Blog Carnival - Job search advice and food for thought! -

Blog Carnival - Job search advice and food for thought! - Several weeks ago, Ben Eubanks inaugurated the Career Carnival Blogging Event on Jobacle by showcasing a number of blogs and a variety of topics. He invited me to take the reigns this time to share some links and possibly introduce you to some new blogs to follow. So, I put out the call to many bloggers to share a link and a twit pitch or summary of the post. I heard back from some bloggers whose posts I never miss as well as several people whose blogs are new to me. I hope you will have the same experience and find some favorites as well as a few new blogs to review Tiffany Monhollon shared her post, Mature Workers Face Toughest Job Market in this Recession. She summarizes: The debate about youth versus age is hot again, as competition in the job market continues to increase. Research shows that both mature workers and new graduates face a difficult job search. But, a recent online poll on the Express Job Blog showed that 70% of over 950 readers agree the job market is more difficult for mature workers than for new grads. But, there is hope for both generations in todays job market. Trevor Wilson from Gradversity examines the benefits of sending individually targeted applications over a mass mailing approach with Quality vs Quantity in Job Applications. Ben Eubanks noted that leadership was born from an interesting conversation about bad leaders and the people that follow them.   Do Not Follow the (Bad) Leader reminds us of times and situations where we do follow bad leaders, and it also shows us how those experiences are short-lived.   Almost everyone has spent some time with a bad leader, but some of the articles comments show a different side of the story. Kirsten Grant summarizes: What do Batman, Spiderman and the Bat Mobile have in common with finding a job and your online profile? Its about consistency in online branding. You wouldnt expect to see Spiderman riding around in the Bat Mobile, nor Batman shooting spider webs from his wrists! This article discusses the importance of picking one area to be known for and gives tips on branding yourself online to ensure long term job search success. This blog topic provides a step-by-step guide to taking your social networking profile from good to great and increasing your chances of finding a job! Kristi Daeda shares a timely post about networking with confidence. She notes, People are nervous about networking because they fear failure, even though theres no such thing! Learn more about how to be successful in networking by enhancing your confidence. Jacqui Barrett-Poindexters, The Branded Resume: An Essential Tool,   illustrates the importance of convincing the hiring manager by creating the emotional hook with kernels of inspired resume writing to get the interviews you deserve. Stephanie Lloyd reminds readers that interviewing is extremely subjective, and if you apply to jobs that you meet the qualifications for, are prepared for the interview, and use common sense, there is no reason to beat yourself up if you did not get the job. Rather than second-guessing yourself or feeling defeated, after each interview take a few moments to do a self-assessment and write the answers down so you can use them to prepare for your next interview. Take a look at: 75 Reasons You Didnt Get the Job. My own most recent favorite post reminds readers that, to succeed in your job hunt, you need to know where you are going and what you want when you get there. So, its not a good idea to do the job search equivalent of going to a pizza place if you feel like eating sushi! (It will make sense when you read it!) Enjoy the holiday weekend! photo by wallyg

How to Write Effective Resume Words For Writing - The Best Tips You Need to Know

How to Write Effective Resume Words For Writing - The Best Tips You Need to KnowLooking for resume words for writing is one of the most important things you can do to improve your chances in landing a job. In other words, you need to find the right words that you will use in your resume. If you have the right words, you'll be much more likely to land a job.First, think about what your job search will consist of. Once you know what it is that you need to do to get a job, you need to start looking for the words you will use. It is easier to use the words that you are going to find for free if you do a little searching on the Internet.First, check out the job posting for free resume words for writing. That way, you can check out several of the terms that you are going to find. This way, you can compare different words and make sure that you pick the best words to use.Second, think about which specific word you should use in your resume. If there is a specific word that you have to use, you need to make sure that you pick that word.Another way to determine which word you should use is to check out the online dictionary. Try to use the word that is defined for you in the online dictionary. If you have no idea what the definition is, then you need to learn more about the word.Finally, once you have found the words that you need to use, you need to find the words that you don't need to use. You might think that you can cut the word you don't need by using the correct grammar and spelling, but it isn't so easy.You need to make sure that you aren't using words that you don't know. Otherwise, you will only waste your time and money by trying to figure out what words to use. Rather, pick the words that you need to use and then use them properly to land you a job.

Sleep Deprivation is Hurting Your Career

Sleep Deprivation is Hurting Your Career We’d all love to have a few extra hours in the day: to score more family and friend time, complete that backlog of errands or even just get up to speed on early episodes of The Night Of. But stealing those extra hours by pushing your bedtime to the wee hours of the morning isn’t the way to goâ€"if you care about your performance at work, that is. Because even though you might think you’re still acing your job with a major sleep deficit, science suggests you’re only fooling yourself. And since boosting your salary is one of the fastest ways to improve your financial situation, you want to make sure you’re keeping your career on track. A study in the journal Sleep found that subjects who racked up just six hours of snooze time per night for two weeks functioned as badly as if they were deprived of sleep for 48 hours. Here’s the thing: The study’s subjects actually thought they were performing wellâ€"not just skating by but actually doing an all-star job. “Many people take pride in the fact that they don’t get enough sleep,” says W. David Brown, Ph.D., a sleep psychologist and author of “Sleeping Your Way to the Top: How to Get the Sleep You Need to Succeed.” It’s as if six hours a night makes you some sort of superhero, when it actually leaves your brain as addled as if you’d downed a few drinks, reports another study. You wouldn’t arrive at work intoxicated and expect to be sharp in a brainstorming meeting, right? Yet for some reason, most of us have no problem coming to the office seriously sleep-deprived but certain that our productivity won’t suffer. Knowing all the ways extreme fatigue impacts your performance, however, might convince you to change your vampire ways. These seven consequences spell it all out. Read More: 6 Ways Night Owls Can Thrive in a 9-to-5 Work World Your Judgment Takes a Hit Maybe you’ve interviewed several job candidates, but you keep going through their résumés because you can’t put a face to their accomplishments. Or your department holds an emergency meeting to decide about cutting loose a difficult client, and it’s taking you a while to size up the situation. No wonder: An ongoing sleep deficit short-circuits the part of the brain that handles decision-making and problem-solving, says Richard Shane, Ph.D., a behavioral sleep specialist. That leads to your needing lots of time to make a judgment call. And if you’re faced with a moral dilemmaâ€"for example, whether to give credit to a coworker who offered you an assist on a reportâ€"sleep deprivation puts you at a disadvantage. Not sleeping enough also affects your ability to make appropriate ethical judgments, finds another study published in Sleep. Read More: Work Smarter: The Best Times of Day to Conquer Your To-Dos You’re Moody and Irritable Ever find yourself snapping at junior staffers or letting small things get to youâ€"like when there’s no paper in the printer and you need your report ASAP? That irritability isn’t your office’s fault. When your sleep needs haven’t been met, exhaustion triggers crazy-rough mood swings. Here’s the physiology: “Emotions reside in a part of the brain called the amygdala,” Brown says. The amygdala usually communicates with the cortex (which influences awareness and perception) to process emotions. But when you’re sleep-deprived, the amygdala ignores the cortex and moves straight into fight-or-flight mode, throwing logic out the window, Brown explains. “[That results in] anger and a stronger form of irritability; you’re more stressed and you’re more depressed,” Shane says. You’re also prone to overreacting. “If you see someone who’s very sleep-deprived, they appear almost intoxicated,” Brown says. “They laugh at things that are not really that funny, or they may cry at the slightest insult or sad event.” Too little sleep could also intensify depression, finds a 2014 study. Read More: 5 Ways Your Health Can Impact Your Financial Well-Being You Show Up at Work but Aren’t Really There If you log the occasional late night, the next day you feel like you appear OK on the outside, yet you’re just going through the motions in a sleepwalking haze. When you regularly skimp on sleep, however, that’s what you’re like every day. “We’re now using a term called presenteeism, which is when employees show up to work but get very little done because they are so sleep-deprived they aren’t functioning optimally,” Brown says. These employees are physically present without really being mentally present because their brains are stuck in fatigue mode. 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You guessed it: exhaustion. “Accidents tend to occur between midnight and 6 a.m. and 2 and 4 in the afternoon,” Brown says. “Those times correspond exactly with the tendency for humans to fall asleep.” These injuries and accidents can be crippling in a physical sense for an employee and in an economic sense for a business. Insomnia contributes to 7.2% of costly workplace accidents, amounting to $31 billion each year, reports one study. Even if you’re a desk jockey who doesn’t handle heavy machinery, lack of sleep impairs your motor skills so you’re more likely to trip and fall, scald yourself by spilling hot coffee or get into an accident during your drive to or from the office. You Use Up a Lot of Sick Days Sleep deprivation also affects your immune system, which means you could end up spending your coveted PTO sniffling in bed. “When you sleep poorly, you have three times the amount of sickness,” Shane says. Consistently sleeping less than six hours a night makes you more likely to catch a cold, finds a 2015 study. Not to mention major health issues like diabetes, obesity, heart disease and high blood pressure are linked to sleep quantity, Shane says. “You have one night of poor sleep, and you notice the effects,” he says. “That’s proof right there that sleep is vitally important to your health, like exercise and nutrition.” You Can’t Remember a Client’s Name Try getting out the door on fewer than five hours of sleep, and you’ll be lucky to remember where you parked your car. Not getting enough sleep warps your memory. “Sleep does seem important for consolidating not just facts and figures in our memory but mechanical movements,” Brown says. Here’s why: While you sleep, sharp-wave ripples are reactivated in the brain’s hippocampus to help you process the information you took in during the day, finds astudy in the journal Cell Reports. Getting plenty of sleep both before learning and after learning makes a difference in what and how much you recall, Brown says. You Make a Poor Impression on Your Team Think you’ve trained yourself to function fine on six hours’ sleep? Fatigue is pulling the wool over your eyesâ€"and your reputation as an employee or a team leader can suffer as a result. “If you don’t think you’re more irritable, ask some of your coworkers,” Shane suggests. As mentioned earlier, sleep-deprived professionals behave similarly to people who are intoxicated. Beyond the slowed reaction time and lack of self-control, both groups infamously deny that anything’s off. “When people are drunk, a lot of times they don’t know that they’re drunk, and they’ll tell you they’re not drunk,” Shane says. “It’s the exact same thing when people are sleep-deprived. They think everything’s OK and they can function just as well,” but their colleagues know better.

5 Ways To Network In 30 Minutes Or Less! - Work It Daily

5 Ways To Network In 30 Minutes Or Less! - Work It Daily 5 Ways To Network In 30 Minutes Or Less If you’re like me, all you want to do after a long day at work is kick off your heels, grab some greasy Chinese food, and slip into your favorite sweatpants. It is, after all, your “you” time, and you should spend it relaxing and doing “you” things (like catching up on House of Cards with a glass of wine - or two!). Related: 7 Ways To Meet New People (And Have Fun Doing It) Those precious hours of freedom are cherished, and no one wants to give them up to do more work. I mean, you work hard all day! You deserve a break. That said, if you’re serious about advancing your career, you have to put in a little extra effort. It’s just like making time for exercise - if you want to lose weight, sure, you can go on a diet. However, if you want to lose weight and get toned, you need to put the extra effort in and participate in daily exercise. Okay, so we know you’ve got to make time during your free time to advance your career. But how? You’ve got a life, friends, and family to think about. How can you make time for everything? How can you make time for networking? 5 Ways To Network In 30 Minutes Or Less Here are some quick tips for working networking into your busy lifestyle (without cutting too much into your spare time!): Find lunch hour networking events in your area Hop on a virtual networking event for 30 minutes, once a week Talk to someone on the bus/train ride to work Reach out to three LinkedIn connections each week to check in or share a relevant article Browse through the “People You May Know” page on LinkedIn and reach out to people you think would benefit from your network (Watch this video to learn how to do this appropriately) It’s important to make a little extra time for your career. If you want to get ahead, you’ve got to put in the time. However, you don’t have to invest too much of your free time for it to give you a boost. If you can take 30 minutes to watch a rerun of Friends, you can take 30 minutes a day to fit in networking. Think of it as career exercise! This post was originally published on an earlier date. Have you joined our career growth club?Join Us Today!

Kristen Bells Approach to Staying Fit Makes So Much Sense for Working Moms

Kristen Bells Approach to Staying Fit Makes So Much Sense for Working Moms If you struggle with finding the time to work out, yure in good companynot just with everyday motherbeis but with famous ones too. Luckily, Kristen Bells working-mom-friendly advice might just help you maximize your schedule.In a new interview withShape, the busy actress andmom of two revealed that shes only able to take a workout class once or twice a week, for about 45 minutes at a time. So how does she make it count? She chooses a super-intense fitness routine.Ive tried a hr of workouts in L.A. and have realized that I need maximum ass-kicking in the shortest amount of time, she toldShape.Kristen works out at Studio Metamorphosis, and the class she takes, which she describes as a cross between Pilates and CrossFit, involves using much heavier weights and stronger resistance compared to a traditional Pilates class. The goal, she said, is to put your body into muscle exhaustion. By the end, youre basically sh aking and falling off the machine.According toShape, one class can burn between 500 and 1,000 calories.The intense workout makes sense for Kristen, considering shes now the lead on two shows NBCs The Good Place and the Veronica Mars revival coming to Hulu. Every minute of my workweek is scheduled, so when I do have a 45-minute gap, it doesnt benefit me to take a relaxing yoga class. It benefits me to go get my butt kicked, she said. And I reap the rewards.And of course, having a supportive partner inDax, with whom she shares her two daughters, Lincoln, 5, and Delta, 4, helps too. My husband and I know that we need to work out not just for our physical well-being but for our mental well-being, she toldShape. So once on the weekends, my husband will say, Ill take the kids to brunch, why dont you go to a class? and whenever I have a 45-minute gap in my week, I make working out a priority.Kristen also offered some wise words about the importance of prioritizing self-care, even though it might go against your instinct to put everyone else first Everyone needs a tough-love reminder that if youre not taking care of yourself, youre no good to take care of anyone else. When you can fully digest that, it kind of snaps you to attention and makes you realize that youre just as important as those around you. Maricar Santos--This story originally appeared onWorking Mother. Working Mother ismentor, role model and advocate for the countrys more than 17 million moms who are devoted to their families and committed to their careers. Through our website, magazine, research, radio and powerful events, Working Mother provides its readers with the community, solutions and strategies they need to thrive.

Resume Writing Services Amarillo Tx Help!

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How Facebook could cost you your job

How Facebook could cost you your job How Facebook could cost you your jobPosted October 13, 2011, by Josie Chun If you are one of the over nine million Australians or 500 million people worldwide who use Facebook, you probably use the social networking site to keep up with your friends, write on each others walls and view each others photos. Caught up in this breezy social interaction, its easy to forget all the invisible readers who may be reading your profile information and looking at the photos you just posted of your last dgroe nachfrageken night on the town. That may include the friends youve added who you actually barely know, the friends of your friends, your colleagues and shudder your babo. Depending on your privacy umgebungs, total strangers may be able to view your profile including prospective employers. Cautionary tales are increasingly emerging of how Facebook has proved the undoing of the hapless. Many people will already have heard about Australian Kyle Doyle, a c all centre worker who chucked a sickie after a drunken night out, only to be busted by his boss after posting this on his Facebook page not going to work, f*** it im still trashed SICKIE WOO. Oops. Then there was Kevin Colvin, an intern at Anglo Irish Bank in the US, who told his employers he had to miss work to go to New York for a family emergency. When his Facebook page later showed a photo of a fairy costume-clad Colvin at a Halloween party instead of his family emergency, his manager copied the photo and emailed it around the office with the reply Thanks for letting me know hope everything is OK in New York. (cool wand). Theyre reading your profile It is becoming increasingly common for employers to do background checks on potential employees by looking at their Facebook (or MySpace or Bebo) profiles. Twenty per cent of employers use social networking sites to run searches on job applicants and 68 per cent use search engines like Google and Yahoo to check on candidates, acco rding to online recruitment website www.onrec.com. So you might want to think twice before you start venting about how much you hate work or bragging about how many tequila shots you can down in the space of ten minutes. It could cost you your job. Even seemingly innocuous posts can get you into trouble with your employer like that experienced by one man working for a large corporate bank, who was supposedly fired for using the word recession in a Facebook post. Facebook no-nos The top turn-offs for employers on social networking websites include References to drug or alcohol abuse Racist, sexist or otherwise intolerant views Evidence of illegal activity Inappropriate photos, especially nudity Offensive language Rude sexual jokes Links to unsuitable websites Silly email addresses Membership of pointless/silly groups Other things to watch out for, particularly if youre currently job hunting, are poor grammar and spelling, and badmouthing current or former employers and colleagues both will reflect badly on you. What you can do There are a few things you need to do to make sure you dont jeopardise your current or future job. The rule of thumb is to ask yourself is this something you would feel comfortable having your parents or employer see? If the answer is no, play it safe and remove it. Alternatively, you could consider setting up a separate clean Facebook account with a variation of your name to use for work colleagues and your parents. Check your privacy settings This might seem obvious, but hey even the wife of MI6 chief Sir John Sawers put private family information and photos on her Facebook profile without any privacy protection, unwittingly allowing 200 million Facebook users in the London network to access her profile. Even if maintaining your privacy is not a matter of national security, it can still be a good idea to limit who can view your profile to your network, friends and friends of friends, or friends only. In your privacy settings , you can customise the visibility of every aspect of your profile (personal info, status, wall posts, photos, etc) and it can be worth taking the time to do so. Clean up your profile Be aware of what impression youre giving through the language you use, the photos you post, what you list as your interests and what groups you belong to. If any of these are potentially damning, clean them up. A last word about photos Even if youve removed the incriminating photos of yourself passed out on the footpath after a bender, or pulling a moon for the camera, dont forget that you also have to be aware of photos posted by your friends in which youve been tagged. If its not something you want to be associated with, be sure to untag yourself Do you have a story about how Facebook has gotten you or someone you know into trouble with your employer? 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