November 06 Newsletter

Refer a friend – get $100!

We believe great people know great people and we think YOU might know someone WE can help! If you refer someone to Beaumont Consulting and we place them, we’ll send you a $100 gift voucher to say thanks!

We Recruit for both Temporary and Permanent positions in:

Banking and Finance
Business Support
General and Life Insurance
Call Centre
Financial Planning
Sales and Marketing

Temp of the month

Outstanding performance from our temps doesn’t go unnoticed. We truly appreciate their efforts and therefore would like to acknowledge the great work they are doing for us.

Our November Temp of the Month award goes to Marion McErlain. Marion has been working for us here at Beaumont consulting for the past few weeks and she has flown through her work.

Marion is pictured here whilst on assignment at Beaumont Consulting. She gets a $100 voucher from the store of her choice.

What have the guys at Beaumont been up to? Growing!

It’s with great pleasure that we welcome to the team our brand new receptionist, Francine Hudson. Blake has moved on to the Business Support team to help out as Resource Coordinator.

Francine will be the first point of contact for most of you so if you do speak to her, please make her welcome and I’m sure she will be more than happy to help you with any enquiries you have. Feel free to contact Francine with any enquiries.

Blake will be able to help you if you are looking for positions such as reception, administration, PA/EA, team assistant, call centre or sales and marketing. Feel free to contact Blake to find out more.

Graduate Recruitment Awards show who wants to work where!

Ernst & Young has won the top employer ranking among students, and its on-campus recruiting activities have been rated as the most-impressive, in one of the most detailed studies of graduate recruitment to be done in Australia.

The survey showed that among accounting, finance and commerce students, Ernst & Young was a clear leader in being chosen as an ideal employer. It was followed by PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Deloitte, the Federal Government, Virgin, Qantas, ANZ, Macquarie, and the Reserve Bank.

Among engineering, science, and IT students, the CSIRO emerged as a clear leader as the ideal employer. It was followed by Microsoft, State Government, Federal Government, BHP Billiton, IBM, Intel, Australian Defence Force, BMW and Qantas.

The study showed that the most common career goal among Australian students was to achieve a balance between their work and their personal life.

Working internationally ranked second, ahead of financial considerations.

When students were asked what they viewed as the characteristics of a good employer, having a high ethical standard ranked first, ahead of a progressive environment, having a diverse workforce and industry leadership.

Among the most desired employment benefits, company-paid training was ranked highest, followed by private health insurance and receiving an annual performance bonus.

The most attractive things to put in an employment offer were international career opportunities, a clear advancement path, flexibility of hours, and secure employment. Interestingly all these ranked above compensation.
The survey also showed a strong trend for students to look at company websites to gather information about potential employers. This underlined the importance of employers having clear and well-functioning careers sites!

Tips for Effective Study and learning

With university and college exams at hand, you might want additional advice to give to your children, grandchildren, relatives....... But it's not just for kids! These tips are great for you - listening to a speaker at a networking event, at a conference or even listening to a great audio tape.

Day to Day

Take good notes
Always take the notes for a particular class in the same notebook. Spiral bound notebooks were invented because they solved the problem of keeping related information consolidated in one place.
Date each entry into your notebook.

Your notes should contain as complete a record of what the instructor said as possible. Don't leave out ideas. When you study, your notes should call back to your mind the entire sequence of ideas presented. Take care to spell all new words carefully

Anything the instructor writes on the board should appear in your notes. If the instructor took the time to write it out, he or she considers it important. You should do the same.

Try to take your notes in some kind of outline form. The organisation of ideas is as important as the content of those ideas, especially when it comes to learning the material for an exam.

Be involved in your classes. Don't simply pretend you are a sponge, ready to soak up whatever the instructor says. You are there to learn, not to be taught.

If the instructor is moving too rapidly for you, or if you don't understand what is being said, say something!
If your class includes group activities, participate as fully as you can. Such exercises are done for your benefit, not to provide a break for the instructor.

Review your notes every day. Research has shown that reviewing new material within 24 hours of hearing it increases your retention of that material by about 60%. This means that you will be 60% ahead of the game the next time you walk into class. If you want to significantly reduce the time necessary to prepare for exams, this is the way to do it.

Reviewing material before the next class period enables you to identify points of confusion or omission in your notes, which prepares you to ask the questions you need to ask before the next lecture. Confusion is your worst enemy.

Give high priority to new vocabulary. Language is the most fundamental tool of any subject, and it can seriously handicap you to fall behind in this.

Keep up on your reading. Unlike most high school teachers, many university instructors don't give specific reading assignments. You are expected to go to your text for the reading related to the materials covered in class. Be independent enough to do this without being told.

Preparing Assignments

Don't leave assignments until the day before they are due! If you have a paper to write or a lab report to prepare, begin it as soon as possible. In most cases, instructors will be delighted to receive work early. Remember that many papers or projects require quite a bit of research before you can even begin writing. In most cases, it is impossible to accomplish the necessary preparation in one day or even one week.

Be aware of the appearance of the work you submit. You should want to be proud of every assignment you submit, and that includes being proud of its appearance. If possible, assignments should always be typed. Never turn in an assignment written in pencil. Pages torn out of notebooks are sloppy and unsightly. Think about this point every time you hand an instructor an assignment. That paper represents the quality of your work, and your instructor is perfectly justified in taking its appearance into consideration when assigning a grade.

Preparing for Exams

Keep in mind that you want to be an active learner, not a passive one. The more you use and manipulate the information, the better you will understand it. Using and manipulating information in as many ways as possible also maximises your ability to access your memory.

Do not wait until the night before an exam to study! Of course, you should be regularly reviewing your notes, but the preparation still takes time.

Consider ways of dealing with the information other than those used in class. the more ways you can manipulate and experience the material you are trying to learn, the more secure your understanding and memory will be. Some suggestions:

Make charts, diagrams and graphs.
Make lists.
If the subject matter includes structures, practice drawing those structures. Remember that a drawing is useless unless the important structures are labeled.
There are almost always types of information which you will have to memorise (eg. vocabulary). No one has ever invented a better device for memorising than flash cards.

Never, ever pull an "All-Nighter" on the night before an exam. This is a "freshman trick," meaning that good students learn very quickly that it is futile. What you may gain from extra study time won't compensate for the loss of alertness and ability to concentrate due to lack of sleep.

Happy learning!

Source for these Tips for Effective Study was found on: http://www.cod.edu/people/faculty/fancher/STUDY.HTM

Joke of the month

One cannibal says to the other "Who was that lady I saw you with last night?"

"That was no lady, that was my lunch."

Quote of the month

Avoiding the phrase “I don’t have time...”, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.

- Bo Bennett