Ubers new patent wants to spot drunk passengers

Uber's new patent needs to spot alcoholic travelers Uber's new patent needs to spot alcoholic travelers In case you're too flushed to even think about driving, you may likewise one day be excessively smashed for a Uber. This month, the ride-sharing organization looks to patent innovation to decide a traveler's degree of collectedness, as indicated by another patent application documented with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.Uber said it has no quick designs for what it would do with the innovation, however the thought itself brings up prickly moral issues about how much wellbeing information a privately owned business like Uber ought to have on us.Typos and how you hold your telephone would flag your collectedness levelsFor those of us who have had a couple to drink, the ascent of ride-share mammoths like Uber hosts made leaving the gathering more secure and with nobody the savvier about what number of mixed drinks we have quite recently brought down. The protected innovation would no longer keep your balance level a hidden issue. The innovation would make decisions dependent on t he edge of how you hold your telephone and what number of mistakes you make to foresee whether you are smashed, and change your ride experience accordingly.If you never make an error, and out of nowhere you can't quit making ones in your solicitation for a ride, the framework would decipher that conduct as uncommon. The tech would utilize your previous excursion conduct to distinguish how the client movement of the current outing demand goes astray from past (or 'ordinary') conduct for that client. If the innovation sees your conduct as exceptionally strange, the client may not be coordinated with any supplier, or constrained to suppliers with experience or preparing with clients having a bizarre express, the patent states.The advantages of Uber having this data are more clear to see. No driver appreciates managing hostilely alcoholic travelers, and getting a heads-up could assist drivers with settling on more secure decisions. The advantages for clients are less clear. Is this data that you have a sense of security with Uber having? The organization doesn't have the best reputation with protection delicate information. In 2014, Uber's information penetrate uncovered the private data of in excess of 100,000 drivers. Uber likewise once had a God View highlight to screen clients progressively without their consent.In an announcement, Uber said is it despite everything settling on the eventual fate of its patent: We are continually investigating ways that our innovation can help improve the Uber experience for riders and drivers. We document patent applications on numerous thoughts, yet not every one of them really become items or highlights.

Practical Tips For Holiday Job Hunting

Functional Tips For Holiday Job Hunting The special seasons and the year's end are as of now times that the vast majority of us consider more unpleasant than different seasons. Be that as it may, for a few, the pressure isnt from finding the ideal blessing its from getting yourself jobless. Regardless of whether it is the aftereffect of end-of-year cutbacks or you have been scanning for a vocation for quite a while, this season is testing when there isnt an ordinary check underway. Dave Ramsey, the budgetary person, just gave us 7 Practical Tips for Dealing With Job Loss at Christmas and his proposals are really down to earth whenever of year: cut back your spending change your standpoint adhere to your daily practice discover occasional work get imaginative open up to your family put the special seasons in context Dont Give Up You can keep up the pursuit of employment during the special seasons and have an immense bit of leeway in light of the fact that there are such a large number of systems administration openings. Gatherings and social occasions are extraordinary approaches to interface with individuals without making arrangements. Transitory occupations can without much of a stretch transform into full-time and in the event that they dont you despite everything have that check and more work understanding. Numerous a temp specialist becomes supervisor later on so dont rebate the humble position. The thing I like about Dave Ramseys tips is that they bode well. At the point when you are searching for a vocation, you should do each one of those things and not imagine that everything is the equivalent. It isnt the equivalent and that is acceptable in light of the fact that it gives you a fantastic chance to improve things. Its like disposing of the garbage in your home so you can clean it and begin once again with the beneficial things you chose to keep.

Carey Hosts Ibm Hackathon For Baltimore Public High School Students

Main navigation Johns Hopkins Legacy Online applications Faculty Directory Experiential studying Career sources Alumni mentoring program Util Nav CTA CTA Breadcrumb Carey Hosts IBM Hackathon for Baltimore Public High School Students The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School hosted a daylong hackathon, or intensive computer programming expertise, for Baltimore City Public Schools students on November 22, 2014. The occasion was sponsored by IBM and arranged in cooperation with Carey Business School college students and Carey Net Impact, the varsity’s service and community management organization. Over forty students from Western High School and Baltimore Polytechnic Institute came together to develop software applications using IBM’s Bluemix platform. “IBM Bluemix is a cloud-based mostly platform as a service (PaaS) that enables app builders to rapidly construct and deploy their apps in a easy, intuitive means,” stated Michael Digafe, a 2014 Carey Business School Global MBA alumnus who works for IBM. He came up with the thought to deliver dozens of novice programmers to his alma mater, which made this a special event as a result of IBM’s hackathons aren't typically open to highschool students, Digafe noted . The present Carey college students whom Digafe engaged to help plan the hackathon weren't certain how the high school students would respond. Dan Givol, a Global MBA scholar and occasion co-organizer, mentioned he and his colleagues had a “Field of Dreams second” when dozens of teenagers started arriving that Saturday morning when out of doors temperatures were within the 20s. Students proceeded to work for practically nine hours straight. “We gave them the choice for longer breaks, and to cease, but they all chose to maintain going,” Givol observed. At the top of the day, the students had built a stay app that pulls information from Twitter, analyzes it using Watson (the IBM computer that won on Jeopardy), and returns the results through textual content message. Johns Hopkins students â€" representing the Carey Business School, the Whiting School of Engineering, and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, in addition to Carey’s joint Design Leadership program with the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) â€" served as mentors to the highschool college students all through the occasion. STEM â€" which stands for science, expertise, engineering, and math â€" is a critical area of focus for high colleges throughout the nation. Otilio Baez, computer technology schooling specialist at Baltimore City Public Schools, pointed to the significance of hackathons and comparable apply environments that demand actual-world STEM pondering. The Western and Poly students who participated come from various STEM applications similar to biomedical sciences, the district’s CISCO networking program, and laptop science. “Here they get to blur the line between concept and follow and lengthen what they’re doing in the classroom,” Baez said. Over the course of the day, he noticed college students with minimal coding expertise applying their knowledge from different STEM fields and getting used to the Bluemix software program. “These kinds of experiences are invaluable after we discuss preparing them for postsecondary success and being truly career- and faculty-prepared.” Students tweeted their experiences throughout the day, and their posts can be discovered by trying to find #hackcarey on Twitter. Posted 100 International Drive

Join The Aba Women Rainmaker Webinar Today

Developing the Next Generation of Rainmakers Join the ABA Women Rainmaker Webinar Today Holland and Hart partner Andrea Anderson and I are serving as the panel for an ABA Women Rainmaker Webinar today at 1:00 CDT. It’s not too late to sign up. You can sign up here. As of yesterday 143 lawyers had signed up and some were men so I assume the webinar is open to any ABA member. We asked for questions and received many in advance of the program. Before I left for the airport yesterday I tried to share my thoughts on as many questions as possible. I wrote responses to 18 questions that I will share with you here.   1. How valuable is online marketing? Answer: Very valuable. On-Line marketing has leveled the playing field for younger lawyers. In 2019 it’s not what you know. It’s not who you know. It’s who knows what you know. On-line marketing, especially including a blog, has geometrically increased the number of potential clients who can know what you know. 2. What is the proper balance between individual relationship outreach and profile building? Answer: It depends on your strengths (are you a “people person” or a maven who likes to share information?) It also depends on your stage of career. Early in my career, I spent 80% of my client Development time on profile building. Later I spent 80% of my time on relationship building, especially with existing clients. 3. How to make sure you get the clients referred to you? 4. How to get client referrals? Answer: One way is to anticipate problems, opportunities and changes that impact potential clients and get that information to the influencers. My construction law practice was an industry based practiced. The executive directors of contractor associations were influencers. 5. How to bring up partnership tracks in a firm that has no specific track. Answer: Let the managing partner and/or executive committee know you want to become a partner and ask how you will be judged and how you will know if you are on the right track. 6. Do you have an example of a business plan you can share? Answer: The blog I posted on Tuesday includes a link to a webinar I did on preparing a business plan that works and it includes the template used in the webinar. https://www.cordellblog.com/law-firm-leadership/challenge-for-fast-growing-law-firms/ 7. New partners in firms where most clients are institutional and deeply personal to older partners. Ideas? Answer: Do something the older partners are not doing. A lawyer I coached several years ago created an internet radio show. Create a niche within the older partner’s niche and become the “go to” lawyer in that sub-niche. Figure out new areas of law. Lawyers I coached became “go-to” lawyers in data privacy, equine law, fashion law IP, sports law, and most recently marijuana law. 8. How should I structure remuneration for new partners? Which business model is best? Answer: It depends on what the firm wants to reward and why rewarding it is important to the firm. When I coach law firm lawyers, we have group and individual coaching. In Andrea’s law firm almost all of the group I coached are still with the firm and they still get together at firm retreats. Her firm valued teamwork and group effort. I believe many lawyers do not want an eat what you kill compensation system, but at the same time those lawyers want to be compensated for bringing in the clients. 9. My client base is mostly insurance carriers. Do you have suggestions? Answer: I have two. First, be a speaker at as many insurance events as possible. Second, build a personal relationship with the insurance men and women and help make their job easier. 10. Can you share any advice on navigating gender stereotypes while trying to network and bring in business? Answer: Andrea might be the better person to answer this one. That said, my advice is to be authentic, be genuine, be the person you really are. My second piece of advice is to believe in yourself. I’ve coached hundreds of women lawyers. Many have outperformed the male lawyers in their firm once they believe in themselves. I’ve written about it here: https://www.cordellblog.com/career-development/women-lawyers-self-confidence-key-to-your-success/ and here https://www.cordellblog.com/client-development/how-the-super-lawyers-keep-getting-better/ 11. Any advice on responding to RFPs. Answer: Read carefully and make sure to respond to what the potential client believes is important. Figure out some way you can add value beyond what is expected. 12. When law is a second career, how can you leverage your relationships from your first career and turn them into clients? Answer: You have a competitive advantage. Clients want lawyers to understand their business. That is your advantage. Now you have to demonstrate you are also a great lawyer. Write for industry publications and speak at industry events. 13. How do you convert contracts and colleagues into clients? Answer: Anticipate their legal problems, opportunities, and changes before they have thought about them and write or speak on the subject. 14. Does the same advice apply to women who are already partners but need to rebuild or reinvigorate their practice? Answer: To reinvigorate yourself, I believe you have to answer the “what” and “why” questions and then think creatively about the “how.” What do you want to accomplish now? Why is accomplishing it important to you? What do your potential clients need now? Why is it important to them? 15. How do you continue to make rain when a lot of your referral sources are retiring? Answer: One way is to write and speak on the most current legal topics. Another way is to hang out where the younger referral sources hang out. In my experience, younger referral sources would rather be at home with their families than to be at events and dinners. So, creating content and using social media to distribute it is another alternative. 16. What are the most “bang for your buck” marketing activities? What are the must do? Answer: It depends on your strengths. Take the StrengthsFinder survey. I wrote about it here https://www.cordellblog.com/client-development/client-development-what-kind-of-client-development-efforts-suit-you-best/ including a report on my top five strengths. Had I known my top five strengths I would have politely declined when an older partner told me I had to be in Rotary Club. 17. How do I identify the business development activity with the highest return so I can prioritize that? Answer: I always made a list and attempted to identify high return low investment of time. For each lawyer it is different. For me, it was writing a monthly column for 25 years in an industry publication. A lawyer I coached found sports and sporting events was the highest return. A lawyer I coached in Canada uses social media to share information in his field of law. Each of you will figure it out. Sometimes it will be by trial and error. 18. How much time should be spent on business development v. billable work? Answer: I always tried to spend 500 hours a year on business development and my own development and I counted everything, including seven hours to take a group to a Cowboys football game, an hour reading a book on marketing while the TV was on in the background. I practiced law for 37 years developing a national construction law practice representing some of the top highway and transportation construction contractors in the US.

New study on mice uncovers surprising aspect of the aging process

New examination on mice reveals astonishing part of the maturing procedure New examination on mice reveals astonishing part of the maturing procedure Ninety-five percent of all lab creatures are rodents. Notwithstanding being generally modest, resigned creatures with short life expectancies (making contemplates that range a few ages a lot simpler to direct), the hereditary, organic and conduct qualities of mice are fundamentally the same as people. Mice share 90% of their qualities with us, which implies specialists can viably duplicate side effects of basic conditions in the little creatures in the administration of study. An incredible beginning positively, however the human body is nothing if not intricate. Anyway fruitful rat preliminaries end up being, there will constantly be quite a while and further tests that remain among them and an ideal human interpretation. Rodents are regardless fundamental initial steps and they have been for a long time, rousing the utilization of penicillin, antibodies and giving key bits of knowledge into the idea of infections. This month, new finds included in the diary Cell Metabolism, used mi ce to unload the cryptic maturing process, one catalyst at a time.An unforeseen biomarker After specialists dosed a harvest of old mice with a compound from the blood of youthful mice, the old mice lived 16% longer than they would have something else, notwithstanding showing young highlights. The report features a particle called Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (NAD). NAD is a cofactor found in living cells, liable for a progression of responses and quality articulation. Recently directed exploration has indicated that this particle decreases in people as we get more established. The catalyst called extracellular nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase, or eNAMPT is indispensable in the making of NAD particles in the two mice and human species. The more eNAMPT in mice watched the new investigation, the more drawn out the mice lived. Levels of eNAMPT in mice fat tissue dropped by 33% when they arrived at a half year old enough. Follow Ladders on Flipboard!Follow Ladders' magazines o n Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and more! The researchers infused blood parts of eNAMPT from youthful to moderately aged mice matured somewhere in the range of four and a year into the assortments of old ones matured 26 months, recording phenomenal outcomes. The cells in the older mice eyes reacted to light far superior to they did previously, they turned out to be better at delivering insulin, they ran for longer on their activity wheels, their resting designs improved and they even confirm upgrades to their comprehension by means of a progression of fruitful memory tests. These are old mice with no unique hereditary changes, and when enhanced with eNAMPT, their wheel-running practices, rest designs and physical appearance - thicker, shinier hide, for instance - look like that of youthful mice, remarked Dr. Shin-ichiro Imai, who is an educator of formative science at Washington University School of Medicine, just as the senior creator o f the new investigation to Newsweek. eNAMPT works precisely the equivalent in human blood flow as it does in mice, so Imai and his group are envisioning comparable outcomes. That isn't to state it will completely yield precisely the same outcomes, yet the discoveries warrant advancing eNAMPT has a key biomarker of the maturing procedure for the two species

The Biggest Myth About Resume Writing Services Cost Exposed

The Biggest Myth About Resume Writing Services Cost Exposed Top Choices of Resume Writing Services Cost If you're simply completely dead against article composing, at that point it is smarter to look for the administrations of a dark who doesn't compose anything. Some motivation behind why you should compose the manual for advance your MLM endeavor. Fundamentally, composing abilities truly have any kind of effect in the manner you experience. Regardless of whether you are a newcomer to composing resumes and introductory letters or your composed resume doesn't seem to make sure about you welcomed on a great deal of meetings, we're directly here to help you. Utilizing an expert resume essayist is an advantageous venture and may even end up being among the best choices in your profession. Main concern If you appreciate making sure about a rebate, Resume Writing Service is among the best resume composing administrations to take a gander at. With our moderate resume and introductory lette r help your chances of accomplishment rise impressively and you won't have a thing to lose at all! Primary concern If you are scanning for first class continue composing administrations, Careers Booster is doubtlessly a foundation to consider. Things You Won't Like About Resume Writing Services Cost and Things You Will without a doubt the most reasonable resume and introductory letter administrations in the commercial center! It's likewise critical to audit what kinds of administrations are given by the supplier. Getting the Best Resume Writing Services Cost The rundown of administrations isn't broad. You'll find a rundown of a portion of my own cherished administrations at the end of the short article. In case you're searching for a better quality organization, if you don't mind see the best 10 rundown referenced already. Different administrations they give are giving you a specialist LinkedIn profile. Your work is to introduce the common stuff that transpires in a way that will cr eate the peruser need to comprehend you better. Altering the resume will typically consolidate the principal altering procedures along with the cleaning or changing some wording if necessary. Resume composing is the most urgent advance in introducing your capacities and accepting the activity that you want. Anyway cleaned your composing aptitudes are, on occasion it's vastly improved to utilize an expert who can outline your encounters in a way that enables you to order the eye of the best organizations in your industry.

Objective Statement For Resume - The Necessary Components of Medical Writing

Objective Statement For Resume - The Necessary Components of Medical WritingObjective statements are a primary and significant component in all medical resumes. It is important to write an objective statement in order to define the reader's purpose when they view your resume. This is done to aid you in getting them to read your resume.The first part of an objective is the first two main objectives you intend to achieve. It should not be too long and can also include details of what you hope to achieve after the resume is received. The goal of writing an objective statement is to get the reader's attention immediately and to get them to read your resume and/or apply for the job. This is also one way to convince them that they need to read the rest of your resume.Medical writing involves various types of communication. People are able to understand it easier if it has clear and concise information. For this reason, most medical professionals prefer to use a professional objective state ment to inform the readers of the reader's purpose when they view the resume. This helps the readers in focusing on your objective.Basically, an objective statement is the most basic information that will be included in your resume. It includes a brief synopsis of your career and professional activities.All medical writers are responsible for maintaining a professional objective statement. If you are applying for a position at the hospital or medical facility, this is the first thing the person will see. It is usually written on the first page or a different page depending on the hospital or medical facility.One of the most important aspects of the objective statement is to state the purpose for which the person will apply for the position. In the objective, you are making the reader aware of the types of duties that you will be performing.Most medical professionals also include a description of the work environment or the type of job that they will be doing. They must know about th e type of rules and regulations that will be followed in the workplace. A description of the resources they will have and the size of the health care facility where they will be working are also included in the resume.Basically, you want to write an objective statement in order to get people's attention. It is a good idea to start your objective statements by writing down your main objective and working your way to the end with the next step being what you hope to achieve in the future.

Facebook accused of allowing job posts that excluded women

Facebook blamed for permitting work posts that rejected ladies Facebook blamed for permitting work posts that rejected ladies Facebook's publicizing stage permits businesses to focus on the organization's two billion dynamic clients with custom-made occupation promotions. However, that can include some significant pitfalls of occupation searchers not seeing the advertisement, another grumbling alleges.On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union recorded accuses of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Facebook and 10 different businesses, including a trucking organization and a police division, for unlawfully barring ladies and non-paired individuals from seeing occupation promotions. Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it is unlawful to separate dependent on sex. The ACLU charges that the internet based life monster permitted promoters to make male-focused on advertisements that prohibited ladies from seeing them, denying them data on openings for work. According to the documenting, for instance, one of the promotions for JK Moving supposedly focused on men age 21 to 55 who live or were as of late in Maryland. The charges were recorded for the benefit of three ladies and tries to speak to the millions of Facebook clients who may have additionally been comparatively excluded.I was stunned to find that this separation is as yet occurring, only online rather than in newspapers, Bobbi Spees, the lead complainant, told the ACLU in an announcement. I shouldn't be closed out of the opportunity to find out about an opening for work since I am a lady, Spees told the New York Times that she was utilizing Facebook in her quest for new employment with little accomplishment for occupations other than home and wellbeing; in the interim, her better half was getting leads for lucrative manual employments through the social network.The ACLU grievance contends that Facebook isn't only an agent for occupations, however goes about as a business office and is accordingly at risk for the biased focusing on. Web based life has become an essential methods for of all shapes and sizes busines ses to distinguish, select, and recruit laborers, especially using focused on advertisements, the grievance states.The objection subtleties how bosses can target work promotions dependent on male just or female just alternatives that Facebook gives. Facebook has deliberately held the sexual orientation focusing on instrument and sent it to send work advertisements that avoided non-male clients from accepting the promotions, the protest reads.Not the first run through Facebook's activity advertisements have made controversyFacebook's capacity target work promotions stays with pushing the web-based social networking into lawful difficulty. In December, ProPublica and The New York Times reported that Facebook enlistment promotions were barring more seasoned occupation searchers from seeing them. At that point, Facebook protected itself, saying that advertisement focusing on dependent on age was an acknowledged industry practice. Now, confronted with another promotion focusing on debate , Facebook said it would survey the complaint.There is a bad situation for segregation on Facebook; it's carefully precluded in our arrangements, Facebook representative Joe Osborne said in an announcement. We anticipate shielding our practices once we have a chance to survey the protest.

How to survive a Behavioral Interview

The most effective method to endure a Behavioral Interview 18 Flares 18 Flares The utilization of Behavioral Interviewing (BI) in organization selecting procedures is on the ascent. Its utilization in the general meeting methodology shifts. While a few associations utilize the BI procedure for every range of abilities being tried, numerous associations spread a couple of these conscientious, open-finished inquiries all through the meeting. An all around prepared questioner should know to disclose to the competitor precisely what will occur during the meeting. This clarification ought to incorporate the sort of inquiries that will be posed, and how those inquiries ought to be replied. Its likewise normal for the possibility to get a meeting planning email from the HR contact, selection representative, or employing supervisor which discloses what's in store on the meeting, or even perhaps which talk with technique the organization employments. Just on the off chance that you are not all that fortunate to get these arrangements, let me give a few hints on my prefe rred meeting methodology, Behavioral Interviewing. What is a Behavioral Interview Question? A BI question is an open-finished inquiry that pose to you to consider, and give however much detail as could be expected on a past work understanding. Questioners objective is to get you far from single word answers. BI addresses move away from the theoretical, so as opposed to being asked, What did you do?, youre asked, What DID you do?. Basic, isn't that so? Test BI Questions: Kindly give a model that shows you do everything conceivable to comply with objectives and time constraints. Think about a positive encounter a client had in light of the fact that you had autonomously envisioned and addressed their needs. Inform me concerning it. Inform me concerning an effective gathering venture at work. What was your part in the venture and what was the result? Who were bunch pioneers and how accomplished the gathering cooperate as a unit? How these inquiries won't be posed during a BI meet: Do you comply with objectives and time constraints? (You, or anybody will basically say, Yes, obviously I do!) How are you with clients? (Awesome, clients love me, I generally give first class administration while concentrating on organization objectives. Youd state that, right?) Accomplish you function admirably in gatherings? (I think you get the point. You would state, Sure, I can lead, or follow. I coexist well with others.) How to respond to the BI question? At the point when the inquiry is posed to you should take as much time as is needed and think about a particular model. More detail the better! On the off chance that you are discussing a particular task you dealt with, talk about the activity titles of the individuals you worked with, what season the venture was, what you did on the undertaking, any clients that were included, to what extent it took to finish, what issues you or the gathering confronted, and what the final product was. In the event that you dont give enough data, at that point the questioner will test for more data. Heres conceivably the greatest tip I can give. Questioners are prepared on one of two data assortment techniques. STAR or SHARE! Circumstance Errand Activity Results you achieved Circumstance Block, or issue Move you made Results you acheived Assessment, or your opinion of the outcomes. Might you be able to have improved? What did you realize? Remember STAR and SHARE when asked a BI inquiry. They are searching for you to give these four or five detail focuses. Take as much time as necessary with it, and dont fear some quiet. Great questioners are prepared to accept that quietness on a meeting is something worth being thankful for. They anticipate a great deal of detail from you, so they understand you need a moment or two to think about a particular circumstance. The best indicator of future execution is past execution. This is the reason BI is so viable. They state history rehashes itself, so ensure you study your history and go to a meeting arranged to discuss ventures youve dealt with and triumphs youve had. On the off chance that you can do this, at that point youll be as of now one up on the questioner. Good karma!

Getting Back to the Basics with the Candidate Experience

Getting Back to the Basics with the Candidate Experience It’s Candidate Experience week on Blogging4Jobs powered by the cool folks at  Talent Circles. Check back this week to follow 25+ blogs published on Candidate Experience and follow the conversation on twitter at #thecandidate.   So we know that a great candidate experience, or at least a good one, is becoming increasingly more of a business imperative, right?   I suspect there are few HR professionals that, at least on the surface, would argue against the need to treat candidates well and communicate throughout the application and interview process.   Actual execution of a good candidate experience may be up for debate, but from a conceptual perspective, most of us would agree that it’s a necessity.   If you are an HR practitioner and you don’t believe so, well, you’re missing an opportunity and probably turning off some great applicants too. For our purposes here, I’m going to refer to candidate experience as the basics not ideas such as implementing technology solutions that provide candidates with instant status updates or specific feedback to all candidates.   These approaches are great if you have the means to get them established and use them, but not all of us have those means.   What I’m referring to is simply responding in a somewhat timely basis to applicants who have expressed interest in your company or in a specific position, communicating throughout the process for anyone who advances to any stage of the interview process, and promptly notifying all candidates of their status upon making a decision and offer.   The true basics and the steps that, unfortunately, are too often forgotten in the rush to fill a position A good candidate experience is essential for any business that wishes to maintain any sort of positive reputation among job seekers.   But what happens when your organization is a retailer or service organization, one whose customer base is the general public and not just a specific segment of the population?   Does that make a good candidate experience even more critical? The recent CareerBuilder 2013 Candidate Behavior Study referenced the fact that job seekers who never hear back from a potential employer are likely to stop buying products or services from that company.   Combine that with the statistic that 62% of jobseekers feel that companies are not responsive enough, and that adds up to a whole lot of potential lost business.   It’s also a generally accepted fact that dissatisfied customers will tell twice as many people about that experience than a satisfied one.   So now we have 62% of jobseekers who don’t feel they were treated well enough telling twice as many people about a company’s lack of attention than if they had a good experience. I understand first hand how difficult it can be to stay on top of every applicant you receive, especially when you’re inundated with unsolicited applications.   Sometimes when you’re working with a lean staff it can seem nearly impossible.   But there’s no excuse for not at least expending some effort on candidates for actual posted positions.   Someone who has taken the time to apply for a specific position (qualified or not) deserves some sort of follow up.   But I know from the grateful responses I’ve personally received back from rejected candidates that such courtesies do not happen consistently.   It’s mind boggling to me to hear from candidates who were brought in for an in-person interview that it’s rare to receive some sort of acknowledgment after the interview process.   Why would you neglect these individuals who took the time to express interest in your company and time out of their schedules to speak with you in person? .ai-rotate {position: relative;} .ai-rotate-hidden {visibility: hidden;} .ai-rotate-hidden-2 {position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;} .ai-list-data, .ai-ip-data, .ai-fallback, .ai-list-block {visibility: hidden; position: absolute; width: 50%; height: 1px; z-index: -9999;} When you are a retailer or service organization, customer service extends beyond what happens at the point of purchase or point of service.   Customers who also apply for positions at your company will talk about that experience the same way they will talk about their customer service experiences.   And if we as HR professionals are ignoring that, we are doing a disservice to our companies and potentially negatively impacting business results.   Those candidates may not be the right fit for a role in my organization, but I’d certainly still like to retain them as customers. How’s that for HR having the ability to contribute to overall business success?

The Right Time to Get Your Resume Writing Correct

<h1>The Right Time to Get Your Resume Writing Correct</h1><p>There are various things that you can do to ensure that your resume composing is immaculate. One of the most significant things that you can do is to prepare it for the human asset administrator that is taking a gander at it. Indeed, there are numerous reasons why you have to get your resume before the individuals that are taking a gander at it.</p><p></p><p>First of all, getting it before somebody is significant in light of the fact that they will need to see a decent strong foundation on your resume. All things considered, you would prefer not to be somebody that didn't get into any significant organizations or whatnot, basically in light of the fact that you didn't have a decent strong establishment. The human asset supervisor will be searching for this on your resume.</p><p></p><p>Once they see that your resume has been appropriately arranged, at that poi nt you are going to begin to get more propositions for employment and different advantages from other human asset chiefs. On the off chance that you are experiencing difficulty getting the correct sort of involvement with an organization, at that point you can basically remember dates for your resume so you can show that you were utilized previously. This is a powerful method to ensure that you get enough understanding with the goal that you can even now get recruited by an organization. Obviously, this won't help you later on the off chance that you have to get recruited by another organization for the position.</p><p></p><p>Another significant thing that you can do is to keep your name in the date segment. A few people don't prefer to utilize a complete name. Be that as it may, the HR supervisor doesn't generally mind what your name is, yet they need to see the dates of work and any affirmations. On the off chance that you can't place in the date of busines s, at that point you ought to incorporate the dates just as the city and state with the goal that they can see precisely where you were working.</p><p></p><p>In expansion, it is additionally significant that you have a representative handbook that incorporates the dates of work that you can hand them. You should hand these out to the individuals that you meet with so they can observe the dates. By and by, you need to ensure that you have given the entirety of the data in your resume to the human asset manager.</p><p></p><p>Finally, you need to guarantee that you give the date in your resume to the human asset chief when you are finishing the equivalent. This is significant in light of the fact that the resume author has to know precisely what's going on and that they have to incorporate the entirety of the dates that are fundamental. It is imperative to utilize that for your potential benefit when you are composing your resume.</p&g t;<p></p><p>The first thing that you ought to do when you are attempting to set up your resume is to get everything all together with the goal that you remember anything. The following thing that you ought to do is to get everything all together. You need to ensure that you give the date of work to the human asset supervisor and that you have the entirety of the data all together with the goal that you can without much of a stretch utilize the resume as you will utilize it.</p>

Considering Working for A Startup Ask These 6 Questions First

Considering Working for A Startup Ask These 6 Questions First Source â€" Pexels.comJoining a startup can be a surprisingly remunerating profession experience, however it is likewise an unsafe activity move on the grounds that a great deal of new companies end up coming up short. The SBA It keeps on astonishing me how regularly individuals don't pose these basic inquiries before joining another startup company.Usually, work applicants make sure to get some information about the activity essentials evalI trust it's fundamentally imperative to comprehend the foundation and history of the organizers. How could they meet? Have they cooperated previously? What united them with this specific opportunity?Too numerous new companies come up short not because of market powers, yet since the organizers just couldn't concur on significant issues. You have to pose inquiries to see how well the organizers get along.2. Would you be able to coexist with the team?Startup groups are frequently an exceptionally affectionate gathering. There is no place to stow awa y. On the off chance that you don't coexist with pretty much everyone there, life will be hard.Most enlisted people will choose whether they regard the makers alongside other colleagues If you can not see working close to them for 60+ hours seven days, at that point mull over working at this firm.3. What is the historical backdrop of this essential idea?What were the different business thoughts tried and afterward dismissed? I get stressed if the idea being pursued is excessively green and new. Frequently the business visionaries haven't yet gotten an opportunity to thoroughly consider the plan of action altogether in beginning time startups.Frequently, it takes a sensible measure of refinement for some individuals to settle-in on a thought that they will seek after seriously.I am hesitant of startup groups that build up a thought in week 1 and start enlistment in week two since they are so enchanted of the idea and can not hold back to begin. This is quite often awful news.If I wer e joining a startup, I'd love to see how the establishing group happened upon the thought they are seeking after today If a startup is funding supported, it ought not be too difficult to even think about learning about the speculators and the measure of cash raised. Normally, this data is openly available, frequently in an online official statement, and if not, it's not improper to ask.After every one of these business people are requesting that you face a challenge joining their juvenile firm.For bootstrap and self-financed new companies, this line of addressing can be to some degree uncomfortable.If you are nauseous about it, at that point it is conceivable to return to the: Which are the capital-raising procedures for the business? Would you be able to hope to acquire outside speculators? Provided that this is true, when? These requests will give you an inclination for where the organization stands.One interesting point: There isn't any genuine substitute for cash in the bank. In spite of the fact that the way that we have numerous speculators who have communicated intrigue is great, yet it won't take care of the tabs, nor your paycheck.evalPhoto Credit â€" Pexels.com5. Which are the originators planning to get from the effort?evalTry and move past the maxims and banalities. Truly, what do they have to get from the startup? Manufacture a world-celebrated thing? Make a colossal measure of cash? Have a business open up to the world? Raise assets from top-level VCs? Get a chance to work with their friends?At a specific level, they must have comparative destinations with as one another, or there'll presumably be a considerable measure of conflict.6. What will the startup accomplish for you?Joining a startup is a sensibly noteworthy hazard which requires a great deal of difficult work. For it to be important, you should be certain that alongside carrying a great deal to the startup you will join â€" it gives a ton to you.Do you need to wear a few caps? Would you like to have a sensible measure of control and caution? Is it accurate to say that you are hoping to work with a specific organizer? Whatever you ascribe an incentive to, be certain that you have a decent possibility of really getting this worth.One-path associations in startup-land once in a while really work. You should both can increase a great deal from the startup â€" alongside contributing a ton to it.I'm a colossal enthusiast of the development openings in a startup â€" particularly for more youthful individuals prior in their professions. I credit my fruitful vocation and innovative soul to my initial occupations in startup firms.Nowhere else will you get the differed set of encounters and perceivability which you could get inside a beginning period startup (regardless of whether you go into business or work in someone else's).If you won't advantage from this (or aren't energetic about it), you are passing up probably the most noteworthy part of value.Overall, apparently th e level of startup action (particularly in the key markets) is starting to pick up.People are beginning organizations at a genuinely sensible rate and those harmed legitimately or by implication from the past innovation bubble have begun to rise up out of under their work areas and research new startup opportunities.I, for one, think it is consistently a magnificent chance to look at startup profession openings. Be that as it may, it's basic to stroll in with your eyes all the way open, particularly on the off chance that you have never worked for a startup firm before.Good karma.

How to Resign

How to Resign by Tom Bunkham OK, so youve got the job. Now its time to hand in your noticeBut before you rush to tell your boss, make sure you know how to handle what can be a pretty awkward situation. Its vital to consider all the different parts of the process from the initial conversation and written resignation, through to your notice period and your last day.Weve already covered some of the greatest resignations, but to help you say goodbye the right way, here are our top tips on how to resign.EtiquetteAs with any difficult situation, it’s always important to approach the subject with the right etiquette.Be gracious tell them how much you’ve enjoyed working with them and that youve learned a lot (if it hasn’t and you haven’t, be gracious anyway)Be cooperative let them know youll do all you can to make sure the handover is dealt with smoothlyDont burn your bridges make sure the company knows that if the right opportunity comes along, you would always consider working for th em againHow to survive an exit interview  Put it in writingOnce youve let your boss know verbally, the next step is to put your resignation in writing.At the very least, your letter should include the position youre resigning from and the date you intend to leaveAlthough not essential, you might want to thank your employer for the opportunities youve been given and offer your willingness to ensure a smooth handover etcWhilst constructive criticism is acceptable, dont get personal or youll risk your reference and your reputationResignation letter: What you need to knowResignation letter templatesThe counter offerIf youre a loyal employee and youve done a good job, the chances are your boss wont want to see you go.The most likely way an employer will try and make you stay is by offering you a pay rise either equal to or above what youve been offered in your new job.Make sure you understand the counter offer and avoid making a knee jerk decision. While the promise of promotion, increas ed responsibility and extra money may sound tempting, will it really make you want to stay for the next few years?Think carefully about whats been offered. And dont forget that youll be working in the same organisation, with the same people and probably under the same boss.Don’t be persuaded into staying simply because you’re scared of change.It can be tempting to accept the counter offer because you’re comfortable where you are. But is this a good enough reason for you to stay?How to negotiate a pay riseFive things to consider when you receive a counter offerYour notice periodWhatever the length of your notice period, youre legally obliged to work it, unless your employers willing to waive it.You should find details of your notice period in your contract, otherwise, you should normally allow between two weeks and a month.When seeing out your notice, make sure you stay alert. Whilst its easy to imagine your last few weeks as a time to relax and stop making an effort, this is s eldom the case.Whats more, being seen to make the effort right up until your last day will ensure your reputation as a professional and reliable employee remains intact.Finally, make sure you allow time to say goodbye to everyone and swap contact details with as many colleagues as you can.Moving jobs is a great way to extend your network and you may find you see some of your colleagues again sooner than you think.What is a notice period?Goodbye email templatesGardening leaveDepending on your role and the sector you work in, you may be asked by your employer to take gardening leave.This is where an employee has to stay away from work during their notice period, preventing them from gathering potentially sensitive commercial information, especially if theyre leaving to join a competitor.Employees on gardening leave continue to receive their normal pay and are covered by other normal contractual obligations until their leave ends.Feel goodLast of all, dont feel guilty about resigning. Feel good.Working is a business arrangement and moving jobs is part and parcel of that.Whilst others may think youre resigning from a perfectly good job, youre the one in control of your career and only you can decide which direction it should take.If resigning from your job will bring you closer to meeting your career goals, its a step worth taking.Eight of the greatest ways to resignReady to love Mondays?  View all of our current vacancies now.

7 tiny habits that will keep you moving in the right direction

7 small propensities that will keep you moving the correct way 7 small propensities that will keep you moving the correct way Individuals will in general overlook the little stuff.They notice when enormous things occur - huge life changes, huge occasions, large advancements, huge steps forward.And then totally miss the worth all the minuscule, constructive propensities give on an everyday basis.Your life isn't worked out of home runs.Your life is based on small steps.Here are 7 minuscule things I do each day that are completely essential to my improvement as a person.And I can let you know as a matter of fact that when I don't do them, things begin to fall apart.1. Morning meditationI feel compelled to pressure this as much as possible. (Get it… stress.)Some individuals state I don't prefer to reflect or I can't get into it.Look. There is extraordinary incentive in figuring out how to sit peacefully for a couple moments.Call it anything you desire. By and by I like to think after my morning shower so I'm more awake.You can sit for 5â€"10 minutes peacefully and simply tune in - tune in to the sounds around you, the warmer, the buzz of the fan, the traffic outside your window - and in this procedure, you will figure out how to hear your actual self.You will become familiar with the contrast among internal and outward chasing, between continually going after more and understanding that all that you need is correct where you as of now are.This move in being is monumental.Do it consistently, and you'll in a general sense change the manner in which you work in reality.… and afterward, on the off chance that you quit doing it, observe how rapidly that establishment starts to crumble.2. Eat a solid breakfastIt doesn't make a difference in the event that I need to get up at 3 am for a 5 am flight, or in the event that I have a 6 am meeting, or in case I'm enjoying nature in the forested areas and I need to wake up with the dusk to go climb for 15 miles, I generally, consistently, as a matter of course, set aside a few minutes for a sound breakfast.This supper is the establishment of your day. This is the thing that sets the correct things in motion.This is additionally another chance to get your head straight and in the zone for all that you need to decide to do today.Eat breakfast. (What's more, on the off chance that you don't have the opportunity, at that point you have an a lot bigger issue you have to address.)3. Make time to breatheI own my own organization. It's called Digital Press.It doesn't take a mind specialist to perceive the speed at which this industry works. I'm truly stuck to my telephone and additionally PC from the second I wake up to the second I go to sleep.Which implies, with the end goal for me to keep up a feeling of lucidity, I need to compel myself to step away.Once like clockwork or somewhere in the vicinity, I get up and stroll outside. I gaze toward the clouds.I take a couple of profound breaths.I do a check in to see where I'm at (am I disappointed with an undertaking? Am I contemplating something different? Am I feeling amped up for something?) and afterward I choose where I should move to next.By the time I stroll back inside, I know precisely what I'm going to deal with for the following ~90 minutes. Foam, wash, repeat.Some days, I just get the chance to do this once. Every so often, not at all.But setting it as a propensity has helped me see errands in an unexpected way, time in an unexpected way, and to make sure to remain mindful while I work to keep up a feeling of internal calm.Trust me, the individuals that do this well are the ones who accomplish such a great deal, you wonder how they ever sleep.I'll give you access on somewhat mystery. They do rest. They likewise rest a lot.And that is the reason they're so successful.4. Get again into your bodyEntrepreneur or Corporate Cubicle Worker, we as a whole sit and gaze at screens throughout the day, each day.And trust me, I'm an enormous supporter of technology.If you need to keep up equalization and stream in your life, you HAVE to figure out how to get over into your body. You're in your mind throughout the day. Numbers. Exceed expectations sheets. Proposition. Messages. Web based life - DING - going off non stop.At some point you have to step away and take things back to a position of feeling. Go to the gym.Do some yoga.Go for a run.Bike around the city.Whatever.But make time to get over into your body.5. Have a hobbyHobbies are something I was unable to envision living without.It could be anything from drawing little stick figures in a scratch pad, to making music, or painting, or composing sonnets, or building recliners, or weaving sweaters, or whatever.There is such a great amount of significant worth in having something that you make for yourself.There's likewise something to be said for your interests to urge you to take risks, investigate, play, and be creative.I think gathering baseball cards or something can work as well (all things considered, I was an enthusiastic Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh player back in my day), for as far back as its something where you can recall, regardless of how old you get, that you despite everything have an imagination.Hobbies should help you reconnect with your inward child.6. Keep a diary of ideasI'm taking this from James Altucher.I figure everybody ought to have a note pad, where they record considerations during the day, thoughts that ring a bell, arrangements of things they need to do, etc.It will move you - or cause you to acknowledge the amount you state you need to do and never really do - which ideally annoys you enough to take action.Buy a diary and put it in your pack or rucksack. Record fascinating things.Don't simply disregard your ideas.Make them unmistakable and you'll see what happens.7. ReadOne of the best things you can accomplish for yourself is read.Not that trash on Buzzfeed.Buy books. Peruse books.Read during your regular drive (except if you're driving, at that point sound books).Read around evening time before you head to sleep as opposed to relaxing before another Netflix appear (I realize they're irresistible however are they truly helping you grow?).Read, read, read. Find out about things you need to know more about.Read great fiction.Read great nonfiction.Read about things you don't know about.Read about things you don't concur with so you can be more educated.Read what others suggest (books come into your life for a reason).Read and you will see beneficial things come.You'll discover your discussions convey more profundity. You'll see you can increase the value of circumstances. You'll get yourself hungry to find out increasingly, quicker, all the time.If it's any inspiration, I abhorred perusing growing up. Loathed it. I possibly read 5 books altogether before I graduated high school.But when I got into the composing division in school and I understood how very much read my companions were, I felt like a nitwit and did a 180. I read all that I could get my hands on - and still do.Read.This article was initially distributed on Medium.com.

4 Legal Battles Your Small Business May Have To Face

4 Legal Battles Your Small Business May Have To Face One of the needs that you may have ignored as an entrepreneur is the way that you may have some fights in court to look eventually. Legitimate migraines are not to be disregarded, however, in light of the fact that in addition to the fact that they cause you worry as an entrepreneur, they can genuinely harm your business' notoriety and how well you do later on. Nobody needs to find out about a business neighborhood to them getting into boiling water with the law, yet as an entrepreneur, you will be the last individual who needs to be placed into that position. It's significant, along these lines, that you have your affairs in order. You have to have back up plans for back up plans if there should be an occurrence of suit, with the goal that you can evade a gigantic hit to your primary concern. In light of that, you have to consider which fights in court you could look eventually and how you would deal with those in the event that you came across them. Beneath, you'll discover four of the most widely recognized fights in court that your independent company could confront sometime and what to do. Upset Employees. There are a great deal of laws encompassing what you may or may not be able to with regards to the treatment of your representatives, and a unique little something encompasses unfair end. An agreement ought to consistently be spread out perfectly clear before you welcome somebody on board to your business, in light of the fact that the exact opposite thing that you need arriving around your work area is a solicitation from a laborer's comp lawyer arriving around your work area. Guaranteeing that every single lawful commitment from your side are recorded plainly can assist you with staying in charge in an emergency. Protected innovation. Most organizations don't stress over scholarly information being an issue, yet it's something that ought to be on your radar it's not simply the huge organizations that have issues with protected innovation rights. You ought to guarantee that your property won't be duplicated and ripped off by verifying that trademarks and copyrights and licenses are arranged on schedule. Troubled Customers. You don't need troubled staff pulling claims, yet far more terrible despondent clients. In the event that a client is miserable enough, you could wind up in lawful boiling water. Continuously attempt to diffuse client questions before they become a lawful issue, and ensure that you are settled up with protection for your business premises, in the event that something goes wrong. Misused Taxes. It's so significant for you to have the correct data for your assessment forms and keeping in mind that your bookkeeper will do this for you, it merits teaching yourself on your own cash. Money related issues can see you in profound water with the IRS, and there's no compelling reason to place yourself in that position at all in case you're shrewd about your administrative work. Be fastidious and keep away from the lawful aftermath. All organizations face something eventually it's simply a question of guaranteeing it's dealt with as quickly as could be expected under the circumstances.

How to Find Resume Introduction

Step by step instructions to Find Resume Introduction Resume Introduction for Dummies You can in like manner use medical caretakers continue test for strategies to pinpoint which districts that you should focus on as to draw on the enthusiasm of somebody's own crowd. Regularly, laborers become tired in experiences as you will find too a lot of themes, which makes it dubious to focus on everything. Recollect you may consistently change your early on section later. The other thing which makes this a prosperous presentation is the straightforward actuality that Mary leaves us pondering. Beside the availability to employments along with your capabilities, a significant point is to get a decent understanding of the best approach to apply to that activity. It is conceivable to go into supporting data inside the body of your paper, and consequently don't disclose to us everything all at once. The Bad Secret of Resume Introduction By cautiously focusing on resumes for specific employments and circumstances, you're ready to enormously upgrade your chances of getting saw in the work commercial center. Your resume needs to fix an issue for managers (which is the motivation behind why they're recruiting). Remember that a new position might be a totally fresh start for you. On the other side, the second the work candidate has solid experience, there isn't any need to rely upon the scholarl y preparing any more and it doesn't have to get referenced. A resume synopsis explanation is a dynamite intends to rapidly exhibit the business why you're a solid up-and-comer. The resume synopsis is essentially a scaffold to have the employing administrator as far as you can tell. Resume feature is a short expression that features your incentive for a competitor. About Resume Introduction Sometimes you simply need to start composing and you may start toward the beginning or make a plunge directly into the focal point of your paper. Our site is only one of the most fitting for exposition help. You can depend on the perfect paper help on the web. At the point when you begin composing another piece, consider what your perusers wish to comprehend. An important resume test is a useful apparatus that could gracefully you with arranging and composing thoughts as you develop your own resume. So on the off chance that you'd prefer to make the procedure to a lesser degree an issue, you might need to consider these tips for composing a presentation email in pdf. From this page it is conceivable to discover test resumes to make sure about you began. Maybe while searching for models you saw poor examples all around the web. Picking Good Resume Introduction Click our example to figure out how to form the perfect transportation continue. The subject of data innovation gets progressively significant each and every day. The goal was probably going to pick a school and start the car Design Instruction application. Generally, you'll have to create a program to get a personnel grant. Else, you probably won't have the basic Qualifications. It assists with fusing aptitudes that you have over a restart. Guarantee you feature specialized knowledg e and accreditations. Stress which you're intrigued at a drawn out occupation alongside the association you're meeting for. At whatever point you might want to underscore that you're driven, that you comprehend what you need in a profession, or you have the right stuff for the specific occupation, you could profit by a resume objective. Your resume's vocation target should express that you're attempting to join a steady business in a place that would give you the opportunity to grow your comprehension and improve your capacities. Your profession destinations can focus on getting new encounters at work, utilizing your current aptitudes to upgrade your commitments to an association or develop into an administration or division boss dependent on your related involvements. Your chief resume plainly needs to focus on your specific experience and ought not be excessively nonexclusive. In case you're endeavoring to secure work in bookkeeping or money you require averystrong continue. While banking is clearly sig nificantly more than basically working with numbers, continue composing may not be your field of ability. The One Thing to Do for Resume Introduction Zety's resume layouts are made with the guide of enrollment specialists and adhere to the accepted procedures in HR. A great example director resume will involve catchphrases various occasions all through the report. The data above ought to disclose to you how test supervisor resumes are best organized, to discover a meeting and secure that position. In case you're searching for Job Brief Template you've gone to the best possible spot. Transportation employments include a lot of duty and your resume will need to reflect you can deal with that. Shutting Briefly rehash your enthusiasm for the activity and what you must give the association. This sort of the Nurse Resume is a delineation of a digital safe ordered resume.

Key Steps to Take When You Dont Get Your Dream Job

Key Steps to Take When You Dont Get Your Dream Job Key Steps to Take When You Dont Get Your Dream Job 1Rejection-it truly is a piece of life. Be that as it may, when you've pursued work you know is the ideal fit for youâ€"and youre certain the employing administrator concurs but then you dont get the offer, you're normally left inclination crushed and befuddled. What turned out badly? The appropriate response can be any number of reasons why you didn't land your fantasy position. An inner competitor could have been picked, somebody may have been progressively qualified, or your resume might not have made the cut for an assortment of reasons. Things being what they are, what do you do now? You have a few alternatives, however none of them ought to incorporate remaining in a negative spot of wretchedness, self indulgence, or outrage. Find a way to push ahead on the off chance that you didn't land your fantasy position: 1. Advise yourself that you're by all account not the only one who didn't land your fantasy position. There are regularly as much as 100 possibility for a pined for position and just one will be picked. That implies you could be one of 99 who were additionally dismissed. Furthermore, consider your life history up until now. Have you encountered the mistake of dismissal previously? Obviously you have. You might not have made the cut for an athletic group, you may have lost a discussion, perhaps you didn't get in the sorority or brotherhood you needed, or you may have encountered not winning in an opposition. Thinking back now, would you say you are still crushed? In all likelihood not. An insightful individual once stated, On the off chance that it will matter a long time from now, it's something to harp on. And while not landing that position appears to be an enormous difficulty at the present time, it won't appear to be so in five years. Getting some psychological point of view will facilitate the agony. 2. Request criticism. On the off chance that you endured the meeting procedure, it's completely alright to contact the questioner and request input. Ask how you can improve as an applicant or interviewee. Veronica Wright, CEO of Resumes Centre, says, Dismissed competitors regularly waver to do this, however in the event that they do find a solution, it tends to be useful for the following meeting. They don't have anything to lose by inquiring. 3. Abstain from ruminating yet assess a couple of things. To begin with, survey your resume and contrast it and the activity posting. Were there certain things you neglected? Each resume must be tweaked for a particular position and should incorporate watchwords that a computerized continue scanner will discover. Survey the meeting impartially, yet maintain a strategic distance from over-examining each moment of the occasion. Do consider what answers you can enhance next time. You'd be shocked what number of meetings contain similar inquiries, just in an alternate arrangement, says Guy Thomas, chief of the resume composing office at FlashEssay. Up-and-comers need to plan answers inside the setting of the particular position. 4. Get back on that horse. The best solution for the decimation from not landing your fantasy position is to get your pursuit of employment back going as fast as could be expected under the circumstances. Allow yourself daily to feel awful however no more. There's a mental mending that happens when you make some positive move following a negative occasion. Work on that continue, look at work postings and get your desk work out there. In the case of nothing else, this will drive you to look forward as opposed to harp on the dismissal. 5. Make a rundown. Consider all the triumphs you've had in your life up until now. You accomplished them since you have some extraordinary qualities, aptitudes, gifts, and capacities. Probably the most ideal approaches to get over self-antagonism is to make a rundown of those things. You'll see that your rundown of accomplishments is long. 6. There's more than one dream work. You may not feel along these lines at the present time, however there isn't only one dream work for you. What's more, one of them is out there in your future. As Joni Hampton, HR executive at EssaySupply, says, Professions happen in steps and stages. There are normally between time positions before you get to that one you completely love. Learn and develop during those breaks that is the key. Going Ahead Dismissal is excruciating, regardless of whether it originates from a relationship turned sour, an opposition not won, or that fantasy work not gotten. The extraordinary thing about us people, however, is that we are flexible. At the point when confronted with dismissal, we feel torment (and possibly some outrage), we now and then over-sum it up to different aspects of our lives, however we do get over it. Ask yourself, Will it truly matter a long time from now, or will I be on to different things? Get a new line of work that accommodates your way of life Peruse Open Flexible Jobs Sylvia Giltner is an accomplished HR proficient who helps work searchers locate their optimal profession ways. She's additionally a functioning visitor supporter. Sylvia's composing has been included on Forbes, MarketWatch, Fast Company, Next Avenue, and that's just the beginning.

Bad behavior is contagious Beware of the company that you keep

Awful conduct is infectious Beware of the organization that you keep Awful conduct is infectious Beware of the organization that you keep The wildness showed by senior individuals from U.S. President Donald Trump's organization - and Trump himself - gives an alarming exhibition that terrible feelings and social standards are amazingly infectious. It despite everything dazes me, for instance, that non-factional site Politifact has archived that 69% of Trump's announcements are for the most part bogus, bogus, or pants ablaze; while just 16% are valid or for the most part true.There is no compelling reason to replay how these and other dangerous practices have tainted, been pardoned by, and delivered hurt on such a large number of present and past individuals from Trump's inward circle. It is difficult to stay away from the assault of news about the deceitfulness, incivility, and double-crossing that plagues nearly each and every individual who enters this peculiar air pocket. Obviously, lying and terribleness have consistently been signs of governmental issues in the United States and somewhere else. In any case, I dread that our present harvest of big cheeses is arriving at new lows.Sure, some portion of the issue is that individuals who are inclined to such offensiveness are more pulled in to and bound to be welcome to join groups tormented by awful conduct - flying creatures of a plume do run together. In any case, this sh-t show offers another essential exercise for every one of us - regardless of how great an individual you may extravagant yourself to be or how respectable your past behavior.Bad conduct is an irresistible infection that you get from others - and it is relentless difficult to stand up to. I've expounded on various new investigations that strengthen this old finding. Analyses by Trevor Foulk's group found that a solitary presentation to an inconsiderate individual (e.g., an offending email from a client) transforms focused on individuals into transporters who at that point contaminate others - discourteousness spreads much like the normal cold.Similarly, concentrates by Michael Housman and Dylan Minor found that laborers who worked with or sat close harmful partners - who submitted burglary, misrepresentation, tormenting, or inappropriate behavior - were progressively inclined get such poisonous practices and get terminated. They found when a representative was in a work bunch with a high thickness of harmful workers there was a 47 percent improve in the probability that individual would get poisonous. Minor portrays this as a harming type of 'moral overflow' and as a kind of virus.And, only half a month prior at the Harvard Business Review, the board teachers Stephen Dimmock and William Gerken depicted their investigation of the infectiousness of worker misrepresentation among monetary guides who cheat clients. These scientists found that counselors are 37% bound to submit unfortunate behavior on the off chance that they experience another colleague with a past filled with misconduct.For me, the takeaway here was best caught by the late Bill Lazier, a fr uitful official who went through the most recent 20 years of his vocation showing business and enterprise at Stanford. Bill visited one of my classes years prior and offered the understudies some insightful counsel about the organization they keep. As I detailed in The No A**hole Rule:Bill stated, when you find a new line of work offer or join a group, investigate the individuals you would work with, not exactly at whether they are fruitful or not. He cautioned that if your future partners are egotistical, awful, extremist, unscrupulous, or exhausted and truly sick, there is minimal possibility that you will transform them into better people or change it into a sound work environment â€" even in a small company.Bill cautioned, rather, the odds are that you will begin acting like them.I have been considering Bill's recommendation, Trump's internal circle, and research on infectious awful conduct a great deal recently. I am working more enthusiastically to abstain from investing energ y - particularly dealing with joint tasks - with individuals who are inconsiderate, presumptuous, sluggish, narrow minded, irate, or simply no fun - regardless of how fruitful or lofty they may be. At the point when I neglect to follow my own recommendation, I begin thinking and acting like the very individuals that I despise.After all, I am just human and not many of us are invulnerable to this infectious disease.The end result is to investigate the individuals that you work and play with - and at those you've been welcome to join. In the event that you would prefer not to think and act as them, do all that you can to get out or, even better, to abstain from going along with them in the first place.Bob Sutton is a Stanford Professor who contemplates and expounds on initiative, authoritative change, and exploring hierarchical life. Tail me on Twitter @work_matters, and visit my website and posts on LinkedIn. My most recent book is The Aâ€"gap Survival Guide: How To Deal With People Who Treat You Like Dirt. Before that, I published Scaling Up Excellence with Huggy Rao. My principle center nowadays is around working with Huggy Rao to create systems and devices that help chiefs and teams change their associations to improve things - with a specific center on organizational friction. Check out my Stanford Contact Podcast at iTunes or Sticher.This column first showed up on LinkedIn.

Importance of Career Assessments to Employers and Employees - CareerAlley

Significance of Career Assessments to Employers and Employees - CareerAlley We may get pay when you click on connections to items from our accomplices. Most experts change occupations starting with one business then onto the next or from an occupation to an alternate one either inside a similar association or various bosses. Analysts have built up that most grown-ups will switch upwards of ten occupations inside their initial 20 years of work; changing after like clockwork. Consistent exchanging of occupations can be activated by various elements from the organizations people work for, to their own reasons. It is difficult to obviously characterize what one truly needs to do and be, as most things show up sufficient, however with vocation evaluation, one can at last characterize a lifelong way. Vocation Assessment With the help of master HR chiefs and guides, experts uncertain of what they truly expectation and wish to achieve in life can be helped with finding the correct way. It presents a window of potential chances and help experts finds the territories, encounters, trainings and instruction required to make the following sound vocation move. Through a variety of tests and evaluations, people can distinguish vocations that suit them. Data An educated individual settles on educated choices. Proficient profession appraisal controls a person into settling on sound vocation decisions and recoveries the administration from spending assets attempting to prepare laborers for the following profession moves. Customary vocation evaluation is ageless and it must be done every once in a while. This is a direct result of the normal changes in associations, administrations and structures may influence workers and make them need to reevaluate their positions. Representative Interests Glad representatives love their occupations and endeavor to convey the absolute best. Nothing in work is better than doing things that are of intrigue and concentrating on progress. Bosses must make sure that the ideal individuals hold the correct employments that intrigue them, not on the grounds that there is nobody else to hold such positions. At long last, the companys benefit will increment and the representative will convey the best. If it's not too much trouble note that intrigue alone doesn't qualify a person for work, and in this way doesnt ensure anybody achievement. Practical Suggestion Not at all like what numerous experts are intended to think, undertaking vocation evaluation doesnt inexplicably anticipate the future for anybody. Truth be told, profession appraisals are just intended to offer direction in transit to follow, by giving recommendations dependent on the outcomes. To guarantee that this basic design is accomplished, it is significant that elevated expectations of trustworthiness are watched. Conscious arrangement of bogus data just slants the conclusive outcomes of vocation appraisal and you will probably not discover a solution to your profession misfortunes. The Bottom Line People, who work in a satisfying profession display certainty at work, are more joyful and increasingly gainful. Because of their enterprising nature, the organizations they work for or simply significant offices record better outcomes. Through profession appraisal, such workers can recognize their optimal vocation ways and seek after them. Managers then again can rest simple realizing that the absolute best experts are holding the vital dockets. At long last, there will be trust, certainty, bliss or more all, profitability at work. Creator Bio Haword Roze is a University Lecturer and Editor of Exams Key. He is inquiring about on University Programs since most recent three years. You can locate his 642-883 Exam Papers Jobs from Top Universities and Colleges from everywhere throughout the world. This is a Guest post. In the event that you might want to present a visitor post to CareerAlley, if you don't mind follow these visitor post rules. Good karma in your hunt. Visit me on Facebook

What You Can Do About Summary Section of Resume Starting in the Next Nine Minutes

<h1> What You Can Do About Summary Section of Resume Starting in the Next Nine Minutes</h1> <p>1 A resume outline is a short, smart presentation passage that gives you a synopsis of your absolute best work. Consider what you'd state, and be certain you include what you'd state into your resume outline. You might need to consider a capabilities rundown which we delineated in a week ago's postbut if just you have to have a summaryhere are various guides to enable you to start. While you compose your outline for your resume, endeavor to consider what you need them to talk about with you, and what precisely you want a chance to examine. </p> <h2> A Secret Weapon for Summary Section of Resume</h2> <p>Resume destinations are every so often thought to be the old schooltype of resume. The outline is only one of the fundamental components in deciding whether it's the scout will call you for a meeting. The resume synopsis will go about as their attempt to sell something. Your outline of capabilities should consolidate an extraordinary exhibit of models which make your resume truly stick out. </p> <p>The candidate figured out how to specify significant capabilities in only a couple of sentences. Indisputably the most gainful rundowns target one vocation objective. At the point when you audit several resumes every day, every one of them begin to look precisely the same, especially toward the evening. Most continues are dismissed in the initial ten seconds. </p> <h2>Ok, I Think I Understand Summary Section of Resume, Now Tell Me About Summary Section of Resume! </h2> <p>An diagram of capabilities is used to feature the scope of work encounters you've developed over the long haul. The resume synopsis is basically a scaffold to have the employing chief as far as you can tell. Use your synopsis to show HR you have the things that they need most. </p> <h2> What You Should Do to Find Out Ab out Summary Section of Resume Before You're Left Behind</h2> <p>Most managers won't accept the open door to analyze your business document searching for data about your accomplishments or employment execution while at the association. At the end of the day, the goal positively not addresses the organization issue or agony that the recruiting administrator has. The rundown imparts key data like your level of understanding, your subject of mastery, and your most attractive aptitudes. In case you're scanning for your absolute first activity since leaving an instructive organization, data about your training should be on your resume. </p>

Who Make the Best In-House Recruiters

Who Make the Best In-House Recruiters As regular readers of my blogs will know, I’m a former recruitment consultant. I crossed to the light side (or the dark side, depending on your viewpoint) many years ago. I wasn’t terribly good at it to be hones; I couldn’t sell a glass of water to a man dying of thirst. I was pretty good at the relationship side though, which lead to me moving onto a client’s site and then eventually moving to HR. And the rest, as they say, is history. I came back to recruitment a few years ago, albeit in-house this time. I’m pretty opinionated when it comes to all things recruitment and recruitment consultant related as you may know. I’m not always a fan of the methods used by some recruitment agencies, but I do believe that if you run an in-house team it’s a great strategy to recruit for your team from your better suppliers. Poaching Let’s face it, you don’t work with recruitment agencies, you work with recruitment consultants. It’s all about your personal relationship. If you work in-house right now, I bet you can list your top five external consultants off the top of your head. So why aren’t they working for you? The upside Here are the plus sides. Firstly, they already know your brand, and you know them. They have hired for you before, presumably successfully or they won’t be on your list. All those sales targets and long hours make for seriously committed and resilient employees. Most successful recruitment consultants have great client relationship and management skills which are easily transferrable and beneficial to an in-house environment. Most in-house people I know are working towards reducing their agency spend, and no one knows better the rules around negotiating on rates better than a former recruitment consultant. If this is your strategy, all that energy and drive to make a placement with a client can be channelled into making direct hires. Want a wider career? In-house isn’t for everyone, but there are some real plus sides. There’s an opportunity for developing a career into wider areas of HR. You get to work with a business and help take it forward rather than work on a role and move onto the next. There are no sales targets and the hours are certainly better. I’m probably not that popular with a quite a few recruitment agencies, having of late stolen quite a few of their employees. You’ll be relieved to know I’m still sleeping well at night despite this. Making the move It’s not always an easy move to go in-house, as some of my colleagues are well aware. It takes some adjustment. You can’t hide from your client, you can’t politely turn down a role you don’t think you can fill and you have to take all these annoying sales calls from recruitment companies. I find it usually takes around a week for the sympathy toward former colleagues to disappear completely. Moving in-house takes a mind shift change, but one that I completely recommend. The downside? There is always a downside, but in this case its not that bad. There are so many former recruitment consultants in my team know that we tend to talk about making a placement rather than offering a role, which our pure HR colleagues find a little odd. We get overly excited and make a lot of noise when we get a big direct hire in much the same way we used to when we secured an offer for our candidate. There has been some mention of getting a bell for the office, but I’m going to draw the line at that. Related: What is the Point of a Recruitment PSL? Image: Shutterstock

3 Fundamental Myths About Balancing Work and Life (Podcast #63) - Classy Career Girl

3 Fundamental Myths About Balancing Work and Life (Podcast #63) If you are an ambitious professional woman and are looking for a better way to balance the most important aspects of your life without having to sacrifice yourself, youll love today’s podcast. How do YOU balance it all? Lets share our secrets. Today you’ll meet Sarah Argenal, a Lifestyle Strategist at Working Parent Resource. Sarah helps working moms find a more meaningful balance between their career, a loving marriage, quality time with their kids, and their own health and well-being. You definitely want to check out her resources at www.frazzledtobalanced.com after you listen to her today. Today’s podcast is a recording of the presentation we did at Classy Career Girls Night Out in San Diego a few weeks ago so if you couldn’t join us live, here is the next best thing right! So let’s get started! To get started, Sarahs going to talk a little bit  about the 3 Fundamental Myths About Balance.   In case you arent familiar with her already, Sarah Argenal is the Founder of the Working Parent Resource, which is a hub of reliable information, practical training, and a supportive community of judgment-free working moms and dads.   Sarah has over 15 years of experience as a therapist, a certified coach, a college-level instructor, and a course developer.   Shes worked with individuals, couples, and teens to help them regain balance in their lives, build thriving relationships, and manage major life transitions.   Today  Sarah helps busy professionals who are raising a young family cut through all of the noise and focus on whats truly important to them. 3 Fundamental Myths About Balancing Work and Life 1.  Balance is a myth. MYTH:  Theres a pretty big message circulating out there these days that Balance is a Myth. REALITY:  Balance isnt about spending equal amounts of time on the various areas of your life.   Instead, try to think of balance as prioritizing whats most important to you so your actions reflect your values.   When you think of balance this way, balance is entirely possible. 2.  Balance is about time management. MYTH:  A lot of people believe they can achieve the key to balancing work and life by becoming more productive, or more efficient, or saving time. REALITY:  The truth is that balance isnt about TIME management at all.   Its about managing your ENERGY and your ATTENTION.   When you are managing your energy and your attention, youll feel more calm, more relaxed, more organized, and more in control of your time, no matter what you have going on. [RELATED: Old Photos, Messy Houses, and Juggling Three Jobs] 3. Balance is achievable. MYTH:  I think one of the reasons people think balance is a myth is because they know, deep down, that its not something that can be ACHIEVED.   Its not a result to accomplish.   Its not about hitting some utopia in our lives. REALITY:  Instead, balancing work and life is a life-long practice of staying centered among an overwhelming number of external demands.   Its about making choices from moment to moment that either get you CLOSER to that feeling of well-being and wholeheartedness.   Its about doing constant course corrections to make sure youre staying aligned with your priorities and your values. What do you think? Do you think balancing work and life is a myth?

That Mysterious New York Times Best Seller List

That Mysterious New York Times Best Seller List I know. All of you want to write a New York Times best seller. I do, too. I so do. Youre writing and editing and hoping. Tears, sweat, maybe some blood. Too much coffee, now and then too much tequila. So what makes a book hit The List? Ask this question to a thousand people and you could get a thousand different answers. But as I was laying down tonight, feeling like a sick slug (I do have a cold â€" whine, whine) I thought about this. Here are a few elements that I think throw books onto the best seller list. I hope it helps you in terms of what you’re writing now or what you want to write in the future, if your goal is to hit that list… Impeccable writing. Beautiful, lyrical, painful, gut wrenching, tear jerking writing that is honest and raw and maybe poetic. Please read All The Light You Cannot See, The Book Thief, The Color Purple, The Underground Railroad, and The Kite Runner if you haven’t already for a few examples. A compelling, modern plot. Let’s look at Gone Girl and Girl On The Train. Or, the most recent book I read, Watch Me Disappear. The protagonists aren’t likable. But the plots keep you whipping through the pages to see when the secrets are going to break open and the twists and turns are going to crash into each other. Is your plot compelling? Are there hooks and surprises? Do you keep the reader guessing on what the heck is going to happen next? A Book Club book. There is “stuff” to talk about for a group of women in these best sellers. For example, Eat Pray Love. You may have loved that book. You may have hated it. People had extreme responses. Eat Pray Love is a heckuva book club book because it gives women something to talk about, even argue about. Do you have an idea for a story or a character that will make for a possibly heated discussion at book clubs? An invigorating talk? Does your book have moral questions or ethical issues to debate? Excellent. Write it. See also: Wild. The Light Between Oceans. Hillbilly Elegy. Historical fiction that yanks readers out of their lives and into another intriguing era. If you love history, especially if you’ve already done extensive research in one area, consider this genre because people love it. They love to learn while reading something entertaining at the same time. Try Pillars Of The Earth. Sarah’s Key. The Other Boleyn Girl. Molokai. Memoirs you can’t put down. If you have not read The Glass Castle, please do. If you have something interesting/painful/funny/unique to say, this could be your writing home. Other excellent memoirs? Infidel. Escape. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. A Totally original plot. Have you read A Time Traveler’s Wife? Station Eleven? The Martian? Absolute creativity. What can you write that, truly, no one has written before? And dont fall into that, Every story has already been told, bull. That is not true. Books that make people cry. Is there a story that you can tell that will jerk tears out of yours and your readers’ eyes? There is a huge group of readers out there that like to cry over their books. Ive done it many times myself. Examples: Me Before You. Where The Red Fern Grows. The Lovely Bones. Books that make people laugh. Like Bossypants. Or anything David Sedaris writes. Are you funny? Are you sarcastic or wry? Take that talent and make people crack up. Books that people can relate to in some way. Try Liane Moriarty’s books. Normal people. Then something extraordinary happens. Take the every day and wrench it into something totally new. Add something unexpected, devise interesting characters who may be hiding something, and shuffle it altogether with changing social dynamics in a setting we’re all familiar with, then explode the whole thing. Escapism books. If you want to write a fast paced book that simply gives people a   break from life and their problems while reading your knuckle gripping story, do it. Action. Adventure. Romance.   Maybe all three. Huge market for those books. Examples: Bridget Jones’ Diary. The DaVinci Code. Stephanie Plum by Janet Evanovich. Nonfiction. Do you have a true story that you have been aching to write? People love to read truth. Research. Study. Write. All at the same time.  Examples: Unbroken, Into Thin Air, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Best of luck. I truly hope that I see you on the best seller list one day.

3 Dangers of Job Seekers Only Appealing to Recruiters

3 Dangers of Job Seekers Only Appealing to Recruiters When job seekers first start poking around for a job search, many will reach out to recruiters, first. Many recruiters will offer advice and they are quite easy to find on LinkedIn, too. But if job seekers only try to appeal to the requests of recruiters, they will definitely put their job search in danger. In this post, we explain why appealing to recruiters as the lone source of finding work will set all job seekers up for failure.Note: This is not a recruiter-bashing post. There are many good recruiters who work hard for job seekers. More so, it explains the role they play.1. Putting All Your Eggs in the Wrong BasketAlthough recruiters may be the first people job seekers speak with or the first people they contact, their main tasks are to manage relationships. They make sure resumes fit the job description for the better (and sometimes worse). Recruiters have many accounts to handle and many job seekers to find, but they play no role in making the hiring decision. They will fight for you at times, but never at the risk of doing harm to themselves.Danger: Putting all your eggs in one basket with one person not in charge of hiring you and with limited information about what is really required for the job and company.2. Spending Money on Advice From the Wrong SourceRegardless of the professional resume you had worked out and paid for to show you want, if a recruiter needs it to look a certain way for his/her client, they may ask you to rewrite it. It is not that your resume is “wrong” or “bad”, but it does not fit the needs of the recruiter who contacted you.Why did they contact, or answer you, if the resume seems like it needs to be rewritten? This is a question you should always ask the recruiter. If they do ask you to rewrite some words on the resume for a job, it is primarily to fulfill the needs of their account. So, as a job seeker, you have to learn how to say “No” when called to interview for a job you know will be a waste of time.Danger: Sp ending wasted funds on resumes, not because you need to, but because you believe you are supposed to because “the recruiter said to do it”.3. Limiting Your Options and Lengthening Your Job SearchInstead of trying any form of “one-size-fits-all” theory, try new and innovative ideas to networkwith others. For example:Cleaning up your entire social media footprint Making 1st-degree connections within companies you like on LinkedIn Reaching out to former colleagues and old friends Communicating online using the right words related to jobs you want Attend face-to-face Meetups Get help from other services with proven track records of helping others find work Yeah, apply for online job postings, too, but only for “quality” postingsBe creative. We are in a connected world. Contact recruiters to let them know you are job seeking, yes, but you have so many other ideas to try.Danger: Ultimately, in a small, connected, and global business world, believing only one idea will work lim its your opportunities and sets you up for wasting money, a longer job search, and frustration at an entire industry you completely misunderstood. Be yourself, for better and for worse. Learn from your failures and never be afraid to try a new idea. Eventually, you will end up at the right company because you knew it was right.

55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal Book Review [Guest Post] - Career Pivot

55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal Book Review [Guest Post] - Career Pivot 55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal Elizabeth White’s book 55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal is an unflinchingly honest, practical, and guardedly hopeful look at options for seniors who are struggling, or may soon be struggling, with all-too-common issues of un- or under-employment, insufficient retirement funds, unaffordable housing, and isolation. It’s no secret that ageism delineates our workforce. It’s difficult to reach previous earning levels once you’re over 50 and you lose your job. Social Security is the only retirement plan for many baby boomers, and that likely won’t even cover rent. White speaks from firsthand knowledge as a highly educated professional with an enviable resume who found herself unable to get a job after losing her savings in a failed business venture. She acknowledges the denials, the pain, the mistakes, the regrets, the disappointments, and the desperation she went through before reshaping her life on her own terms. She urges others in a similar situation to stop “faking normal,” and share the truth of their circumstances â€" and then take steps to recover, even, if necessary, to “claw” their way back to a new simplified, healthy normal. She recommends forming “Resilience Circles” as a way to work through the process in supportive group meetings. Doom and Gloom Mindset is Neither Healthy nor Productive White cautions that a doom-and-gloom mindset is neither healthy nor productive, yet the myriad statistics and anecdotes she presents are overwhelmingly scary and depressing. Or at least they were to me, as a mid-sixties educated and underemployed female. Even though I am squarely in her target demographic, I don’t feel desperate, invisible, or afraid that I won’t be able to continue to live comfortably. But she also talks about denial, equivalent to faking normal even when our actual standard of living is below â€" or way below â€" par. So maybe I’m in denial. I’ve already pretty much lost it all â€" in the form of a good house I owned in a high-end suburban neighborhood. I’d lived there for 30-plus years. It was supposed to be my retirement nest egg or a valuable legacy I could pass down to my heirs. The emotional repercussions of losing it were worse than the financial ones. Fortunately I had a job still, a small vacation home out of state, and an immense desire to live a simpler creative life. It’s taken me more than ten years to claw my way back, and I can’t be sure what’s next, but I’m energized and optimistic. Most days. And, probably in denial, but I’m OK for now. More than OK. Smalling Up White writes about “smalling up,” doing less with more â€" not just being frugal to the point of depriving yourself of the things that make you happy, but differentiating between wanting and needing. Unquestionably, this is good advice, but I feel like I’ve already checked those boxes. I buy almost all my clothes and shoes, and many household items, secondhand. I rarely eat out. I repurpose/recycle everything I can. And I try to grow at least some of my own food. I’m still fighting the burden of too much stuff in storage, but I have a plan for purging and downsizing. Housing Strategies The book’s true value for me was in the sections on housing strategies and options for seniors. I will have a hard time aging in place in my current century-old house in a remote rural area, which is not near any of my immediate family. I have a very limited social network here. White addresses issues of social isolation and homes that are not structurally accessible for elderly residents who develop health or mobility problems. She has done an extraordinarily impressive amount of research into various types of senior housing options in all price ranges â€" tiny homes, RV parks, co-housing, multigenerational housing, reverse mortgages, renting out rooms to boarders, moving in with family, and moving out of the U.S. altogether. In particular, for me, her in-depth descriptions of innovative senior communities across the country, and also her exploration into the potential of tiny homes to serve our needs, was eye-opening. For years I’ve been fascinated by the prospect of building a tiny home, but it was always an unattainable dream. As a direct result of the book, I have been inspired to learn more, look into financing solutions, reach out to thought leaders in the industry, and find opportunities to get involved beyond a personal DIY construction project. Honesty and Practical Advice White’s honesty and practical advice (“get off your throne,” do “bridge work” if you have to, get food stamps/SNAP if you’re eligible and in need), tempered with sincere compassion by encouraging us to be kind to ourselves in spite of our “wouldas, couldas, shouldas,” make this book unique and valuable. Her thorough research with detailed lists of services and resources makes it a go-to, must-have guidebook for anyone now or soon to be a senior dealing with the stress of an inadequate safety net in the face of an uncertain future. I’m not the type to pencil notes in margins or earmark pages. In reading White’s book, I did both. I thought initially I’d pass it on to a friend after a cursory read. I’ll buy my friend another copy. I’m keeping mine for future reference. This was written by Adele Field. Adele is a writing and marketing communications professional with a background in publishing and PR. She moved from Los Angeles to a family property in rural Montana in search of a healthier, more affordable, more authentic life. While personal creative projects such as managing a community garden and writing a comedy podcast feed her soul, and help counter the isolation of her remote location, Adele is patching together a living in the gig economy. She currently telecommutes with an offshore medical-legal documents company, manages email campaigns and websites for small businesses, and edits books and proposals for emerging authors. Like what you just read? Share it with your friends using the buttons above. Like What You Read? Get Career Pivot Insights Check out the Repurpose Your Career Podcast Do You Need Help With ...