Dont Go It Alone in Your Job Search

Dont Go It Alone in Your Job SearchDont Go It Alone in Your Job SearchDont Go It Alone in Your Job SearchBrian Ray (pictured) is founder of Crossroads Career Network, a national, non-profit membership of churches that provides online job search/ career resources and access to career groups. He is also author of the 2010 Crossroads Career Workbook, owner of Primus Consulting executive search, and former vice president for human resources and administration for Chick-fil-A restaurants.Recently, I saw the movie Up in the Air for a second time.While the movie focuses on Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) and his unencumbered lifestyle as a frequent-flying corporate downsizer, the backdrop of the film is the more than 15 million laid-off workers. It reveals the shock and emotional hit of being jobless, up in the air, and all alone.No, wait It doesnt have to be that way.One morning last month, I went to North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, GA, and saw 200-plus people meeting and greeting one another at a career group event. The volunteer leader, Peter Bourke, invited people to sit at one of 30 round tables.Most jobs that get filled are not posted publicly, Peter began. Most are filled through networking. Networking, however, is really hard without relationships. That is why we are here today. Here you can meet people, make friends, start relationships, and help one another.As he continued, he outlined three rules to help you succeed at networkingThe 3-Foot Rule If you get within three feet of anyone, you are obligated to share your career transition experience with them.The Help-Others-First Rule If youre wondering who can help you find leads, turn your thinking around and adopt a new mindset Who can I help?The Have-a-Weekly-Plan Rule Each week, be prepared to talk about the job and the employers you seek, including a list of the top five organizations you want to network with. Know (and ask for) the help you needwhether its contacts, intelligence about an employer , or encouragement to keep going.We quickly moved on to a facilitated conversation around each table. Each person had 10 minutes to describe the opportunity they wanted and the help they needed. Others offered suggestions, and shared phone numbers and email addresses. A few days later, I sent an email introducing an HR director from our group looking for a contact in a specific company to a friend of mine who is a VP in that company. Thats the power of career groups, contacts, relationships, and personal referralsBack to the movie Up in the Air ended with video clips of people who were unemployed, talking about their career transitions and the power of relationships.The moral of the story? Career transition is NOT a journey you should make alone. Take the trip with others. Consider it a team effort in which we help one another with contacts, counsel, encouragement, and accountability. Find career groups near you. Be prepared, reach out, and help others through their crossroads.Have you joined a career group recently? Has the experience helped you? Tell us about it in a comment below.

Engineering Spotlight Hanan Altabbakh

Engineering Spotlight Hanan Altabbakh Engineering Spotlight Hanan Altabbakh Engineering Spotlight Hanan AltabbakhHanan Altabbakh is an engineering graduate student at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, MO working on zu sich Ph.D. in Engineering Management with an emphasis on risk assessment. She holds a B.S. degree in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering from Kuwait University and a M.S. in Engineering Management from Missouri ST.I chose industrial engineering and engineering management since both fields combine technical as well as managerial aspects of running an organization. It also prepares young engineers to be motivating leaders and successful decision makers as they are capable of managing various disciplines due to their acquired skills and knowledge during their education.Prior to starting her graduate academic journey, she worked for the Ministry of Education in Kuwait as a Safety Engineer.Hanans current research is focused on applying various risk assessment tools and accident causation models to analyze accidents in sociotechnical systems. She credits Dr. Susan Murray, her advisor, for providing continuous guidance and support for all of her research and academic progress.In her latest research paper with contributing authors Dr. Murray and Dr. Katie Grantham, she won first place in the 2012 ASME SERAD competition. Towards Quantifying the Safety Cognition in the Undergraduate, examines safety training exposure and knowledge within young engineers involved in engineering competition teams and potential causes that prevent young engineers from making appropriate decision from a safety prospective. The research showed that young engineers have been receiving informal safety training, which is often ineffective, and do notlage always assure positive safety attitude or safety performance, which reflected in their attitude in schools workshops or labs.When asked, about why engineers should care about safety/risk analysis, Ha nan said, Considering both safety and risk assessment in different stages of any research or project it is essential to prevent accidents by designing for safer systems/products. In addition, identifying hazards and assessing risk at early stages, such as the conceptual stages, will definitely reduce, if not eliminate, undesired cost of adding safety controls as the system/product progress. In her experience, Hanan has discovered that every task and activity has a safety and risk analysis component and she strongly advocates that young engineers be exposed more to formal safety training and education within their undergraduate education. I hope that safety education and training will be parte of college education since these young engineers will be future managers and decision makers who will play a major role in establishing a safety climate within their organization. Hence, it will positively influence the employees safety performance. Hanans ultimate goals as an engineer over the next few years will be to explore more risk assessment tools that can both analyze accidents causation and prevent them from happening in complex system that involve human, machines and environment.Her advice for other early career engineers and students, Dont stop seeking knowledge after graduating from college do more research and read what others have contributed to different fields. Try to participate in conferences and forums that enhance your skills. Try to keep yourself up to date with new ideas or technologies concerned with safety and risk assessment. Once you are part of an organization, always be prepared for a good change to achieve quality and dont be an Anchor dragger. Safety is an essential part of the ultimate quality.

Busyness and the lack of margin in our lives

Busyness and the lack of margin in ur livesBusyness and the lack of margin in ur livesOne of the most common maladies in the 21st century is living lives that feel stressed and chronically overwhelmed. We are busy, tired, and we feel stretched there always landseems to be mora to do than we have time or energy.When demands appear to be greater than ur resources, the result in our lives is stress. We feel stressed in different areas of life time, physical and emotional energy, relational demands and finances. Stress then displays itself in our lives in a variety of ways irritability, anxiety, not eating well, poor sleep habits, not exercising regularly, making hasty (and usually, poor) decisions.A number of years ago, Dr. Richard Swenson wrote a wonderful book entitled, Margin Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives where he convincingly demonstrates how not leaving extra space in our lives (with our time, energy and finances) creates significa nt, but predictable stress for us.The concept of margin is based on the premise that it is wise to leave space in our lives to deal with the unexpected or unplanned events that may arise. This is in contrast with our tendency to pack our schedule full, or (as some people frame it) to make the most of our time.Just in case you need an example, in daily life, let me cite a coupleWorking full days, plus filling the evenings with meetings or activities (kids sports, etc.), and then having a full schedule of activities for the weekend. Repeat this pattern over several weeks until you either become exhausted or sick.Stretching the budget to buy a little nicer house, in a neighborhood with good schools stretching things a bit further to have the kids in private school or in numerous sports and lessons and then splurging a bit to spring for that nice vacation that you really cant afford but the kids are only young once.The problem is life is interrupted by the unexpected. If we plan and sc hedule our days, weeks and lives with no room for the unexpected, then the stress in our lives dramatically escalates when the unexpected occurs.So what types of things often occur in daily life that we havent learned to expect?traffic jam on the way to an important appointmentthe printer breaks down before a critical presentationone of your children gets sicka major client calls with a problem.Other common needs for margin (but less daily and more seasonal)getting sick, having an auto accident, or the car breaks downfamily events illness, death, accidentstechnology breakdowns computer/pad, phone, websiteweather travel delays, flooding, blizzards, tornadoes, hurricanesglobal national events terrorism, war, economic meltdowns.The likelihood of one or more of these events happening in the near future is actually fairly high (although we cannot predict which ones specifically). Interestingly, there are also positive events in our lives that place demands on our resources and suck up our margin weddings, births, graduations, moving, professional opportunities. So it is not always negative events that create stress in our lives.The Results of Living Without MarginWhat happens when we continue to live in a manner that doesnt leave room for the unexpected? Pretty obvious results, actually increased stress, irritability, tension, poor communication, relational conflict, being chronically late, missing important events, not being adequately prepared for meetings, poor quality work, frustration and anger, guilt, loss of sleep, depression.Why Do We Do It?If we have a fairly good idea that there will be unexpected events in our lives that will take additional time, energy and money to deal with, why dont we allow for them? I think there are different reasons for different people (or at different times in our lives). The following isnt an exhaustive list, but is a startUnrealistic expectations about life. Believing that life will continue to go on as it has, without dis ruption.Being fearful and anxious about the future, which drives a frenetic pace to do as much as you can today (the you can never save enough syndrome).A pleasure and stimulation seeking approach to life some people live for excitement and adrenaline. They also often have an inability to enjoy inactivity, peace, or just to rest.Survival. Although this is not true for most of us, there are people who have to work long hours (both for money and at home) just to provide for themselves and their families.Other negative driving factors in our lives workaholism, greed, excessive desire for achievement.How Do We Start to Change (and Live a More Sane Life?)Change starts with awareness and acceptance of a problem. If we dont think how we are living creates problems for us, our family or our business, then we wont change. So it might be wise to start with an honest appraisal. Take a look at your life and see if the occurrence of unexpected events are fairly common in your life and create s tress because you dont allow space in your life to deal with them.Next, pull out your calendar for the next week and month. Are there any unscheduled blocks of time (during the workday, evenings, weekends) or is your calendar already packed? In what arenas of your life do you tend to live close to the edge? With your time? Finances? Physical and emotional energy? Take stock of the beliefs that push you to live without margin. Develop a plan to explore and correct the distortions you have.Remember, we were not designed to live life under constant, unrelenting pressure. Take a deep breath. Look around you and identify something that is beautiful. Take a walk and enjoy the outdoors. Pause and give thanks for the good things in your life. And put some time in your schedule to do nothingRecently, in the closing session of the Recognition Professionals International conference, I talked aboutbusynessand how it is one of the major threats to healthy workplaces today. For more information a bout reducing busyness in the workplace, see my bookThe Vibrant Workplace, where I devote a whole chapter to the issue.This article was originally published on Appreciation at Work.

AZ Human Resources and Management Acronyms

AZ menschlich Resources and Management AcronymsAZ Human Resources and Management AcronymsHave you ever spoken to a Human Resources practitioner and had trouble understanding various portions of the conversation? Learning and understanding Human Resources and management acronyms and abbreviations is a challenge. As in any other occupation, people familiar with the field start talking in abbreviations because its easy and familiar- they do it out of habit, unaware the other rolle doesnt know what theyre saying. It can sound as if theyre speaking in a foreign language. If you work in manufacturing, you know what I mean. Youll toss about the term QC (Quality Control) as though its in the dictionary. With this in mind, the following acronyms are common HR and management lingo. A AAP Affirmative Action PlanAARP American Association of Retired PersonsABM Activities Based ManagementADA The Americans With Disabilities ActADD Accidental Death DismembermentADEA Age Discrimination in Employ ment ActADL Activities of Daily LivingAE Account ExecutiveAFL-CIOAmerican Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial OrganizationsAFSCMEAmerican Federation of State, County, and Municipal EmployeesAJB Americas Job BankANSIAmerican National Standards InstituteAP Accounts Payable APR Annual Percentage RateAR Accounts ReceivableATD Association for Talent Development (formerly ASTD American Society for Training and Development)AWOL Absent Without Leave B B2B Business to BusinessB2C Business to ConsumerBA Bachelor of ArtsBBBBetter Business BureauBCPBusiness Continuity PlanBS Bachelor of ScienceBC/R Benefits Cost/RatioBLS Bureau of Labor StatisticsBOD Board of DirectorsBU Bargaining Unit C CCLCenter for Creative LeadershipCCPCertified Compensation ProfessionalCEBSCertified Employee Benefits SpecialistCEO Chief Executive OfficerCFOChief Financial OfficerCHROChief Human Resources OfficerCIO Chief Investment Officer, Chief Information OfficerCMOChief Marketing OfficerCOOChief Ope rating OfficerCSOChief Security OfficerCOBClose of BusinessCEUContinuing Education UnitCAI Computer Assisted InstructionCBT Computer-Based TestingCOBRA Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act CTOCompensatory Time OffCPEContinuing Professional EducationCOLACost of Living AdjustmentCVstudienplan Vitae D DOB Date of BirthDOIDate of InjuryDO Directors and OfficersDB Defined BenefitDBPP Defined Benefit Pension PlanDCPPDefined Contribution Pension PlanDOL Department of LaborDOJ Department of JusticeDOT Dictionary of Occupational Titles, Department of TransportationDWDislocated WorkerDBA Doing Business AsDINKSDual Income No KidsDRPDisaster Recovery Plan E EBT Earnings Before TaxesEAP Employee Assistance ProgramEBSA Employee Benefits Security AdministrationEBOEmployee BuyoutEDT Electronic Data Processing, Employee Development PlanEE EmployeeEIN Employer Identification NumberEI Employee InvolvementEI Emotional IntelligenceEPLIEmployment Practices Liability InsuranceERISAEmploy ee Retirement Income Security ActESOEmployee Stock OptionESOPEmployee Stock Option PlanEOD End of DayEOY End of YearEEO Equal Employment OpportunityEEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EPA Equal Pay Act, Environmental Protection Agency F FCRAFair Credit Reporting ActFEPFair Employment PracticeFLSA Fair Labor Standards ActFMLA Family Medical Leave ActFEIN Federal Employment Identification NumberFUTAFederal Unemployment Tax ActFSA Flexible Spending Account (Healthcare)FAQFrequently Asked QuestionsFTFull TimeFTEFull-Time Equivalent G GATBGeneral Aptitude Test BatteryGEDGeneral Equivalency DiplomaGPHR Global Professional in Human ResourcesGTLGroup Term Life Insurance H HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996HMO Health Maintenance OrganizationHCE Highly Compensated EmployeeHCM Human Capital ManagementHPT Human Performance TechnologyHR Human Resources, Human ResourceHRCI HR Certification InstituteHRD Human Resources Development, Human Resource DevelopmentHRIS Human Resources Information SystemHRM Human Resources Management, Human Resource ManagementHRMS Human Resources Management SystemHSA Health Savings Account I IRCA Immigration Reform and Control ActIRS Internal Revenue Service J JD Job Description, Juris DoctorateJTPAJob Training Partnership Act (Now theWorkforce Investment Act of 1998.)OAJoint Operating AgreementJSSAJury Selection and Service Act K KPI Key Performance IndicatorKPM Key Performance MeasuresKSA Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities L LOA Leave of AbsenceLOS Length of ServiceLMS Learning Management SystemLR Labor RelationsLTC Long-Term CareLTD Long-Term DisabilityLWOP Leave Without PayLWP Leave with Pay M MA Merger AcquisitionMBO Management by ObjectivesMBTI Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorMHPA Mental Health Parity ActMOP Measure of PerformanceMQ Minimum Qualifications N NE Non-ExemptNLRB National Labor Relations BoardNEO New Employee Orientation O OSHAOccupational Safety and Health Ad ministrationOOH Occupational Outlook HandbookOPM Office of Personnel ManagementOMBOffice of Management and BudgetOJTOn-The-Job-TrainingOE Open Enrollment for BenefitsOCFOperating Cash FlowOEOperating ExpenseOIOperating IncomeOD Organization DevelopmentOT Overtime P PA Performance AssessmentPERT Project Evaluation and Review TechniquePT Part TimePIP Performance Improvement PlanPM Performance Management, Project ManagementPPO Preferred Provider OrganizationPHR Professional in Human ResourcesPL Profit and Loss Q QR Quarterly ReviewQWI Quarterly Workforce Indicators R RIF Reduction in ForceRPA Retirement Plan AlternativeRTW Return to Work S SBA Small Business AdministrationSE Salaried ExemptSNE Salaried Non-exemptSME Subject Matter ExpertSHRM Society for Human Resources ManagementSPHR Senior Professional in Human ResourcesSSA Social Security AdministrationSSN or SS Social Security NumberSTD Short Term DisabilitySWOT Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats T TM Talent ManagementTDTraining and DevelopmentTBDTo Be DeterminedTDATax Deferred AnnuityTDBTemporary Disability BenefitsTESSATax-Exempt Special Savings AccountTEUCTemporary Extended Unemployment CompensationTLTime and LaborTPAThird Party AdministratorTPDTemporary Partial DisabilityTTDTemporary Total DisabilityTSATax-sheltered Annuity U UAW United Auto WorkersUCIUnemployment compensation insuranceUFWUnited Farm WorkersUGMAUniform Gifts to Minors ActUICUnemployment Insurance CommissionUN United NationsUSCUnited States CodeUSCISU.S. Citizenship and Immigration ServicesU. S. DOJUnited States Department of JusticeU.S. DOLUnited States Department of LaborUSERRAUniform Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act V VA Veterans Administration/AffairsVETS Veterans Employment and Training ServiceVP Vice PresidentVPNVirtual Private NetworkVOC-REHABVocational Rehabilitation W WARN Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification ActWC Workers CompensationWIA Workforce Investment ActWIP Wor k in ProgressWTO World Trade OrganizationWTW Welfare to WorkW-2 Income tax form issued by employersW-4 Federal income tax withholding formWPS Work Performance Standards X XRA Expected Retirement AgeXML Extensible Markup Language (Code) Y YTD Year to Date Z ZBB Zero Based Budgeting

The Foolproof Examples of Professional Resumes Strategy

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A History of Procedure Writing on Resume Refuted

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