AccJobs.com and GoldJobs.com
29/07/2003

AccJobs.com is proud to announce it's been chosen as a Goldjobs.com affiliate:

http://www.goldjobs.com/advertise/affiliate.asp

Goldjobs is the appointments portal for salaries commanding £100,000 / EUR140,000 and above. Goldjobs is used as a resource tool to find senior Executives - either by advertising, (blind or branded) or via its executive
database.

Goldjobs is increasingly used by a growing number of FTSE 100 companies as a more cost effective way of recruiting senior and executive staff. Goldjobs provides an excellent personalised service, to both clients and visiting
executives, enabling Goldjobs to be a viable alternative to search firms.

Goldjobs advertisements combined with a clients own advertising (blind or branded) often ensures an optimum response.

http://www.goldjobs.com

Feature: The CV Bureau
09/04/2003

The CV Bureau:

First Impressions are Paramount, so Sell Yourself Now with a Quality CV.

We provide quality eye-catching CV's, to make any employer eager to meet you.

Open 7 days a week from 8 am to 8 pm.

Give us a call on 01603 401952 or Email: marilyn@the-cv-bureau.co.uk

Take a look at our website www.the-cv-bureau.co.uk

Feature: CVservices.net
02/04/2003

A Good Account of Yourself ?

Does your CV promote your professional assets or it is another boring list?

1) issues with structure and design

2) issues with content

3) solutions to these issues

1) issues with structure & design

Some CVs follow the US template from a WP program, which looks unoriginal, fails to carry structured information and usually relies on disembodied lists titled "Profile", "Objectives", "Achievements" or whatever.

The idea is right, to summarise what you are offering, but it really must be as sophisticated as you are, not the same old rubbish about you being a proactive self-starter and team player, cringe….

Many CVs follow an archaic British concept from the days of typing on stencils, huge lefthand margins, no attention to design or typesetting to make the document attractive

Are you trying to say that you are so inept with your WP program that you can only type in the default 12 point Times Roman that inevitably takes up 3 pages or more, that you are so useless with margins and paragraph styles that you cannot even fit
your own CV to an attractive page?

2) issues with content

If your information has no overall plan and poor decisions have been taken in terms of what to give priority to, what headings and heading styles to use, how to prioritise information…. This tells people that you don't think clearly.

If the information is stale and skimpy, often culled from job descriptions or assembled in an unstructured list…. This tells people that you cannot communicate.

If the information falls between two stools because it attempts to be effective by quoting results and trying to paint a picture of roles as opposed to mere chronology but these things are not done well enough…. You look mediocre.

3) solutions to these issues (outline concepts)

Think of your CV design as a workspace, a framework for communication.

· Obviously you lead off with your name, but do you need all those personal details or can they be relegated to page 2?

· Succinct introduction? Write it last when you know what your USPs really are.

· In your case, what is most important? Work record? Technical skills? Education? Potential in a new career? Whatever it
is, this is what demands prominence.

· What else needs to be included and what simple heading style will work?

You now have a framework.

Marshall your basic information so that it can be placed within that workspace.

· USPs: list the main points you need to get across; these might be: experience, track record, training, skills-mix; methodologies, change programmes, what it takes for a new type of role in a new sector. This mix will be summarised in your application letter and it can help to roughly draft that first.

· Evidence: the rest is basically corroboration: be ruthless with irrelevant facts; summarise detail (they can ask at interview); build the job/role narrative to arouse interest.

· For each theme that you are working with (or each job you are describing), briefly:

create some context: company scenario; situation you first encountered; changes illustrate your involvement: roles, levels, structures, visions, plans, implementations, initiatives, very briefly described offer your results, which can go way beyond targets and figures; your new product saved the company from ruin; you gave a not-for-profit organisation a national profile; you revolutionised the way the company's business structures.

THESE ARE JUST OUTLINE CONCEPTS FOR TRANSFORMING YOUR CV INTO AN EFFECTIVE PROMOTIONAL TOOL; READ MORE….

© Steve Holmes www.cvservices.net
These topics are covered in greater depth in CV Sage with examples and exercises.Take a look!

Feature: www.JobsProactive.com
27/01/2003

We provide an online multi-sector career portal as well as a wide range of services and advice on how to successfully recruit.

JobsProactive evolves as a result of ongoing market research and detailed analysis of requirements by users in the market place.

Agencies & Employers:

We help promote your company by increasing the exposure by use of banner adverts and hyper links to your company profile and web site. We also give you an unlimited number of slots to post your current job vacancies.
Products and services offered by JobsProactive to its customers on the web site: Agencies and Employers can effectively brand themselves on the site, providing candidates with extensive company information aimed at attracting the most suitably qualified candidates. You can purchase the whole range of JobsProactive services and products either as individual or as packaged components. A full description on a range of our services is listed.
We also offer a wide range of professional services to assist you in locating that ideal candidate with a minimum of effort and cost. We also offer you a full range of services to promote your company and raise the profile via Banners, Company Profiles and Client sponsors.

Back Office:

Agencies & Employers are fully supported throughout the site including the user-friendly back office system, backed up by our team of trained consultants. All of them can help and advise you on ALL aspects of the site that we have to offer.

Services:

We offer a Cost-effective method to get you quality candidates via:
· Unlimited job posting
· Unlimited access to CV database
· Unlimited CV watch strings
And All candidates's CVs are emailed to you in "REAL TIME" and in word format.

Company Profile:

This page will hold your company Logo/Branding along with 200 text words about your company and its services.

Banners:

Your Company Logo in GIF /JPEG format on a selected page providing a link to your corporate pages or display advertisements. The banner can be on the home page of the site or on any other page, including your category sector.

News Link:

We offer both customers and candidates a FREE newsletter, "Proactive News" providing news within the Industry. Customers who have "BREAKING NEWS" can email us at editor@jobsproactive.com and we will feature it in the next "PROACTIVE NEWS".

Company Advertising:

We offer our customers a unique and cost effective method of branding, not just to promote their company but to push their products and the type of applicant they are seeking.

Job of the Day:

Gives you the opportunity to promote that all-important job on the home page. This maximises your global exposure to the job seeker regardless of what jobs they are looking for on the site.

Email Sponsor:

This allows you to actively promote a position direct to a wide number or a selected number of job seeks in an effective and productive manner.

Mission Statement:

We aim to supply you with the right people to make your business successful, by continually offering professional and personalised services to ALL customers at ALL times. We aim to lead the changes in the demands of today's and tomorrow's online recruitment environment driving down cost, improving quality and customer service.

www.JobsProactive.com

Feature: www.CompanySales.net
20/12/2002

www.companysales.net is a different concept in Business Transfers designed to assist practices in buying and selling businesses on behalf of their clients.

www.companysales.net is a web-based facility designed in conjunction with a practising accountant. It brings together the various elements of the transaction, buyer, seller, accountant and others in one place and permits the easy exchange of information.

The site is commission free to both buyer and seller and requires only a modest annual membership fee that allows practices to display up to twenty businesses at any one time. Whilst this may be more than the average practice would require the sum involved still makes this very cost-effective when compared to other methods such as agents or newspaper or magazine advertising.

Because of the technology used, the content of each business displayed can be controlled and edited from the practices’ own offices via a secure password logon feature.(For those without easy Internet access Company Sales International Ltd can do the work for a small fee.)

We can also provide a link to your own website if applicable.

The site is well promoted with most leading Internet search facilities; on the ICAEW website and via regular advertising such as in Accountancy Age. This ensures a regular flow of visitors to the site ,all of whom are interested in buying or selling a business.

If preferred an equally modest one-off fee can be paid for a single listing that remains on the site until sold. Compare this with the monthly fees others charge or the cost of a single insertion in a magazine or newspaper.

Prospective buyers contact the vendor’s agent direct for further details etc ,Company Sales International Ltd only provide the facility to bring the two together. We take no commissions or fees other than previously stated.

Other optional facilities are available such as banner advertising; links to your own site; your own home page and others ,all at competitive prices.

Making Business Transfers easier is our aim. To take advantage visit www.companysales.net; e-mail:- info@companysales.net or telephone 01543 424323 or write to:-

Company Sales International Ltd
P O Box 2903
Cannock
WS12 5WR

Affilica International
15/12/2002

Affilica International connects accountants, lawyers and consultants with entrepreneurs, corporates, NGOs and SMEs requiring a professional solution to their business and tax problems locally and in other countries.

Affilica has over 40 professional firms scattered around the world. Together they form an international network enabling independent accounting and law firms to offer services to clients in transnational business activity.

Since Affilica uses the Internet instead of operating local branch offices, its affiliates use the website and email to refer their clients' work requirements to each other. "Small firms often lose their international clients because they cannot refer their clients’ out-of-country work to affiliates, but being part of Affilica they are able to refer work to each other, retain this side of their clients’ professional work and win new work," he says.

Membership starts at just £500 (US$750). "We want to keep things simple. We allow members to negotiate between themselves. All subscription is spent on publicity, administration and operations on the Internet."

The group also links up with other professions. "In some countries audit work is carried out by lawyers, tax documentation is carried out by lawyers. So, it is useful to have them as part of the group." Management consultants
are also being approached, he says.

Affilica E-Magazine, a free monthly, with news on professional matters peppered with humour, goes out to 25,000 firms in 70+ countries.

Independent practices will have to learn to change if they are to survive the increasing globalisation of business. "We must be ready to accept transnational clients and invest more time and money in international skills
to compete in this ever-changing world," Mr Manek says.

Mr Manek knows this as he has experience of how global networks operate, having previously worked for Coopers & Lybrand in Bermuda and Nexia International affiliate Neville Russell in London. He runs his own practice,
makes software for accountants, carries out audit lecturing and audit file quality reviews.

Affilica has been promoted in trade visits to Italy, Switzerland, South Africa, Mauritius, Sri Lanka and Uganda. More visits are planned for 2003.

Affilica’s free PowerPoint presentations by email include:
* Clients in cross-border trade & investment
* Risk-taking aesthetics

Affilica’s free Excel-based innovative checklists include:
* How entrepreneurial am I?
* Will my business survive the next 2 years?

From a form on Affilica’s website www.Affilica.com inviting enquiries about business and/or tax problems, a variety of enquiries have been received from New Zealand to Canada. Some of the memorable enquiries were:

• Setting up a joint-venture in Singapore, form a company?

• Inherited property a farm in PQR country, seeks a professional to properly carry out the transfer documentation and suggest an efficient tax plan.

• Need to instruct a solicitor in Macedonia for a small personal case involving the purchase of an item which never arrived.

• London accountancy practice seeks a liquidator for a Ltd Co, Optical lenses business, with half a dozen creditors and 2 dozen debtors.

• How to obtain refund of costs of hospitalisation in another country

• London audit firm needs to divest its audits