Appliance Repair Technician LANES REPAIR LLC - Lansing, MI, US

For more than 30 years, residents and businesses in the greater Lansing area have put their trust in Lane's Repair for their appliance repair and maintenance needs.

We are looking for an experienced and qualified appliance repair technician to preform in home/on site repairs of appliances. Daily tasks will include repair and/or maintenance on washers, dryers, dishwashers, disposals, refrigerators, ovens and stoves. You will be responsible for maintaining and tracking vehicle inventory. Creating and maintaining a relationship with your customers is a crucial part of this position. Technicians will regularly attend factory certified classes and are required to continually educate themselves on the new and ever changing technology.

We offer a competitive salary package including paid vacations, paid holidays and healthcare. Pay will be determined based on the candidates overall knowledge and experience.

Lane’s Computer Repair provides honest, reliable, and affordable computer repair service to small businesses and individuals in Northern Vermont. We specialize in desktop / laptop repairs, PC tune ups – speeding up slow computers and helping them to run more efficiently, virus / spyware / malware removal and prevention of future problems. 

Lane’s Computer Repair understands that computers play a vital role in our customer’s lives both at home and at work. We understand how important it is for people and businesses to get their computers up and running as quickly as possible and that is why we work hard to have as short a turnaround time on all computer problems. We are committed to providing excellent, home town, friendly service to you the customer and strive be a name that local people and businesses come to recognize and trust.

HSP Appliance Repair Technician - LCL340 (Coon Rapids, MN) CenterPoint Energy - Coon Rapids, MN, US

Summary
Inspects and services residential electric and gas appliances to ensure safe, efficient operation and code compliance. Develops, maintains and demonstrates related skill proficiency based on changes in products, and/or technology in order to provide service excellence and demonstrates efficient, accurate and productive work practices.  Completes record keeping associated with appliance service repair and functions to ensure an accurate information system is maintained; including laptop repair record information, parts inventory, and payroll time keeping.


Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Services, inspects and adjusts residential gas and electric appliances and equipment to comply with codes and ensure superior service in terms of safety, reliability, customer satisfaction and monetary value.   Develops, maintains and demonstrates related skill proficiency based upon changes in products and/or technology in order to provide service excellence.  Demonstrates efficient, accurate and productive work practices.
• Promotes and accepts accountability for providing superior customer satisfaction and selling of Home Service Plus products and services (e.g., Service Plus contracts, options, maintenance products and Product Sales referrals) to customers.  Maintains professional working relationships with internal and external customers.
• Completes recordkeeping associated with appliance service functions to ensure an accurate information system is maintained.  Operates company vehicle safely.  Maintains vehicle and parts inventory.  Identifies and utilizes personal protective equipment and tools according to company standards and policies.
• Performs other related tasks including, but not limited to leak survey related to appliance work, storekeeping, transporting appliances and equipment to ensure the efficient operation of the work unit.
• Participates in training externally and internally, both field and classroom to increase job knowledge and competency.  Advises and assists other employees on the job to provide technical, safety and procedural knowledge.
  

Education
Requires successful completion of a certificate or technical diploma program (minimum of 2 semesters or 3 quarters) at an accredited educational institution in appliance repair, or a combination of education and experience providing equivalent technical skills.

 

Experience:
 
Entry level position

 

Additional Knowledge, Skills, Licenses/Certifications, Abilities & Personal Characteristics (KSLAPs)

• Able to meet and maintain performance and attendance criteria for the job.
• Able to obtain applicable Journeyman Gasfitter’s Certificate of Competency within 18 months of eligibility.
• Able to pass required pre-employment practical appliance service test.
• Able to demonstrate working knowledge of gas and electric appliances (laundry & kitchen).
• Able to demonstrate ability to read and understand electrical schematics and understand electro-mechanical relationships.
• Able to adapt quickly and respond well to changing priorities.
• Able to communicate effectively with other employees, customers and industry representatives.
• Able to possess a valid State of Minnesota driver’s license and have a safe driving record as determined by the Company.
• Able to comply with Company and industry operating safety standards and regulations.
• Able to demonstrate and apply a strong customer focus and deliver superior service.
• Able to manage use of time, work independently and demonstrate initiative to accomplish assigned duties.
• Able to use mobile phone or radio.
• Able to use a personal computer or laptop.
• Able to meet all physical requirements, competency-based assessments, pre-employment background checks, pre-employment drug screen and other selection criteria determined by the Company.
  

Physical Requirements

• Able to hear oral communication either in person or on a telephone, mobile phone or radio.
• Able to bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, balance, climb, crawl, reach, stand, walk, pull, lift, use fingers and grasp on a daily basis.
• Able to exert physical effort on a daily basis.
• Able to operate a motor vehicle, including ability to enter and exit vehicle unassisted.
• Able to operate a personal computer, either desktop or laptop.
• Able to exert up to 75 pounds of force occasionally and/or minimal amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. 
  

Working Conditions

• Able to work rotating shifts, assigned holidays and overtime when required.
• Able to adapt easily to changing work schedules.

 

This job description reflects an assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks for this position.  Other duties and tasks may be assigned to this position at the Company’s discretion.

 

May be required to remain in the service area during emergency events and assume responsibilities assigned by the company to aide in restoration efforts. CenterPoint Energy provides an essential public service which vitally affects the health, safety, comfort and general well-being of the people living in the area served by the Company. If any business unit activates an emergency operation plan, because of a threat to the continuation of service to our customers, employees may be called to fulfill an assignment. All employees, whether in their normal job or an emergency operation plan assignment, are essential to successful service restoration. CenterPoint Energy values the role each employee plays in serving the needs of our community.

 

All applicants must take a pre-employment drug test and obtain a negative result as a condition of employment. In addition to a pre-employment test, employees performing job functions regulated by the Department of Transportation (i.e. safety-sensitive functions) are subject to random drug and/or alcohol testing. Other testing (post-accident, reasonable cause, return-to-duty, follow-up, or return-to-work) may be required in accordance with work-related conditions.

 

This contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR §§ 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a), and 60-741.5(a).  These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities, and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.  Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.

Manage Online Business

Building your own online business is awesome and doing it gives you a tremendous sense of accomplishment. It affords you many benefits including the obvious monetary gains. It allows you the freedom to work as and when you please.

When you are settled on the actual area of online or home business to go into, there are a couple of things that you can do to make your daily tasks much easier.

One thing to take a look at is your working space. Do you feel as though your office or working area gives you the "right feel" and does it provide an atmosphere that promotes work, rather than relaxation? If not, consider keeping a desk that has the necessary papers and tools available within easy reach so that you do not have to waste time looking for things. Recommendations are: a blotter with dates, a stapler, a filing system with trays or with folders, pens, CD discs, a phone, a scanner and printer. You can have a mailing station set up on another table if you do a lot of mailing packages, tapes, or cds. Have all the accessories you need such as mailing envelopes, tape, address labels, zip code directory, etc. available and within easy reach. Keep your main desk clean and use space so that there is a feeling of "productivity" when you sit at your computer.

Do not have schedules of the kids and other things in your life imposing on your work environment. When you are at your desk, spend the time contemplating your work and what you want to accomplish for that time because it is so very easy to wake up and find you have spent two hours reading email and checking out links.

Make a check list the night before to keep on track of your next day's activities. This is great for helping you to accomplish more. Every time you cross something off your list it instils a sense of accomplishment and pride. This builds up momentum and carries you through all of the coming tasks that need done both in the immediate outset and the long term. Keeping the list in priority status also keeps you on track and gets the most accomplished for the day.

A benefit of the home environment is the ability to set the environment to a standard that keeps you in a good frame of mind. You could try just having nice background music playing while you work.
It is also a good idea to get up and stretch once in a while. Go to the refrigerator for a water or get an apple to eat while you contemplate the computer screen and your work. Remember, you are your own boss, so there is no one to tell you that you cannot eat at your desk! However, there is also no one to tell you that you should not spend working time playing games online, either, so you have to make yourself do what is on your schedule and your priority list to grow your business. It is just a matter of learning the appropriate methods to enable you to work in the manner that seems best and most efficient for you.

Once you are serious about your work and your workday, you will find a tremendous sense of confidence and pride and will know that your abilities are more than enough to fulfil your life's dream and ambition.

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History of Business Models

The concept and type of business models have constantly evolved throughout the years and have had a long history that dates back to several years. A very basic and popular model, since ancient times, has been the "shopkeeper model", which involves establishing one's store in such a location that is most likely to fetch potential customers and that makes it easier to advertise the products or services being offered.

The "bait-and-hook business model", also known as the "tied-products business model" and the "razor-and-blades business model", emerged in the first half of the 20th century. This model often involves presenting a common good at an extremely low price that in fact puts the seller at loss (bait), and then asking for compensatory recurring sums for associated products, services, or refills (hook).An interesting example of such a model is offering the software developer along with a free word processor reader and charging hundreds of dollars for the word processor writer.

In the decade from 1950 to 1960, revolutionary business models were introduced by Toyota and McDonald's Restaurants. Following these, in 1960s, Hypermarkets and Wal-Mart came up with another set of interesting models. In the 1970s, Toys R Us and FedEx were the innovators. The 1980s saw new models from Home Depot, Dell Computer, Intel, and Blockbuster; and 1990s from Netflix, Amazon.com, Starbucks, and Blockbuster. Poorly designed and inadequately thought out models constituted a major problem for many dot-coms.

Today, the emerging types of models depend largely on what new technology is being invented and how it is being used. For instance, nowadays, entrepreneurs operating over the Internet are also creating entirely new business models that depend completely on the emergent or existing technology. By using such technology to create models, businesses have a better scope to reach large audiences within minimal costs.

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Cover Letters and LinkedIn

What do Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook have in common with job hunting and your resume cover letters? All three of these social networking sites can create initial contacts for getting job interviews. By using social networking job search methods you can find out about job openings before they are ever advertised or posted. Your resume cover letters are about marketing and making connections with employers or individuals at companies. Social networking for job hunting is the same.

LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a one of the many social networking sites available online. Similar to Facebook and Twitter, LinkedIn allows people to connect with those they may have lost touch with or those they share similar interests with; unlike other sites, though, the largest group is businesses, who use this resource for many reasons, including advertising and job recruitment. This site is one of the fastest growing networking sites on the web with estimates of over 80 million members, is available in six languages and accessible in almost every country imaginable; there is no charge to set up a basic account, but there are some upgrades that you can purchase for your page.

The job market today, as well as the increasingly global nature of business, has led employers and job-seekers alike to try new and different methods of hiring employees or finding a job. Social networking sites are rapidly becoming the place where more and more people involving in the job market in some way or another are able to connect to people worldwide and exchange information quickly. Though not quite ready to replace online job-hunting sites or other job positing sites, social networking sites can be invaluable in both the hiring process and the job-hunting process; by not knowing about these sites, you run the risk that you may miss out on that "perfect" job simply because you did not know where to look.

Just as with any other social networking sites, LinkedIn has some unwritten (and written) rules of how one should conduct themselves on the site. One of those unwritten rules is that you should not contact anyone that you don't know personally. As with any rule, of course, there are exceptions; for example, sending a connection request to a friend of a friend who is the hiring manager for your dream company isn't considered to be "bad" etiquette, especially if that friend is one of the references listed in your profile. However, if you are sending connection requests to people you don't know on a regular basis, the site may identify you as a "spammer" and block all of your future requests, if not close your account completely. These types of connection requests are initial contacts much like job hunting cover letters.

There are two types of connections which are first and second degree connections. A first degree connection is someone you know and who knows you such as a friend, associate, former teacher or boss, and so on. A second degree connection are friend of friends, recommendations, or someone with which you have a mutual friend or associate. Connections often have information about job openings or know someone who does.

View your professional initial contacts as resume cover letters. You want to explain why you are contacting the individual, briefly describe your skills and situation, and refer them to more information such as your profile and website or publications you have written or about you. Then decide what action you want them to take. Requesting a referral person within their company to whom you might forward a resume or of they know of anyone looking for your particular skills.

Your Profile
Because this networking site is aimed at the business sector rather than personal socializing, keep your profile professional. Bad language, spelling and grammar are a big turn-off; keep your postings grammatically correct and free of punctuation mistakes.
You can also use the job search function for employers with openings. You can refine your search by location, country, or the world. In this case you commonly do not send a connection request to the company. Look for a link to the company's website or hiring page where you can complete an online application or submit your cover letters and resumes.

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Teens - Career Counseling for Teens

Having been a headhunter and thus a career counselor for more than 20 years, I have come to the conclusion from my observations that if proper career counseling is done successfully in high school, job loss or career change in the future would not be as traumatic as it has become for either teens or experienced executives.

Like everything else in life, if you want to do something the right way, you have to have the basics to succeed. You can't add 1,000 + 1,000 until you know that 1+1=2. The same goes for finding your first high school job. You must have the basics.

If you have a high school program that is dedicated to providing you with career counseling for teens then you are one step ahead of everyone else who doesn't. A good high school career counseling program should provide hands-on training where the student is required to create a resume and cover letter from scratch and learn the importance of building a networking file. They must also be taught how to dress for success and how to respond in an interview. All of these things are important, but the most important key to success is the network they being to build while in high school.

Networking is a natural part of life. When you go to a movie and you tell your friend how great it was, your friend goes to see it based on your recommendation. After your friend sees the movie and likes it, your friend tells another friend and so on. You now have several people who have "networked" with each other. They have "spread the word" about a great movie and have gotten lots of their friends to go see it too. That is a very simple explanation of what networking is. When you attempt to find your first job, career networking will be your first source to call on.

When providing career counseling for teens it is critical that you help the high school student develop this important skill. Networking can begin simply as writing down the name and phone number of the first person that you interviewed with when you are applying for a job. If you don't get the job, you still have the person's name as a point of contact for the future. If you do get the job, you now have a valuable source who may be able to lead you to other people or positions that may be beneficial to you in the future.

There is so much more on the subject of networking that is important in career counseling for teens. You will want to read more about this subject by reading career advice for teens. A great place to start is with Job Search 101. You can find out more about career counseling for teens by visiting this webpage full of teen job search advice. Click here.

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How To Efficiently Manage Your Business Accounts Receivables

Accounts receivables are the amount of money that a consumer owes a company for a service or product obtained on credit. Accounts receivables are therefore a company's sales that have not yet been paid in cash. While accounts receivables are considered as currents assets, it remains difficult to consider a product or a service as sold or purchased unless it has been paid in cash. If your company regularly makes a sale on credit and you do not implement and maintain an efficient accounts receivable system, the cash flow in your company will be negatively affected.

This can have unwanted implications in the operation of your business. It is therefore crucial that a company observes proper and efficient account receivable management. The following are valuable tips and guidelines to help you efficiently manage your business' accounts receivables:

Make a background check on your client before you establish a credit account. It will be to your advantage that before you allow a client to purchase goods and services from your company on credit, you make a detailed background check on the client. Among the things that you need to know are the demographic and credit information of your client. Making a background check is most helpful for you to avoid clients who you will have a hard time collecting bills in the future. The social security number of a person, for example, can be a very helpful determinant in knowing whether a client will be dependable enough to have a credit account in your company. This will save you from the hassles of spending time and money collecting unpaid balances from hard paying clients.

Enter into a signed agreement. It will be helpful if your client and you get into a signed agreement regarding your company's terms on accounts receivables. It will be best if you include in your agreement the payments terms and conditions which will help expedite the collection of dues. Identifying the collection cost reimbursement will also be advantageous relative to your client's past due accounts.

Maintain communication. Communication is crucial in any business transaction. It is therefore advised that you maintain communication with clients who have credit accounts in your company.
This means that you have to contact your client to ensure prompt payments and to identify reasons that have caused payment delays. Communication will not only build rapport between you and your client but will also ensure a more efficient collection of accounts receivables.
It is crucial that your business efficiently manages its accounts receivables. You can implement this by making a background check on your client before you establish a credit account; entering into signed contracts and agreement; and maintaining communication with your client.

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