Jan
30
What Maid Agencies Can Do For You
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In the past, it’s not necessary to have a maid at home. Many people can survive without a maid, but that is not true anymore. The modern world demands more of your time outside the confines of your home, thus the need for someone to do things you could no longer do yourself anymore, such as cleaning the house, washing the dishes, watering the plants, to name a few. It brings a lot of comfort to know that there are maid agencies which you can approach for this purpose.
Yes, such agencies operate to provide you with a maid you can trust. However, it is essential that you verify if the agency you are dealing with is legal to begin with, and if so, make sure, too, that its license to operate is updated.
Engaging the services of reliable and honest maid agencies may expectedly require more money, but at least you can be certain that you will be provided with someone who can do the job well. Those who wish to apply to such agencies have to go through a comprehensive selection process. Each applicant is carefully evaluated and then if she meets the qualifications, she undergoes skills training to prepare her well for her basic responsibilities as housekeeper.
When engaging the services of any agency, always take time to read and understand the contract. Sometimes, it is even wiser to get a lawyer just to go through the terms and restrictions of the contract.
Remember, it’s not easy to look for a maid yourself. Just imagine the hassle of posting an advertisement, interviewing applicants, and evaluating them. They can be risky, too, because you don’t know where these people come from at all. For all you know, they can be lunatics, or worse, with criminal instincts, and for sure you wouldn’t want to leave your house with them. Hiring an investigator to find it out for you can mean additional cost. It’s good if your friends personally know someone who can work for you, but if they don’t, engaging the services of maid agencies is the best thing to do.
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Jan
26
Never Give Up if You Don’t Succeed
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In case you feel that these long hours of regular office are too much to handle, then something waiting for you is ‘temping’. The legal industry has increasingly turned to temporary staffing as a means to keep a lid on cost. Industry analyst estimate this figure that legal temporary staffing, whether for lawyers , paralegals, or clerks, represents a $300 to $500 million market, with growth rates of over 25 percent annually.
The increase in the temp numbers has been accompanied by an increase in the reputation for temporary lawyers. Jeff Silber, an analyst at institutional research group Gerard, Klauer, Mattison, & Co., recently told The National Law Journal: “Temp lawyers used to have a stigma, but the legal staffing business is really starting to move upscale.” For job seekers, the increasing availability and prestige of legal temping jobs means a better lifestyle, higher compensation, and the chance to crack some of the country’s most exclusive firms.
The legal temp field breaks down into two categories these are: traditional temps and “wholesale lawyers.” This latter term was given by David A. Robinson, who is the author of the ABA’s “Practicing Law Without Clients.” this author defines this lawyers as the freelancer lawyers who does requires anybody help they find their own assignments, producing legal product for the “retail lawyers” working for the client. “Most of what wholesale lawyers do is ghostwriting,” Robinson told the NLJ, citing the example of a West Virginia lawyer who worked writing administrative law judge opinions for 15 hours a week at $75 dollars an hour.
Many traditional temp lawyers go through the intermediary of the temp agency. These organizations have flourished their business in the year 199s, as law firms remain wary of over hiring. Legal staffing agencies includes New York’s Strategic Legal Services (www.strategiclegal.com), Washington DC’s Pat Taylor and Associates (www.pattaylor.com); and Law Corps (www.lawcorps.com). Pat Taylor and Associates boasts a sparkling client list featuring top notch firms and organizations such as Latham & Watkins, Patton Boggs, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Arnold & Porter; Skadden Arps; Mayer Brown, National Geographic Television, and Paul Hastings.
Temporary arrangements offer many advantages over traditional lawyers. For wholesale lawyers, many say that the most prominent advantage of working part-time is simply working part-time. Those people who want to spend more time with their family members or pursue interests other than law then wholesale lawyers are the best people who can make their own hours and telecommute.
There are two important advantage for those lawyers who works through an agency. First these lawyers can ignore being pigeonholed into a particular career path or substantive area of the law, increasingly the fate of full-time associates at many firms. Granted, temporary lawyers may often get assignments in less exciting jobs, notably document management or discovery chores. However, as one temp attorney told the NLJ, “discovery is on par with the rest of law - it’s no more or less exciting.”
It is true that second temp jobs are not always temporary. Temp staffing specialists estimate that 15 to 20 percent of temps get permanent offer. And for those who got rejected during campus placement, the temp job can provide a handy back door.
Of course, temping isn’t all hearts and flowers. Pay can stoop as low as $14 dollars an hour (far, far below the compensation of most full-time lawyers). Although many law firms hire temp attorneys to cover themselves in case business goes down. Should things slow down, the temp gets the axe before anyone else. Many temp attorneys, however, seem willing to live with these risks to enjoy the independence and other benefits that temping affords.
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Jan
21
Facing Job Loss
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If we see the questions on the Interviewing message board we can see that it shown some of our readers’ difficulties in getting a search after leaving or losing a job. But according to me it is useful for us to start at the beginning.
One thing is very clear about the new millennium work culture: that nearly all wok is now short term, frequently even careers themselves. You have to change yourself whether this change suits you or not. If we see the current statistics then we can say that the average job is only about three to four years now, a rather dramatic change from 15 years ago when the average was about 10 years.
It will be better if you understand that there will be an emotional roller coaster, most severely during the first few days. This ride will include lots of depression, apathy, denial, anger and then some more anger. One degree or another degree everyone goes through this stage. And I just don’t understand that why people don’t believe in this thing.
It is not good to call everyone you know and start sending out resumes, answering ads, and calling recruiters. Because most of the times you are not prepared for the start a search after a separation. Don’t do a job search “on the rebound”. You’ll probably say things that you will wish you hadn’t. But it is good to share your true feelings about the situation with only a few people- maybe your close friends or your family members. You don’t want everyone to avoid you (”Uh oh, here comes the whiner…”). Now is the time to adopt the marketing stance that your career - no matter how you perceive the reality - has been sunshine, light, and success. And you want everyone to know about those successes.
Calling to everyone you know is NOT networking. Networking is a indirect relationship building, quite a different thing.
It is good to develop a target, in my private practice, I have seen people who says that they want to be on TV,” I never knew what that meant… did it mean television repair? Developing a target is the centerpiece of beginning of your search. It is good to know hat what is job function - specifically? What is the desired culture? Geographic location? Size of organization? Do you want to start your own business? Consult? Do you have Dot-com-Virus? This may all involve some extensive self-assessment, with or without outside assistance - but it’s necessary.
And then, of course, you need to research your target.
Stick to the marketing plan and stick to that. Work the system; there are no shortcuts, except for the occasional bolt of lightning. If you are discipline and consistent this thing account for a lot in this process.
Be flexible. If you’re seriously listening while developing those relationships, your target might adjust and shift.
Losing or leaving your job doesn’t mean that you are carrying the stigma it used to, except in your own mind. Its part of the culture now. And everyone has to admit this thing that everyone has to go through this process one day.
Losing or leaving your job doesn’t mean that you are carrying the stigma it used to, except in your own mind. Its part of the culture now. And everyone has to admit this thing that everyone has to go through this process one day.
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