Job Search Program Introducing Nicks Box

Job Search Program Introducing Nicks Box A few weeks ago my friend Nick Corcodilos said that one thing the Job Search Program was missing was more anecdotal Jason Albaisms. He might not have said Jason Albaisms, but he did say that I needed some more something. After going back and forth on phone and email I decided to put in a fifth box on the Job Search Program page. You have to understand this was not an easy decision. Nick was right, of course. It did need something else. But, I didnt want to add that something else into the recording. I dont want Job Search Program customers to think oh boy, I need to listen to Jason again but I havent blocked out 30 minutes! I really, really want to keep these recordings as short as I can, which is why they (probably) average around 5ish minutes. But I needed to add more. The other thing I was up against was adding more stuff on the site. JibberJobber is a very complex system and there is a lot going on on any given screen. With Job Search Program I wanted to keep this super clean. Adding one more box yuck. But, I really needed to get the new information in internally we call it Nicks Box. Externally it will look like this: Im excited to fill these boxes in which Ill be working on over the next few weeks. I dont want to duplicate information, but I think this anecdotal stuff, with links to blog posts and videos and books and articles as well as my own experiences that will enrichen the experience of everyone who goes through this program. Enjoy! Job Search Program Introducing Nicks Box A few weeks ago my friend Nick Corcodilos said that one thing the Job Search Program was missing was more anecdotal Jason Albaisms. He might not have said Jason Albaisms, but he did say that I needed some more something. After going back and forth on phone and email I decided to put in a fifth box on the Job Search Program page. You have to understand this was not an easy decision. Nick was right, of course. It did need something else. But, I didnt want to add that something else into the recording. I dont want Job Search Program customers to think oh boy, I need to listen to Jason again but I havent blocked out 30 minutes! I really, really want to keep these recordings as short as I can, which is why they (probably) average around 5ish minutes. But I needed to add more. The other thing I was up against was adding more stuff on the site. JibberJobber is a very complex system and there is a lot going on on any given screen. With Job Search Program I wanted to keep this super clean. Adding one more box yuck. But, I really needed to get the new information in internally we call it Nicks Box. Externally it will look like this: Im excited to fill these boxes in which Ill be working on over the next few weeks. I dont want to duplicate information, but I think this anecdotal stuff, with links to blog posts and videos and books and articles as well as my own experiences that will enrichen the experience of everyone who goes through this program. Enjoy!

Resume Writing Online - Create Professional Resumes

Resume Writing Online - Create Professional ResumesIf you are looking for a way to write a resume that is effective, you should consider making your resume writing online. Using an online resume builder will allow you to present your qualifications in a manner that is much more natural.Resume writing can be an intimidating task if you are not accustomed to it. A skilled professional can put your best foot forward, but doing it yourself can make you look lazy and unprofessional. To avoid this you need to make sure you use a tool that will help you craft a resume that is professional, well written and is easy to read.Resume building software is the answer to this problem. Many of these programs are free to download, and there are also many professionally designed resume writing tools available online. A good program will help you create your resume in a manner that is easy to understand. In addition to being organized, the programs will also provide a way to preview the resume before y ou submit it.Not only will you be able to review the resume online, but you will also be able to create a resume in a variety of formats. If you are working on the computer at your job, you can use it as a temporary resume. If you are working from home, you can use it for your daily business needs.Once you have a resume online, you can take advantage of this same technology to send it out to companies you are interested in. With a simple click of a button, you can quickly compose your personal resume and send it in by email. This will save you time and allow you to get started immediately when you apply for a job.With the software available, you can also choose which types of information to include in your resume. The resume writing program will be able to do this automatically for you. You can select the type of employment you have, the location you are searching for a new job, your educational background and much more.This means that even if you do not want to reveal anything abou t yourself in your resume, you can place the most important information. If you are applying for a job with a company, this information will be needed by them. For this reason, the information should be included in your resume.Using an online program to create a professional resume is easy and will provide you with a great looking resume. The first step in submitting a resume is the most important step and using a professional resume writing tool will help you accomplish this task quickly and easily.

Employers and work visas what are you really thinking University of Manchester Careers Blog

Employers and work visas what are you really thinking University of Manchester Careers Blog It was the Graduate Fairs last week, with over 100 employers on our campus looking to hire graduate  talent. To reflect our international profile of students, over the two days we made a point of exploring with a number of the exhibitors whether  they were able and / or willing to hire international applicants. There were mixed responses as you would expect. These ranged from I am not on the Register or our starting salaries are too low (which is expected)  to Yes, we are happy to sponsor if we meet the right applicant (good news!) However, there was also a mix of employers who were not necessarily familiar with the latest legislation and felt they could not sponsor, or simply did not sponosr as company policy. My colleague and I did our best to help some of the organisations get a better sense of the latest regulations (no-one tells employers) , and put them in touch with immigration support where needed   so lets hope that it has enabled some of our international students to progress UK opportunities and offer their talent. However, it also got us thinking about how employers come across online and how that can be confusing and  is interpreted by our international students. Employers often have a statement on their website about diversity and welcoming talent, but often there is a lack of clarity about whether they are willing to sponsor. Some statements are interpreted in different ways too. To help us to guide employers better, therefore, we have decided to ask you what you think (and interpret) from employers standpoints. If you could spare 2 minutes to complete our poll, we will share our findings with you on this blog. We will also include a summary of the employer perspectives we gained at the fair. We will also be sharing this with recruiters. POLL: Take Our Poll All International employers international students

How to build a career if you have Aspergers

How to build a career if you have Aspergers It is my business partner’s birthday. We have been through two years and $4 million in funding. We’re together every day, but I can’t say happy birthday. I wanted to skip work to avoid it, but I had to come in because we are getting so many media calls for our product launchâ€"a tool that allows companies to recruit people from blogs. I sneak past his office and go to a friend’s cube and say, “I can’t tell Ryan happy birthday. I’m going to die. I can’t do it. I feel too stupid. I think I might cry if I have to do it.” And then I am actually crying. She says, “Whatever. He knows you can’t do it. Just go tell him you know it’s his birthday but you can’t talk about it. That’s enough.” I do that. Ryan smiles and we move on to bigger things. I have Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism marked by poor social skills and above-average intelligence. So this is how I get through my days: I have helpersâ€"people who know I have Asperger’s and who expect weirdness from me and who give me scripts to say when I’m at a loss. However, many of these people work for me, which can make this kind of office interaction painfully awkward. For them, not for me: I don’t understand awkward, and so I don’t mind asking my employees for help. (Studies about women with Asperger’s show that we do better in the world than men because we’re good at getting help with social situations.) People with Asperger’s love scripts. It’s just that I  don’t know how to generalize from the scripts. I will feel the same social stress when my friend in the cube next to me celebrates her birthday. Then Ryan will have to script me on how to say happy birthday to someone else. I learned that I had Asperger’s when I was 33; I was trying to diagnose my four-year-old son and realized all the boxes I was checking off for him also applied to me. There were earlier signs, of course: I didn’t brush my teeth on a regular basis until I was in my mid-twenties. I thought it was a casual, do-it-when-you-feel-like-it-thing. Until I was 30, I wore only skirts and dressesâ€"I wasn’t sure how pants should fit. I always knew I was bad with faces, but two months after my son’s birth, I still couldn’t remember what his face looked like if I was not in the room with him. Later, I found out that a possible detail of Asperger’s is face blindness. Part of the reason I wasn’t diagnosed sooner is that Asperger’s is extremely hard to identify. Also, the disorder wasn’t included in the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic reference until 1994â€"although Viennese pediatrician Hans Asperger first described it in 1944â€"so in the past, telltale signs were often chalked up to bad social skills. Plus, people will excuse a lot of odd behavior in a kid who is smarter than everyone else in school. I used to study the encyclopedia at my desk while other kids were learning to read. I wrote a novel while other kids were figuring out how to write complete sentences. Then, around fourth grade, people lost patience with me: I’d forget to go to school, or I’d flunk gym class because relocating to my locker and changing clothes required too much planning. My teachers thought I was lazy. In my twenties, I began shocking people at work instead of school. At my first jobâ€"as a project coordinator at a small websiteâ€"I was assigned to post Yoko Ono’s interactive art online, but when her submission came in, I rejected it. I had no idea that an assistant could not call up Yoko and tell her the work was subpar. “She’s done better,” I told my boss. “We all know that.” He fired me before I could explain further. At my first Fortune 500 job, I wore thrift shop clothes to workâ€"straight out of the bin, unwashed. “We have a dress code,” said the HR representative assigned to deal with me. “How can you tell me which clothes to buy at the thrift shop?” I replied. “There’s no way HR is a better shopper than I am for what I like.” I didn’t understand that they didn’t intend to handpick my wardrobe; they just wanted me to stop wearing dirty, threadbare clothes. They fired me for insubordination. Later in life, I realized my husband had some of the telltale traits of Asperger’s. He was a celebrated musical savant and started college when he was 15, but he can’t balance a checkbook. People with Asperger’s often marry each other, maybe because the syndrome runs in families and therefore seems normal to kids who grow up surrounded by this kind of behavior. My frame of reference for men is that they should be brilliant, quirky and socially withdrawn. Like my father, who has a Harvard degree but can’t hold down a job. Or father-in-law: I am told he helped invent GPS. I’m not kidding. He invented GPS, but he eats standing up and doesn’t believe in family ties. Roughly 80 percent of adults with Asperger’s syndrome do not have full-time work, according to some studies. By the time I figured out I had the disorder, I had been fired from every job I had ever held. I had offended everyone I know. Think of all the thoughts and judgments that go through your head that you’d never say aloud: You’re fat. You’re lazy. Your clothes don’t fit. Your office smells. I say these things because they’re true, and I’ve since built a career on saying what no one else will say â€" or maybe I have a career in spite of that. The thing you would notice first if you met me at my office is that I can’t do social niceties. You might say, “Hi. It’s nice to meet you.” I would say nothing. Because I wouldn’t be able to decide if I should say, “Thank you.” Or “It’s nice of you to come.” Or “How are you?” Or “Do you like the weather outside?” When I say nothing, you will be thrown off guard because you have not been in this position before. But I’m in it all the time, so I can recover faster than you. While you are deciding that I must not have heard you, I will be leading you toward our meeting spot and shifting the conversation to the work at hand. And ta-da! I’ve gotten myself out of all social-skill requirements, and we are getting our work done. If you have Asperger’s, the key to building a career is to be very good at something. People accept my quirks because I’m so good at starting companies. My inability to see the rules makes me able to think outside the box. I don’t see the box. Also, most boxes are crazy. It is crazy to think you can start a company from nothing and build it to $10o million in revenue. Yet I am excellent at selling this sort of thing to investors. For most of the world, crazy is bad. In the start-up world, crazy is good. Someone with Asperger’s has an incredible ability to focus; it’s just that you never know what the person will focus on. If someone focuses on her job, she will most likely do it better than anyone else. (That’s probably why companies in Germany and the United States recently began hiring people with Asperger’s to be software testers; they can spot flaws and patterns where others can’t.) But ask someone with Asperger’s to make a judgment call, and you’ll have a problem. We don’t do gray areas. Nuance is a social skill that you don’t recognize until you grasp that you don’t have it. After I talk to Ryan, I take calls from the media. I can do that all day. I am a genius about consumer trends, and I’ve built four Internet start-ups on my ability to see the future. There is no give-and-take in the conversation with the reporter. I can’t do give-and-take. But I can pontificate, and that works for an interview. I can see connections in the world that other people can’t. However, that insight comes at a cost. I don’t understand, for instance why you don’t know that Generation Y is going to get trounced by Generation Z because Generation Y doesn’t like to lead. I have no qualifications to know this, but I know it’s true. My diagnosis was like finding out I was face blind for 100 different things. Now I understand so much more about myself. For example, I rarely change my clothes before they itch. I can’t handle the pressure of having to adjust to a different thing touching my body. I used to try to hide that at workâ€"that I wear the same jeans, the same underwear, the same everything for weeks in a row. Sometimes I’d throw a sweater over a sweater; that way, people thought I had changed, but the new clothes didn’t actually have to touch me. Now I realize I have severe sensory integration dysfunctionâ€"common with Asperger’sâ€"so I just tell people I am wearing the same clothes because I need to. They don’t care. If you tell others you understand why you can’t change clothes, they don’t think you’re psycho. People say it is hard to grow old. They miss their younger selves. My younger self was a fog. It wasn’t until after my son’s diagnosis that I learned how to explain my situation and ask for help in a way that encouraged people to give it to me. Knowing how to tell people about my Asperger’s allows me to connect with them. For example, I tell people who work for me that I will never be intentionally hurtful, because I don’t understand the process; they should just tell me when I hurt their feelings. When they do, I say I’m sorry, even though I have no idea why they would be sad. I try to use the tone of voice that people use for “I’m sorry.” (The inflection goes down at the end of the word so you don’t sound too upbeat.) Next, I ask the person I’ve hurt to give me a rule. What’s the rule for what I should say in a particular situation? After years of practice, I’ve learned how to generalize only a couple of directives; mostly I just re-ask as each situation arises. People don’t like instructing their boss on how to talk. It takes a while for my employees and colleagues to understand that I want that. But once they get it, they are happy to help. Because people who work together care about one another, and if you work with someone who has Asperger’s, you have to have the discussion about how to care for each other every single day. So really, you could say that people with Asperger’s make the work world a more meaningful place. If they can hold down a job.

Rules For Writing a Resume That Will Get You Interviewed

Rules For Writing a Resume That Will Get You InterviewedOne of the rules for writing a resume is to start with your interests. This may seem obvious, but many candidates make this mistake. If you are uncertain about what your future employer might be looking for in a resume, spend some time thinking about the things that are most important to you. It will give you an idea of how to describe your work experience.Always include your career goals. This is probably the best place to touch on areas that may not be part of your job description. It can help you write a resume that is clear and specific. If you do not list a career goal in your employment history, it could leave the interviewer or hiring manager without enough information to know whether you are a good fit for the position.Other sections to include on your resume are personal accomplishments and activities. What is your most recent accomplishment? How did you do it? Was it big or small? This helps determine how qualified you are for the job.What professional affiliations do you have? Is there anything significant you have been involved in? If so, take a look at your resume. Do you have something to say about it? This section may be too little to cover in a resume, but it can help the interviewer think about you.After that, include sections that highlight your skills. Look at how you demonstrate your ability to work well with others. This is often important in the job market as employers want to hire someone who can assist others.Another tip for writing a resume is to highlight areas of expertise. These should be given top billing on your resume. They're important and should be included. This will help potential employers see your skills better.A third rule is to be concise. Keep your sentence count to no more than three per page and only use one font size. It is not necessary to go over six pages.If you have any questions, you can contact your human resources department for some help. Most job applican ts receive similar advice from the same group.

How To Deal With Job Search Stress - Executive Career Brandâ„¢

How To Deal With Job Search Stress

Join the International Week of Happiness at Work on September 24-28 - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Join the International Week of Happiness at Work on September 24-28 - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog Our awesome partners from Happy Office in The Netherlands have announced the first ever International Week of Happiness at Work on September 24-28.?its a great opportunity to spread awareness and take action to make your workplace happier. Check out the website and add your country/workplace to the list. 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 Make Friends at Work - Essential for Success

How to Make Friends at Work - Essential for Success Once you enter the working world, you’ll be spending at least 40 hours a week in the office. Getting along with your coworkers is an essential part of a good working environment, but being friends with them will have far greater effects on your happiness and success. There are plenty of benefits to being friends with your coworkers. Besides the obvious reason of having some friendly faces in the office, being on good terms with your coworkers will give you something to look forward to each morning when you get ready for work. Research shows office friendships boost happiness and make you more passionate about your job, more productive, and less likely to quit. Having friends in the office also gives you a support group during stressful times. Your friends at work know what you’re going through and can give you some of the best encouragement to reach your goals or get through a tough time. This kind of social support makes you more focused, energized, and engaged at work. Plus, having social connections at work can actually reduce depression and add years to your life. Try these tips to start making friends today:   Ask For Favors: As crazy as it sounds, people will like you more if you ask them to do a favor for you. This is the called the Benjamin Franklin Effect â€" yes, it’s named for that Benjamin Franklin â€" and it’s a surprisingly effective way to forge friendships. When we ask someone for a favor, they feel obligated to perform the favor to eliminate any current tension. Don’t go overboard with the favors you ask, but instead ask for little things like movie or TV recommendations or help with a project. And be sure you repay the favor! Use Body Language: The way you present yourself has a huge impact on the way people perceive you. If you exude a positive aura â€" good posture showing confidence and a smile showing friendliness â€" people will be more drawn to you. If you’re closed off â€" arms crossed over your chest creating a barrier or hunched shoulders showing insecurity â€" you’ll turn away more people. Find out if you’re unintentionally turning people away and work to improve your body’s presentation. Say Hi: Next time you’re in need of a short break, stop by your coworker’s desk or take a walk around the office to say hi. If you’re going to fill up your coffee, ask your work-neighbor if they need a refill. Most office interactions only involve work and sometimes just saying hi and seeing how your coworker’s morning is going can brighten their day. Spark Meaningful Conversations: We all have dealt with the typical “How was your weekend?”-type of questions that are simply ways of creating polite conversation that you honestly don’t care about. However, if you find yourself stuck in this, dig a little deeper. For example, if your coworker mentions seeing a movie, that’s the perfect opportunity to learn more about the types of movies he or she enjoys. The next time you see that coworker, you can talk about a new movie you saw or see if your coworker has any movie recommendations. Attend Office Events: Most companies occasionally sponsor events outside of work â€" happy hours, dinner parties, bowling nights and the like. These are great opportunities to hang out with your coworkers in a non-work environment. Without the pressure of getting the latest assignment done, you can just chat and get to know each other better. In fact, that’s usually the reason why offices host such events. Take advantage of these chances to learn more about the people you spend 40 hours a week with, and have fun while you’re at it! Make Plans Outside of Work: Invite your friends out for dinner or happy hour after work, or make plans with them over the weekend. Don’t be afraid to ask them to join your friends next time you’re going out, either. Take the time to really get to know your coworkers when you’re not in an office setting and you’ll have a much better chance of becoming friends! The benefits to having friends at work are exponential, and the more you invest in the relationships the more you get out of them. You’ll have a good support system, you’ll be happier, and you’ll have people to sit with at lunch â€" always important. It can be awkward to try to insert yourself into pre-established groups, but sometimes you just have to take the plunge and go for it you’ll be happy you did!