Life Emergency

Life Emergency “911” as we all know is the number that you call when you have an emergency â€" a fire, a medical problem, a burglary, etc.  Am I the only one who thinks that there should be a number you call when you have a “life emergency”?  What constitutes a life emergency? Well, it’s probably different for everyone. A life emergency is some sort of a crisis that requires us to act and to act, NOW. This could mean getting laid off from your only job (IN THIS ECONOMY!) or it could mean that you, for whatever reason, have 30 days to look for a new apartment A life emergency is anything that involves lifes unexpected turns, but one that is unpleasant and requires a solution FAST! Take a second and think about your last life emergency. How did you handle it? Well, I began mine by calling my mother.  Her response in these situations is typically to call our network of family priests and books masses (#Catholicproblems). Then I put on “All we can do is keep breathing,” by Ingrid Michaelson on repeat. (That song has seen me at my worst I tell you!). Then I write in my crimson “Life Notebook” that I carry with me everywhere. I make two columns:   “Things I can control” and “Things I can’t control.” At the top of the Things I can’t control list, I put “God is in charge.  At the top of the Things I can control list, I put Kovie is in charge. Recently, due to circumstances beyond my control, I have had to step up what I call “my stable job” search. I cannot  put “Kovie is in charge.” Sounds detailed, doesn’t it? Well, it is because I recently have just had a life emergency and taking the high road just got a lot more complicated. I cant go into too much detail as the situation does not involve solely my professional and personal life but others as well as. And as comfortable as I am in airing my professional grievances; as someone who is private in some respects, I respect what others choose to keep private. I made my list and I realized my “Things I can control,” has a lot more on it than my “Things I cannot control” list. Therefore, I have gone to work â€" more applications, more networking, more everything and 10X better! WHY am I telling you this?! Because in life emergencies, as much as we would love to break down and cry, the word, EMERGENCY, suggests that it is no time to cry. If you must cry, do it while you WORK on moving forward. Since when did panicking do anyone any good? Even in our life emergencies, our resolve should be strong, our goals clear and our actions as calculated as we can possibly achieve. Why did I come up with a “life emergency” process? Because in the words of Aristotle, “excellence is a habit, not an act.” And  if I know full well that this current life emergency is not going to be my last one, so I damn well better resolve to be excellent even in these situations. Believe it or not, there IS a positive to life emergencies: we quickly discover how thick-skinned we really are. We find out how thick-skinned we need to become. Pressure is sometimes exactly what we need to achieve  difficult  things. We also tend to find out which people around us are really there when it comes down to the wire because I assure you that a life emergency is seldom conquered by a sole individual. Perhaps the greatest thing about a “life emergency” is that just like any other life occasion, it eventually passes. I want to know: what was your most recent life emergency and how did you handle it? I assure you myself and people reading this need all the help we can get. Cheers, Kovie

How to Add Writing Undergraduate Thesis to Resume

How to Add Writing Undergraduate Thesis to ResumeIf you have a piece of work, be it an article, a journal or a book, which has a thesis, you will need to know how to add writing an undergraduate thesis to resume. This can either be done manually or with the aid of programs. However, most of the people prefer to do it manually because they do not want to put in much effort in doing this.Nowadays, there are more job sites which target people for hiring who want to have their work and document in the online form, thus making it more accessible to many. You may do this manually as well by posting your writings in their websites. However, many of these websites may not accept what you post. Thus, you will need to upload your document in the website through its submission option.At times, a resume is not sufficient to get a job. Thus, you will need to write a thesis. In this case, you will need to know how to add writing an undergraduate thesis to resume to increase the chances of getting hired.First, write about your current work. You can put in your goals and objectives about your future work, other projects you have been working on, the amount of time required for each one, and the educational background you have. Also include in your writing undergraduate thesis to resume the projects that you have been working on for some time.Second, include your writing samples and written journals. You may also include academic papers, dissertation and dissertations. You will be in greater need of a formal title page. Use some formal call number in the beginning so that it does not confuse anyone.Third, make a resume that includes all of your accomplishments and listit in the order of chronological importance. These accomplishments will show up first on the resume so that the employer will see them. After you have listed your accomplishments, list down your educational background.Fourth, if you are applying for graduate school, it would be best to indicate your honors in this list. The statement 'academic honors' should be included in your resume. This is considered to be a prime advantage when you want to have your work accepted by a graduate school.Writing this sort of article is very difficult to do. However, the benefits that it can bring to a person are worth all the difficulty. In fact, with these methods, you will be able to show off your knowledge in writing more and enhance your resume.

Failing at work is a good thing - Wolfgang Career Executive Coaching

Failing at work is a good thing - Wolfgang Career Executive Coaching Guest blog sharing good insight on the upside of failing at work. -Amy My pilot program officially bombed today for the second time. I sat there with my boss and we talked about why the participants never embraced the pilot program. My boss wanted results and we didnt have any. He was agitated. Then it got worse when I told him that the pilot WAS successful! This incident coincided with some reading I was doing. One of the chapters in Smartcuts by Shane Snow discussed how failure can help you reach your goal faster. It gave me a healthy perspective on my recent failure so I wanted to share a few stories about how to turn failing at work into succeeding at work. Back to the pilot and that look on my boss face What failing at work looks like The pilot failed for a few reasons: I hadnt given the participants a full perspective of how they should incorporate this new process into their daily activities. The participants already had an overwhelming number of priorities on their plate. The managers of the participants were not working together to make the changes. Ideally, we wanted to show how these new processes would impact the bottom line but we couldnt get the data because we couldnt get the pilot team to use the new processes. We were conducting a pilot for 4 people before we rolled it out to the entire force of 500 people. We wanted to see if the content was good but what we uncovered was flawed assumptions about how our team learns new processes. Organizational change is not easy and we wound up finding five major obstacles that needed to be addressed first. Could you imagine if we rolled this into a larger roll out? That would have been the wrong stage to fail on! Instead we learned this with only four people and with two weeks of time. So instead of stats we uncovered a pretty important area I had overlooked. This failure was really a success because we learned, we learned fast and now we are pivoting. The next pilot will look dramatically different and we will try to fail even faster so we can get to the next pivot sooner. Learn when you fail Do you know where theres a lot of daily failure? Sales. To succeed in sales, they say you need thick skin. Yes you need to be able to handle failing at work but, more importantly, you need to know what to do with failure. When it comes to failing at selling, there are two types of individuals: Keep on using the same techniques hoping that a next prospect will react positively to your message. Look for the lesson after each sales call, adjust for it, and try something new on the next call. The latter attitude is how you find the best time to call, the right tone to use, the optimal opening line, etc. Embracing failing at work, in fact, speed up your failures! The more you fail the more things you can learn. Dont just learn but apply what you learn into a new hypothesis and new experiment on your next cold call or email. Build your laboratory The very nature of programming is to fail often. This is why the right development tools and dev-test environments are critical. Failure is the business and speed is what gets new products to market first. Writing a line of code is, really, an experiment. It may work, it may not. The key is try something, fail, pivot, and try something new. Later, rinse, repeat. My mom was a programmer back in the 60s and 70s. To test their programs, they had to convert their programs to punch cards, physically take them down to the mainframe room and leave them overnight to be compiled. In the morning, if you had one little error, you knew it! Its archaic by todays standards but can you imagine how frustrating that must have been!? Programming tasks can be quite large so think in terms of experiments. How can you break your tasks down to a series of experiments? How can you quickly iterate and try new experiments? What tools and equipment do you need to run your experiments quickly? Set an appropriate amount of time for testing and clearly define what success looks like. Get in your zone and then crush it! We are all scientists Experimentation is a more accurate term than failing at work. The spirit of testing and experimenting is needed to find answers to new and challenging questions, no matter what field or department you are in: Marketing: what pain points are relevant to this audience? Sales: what do I say in my email intro to get a response? HR: what mix of investment options should we offer in our 401k? Programming: how do we store this data in multiple systems? Engineering: how do we shrink our circuit design? Think about what experiments you can be running in your job to improve the way your department operates. Most of us dont think this way because it is additional stuff to do. Think bigger! Choosing an appropriate scale There is an extreme here, that you need to be wary of: too many experiments. You need to adjust the amount of time you spend on experiments based on the size of the problem and the potential impact of solving it. If you want to send a human to Mars then youll need a few years, a few billion dollars and a lot of experiments. If you want to find the best of three subject lines, then spend two additional hours testing them with 1,000 recipients no need to work on it for a week! So break out of your fear of failing at work. When you fear failure, your goal turns into following the process rather than achieving breakthrough success.

179 Mireille Ryan - Social Media Marketing Institute - Jane Jackson Career

179 Mireille Ryan - Social Media Marketing Institute - Jane Jackson Career Mireille Ryan is an impressive professional driven, dedicated and highly creative with a huge heart and big dreams. In this podcast episode, Mireille shares her career aspirations as a young woman, her career journey and how she transitioned into entrepreneurship, creating the Social Media Marketing Institute.In 2010, Mireille Ryan was named Australian Exercise Professional of the Year and her business was named 2011 QLD Personal Training Business of the Year. Mireille’s success led her to be featured on radio and in over 20 magazines around the world including Grazia, Prevention, Weight Watchers, Ultrafit, That’s Life and also was named in 2010 as Australia’s #1 Personal Trainer by Good Health.Mireille has over 85000 followers on social media and regularly appears on podcasts such as Success Stalkers radio and was featured in the book “Picture Them Naked”, which shares the secrets of successful speakers. When Mireille was CEO of her own company Health Guru Industries, s he learnt first hand the importance of communicating through content and social media to reach her ideal audience.All the skills Mireille has learnt in the digital marketing space is as a result of needing to learn how to use it in her own companies. When other business owners saw Mireille’s success, they started asking her for her help. This passion for social media led to Mireille to establish the Social Media Marketing Institute, a membership, education and professional development organisation for the Social Media Industry. The goal of the Social Media Marketing Institute is to support social media marketers throughout their career, by providing mentorship, training, conferences, awards, education, advisory and support. After seeing the huge impact that winning an award had on her career, Mireille wanted to establish an awards program specifically for the social media industry as a way to celebrate excellence in social media marketing. The Social Media Marketing Awards (w ww.socialmediamarketingawards.com) was launched in 2017. In 2019 The Social Media Marketing Awards are on 15th August 2019. Mireille has spoken at conferences in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra and the Gold Coast.  Where to find Mireille:Website: SMMI AwardsTwitter: @mireilleryanAttract career opportunities by building a powerful personal brand online learn the 3 Secrets to Personal Branding for Career Success in this FREE Masterclass today!

What not to say at an interview -

What not to say at an interview - You spend a lot of time thinking of what TO say, but what not to say in an interview is very important. You need to be ready for anything, including weird interview questions.You dont want to blurt out something inappropriate and send all of your hard work down the toilet. Avoid these inappropriate comments during your interview. What not to say at an interview 1. Im really nervous. Theres nothing wrong with feeling nervous. Its natural to be a little uneasy at an important interview. Dont tell the interviewer if you have butterflies in your stomach, though. Your job in the interview is to portray a confident and professional demeanor. You wont win any points by admitting your nerves or blaming them for any failures in your performance. 2. I dont really know much about the job; I thought youd tell me all about it. This is a big job seeker mistake, and it can cost you the opportunity. Employers spend a lot of time interviewing, and they expect candidates to have researched the jobs enough to be able to explain why they want the positions. Otherwise, you could be wasting everyones time by interviewing for a job you may not even really want. Asking questions is important, but dont ask anything you should know from the job description or from reading about the company online 3. My last boss/colleague/client was a real jerk. Its possible (even likely) that your interviewer could prod you into telling tales about your previous or current supervisor or work environment. Resist the urge to badmouth anyone, even if you have a bad boss. It is unprofessional and the employer will worry what you may say to someone about him or her down the road. Instead, think about ways to describe past work environments in terms of what you learned or accomplishments youre proud to discuss. 4. My biggest weakness is (something directly related to the job). Whats your weakness? is one of the most dreaded interview questions. Theres no perfect reply, but there is a reply you should never say: Never admit to a weakness that will affect your ability to get the job done. If the job description requires a lot of creativity, and you say your creativity has waned lately, assume that youve taken yourself out of the running. Choose a weakness not related to the position and explain how youre working to improve it. 5. @#$%! Granted, profanity seems to be much more accepted in many workplaces today. However, an interview is not the time to demonstrate that you can talk like a pirate. 6. Just a minute; I really need to get this call. Its amazing how many hiring managers and recruiters report that interviewees answer their phones and respond to text messages during in-person interviews. Turn off your phone during interviews and you will not be tempted to reach to answer it. 7. How much vacation time would I get? Never, ever ask questions in an interview that may make it appear that youll be overly focused on anything other than work. 8. Can I work from home? Even if youre pretty sure the company has a lenient work-from-home policy, the interview isnt the best time to ask about it. 9. Family is the most important thing to me. This is true for many people. However, you do not need to explain how devoted you are to your family during your job interview. It is unlikely to win favor, even in organizations with a well-known family-friendly environment. You want your potential employer to envision you being totally devoted to his or her needs. When in doubt, pause before you say whats on your mind. If you wonder if its okay to ask, assume its better to avoid the topic altogether. photo by Enokson

Consultant Consulting Resume Sample

Consultant Consulting Resume SampleEvery consultant wants to present his/her talents in a more appropriate way and a consulting resume sample can be useful in this endeavor. Consultants hire different consultants to their services and the basis for assessing their qualifications is their resumes. Each consultant wants to impress the recruiting managers with their personal qualifications and this is why consulting resume samples are great to present to the recruiting managers.There are several areas that a consultant can include in his/her resume sample, and one of the most useful areas is the functions that the consultant performs in their company. This includes their past and present work experience, educational achievements, and educational qualification as well. Other work experience such as the job duties, client relationship and availability are also important to include in the resume sample.Another area to focus on is the current projects that the consultant is working on at pr esent. These projects may be particular tasks that the consultant has completed or an idea that the consultant is currently working on. Once you have the projects and tasks, you can work out an outline for the resume. This outline will then serve as the main material of the resume and you can even enhance it with more information if you think it is necessary.There are numerous samples available for consultants. However, it is always important to consider the fact that not all samples are created equal. When looking for consulting resume samples, make sure that you get samples that are created by professionals and that you check the credibility of the consultant.Consultants should also make sure that the samples they have are current. It is important that the samples should still be relevant to the position that the consultant is being considered for. This is also a factor that will make the consultant more effective in the evaluation process.The consultant should also consider the d esign of the samples that they have. You can make use of a template and if you have the required expertise in using these templates. Make sure that the consultant you are using the sample for is a professional and the template is to your requirements. It is also very important that the consultant has included his/her name and the correct spelling in the resume sample so that the recruiting managers will be able to verify the validity of the consultant.There are numerous other factors that will help you judge the credibility of the consultant. You must make sure that the consultant has completed the requirements and has submitted the samples that they have. Consulting resume samples have been proven to be very effective in the past and in the present when it comes to the selection process of consultants.

The Fight Against Resume Writing Exercises Pdf

The Fight Against Resume Writing Exercises Pdf Before you commence writing your resume, you should pinpoint which sections will be contained in your resume. Most resumes incorporate the subsequent sections, even though the order depends upon the resume format you select. With industry-specific text examples ready that you personalize, you can make a perfect resume any moment. Use a great printer If you're likely to use a paper edition of your resume, be sure that you use an adequate printer. The secret is to allow the teams answer quickly. The exact same game may be used to create stories. Utilizing a custom resume instead of a generic one is going to greatly increase your probability of an interview, as you'll be a better match in the view of the reader. Resume Writing Exercises Pdf - Is it a Scam? As an example, many employers have gotten accustomed to the chronological presentation of info in a resume. If you're sending a resume to a company, it ought to be a given th at you're obtainable for an interview and you will provide references if requested. If information is too crowded, it's tricky to scan. Targeted resumes present the data in a highly effective light, as it demonstrates that the applicant crafted the resume specifically for the position. Know the purpose of your resume Some folks write a resume like the function of the document was supposed to land work. A sample summary answer is offered at the conclusion of each passage. Good wording is a huge approach to impress recruiters. What You Must Know About Resume Writing Exercises Pdf You can't send just the same resume writing tips pdf to different organization for assorted job. Handing in a resume for a work application for a PDF is wise if you need your resume to appear just the direction you've made it. Talk about the way that it looks and how writing is much easier to read whether the baseline is smooth and flat. Especially if you'd like your resume to keep formatting and i f are asking for a creative job which requires your resume to reflect a specific skill set such as graphic design. Top Choices of Resume Writing Exercises Pdf You may always copy and paste text from a PDF if you are likely to fill in an on-line application and after that send your full resume in PDF file formatting later every time a hiring manager has invited you to achieve that. ATS software isn't able to read exclusive formatting. While the program proceeds to improve, you should make sure you've got an ATS-friendly version of your resume.