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Your Bad Credit Could Keep You From Being Hired
Did you know that credit difficulties can stop you dead in your tracks and keep you from being hired? Credit problems will stress you to the max, strain your personal relationships, crush your morale and possibly paralyze you from taking necessary actions in your job search. If that isn't bad enough, it can also stop you from being hired!Here's the reason why: Remember when you signed on the dotted line of the job application? Somewhere in fine print there was a line that gave the employer the right to run a credit check. A bad credit rating has the effect of ending your candidacy for a job with all too many companies as it is an indication of how you handle fiscal responsibilities. Rightly or wrongly, they make the assumption that this is how you might perform as a future employee by acting irresponsibly in many areas of your life, even stealing from the company. This may not seem right or fair but that is the way it is. You bad credit, no matter what the reason, even if the report is in error, can be used against you when you're applying for a job. Don't give a company an extra reason to screen you out.Here's a recruiter's tip that can possibly save you a lot of hassle later on and you should do it early in your job search. In fact, this is something we all should do at least once a year:Find out your credit rating. You should, in fact, find out what your credit rating is at least once a year.Under

merican Express credit card in Europe for four years. The executive and his wife said they felt like “criminals.” They were forced to pay cash for their first used car.

Other foreigners recalled the many frustrations they encountered in taking care of basic living needs--opening a bank account, connecting utilities, choosing a long-distance company, haggling over the price of a car, or buying home and auto insurance. The marketing manager of a British-based international hotel chain moved from London, England, to the American headquarters in Atlanta, GA, only to discover that she did not know how to dial long distance within the United States. Neither did she know the meaning of dialing “911.” Americans often take for granted the daily survival skills that foreigners must relearn when they arrive in the United States.

American English “Sports-speak”

Understanding American English is one of the first challenges foreigners--even native English speakers--encounter in the U.S. corporate culture. American bus

A Few Business Generalizations
Everyone is a writer. Writing is the basis of all wealth, as my mentor says. You need to be writing (something) every single day. You can’t keep all that stuff bottled up inside. It’s not good for you. Write, write, write.Everyone is in marketing. Your words, actions, emails and conversations are either supporting or refuting your brand. Everyone in your company is responsible for marketing your company.Everyone is in sales. Because people buy people first. Because people aren’t loyal to companies, they’re loyal to people. Because it doesn’t matter what product or service you sell, customers buy YOU before anything.Everyone is the CEO (of You, Inc.). Tom Peters was the first to coin this phrase. It’s been around for a good 10 years now. There are books written about it, articles explaining it, even experts who can show you how to do it. It’s no longer a fad. It’s just the way it is.Everyone has a voice. God bless the Internet! With the advent of blogs, social networking and other virtual soapboxes, there’s no excuse for not having a forum to voice your opinion. If you want to say something, say it. Odds are, with the potential audience of billions of people, somebody’s gonna hear it.Everyone has customers. Sure, you can call ‘em whatever you want. Clients. Members. Congregants. Children. Students. Employees. Audience members. Rea

Expatriates and foreign nationals who relocate to the United States to live and work often have mixed perceptions about this young nation. Those feelings are probably best described by the late Irish poet and playwright, Oscar Wilde, who referred to America as “a land of unmatched vitality and vulgarity.”

While most Americans rarely think of their country as “foreign,” the fact is that non-Americans who relocate to the United States to do business and “do lunch” are often surprised to find they experience a severe case of “corporate culture shock.”

According to recently conducted research with dozens of foreign business professionals working in Atlanta and other southeastern U.S. cities, the human resource departments of multinational corporations are woefully inadequate in preparing foreigners for the American workplace. The purpose of the study was to learn about foreign managers’ experiences and attitudes regarding the American business culture. More than half of this diverse group of CEOs, CFOs, vice presidents, directors, managers, engineers, and analysts were European. In total, 26 different countries were represented.

Equally disturbing is the finding that American employees lack cross-cultural awareness and skills that would enable them to draw on the diverse, global talents and business experiences of their non-American counterparts.

Once the physical relocation to the United States is complete, most foreigners and their families say employers provide little, if any, assistance to help them integrate into the American community and business environment. They often struggle up to a year or longer to adapt.

The financial cost of cross-border relocations is steep; often two to four times the transferee’s salary. But the cost of lost productivity because of months of isolation, confusion, and frustration is incalculable. The adaptation period could be reduced by 50 percent with adequate cultural orientation and training, professional coaching, and mentoring. If corporations would simply invest an additional 5 to 10 percent of their relocation cost into cross-cultural orientation, training, and coaching, they would be buying an insurance policy that protects their substantial investment in their expatriate and foreign nationals, realizing a greater productivity return on their investment much sooner.

Stages of Adjustment

Left on their own, foreign professionals frequently go through three stages of acculturation:

Discovery. First, they encounter the barriers and differences that create discomfort and frustration for them and their families.
Search. Second, they begin to look for the people and resources that can help them overcome the cultural barriers.
Adaptation. Finally, they make the necessary adjustments to their communication style, work style, and business practices to build relationships with their American colleagues.

Some foreigners never make it through the adaptation stage and continue to remain isolated from their American colleagues and are less-than-effective in their jobs.

Bottom of the Pyramid

In their home countries, most international professionals enjoy a certain degree of accomplishment and self-esteem. On arriving in the United States, however, they are pulled down to the bottom rung of Maslow’s pyramid of needs. Physical needs become top priorities again.

Even the most basic everyday needs become major obstacles for foreign transferees. Obtaining credit is often a major hurdle, even for affluent non-Americans. A general manager of a French company’s North American division moved from Paris, France, to Atlanta, GA, three years ago. He described his family’s effort to establish credit as a “nightmare.”

“We had no credit history here and felt like thieves,” said the transferee. Another vice president also complained of credit problems when he moved his family from Paris to Atlanta with a global Dutch company. An Atlanta car dealer refused to sell him an automobile without a U.S. credit history, even though he had used an American Express credit card in Europe for four years. The executive and his wife said they felt like “criminals.” They were forced to pay cash for their first used car.

American English “Sports-speak”

Understanding American English is one of the first challenges foreigners--even native English speakers--encounter in the U.S. corporate culture. American busi

How to Make Sure Your Meetings Programme Is ABPI Compliant
Meetings held and organised by Pharmaceutical companies are an essential way of communicating and evolving scientific research, clinical development and medical education. However, there is always the danger that they can be seen as a blatant attempt to railroad Health Care Professionals into prescribing products by using lavish surroundings and hospitality to influence them.This is where the ABPI 2006 code of practice comes into its own, specifically clause 19 which deals with the arrangement and holding of HCP meetings within the Pharmaceutical industry. The key requirement being that the main purpose of the meeting should be its content and any hospitality offered during these meetings should not only be secondary but in fact no more than basic subsistence.How can we work out what would and would not be acceptable? In answering this question, you would need to consider all aspects of the meeting from the venue, timings, hospitality, content (including speakers) and all associated materials ie handouts, stand material and invitations and equally as important, the costs. All of these elements factor in how the end product, the meeting, will be perceived. This is how it would be deemed acceptable or not, the overall impression given from combining all of these elements. Therefore, one of the requirements of the code is that all Pharmaceutical companies have a specific policy dealing with meetings and hospitality. Thi

directors, managers, engineers, and analysts were European. In total, 26 different countries were represented.

Stages of Adjustment

Left on their own, foreign professionals frequently go through three stages of acculturation:

Discovery. First, they encounter the barriers and differences that create discomfort and frustration for them and their families.
Search. Second, they begin to look for the people and resources that can help them overcome the cultural barriers.
Adaptation. Finally, they make the necessary adjustments to their communication style, work style, and business practices to build relationships with their American colleagues.

Some foreigners never make it through the adaptation stage and continue to remain isolated from their American colleagues and are less-than-effective in their jobs.

Bottom of the Pyramid

American English “Sports-speak”

Understanding American English is one of the first challenges foreigners--even native English speakers--encounter in the U.S. corporate culture. American bus

How To Choose The Right Product To Begin Internet Home Business
Every company needs a product to sell. It is also the same with internet home business. You need a product to start up a home based business and start to work from home. I categorized three different type of product.1. Digital Product. It is very easy to build and very popular among the Internet. We don’t have to keep product stock. We only have to create or pay someone else to create our product. Some product that we can describe in computer related product are e-book, software, picture, movie, song, audio, and web related product (web hosting, script, domain name, etc).2. Hard product. Hard product means that we can touch and see. In hard product we involve with a real product, and if we want to sell the product, we must prepare the product and send our product to our customer. This type of product needs an extra effort. You must start thinking about the warehouse, and the shipment. And also don’t forget about broken or bad product. Product examples are book, CD, table, TV, Perfume, Computer, Notebook, etc.3. Service. Service means that we give some kind of service to our customer. In service what we sell is our skill. For example, we can sell our writing skill, to be a ghostwriter in the internet, or giving service by creating a web site and many other services can be found in Internet.From these three types of product the easiest way is to build and create product number one or computer related pro

rcent of their relocation cost into cross-cultural orientation, training, and coaching, they would be buying an insurance policy that protects their substantial investment in their expatriate and foreign nationals, realizing a greater productivity return on their investment much sooner.

Stages of Adjustment

Left on their own, foreign professionals frequently go through three stages of acculturation:

Discovery. First, they encounter the barriers and differences that create discomfort and frustration for them and their families.
Search. Second, they begin to look for the people and resources that can help them overcome the cultural barriers.
Adaptation. Finally, they make the necessary adjustments to their communication style, work style, and business practices to build relationships with their American colleagues.

Some foreigners never make it through the adaptation stage and continue to remain isolated from their American colleagues and are less-than-effective in their jobs.

Bottom of the Pyramid

American English “Sports-speak”

Understanding American English is one of the first challenges foreigners--even native English speakers--encounter in the U.S. corporate culture. American bus

Alright Isn't All Right in Business Writing
Basic business writing (letters, memos, emails) today is supposed to be informal and conversational. "Write more like you talk" is the advice frequently given by business writing experts. Many of the grammar rules that we learned in school either no longer apply or have been altered to fit the times. American English is based on common usage, which means that even if something is done incorrectly according to the rules, if it's done often enough and by enough people, it becomes acceptable, much to the chagrin of most high school English teachers.One rule that is “on the cusp” regards the word alright, a nonstandard form of the words all right. American Heritage dictionary defines all right as an adjective: acceptable, correct, average or fairly healthy, and as an adverb: adequately, yes or without a doubt.The usage note on the American Heritage definition page says, Despite the appearance of the form "alright" in works of such well-known writers as Langston Hughes and James Joyce, the single word spelling has never been accepted as standard. … Consequently, one who uses "alright," especially in formal writing, runs the risk that readers may view it as an error or as the willful breaking of convention.If you’re writing a conversation in a short story, novel or creative nonfiction, alright may have its place. Give it another twenty years or so, and alrightare less-than-effective in their jobs.

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American English “Sports-speak”

Understanding American English is one of the first challenges foreigners--even native English speakers--encounter in the U.S. corporate culture. American bus

Combined skills for Business Intelligence
During the design of a BI infrastructure, certain well known steps should be followed: • prioritization of business processes, to be monitored vis-?-vis their performance • development of a roadmap for a phased implementation (e.g. using the bus architecture matrix in a dimensional infrastructure) • business requirements analysis with the SME’s • data source & organizational readiness assessment • translation of business requirements into conceptual data modeling • definition of analytical applications to be implemented • decisions on the sourcing model (insourced / outsourced)Whether the whole endeavor or parts of it, is insourced or outsourced, directly influences the needed internal know-how and skills and affects the degree of control of the Business. Strategic know how and skills should not be outsourced, since they can evolve to an important competitive advantage for the Business.If all work is left to a consultant-integrator Consortium, the Business runs the risk of loosing control and being led to suboptimal decisions, techniques or infrastructure architectures.How many design steps and which distinct design skills are needed before implementation starts, is not successfully determined by many Businesses. A Consultant who is specializing in datawarehouse design and/or dimensional modeling is often not skilled enough to analyse business requirements and identify anal

merican Express credit card in Europe for four years. The executive and his wife said they felt like “criminals.” They were forced to pay cash for their first used car.

American English “Sports-speak”

Understanding American English is one of the first challenges foreigners--even native English speakers--encounter in the U.S. corporate culture. American business conversation is riddled with clich?s, slang, regionalisms, and sports expressions that are not understood by non-Americans. “Sports-speak” is woven into business conversations constantly in the United States with references to American football, baseball, and basketball. Expressions such as “slam dunk,” “homerun,” “Monday morning quarterback,” “end run,” “curveball,” “full court press,” and “stepping up to the plate” only serve to confuse foreigners. Many Americans are oblivious to the fact that baseball and American football are not played in Europe and other parts of the world.

Acronym Soup

The language of U.S. human resource departments is equally foreign. Most international professionals come to the United States with no knowledge of managed health care or U.S. tax and discrimination law--complex issues that Americans barely understand. It is no wonder then that non-Americans consider these employee policies and plans a “nightmare” and glaze over when they read their HR manual of acronyms and alphabet soup: PPO, HMO, ADA, EEOC, FLMA, and 401K. Translation please?

Said one foreign executive, “You are screened by a nurse, and then you spend 30 seconds to two minutes with a doctor. You are reimbursed and talk to computers. All these plans, long-term and short-term disability, are extremely complex.”

Rather than proactively taking the time to explain these bureaucratic plans and policies to foreigners, most HR managers simply react and respond to questions. What HR managers do not understand is that non-Americans have no knowledge base on which they can even begin to formulate intelligent questions. Human resources must instead begin at the beginning.

The American Spirit at Work

Most foreigners first come to know America through its media--movies, music, magazines, TV sitcoms, and theme parks. Americans are projected as fun loving, risk-taking rugged individuals who “get to the point” and “tell it like it is.” Pick up most any book about American culture and you will read about the legendary open, honest, and direct communication style of Americans. And so it seems that the bold and brazen American is, indeed, alive and well when socializing or selling. But foreigners paint a different picture of the American at work. It is not John Wayne or Indiana Jones who they encounter behind the corporate cubicle--it is Dilbert.

According to the research, foreigners observe that there is little evidence of those cherished American values of equality and freedom of speech in the workplace, especially in big corporations. The single, greatest discomfort that foreigners report in the U.S. workplace is reconciling the perception of business informality (“I’m your CEO but just call me Bob;” “business casual is what we wear here”) and the reality of corporate hierarchy and extreme deference to rank and titles.

“People worry about political correctness all the time to the point where they won’t say anything in a meeting because their boss is in there,” said a British manager who has worked in the United States for seven years. A Dutch marketing manager agreed, “In Europe, if you have a good idea, you bring it to the table. In the United States, until the boss puts it on the radar screen, it’s not as important.”

A German manager says, “Here, I have to package my opinions very nicely.” Foreigners also are surprised at how Americans avoid face-to-face conflict at work. Said one German who has worked in the United States for five years, “Everyone is hiding behind policy and not getting out from behind their walls.”

A Finnish distributorship president speculated that Americans avoid direct conflict because of the litigious society they live in. “This is a big difference between America and the rest of the world. People put things in writing here if there is some conflict or misunderstanding. Frivolous lawsuits don’t exist in the rest of the world.”

The lack of job security and an adequate “safety net” for unemployment is another reason given.

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