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25 Jul 2012
Jobs

Working Mother and FlexJobs Partner to Help Moms Find Professional Jobs To Enhance Their Work Options

Working Mother and FlexJobs Partner to Help Moms Find Professional Jobs To Enhance Their Work Options












Boulder, CO (PRWEB) July 25, 2012

Working Mother Media has joined forces with FlexJobs, an award-winning job service that helps people find jobs with flexible work options, to provide professional job listings for their audience. The partnership will allow workingmother.com users access to a Working Mother-branded site featuring FlexJobs listings as soon as they join the site.

“We are honored to partner with Working Mother on the important and widespread need for legitimate, professional flexible job opportunities,” Sara Sutton Fell, Founder and CEO of FlexJobs said in a statement. “I started FlexJobs to provide a trusted job resource for women like me, who want to continue being productive in their career while also having the flexibility to be more present for their family.”

Working Mother Media Editorial Director Jennifer Owens says, “Working Mothers come to our site for advice, support and information that serve their busy lives. Now for the first time, they will be able to access jobs that will enhance work family life. FlexJobs’ reputation in the marketplace of providing vetted, high quality positions for women is a valuable opportunity for our audience.”

FlexJobs offers the largest database of hand-screened job listings with flexible work options such as telecommuting, freelance, part-time or alternative schedules. Jobs range from entry-level to executive, temporary to full-time, in over 50 career categories, and across the country.

“Once having a baby, many women want to maintain their career while having more time to spend with their family,” shared Fell. “FlexJobs is a great resource to help make that happen.”

ABOUT FLEXJOBS:

FlexJobs is an award-winning service for hand-screened and professional telecommuting, part-time, and freelance job listings. FlexJobs gives job seekers an ad-free way to find legitimate jobs quickly, easily, and safely. With job listings in over 50 career categories, ranging from entry-level to executive and freelance to full-time, FlexJobs provides the most extensive database of hand-screened flexible jobs currently available. FlexJobs is dedicated to promoting the work-life balance, environmental, and economical benefits that telecommuting and flexible work offers to both job-seekers and employers.

ABOUT WORKING MOTHER:

Working Mother magazine reaches over 2.million readers and is the only national magazine for career-committed mothers. WorkingMother.com (http://www.workingmother.com) gives working mothers @home and @work advice, solutions and ideas. This year marks the 27th anniversary of Working Mother’s signature research initiative, Working Mother 100 Best Companies, and the tenth year of the Best Companies for Multicultural Women. Working Mother Media, a division of Bonnier Corporation, includes the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE), Diversity Best Practices and the Working Mother Research Institute. Working Mother Media’s mission is to serve as a champion of culture change.











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26 Oct 2011
Career Advice

Working within a call centre

There are a number of call centres set up within many cities throughout the UK creating hundreds of jobs within the job market. Some of these include customer services, technical support, IT, sales, recruitment, administration etc

Working in a call centre within a telephone based role can be very stressful and repetitive, but it is however a very popular role that people apply for as the salary reflects on the duties involved. As with most companies, training will usually be provided for new employees before starting on the phones. It is essential that new employees have excellent knowledge on the services provided by the company, be able to use the in-house software programmes and understand the company policies before starting to work officially.

When the training is completed, candidates are required to start taking or making calls with a trainer or facilitator beside them, this is common within some companies so that it helps new employees in getting used to taking the calls before starting to do this themselves. Before making or taking any calls, the employees are given scripts to follow in order to comply with regulations which are monitored on a monthly basis. By abiding by the scripts, the employees should be able to answer any query and pass the quality monitoring tests carried out by the company so that customers are dealt with appropriately.

As soon as the training is completed and the new employees passes the relevant tests and are confident enough to take calls on their own, the official call centre role starts. If the employee is a customer service consultant, their role is to take incoming calls and answer customer queries. The time in which the calls should take depends on the company. Telephonists are usually set a time limit and given targets to meet each month. Being over the time limit may affect the individual target rates and if working within a team, it can affect the team targets; therefore it is essential that the employees can keep within the target levels.

Many call centres offer several benefits and some offer annual bonuses therefore working within a call centre can be very rewarding. Call centre positions are advertised across many websites as well as newspapers, it will always be available and definitely worth applying for.

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20 Oct 2011
Career Advice

Working in a Garden Centre

Whether you’re an expert on all things horticulture or simply a plants enthusiast who has a thirst for knowledge, there’s something very rewarding about working in a garden centre. Getting to spend every day surrounded by sweet smelling plants and caring for them is an appealing idea for many, as is chatting with like-minded customers who you can both advise and learn from during the completion of your day to day tasks.

What exactly are you expected to do as a garden centre worker? Is it essential that you know your stuff before you apply or are they happy to have you learn on the job? Well, for the second question it actually depends on the place you apply to. Many companies are more than happy to take on enthusiastic individuals who may not be plant experts but who are willing to learn, whereas some others will accept only those who have an in-depth horticultural knowledge. Don’t be dismayed, however – even just a week or so of research will inform you greatly about a majority of the plant world you can expect to see in the garden centre and you’ll find yourself identifying species in no time if you simply put in the effort.

As for the job itself, a garden centre worker can expect to be involved in tasks like growing plants, including planting seeds and bulbs then nurturing them as they sprout and grow. You’ll also be expected to weed and prune plants to keep them healthy and presentable to prospective customers, as well as deal with pests and diseases that could harm the plants. Many garden centres want their staff to be able to advise customers on the products that best suit their requirements, and good customer service and rapport is always a plus. You may also be expected to work as a cashier, serve food in the cafeteria and make sure that the temperature, light and humidity of the greenhouses are all working correctly.

There are several other roles that you may find yourself taking at a garden centre, but the above provides a general idea of what staff usually do. Working in a garden centre is an enjoyable, rewarding job that lets you spend time with nature and like-minded garden types who love to talk about plants. So if you’re a bit of a plant enthusiast yourself, you could find that a gardening career is the ideal one for you – so why not check in at your local garden centre and see what positions are available today?

Paul Buchanan writes for a digital marketing agency. This article has been commissioned by a client of said agency. This article is not designed to promote, but should be considered professional content.


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