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Here’s a good list of 10 tips for improving your compensation at work.
Mystery shopping is not, however, the ideal job that many probably envision at first. The pay is low—sometimes all you get is compensation for the shopping. You work as an independent contractor, and if you are working for many different companies—which you will have to do to have steady work—record keeping and figuring taxes can be onerous. To make decent money, you must organize your shopping so that it can be done serially. You may have to do things you don't want to do, such as demanding a new room at a hotel. One thing you probably won't like too much is taking notes while at the site and writing the report online for the company later on.
Qualifications include being able to write well, with accuracy and detail, using correct grammar. In fact, the better your reporting, the more likely you will get assignments. Anyone can apply to be a mystery shopper, but only those who can write well and are reliable will be chosen repeatedly. You do have the right to reject assignments, however.
The assignments, often sent by e-mail, typically tell the shopper what she will be doing, when the job must get done, and the approximate pay, which can vary. You may only get reimbursed for the cost of a meal at a restaurant, while shopping at a department store might pay $10 to $50 per assignment.
Shoppers usually pay for travel to and from assignments, but can make $500 to $1,000 per month on 20 assignments.
To eliminate the high fees charged by the major job boards, such as Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com, and HotJobs.com, corporations are listing their new jobs at JobCentral.com. These listings have direct links to job applications on the companies' Web sites, where companies pay $12,500 a year to list all jobs ($25 a listing, which is much less than the $400 on a major board). The search engine searches job listings from other companies, as well, that are not members of JobCentral.
Indeed.com and SimplyHired.com, use search engine technology to aggregate job listings from classified ads, job boards, corporate sites, and trade associations.
4 major sites—JobCentral.com, Indeed.com, SimplyHired.com, and Google Base, are creating a centralized database of jobs at JobCentral.com.CareerXroads has found that job referrals from the Internet are increasing.
Also mentioned in this article are the risk of identity theft that job applicants take when posting their resume online, and the risk of spam from employment consultants looking to sell their services for up to $10,000.
A basic salary report can be obtained free of charge, after selecting the job category, and zip code or state/metro area.
Job seekers can search for jobs, post a resume, network with others, and get advice.
Saving your job search criteria is the most effective way to stay up to date on the lastest job postings. You can save your job search as a search agent and as an RSS feed. Each method is described below.
Creating a search agent automates your job search. Instead of entering the same criteria each time you conduct a search, you enter it once and save it as an agent. Your agent will then periodically conduct searches and update you via email about new jobs that meet your criteria. You can also view the latest results at anytime on your My Monster homepage.
and receive updates on new jobs that meet your criteria via your RSS Reader.
You can narrow or expand the search by keyword or location. Searches can be expanded by not specifying a location or a keyword. Searching only by keyword lists all jobs in the country related to the keyword. Specifying only the location lists all jobs within 25 miles of that locale. If more than 1 keyword is entered, then only those jobs that contain both keywords will be listed. To search for a phrase, enclose it in quotation marks ("real estate"). The Boolean operators OR and NOT can also be used, in addition to the implicit AND, which is the default. The OR operator is useful for entering full descriptions or their abbreviation (HR OR "human resources"). Searches also be restricted to a company or words in the title (company-microsoft; title-consultant; title-"business development"). Example of a complex search string: (manager OR director) and (healthcare OR pharmaceutical) NOT sales.
Each page has a small Refine Your Search box that narrows the search. Examples: Searching for software developer jobs for Lancaster, PA shows these additional categories: Mortgage Loan Officer, Software Engineer, Assistant IT Developer, Lotus Notes Administrator, Analyst, and Web Developer. But if you did the same search for Las Vegas, NV, the Refine Your Search box would show different categories, but still related to software development, although sometimes only marginally so. Listed below this box are your recent job searches which you can click on again to see updated results. You can also clear the Recent Job Searches list.
The Advanced Job Search page includes a form for easier entry of search terms. In addition, location can be specified from 5 to 100 miles; age of the job posting can be selected for today or up to 15 days, or anytime; and up to 50 job listings can be displayed on each page, sorted by relevance or date.
Searches can be saved and delivered by email alerts or RSS feeds. You can save a job search to a MyYahoo account by clicking a button, for instance.
Indeed.com also provides web services for webmasters, allowing a website to display job search results from XML feeds that can be custom formatted.
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