Motivation is everything.
‘You can do the
work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to
inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people’.
Lee Lacocca
Contents
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9 Traits of outstanding employees
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Now here’s a top job
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1 in 20 Australians seeking help turned away
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Offices – pop art to Dickens revisited
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8 Blunders to avoid on your resume
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More tips for mature age candidates
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Lasting impressions
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Petrol price rip off?
Man scours
tip for $50k jewels
A
Brisbane man
has begged to scour a rubbish tip after throwing out his wife's jewellery.
The
unidentified man hid $50,000 worth of uninsured jewellery
in plastic bags ‘to conceal it from thieves’. The collection, including charm
bracelets, bangles and pure gold bars was accidentally thrown into the
garbage.
The
family was moving house and the children were asked to gather up and throw
away any rubbish which they dutifully did.
Of course, the jewels went!
I spy with my little eye….
Two alleged burglars are
behind bars after being spotted from the air - by the man whose house was
being robbed.
Steven Lynn, from Arkansas was in his
friend’s Cessna when he spotted two men allegedly breaking into his house.
Calling police from his mobile, he described the exact route taken by the
robbers as he tracked them from the air.
French farmer advertises against ads
Reuters reports that a
French organic farmer has paid 3000 euros ($4200) to hire 25 billboards so he
could denounce the evils of advertising.
The giant ads in the town
of Agen
this week show a human brain stuffed with advertising images with the slogan
"Advertising is manipulating you - React!"
Pierre Kung, 56, explained
that he was implementing the martial arts technique of ‘using the strength of
the adversary to floor him’.
Round and round the garden…
Australia
supplies about 50% of the world’s legally-grown opium that’s used to make
morphine and other painkillers.
The opium poppies are grown
in Tasmania, where – according to Attorney General Lisa Giddings, wallabies are eating opium poppies and
creating crop circles as they hop around ‘as high as a kite’.
Retired
Tasmanian poppy farmer Lyndley Chopping also said
he had seen strange behaviour from wallabies in his
fields.
“They would
eat some poppies and go away”, he told ABC News “Then, they’d come back and
do their circle work in the paddock”.
Rick Rockliff, speaking for poppy producer Tasmanian Alkaloids,
said that other animals had also been spotted ‘acting unusually’ in the poppy
fields.
‘There are
many stories about sheep eating some poppies after harvesting and they all
walk around in circles,’ he said.
Do you know where we are?
Windsor Recruitment is on the 4th level of the lovely old
Queensland Government Centre's heritage building at 232 Adelaide Street in the CBD.
Right alongside Anzac Square,
this is convenient to Central Station, buses and parking at Kings Post Office Square
complex.
The phone number for Windsor Recruitment is 07 3211 0001.
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9 Traits that make great employees outstanding
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‘Surround yourself with the best people’ is a theme that Windsor has promoted
for a very long time. But what are
the traits that make some employees stand out above the rest. Business
owner turned best-selling author Jeff Haden gives his view.
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Now here’s a
top job!
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MARKETING ANALYST - 12 month contract
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Reporting & Analysis experience
mandatory
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$70-75K base + super + sal sac
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Ideally full-time position but will
consider part-time applications for the right person.
To find out more
about this exciting role, please ring Carla Di Marco on 3211 0001 or email apply@windsor-recruitment.com
in full confidence.
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One
in twenty Australians seeking help turned away
By Ryan Witcombe
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Australian community and social service organisations are
unable to meet the demand for their services as more people turn to them
for help, according to the Australian Community Sector Survey.
The results of the
survey – which shows a 12% increase in assistance provided by Australia’s community services and welfare
sector - raise questions over Australia’s post-GFC economic
recovery.
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Office style:
pop art to Dickens revisited
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La guerre des Post-it (the Post-it wars) aka the Great French Post-it War of
2011 is racing through Europe to pepper
thousands of offices with huge, wall and window sized icons made out of coloured post-it notes.
Offices of top tier
organisations are adorned with giant composites of Mario, Space Invaders, Pacman, Donald Duck, Marilyn Monroe and Casper the Friendly
Ghost.
But in Australia, it seems unlikely to
catch on. Here, mining giant BHP
Billiton has issued a Dickensian staff charter that includes the removal of
each individual (correctly used) Post-it note from monitors and keyboards
at the end of the working day.
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8
Blunders to avoid on your resume
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Sooner
or later, most people want to move jobs. And to do that, you’re going to
need an up-to-date resume.
Now this may be something you’ve rarely needed to do in your career –
or perhaps you just haven’t tackled such a task in a long, long time? But
you need to think about it.
Here are a few fast and easy ways for you to ensure your resume is just
what a prospective new employer is looking for.
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More tips for
mature age candidates
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It’s still not easy for
older workers to find a new job. But there are ways you can circumvent the
problems by updating your outlook.
Here are some general
pointers:
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Make
sure you project yourself as a great listener who is open to innovation and
new ideas.
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Learn
to accept that you may no longer be the leader. As a team member, it’s
likely your next role may be as a reliable, responsible, pragmatic utility
player who gets things done.
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Show
that you are a low-risk hire and not planning to ‘take over’.
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Be
intuitive. There are always ways you can help the team. Find them and do
them – without a need for fanfare.
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Present
in the way you feel most confident. If you look good, you’ll feel good (and
vice versa) and both mean a good interview and a more promising future.
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Become
tech savvy and open up to ongoing learning
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If
appropriate, you could offer to start as a temp, contractor or consultant.
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Lasting
Impressions
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You’re competing for a
job you really want and, having aced the second round interview, you’re
starting to believe you’ve got it made.
After all, haven’t you already put your best foot forward into all the
spaces and places that require it?
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Petrol
price rip off
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Have you ever wondered why the price of petrol rises and
falls and have you ever had a sense of unease about how it all works?
On Monday unleaded
petrol in my local service station was $1.42 per litre.
I began to wonder what makes up this price. Why does it vary and how is it
connected to the wider world?
Just why is it that the price of petrol shoots up just before long
weekends and holidays?
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The 5
elements of ‘the Midas touch’
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1. Thumb:
Strength of character.
2. Index
finger: Focus, which is also an abbreviation for ‘Follow one course until
successful’.
3. Middle
finger: Brand, that is, what you stand for.
4. Ring
finger: Relationships - surround yourself with good people and remember
that you can't do a good deal with bad partners
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Little finger: Little things count.
That is, do the little things that others don't in order to set yourself apart.
Dylys Bertelsen
CEO Windsor Recruitment
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Check it out
at www.windsor-recruitment.com
Then call and tell us what we can
do for you on
07 3211 0001
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