OFW Speak

1. How long have you been in the service?
-around 2 years

2. What position did you start?
-Article writer

3. What tasks are you responsible with?(just make it general for discretion)
-Blogging, traffic and lead generation

4. What makes home-based and office-based job different?
-With home-based, I get to work without having to wear neat clothes, and need not to take a bath. HAHAHA! Plus, I can save expenses from fares and lunch.

5. What is the best part of being an an online worker?
-I can get to spend more time with my daughter. Like I can always look out on her, have meals together with her.

6. The biggest challenge of your job?
-Doing new things

Following up an interview can be very hard especially not to sound annoying and desperate.

Sean Weinberg, co-founder of resume-grading web app RezScore, suggests that there's one line you don't want to leave out: "Please let me know either way." He explains why:

THE most effective line to use in your follow up is "Please let me know either way".
I am going to repeat that: THE most effective line to use in your follow up is "Please let me know either way"
Sure, it's more polite for the company to let you know either way, but with the amount of applicants and the numbered hours in a day, it's not as likely that you're going to get that courtesy call or e-mail unless you specifically ask for it.
Follow up with them to help ensure that they follow up with you.

In the field of Business Process Outsourcing, Programmers usually have a over-the-top compensation this is because learning a programming language and being well-versed to it isn't that easy as it sounds.

Unlike learning a new foreign language, you need high level of analytic and numerical skills aside from good memory in learning a programming language.

Outsourcing companies always take big leverage on their off shore programmers, since locally hired programming authors charge sky high for a developed source code.

Programming might not be for everybody indeed, but a knowledge about it can suffice. Say for example you have an idea of what PHP, AJAX, Sql, javascript or html is, you can be a technical lead where you can direct a hard coders to program certain tasks.

I find this site very useful and filled with high quality contents that you may use in your quest for programming adventure. It is called W3school.

I personally don't do hard coding, if there's a simple way to do it, then why sweat it.

Picture this: You meet someone new. "What do you do?" he asks.

"I'm an architect," you say.

"Oh, really?" he answers. "Have you designed any buildings I've seen?"

"Maybe," you reply. "We did the new library at the university..."

"Oh wow," he says. "I've seen it. That's a beautiful building..."

And you're off. Maybe he's a potential client, maybe not... but either way you've made a great impression.

You sound awesome.

Now picture this: You meet someone new. "What do you do?" he asks.

"I'm a passionate, innovative, dynamic provider of architectural services who uses a collaborative approach to create and deliver outstanding customer experiences."

And he's off, never to be seen again... because you sound like a pompous ass.

Do you--whether on your website, or more likely on social media accounts--describe yourself differently than you do in person?

Do you use hacky clichés and overblown superlatives and breathless adjectives?

Do you write things about yourself you would never have the nerve to actually say?

If so, it's time for a change.

Here are some words that are great when used by other people to describe you, but you should never use to describe yourself:

"Motivated."

Check out Chris Rock's response (not safe for work or the politically correct) to people who say they take care of their kids. Then substitute the word "motivated." Never take credit for things you are supposed to do--or be.

"Authority."

If you have to say you're an authority, you aren't. Show your expertise instead. "Presenter at SXSW" or "Delivered TED Talk at Long Beach 2010" indicates a level of authority. Unless you can prove it, "social media marketing authority" just means you spend a ton of time on Twitter.

"Global provider."

The vast majority of businesses can sell goods or services worldwide; the ones that can't--like restaurants--are obvious. (See?) Only use "global provider" if that capability is not assumed or obvious; otherwise you just sound like a really small company trying to appear really big.

"Innovative."

Most companies claim to be innovative. Most people claim to be innovative. Most are not. (I'm not.) That's okay, because innovation isn't a requirement for success.

If you are innovative, don't say it. Prove it. Describe the products you've developed. Describe the processes you've modified. Give us something real so your innovation is unspoken but evident... which is always the best kind of evident to be.

"Creative."

See particular words often enough and they no longer make an impact. "Creative" is one of them. (Go to LinkedIn and check out some profiles; "creative" will appear in the majority.)

"Creative" is just one example. Others include extensive, effective, proven, dynamic, influential, team player, collaborative... some of those terms truly may describe you, but since they're also being used to describe everyone else they've lost their impact.

"Curator."

Museums have curators. Libraries have curators. Tweeting links to stuff you find interesting doesn't make you a curator... or an authority or a guru.

"Passionate."

Say you're incredibly passionate about incorporating an elegant design aesthetic in everyday objects and--to me at least--you sound a little scary. Same if you're passionate about developing long-term customer solutions. Try focus, concentration, or specialization instead. Save the passion for your loved one.

"Unique."

Fingerprints are unique. Snowflakes are unique. You are unique--but your business probably isn't. Don't pretend to be, because customers don't care about unique; they care about "better." Show how you're better than the competition and in the minds of customers you will be unique.

 "Guru."

People who try to be clever for the sake of being clever are anything but. Don't be a self-proclaimed ninja, sage, connoisseur, guerilla, wonk, egghead... it's awesome when your customers affectionately describe you in that way, but when you do it it's apparent you're trying way too hard.

"Incredibly..."

Check out some random bios and you'll find plenty of further-modified descriptors: "Incredibly passionate," "profoundly insightful," "extremely captivating..." isn't it enough to be insightful or captivating? Do you have to be incredibly passionate?

If you must use over-the-top adjectives to describe yourself, at least spare us the further modification. Trust us; we already get it.

Part of changing your mindset is giving other people tasks
that you would normally have done yourself.
It’s also about using your resources efficiently.  If you can
buy an ebook about something for $50, and have that teach
your guys how to do it, why wouldn’t you do that instead
of spending 3-4 hours creating training yourself?
Is your time really only worth $12/hour?
It’s the same thing with ReplaceMyself.com.
Did you know that 98% of the content inside ReplaceMyself.com isn’t for you!
No, IT’S NOT FOR YOU!
It’s for you to give to your guys to train them.
It’s process lists.It’s step by step training.It’s business concepts.It’s minute details to make sure stuff gets done correctly.
The point of ReplaceMyself.com is to help you change your mindset.
If you don’t change it, how can you ever expect to be the
CEO of your company?
Here’s the training to hand off to your Filipino VA’s.
All of this stuff is there to help you move towards the lifestyle
you want to be living.
If you’re not living it now, when are you going to start?
“As soon as…?”
“As soon as…” never comes.
Today’s the day to start.
I understand that this is a blatant ad for my website.
I’ve just seen too many people try to hire someone, not train them, and then complain that “this doesn’t work.”
It does work.
You just have to train the people you hire…and then manage them well.


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Over the past few months I’ve begun to realize that doing
outsourcing correctly requires a change in mindset.

See…most people are so used to busting their own butt to get stuff done,
that giving their work to other people is very foreign to them.
It’s almost unnatural.
I know often people think “If I do it myself it’l get done faster and better.”

That’s exactly the wrong mindset I’m talking about.
The problem with it is that you’ll always be the one doing it.
Even if it does get done faster and better, you’re still
limiting the amount of stuff that gets done.
When you change your mindset, you start giving stuff to other
people and letting them figure it out.
No, I’m not talking about giving business decisions to other
people, you still have to do that.
I’m talking about tasks that someone else can do.
ALL OF THEM.
For example, here’s a list of things I recently had my people
do for me:
Set up a listing for meconvert all my videos using Supercreate and encode a video for me using 2 different videos and an audio streamupload my personal pictures from my personal PC to my flickr account (hey…this is about lifestyle…I’m tired of doing this!)Set up an aweber mailing listWrite a sales letter (yes, you read that right…and they did a dang good job too).Tell me what ebook in which industry we should write next! I did very little training for this stuff because I’ve already given them so much training (all the stuff that’s available as a ReplaceMyself.com member) that now they can figure out almost anything):
After your guys are trained, they can do ANYTHING!
You just have to change your mindset!

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Each year, universities in the Philippines produce tons of graduates that can't immediately land a job.

Well, most of them stay at home and wait for calls from various employers whom they submitted their neatly crafted curriculum vitae hoping to be hired.

Guess what? That's the traditional way of hunting jobs. And guess what again, you are in the information era as you read this. So if you have no idea of social let me introduce you to facebook, twitter, tumblr, pinterest, linkdIn where people not only socialize but also hunt for prospective employees and employers.

Yes! Social media is a game changer in the field of employment. To mention a few, there's SkillPages where you can tell about your self and people will eventually find you there.

You see, people spend an average of 4 hours per day in facebook alone. What could be the best place to find talents? The place where fishes are, and it is the social media platforms you are using everyday.

Cheer up! Don't just sit there and watch videos or stalk other people's profiles for hours. Leverage your social media accounts to find a job!