Hard working, Team player, can work without supervision, leader mentality, willing to help where needed, nothing is "beneath me to do". Also at the top of my list is Trustworthy, reliable, confidential. Experienced with all different personality types, highly confidential in all matters. Hate gossip, slackers and drama queens and don't follow along with it. Always go "above and beyond" in any job that I have ever had.
Payroll is something that I truly enjoy doing. My motto has always been "their check is more important than mine". What do I mean by this statement you ask? That an employee should feel confident that they are paid correctly, each and every time they get paid. Someone in payroll MUST check and double check their balances before transmitting payroll. Yes, mistakes do happen but they should NEVER EVER continue. You should learn from your mistakes and maybe change how you do something so that particular mistake does not occur again. Payroll can be a thankless job but one that is essential for any company. You should treat any employee questioning their check with respect every time. Take the time to show them what you have down, from their timecards/sheets and answer any questions they have. Make sure they understand completely before they leave your office. If a mistake occurred, apologize and make sure you get it corrected as soon as you can. Either by cutting a new check or fixing on following paycheck, whichever is company policy.
Friday, October 2, 2009
What I have learned so far....
1. Jobsites that I go to daily: Indeed.com, Monster.com, Careerbuilder.com, Craigslist.com, Hotjobs.com, Jobs.com and Search4uinc.com. Indeed is good for finding new jobsites but it doesn't seem to catch everything from Careerbuilder/Monster or so I think at this point. I haven't gotten use to twitmyjobs or tweetmyjobs.com but will give more information later once I get it down.
2. I have been told to "market myself" and one way to do this is to set up a blog. I guess recruiters go look at these things so I decided today to do this.
3. Update resume to 2009 standards, don't have the career objective on it, that is so 2003. I had my HR director at my current job do mine and I trust her completely and have had 6 interviews so far so it must be working better than some. But it also could be that I can do so many different things, I am not tied down to just one job title.
4. Search4uinc.com has some great job search tools and one is get up an hour earlier. They say it is a full time job to find a full time job and I am really believing this. You don't get to just send your resume to all hiring companies anymore. You now have to register on their company careersite and depending on their requirements for username/password you should keep a notebook close by to keep your mind/brain from filling up with information that you may never use again. You then fill out an application, then upload your resume. This could take up to 15 minutes depending on the length of the application so x's that by 4 job posting = 1 hour of your day. x's that by 8 = 32 job app's a day.
4. You will get many junk/scam emails for employment. My suggestion is set up a new email address for employment so that you may be able to spot the scam's pretty fast and hopefully any real correspondence for a job opportunity won't be missed. I did this last month and find it nicer to keep this separate from my other email address.
2. I have been told to "market myself" and one way to do this is to set up a blog. I guess recruiters go look at these things so I decided today to do this.
3. Update resume to 2009 standards, don't have the career objective on it, that is so 2003. I had my HR director at my current job do mine and I trust her completely and have had 6 interviews so far so it must be working better than some. But it also could be that I can do so many different things, I am not tied down to just one job title.
4. Search4uinc.com has some great job search tools and one is get up an hour earlier. They say it is a full time job to find a full time job and I am really believing this. You don't get to just send your resume to all hiring companies anymore. You now have to register on their company careersite and depending on their requirements for username/password you should keep a notebook close by to keep your mind/brain from filling up with information that you may never use again. You then fill out an application, then upload your resume. This could take up to 15 minutes depending on the length of the application so x's that by 4 job posting = 1 hour of your day. x's that by 8 = 32 job app's a day.
4. You will get many junk/scam emails for employment. My suggestion is set up a new email address for employment so that you may be able to spot the scam's pretty fast and hopefully any real correspondence for a job opportunity won't be missed. I did this last month and find it nicer to keep this separate from my other email address.
After 10 LONG years......
July 14th, 2009 is the day that I never thought would come. The day that will forever be burned in my brain. The day that sucked BIG Time to be quite honest with you. This was the day I found out that I would be laid off come October 30th, 2009. Yes, I know, the company gave me a great amount of advance notice of layoff, yippee for them!! No, truthfully I am thankful that they did give us all a great deal of time before laying us all off but to wake up every morning knowing your days are numbered is a real stress inducing, self worth draining, pain in the rear, morale buster if there ever was one. The saving grace for me was I have over 40 other people in my office that were notified as well so we became even closer than ever.
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