7 Characteristics of Your Dream Job

7 Characteristics of Your Dream Job that Makes You Happy

Your dream job is where:

1. You can choose who to work with and whom you don't. In your relationships you feel appreciated, respected and listened to and you naturally and genuinely appreciate, respect and listen to people. Not everyone is compatible with each other or share the same values. Working towards bridging the gaps could be too expensive and may not always work and prove unaffordable although it must always be the first choice.
2. You can choose what to work on and what not to. Working on goals that align with your personal goals and visions.
3. You can choose and afford to take a break and not work when you don't want to, when you feel over stressed and distressed or just need a time out.
4. You can choose to learn what you enjoy learning, what you believe is most important.
5. You see yourself getting better and better everyday, growing and progressing
6. You make enough money that exceeds your necessary and desirable expenses. Besides, your income not only grows annually but grows greater than the inflation.
7. You invest the surplus income into value appreciating assets or passive income generator businesses so that over time they pay off your expenses and leave an inheritance for those you love

In contrast, the hell job is where you feel you are slave to money to survive, it is where:

1. You feel forced to work with people you don't like, respect or admire. You don't feel respected, appreciated or listened to either.
2. You feel forced to work on projects you don't like or even dislike.
3. You feel always under pressure for deadlines and don't get a chance to take a break, you burn down repeatedly.
4. You feel forced to learn what you don't enjoy learning and even hate learning.
5. You see yourself stuck where you are, trapped with no future.
6. You don't even make enough to cover your necessary expenses let alone anything to allow comfort expenses. Your income doesn't grow at all or grows below inflation.
7. You don't have any surplus to invest in anything valuable.

Code of Conduct With Your Clients

1. Always be honest
2. Always be trustworthy.
3. Always act professionally. It means not acting emotionally based on the moment's pulse instead focusing on higher values.
4. Be an excellent lead and role model in what you do.
5. Always have integrity, stick to your commitments, be faithful.
6. Provide the best services and solutions to your client.
7. Be fair in everything you do. Don't over-react.
8. Honor your confidentiality agreements
9. Learn about all the laws and regulations relevant to you and comply with them all.
10. Your purpose is to serve and to help your client, that's why you're there. Remove any feelings, thoughts, actions that don't help the client.
11. Respect by listening well and responding well.
12. Be loyal to your client business values not to the people themselves, this means you must report violations of law although this is equally dangerous and make you prone to retaliation conflicts so report in good faith, fairness and reasonable.

Don't:

1. Criticize harshly
2. Blame unfairly
3. Dwell in problems and challenges

Legal

https://www.rocketlawyer.co.uk/

https://www.lawdepot.co.uk/

Knowledge Measurement Assessments

When going for interviews, they'd usually use samples and templates from Knowledge Assessment providers such as:

• http://www.ikmnet.com/
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Company Contacts Directory!

http://www.jigsaw.com

You can find all software companies in London with their contact details easily!

or http://www.yell.com/

Writing a Good IT Contractor CV

What is a CV?

• Writing a good CV is a Science not a chance!
• CV is only a marketing document whose Purpose is only to get you an interview!
• Create and maintain a Core CV which contains list of all the skills, achievements, etc; it can be even 10 pages but you don't send it to anyone! it's for your own benefits and to create the specific CVs from it.
• Your Specific CV should not have more than 2-3 pages. If you have lots of experience, use 3 pages that'd be fine. Your CV should target one specific job advert; tell them what they want to hear not your life story! Show that you're precisely the perfect person they're looking for (Well, assuming you are).
• Best fonts: Tahoma for body and Arial for headers (if you want more readability) - Times New Roman (if you want to get the job!)

CV Structure:

• First page should contain; Profile, Expertise and Key achievements
• The Profile section should also be targeted for the specific job; only 3-4 lines.
• The Expertise section should be about 10 bulleted items. Don't write "years" beside your skills, it will work against you listen to me. Just list your skills without mentioning how many years!
• The Achievement section should be about 3 bulleted items. Saving time, money or made more money. business value? it's not about what you did, it's about what value/benefits what you did added to whom.
• You only have 20 seconds of the reader’s time to make an impact, otherwise it goes to bin!
• The second page should contain: Career History, Education, Training, Interests
• References should not be written on CV and should not be given to agencies until after the initial interview.
• Why a generalized CV is Bad!
• Target your CV
• Killer CV Template
• Writing a Killer CV

Examples:

http://www.contractorcalculator.co.uk/cv_writing_deconstructed_case_study_1.aspx

http://www.contractorcalculator.co.uk/cv_writing_deconstructed_case_study_2.aspx

http://www.contractorcalculator.co.uk/cv_writing_deconstructed_case_study_3.aspx

Agency Contractor Invoicing

X = contractor rate per day e.g. £300

V = VAT e.g. 0.2 currently

A = Agency commission rate e.g. 0.15

How much the contractor invoices the agency including VAT?

X (1 + V) = 1.2X = £360

How much the agency invoices the client including VAT?

X (1 + A) (1 + V) = X (1.15)(1.2) = 1.38X = £414

How much the agency earns excluding VAT?

AX = 0.15X = £45

How much the agency earns including VAT?

AX (1 + V) = £54

A simple calculator should be developed for this to calculate with different rates quickly.

Client / Colleagues Entertainment

Ideas:

Generally be generous to give, it will return to you multi-folded in mysterious ways.

• Buy cakes, biscuits for all your colleagues once a month
• Pay your colleague's bill at pub or at a lunch
• Buy a drink for 1 or more colleagues
• Offer filling in drinks
• Offer advise / help when they need
• Say Thank You more
• Even simply Smiling to Others is a type of giving

Why?

It's an investment to create a bonding rapport between you and your colleague/s.

What do you feel when someone buys you a drink? Often, you naturally feel appreciating and thinking I'll be doing something for him in return next time.

Based on the Karmic law, your giving will never be wasted so be proactive in giving, don't just sit and wait for others to initiate.

Finance Software

Free:

• Mint (is not available for UK) http://quicken.intuit.com/personal-finance-software/mint-online-money-management.jsp
• Microsoft Money Deluxe
• Microsoft Money Home & Business
• http://financialsoft.about.com/od/cheapandfreesoftware/tp/Free_Personal_Finance_Software.htm

Commercial:

• http://quickbooks.intuit.com/

HMRC Penalties for Errors in Documents

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/compliance/cc-fs7.pdf

What Is Money?

• Money is a reward you receive for the service you render. The more valuable the service, the greater the reward.
• Thinking of ways we can be of greater service will not only help us earn more money, it will also enable us to grow intellectually and spiritually.
• It is the duty of every person to be rich

Corporation Tax

Corporation Tax Offices: http://search2.hmrc.gov.uk/kbroker/hmrc/locator/locator.jsp?type=0

Rate:

Email Marketing, Event Marketing, Online Surveys

http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp

ILR

Application Types: http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/settlement/applicationtypes/

Application form: http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/settlement/applicationtypes/applicationformset(o)/

Apply online:

http://apply.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/service/SETO

Settlement News:

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/settlement/

New Possible Changes for 2011:

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/policyandlaw/statementsofchanges/2011/hc863.pdf?view=Binary

Settlement - Tier 1 - Draft:

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/policyandlaw/draft-060411/t1-settlement.pdf?view=Binary

ILR Forum: http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewforum.php?f=44

When to apply:

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Where to send the application form to:

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Tax Credits

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/taxcredits/

Who can qualify? http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/tools/taxcredits_qualify/question01.htm

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/TaxCreditsandChildBenefit/TaxCredits/Gettingstarted/whoqualifies/DG_181268

Employer Annual Return

Register for PAYE Online for Employers

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/paye/file-or-pay/fileonline/register.htm

Deadline to File Employer's Annual Return:

19th May

Employer Annual Return Forms:

P35 and P14

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/paye/payroll/year-end/annual-return.htm

Debt Recovery Agencies

If a client doesn't pay or delay paying an invoice, there are organisations to help:

http://www.creditsafe.co.uk/

Remember that often this applies if there is not a proper structure/process in place: 'He Who Shouts Loudest Gets Paid First.'

Expenses; Use of Home as Office

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/bimmanual/bim47820.htm

Director and Personal Tax Return

Purpose:

Tax returns are to determine how much tax you have already paid and how much tax you owe to pay.

Summary of Key points:

• You can either fill in your tax return online or on paper.
• Deadline for online tax return is 31st January after the tax year end.
• Deadline for paper tax return is 31st October after the tax year end.
• If you're on PAYE, you don't have to fill in a tax return whereas if you're a Company director you must.
• There are 2 types of tax returns; Short (4 pages) and Full (many pages!) - check whether you can just get over it by the Short Tax Return.

Links:

• Contact Self Assessment Helpline
• How to Complete the Tax Return
• The Short Tax Return
• Register for Self Assessment: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/sa/forms/sa1.pdf

How to Run and Grow your Business?

There are plenty of good resources over the internet advertising how to run and grow your business. Best of which are:

• http://www.smarta.com

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/taxhelp