Prepares income and balance sheet statements, consolidated statements, and various other accounting statements and reports. Analyzes financial reports and records, making recommendations relative to the accounting of reserves, assets, and expenditures. Reviews and verifies the accuracy of journal entries and accounting classifications assigned to various records. Conducts special studies and develops or recommends accounting methods and procedures. Instructs or assigns work to bookkeepers and accounting clerks engaged in general accounting activities. Coordinates accounting matters with other departments, locations and divisions. Utilizes computer to input, retrieve or display accounting information.

Level 1
Experience: Typically has up to 3 years professional experience. Can be entry level for employees with Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent. OR For legal positions, those with J.D. or LL.B. or equivalent. Knowledge: Knows fundamental concepts, practices and procedures of particular field of specialization.

Responsibilities: Using established procedures and working under immediate supervision, performs assigned tasks. Work is routine and instructions are usually detailed. Little evaluation, originality or ingenuity is required. For legal positions, may prepare briefs and documents or draw up contracts for review and evaluation by others. Usually Reports to: Lead Level

Level 2
Experience: Typically has 3-5 years professional experience. Knowledge: Knows and applies the fundamental concepts, practices and procedures of particular field of specialization.

Responsibilities: Under supervision, performs work that is varied and that may be somewhat difficult in character, but usually involves limited responsibility. Some evaluation, originality or ingenuity is required. Usually Reports to: Lead Level

Level 3
Experience: Typically has 5-8 years of professional experience. Fully competent professional – the first career level in the ladder (i.e., it is expected that all competent professionals will reach this level). Knowledge: Possesses and applies a broad knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures of particular field of specialization to the completion of difficult assignments. For legal positions, specializes in a particular area, such as litigation, tax, patent, etc.

Responsibilities: Usually works with minimum supervision, conferring with superior on unusual matters. May be assisted by Entry/Junior or Intermediate Level personnel. Assignments are broad in nature, usually requiring originality and ingenuity. Has appreciable latitude for unreviewed action or decision. For legal positions, acts in advisory capacity, making recommendations which may have an important bearing on the conduct of the organization’s business. Usually Reports to: Lead Level or Middle Management

Level 4
Experience: Typically has more than 8 years professional experience. Management is typically the next higher level. Knowledge: Possesses and applies comprehensive knowledge of particular field of specialization to the completion of complex assignments. For legal positions, is fully qualified in a particular area, such as in litigation, tax, patent, etc.

Responsibilities: Under general supervision, plans, conducts and supervises assignments. Reviews progress and evaluates results. In legal setting, conducts and supervises broad legal assignments, necessitating ability to evaluate matters which may have a major bearing on the conduct of the organization’s business. Plans and assigns personnel for given projects or tasks. Assists with the review and evaluation of personnel performance. Interprets and applies organization policy. Recommends changes in procedures. Operates with substantial latitude for unreviewed action or decision. Reviews progress with management. Usually Reports to: Upper Middle Management or Top Management.

Send resumes to Andrea L. Mosley at amosley@kamcon.com or Kyle T. Mosley at kmosley@kamcon.com.

Accountant Opening (Houston)

Overall function of the Inside Sales position is receiving incoming customer inquiries via phone and walk-in business and to provide overall service and support direct to the customers and the outside sales and rep staff.  To be proactive in all sales related duties to initiate action by customers, reps, and internal staff.

Essential Functions

§     Taking incoming phone inquiries direct from customers, area representatives, field personnel and internal offices.

§     Problem solving customers needs during rentals, trouble-shooting inoperable tools, and solving inventory/tool shortages to meet the customer’s needs.

§     Order entry into mainframe computer system.

§     Prepare and issue formal quotations following format designed including utilizing quote logging system (Quick base).

§     Interface with multiple departments to gather critical information for quotes.

§     Liaise with shop supervisor or appropriate product sale personnel on specific order requirements to insure customer’s needs are met.

§     Follow-up on all rental orders on a weekly basis to insure customer’s satisfaction and tool utilization.

§     Liaise with shop/plant supervisor on inventory control issues

§     Follow-up on all open quotations to secure orders and close sales.

§     Keep thorough notes and records of each conversation with customers, sales personnel, and internal contacts to insure a valid paper trail is kept.

§     Maintain accessibility on weekends and holidays to assist customers after hours.

§     Backup on phone system to insure calls are answered efficiently and rotate during lunch periods, or when shorthanded because of vacation or sick leave.

§     Coordinate shipping of equipment and negotiate logistics with freight companies to insure shipping arrangements.

§     Provide ample notice to shop/plant personnel of order requirements to insure most economical shipping method is used.

§     Follow and implement all ISO procedures and paperwork.

§     Support outside sales staff through literature requests, maintaining rep equipment orders, preparing all quotes generated through outside sales

§     Gather and complete credit applications for new customers

§     Assist A/R with collections by calling our customer contacts

§     Prepare shop work orders for equipment sales, rentals and service.

§     Maintain contract negotiations with customers

§     Reconcile negotiations when a project/order has performance discrepancies

§     Offer inside support, maintenance and management of offshore and subsea customer base.

§     Work with Engineering Dept to assist in customer “specials” and to create new products for fleet

§     Work closely with production to establish lead times and prioritize orders

§     Prepare calculation spreadsheets for equipment “buyouts”

§     Issue and catalog Certificates of Insurance (required by customers’ site specifications)

§     Monitor Industrial Alerts program and maintain as needed: forward outage leads to offshore/subsea rep, make cold calls directly to plants customers within offshore/subsea market, track and catalog orders coming in using that program

§     Work with purchasing for sourcing customer requested items

§     Work with outside vendors for site specific requirements (radios, nomex, monitors, etc.)

§     Work closely with Field Service Department: to coordinate projects, communicate job scopes and under certain circumstances staff projects when necessary.

§     Issue Field Service work orders for new projects

§     Assist operations with logistics for Field Service projects (freight, airfare, charter flights, hotel, rental car, etc.)

§     Reconcile time sheets, expense reports, receipts at completion of Field Service project and calculate for invoicing

§     Discovery work of new and potential offshore/subsea customers.

§     Prepare all weekly / monthly reports ({wk = sales figures} {mth = hyperion, sale backlog, labor and rental accruals, warehouse backlog})

§     Provide technical and joint integrity solutions including calculations, procedures, company policies and operating  guidelines to customers

Qualifications – Education, Experience, and/or Training

§     3+ years technical sales experience working in a fast paced office environment or

College degree in Business, Marketing or related field, preferred

§     Experience working with the Petrochemical/Refining, or Offshore or Subsea market, preferred.

§     Will have strong mechanical aptitude and math skills.

§     Computer experience working with Microsoft programs and database software management programs.

§     Must be a strong problem solver with closing skills.

§     Will pay attention to detail and have the ability to follow up with potential clients, reps, and existing customers.  Must have ability to handle many tasks at one time and be extremely organized person.

§     Must have excellent interpersonal, organizational, and written skills with the ability to work as a team member.

§     Will have a positive attitude with a customer-oriented personality.

Send resumes to Kyle Mosley at kmosley@kamcon.com for immediate consideration.  Interviewing this week.

Inside Sales Representative (Houston)

CNN.com and Careerbuilder has a great article for everyone that spends plenty of time each day updating your Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Ustream, Linkedin, MySpace, Jobster, Friendster, Ning or another social media page. If you know how to Podcast, Design and Develop Websites and Media, knowledge of RSS Feeds and there potential, get Twitter traffic and followers, then you may be the SOCIAL MEDIA GURU that some employers are in need. Social Media is a great way to locate jobs, but if you are a specialist, like I believe I’m starting to become, then here are some possible jobs that you can apply for:

Jobs for Facebook Addicts

If you’re a social media guru, here are five jobs to consider in your next job search:

1. Recruiter

Candidates have been on social networks for years now, and it’s about time recruiters joined them. Daniel says Dan Temps’ recruiters can find candidates faster, screen them better and reach out to individuals they wouldn’t see otherwise.

“Dan Temps believes that the environment candidates are accustomed to in a social network will keep the conversations and information real,” Daniel says. “Candidates don’t feel they are being pressured in that environment like they would in a more formal interview or screening process and are more likely to get real with our recruiters.”

2. Strategist

Many companies are seeking social media strategists to find the best way to interact within various social sites and online communities. In this role, you would be the face of social media for your company, creating and maintaining an effective social media strategy by interacting with users, growing brand awareness, creating buzz, increasing traffic and providing valuable information. To thrive in this position, Durbin says you must have a proven track record of achieving goals, or companies will be hesitant to hire you.

3. Enterprise architect

“This is the most exciting job in social media and requires someone with broad experience in networks, multiple platforms, development, security and political infighting,” Durbin says. “This is a very rare find. It’s for companies looking to completely revamp their content management strategy and internal networks. It could be the most important role in a company in the next five years.”

4. User operations analyst

For any company with an online presence, user experience is one of the most vital parts of the business. The only way to monitor that is to have someone in charge of the experience themselves. No matter if the company is blogging, has a Web site or pages on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, user operations analysts interact with users, answer queries, investigate problems and keep track of user habits.

5. Director of social media

Similar to a strategist, companies need someone to organize company blogging, viral marketing, podcasting, etc. This person has a background in building teams and who really gets the promise and the purpose of social media, Durbin says. These folks should be wary of new technologies and be all over blogs, RSS, have Facebook and Twitter accounts, and know the difference between his or her employees playing and researching on MySpace and YouTube.

So if you can’t get a job in your “chosen” profession, it might be time for you apply your Social Media skills to “today’s hottest market”; therefore, rework your resume and APPLY, APPLY, and APPLY!

Searching for social media jobs

You might think that finding social media jobs is difficult but many of these positions under a variety of job titles that don’t include “social media.”

Try searching job boards and the Internet for “social media,” “interactive marketing,” “new media” or “branding manager” and you should get a good start in the right direction.

Remember, use your “Job Skills”, Luke!

Kyle T. Mosley – Consultant

Source: CNN.com

Five Jobs for Social Media Gurus – Like YOU!

Careerbuilder has listed 20 “BIG SALARY” jobs that do not require a degree. Here is the list:

1. Margin department supervisor
Salary: $83,579/year
Primary duties: Overseeing a company’s credit department, which manages customer credit accounts and approves or denies credit to customers.

2. Air traffic controller
Salary: $74,922/year
Primary duties: Controlling air traffic around airports according to established procedures and policies to ensure flight safety.

3. Automobile service station manager
Salary: $72,246/year
Primary duties: Supervising gas stations and planning and implementing policy and procedure like hours of operation, workers’ duties and prices for products and services.

4. Real estate broker
Salary: $71,994/year
Primary duties: Securing real-estate transactions, selling real estate, renting properties and arranging loans.

5. Web surfer
Salary: $70,604/year
Primary duties: Scouring through multiple Web sites to analyze and compare information and user experiences to collect information to help companies understand online users’ behaviors.

6. Lead carpenter
Salary: $63,345/year
Primary duties: Leading the on-site completion of construction projects and performing all types of carpentry work and finishing.

7. Cable supervisor
Salary: $60,887/year
Primary duties: Supervising the activities of workers engaged in installation, maintenance and cable repair.

8. Chemical supervisor
Salary: $57,472/year
Primary duties: Overseeing workers who make chemical products, verifying that chemical processes are followed.

9. Home-care aide supervisor
Salary: $56,157/year
Primary duties: Directing aides who mind for elderly or disabled people in a home environment, and monitoring the quality and quantity of services provided.

10. Medical facility housekeeping manager
Salary: $55,368/year
Primary duties: Managing the workers and housekeeping program in medical facilities to uphold sanitary and orderly conditions.

11. Flight service manager
Salary: $54,350/year
Primary duties: Ensuring that flight attendants conform to personal appearance and preflight requirements; compiling flight reports.

12. Locomotive engineer
Salary: $54,084/year
Primary duties: Driving electric, diesel-electric or gas-turbine-electric trains to transport passengers or freight.

13. Interior aircraft assembly supervisor
Salary: $53,606/year
Primary duties: Supervising the process of assembling everything for the inside of an aircraft from mechanics to furniture.

14. Painting supervisor
Salary: $51,977/year
Primary duties: Overseeing all painting activities such as mixing paint, preparing surfaces before painting and applying decorative or protective finishes to various structures.

15. Gas plant operator
Salary: $51,676/year
Primary duties: Maintaining certain pressures in pipelines to produce and/or transport natural gas.

16. Payroll supervisor
Salary: $51,410/year
Primary duties: Managing employees working on company payroll, ensuring that pay calculation is in accordance with company policy, government regulations and tax codes.

17. Assembly supervisor
Salary: $50,462/year
Primary duties: Overseeing workers who use power tools and other equipment to assemble products.

18. Credit and collection supervisor
Salary: $50,330/year
Primary duties: Supervising employees engaged in the review of credit risks and collections; may also review client credit history to grant or deny extensions of credit.

19. Data control supervisor
Salary: $50,310/year
Primary duties: Managing data entry workers and assuming responsibility for those workers’ tasks to be complete and accurate; may sometimes assist with assignments.

20. Reimbursement recovery specialist
Salary: $49,246/year
Primary duties: Negotiating cases where third-party liability reimbursement exists by investigating and identifying responsible third parties, then paying out those parties.

Source: CNN and Careerbuilder

20 Big Salaried Jobs: No Degree Required

n the midst of a recession, huge job losses are expected to continue for at least several more months. But what really worries economists is that the job market could be slow to recover even when the economy begins to improve.

In the recession that began in December 2007, the economy has shed more than 1.1 million jobs. Economists expect the Labor Department’s monthly employment report to show another 325,000 job losses for November when it is released Friday.

November’s job losses would represent the largest monthly drop in non-farm employment in seven years, if the report meets estimates. A larger decline could represent the biggest monthly drop in more than 26 years.

The unemployment rate is expected to reach 6.8%, which would be the highest since February 1993.

All indications suggest there’s little stopping jobs from continuing to plummet. ADP’s monthly employment report showed private sector payrolls fell in November by 250,000 jobs from the previous month. And according to a report by outsourcing agency Challenger, Gray & Christmas, planned job cut announcements by U.S. employers soared to 181,671 last month, the second-highest total on record.

A slew of large-scale job-cut announcements came Thursday, with AT&T (T, Fortune 500), DuPont (DD, Fortune 500), Viacom (VIA) and Credit Suisse announcing they would cut a total of nearly 21,000 jobs. All cited the weak economic conditions for the cuts.

Source: Read the entire article

Job recovery could be slow and weak

Excellent CNN.com story for job-seekers in this economy to take notes:

If you are getting ready for a job search during troubled times, here are some tips from the experts.

1. Take a closer look at industry data

Research industries and job sectors that are experiencing worker shortages or still experiencing job growth. These are the areas where you may want to focus your search.

CareerBuilder.com produces a quarterly job forecast that indicates hiring manager trends for the next few months, both regionally and across major sectors. The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases updated figures every month on occupational job growth.

For example, by looking at the BLS data, you will learn that health care, education, government, food services and drinking places, and IT categories have all gained jobs this year.

2. Freshen up your skills

“Don’t give an employer a reason to pass you over because you don’t know the basics,” states Diane Morgan, director of career services at London Business School. Morgan says everyone should know basic office skills like Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel. “Since these are skills you can teach yourself from the Internet or a library book, there are no excuses for not having them.”

Another alternative is CBInstitute.com, which offers easy-to-use online courses at all levels, including business etiquette, project management, foreign languages and typing. You can take courses at times that are convenient for you, so no matter how little time you have to invest, you can make it work. At the same time, the courses are affordable and reasonably priced.

Morgan also suggests brushing up your sales skills (persuasion, negotiating and influencing) even if you aren’t in the sales industry. You need to sell your best product, which is you, so make sure your personal pitch is relevant, timely and effective, she asserts.

3. Try part-time or freelance work

“Rather than one ‘job,’ think in terms of multiple positions. Breaking in [to a new job] may be easier if you aim for part-time work within a company,” advises Katy Piotrowski, career counselor and author of “The Career Coward’s Guides.” “Line up multiple part-time positions and you’ll benefit from more job security; if one position evaporates, you have the others to fall back on.”

Moreover, it will pad your résumé and your wallet.

Rachel Weingarten, author of “Career and Corporate Cool,” recommends job sharing or taking over for someone on maternity leave or during the holiday crunch.

“A lot of people don’t want to commit full-time skills to a part-time or temporary gig. In this economy though, it can allow you to not only try on a job for size, but to also improve your skills, impress a potential long-term employer and network like crazy with people in your chosen industry,” she says. “Instead of nervously waiting for the right full-time career, you can potentially make something better happen in the short term.”

4. Rev up your social networking

Gone are the days of peddling your résumé at anonymous networking events with watered-down drinks and goofy nametags. Now you can have countless opportunities with a few keystrokes and a couple of mouse clicks.

Sure you’ve received those requests to join LinkedIn and BrightFuse, and you certainly use Facebook daily. (Scrabble anyone?) But now is the time to really take of the network you’ve probably casually built over the years.

Networking is easier than in years past because of the easy access to your network and those of your friends and colleagues, Matuson declares. “Now you can go onto [social networking] sites and see who in your network knows someone at a company that you might be interested in working for. You can then ask them to make an introduction on your behalf.”

Read the entire article at CNN.com

How to find a job during a recession