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Cash Genie is committed to responsible lending standards, and it’s a business principle that people should not have to come back and use the short-term loan services over and over. Apart from anything else, it’s not great commercial sense, because encouraging risky financial practices means that clients are more likely to default on their debts! So a part of the service is helping customers to organise their finances in such a way that they won’t need to opt for such loans in the future.

The best way to do this is to look at your spending: all of it. It sounds like a big deal, but it can make a huge difference. Break it down if it seems daunting. First, check all of your major outgoings: rent or mortgage, bills, utilities, phone, internet, debt repayment, council tax and so on. It may be that you can save money already by switching providers for one of these. In the case of a mortgage, that could save you hundreds of pounds or more a year. Others might mean you have an extra ten or twenty quid at the end of the month – still worthwhile.

But the most surprising figures are likely to come from the expenses you barely register. These are the small, cumulative expenditures you clock up over the week. When you look at them over the course of the month and year, they can make a huge difference. Buying a coffee on the way to work every morning? That’s only £2 or so, right? But that’s £10 a week, £40 a month or getting on for £500 a year. That could represent an instalment on your mortgage or a month’s rent. Similarly, buying a sandwich and drink every day instead of making lunch at home? Easy another £1,000 a year. The same goes for the odd night out: it’s very easy to lose track.

Cash Genie recommends keeping an eye on these little expenses. It doesn’t mean you have to deny yourself completely – no one’s saying that you shouldn’t enjoy the odd treat or lunch out. What’s important is that you know what these are actually costing you. Once you know that, you can decide whether the convenience or treat is really worth it, if the net result is staying in debt (and therefore having to pay more through interest) in the end. Plus, if you’ve got debts you need to pay off, this can be a great motivator. If a couple of lattes a week fewer means peace of mind in the long term, then it’s no contest.

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Social work jobs present many challenges to the committed professionals who are employed in them.  Those in social services jobs will typically meet many people each week who are experiencing very stressful or difficult situations, and the social worker will need to provide an emotional crutch, supporting the service user in every way possible.  This can be very fulfilling but it also means that anybody in social worker jobs needs to be aware that their work can place a strain on their own emotional wellbeing.  Having a few guaranteed ways of relaxing and recovering after a difficult day or week at work can make a great deal of difference not only to you but to the people you are helping on a daily basis.

Perhaps the most important way to relax if your job is emotionally straining is to have somebody to talk to.  Obviously confidentiality is an important consideration in social work jobs, so you may find it useful to have a friend or family member to whom you can talk in fairly general terms about what may be affecting you at work.  It is often the case that you do not need advice or specific guidance, but just somebody who will listen to your issues and understand why you feel stressed.  If your employer is doing his or her job properly, you should have a supervisor who you can talk to about all of your cases, and this is often an effective way of helping you avoid feeling that you are holding the burden of everybody’s problems on your shoulders – nobody’s shoulders are strong enough for this.  They should be able to offer you professional advice as well, so if you are not sure about what to do about any aspect of your case you can turn to somebody above you.

It is often the case that physical activity can be very useful for relieving mental stress.  After a stressful day you may feel like all you want to do is lie in front of the television with a glass of wine, but this is often only a very short term solution to stress.  If you really want to improve your mental state, physical exercise is often the best thing to do.  Going for a run will release the endorphins that genuinely make you feel happier, and give you an energy boost that is always useful in social worker jobs.  If you are not usually the sporty type, other forms of exercise may be more suitable. With its focus on mental and spiritual well-being, many people find that yoga is a very effective way of dealing with stress.

Most jobs cause some stress and anxiety from time to time, but it is vital for those in social work jobs to be aware that they might be more at risk of this than many other professionals.  social services jobs demand a lot of us mentally, and we need to know how to relax.  With the right tools to stay in control of our body and mind, social worker jobs should provide an enjoyable and fulfilling career.

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Given that the NHS is Britain’s biggest employer (and given it is not the only provider of healthcare, although certainly the biggest by far), it is not surprising that the recruitment of appropriate staff is a gigantic task. The simple law of averages dictates that workers will want to move between posts and, very often, different parts of the country, making finding candidates for allied health jobs an ongoing problem for personnel departments in both the NHS and other organisations. Thankfully for both the poor bodies in personnel and the time-short job-seeker, it is now far quicker to locate anything from jobs in occupational therapy to jobs in radiography, due to two enormous advances of recent years.

The first of these is, of course, the internet, a tool perfectly designed for the unwillingly-uprooted spouse trawling for jobs in occupational therapy in a new part of the country or the ambitious career-climber, willing to spend hours looking for career-enhancing jobs in radiography. It’s a far cry from the bad old days when subscribing to the local paper in a distant area or numerous telephone calls with several potential new employers was par for the course if one was to keep afoot of new openings. These days, searches can be precisely tailored and narrowed down to avoid trawling through lists of other allied health jobs in the hunt for the one which will fit a candidate’s qualifications, experience and aspirations.

The other development, which has been mimicked across numerous other fields of public service personnel, is the proliferation of specialist recruitment agencies who are usually able to match candidates to openings with more speed and less effort and cost than traditional personnel departments would be able to through traditional advertising. In fact, the growth of these companies, such as About Health Professionals, an off-shoot of the well-regarded Sanctuary Personnel, is closely linked with the new ways in which we look for work. Their web-site offers features most of us now take for granted when job-hunting: precise search functions with several different search parameters, e-mail alerts for suitable posts and the option to upload a CV for potential employers to consider.

This also works well, of course, for the departments offering allied health jobs who are far more likely to find the ideal candidate if their jobs in radiography are being scanned by candidates across the country, their search for dieticians is nation-wide with no further effort or expense than if it wasn’t and their jobs in occupational therapy are visible to those who maybe work for a neighbouring PCT but who are keen to move on to the next step in their careers. Given these enormous advantages to both job-hunter and employer, It’s hard to remember how anyone managed before!

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It’s not a simple task to track down quality candidates to fill care home manager jobs. If you think about it, home manager jobs involve a complex and potentially conflicting range of skills, combining an understanding of the clinical and caring sides of the nursing and care professions, combined with the commercial sense of any other business manager. Many nursing home manager jobs are filled by candidates who lean to one side of this divide or the other; lacking either the clinical understanding needed to manage nursing staff with confidence or the commercial experience needed to run a profitable business. In an ideal world, a care home would be run by a person with hands-on experience of the nursing sector together with the business knowledge required of anyone heading up a successful commercial organisation. It is indeed a tough ask – so what is the answer?

As in many other sectors of the healthcare industry, it is becoming increasingly common to employ recruitment agencies when recruiting new managers, but can an agency really understand the uniquely complex needs of the home manager’s role? And, given this is an industry with a dearth of well-qualified staff and a reasonably high level of burn-out, is it enough just to look at those currently seeking employment?

One recruitment consultancy in this sector, About Care, has taken the smart step of directly employing both qualified care home managers and experienced RGNs within its business to provide a more informed understanding of the needs of those searching to fill nursing home manager jobs. This means that its service is driven by staff with hands-on experience of the sector, not mere consultants who can only see from the outside in. It’s a smart move, especially in this particular field, and has served them well.

Another crucial element to their approach, and one essential in any industry where there are more openings than suitably qualified and experienced candidates, is to approach existing managers with proven track records and qualifications and present them with available care home manager jobs, giving them the opportunity to progress their careers in another care or nursing home. The major advantage of this approach is that it tends to avoid organisations being forced to fill home manager jobs from a field consisting only of those desperate to leave their current role (for whatever reason). Although it must be stressed that not every job-seeker is a questionable candidate, the traditional methods of recruitment for nursing home manager jobs can limit the options for a home determined to find the very best person for the job – which is why a break from tried and tested methods can really pay dividends.

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Accounts can be a complicated process, which in terms of the bottom line means they can be an expensive business. There aren’t many firms that don’t have some kind of discrepancy in their books at the end of the year. That can have different consequences, some of them serious. On the one hand, it might just mean the figures don’t quite add up, little more than a frustration to a bean counter somewhere. On the other, it could result in a substantial loss of funds for your organisation, or a problem with the Inland Revenue. An accounts payable audit can help you iron out many of the glitches in your accounts, enabling you to locate problems such as duplicate payments and other types of overpayment. This is all possible using specialist recovery audit software, which trawls your accounts and finds sources of mistakes. The results can be shocking, particularly for larger organisations, and can represent a significant saving. In fact, the software could easily pay for itself the first time you use it.

Audit software is versatile enough to check for not only problems that occur due to negligence or accident – simple human error – but also more sinister cases, such as fraud, when a client deliberately overcharges you or keeps money that you have paid by mistake. (In fact, the Inland Revenue uses this kind of software to check returns, using the information to identify possible occurrences of fraud.) That’s important, because if your client list is long or complicated, there may well be opportunities to exploit that, costing you even more money. Running the software will flag up suspicious entries, enabling you to recover funds that you never should have paid in the first place. That’s got to be a good thing in difficult times, when every little extra could mean the difference between balancing the books and wondering about ‘efficiencies’ – usually meaning layoffs – or even worse.

If you’re in need of convincing, start with the (not unreasonable) assumption that errors could account for 1 percent of turnover, perhaps more. What does that equal in cash terms, and is it worth pursuing – apart from any other concerns such as tax returns and catching fraudsters? For most companies, the answer will be an emphatic ‘yes’ – recovery audit software is inherently worthwhile. Duplicate payments and other overpayments can be hugely and unnecessarily expensive, so an accounts payable audit is often highly illuminating.

Please visit http://www.fiscaltechnologies.com/ for further information about this topic.

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The uses of video conferencing in the business sphere are well documented, as the need for many people to communicate frequently with colleagues around the world grows increasingly in our modern day ‘global village’.  telepresence video conferencing is so well developed that we can fairly accurately create the experience of a face to face conference with participants from Texas, Adelaide and Dublin all able to take part from the comfort of their own offices.  It seems strange, though, that audio visual conferencing seems to be struggling to take hold of the mobile communications market.  Although Skype is very popular for those who need to communicate with friends and relatives abroad, there seems to be very little demand for mobile telephones which allow us to see the person we are talking to.

In its early days, video phone technology was highly expensive, costing users about 90 dollars a month.  Nowadays, however, modern technology has reduced the costs to almost zero.  Webcams and highly advanced smart phones mean that cost is no longer a factor in discouraging phone users from using video conferencing. In its early days, many people expected that videotelephony would become the norm, but it is still used fairly infrequently.

This may in part be because videophone calling tends to be a poor substitute for real face to face conversation.  The conversation tends to be focussed around a video screen and a small camera, and participants generally look at the screen rather than the camera, which prevents them from having direct eye-to-eye contact with each other.  Some have put forward the theory that videotelephony may be less popular than expected because people actually prefer less direct communication. Texting, instant messaging and email are hugely more popular than video calling, which suggests that written conversations which can be handled at one’s convenience is, for most people, preferable to recreating the experience of face-to-face conversations.  Moreover, some people regard video cameras as an intrusion.  ‘Why does my friend need to see what I am doing?’ ‘I don’t want to feel I have to look nice for a phone call,’ and ‘I don’t feel comfortable being watched’ are all common responses when people are asked about this kind of technology.

It does seem odd that video conferencing has proved so popular and widely used in business, but most of us are reluctant to embrace it on a personal basis. Perhaps telepresence video conferencing exerts too much pressure on us to be fully involved in a conversation, when in fact we quite like to be able to do the gardening or cook dinner while chatting to our friends and family.  Audio visual conferencing does seem to be here to stay, though.  Perhaps we had better just get used to it.

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