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What’s Happening to all the Retail Jobs?

What’s Happening to all the Retail Jobs? 

 

The retail sector is one of the largest recruiting job sectors in the world employing people from retail professionals to students looking for part time work.  For many they don’t realise the vast amount of positions in retail and that most large retailers have fantastic staff benefits and a great internal promotional opportunities.

 

Employees either enter at graduate level generally trained in Business Management or fall into this career, gaining promotion from the shop floor to management positions, generally gaining a promotion every 3-4 years, with many companies offering internal training opportunities to the right candidate. Many people more from customer service assistant, cashier, team leader, shop manager, area supervisor

 

What surprising is the amount of retail positions available from the shop assistant to store manager. Other jobs include buyer, designer, graphic designer, accountant, window designer, driver, warehouse staff, marketer, administrator. In the retail sector, many of job positions are available, but these days with development in technology, the internet and Smartphone’s many low skilled retail jobs are vanishing and high skilled jobs are increasing.

 

As an example more supermarkets are using self serve check outs which will reduce low skilled cashier jobs and more people buy goods online increasing high skilled internet marketing positions

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Take a Side Step, To Step Up

Take a Side Step, To Step Up

 

With advances in technology and global competition, job sectors are changing at a rapid pace, requiring organisations to look at new innovative ways at working. This also includes businesses looking at new sources of income through offering new products, services and diversifying their market.

 

For some employees new changes can be hard to initiate but for the clever professional looking at lateral career advancement, gaining that all important promotion quicker then could be expected. The following steps will allow you to advance your career by simply embracing the new changes in your organisation and job sector.

 

 

Let Others Know Your Expertise

 

As you hear about the new initiatives in your industry, you need to quickly become an expert these developments, from offering anew service and understanding the market for a new product. A couple of days searching on the internet and researching in the library can give you enough knowledge to sound like you have the expertise to gain a job offer.  Embrace the new changes as the rumours spread about the forthcoming changes and let us know about your expertise on this new development. With office gossip the key communication tool in most organisations, your expertise will soon be known to the senior management, if not during your next meeting let them know.

 

 

Take On Extra Responsibility

 

Offer advice, give feedback and research this new initiative and make accurate predictions, soon your senior management team will be coming to you first for advice.  Take pride in your work and knowledge and keep researching and building up your own expertise, don’t fall into the trap off dumbing down your new found wisdom even when other colleagues on your level start talking behind your back, as this is a sign that your hard work is coming to fruition, as competitive employees will be jealous of your new found status in the company.

 

Acted as if You Been Promoted

 

With people at all levels asking for your opinion on how to take advantage of their new initiative, you have come, in the eyes of the organisation a powerful asset. This last stage is simple, just start to act as if you have been promoted to the position you require; complete additional task, analysis statistics and make predictions, research competition and market trends. Set up meetings to discuss your new founding’s and offer a detailed plan of action. When your ideas have been agreed, offer to take charge, give additional insights and give them suitable names of employees that you will need as part of your team. With this agreed offer to brief them and start to implement the action plan, in this way you are seen as the project manager. As your hard work starts to increase income you can approach your line manager for a well deserved pay rise.

 

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Only 45 Minutes to Make a Good Impression

You only have 45 minutes to make a good impression!

 

The interview for some is one of their most uncomfortable experiences they will have, having to sell your skills to outwit the other applicants, to a panel of interviewers. Many applicants know they can add value to the new organisation, with their skill base embedded in there job sector not in passing job interviews.

With experience on both sides of the table I understand the importance of standing out from the interview crowd, but make sure you stand positively not negatively. After a long day of interviewing the last candidate sat down and introduced himself, they say that interviewers make their mind up in the first 5-10 minutes of the interview, but in reality people make generalisations in the first 5-10 seconds. I immediately formed a negative opinion of this guy, maybe it was his lack of eye contact or the sweat stains under his armpits, for whatever reason I didn’t think he would suit our team, and the interview prove me right. With most interviewees like this, you quickly forget them, but 10 years later and can still remember him, because he stood out from the crowd.  It took the whole interview for this applicant to stand out from the crowd,  which he achieved as I was walking him to the exit, when he turned around, and said confidently for the first time throughout the whole interview “can you please refund my bus ticket” I was so shocked that I actually took hold of the bus ticket, and put my hand in my trouser pocket with the change in it, until I looked at the date and realised the daily bus ticket was three days out of date.

Standing out from the crowd will get you remembered and when used right can be used to your interview advantage. I worked recently with one client, who had a large skill base but often failed in job interviews. She was so frustrated that I coached her to try a new technique. As the interview was progressing, she again realised that her answers were not hitting the mark and the interviewer looked a little bored. During her the next interview answer she used the killer line, that would make her stand out and change the interviewers opinion of her forever. “I know you have been interviewing all day and are probably feeling a little tiered, and to be honest with you I know I can add value to your team, but I also know that I’m not the best at interviews. So, my proposal is this, I will give you £400 if you let me work for you for a week for free. If I’m as good as I know I am, you will be highly impressed and will want to hire me, if not you get to keep the £400. I know this sounds a little out the box, but I also know that you will be highly impressed with my work ethic and skill base”

She was offered a job, without having to gamble the £400. It doesn’t matter how you make yourself stand out positively in the job interview, but this is the key to winning more job offers as employers want to know how much added value you can bring to the team.

 

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3 Key Degrees for the Future

3 Key Degrees for the Future

 

The job marketing is changing, before you choose your career and university course check our LMI tab, because you need to know if your career will still be available in 10 years time. Belwo you will find 3 degrees what will be needed for 3 careers for at least the next 20 years.

Engineering Degree

 

Humans like to know how things work. We also have a tendency to make things better and faster. It is this desire that has put man on the moon and created the amazing feats of engineering such as the hoover dam. With a global increase having a more eco and green planet, engineers will be desired in the future. Whether you focus on chemical, nuclear, electrical or aeronautical, engineers need to be highly skilled and qualified. This is one job sector that is on the increase, so for all you mathematical and analytic individuals this career could be for you.

 

Computer Science

 

Everyone house and office has one, we even have it on our phones. The internet is vast with people accessing their bank account on their mobile phone. As history has proven with many previous innovative technological advances, some people will try to exploit it for their own benefit. In the case of the internet, worldwide employers will be hiring skilled online security guards to fight against the increasing cyber crime rates. Business, police forces and secret services will all be hiring employees skilled in computer sciences in the near future – if not now.

 

 Business, Finance and Accounting

 

Even with the recent global economy taking a recent plummet, money talks. Business, governments and the general public all need qualified professionals, to look after, invest and advice us on all our financial needs. Physical money may vanish in the near future, but online cash (or points!) will still pay our mortgages, holidays and weekly shopping. Financiers and accountants have been around for hundreds of years and will still be here in another hundred(s) years.

 

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What should I do if I think my employer is trying to force me to resign?

What should I do if I think my employer is trying to force me to resign?

 

This Months Guess Blog has been writen by Contact Law

 

No successful organisation will always be popular with its staff; the occasional bruising encounter with management is an inevitable part of working life for most.

Far worse is the experience of an unlucky few who are regularly undermined or bullied by managers and supervisors; repeatedly being overlooked for promotion, humiliation in front of clients, formal warnings for trivial misdemeanors. Your employer’s behavior can become intolerable and you may conclude that you are being forced out.

 

This situation can lead to a “constructive dismissal”; where an employee resigns due to a serious breach of contract by their employer that they believe left them no choice but to do so. The breach can be of an “implied term” of your employment contract, like the requirement that your employer should avoid damaging the relationship of trust and confidence with you. A serious breach might include your pay being withheld, being made to work in dangerous conditions, or harassment.

So, you believe your employer’s behavior is a serious breach of contract. Can you joyously hand in your notice, anticipating an award of damages for constructive dismissal?

 

Not yet; you should first try to resolve the problem internally, even if it seems futile and likely to prolong your misery. An Employment Tribunal is less likely to accept your claim for constructive dismissal if you resign without taking matters up with your employer first.

First, make a complaint on an “informal” basis (although technically informal make it a serious discussion and set aside a specific time). Ideally, have the meeting with neutral staff. For example, if your line manager is bullying you meet with their manager or with HR.

 

If this is unsuccessful initiate a formal grievance process. The standard procedure is normally in the company handbook, HR manual or your employment contract. If your employer’s procedure is unsatisfactory or nonexistent, consult the ACAS (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) Code of Practice. This document is frequently referred to in employment law and sets out the minimum standards that a grievance process should follow.

You’ll probably feel nervous and emotional during the meeting. You may want to write down what you intend to say, and if you wish you can read this out in the meeting. It’s often a good idea to invite a colleague for moral support and as a witness to the meeting.

 

Hopefully the internal process achieves the desired outcome. If not, now is the time to consider resigning. Needless to say, you should consult ACAS or your trade union and get independent legal advice before you hand in your notice. Once you have confirmed that you have exhausted the amicable resolution process and have a strong case for constructive dismissal don’t delay in resigning. The Employment Tribunal might consider that you “accepted” your employer’s breach of contract if you continue to work for some time after it takes place.

 

A final piece of advice: keep a diary of all the relevant incidents and retain your notes and correspondence from the grievance process. Constructive dismissal claims are known for being hard to prove. Make sure that if you have to resign, you are able to provide a detailed and convincing explanation of why your employer’s conduct left you no choice.

 

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An Interview with the Author of The 73 Rules for Influencing the Interview

 An Interview with the Author of The 73 Rules for Influencing the Interview 

Hello Chris, and thank you for joining me today. I must say the title of your book is very intriguing, but before we discussed your new book can you tell our readers where are you from?

Hi, and thank you for inviting me down. I was born and bred in Manchester UK and still live their today.

And what is your background?

I have always been interested in helping people and my background is in employment training and careers advice. I get a real buzz from helping people make positive choices that can change their lives. In more recent years I have moved into the coaching and hypnotherapy industry.

That’s really interesting, do you have much success?

Yes, you know I surprise myself sometimes. I get clients who come in with a life long phobia and within an hour they are cured, it’s quite amazing really. I love to see their surprised faces when they look at a spider after the session and they don’t feel the need to run away.

And more recently you have written an interview book – the 73 rules for influencing the interview using psychology, nlp and hypnotic persuasion techniques. I really like the line hypnotic persuasion techniques. What does this book teach the reader?

The book is designed to give the interviewee the upper hand in the job interview, you will learn 73 new rules to gain more job offers. It’s not the general tips you normally read like “wear a smart suit” these tips are a bit outdated, this book will teach you how to use psychology to get the employer to like you, to want you and at the best to desire you.  

Are you saying you can actually hypnotise the interview using hypnotic persuasion techniques?

I don’t advice readers to pull out a gold watch and swing from side to side saying “employ me, employ me” but you can use certain words to get the interviewer to think about you in a certain way.

To get them to like you?

Well yes, but more then that you want the employer to imagine you being successful while working for them. This way the employer will get that gut feeling about you – they will want to hire you but they won’t know why.

 

OK so you can create desire and want?

Yes, you have to remember that most interviewers interview all day and they often forget who said what, but you can influence how they feel about you, so that when they re-read your name on the application list they remember thinking that you would really fit in, or that you were the one interviewee who would add value to the team.

So you can become needed?

More then that, these days the interviewee needs to become irresistible, make the employer believe that they have to hire you or they will miss out.

What if the interview, through first impressions doesn’t like you?

This is a big barrier for many nervous interviewees, the book using the fast phobia cure can boost the readers interview confidence and teaches the psychology of making a first impression..

The book will actually cure someone’s phobia of interviews?

Yes, that bits pretty easy. But even better you will learn how to reframe the interviewer opinion of you through the way you phrase your answer.

This all sounds fascinating, is there a message in your book that you want readers to grasp?

Yes, I would say that the old saying is true that practice makes perfect don’t just read this book, practice the techniques before you attend the interview this way you will perform at your best.

It’s been fascinating talking to you, you remind me a little of Derren Brown. Can you tell our readers where they can buy the book from?

Thank you what a great compliment, I might have to grow a goatee! The book is available at all good books shops and on Amazon. Or on my company website www.employmentking.co.uk 

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No Internship, No Job

No Internship, No Job

 

Competition for jobs is at an all time high, with applicants applying for positions from across the globe. Three factors effect each job application; Personality, Qualifications and Experience. With a friendly and professional personality in the bag and a list of qualifications behind you the graduate now needs an internship to gain that all important foot in the door through experience. Opportunities seem vast, but what is unseen is the high calibre competition applying for the same paid position you are, these job hunters has one major advantage over the young graduate and that is experience – proof to the employer that they have what it takes to get results in their particular job sector.

 

By gaining experience through an unpaid internship will give you the advantage later over other newly qualified graduates. There is nothing wrong with applying for both internship and paid opportunities at the same time, but to fail to land an internship will be the death of your job application because experience is king in the interview. Don’t fall into the trap of holding out for only a paid position because the employer has the upper hand, a vast amount of experience and qualified applicants. What you, the job hunter need to do, is to stand out in the job interview by highlighting how you can add value to that organisation and this can only be achieved by showing the employer the results you have achieved in previous positions and internships.

 

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The 5 Best Tips to Get an Standing Ovation from a speech

The 5 Best Tips to Get an Standing Ovation from a speech

 

For most giving a speech is one of the most terrifying tasks they have to perform, with many people actually having a phobic reaction to speaking in public. But don’t be afraid with the right advice you can boost your confidence and deliver a funny, exciting and insightful speech. And once you have received your first standing obviation, you will be hooked – delivering speeches on a weekly basis. These 5 tips will give you the winning formula for delivering a perfect speech.

Athletic Visualisation – with the recent London Olympics, we have seen amazing athletes deliver spectacular performances. This is achieved through positive visualisation. The same technique is used by the best toastmasters; they don’t stand behind the curtain waiting to be called out on stage, visualising how bad they will perform, thinking about everything that can go wrong. No, instead they will visualise themselves, giving the best speech, receiving an amazing response and feeling great when being on stage. Your mind does not know what is real, if you imagine you’re on stage performing at your best your subconscious will remember this imagine event as real, so next time you’re on stage your mind will remind you of how you felt when you delivered your last great speech.

Repetition is The Key to Mastering Any Skill – nervous speakers with low self esteem, will often only go through their speech once or twice. With their nerves on edge, they are all too often afraid to practice in front of friends and family not wanting to receive any criticism that will affect their real speech. But we all know, that the more your practice the better you become. Confident speakers will practice, practice and practice – they want to make mistakes, so they can get feedback to improve their delivery style. They will practice their speech in the shower, on the train, in front of family and friends and constantly seek out people’s real opinions so they can be the best speaker they can be

Engaging the Crowd – we have all sat through boring talks, presentations and speeches. But we do some speakers capture the audience’s attention while others just turn the crowd to sleep? Confidence and practice is always the key, but you can get the audience involved. Ask them questions, make them compete a small task, add humour, use props. Talk with words and your body language. Don’t stand still move about, use your voice to change the audience’s emotions and gain excitement by creating intrigue. Don’t fall into the trap of just reading a list of points, make the audience want to hear what you are going to say.

Waking up the Sleeping Baby – if for some reason you start to lose the audience, create intrigue this way they will want to hear what you have to say “in a second i’m going to share with you the secret I have used to make a million pound, now when I tell you this you have to promise not to share it with anyone..” You can also make the audience listen more intently by stating, “Ok listen to this because in a second I’m going to come down into the crowd and ask one of you a question” no no-one wants to look silly, so if you have frightened to ask one of the audience members a question, everyone is going start to listen.

End as you Began – a good way to start your speech is with a real life story, as the story progresses creating intrigue you move on to your main topic which means you haven’t ended the story. The audience will be waiting for you to get back to the story, which means there listening more intently to your speech. Towards the end of your speech, once you have covered your main points, you return to the story and end it (the story is often a metaphor that represents the topic of the speech) “as, I was saying, dave…..”

For any speech to be successful you need to practice, practice and practice – this will boost your confidence, once confident you are more likely to naturally move around the stage using your gestures as well as words to communicate. Create intrigue and add humour, and practice ways of getting a bored audience back interested in you.

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Career Coaching Manchester

 

Career Coaching Manchester

 

 

Career Coaching

Expert Careers coaching and Advice is essential to help you maximise your career potential and to use your skills, experience and qualifications to gain a career that you will succeed in.

  • Have you ever wondered why you haven’t got the job you really wanted?
  • Do you know how to sell your skills and qualities to an employer?
  • Have you ever-explored other careers that match your skills, qualities and personality?

 

At Employment King the focus is on YOU! We give individual tailored careers coaching advice. First we will look at what you have been doing to gain employment or a career promotion, and ask what can we improve? What can we do different? If something isn’t working lets change it.

First I want you to ask yourself

     

  • What motivates me?
  • What do I really want to achieve?
  • How do I want to be seen by others?
  • Do I have a good work-life balance?
  • What is really important to me, in my life?

 

As well as gaining information on careers, we at Employment King believe it is important to look at people’s values and beliefs as your values and beliefs are the principles that guide your life.

     

  • Do you know what your next step up the career ladder should be?
  • Do you know what type of Career suits your Personality?

 

Our personality type profile will allow you to understand your personality and how you can motivate yourself. It also helps you build self-awareness and gives examples of the type of job roles that you would excel in.

Unemployed? Looking for a new career?

     

  • Do you find job adverts you would like to apply for?
  • Does your CV and/or Application forms gain you job interviews?
  • Do you gain job offers from interviews?

 

Already you may be gaining more awareness of the reasons you are missing out on job opportunities. If one of these steps is stopping you gaining employment, then Employment King can help you overcome this barrier and help you move forward towards your career goal.

Looking to develop yourself in your current company?

     

  • Are you earning the wage you deserve?
  • Has your manager noticed your skills and talents?
  • Do you find your job exciting?
  • Do colleagues or competitive companies know off you?
  • Have you ever turned job offers down?
  • Have you answered “No” to any of these questions?

 

If so you may have worried that you are not the suitable for your current job role, this often is not the case. In most cases people have the skills and qualities needed to move up the career ladder but don’t know how to promote these to an employer. At Employment King we believe our role is to help you recognise your strengths, abilities and career goals. We can help you change, and change is easier then you think.
 

 Telephone Careers Sessions £44.99

E-mail info@employmentking.co.uk with your contact number, brief outline of your query and times when you would be available to talk. One of our career coaches will telephone you back at a time convenient to yourself for a career coaching session lasting around 60 minutes.

Face to Face Careers Sessions £79.99 (Greater Manchester Only)

If you live in Greater Manchester you can meet one of our careers advisors face to face for a 90 minute careers coaching session. To book an appointment E-mail info@employmentking.co.uk

3 Face-to-face Coaching Sessions £180 (Greater Manchester Only) SAVE Over £59.99 

If you live in Greater Manchester you can meet one of our careers advisors face to face for 3 X 90 minute careers coaching session. To book an appointment E-mail info@employmentking.co.uk

 

 

 

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How to Build Confidence

How to Build Confidence

 

Can you just Build Confidence? Do you find that in some circumstances you are extremely confident, maybe when your with friends and family or just when your with strangers you lack all motivation. For many this lack of confidence can come on when at work, performing on stage, giving presentations and talking to strangers.

 

Build Confidence

 

This quick technique, will highlight how easy it is to increase confidence in 5 easy steps. To increase your confidence book an NLP Confidence Coach session.

  1. Think of a time that you felt really confident, we all feel confident at one time or another, you may be confident at work, you may confident with your friends or maybe your confident at a daily task like brushing your teeth. What are you confident at? imagine you were confident right now, how does confidence feel to you?
  2. As you remember feeling confident, you will start to feel confident. Think about this confident feeling, where in your body does this feeling of confidence start from? In your stomach, in your feet, in your head? think about your feeling of confidence – where does the feeling start in your body?
  3. Imagine you could see your confident feeling, what colour is your feeling of confidence? make this feeling brighter and stronger
  4. Does your confident feeling, feel hot or cold? double the temperature of your confident feeling
  5. In what direction does your feeling spin in? When you feel confident the feeling will spin in one direction or enough, what direction does your spinning confident feeling spin in? spin it faster and faster
  6. How much more confident do you feel now?

This quick simple technique is one example of how you can feel more confident whenever you want to, I agree this technique is powerful, but what if you could access confidence anytime you needed it, how would that alter the future of your life? Find out with an NLP Life Coach

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