Making career-related resolutions in the new year might actually pay off.
A survey of 559 workers nationwide conducted by Accountemps, a service that places temporary accounting, bookkeeping and finance professionals, revealed that relatively few (12 percent) bothered at the start of 2006 with making traditional New Year’s pacts concerning their careers. But almost 75 percent of those who did reported success.
All survey respondents were asked to cite their top professional goal for 2007. Improving job-related skills topped the list, followed by “earning a raise or promotion” and “obtaining a greater work-life balance,” and “finding a new job.”
5 minutes to make fast job connection
First, there was speed dating.
Now, there’s speed interviewing.
Finished Basement Co., a Denver design-and-build firm that is expanding rapidly, is in no mood to dilly-dally with lame job applicants. The company plans to hire 40 employees in 2007 and is counting on “Speed Interview Career Fairs” to help identify new workers.
Applicants will get precisely eight minutes of company representatives’ attention. Those who score a personal connection will be invited back for a more formal and extensive interview.
“We take recruitment very seriously,” company founder Pat rick Condon said. “The speed interview is not meant to replace a thorough interview process. It just helps us and the candidate decide whether this is a potential pairing worth pursuing.”
Be forewarned: Condon said it typically takes only five minutes for his company’s interviewers to size up applicants.
Mooved to join drive to teach about beef
A third-generation Colorado rancher will take the wheel of a “Beefmobile” in 2007 to help beef and dairy producers better understand various industry issues.
Stephanie Ausfahl, who owns and operates the Ausfahl Angus Ranch and R & S Fencing Company, both in Simla, will work driving a minivan emblazoned with images of sizzling beef to more than 250 livestock facilities and events.
The Beefmobile program is coordinated on behalf of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board by the National Livestock Producers Association. The initiative is funded in part by the “Beef Checkoff,” a federally mandated assessment of $1 per head on the sale of live domestic and imported cattle and comparable imported beef and beef products.
For more information about the Beefmobile, visit www.Beefmobile.com.
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