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A friend of mine keeps nagging and saying I need a job every time I see him so I decided to write this article for him hoping that he’ll stop his nagging. Finding a good job in this economy is not always an easy thing. You need a strategy that works.

I need a job

First of all, you need to keep some facts about job searching in your mind:

• 85% of jobs are not advertised. This is big, and it means that the main job search channels both online and offline are only telling you about 15% of the jobs out there.
• There are 3 stages to get through before you can get a  job:

1. Getting your resume looked at
2. Getting an interview
3. Getting hired

You have to get through all 3 stages to get the job.

• Most jobs filled by connections and referrals.

We know that only 15% of the jobs out there are advertised. We also know that about 90% of the people out there are competing for those jobs. And getting a direct referral from someone pushes you to get your next job. This means networking is the key and it is how the best jobs are always found.

Where to find Jobs?

• Contact Organizations in Your Field
• Search the Internet for Companies in your field
• Join Professional Associations
• Participate in Job Fairs
• Use online and offline Recruitment/Headhunter Agencies

Job Search

The sad news is that there aren’t many jobs out there. The unemployment rate is increasing in the U.S., call me a pessimist but it’s the truth. So you may decide to start your own business or work as freelancer, there are many options to find a job in your field such as Mineeds.com but first you need to know the things that you love doing or things that intrigue you that you’d like to try doing.

How to Find New Business Ideas:

Business Ideas

1. Ideas From your Knowledge and Skills: what is your knowledge area?
2. Find A Need: fined what people needs in your city and try to fill this need.
3. Create a Need and Fill It: in sometimes people don’t know what they want, if you can create a need then you are in the right path.
4. Add value to an existing products or businesses (offer something different to the other businesses in the same industry).
5. Enter a market where demand outstrips supply.
6. Then fined in which city the people are looking for your service the most.

How to Research your New Idea?

1. The Business idea: Think of your idea in terms of its product/service features, the benefits to customers, the personality of your company, what key messages you’ll be relaying and the core promises you’ll be making to customers.
2. The Costumers:  How many costumers for your new business? You may check the previous table or search for you business and city, to fiend if there is a real need.
3. The Competitor: There are three different competitors types you’ll need to keep in mind; primary, secondary and tertiary. Their placement within each level is based on how often your business would compete with them and how you would tailor your messages when competing with each of these groups.
4. The Partners: Think of businesses or people who may have an interest in your success but aren’t directly paid or rewarded for any success your business might realize, such as associations, the media and other organizations that sell to your customers.

In general a simple way to start a market research is to look at pre-published reports and statistics. These will provide data on how your market is performing, market trends, and may give you statistics on the average customer in your sector and his or her behaviors. These may be available for free from the government, or for a fee from commercial data companies, but be sure that the information is up-to-date.

One final point, find out how much this business may cost you, you may start small and expand if this business has a potential.

You may try our service at Mineeds, it’s cheep and there are many clients looking for professionals to fill their needs.

I hope that I answered your “I need a job” call, if you have any suggestions or more ideas please share them with us.

People living in rented houses often have to shift from one accommodation to another when their lease expires. At times, people also need to move from one place to another out of personal or official compulsion. Shifting from one house to another is easier said than done, as it also involves moving the entire household items and furniture, apart from your personal belongings. Shifting these heavy items generally requires the help of professional movers. Hiring amateur or inexperienced movers might lead to breakages or damage to your household items. There are chances that some of the belongings get lost during the transition. The best way to ensure that your belongings remain safe is by hiring an expert and experienced professional. The search for such a professional mover through the traditional way can, however, prove to be extremely tiresome, as it involves contacting several movers, soliciting bids, scanning through references, verifying their credentials and haggling for the right price.

This search can be made much simpler and less time consuming if one uses the MiNeeds site. Through this site, one can let professionals do the searching and contacting, instead of it being the other way around. All you have to do is post your requirement and then choose from the bids received from the professionals. Since the professionals are urged to submit competitive bids in order to win your business, you also end up saving money. This is the path that the customer in Seattle, Washington, chose to follow when he wanted to shift from one house to another. Right after he posted his needs on MiNeeds, all the professionals in his area were contacted and prompted to bid if interested. Within a few days, he had received responses from several professionals, two of whom even gave him a special offer. Since most of the professionals were licensed, he did not have to bother about getting their credentials verified.

You can also save yourself the hassle of searching for a professional the next time you want to shift from one place to another. You can either scan through the list of Seattle Movers and Moving Companies or simply post your needs and wait for the professionals to contact you!!

When building a website, the knowledge of the latest technology, such as Dreamweaver, comes in very helpful. Gap in one’s knowledge of these technologies can lead to several problems in the website and might even hamper site navigation. The website should, therefore, be created by a professional so as to make maximum the impact on viewers. If you intend to create the site yourself, you need to think of undertaking training from a professional website designer to update your knowledge and sharpen your skills, enabling you to create a website that meets your requirements completely. However, search for a professional website designer through the traditional means could be a tough job, requiring huge investment of time and effort…

This need not be the case if you choose to use the services of the MiNeeds site. With MiNeeds, all you have to do is to post your requirement and the associated details on the bulletin board. The rest of the work of contacting the professionals in your area and prompting them to submit competitive bids is done by MiNeeds. Take the successful example of the customer in Seattle, Washington, who wanted to build a site using Dreamweaver and wanted a professional to work on the website and help him learn. The moment he posted his need on MiNeeds, all the local professionals were contacted and prompted to bid for the project, if interested. Within a few days, he had received quite a few responses from professionals, giving him ample opportunities to select the one who best met his overall criteria.

You can also save yourself the hassle of searching for a professional the next time you want to create a website. You can scan through the list of Seattle Web Designers and choose the professional who meets your needs. Alternatively, you can simply post your needs and wait for the professionals to contact you!!

A thorough cleaning of the entire house, especially the backyard, is a huge job that usually gets delayed endlessly due to the extensive time and effort needed. Today’s hectic lifestyle means that there is always some work piling up over the weekend that gets priority over the cleaning job. As a result, over time, the backyard starts piling up with rubbish, unused metal pieces and other irrelevant stuff, clearing and moving all of which to a dump yard requires much more than a simple helping hand. A better way of getting your backyard cleared of all the litter and unused stuff is through the services of professional cleaners and movers, who have large equipment to do the job efficiently and quickly. However, finding such an efficient, yet affordable, professional could turn out to be a harrowing experience…

Not anymore… help is available in the form of the MiNeeds site. Through MiNeeds, you can save the time and the effort you would have invested in searching for a professional. All you have to do is post your requirement and the related details. This is what the customer in Seattle, Washington, did when he wanted rubbish and metal scrapings cleaned from his backyard. The moment he posted his needs, along with the estimated budget and preferred start date, MiNeeds informed all the local professionals and prompted them to bid for the business. Within a few days, he had received responses from 3 professionals, 2 of which made special offers to him to win the business.

You can also simplify your search for a professional the next time you want to get your backyard cleaned and the rubbish moved to a dump yard. You can either scan through the list of Seattle Movers or Seattle Cleaning Services and select the professional that best meets your needs or simply post your needs and wait for the proposals to come in!!

A dishwasher is more of an essential item than a luxury. To be able to get optimal and flawless performance from your dishwasher, it is essential to keep it in good shape and get every small problem rectified immediately by a professional. This will help you avoid facing bigger problems, higher repairing costs and greater timeframe required for resolving the problem. A search for the right kind of professional, who is an expert at repairing dishwashers, can be difficult.

You can make your search simple by putting forth your requirements on the MiNeeds website. MiNeeds lets the professionals contact you and compete with each other to win your business, giving you ample choice to opt for the one whom you find the best. The best part is that you don’t feel committed to anyone till you have awarded the project. Take the example of the customer in Seattle, Washington, who wanted to get his dishwasher repaired when it would not fill with water. He posted his need on MiNeeds and waited till he had received some bids. From the 3 professionals who submitted their proposals to him, he chose the one that best met his budgetary and other requirements.

You can also save on the time, effort and cost of searching for the right professional the next time you want your dishwasher repaired. You can either look through the comprehensive list of Seattle Home Repairs for the professional you need or post your need and just wait for the bids to pour in!!

Cleaning a house is no easy task. With kids, regular house work, a job and other personal activities, it is tough to take time out for elaborate household cleaning. And, the task becomes more complicated if you don’t know how to accomplish it or don’t have the proper equipment to do it successfully. So, people tend to put off cleaning for another time, every time. If you have resolved to get your house cleaned thoroughly this New Year’s, you can enlist the services of a housecleaner to help you fulfill your promise to yourself. However, searching for a good and efficient professional might prove to be a harrowing task, especially when you are on the lookout for someone to whom you can entrust your home for several hours.

The search could, however, be made easy with the help of MiNeeds, which lets you post your needs and requirements. MiNeeds then does the rest of the dirty work of contacting the professionals in your area and prompting them to bid for your business, saving you all the hassle. Take the example of the customer in Seattle Heights, Washington who wanted to get intensive house cleaning done. As soon as she posted her need on MiNeeds, local professionals were alerted of her requirement and prompted to submit their competitive bids. Within a few days, she had received 6 bids, from which she could choose the one that best met her overall specifications and budgetary needs.

Save yourself the stress and hassle of searching for and sifting through the references of a professional the next time you need to hire a housecleaner. You can either browse through the list of some Seattle Cleaning Services or simply post your need and wait for the professionals to seek you out.

So many mothers don’t have professional photographs of that special time during their lives; their pregnancy. The primary reason that mothers don’t schedule professional photographers is due to the perceived cost of taking and printing these special pictures. However, now due to the MiNeeds.com service, mothers can post their need and sort through a variety of bids that will allow them to find an affordable photographer.

A recent success story is of a new mother who is 35 weeks pregnant who was searching for a professional photographer in Seattle. She posted her need, estimated budget and waited for bids to arrive from local professionals. This mother received 22 bids from photographers within her area and was able to sort through and select the one that best met her needs within her budget. Due to the ability of this mother to save money, she now has a set of professional photographs of this very special time within her life.

If you are searching for Seattle photographers, visit MiNeeds.com to review the list of available professionals. 

If you have ever required move out cleaning services from an apartment or a single family home, it can sometimes be challenging to find a professional cleaning service that is prompt and within your designated price range. A Seattle based family needed a move out cleaning service and posted their need on MiNeeds.com. They required cleaning services on August 2nd or 3rd for a 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom home. 

Their project request received 16 qualified estimates from professionals within the local area. The family was able to easily compare all of these bids within a single location, they could read reviews from these cleaning professionals that provided bids from other site users, and they were able to select the cleaning service that best matched their personal needs and budget. Using the MiNeeds.com service saved this customer time and money as they were able to find an affordable cleaning service to perform their required move out service without any problems at all.

If you are looking for a Seattle move out cleaning service, visit MiNeeds.com to review the comprehensive list available of cleaning professionals who are available within the local area.

A Seattle based family required a simple will to be created as an update to their current in force last will and testament. Instead of spending time researching available family attorneys within the area which they did not have the time for, they decided to post their project on MiNeeds.com so that they could accept bids from qualified professionals. One of the reasons that they decided to use this bidding service was that it included only local professionals who had in many cases already been reviewed by other website users.

They created a short project explanation and then posted their project onto the service website. This posting notifies service providers within the area that this project may be a good fit for so they can place a formal bid if they are interested. The family waited until their project closed and then began to review the estimates that they had received. They had 10 professional estimates and profiles to review, with a variety of price ranges and services offered. For each one of these estimates, the family was able to read reviews, learn about the professional’s credentials, read their profiles and compare their prices all without leaving the site which was a tremendous time saver.

By using this service, they were able to save money as the providers were placing competitive bids in hope that they would be awarded the project. So, in the time span of about a week, this couple was able to post, review and hire the professional attorney that they needed to complete an update on their family’s last will and testament. 

If you are searching for a Seattle attorney to update your current will or to create a new will, consider reviewing the list of professionals at MiNeeds.com so that you can also save money through their competitive bidding process.

For a task that does not require attention on a regular basis, it can be challenging to determine what type of professional is required and what the associated cost may be. A local Seattle resident required tree removal services for a tree that had become overgrown in front of his family’s home. So, he posted a project on MiNeeds.com to accept estimates for the completion of this task. As a busy professional, this home owner did not have the time to interview a variety of tree removal services so that he could compare costs and services, so he decided to leverage this website to do the work for him.

After receiving 10 qualified estimates from professionals, this home owner was able to compare each of the bids on the site directly. In addition to the costs outlined in the estimates, the home owner was able to review previous reviews from the providers, information about the providers in their posted profiles and reviews from past website users. With all of this information available within the same location, this home owner was able to save a tremendous amount of time. Once the home owner had reviewed all of this information, they selected a provider that met both the time frame required and the home owner’s budget. 

This home owner was able to save a great deal of money as each of these 10 bidders was competitive, hoping to win the project. So, in addition to saving this home owner time and effort, this process also saved him valuable capital that he could redirect towards other home improvement projects or simply to leave in this cash reserve for a rainy day.

If you require a Seattle tree removal service, visit MiNeeds.com to review their comprehensive list of home repair professionals.