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How to Create a Winning Impression in Your New Job
Posted by admin in Employment on May 27, 2011
Congratulations! You’ve just been appointed to your new job. Now the real work begins. It is important from the beginning to convince your new employers that, in selecting you, they have made the right choice.
- Demonstrate that you are highly-motivated and eager to get started.
- Discuss your duties and responsibilities; and establish your priorities.
- Set challenging, but achievable, short-term and long-term goals.
- To enable you to fit in quickly, find out as much you can about your company and its organisational structure.
- Identify the most successful and highly valued people in the firm and analyse the reasons for their success. Use them as your role models. Associate with colleagues who are perceived as ideal employees.
- Prepare carefully for meetings with your boss. Try to anticipate questions and be ready with positive and considered responses. Make sure you are always well-informed. Keep up to date on current issues.
- Learn all you can about problem-solving techniques. When you are given a problem to solve, tackle it enthusiastically and systematically.
- Establish a reputation as a good team player by developing good working relationships and cultivating friendships with as wide a range of people in the company as possible. Read the rest of this entry »
Employment Insurance
Posted by admin in Employment on May 27, 2011
How does the Employment Insurance or EI program help?
The Employment Insurance is also referred to as the EI program. It is designed with the difficulties faced by employees in mind. The best probable application of the Employment Insurance or EI program is the support and temporary income relief it extends to those who are temporarily unemployed. These people could either be in between jobs, dealing with sickness, child-birth or parenting or even providing critical care and support to a family member facing the risk of death. At such trying and difficult times, the Employment Insurance or EI program steps in as saving grace and empowers the employee to go through the phase more confidently.
Who benefits from the Employment Insurance or EI program?
It is essential to remember that you can apply for EI benefit only if you have paid into the account and are dealing with a temporary unemployment. In this case you stand to benefit if you can prove to the authorities that you lost your job through no fault of your own. Such a situation could arise due to shortage of work or even seasonal or sudden management declared ‘breaks’ or mass lay-offs. You can also benefit monetary assistance while dealing with a maternity or parental break in employment or if you are ill and unable to work. Interestingly, you are also liable to receive ‘fishing benefits’ if you are engaged in fishing. You can also claim compassionate care benefit, if you are dealing with an unavoidable break in employment to provide care or support to an ailing family member who is critically ill.
The procedure:
If you have an old Employment Insurance or EI program account that has lapsed, you need to first reactivate the account. If a claim is on record within the last 52 weeks, the reactivation should not be an issue, depending on the individual case and the analysis. In the case of reactivation, you need to submit an application for the same, online. This can be done 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from any Internet access point. Read the rest of this entry »