Summer into August with Rewards!

PEEPS! Check out the Summer into August with Rewards contest that could easily allow you to grab away vast range of incredible prizes! Easy-peasy? That's of course! Just a dead-drop at our email, you are entitled to stand a chance to be one of the winning entries!

Participants are encouraged to write an essay length to 150 words or less based on their previous part time or freelance working experiences. Fret not! Also, if you deem that videos or images are to be more absorbing than featuring, participants could share either with a short description attached. On the contrary, non-working experience contestants could deliver a short article with the words accumulation mentioned above on “How I want my part time dream to be?”. For say, you would prefer being a long-term freelance writer or just an alternative promoter?

Contest will be held from 15th August to 30th September 2012 and the entries are to be sent to contest@yourparttime.com as well shared on YourPartTime.com Facebook page. Correspondingly, contestants are pepped to heighten their entries by obtaining votes from friends and others. 60% of the panel’s judgment will go for votes while the remaining 40% are to evaluate upon the best piece either words, photos or videos. Two winning entries alongside 20 consolations will be notified every 2 weeks based on the requirements with prizes of a Worthy Book or a pair of movie tickets and vouchers.

• Every submission will be rewarded with 20 different vouchers from Worthy Book 
• One share of our contest details on your Facebook Page to your friends without submission will be awarded 10 different vouchers from Worthy Book
• Each Facebook account is entitled to walk away with 20 vouchers every week 

An all-embracing Worthy Book alongside miscellaneous rebates will definitely amaze you! Looking forward to uplift your living standard and lifestyle badly? With this mini directory guide, no hesitation! You will be offering superb FREEBIES & great DISCOUNTS to a variety of Malaysia top-notch marques such as Carl’s Jr, Shogun, Subway, Share Tea, Gloria Jean’s Coffee, BreadTalk, Krispy Kreme, Cupcake Chic, Boost Juice Bars, Sushi Tei, Ichiban Boshi, Gelatomio, Wendy’s and many more.  We were also featured in Red FM, NTV7, The Sun, Malay Mail, Bernama TV, BFM89.9 etc. 

Visit www.worthybook.my or www.facebook.com/worthybook for more info & updates! Besides, RM2 will be contributed to the Malaysia National kidney Foundation (NKF) from each of the copy.

Get a move while stocks last! Sway away at the right moment, cheeps and have the equal chance to win to make the contest an interesting battle.

Just 3 simple steps are required:

• Simply LIKE YourPartTime.com’s Facebook page
• SHARE the article, photos or videos
• Get the audience to vote
  
  

1. The higher the voting, the higher the chances to walk away with prizes. In order to be qualified in this contest, the steps mentioned above must be done. 
2. Incomplete entries and entries received after stipulated date will be disqualified
3. This contest is opened to all Malaysia citizens aged 16 years old and above.
4. Everyone is eligible to participate except for the employees of YourPartTime.com.
5. If the participant trails more than once, he or she will be disqualified automatically.
6. The winners will be finalized and announced every 2 weeks.
7. Winners will be contacted via email.
8. The judges' decision is final and no further correspondence will be entertained.
9. All prizes can be collected on 16th September 2012 at Sunway Pyramid / YourPartTime.com's or by courier. 

Services, the paramount to first impression?

           People always wonder how to be successful in their businesses. In this e-generation, service is the most significant and employers have to set row of services as priorities, trying to provide the best favors to uphold their employees and clients. Somehow, we cannot often deliver top-notch or what we believe is the best for them. In order to position the right employee to offer great customer services, we need to be disproportionally good at something and disproportionally bad at something else. Being a perfectionist will definitely fail the business. We will lose out trying to please everyone. We need to know when the employees disappoint the customers and how to make alternative choices to pleasure them even more.

There are array of competitors out the boundaries and there is no way to have the best picture than others at everything. When MacBook first introduced, it desired to reach the world’s classic lightest weight. The engineer came out with a quick release that have to be the best at classic weight, they have to give up on other features, especially smaller memory capacity and shorter battery lifespan due to its smaller size. Something needed to be sacrificed so to enhance the best part.

Ten years ago, Fred Wiersema came out with a theory on how to turn your business into a magnet by hiring the right employee at the right time and manage to patch for clients purposes in building trust and engaging a stable relationship. It is encouragable to keep in touch with them, understand their needs and desires to ameliorate our products and services. According to Professor Frances Frei, she emphasizes that the appointed employee will not be able to come out with a perfect way to enlighten the comprehensive services due to our customers’ multiple preferences where perfection will only exhaust us physically and financially.

Imagine that customer A prefers best product quality and customer B prefers cheaper prices or both the employees deliver two different superior concepts. What choices would you make to maintain these two group of customers? Improving the product quality would attract customer A but it would definitely increase in prices for R&D purposes. This would eventually make customer B with an oppose preference to leave us. Selling the products at lower prices would of course persist customer B. However, this might exhaust the company resources. Alternatively, we would have to make choices among these group of customers.

One of the airlines in India tried to be the "best" at everything - brand new aircraft, six cabin crew members on an aircraft with 100 seats and 70 passengers, "gourmet" meals even on an hour's flight, individual monitors in economy class - and today is on the verge of bankruptcy. If the employees of the airline had focused on safety and punctuality, things might be different.

It is hard for the employers to locate the employees at the appropriate circumstances as different customers own different preferences. The only alternative choice for the company is to use the market focused strategy, to get in touch with their customers, focus and improve their productivity and services corresponding to the highest preferences. Besides, engaging with recruiters to tailor the candidates' profile would develop a better picture in preventing crtitical issues especially personalities since they work at each one for a short stint as needed for specific hiring purposes. Company that uses multiple market focused would always end up to be a failure upon the raise of rivalries.

Mind of A Freelancer

A deep depth-of-field, people would rather engage with freelancing tasks than bumping into multiple rounds of job interviews for a higher security career! Undoubted that?

People of all ages crave for freedom and they seem to capture the infliction of pain when their exemption is taken away. This appealing will never be abolished in any sense of complexity.

For say, instead of dealing with children in your most outshine formal wear, why not obtaining extra income with pajamas aside from the housewife show? Mums who are thinking of rejoining the workforce would certainly do not need to hold back!

Happy Year of the Dragon 2012!

Gong Xi Fa Cai 2012 from all of us at Human Capital Connection (HCC). YourPartTime.com will officially be parked under HCC starting 2012 as we look to expand to full fledged human resource solution. We will update you soon on the progress of our new look and feel very soon.

In the meantime, do drive, eat and celebrate safely this Chinese New Year! May the beginning of this New Year be the beginning of great things to come for whole year through!

Cheers! XOXO =)

7 Secrets to Making This Year the Best Year Ever

Happy New Year 2012 to all job seekers out there!

I'm pretty sure most of you have new year resolutions in this new year but do you have what it takes to achieve all of them? Do you want to reach the same stage like other years where come 31st December you take out your notepad to re-write last year's resolutions as you cannot achieve (most of) them?

Personally, I find this article HERE utmost helpful in keeping track of your goals for this new year. For me, #3 which is ironically - Discriminate very important. Many times we suffer lack of time due to always giving in to other people requests. Hence, saying NO to them may prove the ultimate secret to achieve more for yourself. Try focusing on ONE thing at a time and that is definitely not entertaining others request all the time.

Happy New Year 2012 once again and may all your resolutions come true by 31st Dec this year!