Why You Need a Lifeguard to Get a Promotion - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Why You Need a Lifeguard to Get a Promotion - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Regardless of where you live and where you need to work, there's most likely a sea among you and what you need. No, I don't mean the immense waterway that covers 71% of the planet. It isn't so much that you live in the UK and need to work in the US. Not that sort of sea. It's the expanse of musings that swim around your cerebrum. Continually circling considerations, emotions, and past encounters. These incorporate the damages, affronts, mistaken assumptions, deceitful indictments, absence of approval and different trash extra from all the individuals who at any point addressed you horribly â€" incidentally or purposefully. All the endeavors you made that went unrewarded. All the fantasies that couldn't be supported, actually. This inward contamination regularly isn't noticeable at the surface. I know. I have a sea, as well. I've needed to dig it, filter it, purge it and recycle it. It's very of the work I do normally, alongside checking my schedule and making my bed. It's a day by day custom. In this way, when I address you, my sea is spotless and clear. That newness permits me to just say what I mean. Ask what I have to know. Tune in to what you state. Hear what you mean. In pretty much every cooperation, I see all the old waste that litters the current awareness of the individual I'm addressing. To a great extent, this is my activity. I am a correspondences and vocation mentor. At the point when you speak, I tune in for what will push you ahead and what is keeping you down. On the off chance that my expanse of musings were covered with the remainders of awkward past encounters, I would not have an unmistakable brain to assist you with perusing yours. While you may once in a while address a correspondences mentor, most every other person you address recognizes what I know, just in an alternate way. They sense that something isn't right with you. They may believe you're unfit, overqualified, guarded, equivocal, touchy, grouchy, conflicting, inconsistent, apprehensive, discourteous or simply nutty. In the event that you have not succeeded, it's to a great extent in light of the fact that your sea prevents you from being completely present and plainly drew in with the individuals and openings around you. That is what's jumbling up your correspondence and preventing individuals from confiding in you, loving you and thinking about you. That is the reason they are hesitant to recruit you, advance you, grant you a raise, put resources into you and in any case help you get where you need to go. It's the reason you're halted, slowed down, bothered, and end up stayed with troublesome individuals. Its why you dont get a reaction to your resume or calls, its this feeling youre some way or another not right. The fix? Get yourself a heap of record cards. With each negative idea like a craving to gripe, hesitate, challenge authority or in any case sabotage yourself â€" take a card and record it. At that point ask yourself: Who originally revealed to me that? Who gave me this impression of myself or the world? Do it now and ever stop. Seas need lifeguards. You are yours. On the off chance that you need more tips on this, email Nance@NanceRosen.com. Headline: Ocean. ChameleonsEye/Shutterstock.com

6 Ways to Help You Find Success at Work Building Your Future Now

6 Ways to Help You Find Success at Work Building Your Future Now Sometimes in life we struggle and other times we just get it. I think you will agree with me that being successful is a lot more fun then losing especially at work. So how can you find success at work? Here are 6 Ways: 1. Learn About Your Bosses Learning more about your bosses can give you a deeper understanding in regards to their managerial styles and work-floor personality. Ask if you can a have a few moments to talk with your manager in their office or have a 20 minute chat at a coffee shop close by. Find out a bit more about their professional background and think about how you can further learn from them. 2. Learn Something Youre Good at You have strengths and weaknesses. Instead of lingering on what you cant do, think about what you can do and how can learn more about getting better. Consult books. Research the internet. Message top-tier local professionals. Find out how you can exponentially increase your knowledge and experience of a personal strength or skill set! 3. Help Co-workers with their Personal Goals Day in and day out you work with many people around you in the work place. Sometimes you feel like simply doing your work and going home. However, try this: you may have a co-worker that you get along withso thats a good start. Find out a little more about them. What do they excel in? What did they study at school? So they have an interesting hobby? By learning about your co-worker(s) you are in effect taking the time to listen to them. Its a good feeling! To take it one step further: is there anyway you can help them achieve their goal(s). ALEP: Ask. Listen. Execute. Produce. For example, if you discover a co-worker is a talented singer try seeing how you can use any talents you have to help in their music career! 4. Learn how to Make Money You dont have to be a sales person at your company to generate money for them. But you can think of ways of doing it: whether it be excelling in customer service and stoking repeat business or keeping the business organized even the smallest things can help generate revenue for the business you work for! Also, try brainstorming new and exciting ways to generate business and increase revenues. 5. Be your customers #1 fan Most of the time a smile goes a long way! Be friendly and accommodating do your customers. Thank them for their business and ask them to come back. Become your customers #1 fan! Be positive with them even if a negative situation arises you will quickly get fans yourself by being the positive one. 6. Never, ever give up! Everyobe loves an underdog story and people that never quit. How about you are that person at your job! The person that always rises up to the challenge! The person that never, ever quits! Your customers, bosses, and co-workers need this kind of energyso give it to them in spades! Image:Geralt

One Simple Way to Offer College Students the Career Information They Need Marla Gottschalk

One Simple Way to Offer College Students the Career Information They Need Marla Gottschalk Photo by Edwin Andrade on Unsplash As time goes on, we can develop perspectives clouded in convention and negative experiences. Things can seem very complicated, when in fact they are not. If you desire a fresh solution â€" seek someone with a fresh perspective. In this case, a recent college graduate. Now on to the larger topic: The need to impart needed career information to college students. As you know, most college students will never pass through the doors of their Universitys career center. Many will land in career paths unsuited to them. Even more may end up in a very quick career dead-end. Why? They didnt have the required facts to make an informed decision. So why the hesitation to inform them? (Its not that.) Colleges and universities want to inform their students and go to great lengths to do so. The glaring problem is securing their attention. So â€" my recent grad offered a brilliant solution: At the start of each and every semester in survey classes in Psychology, History, Chemistryetc, tell them. Yes, simply tell them. Spend a half an hour addressing career paths, work settings and how they can make that content area work as a career. Share insights concerning the highs and lows. Discuss educational requirements. Dont wait for that timid Freshman to rally the nerve to speak to the professor after class, about a decision that will affect the rest of their working life. Inform them. Right alongside the review of the syllabus. You already have a captive audience. Take advantage of the opportunity. Makes sense, doesnt it? Dr. Marla Gottschalk is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist, consultant and coach. She holds the role of Senior Consultant at Allied Talent, bringing the principles of The Alliance to organizations worldwide.

Is Video Interviewing Now a Viable Option for Recruiters

Is Video Interviewing Now a Viable Option for Recruiters It started with tech companies but is becoming more and more popular by the day by all kinds of employers and recruiters. Why? Because it works. You have the opportunity to replay and review the interviews you conduct with just a few clicks of a button. But can it ever replace face-to-face interviews? Is it merely just a screening tool? We ask our diverse group of panelists to discuss how viable of an option video interviewing is. Adam Glassman   Yes, most candidates have gotten over the fear of video interviewing, thanks to social apps like Facetime, Skype, and general video phone calls with friends. Companies have to ask three questions: 1) Is this right for my candidate audience?    2) Does this actually provide an advantage to my recruiters?      3) At what point in the process would we deploy this?      Those answers will vary based on the company. Adam Glassman, Recruitment Strategies Manager, Alorica Bryan Chaney   Video has always been a viable option for those that can access and understand the medium. Whether showcasing a culture or job experience on video to attract potential hires, or using video to ask and answer questions in the hiring process, video takes us one step closer to the face-to-face human experience. We use our senses to make judgment decisions (sight, sound, taste, touch, even smell) and the more senses we can leverage, the better the odds that we’re making a good decision. I’m just waiting on smell-o-vision enhanced Virtual Reality goggles. Bryan Chaney, Director of Employer Brand, Indeed Nathan Perrott   I think it depends on the employer, sector and job type, but in short, video recruiting is a more viable option for most. But mainly as a screening tool. I don’t think you can ever replace human face to face interviewing. There are issues with conscious and unconscious bias that video interviewing can help with too. Generations Y Z will be more comfortable with this method, so for future talent / early careers campaigns it’s usually very effective. Video is also an essential attraction tool given how engaged users are with video nowadays. Nathan Perrott, Director of Digital Marketing Strategy, AIA Worldwide Hung Lee   Use of video in recruiting must already be considered mainstream. We use video technology to communicate in real time and increasingly asynchronous video to conduct first stage assessments on candidates. Some of the more advanced businesses are now building AI into video interviewing platforms, helping companies validate candidate responses and perhaps pick up patterns on what type of response/responder produces the best outcomes. There are legal and ethical challenges ahead for these technologies. Hung Lee, CEO, WorkShape.io Chris Russell   Yes, it is for most higher level roles. It still may not be great for entry level jobs because those candidates are less likely to want to appear on video. At least that was my experience during my recruiting career. Chris Russell, Managing Director, RecTech Media Cheryl Cran Video and mobile are major with many candidates mobile will be the main form of technology in the next few years Recruiters need to be using video to attract talent, videos that show workplace culture, videos that show the leadership styles and the benefits of the company. Cheryl Cran, CEO Future of Work Expert, Synthesis at Work Inc Jonathan Kestenbaum   Video interviewing is a very commoditized space. However, it definitely does save time and money when interviewing candidates. I anticipate you will see a number of video interviewing technologies adding to their tech stack and building Candidate Relationship Management platforms. Jonathan Kestenbaum, Executive Director, Talent Tech Labs

Penetrating the Hidden Job Market - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Penetrating the Hidden Job Market - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career In the current job market, it’s not unusual for people to be looking for jobs over many months. It’s a very competitive market, and job openings are few. This situation is amplified by the herd mentality whereby people deploy the job search strategies commonly used in the past. For example, asking people about their target companies elicits, in most cases, the names of large and very well-known companies. This means that all of those people are competing for the same few openings. Yet there are lots of jobs in the untapped arena called the hidden job market. The hidden job market is at the other end of the spectrumâ€"mostly hidden from the public because the jobs in it don’t get published. Such jobs get filled by word of mouth or through recommendations. Most jobs are not advertised anyway, and people who get hired never responded to advertisements. Research has shown that 25 percent of people lie on their résumés. Hiring managers have a basic mistrust about résumés, preferring candidates who are recommended. Some news articles profess that only one-third of job openings are advertised. That means that two-thirds of job openings are invisible to most job applicants. Here are some more facts: Big companies are eliminating jobs as a result of their mergers-and-acquisitions activities, while small and medium-size companies are creating jobs. Small companies have problems attracting talent and are thus often settling for less-than-perfect candidates. The job market is localized. Plumbers in New Orleans could be doing well, while those in other cities could be doing poorly. At the same time that companies are laying off people, they could be hiring in areas where other employees are needed. Ten percent of the current job market is contingent (part-time, temporary, or contract). Two-thirds of all new jobs are on a contingent basis. The chances of a contingent job’s becoming permanent are very good because the employees in them are known quantities. So, what should job seekers do to increase their chances of getting employed? Here are a few suggestions. It takes a minimum of 40 job-search work hours a week to get a job. Research has shown that many unemployed people spend less than 10 hours a week. One has to make several contacts in the same company to get hired. It is a multistep and protracted effort. Nothing happens fast when one is looking for a job. People get jobs by talking to people. Improve your verbal and written communication skills. You should be working on at least 50 leads at all times. Don’t be discouraged by the voices in your head saying you cannot do it. By following these suggestions, people in transition will not only speed up the process but also increase their chances exponentially.

Using Resume Activities to Help You Improve Your Resume

Using Resume Activities to Help You Improve Your ResumeIf you are looking for ways to improve your resume and cover letter, then resume activities can help. These activities can actually be very important because they allow the resume to be read by a recruiter.How do these activities work? The first thing to remember is that the recruiter wants to see all of the information that is included in the entire document. However, only certain parts of the document are going to be seen.The recruiter will want to know the exact dates that your job was completed. They will also want to know how many months you worked in each position. In addition, the recruiter is going to want to know what types of positions you held.Specific resume activities can be used to help you fill in some of the blanks. By listing out these points you can increase the chance that the recruiter will notice your application.When listing out your experience, you can use these resume activities. If you have several differ ent positions you can use one activity to list them all out. Then you can utilize another activity to place them in an order from most recent to oldest.For example, you can list the job titles in reverse chronological order. The most recent position would be at the top, followed by the oldest positions. In addition, you can use this approach if you do not have any job titles for each position.After activities are complete, they can be submitted to the employer. Remember, the employer is using this document to make sure that they are hiring the right person. Therefore, it is in their best interest to get everything that they need from the resume.Remember, the common activities that are listed on resumes are what the recruiter will focus on. Therefore, if you use these activities to help you improve your resume you will not only be able to enhance your chances of being hired, but you will also help yourself get more interviews.

Reviews wanted ) - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Reviews wanted ) - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog As you may know, my first book Happy Hour is 9 to 5 has just been republished in English. Im currently looking to get as many reviews for it on Amazon in the next 24 hours as possible, so if youve read it, could you possibly go on there and review it? That would be awesome! And if you could even repeat that on Amazon UK, that would be even better :) Link to the book on Amazon. Link to the book on Amazon UK. THANKS you rock! Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related