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Apparently workers are getting better at not being late for work
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Job trends from America. Some useful advice
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New social networking website specifically aimed at career building.
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Scam jobs again
“Roughly one-fourth of recruiting advertisements on such giant job sites as Monster.com, Jobing.com and CareerBuilder.com are fraudulent.” Also some useful tips on what to watch out for
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I’ve warned people about scam jobs here and here before, but here’s another variation from Maman Poulet where the job exists, but the training and pay are so poor that invariably people lose out.

They may stop advertising such jobs in their current ad format, because a bright spark complained to the advertising standards commision and a complaint was upheld againgst D7 marketing. See here for  details

I  wrote  here  about assessing  whether an employer is right for you , but based on comments on Maman Poulet and Beaut I think I need to add a few further items –

• where the recruitment procedure is vague or non existent, you’re probably looking at a job that is going to cost you money

• If your experience as a marketer is limited and you’re being offered a dream job in marketing, ask if it’s door to door sales.

I’m not saying that door to door sales is not a valid career choice, but make sure your employer provides decent sales training and a basic wage while training. You’ll also need to be very tough skinned, confident and resilient

The other area that seems to be taking off again is MLM or multi level marketing; I’ll come back to this as a lot of time & effort can be wasted in this area as well.

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Mad stuff. In this  IT organisation- new recruits are given £1,000 to leave
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An employer finding it can’t get the right people. From ENN
“It’s a strange world out there: on the one hand we have growing dole queues and stories of professionals applying for jobs at McDonalds and Burger King, and on the other we have the School of Computer Science and Informatics (CSI) at UCD, which says it’s finding it difficult to fill 33 high-calibre research vacancies. The school has turned to the media to try and drum up some interest in the vacancies: 23 PhD positions, eight post-doctoral roles and two research assistant posts. The school is hoping to reach out to graduates working in ICT-related industries who are thinking about coming back to college to upskill.”

 Let’s hope they have better luck than  the organisation in the first link above  finding staff to fill those 35 positions.
But the key message?  Developing your skills is vital. Train, retrain….
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Scam  jobs again.  

The Irish consumer agency warns about scam jobs 
The envelope stuffing scam -your’re asked to pack envelopes, forwarding a fee for raw materials, instead you have to sell  ads.

Putting kits such as toy dolls or model kits together and selling them back to the company who then tell you the work is defective or there’s no market for them.

The reshipping scam- payment is with a dud cheque

The forwarding scam-usually with an advance payment, in which you’re overpaid, asked to repay and then the original cheque bounces after your cheque has been cashed.
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