IvyBot - Is the IvyBot Software Really Any Different From Other Forex Robots?

Saturday, October 17, 2009

In the business world, it is important to have a tool that can track all your business dealings every day, especially when it comes to negotiating in the stock market. This is the reason behind the invention of the IvyBot. Some Ivy League students are the genius behind the invention of this trading software. With all this information, what exactly does the IvyBot have that makes it different from other trading software?

IvyBot is different in the sense that it has a simple user interface that will allow the operator to understand foreign exchange tools even better. Its user-friendly interface also can work alone as it has an autopilot that will allow the data input to be as easy as 123. One does that have to be tech-savvy in order to understand how the robot works. Thus, it will be easier for you to monitor the foreign exchange rates in that the stock market with the robot.

The Ivy League graduates made sure that the IvyBot software would be very useful when it comes to monitoring your investments. This robot is a result of painstaking research and study just to come up with a product like this high-tech invention. This is going to be a good investment for trading aficionados.

As for mistakes, the IvyBot software has minimal mistake because it is closely monitored and checked by technological professionals. You are therefore assured that all the software programs are up to date. This is done through the help of a foreign exchange professional that inputs all the programs into the said robot.

The IvyBot software truly is a remarkable product that will allow even the simplest person to track down his investment in the stock market without much of the complicated information needed to understand the figures and numbers in the stock exchange. These are added points for the IvyBot marketability.

Suffice it to say that the IvyBot has all the tools that you need in order to track down your earnings both here and abroad. Having the robot as a machine will truly change your stock market activity tremendously. The present day business executive needs a robot such as this.

Statistically speaking, the IvyBot needs all the competition in terms of function and form. This can be proven by various testimonials that show the marketability of the product. Truly, it is a remarkable machine will change our lives forever.

The Importance of Basic Writing Skills

Few organizations exist in order to communicate. Most have another purpose ; to sell a product or service , to supply a social need , to implement plans and policies. Yet to do those things ,organizations spend an enormous amount of time , energy and money communicating.

People in organizations communicate in many ways : face-to-face in two person discussions, in informal groups, in meetings , by email, in old fashioned letters ormemos and in reports.

All of these methods are verbal communications, or communications that uses words. Nonverbal communication does not use words . Pictures , computer graphics and company logos are examples of non - verbal communications. Interpersonal nonverbal signals including smiles, who sits where at a meeting, the size , location and window access of an office and how long someone keeps a visitor waiting.

Studies have found that people generally spend 70 to 85 % of their work time deliberately communicating , writing , reading , speaking and listening . Often most of an executive's day is spent in communication modes.

Your technical skill whether it be in accounting , marketing , sales or computer technology may get you your first job. The ability to speak and write effectively may help you keep it as well as prospe . A major study showed that the inability to write was a major reason that accounts were fired As you rise in an organization , technical skills matter less and more general skills including the ability to write and speak will determine how fast and far you go.

Most students understand the importance of effective oral communication skills. But some are not convinced that they need to be able to write well to succeed professionally. They may think that a secretary or technical writer will do their writing , or think that they can use form letters if they have to write. Each of these claims has fundamental flaws in their logic.

Today , many workers in business and government still have their letters , memos and reports typed on a computer by someone else.

However this situation is changing rapidly as more and more business's realize the economy and simplicity of the prevalence and standardization of computerized office software packages.
You may be lucky to still have someone else type out your letters . However this is not going to last long. And the best secretary , cannot compensate for fundamental errors in organization, logic, audience, analysis or tone.

Sometimes you may finish a letter after five o'clock . Sometimes you may need to work on weekends or be " on the road ". You will most likely need to put the finishing touches on a report that is due at 9 a.m. Monday. The ability to write well makes you much more independent and versatile.

You may think that you can use form letters that are widely available for the office software packages.

A form letter is a prewritten fill-in-the-blank setup designed to fit standard situations. The writer can personalize a form letter or report by having it individually filled out with the recipients.

Using a form letter is Ok but some of those available are dreadfull and will leave a very bad impression of you .

Even good form letters cover only routine situations. The higher you rise in your organiation , the more frequently you will face situations that are not routine and demand creative and more specific solutions. If you develop the skills necessary for good writing and original thinking , you are far more likely to realize your potential and reach your career goals.

Many people in business and government routinely write from 10 pages of letters and memos a week and in some cases it not uncommon for 20 to 35 pages a day. Most people find speaking easier than writing. The phone is faster and usually cheaper than than a letter or memo. Email is of course is among the cheapest means to communicate both in time spent in delivery , effectiveness and cost.

People in organizations put things in writing , rather than depend exclusively on oral communication to create a record , to convey complex data , to make a message to multiple recipients succinctly , efficiently and effectively.

Your Interview Comportment

Marketing communications copywriter Charlie Trumpess takes a humorous look at how best to tackle that age old terror, the job interview.

Let's face it, job interviews are about as much fun as a hot wax with no anaesthetic. After all, attempting to showcase your talents to a bunch of strangers, usually against the clock and on someone else's turf is not a natural act. Nevertheless, if you really want the job then you have to crack the interview conundrum. Giving 'good interview' is all about the three Ps - preparation, presentation and positive thinking. All interviews are basically made of the same hellish stuff, so let's start at the beginning with the introductions.

The interview introduction can be a slippery customer and one that can easily get away from you. Once you enter that chamber of horrors commonly known as the interview room, you're on your own, never sure if you're saying or doing the right thing. The harder you try to relax the more nervous you seem to feel. Simply stringing a coherent sentence together seems like one of the labours of Hercules. Of course the room is unbearably hot and your mouth is unusually dry so your tongue swells, cutting off the oxygen to your brain. Panic grips you. Finally, just as you're about to turn on your heels and make an undignified dash for the nearest fire escape, the kindly interviewer extends a friendly hand and welcomes you. Now what do you do?

Fear not. Introductions don't have to be embarrassing, distressing or tearful episodes. Introductions can be easy and fun. You simply have to approach things calmly and logically. Stop and think about it for a moment. You're meeting someone for the first time; it's a clean sheet, an opportunity for you to write your own ticket without preconceptions or bias getting in the way. All you have to do is arrive on time, dress smartly, check your teeth for remnants of your last meal, be yourself and make sure you're wearing industrial strength deodorant. What could be simpler? To build up confidence you can always practice introducing yourself in front of the bathroom mirror before you actually attend any interviews. You might want to try this in the comfort of your own home rather than in the washroom of your local pizzeria, where introducing yourself to fellow patrons might be frowned upon.

Having successfully navigated the interview introductions, your next big challenge is to deal with an offer of refreshments. Something as seemingly benign as a cup of tea or coffee can wreak havoc during an interview. Having to juggle hot liquids in flimsy plastic cups while convincing a stranger of your marketing expertise or business acumen should always be avoided. Accepting or declining refreshments is something of a judgement call, as you don't want to appear ill at ease, but remember the risks are high. Loud slurping or gulping won't endear you to the interviewer while spilling hot chocolate down the front of your cream and oatmeal business suit is a blunder few candidates can easily recover from. So, if you find fear and anxiety has made your mouth as dry as Death Valley on the hottest day of the year simply ask for a glass of water. It's probably your safest option.

According to certain eminent psychologists, who study such things, the first few minutes of any interview are crucial in determining the final outcome. It seems that first impressions really do count. With the preliminaries over, it's time to tackle the main event. By this stage of the game you'll either be brimming with confidence or desperate for the lavatory, a cigarette and a family-sized candy bar. Whatever happens you must stay focussed on the task at hand. 105 seconds is all the time you're going to get to make the right impression. The key is not to panic. DON'T PANIC! If you're properly prepared then nothing can go wrong. You should know exactly what questions to ask, what to say, and when to say it. Try to anticipate the questions the interviewer is likely to ask, and have your answers ready. But remember, before answering pause for a moment. It looks more natural. Keep your delivery clear, consistent, positive, short and simple; then you won't go far wrong. And try not to get sidetracked or go off at a tangent.

However doubtful you are, take it on trust that having your highly polished, recently manicured fingernails pulled out with rusty tweezers is far worse than your average job interview. Interviewers aren't the monsters they might first appear. They're just ordinary people doing a difficult job. If the interviewer makes a poor decision then both you and your new employer will suffer the consequences. The best thing that you can probably do is place your trust in the interviewer's experience while checking the chair you're offered for chains and thumbscrews. At the end of all this torment, after saying and doing everything right, you still might not get the job. Sometimes life is fickle. In such a case, try to get some positive feedback on your interview technique and move on.

Typically, just as you start to relax and feel you're building a rapport with your interviewer you'll find the whole torturous process suddenly coming to an end. And it's now, at the end of the interview that you face your biggest challenge. As your confidence levels climb it's tempting to drop your guard and divert from your original interview strategy. Resist this impulse. Technically known as 'end-of-interview euphoria' you must fight the urge to say something witty or clever. In the intoxicatingly thin air of your newly found confidence the chances are that your wit and cleverness will be interpreted as glibness or even rudeness. Take it from someone who has suffered this fate; fight your urges and keep your mouth shut without you're asked a direct question.

Maybe not the big finale you imagined or rehearsed, but safer by far to conclude your interview with a thank you, a smile and a gentle reminder of your contact details. Before you stand up to leave, especially if you're one of that daredevil breed who recklessly accepts liquid refreshments, make sure that everything spillable is out of harm's way. Now, all that remains for you to do is get out of there. At this last delicate stage of the proceedings it's advisable not to run. Hazards are everywhere and tripping over the wastebasket, upsetting the coffee table or ripping the telephone line out of its wall-socket will usually go against you. Whenever possible it's best to leave your potential new employer's office building, fixtures and fittings just as you found them. Play by the rules and you'll walk out of there with a new job in the bag. Congratulations. Alternatively, tomorrow's another day and another interview.

The Golden Rule and the Workplace

As much as employers complain of the difficulty finding good employees, few have embraced a formula that assures success. The greater the difficulty finding good employees in your industry, or certain positions within that industry, the greater the need to view the relationship as a partnership. With these employees observe the Golden Rule, treat them as you expect to be treated. If you extend this principle to compensation, weighing what you'd hope to receive in their positions at the expense of some of your profits, you'll see the problem disappear.

But aren't employees with skill sets more common entitled to their share of the Golden Rule, partially setting issues of compensation aside. After all, the complaint that good employees are scarce extends throughout the economy. Shouldn't the relationship between employer and employee be similar to that of customer and supplier? It's an even exchange, work for pay. Do we unthinkingly accept that the employer has something people want, jobs, therefore their position is superior. If this is truly the way things are, then employers should stop complaining about difficulty finding good employees. It would logically follow from this that there is an overabundance of good employees. But employers need good employees as much as people need jobs. So let's stop the fiction that they're practically performing an act of charity when they make a hire.

But this reality of mutual need is blurred before you even summit a resume'. Ads frequently state, drug test required. There are public policy reasons for some of this, depending on the industry, and the Government has viewed this as a part of its war on drugs for some time. However, often the employer will force you to take a drug screen as a condition of employment without justification. If nothing in your past indicates drug use or abuse, drug screens should be reserved for behaviors on the job that indicate a potential problem. But what of the training costs you ask. We don't want to devote those resources to someone only to find out months later he or she is a drug abuser. Ok. I'll accept that without argument..

But you, the employee, has probably left a job to accept this new position. In keeping with my thesis that the relationship is mutually imperative to each party, wouldn't it be nice if you knew before leaving your current job that the boss wouldn't be subject to fits of erratic outbursts. The results of the test determine whether or not the employer wants you on the team, wouldn't a clean sample provided by the boss make an employment offer more attractive? You could put your mind at ease over mercurial behavior that would make your work life miserable. Besides, a boss with psychological problems can create more havoc in your life than the reverse.

This thought came to me while I was working for a family who were all subject to terrible mood swings. Screaming and yelling would be followed by an arm around the shoulder in the blink of an eye. One day I received a list of the psychotropic medications prescribed to the patients in the facility. The person in the office next to mine came to see what had caused my outburst of laughter. After dismissing it as nothing, I felt the satisfaction you gain when a mystery dissolves. At the bottom of the list were the names of the owners, obviously receiving their prescriptions from the doctor in residence, who was of course in their employ. The mood altering drugs prescribed to them, many anti-anxiety, were far above what any of the other patients received, and this was a facility with a large psychiatric population. After consulting the PDR, I wondered how they maintained verticality during the day. Evidently they had developed a tolerance for those pills, but for little else. Is this situation out of the ordinary? Probably. But I'd like to see some data indicating employees are statistically more prone to drug abuse than their managers before accepting the current state of affairs as reasonable.

Psychological testing, popular with some employers, should be mutual as well. I've known my share of managers who insisted you share their roller coaster of emotions, without presenting a ticket during the interview.

Finally, this insistence that we negate the strict mutuality of the employer-employee relationship, illustrates something that's always puzzled me while reading HR advice in the trades. It is often stressed that a potential employee should be scrupulously honest while interviewing for a position. Sounds reasonable. But if they're advising employers to do the same, I've missed those articles. How often have you found the organization to be as advertised after a short while on the job? I once had 2 people, an HR Manager and Assistant Administrator, tell me on my first day, after leaving a position I'd be in a considerable number of years, that it was their way or the highway. During the interviewing process, they were falling all over themselves to convince me to join the ranks. It was obvious within my first week that much of their presentation had been a lie. I'm sure had I been provided with psychological profiles or urine samples of the duo beforehand, I would have declined the offer. But of course, they had a right to see mine, while I only had the right to hope for the best.

Criminology Overview

When investigators are examining and studying crime from a scientific perspective, this is referred to as criminology. This includes the parallels between crime and different forms of phenomenon such as the development of particular types of laws. Criminology also works to identify how to address the criminal behavior of criminals and how to eventually control the criminal element. Drawing on psychological and sociological research, criminologists are able to look at the different ways in which a criminal’s environment will affect them. It can also help when it comes to profiling criminals in order to understand them and have a better chance of catching a criminal that is on the loose. By using criminology, individuals are able to not only profile a potential perpetrator, but they are also able to take a more intellectual look at how crime is perpetuated in our world and what steps can be taken in order to limit crime.

There are different schools of thought when it comes to how individuals approach the concept of criminology. Some of the most popular schools include those that are known as the Classical school, the Positivist school and the Chicago school. These schools were developed over a period of time, ranging from the middle of the 19th century and continuing well into the 20th century with the Chicago school of thought. One of the main factors that differentiate the schools of thought would be how the criminologists view environment in the life of the criminal. Some believe that the criminals have to take responsibility for their actions regardless of what is happening in the environment at the time, in line with the Classical movement, while others believe that criminals may be predisposed to crime, as is proposed by the Positivists. The Chicago school of thought poses the possibility that criminals are able to learn deviant behaviors from others and that when social organizations, such as schools and neighborhoods, are not organized they will not be able to control the criminal element that occurs. By identifying how an individual feels that crime is either created or continued, it can provide the basis for the school of thought that the individual falls under when it comes to criminology.

Criminology experts look at crime in a variety of different manners. By defining the distinctions between the different types of crimes, it is easier to come up with theories as to how and why the crime took place. One type of crime would be those that go against core values. These seemingly natural laws are ones that are common among many different cultures, separated by time and space. Natural laws are those that are considered to be able to protect individuals and their property from abuse by others. Some of the more controversial laws include statutes which are put into place by legal institutions. The relationship between state and citizen is explored in these laws, which is what causes the conflict in some instances. As a result of looking at the different construction foundations behind laws, it is possible to understand the many different ways in which crimes are categorized. Organized crime, state crime, blue or white collar crimes and organized crime are some of the most popular types of crime that exist.

5 Reasons to Consider Retraining

If you already work fulltime, chances are you don't have a lot of time to devote to learning new skills, or updating your old skills. While learning something new can take some additional time and effort, it is usually worthwhile to add some new skills to your resume, and to increase your value to your current employer. Following are 5 reasons you should consider adding additional skills to your repertoire, or retraining to learn something new:

1. Add to your existing skill set. If you are already employed, adding to your existing skills can make you more valuable to your employer. Not only will the additional skills you learn make it likely that you can take on more responsibilities at work, retraining shows that you are constantly evolving and improving as an employee. You can also point out any retraining that you have done when it is time to review your performance. You may be able to justify a raise if you have added significant skills or certifications to your resume.

2. Train for a new job altogether. Whether you simply dislike the career or position you are in, or you are working in an industry that is in decline, you may wish or need to seek additional opportunities. Retraining for a separate career will allow you to learn something new, and allow you to apply for and be qualified to perform a different set of jobs. If you are in an industry that is declining or changing, chances are you will be competing against others from your same field for the same jobs, and retraining can give you an additional advantage.

3. Keep up to date on the latest technology. If you have been out of school for three, five, or even ten years, technology has changed substantially since you graduated. You may need to attend a program or take a course to catch up a bit. By being on top of the latest technology and techniques, you can be sure that you are not missing out on anything. If you work for an employer, they will appreciate you upgrading your skills-and may even pay for the training itself.

4. If you have been laid off, or let go from your last position. Look at a layoff or termination as an opportunity. If you are eligible to receive unemployment benefits, you can use some of your down time to retrain for a new position. It is easy to get stuck in a job, simply because you are accustomed to it. Getting laid off or terminated can give you the push you need to try something new.

5. You sense a layoff is coming. If you are in a declining industry or many employees from your company have been laid off, be proactive and start retraining now. If you do not end up getting laud off, you will have increased your skills, and will benefit from the new training. If you do end up getting laid off, then you will have a significant head start on finding another job.

Retraining For Your New Career

When new college graduates enter into their new careers, it is usually a time of excitement that is accompanied with a feeling of accomplishment. However, when you have already spent years at a career before you have to make a switch and start over, then it is a much more difficult experience. You may need to rethink your career objectives, or even consider training for a new career entirely.

There are many reasons that adults have to start over with new careers. They may have lost their job due to downsizing, closing of a company, leave of absence for an illness or a number of other reasons. The state that our economy has been in for the past several years has resulted in the loss of a number of jobs and closing of businesses that have been established and operating for many years. These conditions have led to a large number of adults who are looking for a new start.

For others, it may be a matter of setting things right. After several years of performing in a job that they are unhappy with, they may decide to quit their job and go after a new career that they have always dreamed of. Getting stuck in a field that you are unhappy with is a situation that should be remedied whenever possible. If you aren't happy at your workplace, those negative feelings will probably spill over into other areas of your life.

There are some ways that you can make the change in careers much easier. By preparing yourself and having a better idea of what to expect, you can increase your confidence and make yourself comfortable in your new surroundings. This is a good way to start a career that will be successful for a long time.

- Keep reminding yourself that this is going to be a positive experience. This is your opportunity to have a career that makes you happy and you deserve it.

- Be confident. If you have been hired to do a job, then you obviously had the qualifications that mattered to your employer. Don't go into it doubting yourself.

- Go the extra mile. Don't be a stickler about sticking to your job description. If you help a company out when they are in a bind, it may benefit you when it is time for promotions.

- Make yourself a valuable asset to the company. Starting out, you will likely be at the bottom of the totem pole. If the company relies on you for important functions, you will be less likely to be cut if they need to downsize later.

- Learn everything you can about your new job. If there is company literature that everyone else ignores, read it and learn it. Study up on any systems you have to use and try to improve your job skills as much as possible.

A positive attitude can be the best tool in your arsenal when it comes to retraining or considering a new career path.