UK Temps - temporary job recruitment

This is a little niche for uktemps but we wanted to let you know about an excellent opportunity at a renowned bank for an experienced Russian speaking investment banking secretary. The role is fast paced and varied, and you need highly advanced multi-tasking skills as you will be organising visas, managing diaries and liaising with travel firms. The role also involves helping out with PowerPoint presentations, dealing with correspondence, expenses and helping out other Secretaries with any overflow of work.

Previous investment banking secretarial experience is a must, as is a fluent knowledge of the Russian language. This is a maternity cover assignment so please make sure that you are free immediately and on an ongoing basis.

If you are interested then please click to view our Russian Speak PA position.

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According to a poll millions of people are in the wrong job. People lose an average of almost five years of career development. It has been reported, following a survey by the Skills Commission, that one in five people are currently in the wrong line of work.

The Commission said that this results in 132 million years having been spent in the wrong career. Employees are not making the best use of their skills. Before getting stuck in to a job that does not interest you why not try a selection of different temp jobs to find where your skills are best suited and what career path you want to take.

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This is a little light hearted fun but did you know where these celebrities first started and many of them in temp jobs….

Kathy Bates : Worked in a gift shop at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Gerald Ford : Began as a fashion model, even making the cover of Cosmo Magazine

Courtney Cox-Arquette : Before her ‘Friends’ days Courtney was a spokesperson for Tampax and was the first person in the US to say ‘period’ in an advert.

Whoopi Goldberg : Used to be a bricklayer.

David Jason : was an electrician.

Sean Connery : was a coffin polisher.

Danny DeVito : trained as a hairdresser.

From acorns do mighty oaks grow, keep your dreams alive and work your way to the top whilst staying in temp employment.

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Line managers are afraid of losing their jobs due to the increasing flexible working practices of employees.

The theory comes from the fact that managers are concerned about employees’ ability to work effectively without them. If employees are proving their worth in a self regulated environment then who needs a manager?

The actual realisation that managers are there because they deliver a service vital to running a business that is not solely based around delivering orders.

It seems that managers are trying to manage a generation Y workforce but were equipped only with the wrong skill set, which was making them feel anxious, inferior and resistant to change.

The problem that needs to be solved is that we need to make sure we are developing people, givng them the tools to manage effectively.

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How to make keeping your goals setting going

Motivating yourself to stick to your goals just got easier with the launch of a free self-motivational website – www.BetchaIcan.co.uk. BetchaIcan inspires users to stick to their goals and uses the age-old ‘carrot and stick’ method to reward success.

Being able to stick to your goals very often become hard work once the euphoria of the setting the goal ends and BetchaIcan addresses the key reasons for this.

Often the problem is a lack of incentive. If the goal itself is not a fun task, such as dieting or taking a break from alcohol, people may need additional motivation to get through to the end. With BetchaIcan, registered users agree to treat themselves to the reward of their choice (the ‘carrot’) when their goal is achieved. The ‘stick’ is an agreement to donate money to a chosen charity if unsuccessful, which ensures that someone less fortunate benefits if they don’t see their goal through.

The problem can also be one of accountability. If nobody else knows about the goal, it can be easy to make excuses and let oneself down. A powerful incentive to keep going is to commit the goal at www.BetchaIcan.co.uk and ask friends to act as ‘Bet Buddies’, allowing them to keep an eye on progress and vote at the end to confirm whether the goal has been achieved.

By making the commitment in writing, it greatly increases the chances of sticking with it. Setting an achievable timescale helps to track when the challenge was started and, more importantly, gives a foreseeable end date. BetchaIcan allows users to keep a progress blog to help keep motivation up throughout the challenge, which hugely improves success rate.

Challenges can also be set for others at BetchaIcan, offering a way to encourage family and friends to achieve their goals and agreeing to help them along the way.

Marc Carter, Founder of BetchaIcan, said: “I first used these very goal setting techniques to give up alcohol for a month. As it was so successful, I’ve continued to keep other goals like this for many years, since then, and wanted to help others do the same, in a way that was enjoyable and easy to do.”

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