Two Success Tips from Aaron Pitman (millionaire before 30)

Two Success Tips from Aaron Pitman (millionaire before 30) On Mashable you can read How I Became Rich Before 30 and How You Can Too.  I love his two tips.  Read the article for context and to hear it in his own words.  Here are his two tips: Confess and Attack.  This is all about age (or other) discrimination! I know so many people in a job search struggle with discrimination please read what Aaron did!  His advice is RIGHT ON! Your socializing can determine your success.  This goes beyond networking and talks about who you spend your time with.  I love this: According to motivational speaker Jim Rohn, we are the average of the  five people we chose to spend the most time with. We will often emulate the people we’re closest to and, if those people are successful, your own chances of success rise in proportion. Who are you choosing to spend your time with?  Are they they people who you want to become? If not, strategically and actively find the five people who you want to emulate and spend more time with them! Thank you, Aaron, for sharing these two ideas.  Whether someone is an entrepreneur or job seeker, or will be either of those, they need to hear these tips from you! Two Success Tips from Aaron Pitman (millionaire before 30) On Mashable you can read How I Became Rich Before 30 and How You Can Too.  I love his two tips.  Read the article for context and to hear it in his own words.  Here are his two tips: Confess and Attack.  This is all about age (or other) discrimination! I know so many people in a job search struggle with discrimination please read what Aaron did!  His advice is RIGHT ON! Your socializing can determine your success.  This goes beyond networking and talks about who you spend your time with.  I love this: According to motivational speaker Jim Rohn, we are the average of the  five people we chose to spend the most time with. We will often emulate the people we’re closest to and, if those people are successful, your own chances of success rise in proportion. Who are you choosing to spend your time with?  Are they they people who you want to become? If not, strategically and actively find the five people who you want to emulate and spend more time with them! Thank you, Aaron, for sharing these two ideas.  Whether someone is an entrepreneur or job seeker, or will be either of those, they need to hear these tips from you!

How Diversity in Your Career Can Get You Hired - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

How Diversity in Your Career Can Get You Hired - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career In today’s economy, workers often switch jobs frequently, and even re-invent entire careers. But if your resume includes jobs in a number of industries or professions, does that signal to potential employers that you’re good at many thingsâ€"or good at none? A jack of all trades or a dilettante? Employers often say they want flexible workers who can assume many roles, but research has long shown the danger of being what social scientists call a “category spanner.” It can be tough to make sense of a person who jumps around a lot. A new article in the American Sociological Review sheds light on the issue, and suggests that while some variation in work experience helps job candidates, too much diversity on a resumé makes a person less likely to be hired. Ming D. Leung, an assistant professor in the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, studied jobs posted to the online marketplace Elance.com. The site brings together firms and freelancers, in professional job categories from website programming to translation services to business plan writing. Since each freelancer’s entire Elance work history is recorded on the site and visible to potential employers, it was easy for Leung to study how much a worker benefited from, or was penalized by, broad experience. Leung found that the freelances who won the most jobs (after taking past performance into account) were those who moved between related job categories, such as litigation and contracts or press releases and copywriting. These workers, whom Leung labeled “incremental generalists” captured more work than “erratic generalists”â€"freelancers with work history in a range of unrelated categories. Perhaps more surprisingly, incremental generalists also captured more work than “specialists”â€"workers who never ventured away from their core job category. For example, freelancers who moved between the categories of package design and logos increased their ability to get hired by 7.6 percent over those workers who stayed in just one of the categories. Leung also found that the benefit of being an incremental generalist was greatest when the job at hand was a complex one, or when freelancers had a short work history. In other words, employers were particularly attuned to a potential employee’s breadth of experience when the job was going to require complicated thinking, or when the employers didn’t have as much evidence about what sort of worker they were looking at. Of course, in most hiring situations you get a lot more leeway in deciding how to present yourself to employers. It’s easyâ€"and even recommendedâ€"to recast your past work experience as related to the particular job you’re applying for. Still, this study offers a valuable lesson: don’t edit all of the diversity out of your resumé. Yes, a resumé that shows jumping around among jobs and professional roles might serve as a red flag to potential employers, but a work history that is entirely within one narrow domain might not be the best, either. Career coaches tend to emphasize the importance of telling a story with your resumé, which is one way to have the best of both worlds. Let employers know up front that jobs in different categories are about deliberately expanding your skill set into related areas. Don’t let employers have room to assume that you just aren’t all that talented or committed. Broad experience can be an assetâ€"if you make it work for you. About Barbara Kiviat  Journalist and PhD student at Harvard University

The First Impression in an Interview - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

The First Impression in an Interview - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career “Nobody impresses me for the first sixty days on the job.” This was a saying that all of those working with me in the corporate world would hear me say over and over. I wanted to express that there’s a difference between the impression a job seeker leaves initiallyâ€"even as early as during the interviewâ€"and the impression an employee makes afterward for the duration. I have proved that particular opinion to be correct many times over: people who had made a great impression during the interview not in all cases demonstrated those great qualities and extensive knowledge some months after being hired and on the job. But let’s first agree on the purpose of the interview. No, it is not to get the job. It is to get a job offer. And once the offer was committed to paper and received by the candidate, the latter must perform due diligence, evaluate the offer, negotiate if appropriate and possible, and then make a final decision. However, to get that coveted letter that starts with the word Congratulations, one needs to convince the hiring team that one is the ideal candidate. Don’t underestimate the importance of the first impression We’ve all heard the saying that the first impression is a lasting impression. And it’s true. Interview guru Lou Adler performed an otherwise admittedly less-than-scientific study via a survey. The result was that more than 80 percent of people like a person they meet for the first time. And this is applicable also in an interview situation. A further question asked about the importance of that first impression; in Adler’s study example, it was a salesperson. Of the respondents, 85 percent indicated that the first impression is highly important. Now, I don’t think there’s anything new or surprising about those numbers, but they do support the general tenet of the importance of the first impression. The first impression can be nearly impossible to reverse. The impression made during a first encounter is extremely important, simply because it sets the scene for all future interactions. Remember the importance of the smile! “Smile and the world smiles too,” as the adage goes. There’s nothing like a smile to create a good first impression. A pleasant and confident smile puts both parties at ease. So, smiling is always a winner when it comes to making a great first impression. Project confidence Body language as well as appearance speaks much louder than words. Use your body language to project self-assurance. Stand tall, make eye contact, and greet with a firm handshake. Good manners together with polite, attentive, and enthusiastic behavior help make a good first impression.

MAKE 2018 YOUR YEAR TO START A #SIDEHUSTLE

MAKE 2018 YOUR YEAR TO START A #SIDEHUSTLE For many of us, 2017 has been yet another tough year. Dead end jobs with no future, financial challenges, and a world that is in constant turmoil have often been the norm.   On the flip side, theres a constant flow of examples of those who are using a #sidehustle to create something better.   What used to be called moonlighting, having a #sidehustle is now mainstream and commonplace.   So let me ask you- Why havent you started a #sidehustle? If youre unhappy with the way things are, heres a dose of reality.   Your future reality.   From where you are today, if nothing changes and you stay on that path, what will your life look like in five or ten or twenty years? Like the ghost of Christmas future that visited Scrooge, let your imagination show you whats coming. If youre uncomfortable with what you see, good.   Let that be the thorn in your backside that gets you up and moving. Below youll find the most common excuses for not creating a #sidehustle. And, some resources that have more than enough valuable insights and information in them to help you create a very different and more desirable future. I Dont Have Time For all of us, time is the one commodity that is finite.   But while we cannot make more of it, there are two solutions to its apparent scarcity. Take back your time.   Do a personal time audit and see how much time you waste on television and social media.   Be courageous enough to call yourself out on your own bullshit that youre learning something or keeping up with friends.   Any benefit received is far outweighed by the cost. Leverage your time.   While it may be all up to you at the beginning, outsource anything that has a poor return for the investment of your time and talent.   And resist the temptation to re-invent when adapting whats already available will move you faster and farther. Realize that you wont have more time later.   Youll have the same excuses in the future you have now.   If you truly dont like where you are, be willing to say oh, hell no! This is not how I want my life to be and Im willing to do whatever it takes to change it. I Dont Have Anything I Can #Sidehustle False! Youd be hard pressed to find anyone who doesnt possess a unique combination of talents and skills.   We all have different backgrounds and experiences that make us the very unique person who we are. And there are lots of people out there who are willing to pay for that unique talent, skill set, or perspective that you and only you can provide. If youre feeling stuck on this one, heres some tips to break the mental log jamb: Write down all the things you enjoy doing.   Google each one to see what other people are doing to create an income from similar activities. Spend some time on Reddit or Stumbleupon (but dont make it a habit!) wandering around and looking for inspiration. Ask yourself questions.    How could I turn this into something others would want?   How could I change this so   that I would buy it myself? Dont get too caught up in making grand plans.   Remember youre at the beginning, and getting started is the most important step.   You future is unlikely to be a straight line, but youll be traveling   a better road with every new experience you gain now. I Dont Know Where or How To Begin Its very average to feel apprehensive and even a little inadequate when you contemplate starting something new.   Remember that first Yoga class?   Or your first day in that tough college course? Or how about that first time you got behind the wheel of a car?   Since youre reading this, you survived them all. And now you probably look back wondering what you were so anxious about. Remember those times as you contemplate starting a #sidehustle. Its also very average to feel a need for some good coaching and guidance.   For that, Ive found some excellent resources you should check out.   Pick them up, and read them.   Its a tiny investment that will return big dividends. How A Side Hustle Can Change Your Life While I recommend you read all three of the resources listed here, if you only get one, this should be it. The author, Susie Moore, has provided a complete how to do it and yes, you CAN manual on side hustles. Simply stated, if it doesnt motivate you to get started, nothing ever will. The Empowered Mama If youre like many career women under age 40, who have lost themselves in the quest to be supermom or just a good mom, this book is for you.   Author Lisa Druxman makes a strong case for being able to reclaim your dreams and raise a family at the same time, and shows you how.   I especially recommend chapter two and three, on finding your purpose and making more time. The 10% Entrepreneur   Ive reviewed this one previously, but its such a valuable resource for anyone contemplating creating a #sidehustle or even a larger venture, Im recommending it again.   As I said in that review, As a successful 10% entrepreneur himself (“I definitely eat my own cooking”) Patrick lays out a detailed blueprint to take virtually anyone from someone with an idea through all the steps required to build themselves a truly entrepreneurial life.  A venture capitalist and private equity investor who founded Dirigo Advisors and witnessed the AIG collapse from the inside, he is the quintessential example of a survivor.

Interview Series - Career Experts - Dawn Quesnel from Coach DQ CareerMetis.com

Interview Series - Career Experts - Dawn Quesnel from Coach DQâ€" CareerMetis.com In this interview series, we caught up with Dawn Quesnel from Coach DQwho shares her expertise and insights about job search, career change, etc. in today’s marketplace.Tell us a little bit about your companyevalCareer Coaching Professionals through job changes, raises and promotions.How did you get started in this path?I worked with a Coach.Is this something you decided early on in your career?No.What is the Best Career Advice You’ve ever received?Don’t give up on your dreams.evalWhat is the most exciting part of working in thisindustry?The impact you can have in a positive way on people’s careers.How do to stay abreast of the industry as an expert?Reading, networking,etc.What are some of the things that you see job seekers struggle with the most?The unknown and making assumptions without real evidence. e.g. they didn’t call me because I’m too old.What are the common mistakes that you see them do?Never following up.How should job seekers approach job search today?Do your research, know which companies you are targeting and what type of role you’re looking for.Write out your examples ahead of time.What is the biggest trend(s) you see that job seekers will face in the next 2-3 years?More contract to hire opportunities.What is one advice you would give someone just out of college today?Find a mentor and talk to 5 people working in the area or profession to get a better understanding of the career path.Know that the average person will change careers not jobs 10+ times over the course of their life time.What is one advice you would give someone who is switching careers?Do your research and ask for the job.How should job seekers get the most out of LinkedIn?Keep your profile up to date.Unemployment is at the lowest levels, why do you think that is?Economy is good.What is the biggest trend(s) you see that hiring managers will face in the next 2-3 years?Finding SMEs (subject matter experts).Dawn, what are you currently working on?My own job search.What are the best resources you recommend to job seekers?Now Discover Your Strengths (Marcus Buckigham)Now What? 90 Days to a New Life Direction (Laura Berman Fortgang)BRIDGE method (Dawn Quesnel)What is the best way for our audience to reach you?Email â€" [emailprotected]Phone â€" 617-755-8611Connect with or Follow Dawn Quesnel on Social Media:LinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTubeDawn Quesnel and Coach DQ have also been featured in our recent compilation of the most resourceful career experts and career blogs â€" Top Career Advice Websites.

Useful Tips in Getting a Perfect Headshot - CareerEnlightenment.com

Avoid wearing short sleevesAvoid short sleeves  because they can cut off your arms and make them look unflattering. Avoid busy patterns or designs that draw attention away from you and onto your outfit.Complement your skin toneWear colors that complement your natural skin tone. Avoid black and whites unless you’re dealing with a professional photographer who understands lighting very well and has the right equipment to light you for these colors. Otherwise, stick with either cool or warm tones depending on your own skin tone.Tone down on accessoriesFinally, tone down your jewelry or accessories during the shoot. You don’t want those distracting. Makeup, on the other hand, should be turned up. The  natural look isn’t going to show up on the shot. Amplify your usual makeup with more eyeliner, foundation, and a brighter lip.For guys, makeup doesn’t  come naturally but you may need a little something to not look pale and washed out through the lens. Male or female, consider hirin g a makeup professional  for your headshot.The Secret of A Perfect HeadshotAll of the suggestions above will give you the elements of a good headshot. However, great headshots come from capturing your essence through the lens.  Whether attached to a resume or on your website, your headshot is supposed to express who you are to someone who isn’t in the room with you. Often amateur  headshots provide a overly posed or stylized version of yourself instead of capturing just who you are.To avoid that, try to be comfortable in every way. Your photographer should have an approachable personality. Make sure you feel at home in what you’re  wearing. Don’t attempt to be something you’re not or a side of yourself that you wouldn’t show to the person you’re showing this picture to. For example,  if these headshots are for your business, you’re not going to take photos showing your family side.Most of all, you should be happy. Think of things that  excite you. Imagine eating someth ing delicious or looking someone you love. All of this will come across when you see your headshots.

Writing a Mobile Application in Resume

Writing a Mobile Application in ResumeA good question to ask when deciding what information to include on your resume to market yourself as a mobile developer is if you can create the software required. There are some mobile companies that are unwilling to hire people that cannot code, or at least not without a formal education in the field.While the need for an actual programming skill is not needed in order to work in the field of mobile applications, it is essential for your ability to be hired. If the company will hire you based on experience and the abilities that you already have, then they will be able to know how well you will work in their business and who you will interact with.It is a good idea to have a portfolio of previous work in the field of mobile application development before you apply for a job in order to get an idea of what you can do. It may sound like a daunting task, but with a little education and experience, you can have a portfolio to show off to potential employers. Of course, most portfolios are only a piece of work and should not be used to support an application for a resume.It is important to get these basic skills down on paper so that you can prepare for an interview. To this end, you should ensure that you create a few bullet points on your resume with the requirements and details of each project. This will make your resume readable and give the employer an idea of what you have done and what type of applications you might be able to create.Not everyone knows about the kind of things that are required in order to get free codes that are required to get into the company. You can find out by visiting the website of a few companies and researching their requirements for applicants. Some of the requirements might be different from the list of free codes that you were hoping to receive, so it would be wise to look over the requirements of several mobile companies before applying.It is important to research the free codes and find out what type of programs they require to have in order to have access to their databases. There are a lot of free codes, but the cost of getting into these companies is usually in the thousands of dollars. If you think that you are able to create the programs in question, then by all means start researching the free codes as this will give you a better idea of what it will take to get into one of these companies.Application design is often times the largest aspect of a mobile application. Whether you are capable of doing this in-house or not, it will still be necessary for you to develop your own applications as a programmer in order to stay competitive in the marketplace. Some companies will require this or some can provide free application design services as part of their recruiting process.There are a number of programming and application designing tools that you can use to create the mobile application of your dreams. These are all part of the technology that you can access to help you create the applications that you want to create. The key is to research the tool that is needed and to learn all you can about the tools to allow you to create the applications that you want to create.