5 ways you can get the most out of your people in 2015

With the Cambodian economy still surging ahead, skills shortages and the war for talent, it is vital that you manage your human resources well. Below are some of the best ways to increase the performance of your people and your organisation in 2015.

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Improve policies, procedures, compliance and information:  Many businesses struggle to develop and maintain strong human resource systems. From effective human resource strategies, policies, inductions, performance management systems, legal compliance, accurate job descriptions, employment contracts, salary and benefits reviews etc. These are all necessary for you to manage and motivate your team, and help staff to be clear on roles, rewards, responsibilities and legal requirements.

Focus on your core business:  Many of the world’s most successful business understand that focusing on their core business can often lead to greater performance. Outsourcing non-core services can allow you to focus on what you do best. Look at areas of your business that drain your time and effort, and review if they can be outsourced.

Staff development:  Developing your team is vital in terms of company performance and also staff retention. Training can be delivered within the organisation or by external training providers. Take the time to understand the key skills required for your staff to perform well in their role.

Hire the best talent available within your budget:  We all know that we need quality staff for your business to reach it’s potential. Unfortunately not every organisation has the budget to offer market leading salaries. With so many companies vying for limited talent, a good recruitment strategy or recruitment partner is vital to enhance your talent pool and access to talent. Take the time to really understand what you can offer the candidates regarding salary, training, promotion opportunity, benefits, work environment etc. When considering salaries for key positions, don’t look at cost. Look at value. Achieving a saving on salary can cost you a lot in terms of performance.

Understand your market better: Good decisions require good information. In developing markets, there is often very little public information about particular industries, making it very hard to develop good strategy. With so much time, money and resources allocated to building a business, good information can help pick winning strategies and also avoid disasters.

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The article extracted from the marketing message of HRINC, Cambodia

By Adrian Low, Managing Partner HRINC

Want Clean Online Biz, Careful Watch Adsense Rule [Video]

This video is simplify thing more easier to understand a very important rule of content to use with Google Adsense. Google always check the content of publisher according to the rule.

Online business is a real business if you're really in. Some people in Cambodia, they don't respect well the rule but they could earn much with multiple accounts with them but by the time being, there will be no longer for that.

Let's make a clean online biz and enjoy watching nice animation and explanation on one important rule here:

A Real Online Business

Here is my snapshot screen of Google Adsense from all blogs I write, I've never expected that it could make some money.

I got from March, a 7.50USD which is a lot better from previous month of 2.37USD but it's so impressed that writing a blog, a simple one also could make some people interesting and reward us some amount.

For me, even it's small amount but it's one of a real online business from our hand and head, no other people hurt from what we are doing here.

I will see how to improve the content better.

What do you want to be?

Have you ever asked this question to yourself?
Is there anyone used to ask this to you?

What do you want to be?

A simple question but very difficult to answer. Everyday, life has been changed and according to each situation, we find "what" we want to be.

To answer, we need to discover ourselves.

This question is likely about the career in the future.

Each career has a way to go but we need a starter to be there.

The career can be:

• A staff in a company
• A manager in a company
• A teacher at high school or university
• A boss or the owner of a business in one area

But in anyhow, a starter career is a path to discover well about what we want to.

What should be a starter?

Mostly before reach our goal, we have to find out what is area we need to be with, they are such as:

• Education area
• Product & Service area
• Restaurant, Hotel
• Selling goods at the supermarket
• NGOs
• Telecom
• Software development
• etc.

When we found one of our favorite, then let's find a starter around there.

And dealing, improving, making more connections, taking risk to change one to another or looking for more partners and then go to it!

How about if we already have a starter?

So what you want to be?

We continue this topic later on, it's more interesting to see if some people sharing the answer of "What you want to be?" in comment so we can go further!

4 Inspired Big Ideas of 2014, Outside Cambodia For Cambodia

Big Idea topic inspires me through the LinkedIn posts, here I am interesting to share what I love to share.

The Year for Climate Action

Climate, Environment, Forest... are what we are interesting now related to current situation in Cambodia, we are now facing the issue as other countries. The recent storm in Philippine and around area, the climate changed in Cambodia bring us to think more about it. Let's join, UN/Ban Ki-mon's idea of 2014 for the Climate action!

Big Idea 2014@LinkedIn

In 2014, we must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future. Next year is the year for climate action. - Ban Ki-moon

Mind The Little Things

Let's have a look on the idea of USA on a little thing, how they use it for investment. It might be fit for Cambodia's today and we should be ready for ASEAN community from this little thing of upcoming year, 2014.

Big Idea 2014@LinkedIn

One dollar may not sound like a lot, but when American businesses in general — and travel companies in particular — build their entire ventures on fees like that, it is a big deal. Read More

Insurance Needs To Catch Up With the Times 

Insurance is new in Cambodia but of course, now there are some active insurance companies running and promoting now. Private, NGO or public organizations should be ready for this thing for their organization. Let's have a look to the International idea.

Big Idea 2014@LinkedIn

Creating an innovation mindset for your insurance agency or company will help you prepare and position your organization for the changes that are coming. Read More

How Not to Lose 30% of Your Customers 

It's about sale, about Marketing but in fact, it's about profit from your product website that you should consider more critically on applying it on smartphone. In Cambodia, recently, ITC just opens a new master degree on Mobile Technology and upcoming event by this January is about MobileApp Expo which is about Smartphone, users are using Smartphone in Android, iPhone and more... So critically think about this for upcoming year!

Big Idea 2014@LinkedIn

There's no excuse any more for not having a site which works on mobiles. Yet so many sites fail to take advantage of this, with poorly optimized mobile sites or, even worse, flash based sites which just categorically do not work. Read More

There are more than 60 ideas found in the topic of Big Idea 2014 at LinkedIn posts but above are what I am interesting to share.
Let's have a look all of them at the original website, LinkedIn.

Win a Part Time Job in Cambodia easily by Volunteering - Think Big

Now you might already ready to take yourself to the next level to get part time job since I already mentioned how to make yourself ready in my last post.

Cambodia is the heaven of opportunities but you need to prove yourself to make people trust you and give this opportunity.

Since we are in developing, there are many open opportunities available.

The stories...

I remembered, my first job was got when I was at 18 years old in high school, it was a very great experience to earn and feed myself in the way I got the money. I started by volunteering!
Let's me share the story:

Once, I went to an English class at an institute. I found a class of many pupils without a teacher, I was there and decided to go to talk to the students of pre-elementary class of English, I was having a very good communication with all of them and I didn't notice that there was another teacher there outside the classroom... that was a director of the institute. He offered a job to me afterward, he said: "the way you talk to them was very close as their brothers, you can be a very good teacher since I am also looking for one". Without any doubt, I decided to take this challenge.

That was my first job, even I got only around 24000R (about 10$ for my first few months) and get promoted after.

Keep your hand up for a volunteering offer

I got something more important than the money I got since I had earned a lot of experiences with the activities I spent with my students. Beside, the school allowed me to study free to improve myself in teaching methodology, language skill etc.

Volunteering does not always mean free of charge but you should not care about if you will get paid or how much money you will get, you just care how much you can show your talent to the organization you are volunteering for. That's the only point to prove yourself to them if you are a student and never get a job before.

Of course, that was very simple to get a first job as a teacher.

Another experience I had, that was when I started my university in Phnom Penh, I needed a job very much for my living... I was looking for the opportunity to teach secondary or high school students with the skill I had but it was not easy to get it. At that time, I'd like to be a volunteer at any NGO moment.
I was asked as well to join a team of journalism to create a new newsletter for a new NGO I had known and then I was involved in the website development of the NGO. Finally I got it as my fully part time job with a well paid enough during that time.

Volunteering is time for you to learn

You will earn but before earning, you need to learn and make your skills stronger.

That's why when you have a volunteering full time or part time job, it's time for you to experience all difficulties of any professional have and deal with them.

You should always take as much as volunteering when you are a student.

Be volunteer when ready only

"Ready" means you know that you will do it and already prepare a plan for it.

Do not afraid to decide to take it but quickly plan the actions when you decide.

My experiences, I had met this kind of volunteers, they said or registered their name as a volunteer but they never or rarely take into action. Finally their names always noted as irresponsible person and never get another call.

Again, be responsible... your attitude 

Just a remind, mind your attitude at where you are.

Be smiling, straight and love your work.

Where to find the opportunities

I found that most of NGOs in Cambodia are welcome all volunteers in each specific area, you should consider to get into this area. Also, at some private companies or community or school.

You need to keep your eyes, contact or communication with people around the area you want.

Make clear request or cover letter with your CV and send to them.

If failed, keep looking for next... until you get one.

Always learn from you failure and never lose hope or encouragement.

Me a self-motivated person.

Good luck... and share your though here.

Earn Easily with Part Time Job in Cambodia - Think Big

Are you looking for the possibility to earn more than today? Or are you a student looking for a finance support?

Let's think bigger together! Earn or make money from your hands in a smart way!

Part time job, it could be one of the source of incoming without using much of your full day time, you can consider to work at night or shift morning/afternoon but here you might wondering what kinds of job would enable you this kind of time?

Of course, there are a lot if you are living in a town in Cambodia such as Phnom Penh city, Battambang town, Kampong Cham, Siem Reap, Sihanouk or even other provinces.

In Cambodia today, there are a lot of jobs available such as in training, translating, at super market, in restaurant, with sewing or handcrafting or even stay home doing online job as data entry as example.

Meanwhile, you might not know how to get started but here is some ideas:

Seek your own strength!

Your skill, your creative idea, your attitude, your helpful, your volunteering... are all the way to find your own strength. Learn from yourself by try to do your first volunteer job, be helpful at school and be brave to go the first step.

If you are still not sure about your strength, it's OK, just keep going with hope and ...

Mind your attitude!

Part time job recruiter is seeking a trust person to handle their tasks and they need a person who behave good at their work place. You need to be a proactive one among others so that they believe you are an asset of a company.

Don't mind!

To earn money and experience, do not mind any type of jobs if you think it's a legal job to do because it's depending on time to show you its advantage.

But of course, you should always first select a job you want and keen on it in any case.

One important thing to consider, you are earning by spending your free time so just make sure you have make it good enough.

So, what can I be?

Are you ready? Let's find a position for your part time!

You can be a teacher of kindergarten or elementary or even foreign language for English, French, Korean or Chinese. Now there are many kindergartens, in Phnom Penh as example.

And have you ever think to be a baby sitter? I found as example some people who are very busy with their job to earn their big money, they are seeking school and people to take care their kids, especially found on morning, lunch time or afternoon. You can be one.

Other most found jobs, you might already heard:

• Accountant, Cashier, Seller, Marketing researcher
• Work in the restaurant, hotel, hospital
• Work at market, super market
• Graphic Designer
• Make your own handcraft products and sell to some shop
• Work as a sewer
• Web developer
• Translating document or as a translator
• and more depend on your skill...

But how to find one!

Be active to seek for a job, you can use Internet and search the part time jobs available in online job websites in Cambodia such as:

• http://www.bongthom.com/
• http://hrinc.com.kh/
• http://www.cambodiajobpage.com/
• http://www.camhr.com/
• http://www.happycambodia.com/

Beside online, never forget people around you like your teachers or your friends, talk to them and ask them to help. And of course, newspaper is still a source of information about this kind of jobs.

And make a good CV is very important, please be concentrated with what you are writing and CV format to show how you care on a job you are asking.

Anything more?

Share your though here, let's see if you have some experience or question.