New Job Seeker Tips at Twitter+JibberJobber

New Job Seeker Tips at Twitter+JibberJobber Ive had this idea for a while, and finally got it moving.  If youve followed me long enough you might recognize this is a reincarnation of my attempted Yahoo Group with one actionable tip of the day but I decided to do it on my JibberJobber Twitter account. If you follow twitter.com/JibberJobber youll get two tweets: The daily JibberJobber blog post. This is automated each time I blog it gets pushed over to that twitter account.  Look at the history and youll see all the tweets there are simply blog posts from this blog no noise about how hungry or tired I am :p. A mostly-actionable tip-of- the-day for job seekers. While on a recent plane ride I brainstormed a bunch of 140 character tips I would share with you, if we were together.  Then, I scheduled them out and had enough to go into the beginning of June the first one should go out today. (technical note: I tried to use Hootsuite but I couldnt, even though I manage other accounts from there so I had to use twuffer.com I hope it works right)  FOLLOW JIBBERJOBBER ON TWITTER TO SEE THE DAILY, ACTIONABLE JOB SEARCH TIPS. I talk about subject matter experts doing a tip of the day on Twitter and decided I need to do this for my own branding, messaging, and community-building. Feel free to share the word simply click the RETWEET button above, or copy-and-paste this into your own tweet: New: Job Seeker Tips at Twitter+JibberJobber http://bit.ly/femrkQ Thank you New Job Seeker Tips at Twitter+JibberJobber Ive had this idea for a while, and finally got it moving.  If youve followed me long enough you might recognize this is a reincarnation of my attempted Yahoo Group with one actionable tip of the day but I decided to do it on my JibberJobber Twitter account. If you follow twitter.com/JibberJobber youll get two tweets: The daily JibberJobber blog post. This is automated each time I blog it gets pushed over to that twitter account.  Look at the history and youll see all the tweets there are simply blog posts from this blog no noise about how hungry or tired I am :p. A mostly-actionable tip-of- the-day for job seekers. While on a recent plane ride I brainstormed a bunch of 140 character tips I would share with you, if we were together.  Then, I scheduled them out and had enough to go into the beginning of June the first one should go out today. (technical note: I tried to use Hootsuite but I couldnt, even though I manage other accounts from there so I had to use twuffer.com I hope it works right)  FOLLOW JIBBERJOBBER ON TWITTER TO SEE THE DAILY, ACTIONABLE JOB SEARCH TIPS. I talk about subject matter experts doing a tip of the day on Twitter and decided I need to do this for my own branding, messaging, and community-building. Feel free to share the word simply click the RETWEET button above, or copy-and-paste this into your own tweet: New: Job Seeker Tips at Twitter+JibberJobber http://bit.ly/femrkQ Thank you

3 Management Mistakes to Avoid

3 Management Mistakes to Avoid The ascent into management can be an exciting and nerve wracking time. You’ve been given a team of employees to teach, guide, and lead. The problem? While you’ve stepped forward into leadership positions in the past, you’ve had no experience leading 10-18 employees on a daily basis. Don’t panic. Take a deep breath. The good news is that no one expects new managers to move into their new position without a few errors. The better news? By looking into mistakes that new managers have made in the past, you can transfer into your management position armed with knowledge of at least a few of the potential mistakes. Below are three common management mistakes. Employee Opinions: “So you’re saying Sally doesn’t get along with anyone?” A good manager realizes that employees are people. And people are fallible. Some are gossips and others seek advancement through co-worker sabotage. All of them have different worldviews that often collide together to form messy swirls of missed cues, misunderstandings, and negative opinions. If an employee has a concern about a co-worker, it then becomes the manager’s job to check into their report with an open mind. Don’t make a rash move and fire the individual after grilling them in front of the co-worker that reported them (this happened at my mother’s work). Instead of going on a rampage, managers should conduct the “investigation” in a level-headed manner. Why? A leader hones their perspective to see a broader picture. They utilize their emotional intelligence to read their employees body language and facial expressions to understand the emotional undertones involved in the situation. A manager can do this by: talking to the supposed “bad egg” talk to other employees about the individuals involved . look into the cold hard facts that the employees work demonstrates. Feedback: “You all suck at your job, and we’re watching you.” Employee feedback and critique is one of the manager’s most important tasks. Feedback allows the management team to locate weak spots in the team dynamic and individual productivity. Feedback like the example demonstrated above is the worst type of feedback. Why? The first part “you all suck at your job” is unproductive at worst, and demoralizing at best. Rather than focus on individuals tasks that need improvement, it makes it appear as if the employees are bad at their jobs across all aspects of their performance.  The second part “we’re watching you” conveys that it is the employees responsibility to improve. And failure to improve may lead to termination of their job. Not a message that a manager should convey in 99.9% of situations. Steven Sommer, a professor of management at Pepperdine University, suggests that there are three steps to effective feedback. He suggests that managers: collect data on the specific issue. explain the impact this has had on the work or the team. work with the employees to come up with steps to solve the issue. All of these steps are imperative to effective employee communication. If a manager doesn’t have the time to address every step of the effective feedback formula, they should wait until they have the time. Tunnel Vision: “They’ve got this…(two weeks later)…guys what happened?” I had a manager once who had a mild case of tunnel vision. While she skillfully identified who was struggling and excelling on her team, the process in which she handled both groups was ineffective. Here is what this method looked like: Identify which members excelled and which struggled. Work intensively with the struggling members. The members that excel can manage themselves. Check in for ten minutes once every two or three weeks with the excelling members. Send a panicked email or have a panicked conversation with the members in the “exceeds expectation” group when something inevitably goes wrong. Was the decision to focus on the people that struggled wrong? Should the more skilled people not be given more freedom? No, on both counts. The issue here is in the degree that both circumstances were occurring. Hand-holding the struggling employees, may never push them to succeed. And ignoring the individuals who excel, might mean that you miss obvious warning signs that the project has hit a road block. Managers will need to discover for themselves how little management their skilled employees need to function. Leadership and management skills are not an inherent. It will take time to learn how to maneuver through complicated employee relations, giving employee feedback, and managing your employees. Managers are not perfect; they make mistakes. The truly great managers learn from their own mistakes and the mistakes of others. If you tackle your new job with an open mind, your management journey will be smoother. What is a good manager to you? Share your thoughts and experiences with us below or @mscareergirl.

On the Job by Anita Bruzzese The First Thing to Tackle After a Vacation

On the Job by Anita Bruzzese The First Thing to Tackle After a Vacation In my previous post, I wrote about the importance of spending some time thinking (while on vacation) about whether you're in the right job or right career. Maybe after some soul-searching you've decided you like the job or the career is just fine -- but you do wish you could make some minor adjustments. Perhaps you realize that you hate working late almost every day so that you miss playing ball with your kids in the yard or having a nice dinner out with friends. That, you may discover, has led to resentment of co-workers who leave every day on time. Or, you may decide your boss is an a**hole because she doesn't recognize your hard work. But do you see how you've have let this situation snowball? Instead of dealing with the real problem -- you procrastinate beginning your work every morning -- you instead blame others. That makes you resent your job, your colleagues, your boss and the whole darn world. Why is everyone else not working 12-hour days? Why isn't everyone missing time with family and friends? Once you've pinpointed the real problem to your job unhappiness, it's time to make a commitment to changing your ways. You can begin, for example, by creating a new schedule for yourself that will eliminate your procrastination every morning. It might mean waking up 30 minutes earlier so you can check Facebook instead of doing it at work. Or, maybe you go into work early so that you have quiet time to get started on your work and aren't tempted to chat in the break room for an hour. Make a commitment to change your ways when you return from vacation. Write down a new schedule and try to stick to it religiously for the first week or two until it becomes ingrained. While this may not solve all your problems, sometimes just seizing the initiative to be happier in your job can put a whole new spin on things.

How I Am Paying Off $128,000 in Student Loan Debt - Classy Career Girl

How I Am Paying Off $128,000 in Student Loan Debt When you owe more money than you’ve ever written a check for, it can seem overwhelming and beyond your control to get a handle on repayment. However, as with most things in life, student loan  debt is considerably less intimidating when broken down into bite-size chunks. To make my point, I decided to come up with a little pop quiz for you. POP QUIZ: $128,000 is A. Supermodel Gisele Bundchens daily income in 2014. B. The combined student loan debt of this authors household. C. Sorry, got distracted thinking about what I can do with $128k a day. Last year Gisele made in one day what my husband and I owe in student loans for one undergraduate and two graduate degrees. If I lived on a diet of sunflower seeds and divided my waking hours between Pilates and CrossFit for the next year, my chances of commanding Gisele’s daily rate would still be laughable. Probably as likely as throwing a rock and hitting the moon. Depressing. I know. Contrary to Navient’s prediction, we refuse to be shackled to this resource-suck for the next 22 years. Don’t get me wrong, the amount is substantial and will take time to pay off. But it seems considerably more manageable now that we understand the loans that make up the total (a process we completed using this handy spreadsheet). Once everything was outlined, we devised a repayment plan that includes tackling the loans under $3k (7 in total) to keep us motivated towards the ultimate goal. Of the seven, we’re zeroing in on the one with the highest interest rate and working backwards. For each one paid off, the minimum payment (plus extra) will be re-rerouted to the one with the next highest interest rate. We’ll follow the same principle as Dave Ramsey’s snowball method because that makes sense for us. [RELATED: 15 Ways I Paid off 80k of Debt] You must, of course, do what works best for you and your family, but outlined below are several tips to help you take hold of your student debt. How I Am Paying Off $128,000 in Student Loan Debt 1. Accept it. You owe the money. Stressing about it will only cause you sleepless nights. No sense being saddled with debt and dark circles under your eyes. 2. Know your debt. Who do you owe? How much exactly? What are the terms? All that information can likely be found by logging into your debt provider’s website. All you need is a little patience to copy and paste. 3. Start a budget. It doesn’t have to be complicated. It can be as simple as a couple of columns on a spreadsheet to keep track of what you’re bringing in and how you’re spending it. See spreadsheet below for a basic sample. 4. Find the “extra”. Now that you understand what you’re bringing in, how you’re spending it, and directing where it should go, keep your eyes open for the leftover dollars in your budget. Better yet, be proactive and cut back on a couple of line items to generate the “extra”. Nothing too drastic. Make it manageable. As an example, you’ll notice in tab 2, column G2 of the spreadsheet that we sent $63 extra dollars to our loans this month. This was cobbled together by taking excess money from last month ($34) and shaving a few dollars off several flexible items on our budget this month: $15 from the food allotment, $4 from the Christmas club account, and $10 from the weekly lunch. The amount isn’t important, the shift in mindset is. Make it a habit to critically analyze your spending for areas to cut back and be disciplined about using the savings to pay more than the minimum on your loans. 5. Appreciate the dollar. Every dollar, quarter, dime, nickel, and penny over your minimum snips away at the number of years, months, weeks, days, and hours you’re held hostage by debt. 6. Celebrate to stay encouraged. Laugh if you must, but I’m not above high-fiving myself for a job well done. Don’t wait until you’ve paid off huge chunks to celebrate. Take pride in every smart decision made to bring you closer to your debt-free goal. 7. Don’t beat yourself up. Some months you’re going to hate having to be so responsible. You’ll cry, “Why can’t I spend that $100 on nose bleed tickets to see Beyoncé?” Trust me, I understand. It sucks. Acknowledge that it sucks, but stay on course. And if you do fall off course, do as the late Aaliyah said, “Dust yourself off and try again.” Share your thoughts. How are you handling your student loan debt? Do you feel in control of them, or are they controlling you?

MA Resume Objective - Writes an Objective to Improve Your CV

MA Resume Objective - Writes an Objective to Improve Your CVA MA resume objective is a section of your resume that explains what you hope to gain from the position you are applying for. The objective section is essential to your resume and should be included on all your applications.Think of it as the job description that you wrote when you applied for the job. You want to be able to write a profile of yourself that will allow your potential employer to understand who you are and what you can do for them. An objective is just like an objective. It is your way of describing the kind of individual you are and how you would be a valuable employee for the company.There are some common mistakes that many people make with their resumes that causes the objective section to go unnoticed. To keep your objective section concise, avoid using too many words. Use one or two sentences that describe your ability to do the job. Many people think that longer is better, but long words may not sound as professional.A resume objective is also a good idea because it allows you to expand on your skill sets that you can bring to the company. If you want to improve upon the skills you learned at school, then include it in your resume objective. It is a way of putting the focus on how you can excel in the job you are applying for.One of the best parts about including a resume objective is that it is very easy to change. Changing the details will allow you to introduce changes in your skills and achievements that may have been left out by the original objective. Even though the objective section is meant to summarize and highlight your skills, you can always add more details that will make your resume stand out.One way to make your resume objective stand out is to write one sentence that explains the details of the job you are applying for. Even if you do not want to get into the specifics of the job, the very act of stating the details will show the interviewer that you really understa nd the position. You will be able to easily showcase the skills you have by stating the particulars of the job you are applying for.The key aspects to remember when it comes to having an objective is that it should be short and simple. You should not feel pressured to include too much information. It is perfectly fine to write something brief but still describe what skills you possess that would be beneficial to the company.Finally, make sure that your resume and cover letter are in perfect order so that you can create a good impression on the interviewer. If you are submitting both to the same job posting, make sure you have the resume and cover letter together. This way, you will avoid any confusion regarding which one went where.