Don't Forget the Employment Agencies as a Resource

NOTE:   Good morning!  As I am off tomorrow, today's blog will be the last posting for this week.  Check back on Monday for additional blog postings that are chock-full of leads!

I've been talking to some local staffing / employment agencies as of late, and I wanted to remind all of you to utilize those services as part of your job search process.  Remember that many staffing agencies hire not only temporary workers but also direct hire or temp-to-hire employees.  Furthermore, it could be a good way to earn some money in the interval between finishing your schooling and gaining full time employment.  Plus, you never know when one of these jobs, even if it isn't a direct hire position, could lead you into a job that you really like.  And you'll be building positive work experience and developing contacts that could help even more down the road!  That is, after all, the power of networking.

Thursday and Friday's Leads

• medical front office
• medical billing position
• dental receptionist
• department secretary
• medical documentation specialist
• registration--Hanover Hospital
• medical assistant--Hanover
• accounting assistant
• inside sales
• youth advocate
• in-store retail banker
• accounts payable clerk
• accounts receivable
• receptionist
• customer service
• legal assistant
• office manager
• recruitment coordinator
• new business representative--Scroll down after opening link.  
• medical claims repricing --Scroll down after opening link. 
• customer service representative --Scroll down after opening link. 
• accounts receivable --Scroll down after opening link. 
• accounting clerk --Scroll down after opening link. 
• paralegal --Scroll down after opening link. 
• data entry
• another data entry clerk
• administrative assistant
• legal receptionist
• accounts receivable
• accounting clerk
• accounting assistant
• collections / AR
• office support

Have a great day--and enjoy your weekend!  I'll be posting again next week!

Tim Barshinger

Keep on Moving: Wednesday's Leads

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

Let us all heed the sage advice of Mr. Einstein...Keep on moving!

• PT service specialist--customer service
• call center confirmer
• PT administrative assistant
• development coordinator
• medical review specialist
• shift manager and manager trainee job fair
• customer service--Johnson Controls
• customer service
• medical assistant--Wellspan
• clinical assistant--LGH
• medical appeals representative
• administrative assistant
• medical assistant--Wellspan--a temporary position...but it could be a great way to "get your foot in the door"
• medical assistant--Wellspan

Have a great day!

Timothy Barshinger

A Slew of Tuesday Leads

Welcome to a beautiful Tuesday!  Here are quite a few leads!

• medical review specialist
• customer service
• PT bookkeeper
• inventory clerk
• medical secretary
• office support staff
• customer service / administrative assistant
• administrative assistant
• client trainer
• project coordinator
• customer service--manufacturing
• medical assistant--Martin Foot and Ankle
• customer service, data entry, paralegal--All through Sesame Temps.  Go to the link, click on the "Job Listings" button and then click on "Professional / Clerical."
• medical records abstractor
• medical assistant, medical secretary, transcriptionist--through Gdovin
• administrative assistant--very good pay!
• administrative assistant
• accounts payable clerk
• administrative assistant
• receptionist
• banking--Cash room attendant
• Access Call Center--Wellspan
• medical transcription/scheduler--Wellspan
• administrative support
• payroll and benefits assistant
• medical secretary--Pinnacle
• default management assistant--YTI--Check it out, CAM's!
• legal secretary
• customer service representative
• medical review specialist
  
  Have a great day!                 Tim Barshinger

Attention Fall 2012 CSB Grads

Attention Fall 2012 CSB Grads...Just a heads up! I just mailed out the graduation paperwork, so you should be getting it in the mail within a few days' time. 

Please be sure to process it and mail it back to me, even if you are not attending. For those not attending graduation, I DO need your most up-to-date information to mail out your degree.

Thanks.

Tim Barshinger

Recognizing Opportunity: Monday's Leads

Back to work, back to school...the grind of another week begins.  However, we need to see the opportunity inherent in a new week ahead.  And we should remember the words of Charles Swindel:

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

It is always what we make of any situation that determines its outcome.  It is ALWAYS up to us!

Monday's Leads:

• unit secretary--pediatrics--Wellspan
• PT unit secretary--pediatrics--Wellspan
• medical secretary--Wellspan
• volunteer coordinator--Grane Hospice
• patient services technician
• accounting clerk
• medical assistant--pediatrics--Wellspan
• medical secretary--Wellspan
• receptionist--HCR Manor Care--Dallastown
• billing clerk
• PT bookkeeper
• medical assistant / medical receptionist
• medical secretary--Wellspan
• data entry / customer service
• customer service / accounting clerk
• clerical
• customer service rep
• health care customer service
• office clerk
• bilingual legal office
• receptionist
• secretarial / accounting clerk
• multiple medical positions
• bookkeeper--Check it out, CAM's!!!
• accounts receivable--Voith

Have a great day...and an even better week!

Tim Barshinger

Who Says You Can't Do It?

Who says you can't do it?

Don't let anyone put limits on you!

And don't put limits on yourself.  

Believe!

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Friday's Leads

• medical secretary
• medical secretary--Wellspan
• PT medical assistant--Wellspan
• medical assistant--LGMG
• data entry
• medical coding / billing--Wellspan
• call center--Wellspan
• medical assistant--Pinnacle
• administrator--vendor income
• resident assistant--Lutheran Social Services
• health care claims specialist
• medical secretary
• business office coordinator
• admissions coordinator--Golden Living
• staffing coordinator
• administrative support
• customer service--telecommute
• paralegal
• unit coordinator--Senior Life
• ophthalmic technician
• medical receptionist

Have a wonderful weekend!

Tim Barshinger

Plant Your Apple Tree: Thursday's Leads

Words of hope and encouragement...for that is how we must live our lives.

Thursday's Leads:

• customer service dispatcher--York Building Products
• customer service / administrative assistant--Great Pay!
• accounting position
• paralegal
• assistant manager
• administrative support
• accounting coordinator
• medical secretary
• medical assistant
• Wellspan lead...possible tie in for Medical Assistant candidate?
• medical coding--Wellspan
• accounting position
• medical insurance specialist--LGH
• medical billing and claims--LGH
• medical clinical reviewer
• bookkeeper--legal office
• medical record abstractors--Check it out, MAA's and MOS's!
• unit secretary--Wellspan
• medical assistant--Wellspan
• patient liaison / customer service--Select Medical
• receptionist
• financial coordinator--Lutheran Social Services
• customer service rep
• customer service rep
• yet another customer service rep
• customer service rep--Suburban Propane
• receptionist--HCR Manor Care
• customer service rep--MetroBank
• deposit clerk--Check it out, accounting students!
• billing clerk
• service coordinator
• healthcare representative
  
  Have a great day...and if you have the chance, get out into this sunshine.  It's a great day out there!
  Tim Barshinger

Thank You Notes--And Wednesday's Leads

One of the job search skills most often neglected is the thank you note.  In a challenging job market, candidates need to find ways to help separate themselves from other candidates, and the thank you note is one possible means to help you achieve that goal.  Given that many job seekers do not take the time to write and send thank you notes, doing so can be a real boon to your interview process.

So what are some key ideas to remember in your thank you note?

• Always state the position for which you interviewed and the date of your interview.  HR and managers are interviewing dozens of people, so help them narrow it down and improve the chance that they will remember you.
• Use the space to get in one or two sentences to "sell yourself" one last time.  This technique is most effective if you are "selling" your skills that align you with what the company needs for the open position.
• Keep it neat and legible.  
• Make it perfect.  Errors are perceived as laziness or inability, so take the time to do it right...and then get someone else to check it.
• Be sincere.  You should sound appreciative and interested.  Remember, the hiring manager wants to hire someone who wants that job.  Do you sound like you want it?
• Make it timely.  Ideally, the sooner they get the thank you note, the better.  Generally, you should send out thank yous note within a day or two of the interview.  That is a benefit of sending a thank you note via email...but the gold standard is still the handwritten thank you note.  

Wednesday's Leads:

• dental front office
• administrative assistant
• customer service rep
• administrative assistant
• call center--Wellspan
• medical assistant--Wellspan
• customer support rep--LGH
• medical assistant--LGH
• office clerical support
• administrative assistant--YTI
• customer service clerk
• administrative assistant
• clerical position
• medical positions
• customer service--education field

Have a great Wednesday!

Tim Barshinger

Put on a Happy Face: Tuesday's Leads

Have you recently thought about how you come across during an interview or a business meeting?  What messages do your face and body language transmit--as a direct link to your thoughts--that might be hurting you and damaging the way others' perceive you?

For you CSB grads and current students, we talk about this point in Self Awareness classes, and I try to get each of you to assess how others perceive you.  So if you've gotten away from assessing yourself in the job search, start paying more attention to your facial expressions, your body language, and the non-verbal cues you're sending out during an interview (or any business interaction).  Are you sending out a vibe that is welcoming and perceived as being "customer friendly"?  Or are you the "angry old man" like Clint in this shot from Grand Turino?

Giving people the right perception--not only through your words but also through your non-verbal communication--is vital.  After all, who wants to hire an angry, depressed, or tempermental employee? 


So get out there and show them the happy and personable you that will represent any business with a smile. 

• accounts receivable
• administrative and clerical positions
• customer service rep
• payroll clerk
• customer care/call center
• multiple office and accounting positions at JFC
• legal assistant
• accounts receivable
• legal clerk
• administrative position in a law firm
• field clerk--administrative
• customer service--Suburban Propane
• credit assistant
• credit and invoice assistant
• administrative coordinator
• receptionist
• clerk
• office administrator
• office clerk
• customer service
• administrative assistant
• medical receptionist

Have a great day!

Tim Barshinger

Kicking Off a New Week: Monday's Leads

Well, it's another Monday morning, where we all struggle to get back to the daily grind.  If you're like me, you spent much of this weekend watching football and all the thrills and drama associated with America's favorite game.  It's appropriate, then, that we use that analogy to begin a new week.  So here we stand, ready for the   "game" to begin, awaiting the kickoff.  So let's get it started...and let's kick off a new week!

• receptionist--auto dealer
• paralegal
• PT church administrative assistant
• customer service--AAA
• assistant store manager positions
• Bon Ton cash office job
• medical assistant
• data entry / customer service
• accounts receivable
• accounting clerk
• customer service--PH Glatfelter
• receptionist--auto dealer
• temporary--Accounts payable--Dentsply
• office assistant
• accounts payable clerk
• receptionist
• auto dealer--loaner car coordinator--full time
• customer service
• medical assistant
• account representatives
• customer service -- Benefit Visions
• medical receptionist
• customer service / appt setters

Have a great week!

Tim Barshinger

Happy Friday: Shake Your Way to a Good Impression

Remember that even the smallest detail can help you make a good--or bad--impression when meeting someone for the first time, particularly in an interview.  Thus, a detail such as the handshake is a vital element toward creating the right first impression.  As such, here are some details to consider to ensure that your handshake is making the grade:

• Remember that you should always be standing to shake hands.  Sitting and shaking hands is considered disrespectful or lazy.  So if you are sitting, stand up!
• Generally a firm handshake is viewed as a sign of confidence and respect.  Be sure you give your hand to the interviewer and apply some pressure.  However, this exchange should not be an attempt to squeeze harder than the interviewer, nor is the idea to break any bones!  On the other end of the spectrum, don't give the interviewer your limp hand to skake, either.  You have to apply some pressure lest you are viewed as weak.
• During the handshake, gently pump your hand up and down once or twice. 
• The handshake generally lasts about 2 seconds, so don't go holding on for dear life.  The interviewer's hand is not a life preserver--or your childhood woobi blanket.
• It is really important that you give eye contact while shaking hands.   Look the interviewer in the eye.  Again, eye contact conveys respect and confidence, two traits that all job seekers should demonstrate.
• Remember to shake hands again at the end of the interview.  Leave a good final impression.
• A few other tips you might consider regarding handshakes:  1)  Make sure your hands are clean.  (This should go without saying, but it still needs to be said!)  2)  Make sure your nails are clean and well maintained.  No Freddy Kreuger look-alikes are allowed!  

Friday's Leads:

• medical assistant
• accounts payable clerk
• sales assistant--office work
• executive assistant
• outbound process assistant--clerical support
• accounting position
• accounts payable coordinator
• administrative assistant
• medical billing and insurance
• paralegal
• medical assistant
• medical secretary--Wellspan
• administrative assistant
• clinical technician--Hanover
• medical assistant
• administrative assistant
• administrative assistant
• administrative assistant--funeral home
• administrative research assistant
• payroll coordinator
• optician

Have a great weekend!  And don't forget to shake on it!

Tim Barshinger

Thursday's Leads: Coming Down the Other Side

We've made over the top of another week, and it's just a matter of riding down!  Examine these leads to help you on the drop!

P.S.--Do you recognize this roller coaster?


Thursday's Leads

• office assistant
• medical assistant
• document support--office personnel
• customer support representative--PH Glatfelter
• clerk--insurance agency
• medical assistant--Wellspan
• medical assistant--Wellspan
• filing clerk
• medical assistant--Patient First
• office assistant--FedEx
• virtual customer assistant
• PT imaging assistant--Wellspan
• medical assistant
• clerical support
• outbound process assistant--Amazon
• unit secretary--Lutheran Social Services
• payroll coordinator--Lutheran Social Services
• receptionist--Lutheran Social Services
• medical assistant--OSS
• PT medical receptionist--OSS
• PT evening medical receptionist--OSS
• medical assistant--OSS
• receptionist--Country Meadows
• secretary--York County government
• 911 Dispatcher Trainee--York County government

Have a great day!

Tim Barshinger

Wednesday's Leads: No Time for What Ifs...

I've written on here rather frequently regarding the need to take risks and "put yourself out there."  This picture to the right captures the essence of that idea incredibly well.  It is better to have tried and failed--"Oh well"--than to have never even had a chance because you were too afraid to try. 

Don't let your life be haunted by the "what ifs."

Go get what you deserve.


• financial assistant--Check it out, CAM's and COM's!
• registrar--clerical
• medical coding
• HR assistant
• PT administrative assistant--Windsor
• customer service
• education job--program assistant at the Lancaster LIU...Good pay and benefits!
• paralegal
• customer service rep--Metro Bank
• office assistant
• marketing representatives--Those Remodeling Guys
• medical assistant
• HR administrative assistant
• administrative assistant
• customer service

Have a great day.

Tim Barshinger

Tuesday's Leads: An Ocean of Opportunity

Each day we awaken to an ocean of possibility, but each of us must make the conscious decision to explore that ocean.  It is like the old quotation by Andre Gide:  "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of shore."

So get out there and discover your "ocean" of opportunity.  Don't be afraid to leave the shore.

Tuesday's Leads:

• medical receptionist--Hanover
• medical assistant--Littlestown
• cash application specialist--LGH
• life skills / child advocate--YWCA
• medical receptionist
• PT bookkeeper
• enrollment specialist
• training coordinator
• pre-authorization representative--Check it out, MAA's!
• clinical health coordinator--customer service
• sales and marketing assistant / administrative in nature
• office supervisor
• Bon-Ton Cash Office job
• customer service /call center
• receptionist
• administrative assistant--Keener Kitchen
• office administrative staff
• unit coordinator--Senior Life

Have a great Tuesday!

Tim Barshinger

Monday's Leads

Welcome back to another Monday.  Consider this quotation as you begin the week and attempt to take on the challenges it presents.

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one."
                              – Elbert Hubbard
Monday's Leads:

• accounting specialist
• administrative assistant
• office assistant
• physician's billing--Wellspan
• call center--Wellspan
• medical secretary--Wellspan
• office assistant
• administrative support
• administrative assistant
• administrative assistant
• receptionist
• healthcare customer service
• learning and development specialist--clerical
• client service coordinator--Banfield Veterinary Hospital
• accounts receivable specialist--Lutheran Social Services
• accounts payable
• mail clerk and office support (click on the "more" button)
• medical assistant--Hanover
• medical assistants
• accounts payable
• medical assistant
• program secretary
• administrative support / secretary
• medical assistant
• customer service--medical
• billing clerk
• patient accounting representative
• medical receptionist
• healthcare customer service
• medical assistant
• accounting assistant

Have a great week!

Tim Barshinger

Friday's Leads

Yes, it's that most magical of days again!

We've made it once more!

Now check out these leads!

• money room clerk
• communications coordinator--Asbury Church
• receptionist
• accounts payable clerk
• medical assistant
• medical secretary--Wellspan
• medical secretary
• office assistant
• AR representative--Snyder's of Hanover
• payroll coordinator
• receptionist--New Oxford
• loan processor assistant
• corporate support administrator
• medical AR
• medical payment posting
• medical front desk

Have a great weekend!

Tim Barshinger

Thursday's Leads

"The reward of suffering is experience."
                      --Aeschylus
"When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
                      --Mary Kay Ash

• administrative assistant
• clerk
• administrative clerk
• medical secretary
• receptionist / administrative assistant
• loan processing assistant
• PT emergency registration--Wellspan
• patient registration--Hanover
• data entry
• patient registration--LGH
• quality technician--requires date entry skills
• PT administrative assistant--New Oxford
• recruitment coordinator
• PT staffing clerk

Have a great day!

Tim Barshinger

Another Hump Day to Surmount

Yes, it's that day again...Wednesday...Hump Day!

I found this Hump Day gif and couldn't help but have a little laugh.  I don't know about you, but that's exactly how this Wednesday has made me feel:  as if I've been blindsided.  But hang in there, the weekend is on it's way.  Until then, here are some leads to hold you over.

• PT Accounting coordinator
• bookkeeper
• information/library assistant--York College
• plan document coordinator
• development coordinator
• document management associate
• office manager
• HR administrative assistant
• accounting clerk
• HR Benefits Coordinator
• medical assistant
• medical scheduling representative
• medical assistant
• medical secretary
• administrative assistant
• paralegal
• office associate--Sears
• accounting clerk
• legal receptionist

Have a great day!

Tim Barshinger

Tuesday's Leads

Well, I certainly hope that you had a great Labor Day, even though the weather was less than ideal!  Without further ado, I'll help you get back into the swing of things with your job search.

Tuesday's Leads:

• accounting position
• service representative
• customer service--home-based job
• medical assistant--Wellspan
• accounts receivable
• cash application clerk
• administrative assistant
• call center 
• customer service representative
• paralegal
• accounting clerk
• medical receptionist
• medical assistant
• medical assistant
• customer service
• patient access clerk
• medical secretary
• PT payroll clerk
  
  
  Welcome back to a new week!
  
  Tim Barshinger 

Labor Day Leads

Ok...I lied and couldn't forgo doing a blog entry for today.  So here they are!

• call center representatives
• customer service reps
• billing/accounting clerk
• customer service
• accounting assistant
• administrative assistant
• administrative secretary
• medical assistant and medical front desk positions
• medical secretary
• administrative assistant
• administrative assistant
• customer service
• bookkeeper / administrative assistant
• Wellspan medical assistant
• medical assistant--Wellspan
• medical assistant--Wellspan
• bookkeeper--Wellspan
• unit secretary--Wellspan
• medical secretary--Wellspan
• medical secretary--Wellspan
• medical assistant--Wellspan
• registration--Wellspan
• call center--Wellspan
• medical secretary--Wellspan
• medical secretary--Wellspan

Enjoy your Labor Day!

Tim Barshinger