More JibberJobber Certified Career Professionals

More JibberJobber Certified Career Professionals Last month I introduced the first four certified career professionals and today we add two more professionals to the list: Carrie Luber: Messenger Associates (Syracuse, NY) Ann Brody: Career Solutions (Chicago) Congratulations, and welcome to the list! Shahrzad Arasteh:  Career Consulting Services  (Maryland) Jennifer Bradley:  JBradley Associates  (California) Robyn Feldberg:  Abundant Success Career Services  (Texas) Kelly McClelland:  Transition Time Coach  (Florida) More JibberJobber Certified Career Professionals Last month I introduced the first four certified career professionals and today we add two more professionals to the list: Carrie Luber: Messenger Associates (Syracuse, NY) Ann Brody: Career Solutions (Chicago) Congratulations, and welcome to the list! Shahrzad Arasteh:  Career Consulting Services  (Maryland) Jennifer Bradley:  JBradley Associates  (California) Robyn Feldberg:  Abundant Success Career Services  (Texas) Kelly McClelland:  Transition Time Coach  (Florida) More JibberJobber Certified Career Professionals Last month I introduced the first four certified career professionals and today we add two more professionals to the list: Carrie Luber: Messenger Associates (Syracuse, NY) Ann Brody: Career Solutions (Chicago) Congratulations, and welcome to the list! Shahrzad Arasteh:  Career Consulting Services  (Maryland) Jennifer Bradley:  JBradley Associates  (California) Robyn Feldberg:  Abundant Success Career Services  (Texas) Kelly McClelland:  Transition Time Coach  (Florida)

11 Business Habits You Need to Make Time For

11 Business Habits You Need to Make Time For Everyone has a list of things they know they  should  do but, let’s face it, try to avoid doing at all costs. But what habits are you avoiding, as a Recruitment business owner? With so much to do, it can be easy to forget about the little habits that could make a big difference to the running of your business. So to help get you started, the small business experts at  Opus Energy  have identified 11 business habits you likely don’t do regularly, but should: 1. Read up on recruitment industry news Yes, there are probably a hundred other things that also need your attention but staying on top of the latest trends and research in recruitment can have a major impact on the health of your business. Why not set up a few Google alerts so any relevant news goes straight into your inbox and schedule time each day to review the results. 2. Organize your space If you’re the creative brains behind your company, it may be a challenge to fulfill this task. It’s important, however, for a number of reasons: it can help to increase motivation to work, and it generally leads to higher productivity. 3. Make exercise a priority This point may not sound like it’s related to your business, but the truth is, exercising regularly will help your overall energy levels, which can lead to more productive business hours. It’s also a great way to clear your head, making it ideal to burn off work-related stress. 4. Check-in with employees regularly If you’re the type of person who isn’t good with people management, it can be hard to get out of your office and chat with those who work for you. The more you interact with everyone, however, the more comfortable they’ll be with you, which means they’ll be able to tell you if they perceive something is wrong or needs to be changed within the company. 5. Plan your day You don’t have to plan every single minute of your workday, including coffee and bathroom breaks. It’s a good idea, however, to designate certain times of every day to check and answering voicemail, email, and team communication, so that you can concentrate on one task at a time, instead of trying to multitask and not getting as much accomplished. 6. Don’t just respond as events happen; prioritize Further to planning your day, prioritizing allows you to concentrate on one task at a time without falling prey to distractions. For instance, if you’re trying to complete a proposal, stay logged out of your email so that you’re not tempted to respond if an email comes in, or turn your phone off for an hour to allow you to focus on the job in hand. 7. Stop checking those notifications You wouldn’t believe how distracting those digital notifications you get from everywhere can be, even when your phone is set to silent. Set a time like lunch, or the very end of the workday, when you’ll allow yourself to check your notifications on Facebook or Instagram. 8. Inbox zero Like the organized workspace, this method can be more of a challenge to some than to others. The idea is to de-clutter your main email inbox, by filing all emails in their appropriate folders (which you could create if you hadn’t already) once they’ve been dealt with. This allows you a clearer view of actionable items in your inbox, so you don’t lose track of anything. 9. Delegate tasks to other team members When you’ve built a business from the ground up, it can be a challenge to hand over control. After all, no one knows the ins and outs better than you, right? But as your company grows, delegating tasks to other staff members can allow you to focus on important elements of your business that may be getting neglected. 10. Stay positive Your employees will always be looking to you as the barometer to how the company is doing, and how they should be acting. If you’re having a bad day, make sure they don’t see it, because rumors can develop and spread like wildfire. 11. Attend industry and networking events You may not be a social butterfly. In fact, you may absolutely dread attending larger events, but you never know where meetings may lead, or what you may learn. Take the time to identify the right networking events, some may even allow you to bring a plus one. Once you’ve attended two or three, you’re bound to start recognizing familiar faces. These events do get easier once you become more accustomed to networking etiquette. In the end, it doesn’t matter how far up the food chain you are in a company. Certain habits can benefit anyone in the business world, helping increase your productivity, and making you a better and more effective business owner. About the author: Conor McArdle has worked at Opus Energy for three years, producing business-boosting advice for Opus Energy’s small business customers through the Brighter Business platform.

A New Career for Christmas Please!

A New Career for Christmas Please! It’s that time of year again, how did that happen? The year is drawing to a close, advent calendars at the ready, it’s time to evaluate how you stack up against your career plan, and start thinking about plans for next year. The long December break is the perfect time to do some serious reflection and evaluation. Take time out from the rough and tumble of the daily treadmill to mull over what you want from an ideal and fulfilling career. Focus on the steps you need to take to achieve your goals. Ensure that you are moving in a direction aligned with your values and strengths. Time for a career MOT. Use a learning perspective and think of yourself as a “skills and knowledge investor” and start by mulling over your values and strengths. Work values are important Workplaces are becoming ever more collaborative, and increasingly we look not just for jobs, but for work environments which display values and culture that align with our own. Establishing and evaluating work values may help you focus and choose the environment and role that are the best fit for you. Work values are similar to the theory of career anchors propounded by Dr Edgar Schein, one of the founders of modern organisational psychology. He suggests that every one of us approaches our work with a certain set of priority and values that he calls Career Anchors. Strengths are part of your personal brand At 10Eighty we favour a focus on strengths because it enables a person to feel well equipped and confident about their abilities. Strengths are underlying qualities that energise us, contribute to our personal growth and lead to peak performance” (Brewerton Brook, Strengths Partnership 2010). We advocate working on your strengths as it can have a significant impact on your career and personal growth. Use your strengths to optimise performance and increase your engagement and productivity at work, career fulfilment and job satisfaction. Research shows that using our strengths at work is more likely to lead to positive performance outcomes. In career terms it is your knowledge, awareness and acceptance of strengths (and skills) and how to make effective and appropriate use of them that is important for success at work rather than being a particular ‘match’ for skills or qualifications for a given role. Positivity and productivity Happy people tend to be successful at work, but it seems its not because your success causes you to be happy, in fact its your being happy which tends to cause success. Large scale research by the University of California found that being happy leads to higher income, greater productivity and quality of work, more satisfying and longer marriages, more friends, stronger social support, and richer social interactions, more activity, energy and better physical health. Strengths are what energise us, we enjoy using them and learn quickly where and when we can put them into action. Studies show that people who felt they were using their strengths have more positive emotion, greater vitality and self-esteem, compared with people who did not feel they used theirs. Father Christmas won’t be bringing a new career for you but you can take positive and determined steps to move your career in the right direction. In other words, make the most of the networking opportunities presented by the holiday season. Don’t under-estimate the positivity and goodwill engendered by the festive celebrations, take advantage of the holiday spirit when and schedule some interviews, your networking contacts may well be more willing to meet up as work slows down for the festive break.

9 new ideas that may sway on-the-fence entrepreneurs

9 new ideas that may sway on-the-fence entrepreneurs Are you considering entrepreneurship? Its all the rage right now because the bar at the start line has never been lower. Here are nine new ideas about entrepreneurship that will make you feel like you can do it, too. Right now: 1. You dont need a venture capitalist, you are the venture capitalist. Today, you can make something people want without spending money. Technology is simple enough to use that you dont need to pay for high-end software to get a business off the ground. If you can figure out how to pay for food and lodging (hello, mom and dad) then you can fund your own startup. 2. For a killer marketing plan make a list of your friends. Businesses these days are built on word of mouth, says Scott Fox, author of Internet Riches. You know 200 people. Send them an email telling them about your business. If its great, word of mouth will generate a customer base. If your business isnt great, youll know right away. This can be true offline as well. Daniela Corte started with an even smaller base than 200. She gave five friends custom-fitted pants. I wanted this pair of pants to be their favorite pair, she says. And it worked. After interviewing the friends about fit and texture preferences, Corte created pants that were buzz worthy, and she grew a multi-national business from those first five women raving about their pants. 3. Globalization is good for you. As long as your needs are well defined, hiring a programmer in India is a great way to save money. When Katherine Lee wanted to create a database of yarns for her business Sweaterbabe.com, she paid an Indian programmer $250 â€" a significantly lower price than US developers would have charged. But you have to know what youre doing when you outsource to India. If youre looking for someone to hold your hand and teach you about online design, forget it. But you can pay the online design maven her US rates and then send the design plan to the guy in India to execute. 4. You only need to master a small niche. Google makes searching so effective that customers with a very specific interest can find businesses with a very specific interest â€" at such a high rate that niche businesses are more viable than ever before (like mobile game development). This is the premise of Chris Andersons book, The Long Tail, which encourages entrepreneurs to focus on the small areas of the world that are neglected by big retailers because the market is not big enough. And Fox points out that everyone knows a lot about something, so the best place in the long tail to start experimenting is where you have a good deal of specialized knowledge â€" which is likely to be a niche. 5. You dont need a widget, you can sell yourself. The idea of an Internet startup is to grow an audience first, and then figure out how to make money. So a logical place to turn to is yourself, because if you can build an audience, then youre an expert in something. At the sprightly age of 24, Ramit Sethi writes the very popular personal finance blog iwillteachyoutoberich.com. He has parlayed this success into a public speaking career (seriously â€" Fortune 500 companies are paying him to come talk to employees about finance) and a book-writing career (stay tuned for his advice on how to recruit hotshots like him to your company). 6. You dont have to quit your day job. Jessa Crispin did not set out to start a business. She was just writing books reviews and posting them on her web site, Bookslut. The reviews were so popular that eventually she was able to quit her job and make Bookslut her fulltime job. But she built the business while working at another job. Of course, not everyone is a genius on the first try like Crispin. But Fox points out, The feedback loop is short. So you can try several different things to see what works. The trick is to recognize when your idea is going nowhere before youve sunk too much time into it. 7. Entrepreneurship is about choosing a lifestyle. Most entrepreneurs dont start a business to get rich, they start a business so they can live the life they want. Maybe they want to be creative, maybe they want to do what theyre passionate about, increasingly, they want to have flexibility to manage their own workday. When Corte had a baby she realized that her current business model with daily fittings was too time-intensive. So she moved her retail business to online in order to continue to be able to offer her clothes direct to consumers but to regain time for her daughter. 8. You dont need to wait to cash out. The 1980s brought us real estate flipping; the new millennium brings us web site flipping. Not only are people auctioning their companies on eBay for denominations formerly reserved for successful garage sales, but there are more than 70 Internet locations where people are buying and selling web sites 24 hours a day. Tom Kuegler, partner at New Concept Factory, runs an incubator that is starting eight Internet companies each quarter. He estimates that most of these companies hell unload at a low price and two out of twenty-four will grow into super companies. If this sounds pie-in-the-sky to you, consider that Kuegler is no neophyte. Hes been starting and selling Internet companies since 1994. 9. Entrepreneurship is a way of thinking, and you can change the world. This idea comes from eighteen-year-old Ben Casnocha, who founded Comcate, a leading software company for governments, when he was twelve years old. Yep. Thats right. Twelve years old. Casnocha says, Entrepreneurship has a lot to do with business but it is a way of thinking about things that everyone can do: Seeing individuals as empowered as agents of change; Trying to figure out the status quo, the normal thing, and then thinking about what we can do differently. If more people thought like entrepreneurs the world could be a better place.

How to Write a One-Page Resume For a Job As an Aviation Maintenance Technician

How to Write a One-Page Resume For a Job As an Aviation Maintenance TechnicianWriting a one page resume for a job as an aviation maintenance technician can be very easy. This article will show you how.First off, as the title states, this is just one page for a job. No more, no less. It will cover what kind of job you are looking for, and you can skip right to the letter of interest section if you don't know yet.Next, try to make your resume show good impression and the importance you will have to the company. You want to show that you are able to show good performance and that you are dependable.Another thing that you want to do is find some of your old college or high school class photos that can be put in your resume. The pictures can show that you have good personality and have shown yourself through the years.It is a good idea to highlight some of your skills from high school. You should also add some of your goals and your skill sets in the job you are looking for.You should als o consider how many points need to be shown. Sometimes, it is okay to include more of the skills that will not be needed in the job. You can also include your hobbies that can show the employer that you are good at communicating with people.Lastly, show what kind of experience you have. If you have more than five years experience, you can skip the technical terms and go straight to the letters of interest. Show yourself as someone who is able to work on different types of aircraft.It is time to start making yourself look more attractive to the employer when you are preparing a resume. Take the time to look at this article today and get some great tips on what to put in your resume for a job as an aviation maintenance technician.

Yet another review of my book - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Yet another review of my book - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog Gene Fowler, the CEO of Fatkat Animation Studios in Canada read my book and really, really liked it. He wrote this review for Progress Magazine: Thanks Gene Im blushing here :o) Read the whole book free online or buy it on paper or pdf here. Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related

Double your Career Opportunities by Thinking Up, Down and Sideways!

Double your Career Opportunities by Thinking Up, Down and Sideways! Double your Career Opportunities by Thinking Up, Down and Sideways! Double your Career Opportunities by Thinking Up, Down and Sideways! January 15, 2010 by Career Coach Sherri Thomas 2 Comments Many people get hung-up on job titles when job hunting. Instead of focusing on the title of the job, focus on the responsibilities. Here are a few quick tips to help point you in the right direction. View jobs with smaller titles when considering a LARGER company. View jobs with bigger titles when considering a SMALLER company. Expand your career options by considering different industries.