It can’t be denied that individuals in the age bracket of 80 and above are higher than those in the middle age bracket. Senior people, since they may experience difficulties especially in making decisions, can be victimized easily especially when it comes to money matters. Sad to say, these people don’t know how to defend themselves from these financial frauds and they can’t just take action when they’re victimized.
With the limitations related to age, one must consider the help of another individual, particularly someone who is an expert on that field.
If you belong to this age group or you know someone from this age group and is seeking for financial advice, it would be better to seek a professional. Financial problems especially during the old age can be tough but through the help of a trustworthy financial adviser, you’d be able to effectively handle money. The consultant will guide you in making decisions involving your money.
Looking for a professional financial adviser isn’t that easy because there are things to consider. One would be to look for a financial consultant with a proven track record. If you don’t know where to look, you can always search the internet.
Make sure that the financial consultant that you are going to choose is someone who is knowledgeable and really an expert to that field. You can verify that by asking for educational background and certificates. These will prove that the financial consultant is indeed an expert when it comes to handling money.
You can find a lot of good and trustworthy financial consultants out there. You can ask help from your relatives or your friends to find a professional consultant to guide you in managing your finances. A firsthand experience from people whom you know can be a good basis to determine whether that financial consultant is trustworthy or not.
Being a senior citizen, you might find it difficult to handle your finances or you do not want to worry yourself from all of those money matters. If you want, you can always assign someone to handle them for you. Make sure that the person you assign to handle your finances can be trusted. You can choose a lawyer or a family member to do that for you.
It will be a big help to have a financial adviser by your side because that person would be the one to handle all your financial matters.
Building brand without fresh ideas and insights is like expecting flowers to bloom without rain. It is rare to rise above our own thinking. We need nourishment. This is why we see collaborators, to jolt us out of lethargy, ruts and blind spots.
A creative consultant can be as stimulating as a sip of cool water – especially if the consultant is someone from outside your usual circle of advisors. And this type of creative collaboration can help grow brand for any type of business: law, medicine, plumbing, therapy, etc.
But many business owners and corporate leaders make a couple mistakes. First, they wait too long to request input. Second, after enjoying a stimulating back-and-forth with a consultant, they fail to take action.
Happens to the best of us. We get excited about new ideas and then take a nap. Sartre once wrote: “Action is the only reality.” Not sure that this French writer and philosopher ever built a business. But after your session with a creative consultant, get busy.
Wrestle with Creative Consultant
Go ahead, be annoyed, aggravated and defensive when your consultant pushes you outside your comfort zone. But take notes on how you feel and why? The “offensive” remark may help you define limitations. Some barriers save us from danger; others restrict us from fulfillment. The paradox demands that we be brave and practical. Feeling a little edgy? Push back.
Then jot down the ideas that most annoy and most excite you. (Mental notes won’t work -grab a pen.) Select one idea that you rejected and then reverse your thinking and consider how it might feel to put it in play. Quickly jot down all your first thoughts, the imagined scenarios of disaster and success.
Now select one idea that truly excited you and immediately put it to the test. This doesn’t mean a national roll out, or costly experiment. Try it out on employees, family members and colleagues. I once heard a controversial playwright remark that during a public reading of a new work many people walked out. That’s how he knew he had touched a nerve.
Make Music with Creative Consultant
Maybe you’re not a musician. But that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the benefits of improvising with your creative consultant and colleagues. My father who was a professional musician often said that playing in a band of any kind was one of the finest experiences a human being could ever have.
So think of your creative meeting as a jam session. And recognize that you’re paying to be stimulated and challenged. Don’t just sit there – get involved, play along, give and take. Compose a new vision of your brand and sing its praises in new, even startling ways.
Maximising profits is the aim of all business. To do that successfully a business needs to prioritize the time spent on tasks and to streamline its processes. A business that provides a car hire service, for example, will have processes to log driving licences, take money and track its fleet of cars, all working at (hopefully) optimum levels. It is less likely to have a fully streamlined and optimized way of hiring staff. But recruitment consultants do.
Outsourcing tasks to specialist is an accepted and sensible route, and just good practice. By handing off unfamiliar tasks to those with expertise has been proven to save companies time and money, and to avoid costly and embarrassing mistakes. But this shouldn’t be all that a recruitment consultant brings to the table.
Companies want to get the right staff as quickly as possible. If you’re lucky the recruitment consultants may already have a candidate on their books that does fit perfectly, both with the role and with the company. At which point months of searching and interviewing may be saved. If not they can allocate more time and resources to the search than most small or medium enterprises can fit in around their already busy working days. Taking the time to create just the right advert, place it in just the right places, and have the time to then talk to each viable candidate to make sure that both you and the candidates get the best possible experience and match.
The recruitment and interview process is the base on which your relationship with new employees is grown. The impressions made by yourselves and the prospective employee will affect the continuing relationship that grows throughout what is, hopefully, a long and fruitful term of employment. By opening this relationship in a professional manner you get those foundations right. Having a team of expert professionals acting on your behalf, means that half the battle is won and those vital first impressions are the best they could possibly be.
A good consultancy will form a relationship with the business they are providing a service to, allowing them to understand the company ethos and culture, as well as the role that needs to be filled. They present the company and the position in a positive light, helping to ensure not only that the role is filled by a “best fit” candidate, but that that candidate is exited and invigorated with the opportunity being presented to them.
A company is only as good as its workers. In the present economic climate finding staff isn’t difficult, but finding the right staff can be a time consuming nightmare. Hiring the wrong people can be even more damaging. Using a recruitment consultancy allows a business to focus on what they do best, in the sure and certain knowledge that the whole process, from writing the job description, to advertising, to interviews, is being guided by professionals. And that those professionals are doing what they do best.
Finding applicants quickly
A recruitment consultancy will have a pool of high calibre applicants ready and waiting for the right opportunities. They will also know where to advertise to find more, and have work processes in place that make multiple advertisements a quick and easy task. This not only saves the time and money a business would waste researching what to adverts place, where and how, but it also means that the job descriptions are worded in a manner most likely to gain the interest of the right sort of applicant.
Post in the wrong places and the right type of candidate may never see your adverts. Get the requirements wrong and you can find yourself inundated with incapable and unqualified applicants. Hire a consultant that knows his or her field and both these problems are sidestepped.
Sorting wheat from chaff
Sadly, not all applicants are the right sort of person for the role. In today’s market you can expect to receive hundreds of applications for some roles, especially if the description given is poorly worded. At which point someone has to sort through assessing who is worth considering, and who needs to be passed over. Allocating staff time to sort though each application can be a nightmare. Having the consultancy working on your side whittles down the applicants, so you only have to deal with viable possible candidates, not every single person that chances an application with you.
Added Value
A good recruitment consultancy offers more than just posting adverts and forwarding some CVs to your human resources department. They can guide your managers through the entire interviewing process. Coaching them in interview techniques – what sort of questions, tone and structure will work best, and what to expect and ask of candidates. They can even help with writing interview questions to make sure you get all the information from a candidate that’s needed to make an informed judgment.