Bad news, You Just Got One Years Severance

Bad news, You Just Got One Years SeveranceBad news, You Just Got One Years SeveranceApproach your job search like a full-time job leid an extended vacation.Sometimes bad news comes in the prettiest packages. One of the commonest I see in the careers business is the generous severance payout. What seems like a gift from the highest graces too often turns out to be bad tidings in disguise.The severance vacation - that fools gold of time off that turns a few well-deserved weeks into several empty seasons - has led too many professionals, executives, and high-performers to mistakenly act against their own best interests.How can it be that something as seemingly non-controversial as a full years money for nothing can end up hurting you?First off, the severance vacation can lead you into a false sense of security. Ive got enough cash put away so that I dont have to worry for a while or Im in good shape so I dont need to look right away are how we hear it from our clients here at Ladders . This phony freedom from fear lulls you into believing that the future is far away. Instead of your sixth sense flashing warning signals and blaring the alarm siren, your pleasant-enough living situation inhibits you from securing your future cash flows and career prospects.That serene sense of calm is harmful.When urgency is low, and the bank account is flush, it seems theres always a good reason to spend another day contemplating instead of cold-calling. And more time spent on the sidelines leads to ever-worse habits and rustiness. You forget the more obscure industry buzzwords. All that sun leaves you a little slow on the uptake when it comes to the tough interviews. You get softer, you get happier, you get lazier.Thats because the alternative - the job search - welcomes avoidance. The job search involves rejection, rejection involves pain, and pain is something most of us want to experience at the gym and not carry through our waking day.The pain of the job search is the resu lt of how unusual the job search is relative to the rest of our lives. A job search occurs perhaps twice a decade and involves meeting a lot of strangers so that they can assess you. That the assessment is in regards to your professional ability to meet their specific, narrow, corporate need, does nothing to alleviate your feeling of being a-foot-and-a-half short of puberty and leise in braces at the junior high dance. Its embarrassing.Its true, the job search is the most unusual, unnatural, unenjoyable part of our lives that is, nonetheless, unavoidable. (And avoid it, we try If Dr. Seuss were still about, he could write a book about the job search entitled Oh, the excuses youll make)So how to handle the bad news that you got a years severance?First, a lay-off notice is actually an acceptance letter for your new job - and that job is at Your Job Search, LLC with you as the President and Chief Search Officer.Youll need to negotiate a start date. Give yourself an enjoyable, but mana geable, severance vacation one week if youre antsy, two weeks if youre bold, three weeks if you want to follow a flight of fancy.Having a tight schedule for your severance vacation will make those days of leisure sweeter for their scarcity, and allow you to tough it out in a better class of airline, hotel, or amusement park. You need to take the break you deserve and recharge your batteries.Because once you come back, your new job is full-time. Youll need to approach it with a seriousness of purpose and dedication to success befitting a professional. And your new job has just one goal getting yourself into a new seat at a new company getting paid in dollars, not promises or favors.So dont let good fortune ruin your luck. When the breaks go your way, bank your plenty rather than fritter it away, and make a timely transition into your new job-finding job.Its the best way to ensure that youll be collecting a years pay, and not a year of empty wandering.

How to Make Better Decisions at Work

How to Make Better Decisions at WorkHow to Make Better Decisions at WorkDecisions are at the center of all of ur daily managerial and leadership activities. Some decisions are fairly easy theres a policy in place that dictates the correct option given a set of circumstances. Others, including choices surrounding direction, problem-solving and investment are less programmed or structured and generally involve higher stakes. It is this latter grouping of unstructured issues that test yur abilities as a decision maker and impacts your ultimate success as a manager. Get these issues right more often than not, and you prosper. Get them wrong too often, and those responsible for selecting you for added responsibilities will lose faith and look to individuals they can trust with the big decisions. Here are seven ideas you can use immediately to strengthen your handling of difficult decisions. 7 Ideas to Support Your Development as a Great Decision Maker 1. Beware allowing emotions to unduly influence your decisions. Emotions and big, complex decisions do not mix. They either motivate a rush to judgment or slow our process down to a crawl. When we are feeling pressured, our logical brain is in the background while the rest of our gray matter works overtime to figure out how to move beyond the stress. Guidance If the situation is emotionally turbocharged, resist the rush to decide and step back and gain some help in looking at the problem and options objectively. Use the tools outlined below to help reframe and assess your options and expectations. 2. Do not focus on a single positive or negative frame. Research shows that when facing the same problem described as either a positive or a negative, we will make different decisions. It pays to look for solutions to complex problems from multiple angles by adjusting your framing. Guidance Use multiple frames and strive to develop independent decisions for each frame. For example, if a competitor makes a bold new move in the marketplace, you might perceive this as a big negative for your firm. This frame might demand a me-too response. Instead, reframe the issue to indicate that the competitor has chosen to focus in this new area and will be less able to invest in or respond to your moves in other areas. Your challenge is now to identify profil areas of opportunity that the competitors move has left uncovered. Framing makes a difference. 3. Cultivate a trust but verify relationship with data. While we all talk about data-driven decisions, we must beware anchoring on only the data that supports our position and ignoring other data or, drawing imperfect inferences from the limited data in front of us. And of course, the quality and reliability of the data should always be questioned. Guidance Resist simply drawing on the data in front of you and ask What data do I/we need to make this decision? Search for data that sheds light on the issue, regardless of whether it supports or refutes a direction. Ask for help to evaluate the completeness and objectivity of the data, and encourage others to challenge your inferences to minimize the chances of you selectively interpreting the information. 4. Beware the decision-traps, particularly in group settings. Wherever humans gather, we bring our biases, histories, and values to bear on our thinking. Power structure or personality issues in a group setting can suppress open dialog. Groups are prone to falling in love with their solution, suppressing objective and outside views. The theory suggests that a group should be able to make a decision superior to that of the smartest individual in the group. However, there are more than a few complex human behaviors that get in the way of this ideal but noble outcome. Guidance Get help. Invite an objective outsider to monitor group conversations, challenge assumptions and identify potentialprocess pitfalls. This simple step is often ignored, yet it is low-cost and can potentially keep you and your gruppe from stepping off a decision cliff. 5. Beware the tendency to reverse decisions too easily. While adjusting a decision based on lessons learned or the availability of new and compelling evidence is appropriate, too many managers fall victim to self-doubt or the continued lobbying efforts of others. Change course too frequently and the stress and frustration on your team will rise. Guidance Use a decision journal and capture in long form, the issue, the frame(s), the assumptions, the expectations and the time-frame for evaluating results. Have the individuals involved in the decision-making process sign the log It is amazing how firm a decision becomes when you have to sign a document indicating that you agree with the decision. And of course, make certain that there is a change-management process in placeif events truly necessitate a course adjustment. 6. Learn from prior decisions and keep improving. Approach strengthening your decision-making capa bilities like you would your fitness program, by evaluating progress and outcomes and adjusting your future behaviors accordingly. GuidanceKeep a personal decision-journal in addition to the group journal suggested above. Make it a practice to regularly return to this journal and compare outcomes versus expectations. If they differ materially, re-examine your assumptions. Look for flaws in your thinking or problems with data. Take the time to reflect on lessons learned. Jot down how you will improve the process the next time you face a similar decision. 7. Teach your team to make better decisions. We live and work in a world of projects and teams, and effective managers invest time in helping their teams learn to effectively navigate the sticky decision-related issues they encounter. Guidance All of the lessons above apply to groups. Teach your teams how to use multiple frames how to assess data needs and how to evaluate data integrity. Teach them to avoid the traps by involving o bjective outsiders and require them to log decisions and expectations. If the team will exist for more than the duration of an individual project, hold the team accountable for assessing and measurably strengthening decision-making effectiveness over time. The Bottom-Line for Now Decisions give life to actions, and as the late management guru, Peter Drucker suggested, actions in the present are the one and only way to create the future. In my experience, managers who deliberately work on strengthening their decision-making effectiveness, prosper. Not only do they make the big decisions that set actions in motion, but they develop a batting average that impresses bosses and earns added responsibilities. Quit winging your decisions and implement a deliberate process to make more effective decisions and to strengthen your effectiveness over time.

4 TED talks that will help you hire the best team

4 TED talks that will help you hire the best team4 TED talks that will help you hire the best teamA Google engineer was fired on Monday after writing a 10-pageanti-diversity manifesto titledGoogles Ideological Echo Chamber that criticized the companys diversity initiatives.The employee, James Damore,reportedly told Bloomberg in an email that he was let go for perpetuating gender stereotypes. Hetold the New York Timesthat hed likely be pursuing legal action.The controversy has ignited a discussion about diversity and bias in the workplace.These four TED talks, some given at official conferences for the organization and otzu sichs given at independent events and posted to the TED website, encourage people to take themselves out of their ideological comfort zones and rethink their assumptions about race, looks, religion, and prejudice.Mellody Hobson Color blind or color brave?The president of Ariel Investments and advocate for financial literacy and investor education debunks the idea t hat we need to be color blind and advocates for being color brave instead inthis TED2014 talk.After discussing how her swim coach gave her a lesson in being comfortable being uncomfortable during a drill, Hobson saysSo I think its time for us to be comfortable with the uncomfortable conversation about race black, white, Asian, Hispanic, male, female, all of us, if we truly believe in equal rights and equal opportunity in America, I think we have to have real conversations about this issue. We cannot afford to be color blind. We have to be color brave. We have to be willing, as teachers and parents and entrepreneurs and scientists, we have to be willing to have proactive conversations about race with honesty and understanding and courage, not because its the right thing to do, but because its the smart thing to do, because our businesses and our products and our science, our research, all of that will be better with greater diversity.Cameron Russell Looks arent everything. Believe me , Im a modelThe model gave this TEDxMidAtlantic talk in 2012, highlighting the benefits of her appearance,but demonstrating that its also a double-edged sword.She walks onstage in heels and a dress, then covers up her look with a long skirt, changes into flats and a sweater to illustrate that image is powerful, but also, image is superficial.Russell talks about how society favors her looks, how others are not able to benefit in the same ways- and admits something she says shes never said on camera that shes insecure.Im insecure because I have to think about what I look like every day. And if you ever are wondering, If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair, will I be happier? you just need to meet a group of models, because they have the thinnest thighs, the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes, and theyre the most physically insecure women probably on the planet.Yassmin Abdel-Magied What does my headscarf mean to you?The mechanical engineer and social advocate speaks about lookin g beyond your bias inthis TEDxSouthBank talkin 2014. She defines the term unconscious bias as implicit prejudice.Over the course of the talk, she removes her outer clothing and headscarf and reveals her rig uniform underneath as she talks about her job, then removes the uniform, showing other clothes underneath.She talks about the power of mentoring people who arent like you.We have to look past our unconscious bias, find someone to mentor whos at the opposite end of your spectrum because structural change takes time, and I dont have that level of patience. So if were going to create a change, if were going to create a world where we all have those kinds of opportunities, then choose to open doors for people. Because you might think that diversity has nothing to do with you, but we are all part of this system and we can all be part of that solution.Paul Bloom Can prejudice ever be a good thing?The psychologistcites research, philosophers and other figures in this talkinthisTEDSalon NY2014 talk.He tries persuading viewers that prejudice and bias arent always bad, but that knowing this can help us take action when they are.After talking about instances in which bias can be negative, he recommends not just working harder, but instead creating circumstances where these other sources of information cant bias us, which is why many orchestras audition musicians behind screens, so the only information they have is the information they believe should matter.He continuesI think prejudice and bias illustrate a fundamental duality of human nature. We have gut feelings, instincts, emotions, and they affect our judgments and our actions for good and for evil, but we are also capable of rational deliberation and niveauvoll planning, and we can use these to, in some cases, accelerate and nourish our emotions, and in other cases staunch them. And its in this way that reason helps us create a better world.Read moreHeres how companies can make strides toward different types of d iversity.

Stop the Madness With the Right Job-Search Strategy

Stop the Madness With the Right Job-Search StrategyStop the Madness With the Right Job-Search StrategyCarefully prepare your job-search strategy and youll be one step closer to success.A survey conducted by Ladders found that nearly 70% of its members considered their job search to be top priority right now. However, after carefully reviewing the survey responses, it became clear that not everyone is as prepared for the search as they need to be in todays marketplace.This got me thinking. For the last week or so, our office has seen a flurry of emails going back and forth about March Madness. Folks are standing around the water cooler (literally) discussing their picks for the NCAA basketball tournaments. In fact, I found dozens of articles online that explain different strategies for building a winning March Madness Bracket.As Ive mentioned in previous articles, I am not incredibly well-versed when it comes to sports. But for years Ive watched friends, family and co-workers fastidio usly assemble their picks for March Madness. The job search requires the same careful planning and attention to detail that many apply when building their brackets. This week Id like to offer up my strategy for the job search by sharing my breakdown of the job-search process (1) Prepare, (2) Search and (3) Close.1. PrepareIf you want to be successful in the job search, then preparation is key. As a job seeker, you are now in the business of selling a product you. You need to put on your marketing hat and build a personal branding campaign that advertises your skills and speaks to your target employers needs. Begin by taking inventory of your strengths and interests to identify your job goals. Then craft a resume that supports your goals by showcasing your most relevant qualifications. After that, its time to review your online presence and make any necessary changes so that it aligns with your professional brand. Lastly, identify good references and develop your elevator pitch to pr epare you for the next phase of your job search. While this may seem like a lot of legwork up front, I assure you, it will save you a great deal of time and frustration further down the line.2. SearchThe second phase of the job search is all about pursuing job leads that align with your goals and match your skill set. I recommend harnessing the power of three when searching for opportunities. This means (1) applying to (and properly following up with) online job listings, (2) networking with your social and professional contacts, and (3) engaging with recruiters. By incorporating all three methods into your search strategy, you will maximize the number of leads published and unpublished you can pursue. And when you combine these methods such as leveraging your network to get an employee referral for your job application you increase your chances of landing the right job, sooner.3. CloseExpect the Close phase of your job search to begin while youre still pursuing leads. As you nurture different relationships and follow up on job applications, youll begin receiving bewerbungsinterview requests. Interviewing is a three-step process. How you prepare and what you do afterwards is just as important as what happens when youre sitting in the interview room pitching your skills. Before you begin negotiations, do your research to know your worth and identify your must-haves in a compensation package. Consider the first 90 days of any new job to be an extension of the interview process.Everyones job-search experience will be different however, if you approach your job search as a three-step process and set milestones for yourself along the way, it will be that much easier to hold yourself accountable and see your progress.

LinkedIn Profile Optimization 2019 Guide to Finding Jobs on LinkedIn

LinkedIn Profile Optimization 2019 Guide to Finding Jobs on LinkedInLinkedIn Profile Optimization 2019 Guide to Finding Jobs on LinkedInSocial networking has revolutionized communication and information sharing.Networking is elend about how many people you know it is about how many people know you.The LinkedIn profile has become a compulsory assumption rather that a preference. Which means, employers do notlage ask whether you have a LinkedIn profile anymora they assume that you do.Actually, a large number of job vacancies that are full by the course of time are never never announced to th public and in cases where they are, then they are occupied by people who have a LinkedIn connect with the employeer.According to Jobvite, over the last 6 years, 94% of recruiters have taken to social media for recruiting.Your LinkedIn profile should clerly demonstrate the sort of job you are seeking and why you are the ideal candidate for that profile.How do you want the world to see you profession ally? What kinds of work do you enjoy doing? Why are you on LinkedIn? Those are the questions you should think about when creating your LinkedIn profile, so its aligned with your personal brand.Our Guide on Optimizing your LinkedIn profile will broadly cover the followingWhat is a LinkedIn profile?LinkedIn is the leading social networking site for professionals. It focuses on their educational qualifications, work history and professional interests.An average linkedin account offers a multiverse of features includingFinding and adding professional contactsRequesting and receiving recommendations to validate your expertisePost your resume zugreifbar and manage the information thats publicly available about you as a professional.In order to receive necessary updates about job vacancies, nachrichtensendung of specific companies and more, find those companies on LinkedIn and follow them.To build your connections you can create and join professional online networking groups which are mad e based on industry, age, location and educational hintergrund.Discover inside connections that help unlock the hidden job marketand land jobs.Post public messages- status which are typically professional in nature.Create and collaborate on projects, gather data, share files, and solveproblems.Check the notoifications for how many times people have seen your profile and you also have the vorkaufsrecht to check who has viewed your profile.Upload a digital portfolio.Ask your connection with a lot of other connections to introduce you to them.Post and distribute job listings to find talent for your company.In fact the best feature that a LinkedIn profile provides is the ability to ask contacts in your network for solutions to professional challenges. The LinkedIn Answers feature leverages the power of the users trusted professional network to ask geschftlicher umgangrelated questions and receive industryspecific answers in return.Why do you need a LinkedIn ProfileWhen someone says they are not on Facebook (anymore), we can attach a million reasons for the same. Privacy. Distraction. Just looking for a change. Take your pick.And in the post-privacy scandal era, theres an almost-magnetic borderline-hipster persona around not being on Facebook anymore.Good use of LinkedIn can boost both SEO and organic visibility.Your LinkedIn profile should be compatible with your other social media accounts. Also, the information you put on LinkedIn should be the same as your resume and shouldnt differ.Your LinkedIn network of connections can also be used in multiple waysUse your connections to find jobs, business opportunities and people that are recommended to you by someoneone.Recruiters can put up jobs and look for potentuial employeesThose looking for jobs can check a recruiters profile end to end and find which contacts in their connections can introduce you to them.Here youll find invitations to connect, or become someones contact, as well as messages from contacts. You can send, delete, search for, and archive messages, too.If you are a job seeker, you may be notified of job openings through messages, so dont forget to check your inbox every so often- though you will get email notifications of these messages as well. Note You do not have to accept a request to connect.Who uses LinkedIn?According to LinkedInPedia, there are 6 fonts of people who use LinkedIn.Job SeekersTo actively seek out careers and find new opportunitiesActivePassiveProfessionals who are currently unemployedProfessionals looking for a changeRecruitersRepresentatives of companies that seek out human capital or talented individuals for their companiesHow to make the most of LinkedIn?In order to find the right candidates you can use LinkedIns advanced search functions.Indulge in sharing latest news and updates regarding job openings and vacancies in your company.Build lists of profil candidates.In order to attract the potential right candidates optimize your LinkedIn profile.Business Development ProfessionalsFind and build potential connections and form relationships with them. Next, with the course of time include them into the sales funnel and then sell them your services and products.How to make the most of LinkedIn?Share news and status updates to acquire the attention and traction of your target audience.To get the advantage of selling your content on LinkedIn optmize your content accordingly.Form understanding and confidence amongst your connections including them into your lead and sales funnelFor creating the interest of the target audience in your product or services put on and promote marketing strategies like that of free trial and limited time offer.B2C CustomersB2B Customersonly one contactmultiple contactssearch for a productsupplier notBusinessmenThe most important functions of businessmen is to create new partnerships with other entrepreneurs or to associate and collaborate with other organizations.When trying to increase the consumer base of you r brand, post lots of infographic as your status as they are the most preferred by LinkedIn as oposed to videos and pictures.Another beneficial platform that LinkedIn offers is LinkedIn Pulse wherae you can get the conversationas going by writing opinion based leadership and field work articles, industry research, etc.You can also opt for LinkedIns Advanced Search Features and filter your target audience to connect to the people whom you dont know. To do this, click on the search bar and then click on Search For People otion.How to write a LinkedIn profileThe LinkedIn profile section looks familiar to that of a traditional resume. Most of its section correspond to the fields of a resume. You just have to fill the given sections as asked and your digital resume is ready.You also have the vorkaufsrecht to include your contact information like your phone number and e-mail ID, a professional profile picture and background picture along with the option to add links of your website among st others.HIRATION PRO TIP Optimize your profile so that it can be discovered and found by more people which will ultimately increase your connections, professional development and career seeking opportunities.For optimizing your LinkedIn you dont have to share any information that you are not comfortable in sharing on the internet.The processSigning UP / Signing INIt is recommended you use your real name- the one you use in professional settings. You must have an email address to sign up.Further, while personalizing your LinkedIn URL, draw an URL as close to your name as possible. This is to reduce any confusion on the recruiters end and to enhance your resume experience.Hiration PRO TIP Your LinkedIn reflects your professional career and your trajectory. Make sure your password is strong and try to make your account as immune to hacking as possible. This is done by limiting the number of devices you log in from and updating the password on a regular basis.The pictureAppear Profess ional but FriendlyPut a professional profile picture but with a smile so that you look friendly and approachableClick the picture against a bright and solid background and make sure the picture you upload is of high resolution. It will make you standout.Try to wear professional clothes to make your profile picture look more professionalPut a potrait photo as your profile picture and avoild putting a full size picture of yourselfA potrait photograph will also ensure that your face is clearly visibleDo not make weird and funny faces like a pout in the profile picture as it looks very unprofessionalLikedIn is increasingly becomeing the hub for recruiters to look fo their potential emloyees. Your profile should be optimized in such a way that the recruiter gets convinced at the first glance itself that you are their desired potential employee.Ensure a strong first impression by optimizing your LinkedIn profile picture by following the instructions given above.According to a survey, user s with a professional profile picture get 14 times more profile views as compared to those with a casual profile picture.The promiseThe promise is what your profile expresses and how to manage what your prospective employer can view.OptimizingTo optimize your LinkedIn profile for the most preferrd LinkedIn jobsInclude a professional headerIntroduce keywords in your job position or title.Link to your companys blog under websites.Add a Twitter handle, if applicable.Claim a unique URL to use for email signatures.Include keywords in a well written summary.List specialities and skills above the fold.Moving recommendations closer to the top of the page.HeadlineMelanie Pinola in her book, LinkedIn In 30 Minutes, directs users to make sure their LinkedIn profile has a targeted headline.Not only should the headline clearly state your career focus, its also the most important place to add a keyword or two, because this influences how you appear in search results.As Kent puts it, POST with int ention. REPOST with caution.SummaryOptimize your summary section by including key skills and achievements in it. In the summary section write 3-4 bullet points and summarize the your career in those points. This will give the recruiters a brief about your career.While including skills in your summary section make sure you put skills that are specific to your trget profile. Highlight and prioritize your managerial and professinal skills like stakeholder management, business development, PL Management, etc.Also make sure not to write soft skills like communication, hard working, self-motivated, etc. because this leaves a negative impact on the recruiter makeing him think that you are just trying to fill up the blank space.In addition to this, while adding your achievements in the summary, mention any important awards and recognition that you have achieved in your career till date. Also make it a point to quantify your performance throughout the summary section which acts as brownie po ints for the recruiters.SkillsYou have the option to add skills to your LinkedIn profile, but now you can do more with skills. You can track the top companies and LinkedIn profiles related to those skills, see related skills you may want to add to your profile, and find job openings related to those skills.KeywordsYour LinkedIn profile must include keywords for specific skills that match your desired job.RecommendationsAsk for recommendations from your co-workers, managers, boss etc. Ask your supervisors to write you recommendations. Also, you can write one for them in return as well.Recommendations form managers and supervisors are of lot of iportance.LinkedIn Profile vs ResumeIf you already have a nice, up-to-date resume, then it wont take long for you to optimize your LinkedIn profile. Nevertheless, there are big differences between the two. Address the following differences to ensure your LinkedIn profile shinesLevel of SpecificityYour traditional resume is tailored for a single opportunity, whereas your LinkedIn profile should speak to all potential employers. Get specific with each position on your profile, and include additional details, including accomplishments, awards, skills or special presentations.The LengthIts fair game to elaborate on LinkedIn. Include past positions, initiatives, skills, college projects, publications, and interests. But remember, it still needs to be concise and compelling. Most importantly, use the profile to tell your unique story.RecommendationsThere is no need to write recommendations in your resume, whearas your LinkedIn profile should be littered with third-party references. Recommendations allow employers to quickly assess the reliability and accuracy of your profile.Profile as a PlatformYour LinkedIn profile is a platform where both job seekers and recruiters can interact, learn, and contact each other. Its an intersctive resume more than a statement of skills.Optimize your LinkedIn profile to best utilize this platfor m.Basic or PremiumTry the Basic account to start. You will likely find it meets all of your job-searching needs. Choosing a Premium plan may be advisable if you are a recruiter or hiring manager and would like extra tools to help you find qualified candidates.LinkedIn JobsAccording to The 2016 Job Search Guide, these are the following steps in which you can optimize your LinkedIn profile to turn your future role into more than just a LinkedIn job(***STEP 1 Specialize EvolveMake a list of all of your skills and know where they can take you. Uncover what youre best at and continue to hone those skills throughout your career.STEP 2 Plot your Progress Use your specialized skills as a compass for the future. Write a six month, twelve month, and two year plan that describe how you want your career to progression and hold yourself accountable.STEP 3 Define Balance Theres no magic formula for work-life balance. Everyones different. Make a highly specific list with your top priorities in li fe and rank them honestly. How much time should you spend on personal versus professional pursuits? Only you can decide. STEP 4 Combine Passion Problem-Solving Having passion for your work is wonderful. But its your ability to apply that passion to your organizations most pressing problems that will ultimately allow you to grow with the business. STEP 5 Create Lasting Relationships Your network is your net worth. Surround yourself with individuals you admire to ensure learning, growth, and potential references down the line.)While expert, Jodi Glickman, suggests breaking out of your comfort zone as the initial criteria to build strong relationships, Chester Elton advocates that our skills, motivations and personality play an equal role in finding jobs and being satisfied with them.Features and PossibilitiesThe LinkedIn Job search featuresPossible Connections LinkedIn cchecks your networks and then at the home page automatically shows suggestions of people who you know at appealing job places to connect with. These connection suggestions can include any new and even old people you know or were in caontact with.You can then send them the request to connect with them. In this way you can optimize your LinkedIn whhich will be of benefit to you when youll be looking out for a job. The more recruiters you will have in your connections the better it will be for you.Targeted Insights LinkedIns new jobs page feature gives exclusive insights in terms of information about our connections. It shows who from our former company or school alumni works at the company of your interest.So, this is another way in which connections can be of great help. You can reach out to your connection working at the place of your interest to know about any vacancies of the position you are looking for.Jobs You Might Be Interested In Tab The information that you provide as part of your profile and the companies and people you search will all influence the line-up that LinkedIn provides under Jobs you might be interested in. For customzing these line-ups, click on the Jobs tab at the centre on top of your screen. Now on the two search bars that are there named Search Jobs and Search Location, you can customize your searches on these search bars based on locations and industry to search from.Meet the team This feature lets you know more about the type of people you will work with you go on pursuing that opportunity. It shows people with related roles including their career highlights and skills.To make the most of Linkedin JobsAdvanced Filtering You can use this filter to search jobs by locations, seniority level, companies, industries and job functions.Apply with Profie This feature is essentially for the recruiters. It enables employers to allow the job seekers to submit their profiles directly via smartphones.Job Alerts Notifications While searching for jobs, click on the star at the upper right corner in order to save your search. This will enable daily e-mail with new results that will be relevant to the saved search. Also, you can set up notifications to alert you whenever new jobs are posted which match the kind of jobs you are looking for.ContactsSo, you came across this amazing company in whch you dont have any connections with the employees. In such a situation, weve got your back. Follow the tips given below in order to personalize your LinkedIn request.Finding Common Ground Carry out researh on the organization and the its employees whom you want to connect to. This way you will find a common ground to talk about.On Point Talk Talk to them about your intention of getting employeed and keep the conversation relevant to the profile youre targetting and on point with a soft approach.Keep It Short Keep the conversation short and dont try to extend the it unnecessarily.Two-way Networking Tell him what you can offer in return for connecting and dont forget to say all your thank yous and pleases.Connecting With Weak Ties Connect with both per sonal and professional contacts. This includes all your family, friends, co-workers and their contacts.Follow the below strategies for increasing your LinkedIn networkConnecting With The Fringe Friends There are always these people who study in your class in college and school whom you never spoke to. These are called fringe friends. Connect with these people on LinkedIn and you never know who might be of help to you.Prioritise your top-notch connections You will always find people in your list who have an enromous amount of connections. Go through your list, find those connections and then connect with their connections. They can open ways to an immense amount of future jobs.Conversation contribution Join professional groups of your interest and then indulge in conversations with people of that group to find more potential connections.Add-onsNewsLinkedIn Newsfeed delivers news and industry updates based customized according to your professional interests in your selected categories .ConnectionsFind Connections The first thing youll need to do is to sign up. Once youre signed up and have your account made, LinkedIn will ask your permission to find contacts for you by searching your e-mail inbox. By doing so it will show you the list of people in your contact who are already there on LinkedIn and with whom you can connect.Also, LinkedIn will give you a suggestion list consisting of people you can connect with based on the information you filled while signing up on LinkedIn. This information includes your job, volunteer history, and education.In addition to this you have the option to use the search bar given at the top left cormer to search people in order to build your connections. This connections list of LinkedIn acts as a digital adress book which can be very useful when it comes to getting hired.Connect To More People Click on My Network option in the centre at the top of your screen to see more suggested connections for you. Scroll through that list and on ce you find someone with whom you want to connect with, click on Connect button at the bottom of that particular persons suggestion page. As soon as youll click on Connect an automatic message will show up asking how you know that person.Select which ever option is applicable and then click Send. The person whom you send the request to connect also gets an automated e-mail in which you have the option to customize it if you feel like.Sort Your Connections Once youve added all your contacts, you can access all your connections through categories and filters based on group members, company, industry, location, recently updated profiles, etc.Network Connection StatisticsYou can also check out how many connections you have, how many connections they can connect you to, which connections are specific to your industry, and where they are located.LinkedIn JobsDiscover job openings You can find jobs by job title, location, industry, etc. LinkedIn will also suggest jobs to you based on the information youve shared. Recruiters may also contact you based on your online profile.Learn about the job requirements and company If you click on a job opening, you will usually find out when the job was posted, what skills and experiences are required, other details like benefits, and what company- and often who within the company- posted the position. Plus, you can usually see how many people have clicked on and applied for the job through LinkedIn already. You can also see a link to the companys LinkedIn profile, so you can follow the company to get notifications of news and job openings.Apply for jobs After you search for jobs, you can save them to the SavedJobs section of LinkedIn for future reference. You can usually also applyto the job directly through LinkedIn or find out how to apply online.The more complete your profile is, the more likely you are to find jobs that fit you- and the more likely recruiters and hiring managers are to find you when they search for candidate s for their job openings.TipsIncrease your visibility by having at least 75-100 connections. By adding connections, you increase the likelihood that your profile will be seen first when people are searching for talent.Enhance your connectability by not only listing your current or last employer, but all of them. Add your LinkedIn profile to your e-mail signature so people have a quick way of learning more about you.Improve your Google Page Rank. LinkedIn profiles receive a high PageRank inGoogle, so its a good way to influence what people see when they search for you.Make your interview go smoother. When you have an interview, look up the people youre meeting. Chances are high that theyre on LinkedIn, so youll know more about them before you meet them.Gauge the health of a company. You can search companies on LinkedIn to see whos been recently hired, the rate of turnover, and if key people are jumping ship.Track start-ups. You can see people in your network who are initiating new co mpanies.Identify warm leads into companies that appeal to you. Some of your connections may be linked to people either in companies or jobs that appeal to you. Ask for introductions in your quest for information.Key TakeawaysOver the fold, you should include full credentials - name, location, current (or former) title, past positions, and educational credentials.Your LinkedIn summary should focus on - your professional experience, background and interests. Use it to highlight who you are (your skills) and what youre recognized for (your achievements).The field for skills allows you to list your areas of expertise that will help potential employers to find you when theyre seeking talent.The experience section should be sorted in chronological order. It must include the name of your past/present employer, your designation, your main responsibilities and your accomplishments in a bulleted format.You may add a description of your company or tell a story about how you added value.Hiring managers seek individuals whose past performance had a positive impact on the viability of the organization.The education section should be listed in chronological order. Include the name of the school, its location and the degree you received. You may further with some associated activities and honors.The additional information element gives you the chance to give users more insight into your professional qualifications by adding some websites, groups, and interests.Make every effort to obtain at least 3-5 recommendations from former managers, peers and direct reports. These help illustrate your achievements, project credibility, and reasons why people enjoy working with you.Be sure that your profile is available for public viewing at all times especially if youre looking for a new job.

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8 Things to Keep in Mind When It#8217;s Time to Quit Your Job

8 Things to Keep in Mind When It8217s Time to Quit Yur Job Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers Have a question youd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QATodays Question Sometimes, in order to advance in your career, youll need to quit a job in favor of a new one. Just because its necessary doesnt make it any less anxiety-inducing How can people quit their jobs with as little stress as possible and without burning any bridges or harming their careers?1. Tell Your anfhrer FirstKeep your resignation to yourself until after youve made it official. Nothing burns bridges faster than not adhering to protocol. While you may be overjoyed about your next opportunity and want to share it with your favorite coworkers, you do not want to risk it getting back to your boss or team and catching them off guard. Be patient and follo w protocol. Angelina Darrisaw, C-Suite Coach 2. Be Professional and RespectfulDont say anything negative. Thank your boss for the opportunity to work for the organization and for what they have taught you. Leave on good terms and dont burn any bridges. You will likely need them as a reference down the road. You may want to keep the boss as part of your network. Stacy Pursell, The Pursell Group 3. Maintain Your Professionalism Outside of the Office, TooProfessionalism extends to your discussions with others and your social media sites. Do not badmouth the company and its management staff. Doing this simply makes you look like a disgruntled employee. It can be a small world out there. You never know where your next job opportunity may come from in the future. Professionally speaking, its a wise move to keep your motives and reasons for quitting to yourself. Heather Rothbauer-Wanish, Feather Communications 4. You Dont Need to Justify Your DecisionJust rip the Band-Aid off. Dont beat around the bush or try to find the perfect thing to say. Dont try to over-explain or give unnecessary details. Simply express that you are giving your notice and offer a brief reason why (new job, moving, launching your own business, etc.). Be respectful, thank them for the experience, and stay positive and confident. Dont feel compelled to overshare. Part of what causes anxiety is that we feel well have to explain ourselves or justify our decisions. But there is no need. Youve made the decision youve made for the reasons youve made it, and those reasons arent anyone elses business. Everyone will be okay. Focus simply on the fact that youre giving notice, how much time youre giving, and how youll work to make it a smooth transition. Putting the focus on them and the business will help take the pressure off you. Once the Band-Aid is off, everyone will feel better Rebecca Vertucci, Vertucci Career Academy 5. Preserve the RelationshipOne of the principles of theater improvisation that we use in our work is Its never about the thing. Its always about the relationship. There are lots of reasons people quit new opportunities, hating the boss, changing home or health, pay, not liking the work. There are lots. Whatever the reason for leaving your job, thats not the real topic of conversation with your supervisor when you tell them youre leaving. Thats not whats at stake. Whats at stake is the relationship. Make the conversation about them. Help them feel as good as possible about the move. Dont be fake or untruthful. Do express gratitude. Whatever else may be true about your time there, you had a paycheck and an opportunity to make a contribution. When I left a job because I couldnt stand being demeaned by my boss every day, heres what I truthfully said when I told her I was going Ive decided to move on. We both know neither one of us has been satisfied with the way things are going. I truly appreciate the opportunity to serve your customers for as long as I have. Th eyre great. Ill miss them. Its a great product youre giving them. I know youll keep that up. I wish you the best.Relationship preserved, and I got what I needed out. Aaron Schmookler, The Yes Works 6. Strike a Power PoseFirst, relax. Life will go on for both of you. Second, before going in to give notice, power pose. Get your confidence biologically boosted by doing the Superman in a bathroom stall for 3-5 minutes. Watch Amy Cuddys TED Talk for more info. Danny Zoucha, DannyZoucha.com 7. Help the Company Wrap Up Your ProjectsOffer to be available for questions and tying up loose ends even after youve left. This doesnt mean you should volunteer to work extra hours working for a company you no longer work for, but if you can help in small ways and get things wrapped up neatly, your ex-boss will really appreciate the effort. Geoff Scott, Resume Companion8. Stay Committed to the EndGive your job 100 percent no more, no less. After announcing your resignation, avoid the temptation to mentally check out. People will notice how you behave when you no longer have any skin in the game, and this often ends up becoming your lasting legacy. Treat your job seriously and stay focused on delivering results all the way until the very last day. 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