification Number, but still you don’t have it. Well, that’s how it works. At least you’re registered with Pag Ibig. That means anytime soon, you’ll be receiving your Pag-Ibig Membership identification Number. Just be patient and have a good day!

How To Block Irrelevant Adsense Ads To Improve Your Websites Click Through Rate and Revenue!

Ben Daggers — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:56:58 +0000

As a Blogger, you cannot just put your trust on Google Adsense to serve you random ads. My rule, if its irrelevant then I have to block that Google Adsense Ads. On countless times, as I watch my blog grow, I see lots of irrelevant Adsense Ads displayed in my website. Most of the irrelevant adsense ads previously displayed in my website are not even related to the niche of my blog. And the worst thing about it is it generates a CPC of $.01/click. Pity me.

And as i search for the answer to this issue, I explored the Google Adsense Dashboard and found the “Allow & Block Ads” tab. If you’re new and not familiar to this tab, it is the place where you put the URL of the Advertiser from Google Adsense to be block from your website or blog.

By default, Google Adsense serve ads in every website or blog which is closely related to the content. Unfortunately due to the high density of unrelated words which used repeatedly in the content, Google Adsense’s algorithm got mixed up and returns you unrelated or unwanted Google Adsense ads. If you’re running a blog that talks about Insurance, notice that some of your Adsense Ads links to a Webhosting Sites? That’s where the problem starts.

To block those irrelevant adsense ads, you must do this manually by adding them to the Blocked URL List in your Google Adsense Dashboard. You can easily access it but your biggest challenge is how you can get or find the URL of those irrelevant Adsense Ads.

Where the hell am I suppose to look for that efffin’ URL?

Well, its really simple. Try to be patient, I’ll hand over to you those below. Just remember that you should not click your own Google Ads. I know you know why, right? You’ll end up with a suspended Google Adsense account so don’t dare. Here’s the correct way of doing it.

Find the Adsense Text Links Ads URL

The easiest Adsense Ads URL to find. The process of finding the irrelevant Adsense URL is very simple. Since it is a text link, you can just simply do highlight the text link below and copy it.

Find the Adsense Image Ads URL

In my case, Google Adsense Image Ads returns great click through rate. And to block irrelevant Google Adsense Image Ads you just have to right click directly on the ads then Copy Link Address for Google Chrome, Copy Shortcut for Internet Explorer or Copy Link Location for Firefox.

Then open a notepad and paste what you’ve just copied. The copied Google Adsense Image Ads looks like this:

/***Google Adsense Image Ad Codes***/

http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=L&ai=BMelGNjCdT5zRM4i_igf5vpTiAtiK4I0CipupygzAjbcB8PUSEAEYASCSpLEfOABQieGevfv_____AWDhrLoFsgESd3d3LmJlbmRhZ2dlcnMuY29tugEKMzM2eDI4MF9hc8gBAtoBGmh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYmVuZGFnZ2Vycy5jb20v4AECgAIBqQIAKQX2jVaBPsgC2Ij1GagDAcgDHegDyifoA_wD6AMT6APrBPUDAAAAxPUDAAAAEKAGAg&num=1&sig=AOD64_0s88mOe5Xm-VBXZTjLwtLhEAwgtQ&client=ca-pub-6099979626157131&adurl=http://www.yellowpages.co.za&nm=9&nx=127&ny=112

/***Google Adsense Image Ad Codes***/

In the code above, find the word “adurl”. The url link after the “adurl” is the url link of the advertiser you’re looking for.

Find the Adsense Flash/Video Ads

To find the Adsense Flash or Video Ads URL, you need to get Firebug first. Firebug is a Firefox add on to enable you to inspect the element of a certain part of the webpage and able to see the codes behind it.

After you installed correctly the Firebug, press F12 to activate it. Now press Inspect Element which has an icon of a Blue Arrow. Next is click directly on the Flash or video ads to see the html codes of it.

Just make sure that the Inspect Element is in active mode so that you will not click your own ad. So be careful. Did you see the EDIT button at the upper left hand corner? Yep, click it so that it will not move then copy and paste the code in notepad. Your keyword to find is “destination_url” or “http”. Remember, the code includes various links, most of them are from Google and from Macromedia but ignore them. There is only ONE 3rd party link there which is from the Advertiser, it’s very easy to find it in there.

You can now go back to your Google Dashboard. Go to Allow & Block Ads then Advertisers URL and paste the URL of the irrelevant Google Adsense Advertiser to the box provided and press the button “Block URL”.

Points to Ponder

Try to be specific – it is better to block a specific url rather than just a domain name only.

Example: www.bendaggers.com (domain name only) while www.bendaggers.com/sample/irrelevant_ads/ (specific url)

We’re done, Goodluck and hope you’ll increase your Google Adsense revenue. W-T-F to that!

Download SSS R3 Contribution Collection List in Excel Format

Red Magpantay — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:39:22 +0000

I was an Accountant in a not so well known medium scale Accounting Firm back when the days I was part of the payroll team. I was once the person you look for when concerns arise regarding your payslip. Included in my long list of responsibilities is the SSS compliance which require every company to submit the SSS Contribution Collection List R3 quarterly. SSS R3 Contribution Collection List is a form you must submit to your SSS branch that shows the names of the members of your company, SS Numbers and the contribution they made for the past quarter. It was also included in the SSS R3 Contribution Collection List the details if one of your employee was separated from your company and their Employee Compensation.

When doing the SSS R3 Contribution Collection List for my client, I discovered that SSS website doesn’t provide users an SSS R3 Contribution List Excel file format. Instead, they only provide PDF file which you cannot modify and save your monthly SSS R3 Contribution List. It was a bit ineffective since you have to print the PDF file and write manually all necessary information in the SSS R3 Contribution List Form.

And since I am a big fan of improvement, I recreated an excel file format of SSS R3 Contribution List. You can download my SSS R3 Contribution List Excel File below.

Download SSS R3 Excel File Format

You can Download SSS R3 Excel Format Here!