Corra Daily Planet

When You Don’t Like the Job You Have, Find the Job You Love

Can You Find Work You Love?

The market and economy are tight and your next dream job seems elusive. Can you find work you love? Or do you feel the need to settle?

When you look back on your life experiences, do you find that one path led to another? The culmination of your experiences and skills bring you to where you are now.

Although you may feel you have to settle for a job to get you from Point A to Point B, use this time to pursue additional education, research things you’d like to do, and continue to build your professional network. You can find meaning within any job when you focus on the positive aspects.

Here are three exercises that can move you forward and help you determine a direction to take next.

1) Make a list of the 100 things you want TO DO, TO BE, or TO HAVE

in your life. Making this list gets harder once you reach number 50.

You’ll start repeating, which is fine. Be specific and in the present

tense. For example, “I want to travel to Hawaii and swim with the

dolphins” is better than just stating “I want to travel.”

For the entire article go to techexecpartners.com

Review the list daily

Corra believes there is much merit in mission statements and in making lists. This article provides some excellent examples.

Corra hears all the time how people hate their jobs. How do we know? They tell us. So, as the article suggests, find another one. Or go into business for yourself. Whatever, you spend a lot of hours working, so you might as well work at something you love. You’ll last longer and, probably, you will live longer.

Remember, when you do apply for another job, chances are the employer will be conducting pre-employment screening. The background check is a vital tour in deciding the best candidate for the position.

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Talk the Talk at Your Job Interview

1. Advanced Interview Tips
3. It’s hard enough to get an interview today and… easy to bomb once you’re there.
5. There are more people in the active job market, many who have not interviewed in years. What will set you apart?
7. Back to basics!
9. 1) Tailor your résumé for every job. This will set you apart more than
10. anything else.
11. 2) Review your résumé. Be sure that if you list a skill set, you can discuss
12. your experience in this area.
13. 3) Companies have more stringent background check requirements. Do
14. not fudge dates of employment, titles, educational background or other
15. information which could be revealed on a background check and
16. potentially cost you the job.
17. 4) Know the company. Review its Web site and every module within the
18. site.
19. For the entire article go to techexecpartners.com

Corra sees these as worthwhile tips. Especially the tip about not lying on your resume. The background check has become almost a mandatory tool for human resources in search of a the proper job candidate. Employers can forgive a few missteps a candidate may make while on the pathway to a successful career. Few forgive lying.

In fact those who like on their education verification or criminal records are almost always eliminated from the hiring process. So keep this in mind when your are an employment candidate in search of that next job.

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If You Are Lying About Your Past, Employers Will Find Out With Background Checks

Job seekers: Get used to full disclosure

Nervous employers are digging deeper into your past, and it’s better to confess the facts than be fingered.

By Molly Selvin
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

Fibbing on your resume is a really bad idea.

First, you will probably be found out by the army of commercial background screeners that employers deploy to scour resumes, check criminal records and pull credit histories.

Plus, you don’t need to. Most bosses are pretty forgiving if you come clean about a minor brush with the law or a supervisor so nutty he sent you running for the door.

Yet resume tinkering is practically an epidemic. Superheated competition for jobs, especially those with big paychecks, tempts many to pump air into their resumes. A gig as an administrative assistant expands into a management title. A mail-order MBA is passed off as the real deal.

“We tend to disproportionately reward individuals with extraordinary records,” observed Kirk Hanson, a business professor and executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. “There’s a huge incentive that’s increased over the years in claiming that you’re a star, so individuals tend to knock pieces from their resume that are inconsistent with being a star and add things that are consistent with that image.”

But the precipitous tumble of high-profile managers in recent years should send up red flags for every job-seeker.

For the entire article go to LATimes.com

Corra believes this is a really good article, one that prospective job candidates should heed carefully. There are so many ways to get caught in a lie, chances are the people running your background check will have thought of at least three possibilities for the reasons you are being evasive.

The background check is increasingly a proven tool for the human resource manager. And most HR Managers are aware that when candidates lies do lie they will lie mostly about their criminal records and education.

Corra is one of the background checking services that will run education and employment verification both domestically and on an international basis. With most employers willing to overlook certain mishaps or a lack of education, few will overlook your lying. So fess up. It’s smarter.

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Background Checks Prevent “Misunderstandings” About College Degrees

Herbalife exec’s bio inaccurate

1. Nutritional supplement marketer Herbalife said Gregory Probert, its president and chief operating officer, did not finish his master’s degree in business as stated in his biography.
2. The Century City-based company said Probert was enrolled in a graduate MBA program at Cal State L.A. for 12 quarters during the 1980s but didn’t obtain a degree.
3. Herbalife said it was reviewing the matter and would take “any appropriate action.”
4. Probert was appointed to his position in 2003.
5. From Times Staff and Wire Reports For the entire story go to latimes.

Corra would like to say this is the first time it has seen this situation rise up to embarrass a company. But then, like the claim of the degree itself, that would be untrue.

Many people fib about their college degrees. Some will claim graduation, a Bachelor’s or Masters’ status, while only attending for part of the time. Others will claim to be graduates and may never have gone to that school at all. And yet there are others who will true to pass off their couple hundred dollar a pop diplomas from phony universities for “life experience.”

That is why Corra offers Education verification services for just about every school in every part of this fair nation. We also offer international education verification for most countries around the world.

If you don’t think it’s wise to conduct the kind of background check that will verify either education or employment than read this article again. This could be your company. Embarrassed. Forced to face that ugly media and recant previous claims.

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Recruiting? Check Out the College Grads

Human Resources

Fewer jobs but higher pay for college grads, Monster says

Posted by roboblogger

1. There’s good news and bad news on the job front for this year’s crop of college graduates, according to an survey of employers and students by MonsterTRAK , the student division of the job search and recruiting …
2. For the complete article go to Topix.net

Corra finds it interesting that there may be fewer jobs out there for college grads. But they pay more. Corra has heard some kids quote their starting salaries, and often those salaries are quite impressive.

Corra can guess that perhaps a portion of the Darwin theory is that those who are strongest, smartest and the most creative and innovative are the ones who get what jobs there are out there. Either that, or Daddy has some pull.

Corra hopes that when you hire young college graduates you would run background checks on them. The education verification is a most important background check to determine if your employment candidate actually graduated from the school he claimed on his resume. Some alleged graduates not only didn’t graduate from the school, but never went there at all.

So hire carefully. Interview thoroughly. And check them out before you hire.

Need Workers? Have Enough Locals?

Survey: Job market will rebound locally

Posted by roboblogger

1. “In the Melbourne area, employers are gearing up for the tourism season”
2. While much of the country is predicting a decline in hiring, the Melbourne area is expected to be among the strongest job markets in the U.S. during the second quarter of 2008, according to survey results …
3. For the entire article go to topix.net

For many parts in the United States and throughout the world, local markets must rely on local hires to fullfil their recruitment needs. While they may also recruit from outside the area, many businesses are seasonal and as such they find it easier to hire people who live nearby.

Corra believes it is still essential to conduct background checks on all your job candidates, whether you think you know them or not. A background check is an important tool in determining whether your candidate can bring a criminal records, substance abuse issues or legal troubles to the work place.

Background checks are cost effective and many will return quickly so there is little hold up on the hiring process. And if your employment candidates come from further away, it may be even more reason to run additional background searches. International searches are vital for certain foreign candidates.

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Job Market Varies Around the Country

Plenty Of Jobs In Fargo

Posted by roboblogger

1. The job market is tough right now around many parts of the country, but not in eastern North Dakota.
2. For the entire article go to topix.net

Corra gets to talk to its clients from all over the country. From those conversations, Corra is able to determine which industries are going great guns and which are soft or in a downturn. From these conversations, it can also be determined which regions of the country have more robust economies and which are slumping.

As this article attests, the job market is pretty robust in Fargo, North Dakota.

What other articles and reports, pundits, etc., are not saying is that your perspective on the health of the economy can vary according to region and industry. While inflation takes its tool everywhere, the health of the job market varies significantly.

Wherever you are, and if you are hiring, you should be ordering a background check for each of your employment candidates. A background check is a key tool in determining the right candidate for your business. It will confirm they really are who they say they are.

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What Recruiting You Do, Conduct Extensive Background Checks

Softer Job Prospects Ahead Worldwide
April 14, 2008

By Jeremy Cohen

1. In yet more cheerful economic news, employers will be taking a step back in second-quarter hiring in many of the world’s largest economies.
2. That prognosis comes courtesy of a new survey released by Manpower, Inc. Notably, employers in the United States, China, Italy, Norway and Spain have indicated that they will be adding fewer employees in the quarter ahead, marking a more negative tone than in survey results throughout the past year.
3. For the entire article go to managesmarter.com

The job market may be down, but Corra finds more businesses are conducting pre-employment background checks on all their new employment candidates. The background check is an important tool for any recruitment program.

While job markets ebb and flow, progressive business leaders will always introduce new elements into their job recruitment programs. And some businesses, like those in the the alternative energy sector, are experiencing advancements as they meet the new global challenges.

Corra continues to expand its services to meet the requirements of the traditional industries as well as the emerging industrial sectors. While the job market may be soft at the moment, the criteria established for recruitment is becoming more demanding than ever.

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