The Pregnant Job Search

The Pregnant Job Search LinkedIn for Job Seekers for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here. Jacob Share has an interesting post called Pregnant Job Hunting: When You Should and When You Shouldn’t.  Ive never looked for a job while pregnant so I really dont know where to weigh in (except for one thing, below). I do remember hearing more than one manager say I will never hire a woman again, because maternity leave was a blow to the small company. Ive heard that a few times, but most memorable was from a woman business owner. Go read Jacobs article it is thought-provoking. Heres where Ill weigh in Jacob says if you are 8+ months pregnant: Don’t even look, unless it’s for a job that will begin after the baby is born. Instead, focus on growing your personal brand by building relationships and improving your skills so that you’ll be better placed to find work quickly once you’re ready to go back to work. And get some rest too! You’re about to have a baby and you’re going to need it. I wouldnt say dont look for a job, but I doubt youll make a lot of progress in your job search when dealing with recruiters, HR, etc.  He says to focus on your personal brand and your relationships and skills let me take that further here are some career management things you can do if you are about to have a baby: As Jacob says, work on your personal brand.  Hows your value proposition?  Do you have a solid 30 second pitch, or elevator statement?  Do you have business cards, or a landing page (website)? Does your LinkedIn Profile suck like most Profiles?  From figuring out your pitch to the messaging medium, theres plenty to do here. As Jacob says, build relationships.  Find people who are relevant to your career and try and develop a relationship with them.  Go back to older relationships and reconnect with them (newsletter?  LinkedIn Answers? Personal emails? Phone calls? Facebook messages?).  Think about this in two parts: GROW your network, and NURTURE relationships.  Work on both of those. Let me suggest you learn more about your industry(ies) and target companies.  Read blogs, do searches on Google (or set up Google Alerts), comment on blogs, and just become an industry pundit when you are ready to start interviewing and networking again you want to be current on industry events, company news, etc. Id love to hear ideas from women who have done career management in their third trimester (Im not the most qualified person here :p) what do you recommend? The Pregnant Job Search LinkedIn for Job Seekers for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here. Jacob Share has an interesting post called Pregnant Job Hunting: When You Should and When You Shouldn’t.  Ive never looked for a job while pregnant so I really dont know where to weigh in (except for one thing, below). I do remember hearing more than one manager say I will never hire a woman again, because maternity leave was a blow to the small company. Ive heard that a few times, but most memorable was from a woman business owner. Go read Jacobs article it is thought-provoking. Heres where Ill weigh in Jacob says if you are 8+ months pregnant: Don’t even look, unless it’s for a job that will begin after the baby is born. Instead, focus on growing your personal brand by building relationships and improving your skills so that you’ll be better placed to find work quickly once you’re ready to go back to work. And get some rest too! You’re about to have a baby and you’re going to need it. I wouldnt say dont look for a job, but I doubt youll make a lot of progress in your job search when dealing with recruiters, HR, etc.  He says to focus on your personal brand and your relationships and skills let me take that further here are some career management things you can do if you are about to have a baby: As Jacob says, work on your personal brand.  Hows your value proposition?  Do you have a solid 30 second pitch, or elevator statement?  Do you have business cards, or a landing page (website)? Does your LinkedIn Profile suck like most Profiles?  From figuring out your pitch to the messaging medium, theres plenty to do here. As Jacob says, build relationships.  Find people who are relevant to your career and try and develop a relationship with them.  Go back to older relationships and reconnect with them (newsletter?  LinkedIn Answers? Personal emails? Phone calls? Facebook messages?).  Think about this in two parts: GROW your network, and NURTURE relationships.  Work on both of those. Let me suggest you learn more about your industry(ies) and target companies.  Read blogs, do searches on Google (or set up Google Alerts), comment on blogs, and just become an industry pundit when you are ready to start interviewing and networking again you want to be current on industry events, company news, etc. Id love to hear ideas from women who have done career management in their third trimester (Im not the most qualified person here :p) what do you recommend? The Pregnant Job Search LinkedIn for Job Seekers for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here. Jacob Share has an interesting post called Pregnant Job Hunting: When You Should and When You Shouldn’t.  Ive never looked for a job while pregnant so I really dont know where to weigh in (except for one thing, below). I do remember hearing more than one manager say I will never hire a woman again, because maternity leave was a blow to the small company. Ive heard that a few times, but most memorable was from a woman business owner. Go read Jacobs article it is thought-provoking. Heres where Ill weigh in Jacob says if you are 8+ months pregnant: Don’t even look, unless it’s for a job that will begin after the baby is born. Instead, focus on growing your personal brand by building relationships and improving your skills so that you’ll be better placed to find work quickly once you’re ready to go back to work. And get some rest too! You’re about to have a baby and you’re going to need it. I wouldnt say dont look for a job, but I doubt youll make a lot of progress in your job search when dealing with recruiters, HR, etc.  He says to focus on your personal brand and your relationships and skills let me take that further here are some career management things you can do if you are about to have a baby: As Jacob says, work on your personal brand.  Hows your value proposition?  Do you have a solid 30 second pitch, or elevator statement?  Do you have business cards, or a landing page (website)? Does your LinkedIn Profile suck like most Profiles?  From figuring out your pitch to the messaging medium, theres plenty to do here. As Jacob says, build relationships.  Find people who are relevant to your career and try and develop a relationship with them.  Go back to older relationships and reconnect with them (newsletter?  LinkedIn Answers? Personal emails? Phone calls? Facebook messages?).  Think about this in two parts: GROW your network, and NURTURE relationships.  Work on both of those. Let me suggest you learn more about your industry(ies) and target companies.  Read blogs, do searches on Google (or set up Google Alerts), comment on blogs, and just become an industry pundit when you are ready to start interviewing and networking again you want to be current on industry events, company news, etc. Id love to hear ideas from women who have done career management in their third trimester (Im not the most qualified person here :p) what do you recommend?

Im starting a new company!

Im starting a new company! In case you dont remember, I really got exhausted doing Brazen Careerist. The pressure was insane and it made me nearly lose my mind multiple times. Now Ryan Healy is running the company in DC, and I sort of miss the startup life sort of like women endure labor and then a year later they are pregnant again. So I have been sort of bored and lost all winter, trying to think of what to do next. And then, one night when I was visiting my neighbor, her son propped himself up in his TV-watching chair and told me that he wants me to help him do a company this summer. For his summer job. I said, OK, but what do you want to do? He said he wants to pave driveways. Like, put tar on them. So I asked, How will you get customers? I dont know. Thats what I need help with. I think you should start out with a list of ways you can get customers and then see which way is conducive to starting a business. So, if you could get customers for dancing on your head, then you should dance on your head rather than pave driveways. The customers are the hard part. So what should I do then? So I told him to email me his Myers Briggs type profile and to find a friend he wanted to do a business with. And then to come to my house on Thursday night. Zach did that. He brought Mitch. Zach is an ENFJ. And Mitch is an INTP. I asked them if they thought of ideas for a company. They said no. I told them they cant do a company without an idea. Mitch said, How about a toilet bowl that also has a disposal? I guess this would be for high schoolers and their vomit. I wasnt really sure. But I took the opportunity to explain that if youre not an inventor, theres no use thinking about businesses that require an invention. We talked about how hard it is to think of business ideas. I told them even adults have a hard time, but Im great at it. I listed for them three ideas that I thought we could do together. One was small: selling ads on my blog for a commission. One was medium but I cant remember what it was, actually. And one was to produce humane goat cheese. I recounted for the boys my story about how almost all the goat cheese in grocery stores comes from farms where baby boy goats are clubbed over the head or drowned. The boys picked goat cheese. I told them it was a big business, and wed need funding. They liked that. Not that they knew anything about funding. I explained that another day. I told myself I will send them lots of links so they learn about entrepreneurship. But the boys did not have computers. Further, they do not even get homework that involves computers because not all the kids in the local high school have computers at home. They do research for reports only from books in the library. Then it occurred to me that they dont read. They can read, they just dont read. What was the last book you read? I asked Zach. He couldnt remember. Then he remembered: The Scarlet Letter, for school. It sucked, said Mitch. I told the boys that entrepreneurs read. They have to read. The problem is that if you dont read you dont know where to start reading. I decided wed have to start with reading about sex, to keep them interested. I gave them Dennis Cooper. They liked it. After a while I slipped in articles about entrepreneurship. And finally I assigned them to read Fred Wilson every day. Im pretty sure they are not doing that. But they are learning other stuff. For example, we went to a farmers market and I was looking for something to bring home for dinner. Zach said, How about some sausage? I said, Jews dont eat sausage. He said, You say Jew! Isnt that a bad word? So they started coming over once a week for a company meeting and Id give them assignments and they couldnt do the assignments because they had to go to the school computer room to get anything done but the school blocked most of the blogs that I sent them to. This is when I realized the company needed funding immediately: Because I couldnt work with them if they didnt have computers. Really, Id like to buy every kid in our local high school a computer. But I am a practical person. And I got seed funding to buy computers for the boys. That was a fun day. So weve all been working on the company, and sometimes, after the company meeting, I talk to them about college. There is no college counseling in their school. No one tells them how some colleges are good for some kids and some are good for others and choosing a college is about self-discovery. So I have taken it upon myself to also be their college counselor. Last week I had them doing college research until almost midnight. Im worried doors are closing for them and I want to keep them open. The boys worked hard trying to learn differences between schools. I wished I could do more, but really, they have to learn it themselves. So I said, Do you guys want me to make you cookies while youre working? The boys doubled over laughing. They say that this was the line the teacher at school used when she was seducing high school boys. I worry that the town thinks something is wrong. The town wonders how I can have a company valued at more than a million dollars when the company does nothing. The town thinks, Why would she want to spend so much time helping two boys? The town thinks Im up to no good, Im sure. So I have a new company. And its funded. And I love that Im doing a farm-focused startup since I live on a farm. And I love that Im helping goats. And I love that I found these two kids to take along for the ride.

Whats the Best Answer to the Dreaded Weakness Question - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

What’s the Best Answer to the Dreaded Weakness Question - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Research on investor confidence sheds light on how you should answer the worst question you may be asked in a job interview. That would be: What is your greatest weakness? You could of course, be honest. The true answer might be: Fig Newtons Fine, limp hair with no volume My right quadriceps Ryan Gosling MASH re-runs The Bossa Nova Unfortunately, you know the recruiter wants you to reveal some impairment that will directly affect your job performance. And, you really can answer honestly and directly, while using the opportunity to win their confidence that you are the right candidate. That investor research revealed what type of problem creates a positive impression.  This information is doubly useful because the same type of answer causes people whove failed to forgive you â€" and give you a second chance. So, if you’re getting a legitimately bad performance review because you’ve made an error, use the same approach. You’ll keep your job, and maybe get in line for a promotion and a raise. What type of admission gives you such power when you’re in a difficult spot? Choose a behavior that you have control over. That’s what is key to a successful answer. Don’t choose an affliction like ADD, a deep-seated personality flaw like jealousy or a chronic condition like, “I just can’t get myself to file papers once a project is done.” Choose a behavior that is transitory and solvable by you, even if it is a chronic condition. For example, “Keeping up with changes on social media sites is like drinking from a fire hose for me. The torrent of information is amazing. So, I keep very close tabs on just five networks that mean the most to my company, and I am a master of those. Then, I follow two experts who basically filter the key information on the other sites. I find that if I attend a social media web conference once a month, I remain clued in and connected. It remains a battle that I fight to win, using these strategies.” Note that the problem is very real and has consequences. There’s also an appreciation and not fear of its magnitude: “it’s amazing.” Finally, the strategy is self-determined, and shows critical thinking and problem-solving skills. When people see you identify the problem, seek to solve it with a realistic approach and concede that it isn’t easy: they like you and they even forgive you, if it’s had a cost to them. The investor research shows that as long as a CEO lays out the situation, understands what the causal factors are and shows that those factors are now controllable: he or she keeps the job. In fact, investors will keep the faith, even invest more and have more patience with the return. As a potential employee or consultant â€" or one already hired you are considered an investment. Treat the recruiter or your superiors as valued investors. They deserve your honesty and you deserve a chance to succeed. Author: Nance Rosen  is the author of Speak Up! Succeed. She speaks to business audiences around the world and is a resource for press, including print, broadcast and online journalists and bloggers covering social media and careers. Read more at NanceRosenBlog. Twitter name: nancerosen

How to Bounce Back From Failure #MondayMotivation

How to Bounce Back From Failure #MondayMotivation “Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. Ive met people who dont want to try for fear of failing.” JK Rowling Failure is a natural thing, and many people would argue that you cant have success without experiencing failure along the way. Failure can happen in all parts of our lives including our personal lives and work life and its important to use it as a positive force to drive future success. But what ways can you bounce back from failure? Ive listen my top 6 ways below: 1) Reflect: An important thing to do is to reflect on whats happened and list ways in which you can avoid it happening again. 2) Surround yourself with supportive people: Nothing helps you bounce back from failure more than a supportive group of peers or colleagues. Talk and share your experiences by doing so youll be mentally talking yourself through what went wrong, and it could even help them in regards to future failures. 3) Dont finger point: When things go wrong, it becomes very tempting to finger point and blame others. Accept that you made a mistake and dont shift the blame onto anyone else. 4) Dont take it personally: When things go wrong, it can be easy to feel down in the dumps and blame it on your own personal weaknesses. Instead of doing that, you should accept that mistakes happen, things go wrong, and it wasnt due to your own personal weaknesses. 5) Talk it out: When something goes wrong, the best way to deal with it is to talk about it. Sharing your thoughts out loud often helps you sift through and work things out. Its also great to hear others opinions. 6) Set attainable steps for development: Setting small workable targets is a great idea to get started when bouncing back from failure. Keeping targets realistic means you are more likely to reach them, keeping positivity flourishing through all the work you do. Once youve reached these smaller targets, you can continue setting them higher and higher.

10 Tips for Conducting a Successful Job Search

10 Tips for Conducting a Successful Job Search Photo Credit â€" Creative-resume-templates.comJob search starts long before the interview with HR-managers and your future chiefs. It is a long and laborious process that includes training and even ongoing activity because it gives a new experience and therefore a new feature in the CV.For making a success of your job search you must consider many important components. Here you can find some useful advice.1. Imagine that your job search is your work.Job search should be taken seriously, it’s not just web-surfing and e-mailing. Job search is a business project: with a specific goal, objectives, milestones and implementation time.evalSet yourself a deadline, proceed systematically and progressively, give the job search tree hours a day minimum.2. Never stop learningKnowledge and skills are always an advantage. You must master some essential for a new job skills before you start competing with other applicants. While studying a lot of vacancies you may notice what qualities of candida tes are in demand nowadays.Try to analyze if you have developed these qualities to a really high level.Or, perhaps, you should learn something new for yourself?3. Analyze your limitsTry to show maximum objectivity while identifying your value as an employee. When you find attractive vacancy, ask yourself: do I really meet the requirements? Or I still need to work on myself to get this job?Don’t overestimate yourself. And don’t underestimate either. The vacancy must satisfy your wishes. Sometimes all those long waits of invitation to the interview Your resume should represent something bigger than just a list of previous jobs and positions. Focus on real achievements and qualities that can interest a potential employer. A successful CV is always clear and well structured, not longer than two pages and includes only the most important and relevant information.This document is designed to show your value as an applicant and not to tell the whole story of your life. So when you writ e about your hobbies or qualities make sure it will be work related.5. Be ready to work on your CVThere is no such thing as a generic CV. Create a unique CV for every job you apply for. You don’t have to rewrite the whole thing, just adapt the details so they’re relevant.Create a CV specifically for each vacancy. When you’ve established how you can match each requirement, show that. Every CV you send to a potential employee should be tailored to every special role.6. Use all your contactsevalUse all the job search channels you have: newspapers, Internet, employment agencies and your own contacts, of course. Don’t be shy to ask friends for a help. Everyone of us is an expert in some field â€" you just need to find those people who need such an expert.And any contact may be useful. Be proactive in you communications. Don’t forget that even the occasional conversation may be a chance.7. Make a good first impressionThat means you must write an intelligent and error-free cover letter and be extremely polite and passionate at the same time while speaking with HR-managers by phone.Obviously, making a good impression is essential because it is almost impossible to overcome a negative first impression.8. Sell yourself at the interviewDo not neglect your appearance, the clothes should fit the occasion. Greet your interviewer with a smile and eye contact. Answer questions properly, don’t hesitate, be positive, be prepared to personal questions, remember your body language and manners, show energy, passion, proactivity, but be careful with jokes, not all the people have the same sense of humour as yours.9. Do the research workCollect the maximum amount of information about the company. That will help you to build a dialogue and to show your better qualities. Your goal is to convince the employer that you are the most suitable person for the position.And don’t be afraid to ask questions. That will show your motivation and passion to that job.10. Don’t give upEvery failure is an opportunity to see where and how you can be more efficient. Continuous improvement is a key to your job search success.

See me speak in NYC on Thursday (PS its free!) - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

See me speak in NYC on Thursday (PS its free!) - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog After a?fun week snowboarding in Italy I am now in New York to promote the re-release of my book, Happy Hour is 9 to 5. And in addition to interviews and media events Im also doing an open speech on Thursday and youre invited. Details in the image above. Space is limited, so send an email to rsvp@kristentate.com if youre coming. 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

Writing Resume Acquisitions and Mergers

Writing Resume Acquisitions and MergersThe most important aspect of any job search is the content of your resume, especially when it concerns a role as an HR professional, namely in writing acquisitions and mergers hospitality resume. The majority of jobs in the hospitality industry require that you have extensive knowledge and experience in the subject matter, but it's also important to make sure you know the ropes. This article will provide an overview of some of the basic tips for writing acquisitions and mergers hospitality resume.First, you need to write about the qualifications you have in addition to your skills. What you're looking for in a job is a position where you can demonstrate the required work ethics, experience, and education that will give you the upper hand on all employees you work with. You'll be able to list all the requirements you have, if you include your level of education and work experience.Next, consider a specific goal. As an HR professional, you should know that a successful recruitment and organization are based on the achievement of certain goals. Goals can be about training and development, creating opportunities, and a strong and effective relationship with your staff. These goals can lead to increased production, safety, and a happier and more loyal staff.You should also think about the specific goals you want to achieve from your career. Are you looking to attain any specific awards or distinction? Does the staff find you helpful or are they looking to replace you? Are you aiming to recruit new employees or take over another department?Other key elements include your goals for your personal development. What do you hope to achieve in the coming years? Is there a particular skill you want to develop, or simply a job you want to do?Lastly, you should include any background information you may have. There are some things you can include, such as your favorite books, movies, games, and other activities you've participated in.Whe n it comes to the fine details, this job isn't just about doing your research. It's about writing a resume that is professional and in depth. In fact, it can take a great deal of time, but you need to understand that you won't get anywhere if you don't add the type of experience that the hiring manager is looking for.If you follow these vital elements, then you should be well on your way to becoming a successful employee. Look for HR professionals at more than one hospitality chain before hiring someone to fill your vacant position.