From my friend Katherine at Netshare:
Targeting companies isn't about limiting your options, it's about prioritizing them.
People want to help you, make it easier for them.
People know people, people don't know jobs.
Conduct a people search not a job search.
Instead of looking for a job, look for work.
You have to be prepared to answer one of these three questions: Can you make me money? Can you save me money? Can you get me through the next six months? No matter what you did before, now you're in marketing and sales.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
A great time to be looking for a job!
Larry always has something great to say as the Pit Bull of Coaching!
The link:
http://larrywinget.net/blog/?p=78
See everyone Tuesday at Starbucks Clarke Quay from 10 am to noon. We will be discussing using the phone in the most effective way when seeking work.
The link:
http://larrywinget.net/blog/?p=78
See everyone Tuesday at Starbucks Clarke Quay from 10 am to noon. We will be discussing using the phone in the most effective way when seeking work.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Next Meeting: Tuesday, February 10, 2009
We will meet again at Starbucks at Clarke Quay MRT Station/Central Mall...just at the top of the escalator near the fountain.
10 am - noon
Our agenda: Selling Yourself and Qualification Elevator speech (introductions and how the group can help you)
Open networking
10 am - noon
Our agenda: Selling Yourself and Qualification Elevator speech (introductions and how the group can help you)
Open networking
Monday, January 26, 2009
Job Lead
The Himalaya Drug Company is looking out for a Marketing Executive for Singapore and two sales executive cum merchandisers. i do not have the details of the roles for the sales executive cum merchandisers as yet, will send out again in the morning. Below is the details of the marketing executive i am looking out for. Marketing Executive The Challenges To plan, develop and implement marketing activities of the Division in liaison with the supervision of Regional Marketing Team and the co-ordination with the local sales team in order to achieve stated marketing objectives. Marketing Plan · Development of marketing plan and formulate strategy for Skincare, Supplement and HairCare Budget Management · Management of the A&P expenses to ensure that budget is adhered to and investments are optimized. Inventory Control · Monitor the forecast of samples and promotional stocks so as to fulfill our stockholding objectives and to meet the requirements of the marketing program for the year. Advertising · Support & liaise with Regional Marketing Team & advertising agency to implement the media plan and to ensure the efficiency of the media investment. Promotion Program · Plan & execute of all the below the line activities especially at various points of sale and roadshow to achieve our sales objectives. This would include planning and the implementation of the promotion calendar. CRM Program · Plan & develop CRM program. Visual Merchandising · Responsible for the overall image of the brands at the various points of sale and to ensure that they are in accordance with the brands’ guidelines. Liaising with the different buyers from Watsons, Guardian, Unity, Supermarkets & Department stores on promotions and roadshowThe Requirements · Min a relevant diploma with at least 2 years of experience in marketing · Experience in FMCG industry · You must be a highly analytical individual with excellent interpersonal skills. IF you are interested, you can send your resume to me @ the follwing email address shawn.lee@himalayahealthcare.com For more information, you can call me @98413425.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Make your company and your customers successful
When you go to an interview, you can use talking points based on Sam Walton's 10 Rules for Building a Successful Business!
Excerpted from “The Book of Business Wisdom”Edited by Peter Krass
____________________________________________________________________________________
Wal-Mart is the world’s #1 retailer, with more than 4,150 stores, including discount stores, combination discount and grocery stores, and membership-only warehouse stores (Sam’s Club). Learn Walton’s winning formula for business.
Rule 1: Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else. I think I overcame every single one of my personal shortcomings by the sheer passion I brought to my work. I don’t know if you’re born with this kind of passion, or if you can learn it. But I do know you need it. If you love your work, you’ll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you — like a fever.
Rule 2: Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations. Remain a corporation and retain control if you like, but behave as a servant leader in your partnership. Encourage your associates to hold a stake in the company. Offer discounted stock, and grant them stock for their retirement. It’s the single best thing we ever did.
Rule 3: Motivate your partners. Money and ownership alone aren’t enough. Constantly, day by day, think of new and more interesting ways to motivate and challenge your partners. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score. Make bets with outrageous payoffs. If things get stale, cross-pollinate; have managers switch jobs with one another to stay challenged. Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don’t become too predictable.
Rule 4: Communicate everything you possibly can to your partners. The more they know, the more they’ll understand. The more they understand, the more they’ll care. Once they care, there’s no stopping them. If you don’t trust your associates to know what’s going on, they’ll know you really don’t consider them partners. Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitors.
Rule 5: Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. A paycheck and a stock option will buy one kind of loyalty. But all of us like to be told how much somebody appreciates what we do for them. We like to hear it often, and especially when we have done something we’re really proud of. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free — and worth a fortune.
Rule 6: Celebrate your success. Find some humor in your failures. Don’t take yourself so seriously. Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up. Have fun. Show enthusiasm — always. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song. Then make everybody else sing with you. Don’t do a hula on Wall Street. It’s been done. Think up your own stunt. All of this is more important, and more fun, than you think, and it really fools competition. “Why should we take those cornballs at Wal-Mart seriously?”
Rule 7: Listen to everyone in your company and figure out ways to get them talking. The folks on the front lines — the ones who actually talk to the customer — are the only ones who really know what’s going on out there. You’d better find out what they know. This really is what total quality is all about. To push responsibility down in your organization, and to force good ideas to bubble up within it, you must listen to what your associates are trying to tell you.
Rule 8: Exceed your customer’s expectations. If you do, they’ll come back over and over. Give them what they want — and a little more. Let them know you appreciate them. Make good on all your mistakes, and don’t make excuses — apologize. Stand behind everything you do. The two most important words I ever wrote were on that first Wal-Mart sign: “Satisfaction Guaranteed.” They’re still up there, and they have made all the difference.
Rule 9: Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage. For twenty-five years running — long before Wal-Mart was known as the nation’s largest retailer — we’ve ranked No. 1 in our industry for the lowest ratio of expenses to sales. You can make a lot of different mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you’re too inefficient.
Rule 10: Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you’re headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.
Excerpted from “The Book of Business Wisdom”Edited by Peter Krass
____________________________________________________________________________________
Wal-Mart is the world’s #1 retailer, with more than 4,150 stores, including discount stores, combination discount and grocery stores, and membership-only warehouse stores (Sam’s Club). Learn Walton’s winning formula for business.
Rule 1: Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else. I think I overcame every single one of my personal shortcomings by the sheer passion I brought to my work. I don’t know if you’re born with this kind of passion, or if you can learn it. But I do know you need it. If you love your work, you’ll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you — like a fever.
Rule 2: Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations. Remain a corporation and retain control if you like, but behave as a servant leader in your partnership. Encourage your associates to hold a stake in the company. Offer discounted stock, and grant them stock for their retirement. It’s the single best thing we ever did.
Rule 3: Motivate your partners. Money and ownership alone aren’t enough. Constantly, day by day, think of new and more interesting ways to motivate and challenge your partners. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score. Make bets with outrageous payoffs. If things get stale, cross-pollinate; have managers switch jobs with one another to stay challenged. Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don’t become too predictable.
Rule 4: Communicate everything you possibly can to your partners. The more they know, the more they’ll understand. The more they understand, the more they’ll care. Once they care, there’s no stopping them. If you don’t trust your associates to know what’s going on, they’ll know you really don’t consider them partners. Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitors.
Rule 5: Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. A paycheck and a stock option will buy one kind of loyalty. But all of us like to be told how much somebody appreciates what we do for them. We like to hear it often, and especially when we have done something we’re really proud of. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free — and worth a fortune.
Rule 6: Celebrate your success. Find some humor in your failures. Don’t take yourself so seriously. Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up. Have fun. Show enthusiasm — always. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song. Then make everybody else sing with you. Don’t do a hula on Wall Street. It’s been done. Think up your own stunt. All of this is more important, and more fun, than you think, and it really fools competition. “Why should we take those cornballs at Wal-Mart seriously?”
Rule 7: Listen to everyone in your company and figure out ways to get them talking. The folks on the front lines — the ones who actually talk to the customer — are the only ones who really know what’s going on out there. You’d better find out what they know. This really is what total quality is all about. To push responsibility down in your organization, and to force good ideas to bubble up within it, you must listen to what your associates are trying to tell you.
Rule 8: Exceed your customer’s expectations. If you do, they’ll come back over and over. Give them what they want — and a little more. Let them know you appreciate them. Make good on all your mistakes, and don’t make excuses — apologize. Stand behind everything you do. The two most important words I ever wrote were on that first Wal-Mart sign: “Satisfaction Guaranteed.” They’re still up there, and they have made all the difference.
Rule 9: Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage. For twenty-five years running — long before Wal-Mart was known as the nation’s largest retailer — we’ve ranked No. 1 in our industry for the lowest ratio of expenses to sales. You can make a lot of different mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you’re too inefficient.
Rule 10: Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you’re headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.
Job Lead
Contracts Administrator for a bridge project in Hanoi. The start date would be rather immediate, location is Hanoi and that the usual expat package would apply. Depending on the CV the salary can be negotiated. However, for Asia, the leave rotation is usually 6 months on and 2 weeks off. This can be negotiated. Therefore, if you have any CV's for QS / CA' s with Bridge Construction experience would be appreciated. Interested candidates, please, send your Resume to nadir.mirzayev@gmail.com
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