Job Journal Revisited Included in Free Level

Job Journal Revisited â€" Included in Free Level JibberJobber is a Career Management Tool.   One feature that really breaks it out of the short-term job search tool and makes it more valuable in your long-term career management is the Job Journal. Don from Pittsburgh suggested that we give free users the ability to add Job Journal entries without upgrading.   After chatting about it with my team we agreed, as this is such a significant part of managing your career. The Job Journal allows you to record your past accomplishments: Were you Employee of the Month? Did you save the company $50,000, or earn the company a $3M contract? Did you do something that really helps others understand your character, skills, integrity, and what you bring to the table? Let me suggest that when you most need this information (like when you are creating your resume, or when you are in an interview) is the time you are least likely to recall it. I wrote Depression Clouds Everything, the most commented post on this blog, with this in mind. You know you are awesome, and you have a terrific history of bringing value to your employer but when you start your job search (or as it drags on) its easy to forget your accomplishments and these accomplishments are part of your story.   These accomplishments are what you can use to help an interviewer understand just how valuable you are. When I was putting together my own interview question responses, and my resume, I easily overlooked more than 50% of my accomplishments they were long-forgotten. This is where the Job Journal comes in login to your JibberJobber account, mouse over Tools (in the main menu) and click on Job Journal.   You can enter 25 accomplishments in the free level sure its not unlimited but its a great place to start.   Id be quite impressed if you could list 25 accomplishments right now As you put your accomplishments in the Job Journal, flesh out the story you should be able to state the Problem, your Actions, and the Results (PAR). Career Management is a long-term thing, for sure.   Please do not lose track of your professional accomplishments you wont remember all of them when you really need them and thats where JibberJobber and the Job Journal help. Past posts about the Job Journal are here: The Job Journal Sept 2007 Liz Handlin writes Keep a Job Diary Jan 2007 Not Just A Job Search Tracker â€" Why Professionals Need JibberJobber Oct 2008 Job Journal Revisited â€" Included in Free Level JibberJobber is a Career Management Tool.   One feature that really breaks it out of the short-term job search tool and makes it more valuable in your long-term career management is the Job Journal. Don from Pittsburgh suggested that we give free users the ability to add Job Journal entries without upgrading.   After chatting about it with my team we agreed, as this is such a significant part of managing your career. The Job Journal allows you to record your past accomplishments: Were you Employee of the Month? Did you save the company $50,000, or earn the company a $3M contract? Did you do something that really helps others understand your character, skills, integrity, and what you bring to the table? Let me suggest that when you most need this information (like when you are creating your resume, or when you are in an interview) is the time you are least likely to recall it. I wrote Depression Clouds Everything, the most commented post on this blog, with this in mind. You know you are awesome, and you have a terrific history of bringing value to your employer but when you start your job search (or as it drags on) its easy to forget your accomplishments and these accomplishments are part of your story.   These accomplishments are what you can use to help an interviewer understand just how valuable you are. When I was putting together my own interview question responses, and my resume, I easily overlooked more than 50% of my accomplishments they were long-forgotten. This is where the Job Journal comes in login to your JibberJobber account, mouse over Tools (in the main menu) and click on Job Journal.   You can enter 25 accomplishments in the free level sure its not unlimited but its a great place to start.   Id be quite impressed if you could list 25 accomplishments right now As you put your accomplishments in the Job Journal, flesh out the story you should be able to state the Problem, your Actions, and the Results (PAR). Career Management is a long-term thing, for sure.   Please do not lose track of your professional accomplishments you wont remember all of them when you really need them and thats where JibberJobber and the Job Journal help. Past posts about the Job Journal are here: The Job Journal Sept 2007 Liz Handlin writes Keep a Job Diary Jan 2007 Not Just A Job Search Tracker â€" Why Professionals Need JibberJobber Oct 2008 Job Journal Revisited â€" Included in Free Level JibberJobber is a Career Management Tool.   One feature that really breaks it out of the short-term job search tool and makes it more valuable in your long-term career management is the Job Journal. Don from Pittsburgh suggested that we give free users the ability to add Job Journal entries without upgrading.   After chatting about it with my team we agreed, as this is such a significant part of managing your career. The Job Journal allows you to record your past accomplishments: Were you Employee of the Month? Did you save the company $50,000, or earn the company a $3M contract? Did you do something that really helps others understand your character, skills, integrity, and what you bring to the table? Let me suggest that when you most need this information (like when you are creating your resume, or when you are in an interview) is the time you are least likely to recall it. I wrote Depression Clouds Everything, the most commented post on this blog, with this in mind. You know you are awesome, and you have a terrific history of bringing value to your employer but when you start your job search (or as it drags on) its easy to forget your accomplishments and these accomplishments are part of your story.   These accomplishments are what you can use to help an interviewer understand just how valuable you are. When I was putting together my own interview question responses, and my resume, I easily overlooked more than 50% of my accomplishments they were long-forgotten. This is where the Job Journal comes in login to your JibberJobber account, mouse over Tools (in the main menu) and click on Job Journal.   You can enter 25 accomplishments in the free level sure its not unlimited but its a great place to start.   Id be quite impressed if you could list 25 accomplishments right now As you put your accomplishments in the Job Journal, flesh out the story you should be able to state the Problem, your Actions, and the Results (PAR). Career Management is a long-term thing, for sure.   Please do not lose track of your professional accomplishments you wont remember all of them when you really need them and thats where JibberJobber and the Job Journal help. Past posts about the Job Journal are here: The Job Journal Sept 2007 Liz Handlin writes Keep a Job Diary Jan 2007 Not Just A Job Search Tracker â€" Why Professionals Need JibberJobber Oct 2008 Job Journal Revisited â€" Included in Free Level JibberJobber is a Career Management Tool.   One feature that really breaks it out of the short-term job search tool and makes it more valuable in your long-term career management is the Job Journal. Don from Pittsburgh suggested that we give free users the ability to add Job Journal entries without upgrading.   After chatting about it with my team we agreed, as this is such a significant part of managing your career. The Job Journal allows you to record your past accomplishments: Were you Employee of the Month? Did you save the company $50,000, or earn the company a $3M contract? Did you do something that really helps others understand your character, skills, integrity, and what you bring to the table? Let me suggest that when you most need this information (like when you are creating your resume, or when you are in an interview) is the time you are least likely to recall it. I wrote Depression Clouds Everything, the most commented post on this blog, with this in mind. You know you are awesome, and you have a terrific history of bringing value to your employer but when you start your job search (or as it drags on) its easy to forget your accomplishments and these accomplishments are part of your story.   These accomplishments are what you can use to help an interviewer understand just how valuable you are. When I was putting together my own interview question responses, and my resume, I easily overlooked more than 50% of my accomplishments they were long-forgotten. This is where the Job Journal comes in login to your JibberJobber account, mouse over Tools (in the main menu) and click on Job Journal.   You can enter 25 accomplishments in the free level sure its not unlimited but its a great place to start.   Id be quite impressed if you could list 25 accomplishments right now As you put your accomplishments in the Job Journal, flesh out the story you should be able to state the Problem, your Actions, and the Results (PAR). Career Management is a long-term thing, for sure.   Please do not lose track of your professional accomplishments you wont remember all of them when you really need them and thats where JibberJobber and the Job Journal help. Past posts about the Job Journal are here: The Job Journal Sept 2007 Liz Handlin writes Keep a Job Diary Jan 2007 Not Just A Job Search Tracker â€" Why Professionals Need JibberJobber Oct 2008

How to tell a tidy story of an untidy life

How to tell a tidy story of an untidy life We flew first class to Seattle so we could get the cello on board without a fight for overhead space. So imagine the come down when my son walked into the dorm room at cello camp. Oh, he said. A dorm room is like a one-star hotel. I thought to myself: Who am I? Am I a person who flies first class, or am I a person who shares a bathroom with ten strangers? There are cello lessons all day and we run around Seattle Pacific University with me marveling at the dahlias (are they perennials here?) and my son doing too-risky parkour (Mom. I think my penis broke.) My son tells me I have to sleep in the top bunk because he doesnt want to fall out. I climb up there and remember the kid down the hall who rolled out my freshman year, so I sleep on the floor. Am I a person who has a garden that covers an acre? Am I a person who has no bed? I can’t sleep. I’m obsessed with the research about how stable people can shape their past into a cohesive story. Successful people do not think of themselves as disjointed or as experiencing life like a schizophrenic. People who can give back to the world are people who can see themselves as a consistent person making rational choices at the time. This is why I can’t sleep. I am making my story over and over and each hour it seems more bipolar. My past choices feel inconsistent and irrational. I tell myself I need to get a grip. At least get off the floor. In the morning we move furniture. Lets get the top bunk onto the floor, I tell him. Mom. You cant rearrange the room! Yes you can. Thats what college dorm furniture is made for. Everyone rearranges it. I move the desks. The book shelves. I put his bed by the window. He thinks stuff wont fit in my plan. I worry that he isnt good at moving furniture in his head. Visual thinking is a sign of intelligence. What if my roommate is an idiot? Or maybe hes just really employable because being a visual thinker is also a sign that youll get fired from every job. You know how if you get put back in the same familiar situation you act in the same familiar way? Im reverting. Like, I stole a chair out of the lounge and put it in our room. My new furniture arrangement had space for it. Mom, thats stealing. The chairs are there for people to use, I tell him. I am ruining him. I am making his high SAT score irrelevant by adding my compromised college morals. So I tell him we have to practice before 8pm to be good hallway citizens. Which is a joke, since the kids who suck at their instruments practice the latest and the loudest and way past 8, but the point here is morality, not truth. There is a difference. While hes asleep I also look for a cup for our room. I tell myself that I will put it back in the kitchen when we leave. I read that anorexia is a genetic condition, and MRIs show the anorexics brain does not have enough swelling from the pain of deprivation. I wonder if the kleptomaniacs brain is similar, but in the opposite direction. Maybe the kleptomaniacs brain has extreme swelling from the feeling of deprivation? Am I raising a son with the strong self-discipline of a cellist? Am I training my kids to be thieves? The bulimics thinking is not the anorexics thinking. For one thing, the bulimic is not a perfectionist like the anorexic, which is why I am fine writing anorexic, which is a common word, even though the proper word is anorectic. The bulimic is more the pragmatist. You can get a runners high from running or from throwing up. Which is easier? You think it would be throwing up. Until you are in a mental ward. Because I can tell you that no one goes to a mental ward for running. Well, the anorexics think they do, but really they go to the mental ward for not eating and then running to lose a few more calories they didnt eat. The next morning, it is difficult for me to go to the cafeteria. The aroma of bread products and ice cream greet you at the door, the all-you-can-eat format still scares me, and Fine Young Cannibals playing in the background completes the flashback. The cafeteria is full of young musicians. My son is the king of the cafeteria, looking for boys to sit with even if he doesnt know them. Then he remembers I hate people and he says, Mom, today we can sit alone and tomorrow with other people. Okay? I want to tell him he doesnt have to take care of me, but I dont. Ill tell him next time. This time I dont want to sit with people. Am I someone who can fit in with other people? Am I someone who is mired in inappropriate thoughts that isolate me? I look for something to eat for breakfast and I see a section of protein-rich food like chicken and turkey and hummus. I think that college food got better while I was gone. Then I noticed that the other group of kids sharing the cafeteria with us is ballet dancers. They are tall, blond, gorgeous, stately, and their food intake is being regulated. Then I notice everything: The girl who comes out of the bathroom with red cheeks. The girl who sneaks a cinnamon roll on the way out. The girl who is too big to be a dancer but still wears her tights to breakfast like the others. There are only four male dancers in a roomful of girls. I should launch startup camp for high schoolers and have it at the same time as ballet camp. It would be the perfect blend of quirky, genius boys and hot, graceful girls. I would have the most popular startup camp ever. I need to stop thinking in terms of Internet-only businesses. What about cafeteria mingling of undersexed teenaged boys?  Now thats a problem market with a clear need for a solution. Am I a serial entrepreneur with countless successes in my wake? Am I an eating-disorder queen still obsessed with calorie counts? But this saves me from my flashback and startup fantasies: The conveyor belt. Where the dirty dishes go. I see piles of dirty dishes and I get calm. Because I was the dishwasher at my college. I did it with my best friendtwo years washing dishes together three nights a week. We talked the whole time. We made a system where wed let everything pile up and then blast through it in a half hour. Which means we got paid to eat dinner and talk. I have never loved a job like I loved that one. The best memories I have in college are of the warm soapy water and great conversations in the small quiet room at the end of the conveyor belt. I didnt learn much in college. I never took a writing class. I never figured out why people date if theyre not going to marry. But I learned about work. Any job is a great job if you do it with a friend. Ive had amazing jobs at high levels where I felt alone and it was not nearly as nice a memory as I have of washing dishes. I am at a stage of my life where I have to make decisions about what is most important about work for me. And its having friends. The experience of working with friends is so powerful that it can even calm me down in a roomful of purging ballerinas.   I am still that girl who wants a friend, and a job, and a place that feels safe. That’s my story.

9 Real Challenges Facing HR in the Future

9 Real Challenges Facing HR in the Future Complaints Complaints Complaints! Has your job just become the one where you are at the receiving end of every complaint, from employees, from management and even from the CEO himself? If you are the HR manager in your company, then you are most likely to hear more complaints about recruiting. While at one side, unemployment is hovering over the economy, companies are mourning over not being able to find the skilled workforce and sometimes, filling a single vacancy may take months of head hunting. HR professionals have more than one reason to explain this, but the problem doesn’t end here, there are various other challenges that the industry is likely to face in the coming years. With that in mind, here are the 9  major responses by different HR professionals on being asked, “What will be the “real” HR challenges in the coming years?” 1) Retaining and Rewarding Talented Candidates: Around 59% seasoned HR professionals believe that in the next few years, major battle will be retaining talented and well-performing candidates. Moreover, it is going to become even worse to recognize and reward the real performers as the market competitiveness is growing and that needs more collaborated efforts to establish loyalty among employees. 2) Developing Future Leaders: With growing options for top performing candidates, employers are in a great jitty over how will they build the future pillars of the organization. The rising employee turnover rate is giving recruiters really a tough time with implementing practices to enhance employee engagement and make them stay for long in the organization. Over 52% HR people have a serious concern over building next generation organizational leaders. 3) Establishing Healthy and Cooperative Corporate Culture: Corporate culture has become one of the deciding factors lately. Elevating market demands makes companies work more to grow, expand and sustain within the volatile market scenarios. This, thus directly or indirectly affects the organizational culture, as every resource is over-occupied with loads of work that may affect the healthy work culture at office leading more to clashes or office chaos. 4) Attracting Top Talent to Organization: During any job interview, a candidate’s job is to sell himself to the recruiters. Similarly, the recruiters also need to sell themselves before the candidate. It is now more important as the talent shortage is making every organization strive to bring in the best talent and become the most preferred choice among available options. Around 36% recruiters feel that it is the need of the hour to establish a corporate culture that will attract best candidates to your organization. 5) Elevating Human Capital Investments: Around two-fifth of HR professionals indicate that the biggest challenge for the coming decade will be acquiring human capital and optimizing human capital investments. On deeply analyzing the challenges, one thing that is clear is that the most difficult challenge that’ll crop up is retaining good employees and attracting best candidates. This entails that HR professionals need to develop talent management tactics that can effectively contribute in attracting, retaining and rewarding top performing employees.  But what the organizations can do for countering this skills shortage and ensure that they  find right candidates?  Here are the major responses to this 6) Flexible Work Arrangements: Millennials just love it! The coming generation of employees emphasizes on working in flexible set-ups and the major concern must be kept on giving results and not on working in a traditional 9 to 6 set-up. This does not disrupts the company decorum or discipline, it will just allow individuals to work the way they want and exhibit better productivity. Even 40% HR pros believe that this can be a wining factor. 7) Clear Transparent Work Culture Open Leadership: Employees demand it greatly, but are seen rarely! That’s a fact! Maximum organizations fail to establish a culture of clear and transparent work communication or open leadership that somewhere affects the employee morale and his dedication to work. 37% have indicated that if communication barriers are removed, then the organization can attract more candidates. 8) Career Advancement Opportunities for Employees: If the company takes employee career development seriously and strives to work for it as well, then definitely you can shine out over your competitors who are also looking to grab talented prospects for the same jobs. Around 26% professionals have indicated this as a problem and major factor for increased attrition rate. 9) Better Compensations: Undoubtedly,  money matters! If you have a start performer, you need to take good care of the compensation you offer. These days employers are largely playing on this factor with awarding employees lucrative reward packages and attracting more talent towards them. Thus, recruiters need to fold up their sleeves to attract the real talent to themselves to stay ahead of their counterparts. Recruitment processes are the first interface of candidates with the company and this need to be the best of all. The employer must sell the organization to the candidate and the boarding candidate must also feel elated on joining the same. Apart from other factors, one is that of technology upgraded-ness. Now is the time of the cloud and one has to be up on technology as every candidate wants to get smoother recruitment application and processing. An effective Recruitment Management System must be there that can take care of channelized processing from application to on-boarding while the HR people can work on other retention and acquisition tactics! Author: Prateek Sharma operates as the Director at TrogonSoft.

On the Job by Anita Bruzzese Feeling Angry and Frustrated When Change Happens is Natural

On the Job by Anita Bruzzese Feeling Angry and Frustrated When Change Happens is Natural By our very nature, we human beings dont like change. Children as young as 2-years-old will pitch a screaming hissy fit when the furniture at home is moved. Teens struggle to cope with the new world of high school or college. Even adults have a hard time saying goodbye to the familiar especially when it has to do with work.Work for adults consumes a lot of time. Many of us spend 12 to14 hours a day at work, so when things get turned topsy-turvey, were not always pleased with the results. In fact, our behavior may closely resemble a toddlers hissy fit.Except quieter.We sit at work, fuming that our company is being downsized and peers are losing their jobs. Were angry that we will have to move to another facility in another state in order to keep a job. Were totally ticked that we will have to learn a new system.But thats change. At first you may deny what is happening, and you put up some resistance, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Why? Because it shows that you're ready to do something, instead of just sitting around in a numb complacency.Now begins the grieving process. But for many companies, acknowledging that employees are unhappy with change is the last thing desired. And that is why many workers have trouble moving on. Because if companies dont recognize it -- the need for employees to talk about how much they hate what is happening -- then they cannot learn to deal with it. It is often the emotional piece that everyone misses.Bosses need to understand that it is a natural reaction for people to be furious and frustrated when work patterns change. Humans are creatures of habit, and a lot of people have not yet learned how to become more flexible. People can learn to be very resilient, but they also need a chance to grieve.If you are facing change on the job, here are some things to consider: The loss. If you feel that you are fighting the change, take a step back and consider what it is that you believe you are losing. Remember: If you cannot handle loss in your life, you cannot have growth in your life.Perhaps it is the fact that you are afraid you will lose your visibility on the job because technology is taking over, or that you will lose yourself somehow when a job is lost.Human ingenuity on the job is still critical, no matter how much technology is put into place. For those who suffer when they are laid off, remember: Your job is not your identity. The signs. Angry? Crabby? Blowing up at stuff that doesnt matter? These are all indications, along with feeling blue, that change is causing problems in your life. Find a way to acknowlege these feelings and perhaps talk to a family member or friend about how you feel. If you have a case of the blues that simply wont get better or go away, seek professional help. Saying goodbye. Many companies do not realize that desks can be moved, but not hearts. That means that even if an office is just moving across town, then employees need a chance to confront their feelings maybe they will have a longer commute, they will miss their favorite coffee shop or their desk by the window that had a view of the park. At the same time, employees should be allowed to say what they may miss about the old way of doing things, then talk about their concerns for the future. Once that's out in the open, managers can help workers accept the changes to come. del.icio.us

Serenity Now! Simplify Your Executive Job Search - Executive Career Brandâ„¢

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Is your workplace a democracy or a dictatorship - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Is your workplace a democracy or a dictatorship - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog We all want to live in a democratic country. None of us would accept living under totalitarian rule. So why do we accept that many workplaces are run like dictatorships? Traci Fenton is the founder and CEO of WorldBlu, an organization that helps workplaces around the world become more democratic and less based on command and control. WorldBlu also publishes an annual list of the worlds most democratic workplaces. The 2010 list was announced in Las Vegas in June and we were there for the event, where some of the companies that made the list presented. It was incredibly inspiring to hear from companies like Davita and Zappos how they practice democracy. From our standpoint its also interesting to see that democratic workplaces are also invariably happy workplaces. We are much happier at work when we feel that we are part of creating the future of the company, rather than just footsoldiers who must always follow orders. Traci gave a great talk at our annual conference on happiness at work in Copenhagen in 2009. Click on the video above to watch Tracis entire talk (17 minutes). In it she: Shows why democratic companies are happier and more successful Gives some great examples of democratic workplaces around the world Outlines the 10 principles of organizational democracy If youd like to put your organization on the path to democracy, you can become a member and eventually even apply to be on the WorldBlu list. Your take Is your workplace a democracy or a dictatorship? Are you in on vital information and important decisions or are you kept in the dark? Do you even want democracy in the workplace, or is it easier when a few people make all of the decisions? Please write a comment, Id love to know your take. 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

How to Land the Top Job With a Top Resume

How to Land the Top Job With a Top ResumeIf you're a little late in your career search and want to start fresh, the top 10 resume writing services in Dallas TX will help you get to the top quickly. These top professionals can make your resume stand out in the crowd of hundreds of resumes that are already sitting on desks waiting for people to take a chance on them. Having a compelling, professional and efficient resume is the first step in landing the right job you've always wanted.Top writers know what's in the best interest of their clients. They're able to give you a resume that will move you up to the first page of the hiring manager's search results. Having a resume that sets you apart from the competition will allow you to land a job far sooner than you otherwise would. So before you start wasting your time, take a look at what some of the top resume writing services in Dallas TX have to offer.When you visit one of the top ten resume writing services in Dallas TX, you'll find y ourself talking to a professional who has been hired by the company to do business with clients. This person can help you get a jump on the competition when it comes to hiring. He or she will be able to create a resume that makes your job much easier. In addition, this professional can even give you tips and techniques on how to make your resume stand out in the best possible way.A professionally written resume is something that has the power to reel people in and hold their attention for hours on end. So you want someone who knows how to write and format resumes the right way. It's not easy, but the top professionals in the field can help you get it done in just a few hours.The top ten resume writing services in Dallas TX can help you land that dream job faster than you could imagine. If you want to get ahead of the game and land the position you want, you need to have a great resume. You don't want to waste precious time waiting around for a call for an interview. At the top ten r esume writing services in Dallas TX, you'll get your interview invitations immediately.It's important to put together a top quality resume. There are many people looking for a job and they want to be aware of the best job openings in their area. But once they get an email from the company who's sending them your resume, they may not even want to take a look at it. A professionally written resume gives you a leg up on the competition.The top ten resume writing services in Dallas TX can give you everything you need to be successful. These professional services have the know-how and ability to give you a highly customized resume. They understand the importance of taking your career to the next level and they're more than willing to help you get there. Whether you're ready to get back to work, or you just want to increase your chances of landing the dream job you've always wanted, the top professionals can help you get it done.Your new career may be just around the corner. If you're rea dy to get your career on track and make it one of the best that you've ever had, contact one of the top ten resume writing services in Dallas TX today. They'll give you the help you need to make your resume stand out from the rest. And they can help you get to the top in no time at all.