Helping Yourself While Helping Others; Volunteer!

Why volunteer? You think... With our busy lives, it’s hard to find the time or effort to volunteer. However, the benefits of volunteering are enormous; whether it's to you, your family, your community or anyone involved. The right match can help you find friends, reach out to your community, learn new skills, and even advance your career. Akhtaboot provides you with some benefits of volunteering.

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Dealing with Competitive Colleagues

Handling overly competitive attitude in the workplace

On a day-to-day level, maintaining a professional relationship with your colleagues while keeping in mind that they have different working styles is essential to creating a productive environment. However, sometimes overly competitive attitude can make this difficult to achieve and can create disagreements in the workplace. Workplace competition has both advantages and disadvantages. By only highlighting the downside of it, you overlook the potential benefits such as increasing innovation, creativity and motivation. On the other hand, it's clear that too much competitiveness can be exhausting and intimidating, pushing those who are less competitive to the side, can eventually result in bad office politics. Akhtaboot is here to the rescue with some tips on how to handle overly competitive attitude in the workplace.

Get to Know Your True Motivators

Many of us compete against other people for different motives. It could be because you want to have what others have, or it can be a need to conform to workplace norms, or it can simply be in your nature. It's important to evaluate your own level of competitiveness when it comes to work. If your competitiveness is derived from feeling insecure for any reason, make an effort to address the trigger of that insecurity. Perhaps you need more training or career development in order to be able to get to the next level. Research the available training options available so that you feel reassured that you're on the same level with your competitors at work.

Treat your Competitors with Courtesy and Respect

Overly competitive coworkers can be difficult to handle and deal with. Tempting as it can be to react in the heat of the moment, try to be friendly while keeping in mind that an overly competitive person can be potentially undermining. On the other hand, chances are if you don't give them the reaction they're seeking, they'll realize that it's a waste of time to try to evoke you and they'll feel more motivated to treat you nicely in return.

Handling Sneaky Competitive Colleagues

Sneaky competitive colleagues are always on the look for ways to make others look bad. They tend to consider everyone else as a potential threat to his or her field. Spotting a sneaky competitive colleague is easy. They never let your boss know that you were involved in the project, or they usually “forget” to forward emails that concern you, and will never hesitate to declare that they were the only responsible person for the project’s outcome in which you played a major part too. Since such people are unlikely to change, you'll need to figure your way around them as well as stand up for yourself.

Turn the Competition into your Favor

Competitive colleagues are usually outspoken about their determination to surpass others. Try to come up with ways to focus that ambition to your own good and the good of the team. For example, asking them for their advice and input about the projects you’re working on together, rather than assuming they're going to run away with all the glory. This flatters them while giving you an opportunity to learn from them. Keep in mind that competitive personalities can be a source of morale-boosting to the rest of the team provided they meet the deadlines and don't behave in a territorial manner.

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Dealing with Competitive Colleagues

On a day-to-day basis, maintaining a professional relationship with your colleagues while keeping in mind that they have different working styles is essential to creating a productive environment. However, sometimes overly competitive attitude can make this difficult to achieve and can create disagreements in the workplace. Akhtaboot is here to the rescue with some tips on how to handle overly competitive attitude in the workplace.

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Akhtaboot to Power Mashrek International School’s Recruitment

Akhtaboot - the career network is proud to announce the launch of Mashrek International School’s Career Connect solution, “Powered by Akhtaboot”, which will provide Mashrek International School with their own fully integrated and branded jobs section with the ability to post unlimited job postings and receive job applications directly onto their careers section on their own website.

As part of Akhtaboot’s relentless efforts in providing world-class recruitment services to its clients, Mashrek International School will be able to make the most of their Career Connect solution with a single point of contact for all of their recruitment needs with a variety of CV filtration and organization tools, making the hiring process simple, efficient and as cost-effective as ever.

Ms. Bana Nasser, Human Resources Coordinator at Mashrek International School, said:

“Mashrek International School is very pleased and impressed with Akhtaboot’s Career Connect service as it will help us find and match the right people with the available vacancies. We are definitely looking forward to a successful extension of our collaboration with Akhtaboot.”

With Career Connect, Akhtaboot goes beyond helping companies and educational institutions simply find the right candidates; it actually provides them with a one-stop recruitment gateway that is specifically designed and customized to cater to the employment needs of companies.

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Salary Negotiations

Negotiating your salary isn't about demanding more money; it is a discussion in which both sides try to agree on a positive outcome. Some people get uncomfortable at the idea of salary negotiation as they might fear they’ll come across as rude or greedy. It’s normal to feel nervous, but once you've proven yourself well qualified for a job, it’s your right to ask for more if you believe you deserve better. Akhtaboot provides you with a few steps that will help you get what you deserve in terms of compensation while maintaining a good relationship with your manager.

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Akhtaboot to Power Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) Recruitment

 
Akhtaboot - the career network is proud to announce the launch of Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) Microsite Solution, “Powered by Akhtaboot”, which is a free service provided to educational and informational websites - as part of Akhtaboot Cares Initiative - Akhtaboot’s CSR arm.

As part of Akhtaboot’s relentless efforts in providing world-class recruitment services to its clients, JUST students and website visitors will be able to search and apply to hundreds of job vacancies directly from JUST website.

Professor Ahmed Shlash Alawneh, Dean of Student Affairs at JUST, said:

"I’m very impressed with Akhtaboot’s ongoing devotion to serve both job seekers and the business community through providing Jordan University of Science and Technology students, graduates and job seekers with Akhtaboot’s user-friendly job search tools directly on JUST University website. The enthusiasm the Akhtaboot team to simplify the job search process for all concerned parties is truly impressive and we are looking forward to maintain a successful relationship with them."

The signing of this agreement coincides with Jordan University of Science and Technology 9th Job Fair, which was held on JUST Campus on the 30th of April and was fully organized by the Deanship of Student Affairs, King Abdullah the 2nd Fund for Development.

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Top Qualities of Truly Loyal Employees

 

Employee loyalty is so much more than staying at one single company. Who would you consider more loyal: an employee who has been around for 15 years, does only the bare minimum to get by, and will never hesitate to criticize you or the company at work and in public, or the employee who's been there for 1 year, embraces the company’s values and culture, and works hard every day to help the company get there? While experience years matter, most probably you’d pick the 1-year employee every time. Akhtaboot is here to highlight the top qualities to help you identify and retain loyal employees.

They Tell You What You Least Want to Hear

The more levels on the corporate ladder that separate you and an employee, the less likely that employee will disagree with you. Remarkably loyal employees know that you most need to hear what you least want to hear: that you are making a mistake. They'll tell you because they know that while you may not like what you hear, you care tremendously about doing what is best for the company.

They Never Disagree With You - in Public

Loyal employees don’t disagree with your decisions in public but only in private. Loyal employees don’t try to prove their managers wrong in front of other coworkers. Instead of doing so, they discuss, disagree and complain in private. Loyal employees trust they can share their opinions because what they have to say is in the best interest of their supervisor and the company. Even when they disagree with a decision that has been made, they follow through with implementation.

They Are More than Their Job Description

Loyal employees can easily adapt to shifting priorities and will never hesitate to do whatever it takes to get things done. Loyal employees ignore the job description if it has boundaries and jump in when needed even if it’s not their job. Just make sure their efforts don’t go unnoticed.

They Reflect a Good Image of Your Company

When an employee feels loyalty to a company, they take pride in the company’s services, workplace and culture. They will help you find more business leads by encouraging their friends, family and contacts to try your company’s offering. In addition, a loyal employee will portray a good image of your company to the community and public, even when they’re not on the job. A good example of this is to dedicate time for community projects or charity work, under the name of your company.

They Even Quit in Style

Sometimes even the most loyal employees need to leave. It can be because they found a better opportunity, a different lifestyle, to enter a new industry, or to start their own thing. Loyal employees know that their departure will create a tremendous hole, so they will let you know what they're thinking to give you plenty of time to prepare. Granted, being willing to tell you well ahead of time that they plan means that they trust you to an exceptional degree. This means that they know for a fact that you won't start to treat them in a bad way or fire them on the spot.

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Preparing Effective Presentations

Whether you are giving a sales talk, presenting a new product or pitching a business idea, a well rounded presentation is a necessity for supporting your speech and visualizing complicated concepts. The content of your presentation is just as important as your presentation skills. You have to take the time and put the effort in preparing your presentation as your business success or failure may depend on it. For making the best possible impression in the short amount of time given to you, Akhtaboot presents you with 5 tips that would help you prepare an effective presentation.

 

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