Top 5 - Signs its time for a career change

Top 5 - Signs its time for a career change by Michael Cheary We all need a change of scenery sometimes. But with the increasingly competitive nature of the job market, changing careers can be daunting. Especially when there seems to be so much at stake.To help you embrace the fear and ensure youre making the right decision, heres our list of the top five signs its time for a career change5. You constantly complainEveryone complains once in a while. Sometimes it can be witty and amusing. Sometimes, it can be plain irritating. If you start every sentence with do you know what really annoys me?, it may be time to move on.4. You feel misunderstoodEveryones going out on a Friday night after work. You ask, and theyre suddenly all busy. On the way home you see everyone in the bar across the street . Its been three years, and your boss still doesnt even know your name. You shouldnt feel like your job is a popularity contest, but a bit of eye contact is always nice. No-one likes to sit alone at lunch.3. You get job envyYouve n ever ever expressed an interest in becoming a barman. You go for a drink at lunch and spot the bartender. Suddenly you picture yourself, a la Tom Cruise in Cocktail, wowing the crowds with your fancy concoctions. Sound appealing? If you find that you want to trade places with every other person you meet, its probably not a good sign.2. You keep tuning outTheres nothing wrong with a bit of daydreaming every now and then. But when youre daydreams start to become so elaborate you zone out at your desk, in meetings and during intimate one-on-one evaluations, it begins to get excessive. See also, procrastination.1. You dont love MondaysWere not saying you have to love getting out of bed every morning or stop hitting the snooze button, but, if youre crying into your cornflakes by the time Monday rolls around, take it as a sign.Other notable signs: You have a nickname that you dont like, you dont have a nickname, youre making yourself ill, youre making your colleagues ill, your boss tells you youre bad for morale.Find a job What Where Search JobsSign up for more Career AdviceSign up for moreCareer Advice Please enter a valid email addressmessage hereBy clicking Submit you agree to the terms and conditions applicable to our service and acknowledge that your personal data will be used in accordance with our privacy policy and you will receive emails and communications about jobs and career related topics. Features

How Recruiters Use Social Media in 2014 [STUDY]

How Recruiters Use Social Media in 2014 [STUDY] A new Jobvite study has unveiled how competitive  the labour market is today, and the tactics companies  use to find, engage and retain the best candidates. The sourced survey  was completed by 1,855 recruiting and human resource professionals, spanning across various industries. Participants were both Jobvite customers and non-customers. Jobvite last year revealed  How Social Media is Used for Recruiting in 2013. Here are some of the main takeaways: Recruiters: 69% of recruiters expect competition to increase in 2015. LinkedIn remains the recruiters network of choice, although 83% of job seekers are on Facebook. 73% of recruiters said that to compete against other employers they highlight company culture. Better benefits is used to compete with others at 51% Flexible hours is at 45% While 46% of recruiters hire passive candidates. Job seekers are always shopping for the next best opportunity. Employees generally leave a company due to high compensation elsewhere (61%). Long-term growth potential is the second reason why employees turned elsewhere (44%). Recruiters want to fill the following job openings this year: Engineering (38%) IT (48%) Operations (49%) Marketing (41%) Sales (50%) LinkedIn continues to be the most popular tool for recruiting, 94% of recruiters using it. Facebook is second at 66%. Shockingly, only 18% of recruiters consider themselves experts at social recruiting, 31% considering themselves novices. Mobile: Recruiters plan to invest more in social recruiting (73%), referrals (63%) and mobile (51%). Mobile being  just  51% is shocking  considering its global dominance. Recruiters utilise mobile to find candidates in the following ways: 22% post jobs. 36% search for candidates. 41% contact candidates. 30% post jobs on social. 40% forward candidate resumes to colleagues. 43% of job seekers use mobiles in their job search, yet 59% of recruiters currently invest nothing into mobile career sites! surely this will  rapidly  change? Those that do embrace mobile see an increase in engagement: Improved time to hire (14%) Improved quality of candidate (13%) Improved quality of hires (19%) Improved quality of referrals (10%) Social Media: Social recruiting is now standard practice for recruiters â€" 93% use or plan to use social to support their recruiting efforts. Recruiters are taking social profiles more seriously than previous years â€"55% have changed their mind about a candidate based on something they saw on a social media profile. Be careful what you put online!   73% of recruiters have hired a candidate through social media, LinkedIn being the most popular at 79%. 26% of recruiters have used Facebook to hire candidates. 14% of recruiters used Twitter. only 7% hired through a candidate blog. 93% of recruiters will review a candidates social profile before making a hiring decision. Professional experience is what recruiters  view on  candidates most at 97% on LinkedIn, 20% of Facebook. Recruiters also look at length of professional tenure on 96% on LinkedIn, 14% on Facebook. Candidates industry-related posts are desired by 88% of recruiters on LinkedIn, 27% on Facebook. Some of the tactics recruiters use on social networks are: Facebook: Showcase employer brand (59%), Post jobs (48%), Generate employee referrals (51%)  Twitter: Showcase employer brand (44%), Post jobs (39%), Generate employee referrals (32%) LinkedIn: Search for candidates (95%), Contact candidates (95%), Keep tabs on potential candidates (93%) What are your thoughts on the study? Let us know in the comments! RELATED:  How Recruiters Use Social Media: By the Numbers [STUDY] #socialrecruiting

QA With Anna Runyan About Planning and Goal Setting - Classy Career Girl

QA With Anna Runyan About Planning and Goal Setting In todays podcast, youll learn what you need to do in order to get clarity on your vision for your career or business. Subscribe  on  your favorite platform below: iTunes Google Play Music Stitcher Radio TuneIn iHeartRadio Sound Cloud QA With Anna Runyan About Planning and Goal Setting Objection crush: Meredith   I didn’t think I had discipline. I am not disciplined enough to meet my goals. Working in your passion doesn’t require much discipline when you love what you do. Spend your time focusing on doing work you love, discipline comes easy. QA: Question 1: Stephanie Rae Bunce, How do you create a goals list that doesnt leave you feeling overwhelmed? Question   2: Robin Price, How do you make smaller and smaller action steps toward your goals?   Question 3: Lisa Polak, Finding an hour of time for herself. How can I make the time? Do you do your vision planning with your husband/family, as well? Question 4: Charmaine Du Toit, Perhaps a subject for a whole other workshop but how do you get started when you feel like youve lost your mojo and cant seem to even come up with a vision. Too many ideas and lots of plans but none steering toward an ultimate goal. Question   5: Laurie Parker, Good Morning Anna!   Thank you so much for doing this every year.   This is the furthest I have gotten in planning and I haven’t really gotten too far.   I always to great when working on the reflecting part, but when it gets to the planning, I get overwhelmed and I don’t know where to even begin.   This is so frustrating to me. I am ready to be out of where I am and I need to move forward. Do you have any recommendations? Thank you! Register for our next Planning Workshop here.

Drink Pairing Made Easy How to Pair Drinks with Any Meal -

Drink Pairing Made Easy How to Pair Drinks with Any Meal - Choosing drinks that go well with a certain food isn’t something that most people spend much time thinking about, but they do it anyway. For example, a glass of lemonade on a hot summer day would probably taste great with barbequed foods from the grill but terrible with soup. It’s normal to want the tastes of food and drink to blend well together. However, choosing great pairings doesn’t always come naturally. It requires consideration of several factors, including acidity, alcohol content if any, carbonation, and sweetness for starters.   Heres the basics of food and drink pairing. Acidic Drinks Acidic drinks, such as those with citrus, lemon, or lime are a good option with several types of meals. They go especially well with heavy foods, seafood, and salad. The acid in a drink helps people feel refreshed while adding a dash of flavor at the same time. Here are some specific lunch or dinner options to consider with an acidic drink: Chow mein Crab cakes Grilled salmon Pasta with cream sauce Shrimp cocktail As for drinks to pair with the above, a cocktail like a daiquiri or a bottle of Italian wine blend rich and acidic flavors together. For those who prefer to skip alcohol, punch or lemonade are just as good. Pay Attention to Levels of Alcohol While spicy dishes and drinks with high alcohol content can taste great, this is usually the case when they are separate and not together. The problem is that the alcohol enhances the spiciness to a point where it can become truly uncomfortable to eat the food. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean someone who desires a little spice with their meal and an alcoholic beverage at the same time need to abandon their plans. Cold beer and spicy food play off each other well for an enjoyable combination. Sweet Drinks with Salty or Spicy Food When a spicy barbeque, fajitas, or stir-fry is on the menu, choosing a sweet drink will help to control the heat of the food. Some possible choices for alcoholic beverages include rum and Coke, Chenin blanc, or off-dry Riesling. As a non-alcoholic beverage, sweet tea can have the same effect. When choosing a drink to good with food or desert, a good rule of thumb is that the drink should be sweeter than the what’s on the plate to help balance out the flavors. How to Choose the Best Drinks to Pair with Chinese Food While Chinese food is known for its richness as well as being soft and spicy, it also provides incredible diversity of choice. Choosing the wrong wine or other beverage with Chinese food can ruin the meal. Here are some pairings suggested by the sommelier at Seattle’s Purple Café: Dim Sum: The heat in this Beijing-style dish can be anywhere from mild to intense. A wine with high weight and acidity normally goes well with all types of dim sum. If the dish includes spicy noodles, rice, or tofu, choosing a wine with slightly less acidity will help to reduce the heat. Shrimp Fried Rice: Some types of wine drown out the rich flavor of shrimp fried rice ingredients such as coconut, ginger, mango, and scrambled eggs. This Chinese food would go better with Columbia Valley wines instead. Pairing food and drinks is part art and part science, with experimentation being half the fun.

Personal Branding Hype and Myths vs Reality - Executive Career Brandâ„¢

Personal Branding Hype and Myths vs Reality Personal branding has somewhat mainstreamed and is becoming more accepted in job search. But I still see too many job seekers confused about what branding actually is. It’s no wonder they’re confused, with so much debate and misinformation floating around social media and traditional media. Do you feel bombarded by the opposing voices and befuddled about branding and whether it has any value in job search? The Hype and Myths: Some of the misguided things you’ve probably heard about what personal branding is: A passing fad not worthy of consideration â€" the next new thing is bound to come along and replace it. The way to position yourself as an expert in your field. An opportunity to brag about yourself. Just a catchy tagline for your resume and email signature. Your ticket to making big money. The way to become famous. A brand statement that lists your relevant functional areas of expertise, just like a job description. The Reality â€" what personal branding really is: Simply put, branding in job search is a way to uncover, define, and communicate your unique ROI (Return on Investment) value to your target employers, based on their needs. Authentic personal branding takes work. The development process requires pinpointing the personal attributes, values, drivers, strengths, and passions that differentiate your unique promise of value from your peers, in content and messaging designed to resonate with your target audience (or target employers). If you need help defining your brand, see my 10-Step Personal Branding Worksheet or consider working with a certified personal branding strategist to uncover the things that make you a good-fit candidate for your target employers. The Hype and Myths vs. Reality: Branding isn’t a passing fad. In fact, the process of identifying what differentiates you from your competition has been part of job search, career marketing, and resume development for decades. It was given a name in the mid-nineties by Tom Peters. It may go by a different name in the future, but the concept and approach will probably be the same. If you’re not actually an expert in your field, don’t lie and mislead people in your brand messaging. When push comes to shove, you won’t be able to live up to the expectation . . . and then you will have tarnished your reputation by boasting inflated claims. You may call branding bragging about yourself, but it’s really all about being truthful about the best you have to offer. If you’ve achieved great things, you’d be wise to let your target employers know about it, without embellishment. If all you’ve done is create a spiffy tagline, and you think you’ve defined your brand, you haven’t done the work. Back up, and spend time identifying what differentiates you. Money may come with branding, but if you’re setting out to become wealthy, it takes a whole lot more than knowing and expressing your brand. Your brand may help you land a high paying job (I hope!), but once on the job, everything will fizzle if you don’t have the goods to back up your claims. Unless your goal is to become famous and you have whatever it is that makes people famous, your brand alone probably won’t make you a superstar. A brand statement needs to be much more than a string of relevant keyword phrases highlighting your functional areas of expertise. To make it hit home with recruiters and hiring authorities assessing you, it needs to integrate your hard skill sets with your softer ones â€" indicating who you are and how you use your skill sets to make things happen. Read more in my Job-Hunt.org article, Creating Your Authentic Personal Brand Statement. Why personal branding matters so much in job search: The branding process helps you understand your ROI value to your target companies and what differentiates you from your competition in the job market, And helps you clearly communicate that ROI value and good fit qualities when you network and interview, And helps you stand out from your competition in your career marketing materials (resume, biography, online profiles, blogging, etc.). Your brand incorporates your softer side and generates chemistry for who you are, what you’re like to work with, how you make things happen, and what you have to offer that no one else does. Bottom Line: Try to ignore the hype and myths. Learn what authentic branding actually is. Invest time and effort in identifying the things that differentiate you from your competitors in the job market and the things that make you the best hiring choice for your target employers. Related posts and information: 10 Things to Love About Your Executive Brand How To Land an Executive Job in 2011 My ebook, 23 Ways You Sabotage Your Executive Job Search and How Your Brand Will Help You Land Cross-posted at Job-Hunt.org 00 0

Keeping Your Career Skills Sharp - Margaret Buj - Interview Coach

Keeping Your Career Skills Sharp Even if you have the career you love at a company you want to work for, its still important to keep your career skills sharp. You never know where life will take you, and you need to be prepared. You may decide you want to change to a new career, especially with the growth of technology within the UK and all the new options its creating, notes the UK Commission for Employment and Skills. If you have the right skills and connections, you can change your life and career for the better. Take Classes in Your Free Time Dont wait until you decide to make a career change to take classes for your new profession. Options like the online business management associates degree from Penn Foster can get you started on the business career of your dreams. You can take classes on anything thats interesting to you. Whether youre working toward a new degree or youre interested in a certificate or diploma in a particular field, you can learn some amazing things online. Working at your own pace means your job performance and other activities wont suffer, either. You can keep doing your job, while you work to make a change and keep your skill level high. Learn New Skills From Others Find people who know more than you do and use them as mentors. Learn from them. Ask them questions about how they became successful and how you might be more successful. The answers may lead you in an entirely new direction. If so, learn about a new field and develop the necessary skills to make a move. Even if it doesnt become your new career it might be beneficial, because anything you learn is never wasted. Join Communities in Your Industry Almost every industry has a professional society that you can join. Consider what niche youre interested in and then look for unions and other communities both formal and informal you can join. The Trades Union Congress has 54 unions with nearly six million workers represented. By sorting through the TUC list, youll find a union thats involved with the career you have or the career you want. The Active Communities Network is another way to get involved with a grassroot movement that may help you find a job thats rewarding. Vocational training and support is available, but you can also get access to education and employment opportunities. Dont Forget to Network Networking is vital, both online and off. Virtual networking through places like LinkedIn can help you meet people from all over the world. Google+ is also a good choice for networking, whether youre looking to learn something new or meet people who work in a field that interests you. You can also network in person by being friendly to other employees, vendors, customers, and others you meet during your work day. You never know when one of them will be able to help you out, will have a job lead for you, or will start a business and need employees. Keep your options open.

Tips On Selecting A Data Science Resume Writing Coach

Tips On Selecting A Data Science Resume Writing CoachIf you are not familiar with the various types of resume writing coaches then you may want to take a look at this article. There are several different types of data science resume writing coaches and they will provide a variety of services in order to get your resume written. The first step is to find a good candidate, so that you can work with them and they will be able to understand your needs and customize your resume for you.When you begin a data science resume writing project, you should do some basic research and spend some time thinking about what you are going to include. While data scientists write resumes to be as descriptive as possible, you still want them to be well written. Once you have selected a resume writing coach, then you can ask them about their methods and whether or not they will work for you.There are many professional resume writers available who are adept at many types of writing. You want to make sure th at you get advice on how to write a resume from a professional in order to ensure you get a well-written resume. After you have located a data science resume writing coach, you can decide which type of resume writing coach will best suit your needs. If you are unsure about the process, you can always consult with your resume writing coach about it.In order to get a well-written resume, you need to think about the content and style of the resume in advance. This is important because resumes are the first thing that employers will see. It is difficult to get a hold of employers without a good resume, so you need to create one that is high-quality and really stands out. To do this, you will need to use a resume writer and it is also important to understand how to edit your resume before you submit it.If you are applying for a position in a field that requires expertise in data science, then you need to learn everything you can about that particular field. Even if you are not interested in that field, you can still use the experience you have in another to help you complete the resume effectively. If you are not sure about what a data science resume should contain, you can ask the data science coach to develop a sample resume for you to use.A data science resume should show potential employers that you are able to solve problems. Your ability to interact with others and the willingness to work under pressure is also an important trait. The next thing to consider is to choose a type of resume that includes keywords relevant to the job position.When a data science resume is completed properly, the hiring manager will find it easy to analyze. The final step to completing a resume is to ensure that you read the sample and review it for accuracy. A resume is similar to an essay in the sense that the writer must use the appropriate word choice, grammar, punctuation, and other details. After you have reviewed the sample resume, you should be able to write a great resume that is both professional and interesting.A resume is your first impression, so you should make sure that you choose a coach who will make your resume as professional as possible. You should discuss your expectations with your coach and find out exactly what it is that you expect. Remember that you want to be well-spoken and write with your best effort and then your resume should be a reflection of you.