Most job seekers have a case of the jitters before going on a job interview. Anxiety’s normal, but almost always those butterflies were in your tummy for nothing. The interview goes well, you don’t make any serious mistakes and you exhale the moment you walk out of the room.
Sometimes, however, the interview goes terribly wrong. [...]
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Growing up, plenty of people dished out advice about what kind of job to get. I was told to find a way to get paid doing what I love. I was also told to find a job that paid the bills because I’d resent my passion if it were my job. Each person had a [...]
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With 2010 dawning, we wonder what the future holds for the likes of the much-hyped Google Health. The decade that’s drawing to a close offers plenty of cautionary tales.
DrKoop.com entered the new millennium on a high, with a peak market value of $1.3 billion not long after its IPO in July 1999. Problem was, the [...]
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Filed under: Information Technology
Moving slowly through a task just because you can is not the way to get ahead at work.
Supposedly it takes 21 days to form a habit.
I’m not sure I believe that. Try going on a diet and I guarantee that a freshly baked pizza will break your willpower whether you’re on the second or the [...]
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1.Where are you currently working and in what role?
Forensicare – Corporate Health Information Manager
2.Why did you become a HIM/Clinical Coder?
Didn’t really know what I wanted to do but knew I wanted to stay in administration but in health. I was working at Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences at the time and started the [...]
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Slacking off occassionally can be good for your health and your career.
On a recent flight I sat next to a businessman who told me that, even at that young age, his children were exhibiting very different personalities.
He saw signs of his wife’s overachieving tendencies in their son. In his daughter, he saw himself. In the [...]
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In January 2005, Australian Health Ministers agreed that the Australian Organ Donor Register would become a Register of consent, enabling individuals to record their legal decision to becoming an organ or tissue donor after death. The Register will be operational as a consent register from July 2005.
Health Ministers agreed that the Australian Organ Donor Register [...]
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Filed under: Government, Health
Please note that all education events for the first half of 2010, including the 2010 Executive Masterclass series are now available. For more information CLICK HERE.
For more information on any of these workshops or other education enquires please contact Educate@achs.org.au
(Picture courtesy of www.stand.org.au)
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Filed under: Conferences, Quality
In the sales world, the fabled “elevator pitch” is championed as a business fundamental. If you can’t recite your job description in a 30-second elevator ride, you’re going to miss out on major business opportunities.
That’s great advice for people who have less than a minute to kill and in situations where chitchatting about your job [...]
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1.Where are you currently working and in what role?
Working for Ramsay Health Care all over Australia as a Health Information Analyst I manage a small team of HIM’s which form part of a larger Meditech Implementation team of 50 people implementing a new PAS system, Meditech, throughout all Ramsay Health Care facilities
2.Why did you become [...]
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