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The 2 Key Benefits of a Holiday Job

The 2 Key Benefits of a Holiday Job 

 

For a job hunter securing a holiday job benefits them two fold; first holiday jobs are easier to secure because the employer will let their guard down during the recruitment process hiring people for the holiday vacancy that they might not have hired for a full time position. Why would they do this, you ask? Because for the employer they are desperate for staff and they know they can get rid of you within a couple of months if things don’t work out.

 

So for all the job hunters who struggle to secure full time employment, you can easily get a holiday job and during your time their, you can prove to the employer what a valuable asset you are so, when the time comes to letting the holiday staff go, the employer will want to keep you on offering you a full time position.

 

Second, this holiday experience adds value to your CV. Ideally if you find a holiday job in a sector you have planned out as a career then this experience is invaluable. for the those who use the holiday just for extra money, this experience will still add value to your CV deleting gaps in unemployment which some employers generalise as laziness. Ideally the job hunter should aim for a job in a sector they are looking to turn into a career, but any job is better then none as people see employed candidates as a better prospect  

 

 

 

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GROW – Goal, Reality, Options and Will

GROW – Goal, Reality, Options and Will

 

The GROW model is a set of questions to help you achieve your goals. The coach will ask you a set of questions to move your thinking into a positive direction, to motivate you and to improve your performance.

First, you need to agree a Goal and Outcome. What is your goal; make the goal specific, measurable and realistic. You have to believe in your goal, also be consistent don’t have a goal that conflicts with another goal or you will lose motivation in an instant.

Goal Questions:

The Goal – what do you want to achieve? Keep this as simple as possible! The goal questions will support you to understand your goal and when it will be achieved.

  • What do you want to achieve?
  • How will you know that you have achieved that goal?
  • How will you know the problem is solved?
  • Who is this goal for?
  • What is important to you right now?
  • What do you really want?
  • What is the benefit for you?
  • What would make you happy?
  • When do you want to achieve your goal?
  • What areas do you want to work on?
  • How long might it take to achieve your goal? Is this feasible?
  • How much would you be prepared to pay to achieve your goal?
  • Describe your perfect world
  • What will you look for when you working towards your goal?

 

Reality Questions:

 

To achieve your goal you need to understand the Reality of your current situation, skills, time constraints, attitudes, process and how far or near you are to achieving your goal.

 

  • What is happening now?
    What has contributed to your success so far?
  • What, who, when, how often
  • What is the effect or result of that?
  • How busy are you?
  • What is the current situation like?
  • What progress have you made so far?
  • Who is involved? What are they like?
  • What’s working and not working?
  • What keeps you awake at night?
  • How easy is it to get things done?
  • What is required of you?

 

Option Questions:

First look at the overall big picture and the break this down in to smaller details, in NLP we call this chunking down. Remember that you have different experience and knowledge which open new possibilities and options.

  • What are your options?
  • What else could you do?
  • What if this or that constraint were removed?
  • What could you do differently?
  • What are the benefits and downsides of each option?
  • What factors will you use to weigh up the options?
  • Who do you know who has encountered a similar situation?
  • How could you go about doing this?
  • How else could you go about doing it?
  • What could go wrong with that approach?
  • How long would it take?
  • What resource and expenditure would be needed?
  • What are the risks in each option?
  • What criteria will you use to select the main option?

 

 

Will Questions:

The ‘will’ section looks at what else you need to motivate you, to give you th Will to move forward and/or to start your goal

  • So what will you do now. And when?
  • What could stop you moving forward?
  • And how will you overcome it?
  • Will this address your goal?
  • What options work best for you?
  • How likely is this option to succeed?
  • What else will you do?
  • Are you ready for this? Does it light your fire?
  • Is there anything stopping you from committing whole-heartedly to this?
  • Who else needs to buy in to it?
  • What needs to happen to enthuse yourself?
  • What rewards for completion would help?
  • What actions will you take?
  • Who will help you?
     

 

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Benefits of Coaching

Benefits of Coaching

 

Life coaching journey can help make changes happen quicker than you can believe. The benefits of coaching first start because you feel like you have took control by booking a coaching session, you start to feel more empowered and you are positively looking and discussing goals and outcomes.

Coaching sessions are designed to help you reflect and consider yourself from new perspectives that you have not considered before. This knowledge is the key to your success. NLP life coaching helps you understand how your mind, body and emotions work together.

Coaching clients feel committed to change, when you set yourself a goal most people feel they can let themselves down, but as a coaching client you feel more compelled to complete each task moving you forward to achieving your goal. You can use your coach as a sound board, a mentor and that person who you can openly express yourself without being judged.

 BOOK A Coaching Session with Employment King Today 

Coaching session can include all areas of your life from personal development to careers achieve, from phobias to confidence building. The benefits of coaching can include:

Personal Development

  • Realise your potential and Increase your self awareness
  • Gain a good work/life balance, overcome barriers and setbacks
  • Recognise what makes you happy, learning to do more of the things you like and less of the things that make you stressed
  • Set out your goals and help you understand how you can achieve them
  • Become more motivated and experience higher levels of self esteem
  • Gain new skills and qualities; Assertiveness, listening skills etc

 

Relationship

  • Improve your relationship with others; friends, family, colleagues and managers
  • Understand how you communicate with yourself and know yourself better
  • Learn how to gain instant rapport with others
  • Realise how your own values, attitude and beliefs, shape your life
  • Understand other people’s perspectives and how it is to see the world through another’s eyes

 

Fears and Confidence

  • Reduce your fears and negative self talk
  • Increase your confidence and gain new motivation
  • Access positive emotions and eliminate old set backs that still stop you from moving forward
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No More Pokes: 10 True Stories – How Facebook Ruined My Career

No More Pokes: 10 True Stories

– How Facebook Ruined My Career

 

 1.      Facebook Comment Cost me a £6000 Payout

 

Kate Furlong, a Royal Bank of Scotland employee was due a nice £6000 redundancy payout. While off work due to an illness, Kate received a redundancy notice through the post and promptly added her disgust on her facebook wall ”I speak for myself when I say WoOOOOooooOooooHOoooOooOoo’ it was pretty damn obvious something like this was coming. I’m neither stupid nor naive … and quite honestly it is the best news ever as far as I am concerned!”

She later followed this up with ”It was not unexpected. I’ve just hung on by my fingertips to stick around long enough for a nice payout when they could’ve had me out long ago without a penny! More fool them! Haha! Xx.”  This Facebook insult resulted in the Royal Bank of Scotland holding a disciplinary hearing before deciding to sack Furlong without a penny, with the employer saying that she broke a secrecy agreement.

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2.      Facebook Got Me the Sack

 

A computer technician at a USA high school was fired, after two students thought that he was ‘creepy.’ To check out their theory the boys set up a fake facebook account posing as a 16 year old girl to trick him into asking her out. The unsuspecting worker and father of two fell for the trick and invited the fake ‘Sarah’ out telling her how cute she was, before being sacked by the school

 

The father-of-two was aware that she was 16 from the get go, with the students posing as Sarah telling the older male that she was a model, the perpetrator quickly responded claiming to be interested in photography. These exchange took place over several months, before the police became involved.

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3.      Offensive Facebook Messages Ruins Footballers Career

 

Bygrave a none league footballer came through the ranks at Reading, before playing for Gillingham, Weymouth, Histon and Hayes & Yeading until being promptly sacked after admitting to making numerous comments about race, disability and paedophilia on Facebook. Bygrave later issued a statement saying he “deeply regretted” his actions.

He said: “As much as I totally accept that they are inappropriate and will offend many people, I believed I was just repeating banter and jokes from numerous sources”

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4.      Fat Taunts Ends Builders Career

 

In competitive times 3 builders secured a building contract with Dennis Owen from Wales. When they arrived the trio thought Dennis was overweight and posted a picture of a pair of his large sized jeans which they had found while working in his house — with the comment “the fattest person I have seen in my life” on their face book wall.

 

We don’t know how true this statement was, but we know that they got a lot of laughs from their mates until the Dennis made his complaint, which resulted in the trio losing a lucrative building contract.

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5.      Pulling a Sickie

 

Kyle Doyle, a call centre worker from Sydney, after a big night out decide early in the morning as the room was spinning that he would ring in sick. After e-mailing his manager Kyle was still level headed enough to gloat about his master mind scheme on facebook.

 

Unfortunately for the 21-year-old his boss had seen his Facebook status which read: “Kyle Doyle is not going to work, f… it – I’m still trashed. SICKIE WOO!”

 

The email exchange between the two ended with boss Niresh Regmi posting the Facebook page on his email under the message: “I believe the proof that you are after is below”.

 

At this Doyle realised he had been caught in the act and seemed to accept his fate, writing back: “HAHAHA LMAO epic fail. No worries man.”

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6.      Women Sacked on for Complaining About Her Boss on Facebook

 

Hoping to release the Sunday night stress after thinking about work, Lindsay decide to vent her anger on facebook posting “I hate my Job” the wall post continue in severity accusing her employer of being lecherous towards her.

Only a couple of hours later, Brain her boss, replied with ‘Firstly, don’t flatter yourself. Secondly, you’ve worked here five months and didn’t work out that I’m gay?

‘I know I don’t prance about the office like a queen, but it’s not exactly a secret.

‘Thirdly, that “s*** stuff ” is called your “job”, you know, what I pay you to do. And lastly, you also seem to have forgotten that you have two weeks left on your six-month trial period. Don’t bother coming in tomorrow.

‘I’ll pop your P45 in the post and you can come in whenever you like to pick up any stuff you’ve left here. And yes, I’m serious.’

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7.      Facebook Post Used as Evidence in Exam Cheat

 

Two Belgian college student after being caught exchanging responses during the tests have been flunked for cheating on their written exams.

Exam supervisors had noticed something suspicious during the exams but had failed to find any hard evidence of cheating. But after a couple of threads on Facebook surfaced, proving that the cheating had been going on for quite a while and showing that the students were pretty proud of the fact they hadn’t been caught.

The council ultimately determined the conversations on the social network could be used as evidence, resulting in the flunking of the pupils after they confessed to cheating

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8.      Military Betrayal to President Obama  

 

The U.S. military discharged Sgt. Gary Stein for postings 15 words on Facebook that have ruined his nine-year career

Stein openly criticized U.S. President Barack Obama on his Facebook profile and posted comical images on a Facebook Page. Online comments included “Obama is the economic enemy … He is the religious enemy … he is the ‘Fundamentally change’ America enemy … he IS the Domestic Enemy.”

The Marine Corps decided to take administrative action after Stein declared “Screw Obama and I will not follow all orders from him” on Facebook. Stein said his statement was part of an online debate about NATO allowing U.S. troops to be tried for the Quran burnings in Afghanistan.

He explained he would not follow orders from the president if it involved detaining U.S. citizens, disarming them, or doing anything else that he believes would violate their constitutional rights. He later clarified the original statement, saying he would not follow “unlawful orders”.

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9.      £10 Cost a School Girl Her Part Time Job

 

Chelsea Taylor a Manchester school girl recently logged onto her social networking site to find a mis-spelt dismissal letter posted on her page -littered with grammatical errors due to the poor girl losing £10, but Elaine Sutton the manageress at Cookies in Leigh Greater Manchester softened the blow with two kisses.

 

The message read: ”hiya (sic) Chelsea its (sic) Elaine from work. Sorry to send u (sic) a message like this but bin (sic) tryin (sic) to ring u (sic) but gettin (sic) no joy.

”I had to tell the owner bout (sic) u (sic) losin (sic) that tenner coz (sic) obviously the till was down at the end of day (sic). she (sic) wasn’t very pleased at all and despite me trying to persuade her otherwise she said I have to let u (sic) go. I’m really sorry.

”If u (sic) call in in (sic) the week with your uniform i’ll (sic) sort your wages out. Once again I’m really sorry but it’s out of my hands. Elaine xx.”

 

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10.      Not Even God Can Save You From Facebook

 

For years Christians have been spreading the good word of our lord, but when Maria Jesus Galan a Nun from the Santo Domingo el Real convent in Toledo, Spain used facebook to pass on the good message to her 600 followers she was quickly kicked out of the nunnery.

10 years ago the nunnery invested in a computer to upload the convents achieves, which Sister Maria was responsible for. She then went on to use the internet for online banking and other online initiates which in the end won her a governmental price for her digital initiatives. With this new fame she increased her facebook popularity which was the start of her downfall.

Her fellow nuns reportedly claimed that Sister Maria’s Facebook activity “made life impossible.” She was therefore asked to leave and now lives with her mother.

At least Sister Maria understands the opportunities an online life can offer. She used to have 600 Facebook friends. Now her Facebook community numbers more than 5,000

 

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How to Read The Interviewers Facial Expressions

Read The Interviewers Facial Expressions With Ease

Interviewers are tricky places, and more often then not the interviewee does not know how their interview is going. Imagine you could read the interviewers micro facial expressions, so you knew if your answer was hitting the mark, imagine you could just by looking at the employer you knew if they liked you or not.

Micro expressions are hard to hide which means you will really know what the other person is thinking, just by looking at their face and this Article will teach you how to read the interviewers micro expressions and later you can participate in an interactive micro expression test yourself.

Micro expressions happen so quick and are so  instant that if you the micro reader blink you can miss them. This is why reading micro expressions is a key to understanding how someone really feels, as the subject often doesn’t know that they have made them – micro movements are made through unconscious movements of the muscles

How to Read Micro Expressions

1. Sadness – narrowed eyes, eyebrows together, down-pointed mouth, and a pulling up of the chin

2. Anger – lowered eyebrows, tense lips and eye lids and wrinkled forehead

3.  Contempt – single raised corner of the mouth, slight tightening of the eyelids (sneer)

4. Disgust – raising of upper lip, narrowed eyes, wrinkled nose and narrowed eye brows

5. Surprise – dropped jaw, relaxed lips and mouth, widened eyes and slightly raised eyelids and eyebrows

6.  Fear – eyes and mouth open rather widely, eyebrows raised and nostrils flared

7. Happiness – raising corner of lips and cheeks, narrowing eyes to produce “crow’s feet” on the outside of each eye

Tim Roth (above) Stars as Dr Cal Lightman in the hit series Lie to Me, a great show where Dr Lightman and his team tackle a weekly mystery by reading micro expressions, body language and verbal cues. A series well recommend by Employment King

To become an expert you need to practice, re-read the emotion explanations above and watch this facial expression video on YouTube Facial Expression Tutorial by Khappucino 

Go over this video a couple of times, to increase your facial reading abilities.

If you want to learn more about Emotions and Facial Expression, learn from the master himself Paul Ekman, read his amazing book Emotions Revealed. Buy the Book Now by clicking the image below:

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How to get That Christmas Job

How to get That Christmas Job

 

As with all job positions, you need to target your application; if the employer requires a seasonal employee, explain that you are applying for a seasonal worker, this is easily done on the covering letter

 

Look the part; if you’re applying for an elf or Father Christmas role, turn looking similar to character you are portraying. This doesn’t mean you need to turn in Santa outfit, but you could turn up with a full grown beard and a plump tummy this way you will give the interviewer a visual representation of how you will fit in to this role

 

Open all hours; employers recruit seasonal staff because during these busy times, especially leading up to Christmas and the Boxing Day sales employers open for over 16 hours a day, which means they need to recruit people who can work these long hours. Make it clear that you are willing to work Christmas week, Christmas Eve and Boxing Day. So flexibility and make it clear you know how busy the workplace will be, now the employer is satisfied that you won’t quit half way through the week.

 

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5 Pro’s and Con’s for Going to University

Going to University?

 

Education is an Investment – with the increasing (perceived) debt for students, many potential university pupils are questioning if they should jump straight into the job market or accept the (perceived) debt they will intake through the education system?

University Pro’s

 

  • University is a lifestyle choice as well as an educational means, for many universities is the first time they get to live away from home
  • Degree level employees are paid more than none qualified colleagues with graduates accepting management training positions in various organizations
  • University gives you the means to become an expert in a subject
  • You don’t have to pay your fee back until you earn over £27,295

    (it was £25,725 before the new tax year kicked in on 6 April) 

    (and you only pay back 9% on anything you earn above this amount) 

  • Being a graduate is a positive identity
  • You can access HE (higher education) course in traditional universities, college settings (often smaller classes, additional support and reduce fees) and as a degree apprentice 

University Con’s

 

  • You have a large perceived debt holding over you – but remember you don’t pay anything back until you earn over £26,575 
  • If you choose the wrong degree (a career you decide you no longer interested in) you have still have to pay back your student loan once you earn over £26,575 and/or you may have to retrain for a new career ***gaining career advice before applying for HE is a must!
  • There may be a future decline in careers in the sector you are studying in, that you were not aware of when enrolling
  • At first, you might not know anyone (but you will quickly make friends)
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Do You Have to Run Naked Through The Office To Get Sacked?

Do You Have to Run Naked Through The Office To Get Sacked? 

 

To my surprise, while sat at my desk a colleague, Gareth ran through the office naked! Gareth was always the clown, but I thought he had gone too far this time, he was bound to get the sack.

I was baffled when Gareth later told, me that our boss had given him several weeks paid leave to recover from the stress of the job. The truth is employers hires us because they want to make money. But employers don’t want to fire us because they’re scared they will lose money.

You can’t walk down a high street without seeing a lawyer’s office with a sign outside “unfairly dismissed? No win, no fee” employers are just too scared to let us go, it’s the same reason why you can’t use the office stapler without a risk assessment, employers are all too aware that they may get rid of the office clown one week, and see him perform the following month in court

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