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Whether you work in education, for a corporation or a non-profit organization, you will need to let people know your work. If you notice there are certain people in your current organization who always seem to get recognized for their visibility at work.

If you want to move up in your career and you want to show that you can influence people in your job, it’s time to look at strategies to create visibility at work. Here are 10 tips to help you maintain visibility at work:

1. Take a self-inventory — this is basically an assessment of where you are in your current position. What are the skills and attributes you have that are important to the company. If you aren’t sure, ask your boss.

2. Keep up with professional development — make sure that you take any opportunity to upgrade your skills or your knowledge in your profession. If a new opportunity comes along, you want to be able to take it.

3. Take credit for the jobs you do well –when someone notices that you have done a good job, gracefully thank them and then suggest that you are pleased with what you did.

4. Show initiative and motivation - volunteer for committees or new products that come up. Sometimes taking a project that is a bit risky that you know you can make succeed will put you in the forefront of the bosses’ mind.

5. Write articles - share your information that you discover in a company newsletter or other publication that is appropriate. Also join a professional organization and write for their newsletter. This will insure your visibility at work.

6. Promote others — when you want visibility, help someone else to become visible. If you are a part of a team and they have finished putting together a project, make sure that they get visibility for their contributions.

7. Get involved — let people get to know you through company gatherings. Talk to people from all over the company and get to know a wide selection of people in addition to those you already know.

8. Keep a portfolio — whether you are in a job where a portfolio is necessary or not, it is a good idea to keep a portfolio of all the projects you’ve worked on and seen through to the end. Even the first page of each report is good. This will give you something to talk about to your boss at a later date.

9. Ask for a promotion when its time — some people become visible but forget to ask for a promotion when the timing is right. Use your portfolio to help and outline what you’ve done and why you feel a promotion is a good idea.

10. Share your knowledge — be sure to share your knowledge at conferences, in special meetings or whenever the opportunity is appropriate. The more you can maintain your visibility at work the better.

Maintaining visibility at work is important, especially if you want to move up the career ladder. These tips should help you out, the important thing is not to loose focus.

Sharon Alexander - Claim That Job

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For most agencies in the creative industry time is the main generator of fees and revenue. Although a number of companies also have some income from buying and recharging third party costs and in particular start-up companies might utilise freelancers* for their work, in the majority of firms staff time creates the biggest value on a project.

When implementing job costing systems and running training courses at management level the issue of how to best value time often comes up in discussions.

The value of time can at the most basic level be calculated twofold:
- the cost of staff time to the company
- the fee value of time used for client billing

In addition to that more levels are thinkable:
- a super profit fee value of time where for certain clients a mark-up is applied to the average fee value for client billing
- the fee value of time in foreign currency for overseas client billing

This article will concentrate on the first two as the most commonly used values.

Whilst the fee value of time is easily specified as it is a value made up by the company, it is not as straightforward to find the cost value of time. A semi standard seems to be to triple the salary cost of a person in order to allow for employers contributions as well as an overhead apportionment for office space, equipment and maintenance. Having calculated this annual cost of a person you then divide it by working days in a year and finally by the normal hours you expect your staff to work on a day in order to get to an hourly cost.

Despite all the detailed underlying calculations this cost rate per hour will still not be an exact value but only an approximation as factors not included in the calculation might impact on it. The main factor on that is unpaid overtime. Staff is supposed to record all time against jobs. This includes time outside their normal time that they require to complete a job. For the business it is important to record this time as every hour spent on a job should add to its billing value. However every hour in excess to the standard hours will then also add a cost value to the job and the business, even though there is no extra cost generated if overtime is unpaid. Some firms solve this problem by setting up their timesheet system to reset the cost value to zero if a number of hours is exceeded. Although this will then make the overall cost of time for the business more real, it will not have a benefit on the job costing side as the extra time after office hours could have been spent on any project. This system would therefore artificially increase the profitability off every last job of the day.

As a result of all those implications many agencies completely ignore the cost value of time and treat the billing value of time as the main job costing value. For them the billing value is the only accurate value as the firm specifies it. It is also the break-even value of a job. Any time spent exceeding the budget and not billable will mean a loss to the enterprise.
From a project costing point of view this appears to be the preferable solution for them.

*Bendel, V. (2008, June 1). “How to Account For Freelancers in the Creative Industry” published on this website.

© 2008 Volker Bendel - Volker Bendel is manager of the training department of Agency Software Worldwide, the producers of the “Paprika/Rebus” job costing software (http://www.paprika-software.com) - (http://www.rebus-software.com) Originally from a legal background, he has several years experience in planning and implementing Job Costing and Accounting Software Systems in the Creative Industry. He has also delivered training courses in the UK, Europe, Dubai, the US, China and Australia. Prior to that he worked as a senior business consultant in Hong Kong and as a department manager of a design department in Hong Kong.

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Buying dental lab coats is easy and can be found easily on most websites. These websites have everything from long dental lab coats to shorter, three quarter length coats. And no longer are they the simple, plain white. Your staff can mix and match colors and even some prints.

Beginning with the unisex lab coats, they will fit both male and female and usually comes with three pockets - two side pockets and a breast pocket - to hold all your small dental tools, gloves, mask and pen and paper or prescription pad. They are available in the long, 40 inch length and the shorter, 30 inch length.

Women have a style all their own and when it comes to dental lab coats, there is a style just for them. The Cherokee fitted lab coat looks more like a short blazer than a work outfit or lab coat. Pleats, princes seams and buttons in the back compliment this smart looking lab coat for women dentists or dental hygienists or anyone woman who works in a dentist’s office. Two pockets complete the white form fitting jacket for women.

The most lab coats can be customized with your dental company’s logo embroidered on the chest for an additional charge; however there is a break for ordering in quantity. You could have the names of the people who work for you embroidered on the jackets, or, you can choose from several of the characters or ’stock’ logos for dentist’s uniforms that the websites have on hand.
Dental lab coats in solid colors, for both men and women, are available on the internet.

Some dental offices are now going with the bright colors instead of the drab, white lab coats. There are colors of nearly every shade and you can mix and match them for everyone in the office. Yellow, pink, orange, fuchsia, green and blue are just a few of the colors available. And if the bright colors are not your style, there are more subdued colors such as brown and black which help to hide the dirt and mess that often comes with being a dentist or a dental hygienist or assistant.

What are popular today are the knitted cuff coats. The cuff of the sleeves is knitted and this helps them stay in place when you need to pull them up and out of the way when working on a patient. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes including crew neck, lapel style, long coat length and three quarters length. Sorry men, these are for women only.

Dressing your dental office is easy with the proper uniform and can make all the difference in the world to a scared patient. The receptionists or outer office area staff could be outfitted in the shorter, fitted, blazer style lab coats, while the assistants wear one color and the hygienists would wear another. The dentist themselves would either wear a specific color, perhaps a pale blue to make people feel more comfortable with their visit, or the white.

Rick is working as a business consultant for an online nursing uniforms store Pulse Uniform if you need to see the latest trends, colors and prints please go to our dental lab coats section.

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There is a wide selection of white lab coats from a variety of manufacturers including Cherokee, Dickie, Barco and Pulsepro. The white lab coats come in various styles such as long coats, short coats, consultation coats, men’s coats and women’s coats and also unisex white lab coats.

White lab coats are more professional looking than the multitude of colors and characters that some hospitals and clinics now allow their employees to wear. White coats are crisp and clean and mean business. Some patients seem to trust their doctors more when they are in a white lab coats, the same goes for a pharmacist. Long lab coats usually run from 40 inches to 50 inches, however special orders for taller people can be made. You want a long white lab coat to fall near your knees for a more professional look. Although there are shorter white lab coats that are just as professional looking. Most medical students wear the shorter white lab jackets to distinguish them apart from the regular doctors.

Laboratory workers and chemistry laboratory engineers all wear white color because most of the these lab coats are made of a stain resistant poly twill material which helps with the stains and keeping them right and white, wash after wash. And white lab coats look more professional and a laboratory than the color of one’s.

Consultant lab coats for both men and women only come in white. Consultant coats are short jackets that doctors wear when they are consulting with the patient or a patient’s family and do not want to wear their long lab coat. The consultants coats make them look more professional when speaking to a patient or family if not examining the patient. It’s something they would wear in their office after an examination or during their morning rounds at a hospital.

There are several feminine looking white lab coats especially made for the female doctor or nurse. They have pleats and darts in the back to help shape you come in addition to Princes seaming and double stitching. There are few brands of white lab coats that offer embroidery on the collar and the pocket flaps. There is also a short white lab coats that has eyelet lace trim along the cuffs of the sleeves in addition to the collar.

Another one of the women white lab jacket has a jeweled collar and knitted cuffs that stay in place when you pull them up so they stay out of the way when you are working on a patient. This white lab coat doubles as a jacket during the winter months, perfect over nurse scrubs. It comes with two pockets, a breast pocket, a cell phone pocket and in inside hidden pocket. Perfect for all of your nursing or doctor necessities.

Rick is working as a business consultant for an online nursing uniforms and lab coat store Pulse Uniform if you need to see the latest trends, colors and designs please go to our white lab coats section.

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