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- Success in sales is not necessarily determined by the demand for the product, current market conditions, company or location, prospect or customer needs, or even the sales techniques used. The ability to think big, disregard objections and rejections, never worry what others say or think, constantly be enthusiastic and optimistic, overcome fear and doubt, and have confidence and belief in ourselves - this mentality is what is needed to be effective in sales, regardless of what the product is.
- Anyone can be effective in sales if they work harder, longer, and do whatever it takes to accomplish their goals. Sales is a numbers game - and the more calls made, appointments set up, or doors knocked, the more success is experienced. Never forget, however, that because it is a numbers game, many of those numbers will be a 'no.' And always remember that the greatest baseball players in the world usually only hit the ball 3 out of every 10 times they are up to bat - and they get paid extremely well for striking out or getting out those 7 other times. Sales techniques are secondary to perseverance, daily action, and working hard.
- The word 'no' means the customer does not understand, does not see the benefit, or needs more information. Successful salesmen understand that hearing the word 'no' is nothing personal, signifies more information is needed, and is a necessary step to the word 'yes.'
- Your mentality, body language, words used, and actions should always communicate that you know that the customer will buy from you. Your approach is not one of hope, but of complete confidence in yourself, the product, and the fact that they need this product - and they thus are going to buy from you.
Applicant Name ............................................................
Company Contacted.....................................Date.................…………..
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1- Dates of Employment From............................To..............................……..
2- Positions & Duties Held..............................................................………….
3- Attendance Record Poor Average Good
4- Reasons for Termination Discharged Resigned
5- Job Performance Rating Poor Average Good
6- Friendliness Distant Approachable Warm
7- Attitude Uncooperative Cooperative
8- Knowledge of Field Poor Average Good
9- Strengths and Weaknesses.....................................................
10- Any Additional Information Obtained.........................................
Signature of Person Conducting Reference Check..................
1. Cognitive Aptitude tests
- Used to determine general reasoning ability, memory, vocabulary, verbal fluency, and numerical ability.
- Helpful to identify job candidates who have extensive knowledge bases.
- Identify who can adapt quickly to job changes and rapid technological advances.
2. Psychomotor Abilities Tests
- To measure strength, coordination, and dexterity.
- Especially important due to miniaturization in assembly operations.
3. Job Knowledge Tests
- Measure candidate’s knowledge of the duties of the job for which he or she is applying.
- May also be specially designed based on the data derived from job analysis.
4. Work-Sample Tests (Simulations)
- Require an applicant to perform a task or set of tasks representative of the job.
- Try a simulated job (much effective to have them do actual jobs).
5. Vocational Interest Tests
- Show the occupation a person is most interested in and the one likely to provide satisfaction.
- Can be used in screening applicants, but their primary use has been in counseling and vocational guidance.
6. Personality Tests
- Used to classify personality types.
- Use as selection tools, they lack face validity.
- Honesty and integrity are important personality traits to consider in the selection process.
7. Genetic Tests
- Can determine whether a person carries the gene mutation for certain diseases, including heart disease, colon cancer, breast cancer.
- Predictive testing allows employers to reject certain employees and maintain a more productive workforce.
- Allows employers to foresee likely health-care costs and to avoid hiring at-risk candidates.
- It enables therapeutic intervention, thereby allowing carriers to get appropriate therapy.
8. Grapho-analysis (Handwriting Analysis)
- Involves using a trained analyst to examine the lines, loops, hooks, strokes, curves, and flourishes in a person’s handwriting to assess the person’s personality, performance, emotional problems, and honesty.
What is selection in Human Resource?
Selection is the process of choosing from a group of applicants those individuals best suited for a particular position and an organization.
1. Legal Considerations
- Make sure that useful selection tools should also be legally defensible
- Thus, requires extensive knowledge of the legal aspects of selection (needs lawyers)
2. Speed of Decision Making
- Make sure that useful selection tools should also be legally defensible
- Some positions might need to be filled immediately while other can wait.
- If speed is necessary, there will be more danger to have legal problems.
Recently Wall Street has marked top 10 analyst upgrades and downgrades as the following:
- Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) Cut to Sell at Kaufman Bros.
- Anheuser-Busch (NYSE: BUD) Cut to Hold at Stifel Nicolaus.
- Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) Started as Market Outperform at JMP Securities.
- Charles Schwab (NASDAQ: SCHW) Raised to Neutral from Sell at Goldman Sachs.
- First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) Cut to Neutral at Merriman Curhan Ford; Cut to Hold at ThinkEquity.
- Infosys Technologies (NASDAQ: INFY) Raised to Buy at Kaufman Bros.
- The Knot, Inc. (NASDAQ: KNOT) Cut to Hold at Stifel Nicolaus.
- Liz Claiborne Inc. (NYSE: LIZ) Raised to Buy at KeyBanc.
- Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) Started as Buy at Jefferies.
- WebMD (NASDAQ: WBMD) Raised to Buy at Citigroup.
Recruitment is the process of attracting individuals on a timely basis, in sufficient numbers, and with appropriate qualifications, and encouraging them to apply for jobs with an organization.
Even if additional or replacement employees are needed, the firm may decide otherwise ( due to costs involved, difficult to remove hired employees).
The following are some alternatives to recruitment:
- Contingent Workers:
- Part-timers, temporaries, and independent contractors.
- Flexibility due to global competition and changing technology (do not want to hire and then lay off), and control costs.
- Provide temporary workers fulfill all the obligations normally associated with an employer.
- Avoids expenses on recruitment, absenteeism and turnover, and employee benefits.
- Outsourcing
- External provider will do some jobs (subcontracting).
- Greater efficiency and effectiveness of external provider, avoid hiring additional employees, to implement reengineering program and the subsequent downsizing of the firm.
- Overtime
- Most commonly used method of meeting short-term fluctuations in work volume.
- The employer benefits by avoiding recruitment, selection, and training costs.
- The employees gain from increased income during the overtime period.
- Problems, pay more but work less (because of fatigue); employees work slowly so that overtime is assured; get used to high income, thus will likely complain when there are no more overtime work.
It is not just a matter of number of employees you have but it covers the whole company's operation as well as other external environment. In Human Resource Planning Process, you will see yourself going through four main phrase:
1. Scanning external environment
- Workforce composition (Gender, racial, educational changes.....)
- Work pattern (Use of contingent workers, alternative work schedule, sharing jobs..)
- Government influences (Govt. trade policies and restrictions affect HRP)
- Economic conditions (Business cycle of recession and boom, inflation, unemployment,........)
- Geographic and competitive concerns (Other employers in the area, employee resistance to geographical relocation......)
- Technological changes
- Society/Culture
- Labor Unions
Another advantage is to hire a professional if you allow a professional, solid recommendations, try replacing the contractor to find things that the holder can drive now these actions to promote products and services to ensure that clients are all fat and happy, looking for where to cut or the actual cost of the marketing plan that works best for his business.
An accountant spends his time doing nothing but book is sure to make your life easier, because he knows very well all the tax laws, tax law changes and proposed changes. When taxes are due on a quarterly basis, taking all the necessary formalities when it is time to file the annual tax, knows how to use that dozens of different ways to save money in the long term to remain in accordance with the law.
I have come across an articles about boosting team’s performance that you also may find it important to keep your business flowing; therefore, you have spend 15 minutes scanning through the article below:
10 Ways to Improve Your Team's Performance and Gain Back Your Personal Time
Are you having trouble getting your team to meet company goals? Is your team lacking energy, creativity and motivation? Are you stressed, overwhelmed and feeling the need to work long hours just to hold your department together? It doesn't need to be that way you can take control of the situation. You can get your team working effectively towards a common goal and you can gain back your personal time. Work is important and you want to exceed company expectations but having control of your time to pursue personal interests is just as important. You want to be there to see the kids grow up and have time for that significant other (Yes honey I meant you and not golfing)... but you also want to have time to shave a few strokes off that handicap as well. Whatever your interests are you need to find balance. Work on implementing these 10 steps and you will improve your teams performance and gain back your personal time.
Once you hear people saying that share your idea with other people, you may think that the one who share the idea must be an outstanding person. In business that person can be employer or Board of Director or any senior employee.
That is the problem! Sharing idea doesn’t mean that you need to be the outstanding person in the company. Everyone starts from nothing and achieves the title that they deserve. Therefore, if you want to be the best then you can start now. Never let any important case stay out of your eye. You may hear some ideas from your employers or BOD. Just remember that they are seeking the most practical ideas.
Keeping your office clean is a must for every business but what you need to ask yourself is that “Do I need to employ more people to work in this section?” I guess you may not want to get more employees if you can get this service in a reasonable price. Find an office cleaning service for your business is a project that is very confident in their competence and honesty of crews outsourcing. We must return to work for the company and its willingness to furniture and accessories to return to normal after the connection is clean.
Since there are many people clean the offices, customers need to ensure that nothing was stolen or disturbed, they need to ensure licensing and association of cities and states where they operate. We deal with businesses that are not glued. No related companies provide a guarantee that you can retrieve everything that your property was damaged or missing. Choosing a good company with good deal can provide you a better feeling that you don’t have to worry that anything in your office may be stolen or broken.
CNN has just released 100 Best Companies to Work For and now I would like to share with you only the 10 mission statements of the top ten companies.
NetApp Mission Statement
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual. The IETF Mission Statement is documented in RFC 3935.
Edward Jones Mission Statement
Edward Jones has Core Principles rather than a mission statement. I don't mean to single out Edward Jones but I find it humorous that they make themselves out to be a "cut above the rest" and yet they sold mutual funds to their clients without telling them that they had special relationships with these mutual fund families that paid Edward Jones and their brokers bigger commissions.
Trade has substantial effects on the income distribution within each trading nation. There are two main reasons why international trade has strong effects on the distribution of income:
- Resources cannot move immediately or costlessly from one industry to another.
- Industries differ in the factors of production they demand.
To better see the best and most cost effective method of advertising and marketing self-storage business, it is worth reflecting on the day of inauguration. This day was full of enthusiasm and applause, as the gates open and suspend the customer first went to the right and left in the first two sell-segment! What in abundance for a day with hot dogs and drinks and good times! It is hoped that the group was not broken, stroking the back of the controller or perceived as responsible for the success of self storage units? During this first week of the economy, the balance of career self-storage business may be judged. It is best to treat each day, which is profitable, with an intense pride and professionalism. This is so in the coming days will run as planned and expected.
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