Instant loan approval is just what it sounds like. You send an online application and, literally within minutes (often less), the site’s software provides the required credit checks and approves your request. The cash is paid into your account then and there (it can take three days for BACS to clear, but for an additional charge you can opt for immediate transfer). The cash advance is generally repayable on a short-term basis such as a month – the point behind such a short term loan being that you use it to address your immediate money issues rather than as a permanent strategy. It’s therefore quite different to the consolidation loans you’ll have seen advertised.

One of the biggest differences – other than the time frame – is the cost. You can usually borrow from £75 to £750 (so it’s not right for major debt consolidation anyway), and the fee runs to 30 percent for the month. If your maths is any good, you’ll soon realise that this is not a good long-term option, since that works out as an APR (annual rate) of about 2,330 percent a year (that is, borrow £100 and you’ll have to pay back £130 after a month but £2,330 after a year). But the company is not designed to be used this way. It’s still expensive – far more than other options that may or may not be available to you – and so you need to be careful. The benefits are firstly, that it’s instant – if you have to have the money, you can have it within minutes. Secondly, it may be suitable for people who would not qualify for other forms of loan, such as from a high street bank, or even a credit card.

One way of looking at this is to figure out whether you’ll be better off if you opt for a short term loan, and if the downsides of not taking it are more expensive. Another way is to think of a cash advance like a hotel. You pay by the night, not the year; £50 a night might be good value for a week or so, but when you think of it as £18,000 a year, you’d never stay in it! Instant loan approval is similar in that it’s never meant to be for the long term. Most important of all, however, is to ensure that you use the time it gives you to set your finances in order so that you don’t need another one.

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Starting to apply for graduate jobs is a challenging time for most undergraduates.  If you are not one of the lucky ones who decided at the age of seven that you wanted to be a doctor or a vet,  even deciding when to start can present all sorts of difficulties.  Even for those who know the direction they want to go in, it is not always obvious how best to go about it.  Will a graduate scheme be the only way to get a foot on your chosen career ladder?  Or should you start trying to find internship positions to gain experience and make contacts?
University careers centres can be very helpful with these kind of things, but turning up with no sense of what you want from your future, and asking them to wave a magic wand and come up with all the answers is unlikely to yield results.  These careers professionals are very well informed about the paths into most graduate careers, but are less likely to have a strong grasp of your skills, interests and background.  So it is probably not worth going to careers advisers until you have at least some idea of what they might be able to help you with, and the sector or field you are interested in.  This can be as vague as ‘media’, ‘health’ or ‘consultancy’, as the careers advisors will be able to tell you more about the different roles and graduate jobs that are available in each sector.

It is good to decide as early on as possible what the best route in your chosen career might be.  The reason for this is simple – applications for graduate schemes and internship positions can open as early as September in your final year of university.  For those who need to be interning in order to gain experience in their chosen area, it is often worthwhile to start applying for internships in your first year, so that you can gain experience in every university break.  Graduates considering law, journalism and advertising will thank themselves later if they have invested this time in gaining contacts and skills during their holidays.  Those interested in more corporate jobs such as accounting and finance will often find that a graduate scheme is the best way in, but your application to one of these is much more likely to be successful if you have completed an internship prior to your application.

Graduate jobs need not be a headache if you invest in a little bit of preparation.  Whether it is internship positions or a graduate scheme that will help you achieve your goals, all you need to do is decide what they are as soon as possible, and you should find yourself on a smooth path to success.

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If you’re working for a large firm then you are probably already paid by BACS. In fact, most or all of the accounts will be settled this way, since bacs payments are speedy, secure and simple. The word stands for Bankers Automated Clearing System, and just means electronic payments. When you log in to online banking and send money to someone else, or pay a bill, this is usually done by BACS (a variation is SWIFT, which is the same except that the cash goes through on the same day rather than in three working days; it does, however, cost more). Many medium and small businesses do not use BACS software for their accounts, preferring to work with cash and chequebooks. It may simply be that the company was started before BACS became common, and the accounts department never updated their software. Either way, upgrading can be a smart way to streamline your finance department.

BACS has a number of benefits over the old-fashioned way of doing things. For starters, it means you don’t have to keep a lot of cash on the premises, since on payday the money automatically goes to workers’ bank accounts. If you’ve been working by cheque, this is a step in the right direction, but it is still subject to error and other glitches – not to mention the trouble of making out a separate cheque for the correct amount to every employee. BACS software can be merged with your accounts software, so the right amounts are calculated for you. This can save a vast amount of time, and avoids most errors you might make – as well as delays. Even if a cheque takes no longer to clear (which is not always the case – BACS varies and some payments can go through very quickly), people still have to pay them into the bank. If you’re pushed for time, a cheque can sit around for days or weeks before you get around to it.

There have been loads of news stories in recent years about the disappearance of the chequebook, as cards become more and more normal. Like cards, BACS is fast and secure – another reason to expect that the cheque will one day become a thing of the past. BACS software therefore has a number of advantages over the alternatives and is well worth looking into if you don’t have it already. bacs payments have well established themselves over recent years for good reason.

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Many people have heard about kickboxing, and think of it as something they might be interested in taking part in, but don’t quite know where to do it.  There are many clubs and leisure centres which offer kickboxing London, but the variety of styles and approaches can be a little confusing for the first time kickboxer. Locating a kickboxing club should not be too much of a headache, though, as long as you have some idea if what you are looking for.

One style of kickboxing is Zen-Do, which translated from the Japanese means ‘all paths’ and originates from the traditional Karate style of Wado-Ryu and Mu-Gen-Do fighting system.  Sensei Hironori Ohtsuka started the Japanese martial art of Wado-Ryu Karate in 1934, after studying another form of karate called Kiu-jitsu.  The full name of this style means ‘way of peace’, which highlights that the intention was to use it as a means of solving disputes in a non-violent way.  Karate-Do means ‘way of the empty hand’, as karate is practised without the use of weapons.

Karate took off in Britain in the 1970s, when the first few instructors pioneered Wado-Ryu karate in the UK.  Meiji Suzuki came over  to teach at the Tonbridge Club in London’s King’s Cross. Whilst he was here he decided to expand his martial arts knowledge by thinking beyond  the strict training system he was accustomed to.  He travelled to Yugoslavia and trained with the national team coach there, who was an expert in kick-boxing.  He then devised  a system called ‘the unlimited way’, so called because it remains open to new ideas and techniques.  The focus of this style of fighting is arriving at the most intelligent and correct answer to the problem of a fight.  If a combatant loses, he will look to his mind, body and technique in order to assess what might have gone wrong.  As Zen-Do is not bound by tradition, like some martial arts, it is constantly evolving.  Another reason for its popularity is that it is not just physical in nature, but it represents the development of the mind, body and spirit in a continuous cycle.

If you are looking for a kickboxing club in London and are interested in a form of kickboxing that allows for some creativity and expression of individuality, then it might well be that Zen-Do is for you.  But if you are of the opinion that you might be better suited to a more rigid discipline, the present kickboxing London scene is sophisticated enough that there will certainly be a club out there to suit your demands.

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Social worker jobs can put those who do them through higher than average stress and burnout.  As local authorities are forced to cut spending, increasingly high caseloads in a job with strong emotional demands are placing more pressure on our social workers than ever before.  Researchers in Calgary, Canada have attempted to discover the key to happiness for those in social services jobs, in the hope that policy makers will make use of their findings to make social worker jobs more attractive.  The study, by John Graham, a professor of social work at the University of Calgary, was interested in what makes these professionals happy, rather than concentrating on the well documented causes of stress.  His findings will be of interest to all those who want to make sure they keep hold of their valued employees.

He was motivated by trying to keep people in social services jobs, after recent statistics showed that eight percent of teachers and 15 per cent of social workers leave their jobs annually.  Graham’s team sent a survey to 2,500 registered social workers in Alberta, and received 700 replies.  They chose the 13 ‘happiest’ social workers of those who had replied and focussed their investigation on their lives, through job shadowing and in depth interviews.

They reported that the most satisfied social workers reported higher levels of fulfilment when they had flexible work schedules, work life balance and support in their jobs.  Graham highlighted that social workers, by their nature, are caring, sociable people.  When they experience high caseloads they need good support in order to do their jobs well.  One of the trends reported commonly by the happiest social workers was having a high degree of freedom built into their jobs, particularly having enough flexibility to balance the demands of heir jobs with their personal lives.

From victims of abuse to neglected children, people in social work jobs find themselves in a variety of challenging circumstances every day.  This makes social services jobs demanding, but also fulfilling, as long as social workers receive enough support.  These findings have interesting implications beyond the remit of social worker jobs, as other employers might be encouraged to look at what makes their employees happy rather than tackling what makes them stressed.  As the researchers point out, everyone performs better in their role when they can find satisfaction and happiness in what they do.  The best way to ensure your employees achieve this is to develop organizational cultures that reinforce these principles.

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