What is the Job Journal (under Tools)

What is the Job Journal (under Tools) Last week a user emailed to ask what the Job Journal is.  On our last Wednesday webinar we spent more time than usual on the Job Journal (some weeks I dont have time to go into it). The Job Journal is outside of the idea of tracking contacts, companies, and jobs in your job search, so some people kind of ignore it.  It also suffers from the Pill vs. Vitamin syndrome (this is a critical concept to understand click here to see my thoughts on it), so its easy to think Ill do that later, when Im not working so urgently on landing my next job. But let me suggest that working through the Job Journal idea is critical. It became important to me for a couple of reasons.  First, in my depression and discouragement in my job search, I lost a clear perspective of who I was.  Its easy to do. If you cant see yourself clearly, you think you arent good enough to land the job you are fully qualified to do.  I got to the point where I doubted my ability to flip burgers at a restaurant and Im the guy who put myself through most of my undergraduate and MBA programs!  Determined, driven, motivated but lost my confidence. Going through the exercise of brainstorming your accomplishments for the Job Journal helps you regain a clear vision of who you are and what you bring to the table. Additionally, going through the exercise helps you craft stories that help paint your picture.  As you list your accomplishments youll have stories about your ability to solve problems, think analytically, work in teams, lead people, be led by people, be creative, etc.  All those things you say you are the stories make your claims much more substantial. Compare this: I am creative. vs. I am creative.  For example, I was invited to work on a project that _________.  It was clear the problem was _____________.  After realizing this, I __________________.  As a result, the project _____________. You might recognize that mini-story has a Problem/Action/Result format.  When you start thinking about talking about yourself with mini-stories to back-up what you have done, and put some real meat behind your claims, you will come across as a much stronger candidate. I love, love, love what this can do for you. You can believe in yourself again, even though you have gone through months of rejection, and you can present yourself much stronger (through mini-stories). How can this not be a critical part of your short-term and long-term career management?  It is worth the time to get away from technology and distractions and brainstorm your accomplishments and then come back to JibberJobber to enter them in.  I cant make you do it, I can only beg you to do it.  But if you do it, you will be much better off. I should mention that all of this is on the FREE side of JibberJobbber If you are ready to learn more, check out these three blog posts: The Job Journal this is an introduction to the tool where I announced it back in September of 2007. Job Journal Revisited Included in Free Level this is the announcement we made in October 2009 where we moved every aspect of it over to the free side. Your Success Stories and a Job Journal I took a quote from executive and professional coach Beverly Harveys blog post about the stories, which she calls critical components, and said, YES, and use the Job Journal to track these stories! Beverly Harvey isnt the only career professional talking about this.  Liz Handlin, who I wrote about last week, wrote a post in January 2007 titled Keep A Job Diary.  Read that for further validation of the concept. One thing I love about the job journal, or job diary, or whatever you want to call it, is that it is a component of your long-term career management strategy. What is the Job Journal (under Tools) Last week a user emailed to ask what the Job Journal is.  On our last Wednesday webinar we spent more time than usual on the Job Journal (some weeks I dont have time to go into it). The Job Journal is outside of the idea of tracking contacts, companies, and jobs in your job search, so some people kind of ignore it.  It also suffers from the Pill vs. Vitamin syndrome (this is a critical concept to understand click here to see my thoughts on it), so its easy to think Ill do that later, when Im not working so urgently on landing my next job. But let me suggest that working through the Job Journal idea is critical. It became important to me for a couple of reasons.  First, in my depression and discouragement in my job search, I lost a clear perspective of who I was.  Its easy to do. If you cant see yourself clearly, you think you arent good enough to land the job you are fully qualified to do.  I got to the point where I doubted my ability to flip burgers at a restaurant and Im the guy who put myself through most of my undergraduate and MBA programs!  Determined, driven, motivated but lost my confidence. Going through the exercise of brainstorming your accomplishments for the Job Journal helps you regain a clear vision of who you are and what you bring to the table. Additionally, going through the exercise helps you craft stories that help paint your picture.  As you list your accomplishments youll have stories about your ability to solve problems, think analytically, work in teams, lead people, be led by people, be creative, etc.  All those things you say you are the stories make your claims much more substantial. Compare this: I am creative. vs. I am creative.  For example, I was invited to work on a project that _________.  It was clear the problem was _____________.  After realizing this, I __________________.  As a result, the project _____________. You might recognize that mini-story has a Problem/Action/Result format.  When you start thinking about talking about yourself with mini-stories to back-up what you have done, and put some real meat behind your claims, you will come across as a much stronger candidate. I love, love, love what this can do for you. You can believe in yourself again, even though you have gone through months of rejection, and you can present yourself much stronger (through mini-stories). How can this not be a critical part of your short-term and long-term career management?  It is worth the time to get away from technology and distractions and brainstorm your accomplishments and then come back to JibberJobber to enter them in.  I cant make you do it, I can only beg you to do it.  But if you do it, you will be much better off. I should mention that all of this is on the FREE side of JibberJobbber If you are ready to learn more, check out these three blog posts: The Job Journal this is an introduction to the tool where I announced it back in September of 2007. Job Journal Revisited Included in Free Level this is the announcement we made in October 2009 where we moved every aspect of it over to the free side. Your Success Stories and a Job Journal I took a quote from executive and professional coach Beverly Harveys blog post about the stories, which she calls critical components, and said, YES, and use the Job Journal to track these stories! Beverly Harvey isnt the only career professional talking about this.  Liz Handlin, who I wrote about last week, wrote a post in January 2007 titled Keep A Job Diary.  Read that for further validation of the concept. One thing I love about the job journal, or job diary, or whatever you want to call it, is that it is a component of your long-term career management strategy. What is the Job Journal (under Tools) Last week a user emailed to ask what the Job Journal is.  On our last Wednesday webinar we spent more time than usual on the Job Journal (some weeks I dont have time to go into it). The Job Journal is outside of the idea of tracking contacts, companies, and jobs in your job search, so some people kind of ignore it.  It also suffers from the Pill vs. Vitamin syndrome (this is a critical concept to understand click here to see my thoughts on it), so its easy to think Ill do that later, when Im not working so urgently on landing my next job. But let me suggest that working through the Job Journal idea is critical. It became important to me for a couple of reasons.  First, in my depression and discouragement in my job search, I lost a clear perspective of who I was.  Its easy to do. If you cant see yourself clearly, you think you arent good enough to land the job you are fully qualified to do.  I got to the point where I doubted my ability to flip burgers at a restaurant and Im the guy who put myself through most of my undergraduate and MBA programs!  Determined, driven, motivated but lost my confidence. Going through the exercise of brainstorming your accomplishments for the Job Journal helps you regain a clear vision of who you are and what you bring to the table. Additionally, going through the exercise helps you craft stories that help paint your picture.  As you list your accomplishments youll have stories about your ability to solve problems, think analytically, work in teams, lead people, be led by people, be creative, etc.  All those things you say you are the stories make your claims much more substantial. Compare this: I am creative. vs. I am creative.  For example, I was invited to work on a project that _________.  It was clear the problem was _____________.  After realizing this, I __________________.  As a result, the project _____________. You might recognize that mini-story has a Problem/Action/Result format.  When you start thinking about talking about yourself with mini-stories to back-up what you have done, and put some real meat behind your claims, you will come across as a much stronger candidate. I love, love, love what this can do for you. You can believe in yourself again, even though you have gone through months of rejection, and you can present yourself much stronger (through mini-stories). How can this not be a critical part of your short-term and long-term career management?  It is worth the time to get away from technology and distractions and brainstorm your accomplishments and then come back to JibberJobber to enter them in.  I cant make you do it, I can only beg you to do it.  But if you do it, you will be much better off. I should mention that all of this is on the FREE side of JibberJobbber If you are ready to learn more, check out these three blog posts: The Job Journal this is an introduction to the tool where I announced it back in September of 2007. Job Journal Revisited Included in Free Level this is the announcement we made in October 2009 where we moved every aspect of it over to the free side. Your Success Stories and a Job Journal I took a quote from executive and professional coach Beverly Harveys blog post about the stories, which she calls critical components, and said, YES, and use the Job Journal to track these stories! Beverly Harvey isnt the only career professional talking about this.  Liz Handlin, who I wrote about last week, wrote a post in January 2007 titled Keep A Job Diary.  Read that for further validation of the concept. One thing I love about the job journal, or job diary, or whatever you want to call it, is that it is a component of your long-term career management strategy.

What Do You Put On a Resume?

What Do You Put On a Resume?When trying to land a job that you deserve, the question most frequently asked is what do you put on a resume? The best resume does not need to be written in a particular way but should also present you and your skills in a light way. If you have been out of work for awhile then the resume that you write should reflect this and show that you are a viable candidate.You should not make your resume a reflection of yourself but rather a reflection of your skills, achievements and successes. A resume that is filled with what you are not proud of will show a lack of professionalism on your part. Think of your resume as a starting point for an employer to see exactly what you are capable of doing and what you have done in the past.While there are some people who need to elaborate on their experiences, it is important to leave them out as much as possible in favor of what you have accomplished. Your history is much more important than what you have been involved i n or accomplished. You should not use your time away from work in an attempt to make up for things that you did not do.The key to writing a successful resume lies in making your career history what the employer sees. You do not want to be a past president of the club but it is a good idea to make yourself look like one. The better you can portray yourself in a positive light the better your chances of landing a job that you have been looking for all your life.Before filling out the resume for your resume you want to take a little time to review your employment history and see what mistakes you may have made. You should feel free to add any information that has not been overlooked and that you are willing to let the employer know. What you put on a resume is the most important aspect of your job search.Always make sure that you always include the keywords when writing a resume for your job search. You want to make sure that every time that you apply for a job or interview that you in clude the keyword that was listed on your resume. If you are interviewing for a position and are asked what are your strengths and weaknesses in the job application process you want to ask if the interviewer can see your resume so that he can see what you are really like.A recent track record is important in making a good impression with employers. You should always make sure that your track record is up to date and complete. You do not want to be listed as someone who has no recent employment on the internet. The fact is that a person may find themselves without a job at some point in time and this is something that they cannot control.One final note: it is not necessary to spell everything correctly on your resume. This is something that you will want to address when you are hiring people for full time positions. If the right hire has just landed in your office, you may want to allow for that person to start off on a strong note by spelling all of the words correctly.

The Civic 50 A Guide To Boosting Your Corporate Civic Engagement - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

The Civic 50 A Guide To Boosting Your Corporate Civic Engagement - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career You may have come across #GivingTuesday, an amazing movement to create a national day of paying it forward to kick off the holiday giving season. It’s officially added to the calendar on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. However, #GivingTuesday is not alone. Over the past 12 months we’ve seen a rise in organizations creating lasting positive change and now we can learn from the best, the Civic 50!! The NEW 2013 Civic 50 Change-makers were recently announced and the results published by Bloomberg show innovations in civic engagement are on the rise in corporate America. In case you missed our last article, the Civic 50 measures the nation’s top 50 SP companies that set the standard for infusing responsibility practices, behaviors, and thinking into corporate culture. If your organization wants to increase community impact or launch new responsibility programming, you’ll want to hear this latest research. Here are 4 key insights and examples we found to help you get started: 1) Integrate community policies into your corporate eco-system starting from the top In 2013, 92% of companies reported specific policies or practices to institutionalize community engagement compared to 76% in 2012. The most successful responsibility directives came from the board, executive or senior leadership teams as more companies followed this trend. Capital Ones leadership team implemented a formal Board Leadership Program and guidelines to support hundreds of staff who serve on nonprofit boards. Additionally, they created corporate volunteer policies and provided flexible hours for employees to volunteer during typical business hours. 2) Measure civic engagement as part of your business impact (bottom line)   More companies (96%) are now evaluating business performance based on the impact of their community engagement programs. This compares to 86% in 2012. Results indicate civic engagement is helping businesses increase sales, brand reputation, employee skill development. Hewlett-Packard demonstrated community engagement programs bumped up reputation scores by over 5%, and one specific initiative increased sales by 9%. At Altria, 29% of employee volunteers said they gained new job-related skills through their experience and 69% said they further developed and exercised existing skills. 3) Make community involvement a metric in employee performance reviews More companies (88%) are now evaluating their employees’ performance in part based on their participation in community service. For example, at Western Union, thirty percent of all employee evaluations are based on WU Behaviors, reflecting strong emphasis on ethics and community engagement. Responsible behaviors include developing shared value projects, leading local fundraising events, and more. As part of the basis for bonuses and professional evaluations, all Western Union employees are asked to create a Social Ventures objective, aimed at reinforcing each individual employees commitment to using WU’s business assets to deliver business social results. At DIRECTV, the CEO is evaluated against an annual corporate responsibility goal, and a responsibility objective was included in company goals for all employees. Thus, the companys responsibility success was a factor in performance reviews for all employees. 4) Donate your expertise through skills-based volunteering More companies are donating expertise through pro bono support and skills-based volunteering. The latest research shows 31% of the workforce of each company on the 2013 Civic 50 were engaged in volunteerism; in 2012, approximately 16% of the total workforce of The Civic 50 companies was estimated to have volunteered.   This year an average of 22% of those volunteer hours donated were specifically pro bono or skills-based volunteering. At General Electric, through their Developing Health programs, local GE employees provided expertise to drive a billing process improvement project that saved the health center $100,000 annually and allowed them to increase their investment in the facility by 10%. Additionally, the volunteer teams in Lynn, MA helped increase general healthcare capacity by 7%. Still looking for more ideas to boost your organization’s community impact?  Consider this trend: Companies in the Civic 50 are providing resources to help small business and local enterprise counterparts succeed. Hewlett-Packard launched the HP Learning Initiatives for Entrepreneurs (HP LIFE), a worldwide, free, cloud-based e-learning program that helps enterprising individuals and young unemployed individuals who want to start or expand small businesses. In 2012, over 30,000 entrepreneurs from over 200 countries benefitted from HP LIFE and since its launch in 2007 HP LIFE has benefited over 2 million individuals, 25,000 businesses have been launched or expanded and 57,000 jobs have been created. No matter what stage your company’s responsibility programming is in, the latest research speaks for itself: volunteering makes business sense! For more details on the latest Civic 50 research, check out this infographic. The Civic 50 research and rankings are conducted by the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) and Points of Light, the nation’s leading experts on volunteerism and service. To learn more about The Civic 50 or view the top ranked companies by industry classification, visit www.Civic50.org. For more information about The Civic 50 organizers, please visit National Conference on Citizenship at www.NCoC.net, Points of Light at www.pointsoflight.org and Bloomberg at www.bloomberg.com. Authors: Mathew, Mike and Antoinne are the founders of  Altruhelp.com, an online community enterprise software solution to increase volunteerism civic engagement.   What’s your  Social Impact?

How the Circus Trains an Elephant to Stay Put - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

How the Circus Trains an Elephant to Stay Put - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Editor’s Note: This blog is a modified excerpt from professional “headhunter” and bestselling job-hunting book author Skip Freeman’s next book in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets series of job-hunting books, CAREER STALLED? How to Get Your Career Back in High Gear and Land the Job You Deserve-Your Dream Job. Publication is scheduled for early 2013. ________________________________________________________ Remember the last time the circus came to your town or city? If you’re like most of us you probably spent some time before or after the performance roaming around the grounds to get a “behind the scenes” look at the animals and other goings-on. Did you happen to notice how the elephants were simply chained to a large metal stake pounded into the ground, so that they stayed in one place? Certainly, if they tried, these huge, powerful animals could easily pull up the stake and go on their merry way. But that’s not what the elephants did at all. They stayed put. The principle behind the elephant’s behavior is known as “conditioned response,” and here is how it works: First, the elephant is tethered to some object that it can’t move, or at least one that it can’t move very easily. Soon, the elephant just quits trying to “escape” and decides that it is probably in its best interest to quit struggling and stay put. Once this occurs, the elephant is then tethered to the aforementioned large metal stake and-you probably guessed it!-since the elephant “believes” it can’t easily pull away from the stake, it no longer even tries! The animal accepts its “fate” and decides to stay put! Unfortunately, “conditioned response” can also play a vital role in influencing a human being’s behavior. Tell a person often enough that he or she can’t do something, or that he/she shouldn’t even consider taking some action, and soon that person may come to “believe” it and simply accept his/her “fate” and quit trying. Just like the elephants in the circus. Case in point: Literally tens of millions of currently employed men and women who managed to stay employed throughout the toughest, most turbulent job market in recent memory and who now, even though they may now be extremely dissatisfied with their current job, have become virtually immobilized when presented with genuine, new career opportunities. Rather, they, like the circus elephants, choose to “stay put” in their current job. Why People are ‘Staying Put’ in Their Current Jobs Here are just a few of the more common reasons currently employed men and women give for staying put in jobs that, in some cases, may have become all but intolerable: After having been told, either implicitly or explicitly, over the last several years, how “lucky” they are to still have a job, many have come to honestly believe that they are indeed “lucky” to still have a job, when they’ve seen so many of their fellow workers lose theirs and be unable to land a new one. As a matter of fact, “luck” has had little if anything to do with anyone having kept his/her job during the last several years. They have either branded themselves as being crucial to the ongoing success (or, in some cases, survival) of their companies, or there was some other legitimate business reason for keeping them on the payroll. If that weren’t the case, they would have been gone long ago. As a result of the ongoing deluge of “bad” news on the job front during the last four or five years, many currently employed people actually believe that there are no jobs “out there” for them. It’s crucial to keep in mind that, for the most part, the jobs the media focus on month after month, year after year, are new jobs being created. To be sure, we are not creating nearly enough new jobs to make the kind of dent we need to make in the rate of unemployment, but it’s also true that, each and every month, MILLIONS of existing jobs go unfilled! Despite having received either no pay increases, or paltry pay increases, during the last several years, many of the currently employed honestly believe that they can’t afford to “pull up stakes” and explore new career opportunities. In other words, they believe they have on “golden handcuffs.” While it is true that salary growth has been, and remains, somewhat stagnant in recent years, candidates who are successful in landing new career opportunities are oftentimes seeing salary increases in the double-digit range-something that cannot reasonably be anticipated in the near future by staying in most current positions. Many currently employed men and women have a deep-down, genuine, abiding fear of making a job change, any job change. They would rather “stay put” in their “safe,” “predictable” current job, no matter how trying and/or stressful, than to take-or even to consider taking-any kind of risk on a new one. The illusion that any job, in any company, at any time, is “safe” and “predicable” is just that-an illusion! It will not matter one bit if you’ve been with the company 10, 15, 20 or more years. It will not matter one bit if you’ve made substantial and significant contributions to the company during your tenure with it. On any given day, at any given time, and usually when you least expect it, when and if the company decides, for whatever reason(s), that it no longer requires your services, you will be gone, gone, gone! And, upon that fact, you definitely can rely! Time to Pull Up Your Imaginary “Stake”? Maybe you are among the group of “survivors” who have managed to retain a relatively high degree of overall job satisfaction. If so, that’s great! On the other hand, if your level of job satisfaction has steadily diminished in recent years, maybe it’s time to take a fresh, new, objective look at career opportunities that may await you in today’s steadily improving job market. My professional advice: “Polish” your professional brand, pull up your imaginary “stake” in the groundâ€"Hey! You are NOT a circus elephant, so don’t act like one!â€"and begin investigating some of these genuine career opportunities. You’ll be glad you did and, I strongly believe, you will also be pleasantly surprised at how much you really do have to offer, as well as how much can be offered to you! Author: Skip Freeman  is the author of “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets: The Rules of the Hiring Game Have Changed . . . Forever!  and is the President and Chief Executive Officer of  The HTW Group (Hire to Win), an Atlanta, GA, Metropolitan Area Executive Search Firm. Specializing in the placement of sales, engineering, manufacturing and RD professionals, he has developed powerful techniques that help companies hire the best and help the best get hired.

Best Online Resume Writing Services Bangalore

Best Online Resume Writing Services BangaloreAre you looking for the best online resume writing services Bangalore? There are many online resume writing services that can help you come up with a good resume. However, you should make sure that you choose the right service because it can also affect your professional life.There are many ways to do this and I will discuss here the best ways. First of all, you should look at the advantages and disadvantages of different services. You should compare them according to their features and other features. This is the most important step because you will have to know what you really need before you actually hire the services.Before actually doing the hiring process, you must first know how to write your own resume. If you already have some idea, then you can choose the service that suits you the best. However, if you do not have an idea about the basics of a resume, then you need to find a service that can guide you better. You can find a lot of free resume writing services online but remember to check the accuracy of the information provided. Make sure that you really get what you paid for.The best online resume services Bangalore can provide you with various samples can help you build your resume more quickly. You can use the samples as a tool to help you build your own resume. Of course, the samples should be well written and readable. Remember that the best online resume writing services are the ones that can give you your money's worth.Another important thing you should consider when you are looking for the best online resume services is their customer support. While you are searching for the services, you should always ask them about their customer support. This is very important because you might encounter problems after your application. The online resume writing services should be able to solve any problems that you might encounter.When it comes to prices, the best online resume services Bangalore can offer you with various packages that will suit your budget. For example, if you need to hire a resume writer for the first time, you can use the basic package. The basic package includes all the things you need in order to create a great resume. It is quite affordable but it is the best way to start.In addition, the best online resume services Bangalore can give you with various sample resumes is also a great option. This is because it is easy to find out samples of various professional and educational resumes on the internet. You just need to look for the best resume samples and customize them according to your needs.There are many things that you need to consider when you are looking for the best online resume writing services. These include choosing the right service, using samples, doing the hiring process, and getting the best possible services for your money. Also, you should always remember that it is not so easy to find the best services because there are so many of them.

Efficient Tips to Deal With Troublesome Colleagues CareerMetis.com

Efficient Tips to Deal With Troublesome Colleagues Source â€" Pexels.comSadly, troublesome colleagues are present in every workplace. They can influence your work life in numerous ways. They are so hard to deal with, yet, it totally relies upon your confidence, certainty and on how professionally you work.Managing troublesome colleagues is less demanding when they are intolerable or if their conduct is influencing more than one individual. Managing them directly is considerably more liable to influence you if they are personally criticizing you or your work firmly together.Figuring out how to manage troublesome colleagues is somehow important for advancing through your work life and is a vital skill to build for your own sake.Why You Must Deal With Troublesome ColleaguesevalevalYour situation would remain the same if you leave it as it is. Unaddressed circumstances are in all respects liable to show sign of situations getting worst. What’s more, the clash will start to heat and may prompt a nasty outburst at work which will ultimat ely worse things.At first, individuals will, in general, go into shock if they are treated in an unprofessional way or are having intimidation conduct directed towards them. It’s vital to take some time out to survey and find out what precisely is going on at work.When you have recognized the circumstance, you shouldn’t live with it for long. Keeping it bottled up will imply that your sentiments will rot and develop, abandoning you hopeless with regards to going to work. You may turn out to be so furious and hurt to the extent that your efforts to address the situation will turn out to be totally illogical.It’s smarter to address the troublesome individual at an early stage while trying to keep up physical and enthusiastic control of the situation.How Troublesome Colleagues May Be Affecting Your Health and Well Being:Workplace stress is an issue which is causing problems everywhere throughout the world. This pressure can be brought about by various diverse reasons and causes, for instance, an excess of job pressure or the activities from a troublesome fellow worker. Keep in mind, what one individual may find challenging, another may find it intolerable. We are altogether extraordinarily different and our own experiences influence the manner in which we manage pressure, especially at the workplace.Work-related pressure can introduce a wide range of side effects. From extraordinary tiredness to upset stomachs, your health can be significantly influenced by pressure and stress. You may likewise feel lonely, less encouraged or even takes your work issues home with you, influencing your home life too.It’s essential that you take care of your health amid troublesome periods at work. Taking health supplements, eating healthy foodand doing exercise regularly will diminish the chances of outrageous symptoms that are evolving in your mind. Try to find something, for example, work out. To concentrate on out of work activity will enable your mind to switch off aft erwards a monotonous day and will give you something to look forward to.Step by Step Instructions to Deal With Troublesome Colleagues:evalIf you’ve been working for some time, at that point you may have encountered different working environments all through your career. You’ll know as a matter of fact that each working place is different from the other and there are a lot of various ways you can use to deal with challenging behavior.With regards to really realizing how to manage troublesome colleagues, you should do it beneficially so you don’t finish up experiencing harsh criticism for your common activities.1) Right off the flap, you should step back and investigate the circumstanceMake sure that you have every one of the evidences and actualities all together before you move ahead with any further action.Ensure that you are not over-dramatizing, which can be possible when you are encountering pressure or issues in different aspects of your life. If you, or others, have enco untered trouble with any colleague previously, scrutinize whether they are similar activities or practices.2) Try to find out the behavior of their conductevalAddress different colleagues to analyze whether they have likewise been influenced by their activities and talk about how they approached challenging them. Ensure that you make bring into the knowledge of somebody at work, of what you are experiencing. A close friend at work or a manager that you trust are always going to be ready to find out about issues you are having at work.Sit with them and work through the alternatives you need to go up against the conduct. If you are the victim of their conduct, or if a supervisor or manager appears to help these activities, at that point it very well may be hard to discover somebody to turn to.3) Get Additional Help If PossibleIf you feel that you have managed the situation peacefully and have been met with next to zero achievements, at this point the time has come to take in others. A manager, HR division or even the CEO are the best roads to go down. They will be worried that an individual from a staff is having issues and it is their obligation to facilitate you to resolve them. You should know that you are rising the circumstance in this consequence, so you should think about to chat with your manager.Take notes of the conduct and how this is influencing your work productivity, individual life and general prosperity. Tell your manager precisely what’s going on and why this is affecting your work life. Be certain to make a strategy with them for how to manage troublesome colleagues.If you work in a different division, the colleague’s boss may likewise be involved in the situation. It’s important to identify that a decent manager is probably going to involve your troublesome colleagueand their line chief or manager in a four-manner discussion about the circumstance. Be ready to be involved and to take part. If different associates have been influenced, ma ke sure to make your manager alert of this when you go to them, however, be vigilant.Commonly, a group approach can make your supervisor alert that the associate’s conduct is more extensive than they thought, however, you should approach this strategy cautiously. You need to tackle this issue and if moved in the incorrect way, it can look as if you are causing issues and bothering other workers.IN A NUTSHELL:In every workplace, you will have troublesome colleagues. Managing troublesome colleagues, managers, clients, and customers are worth idealizing. Managing troublesome environment at the workplace is challenging, yet satisfying.You can endlessly improve your very own workplace and confidence when you increment your capacity to manage the individuals at work. You will likewise improve your work environment for all representatives when you address the issues about a troublesome individual at work who is causing problems for the workplace.

College Grad Job Search Revisited Volume 6 - CareerAlley

College Grad Job Search Revisited Volume 6 - CareerAlley We may receive compensation when you click on links to products from our partners. There aint no mountain high enough Nickolas Ashford Valerie Simpson And you thought that college was hard! Looking for a job in the best of times is difficult, even if you have experience. Looking for a job during the Great Recession (as they seem to be calling it) when you are fresh out of college is brutal. But this is a character building exercise as well, and if you can endure during difficult times everything else will be easy. You are not alone and you should leverage your network for more than just leads. Many of the people you know (and not just your college friends) can provide valuable insight regarding the search process (what to do, where to look and what not to do). And, although it may be hard to believe sometimes, there are actually more job search resources for college grads than there are for experienced hires. How to Support: AfterCollege Find the Job you want is this sites tag line. The site has a very clean interface on its main page and suggests a very simple approach: Find your school, join your network, Access exclusive jobs/events OR quickly search over 200,000 jobs (sounds like a lot to me). From the main page you can set-up an account and profile, find your school, search for jobs (with very flexible search parameters), or do a quick search. The page lists featured career networks, featured employers and browse popular jobs. A quick search returned over 100,000 jobs opportunities. Job Search Boards: JobDoggy An interesting name (not sure how it ties to sites focus), the sites tag line is Part-time jobs for teens, college students, and high school students. The main page offers job search, job articles, how it works and an FAQ. The resources section is split between College Students and High School Students/Teens with job search, part-time jobs and seasonal jobs. Clicking on these links provides a wide range of additional resources. eFinancialCareers Graduates and Internships This links to eFinancialCareers page for graduates and internships. There were 156 job opportunities for graduates when I checked the site. The job sector search (on the left hand side of the page) is set to graduate trainee, you can try this with other search engines as well. Select region for your country. Campuscareercenter.com This site focuses on on students and entry level jobs. The top of the page has tabs for Post Resume and Students. Clicking on Students, the center of the page lists featured employers followed by resources (resumes, interview tips, etc.). The left hand side of the page has additional links to job search and resources. You can view the featured employers job openings by clicking directly. You must register to do a search across all employers. Entrylevel.computerjobs.com This job site is focused on Tech jobs. The top of the page has a simple filter where you can type in a keyword and select your state. You can post your resume on this site as well. Click on any opportunity after conducting a search to apply directly for the job. Thousands of Entry Level Jobs Sounds like a lot (and it is). Using jobster.com, this link uses the key words entry-level and returned over 45,000 entry level job listings across the country. Fine tuning for a city (say, NY), returned over 50,000 job opportunities (yes, that number is correct). The same holds true if you enter the key word graduate (over 3,000 hits for NYC). Try this with any of the major job search engines. Its Never too Early . . . SummerJobs It may sound a bit early for Summer jobs, but its not. Absent Intern positions, a summer job looks good on your resume (employers will ask what you did with your summers). The site has featured employers and a quick search function on the main page (there were over 500 job opportunities when I checked). You can register on the site and have access to additional tools. The jobs range from camp counselors to cartooning instructors. Take a look. Crossroads This is The Association for Computing Machinery, Incs student magazine. The main page offers a vast listing of company links to Co-op and Intern programs (too many to list here). There is also a careers page which offers additional resources. Company Career Sites: Hewlett-Packard This page is a link to HPs Students and Graduates page. The page starts with some pointers followed by a drop down where you can select your country. Using the US link as an example, the next page loads with links to the left hand side for Jobs at HP, Programs for Students Grads, Recruitment process and more. The center of the page has a link to a student search tool. Click on the link for the search tool. There were 60 student/new grad job opportunities when I checked the site. Good luck in your search.

Twitter chats - a great way to expand your network -

Twitter chats - a great way to expand your network - If you have not been using Twitter to expand your networking community and broaden your network why not? Even if you did not already know that the word   “Twitter” is the fastest growing term to appear in job postings appearing in job boards (per Indeed.com), you should still be using Twitter because it is an amazing place to connect and learn and to grow the number of people who *know* you and are able and willing to help you (with your job hunt or your workout routine). Thanks to Christina Brown, I recently learned about a resource I had not used before the Twitter Chat Schedule.  Another resource to find chats is Tweetreports. A Twitter chat is a time when people who have similar interests hop on Twitter and tweet using a hashtag (a hashtag is a # along with a word or acronym) that helps everyone interested get in on the conversation. I have participated in #JobHuntChat (Monday nights at 10-11 pm eastern), which is a great opportunity to network and learn from career coaches, hiring managers, recruiters and other job seekers. Clearly, I follow the job searching community on Twitter pretty closely, which is how I knew about this chat. However, I would never have imagined that there was a chat about strength training (#sbgym) or pharmaceutical marketing and social media (#socpharm), a chat for foodies (#SOSfood) and one to discuss fashion and style (#styletalk). The list goes on and on. Of course, there are a lot of chats having to do with social media, and there are several other career oriented chats #internchat, for example The great thing about joining chats and communities pertaining to your hobbies and interests is that it gives you an opportunity to connect with other people about things that have nothing to do with jobs. Just as it is a good idea for job seekers to join a biking club if they enjoy biking, or an art class if artistically talented, Twitter provides an unprecedented way to reach out to new people and to extend your loose network people you would otherwise never meet. Dont be shy take a look at the schedule and find a fun chatYou will be surprised at how generous people are once you exchange a few tweets. The next-door neighbor of the person who may need to hire you may be on Twitter chatting right now! Havent gotten started on Twitter? Read this post that I wrote to encourage job seekers to dive into this amazing network. photo by joelaz