Wax On Wax Off

Wax On Wax Off Trying to come up with another way of saying more polishing on JibberJobber note the following updates that are currently live (some from a few days ago, others as of a few hours ago). Thanks to all of those who gave feedback on these issues: Multi-national characters we kind of ignored this for a while but finally got around to fixing it. This applies to those in foreign countries with those funny little alphabet letters and symbols that Americans just dont understand but it also applies to those that have international contacts (I hear the world is flat now). Note this works on importing as well as directly entering it on the form. (not tested in Chinese and I think 2 other languages, if you problems just let me know) Navigation on List Panels there used to be just a next/previous navigation on the bottom of the list panel, now it is on the top and the bottom. Search on Library is available for free!!! If you are a regular user you may not have known about the search box in the upper right well, now you get it! But it only searches on the Library which is cool because see next bullet. Note that if you want a quick search on your companies, contacts and the Library, go ahead and upgrade. How to Get the Most out of JibberJobber this is a new series of little articles in the Library that kind of explains various things that may not be too intuitive. For example, I have one called List Panels Explained. You can find these from the search (see last bullet), or from going into the Library, Articles, and down at the very bottom. What else do you want me to include in here? Get Contact List Update: More Output you asked to see the company and category on the output that you can print out and now its there. Get Contact List Update: Filtering Your Results you can now filter down to get more precise data based on tags, categories, etc. Much cleaner now than before, but still a little bit of work to get it really really smooth. Coming soon, I promise! Network Contact List Panel, New Column Not sure how we overlooked this one, but now you can add the Company to the list panel on your network contacts. Very useful! Shucks, I know Im forgetting some stuff but you get the idea. If you got any more cool ideas, please send them my way! I have lists of stuff that will keep us busy for months but youd be surprised at how easy some of your requests are. More to come! Wax On Wax Off Trying to come up with another way of saying more polishing on JibberJobber note the following updates that are currently live (some from a few days ago, others as of a few hours ago). Thanks to all of those who gave feedback on these issues: Multi-national characters we kind of ignored this for a while but finally got around to fixing it. This applies to those in foreign countries with those funny little alphabet letters and symbols that Americans just dont understand but it also applies to those that have international contacts (I hear the world is flat now). Note this works on importing as well as directly entering it on the form. (not tested in Chinese and I think 2 other languages, if you problems just let me know) Navigation on List Panels there used to be just a next/previous navigation on the bottom of the list panel, now it is on the top and the bottom. Search on Library is available for free!!! If you are a regular user you may not have known about the search box in the upper right well, now you get it! But it only searches on the Library which is cool because see next bullet. Note that if you want a quick search on your companies, contacts and the Library, go ahead and upgrade. How to Get the Most out of JibberJobber this is a new series of little articles in the Library that kind of explains various things that may not be too intuitive. For example, I have one called List Panels Explained. You can find these from the search (see last bullet), or from going into the Library, Articles, and down at the very bottom. What else do you want me to include in here? Get Contact List Update: More Output you asked to see the company and category on the output that you can print out and now its there. Get Contact List Update: Filtering Your Results you can now filter down to get more precise data based on tags, categories, etc. Much cleaner now than before, but still a little bit of work to get it really really smooth. Coming soon, I promise! Network Contact List Panel, New Column Not sure how we overlooked this one, but now you can add the Company to the list panel on your network contacts. Very useful! Shucks, I know Im forgetting some stuff but you get the idea. If you got any more cool ideas, please send them my way! I have lists of stuff that will keep us busy for months but youd be surprised at how easy some of your requests are. More to come!

Recruitment Its Not Speed Dating

Recruitment Its Not Speed Dating This is one of my favourite topics. I believe this is what will differentiate the winners from the losers in recruitment. In the end, a recruiter is as good as the number of candidates that she or he can close. That is it. So what recruiters are going to need in the next 3 years, is the ability to architect the deal. Something I feel we as an industry lost in the boom era. I use the word ‘architect’ because it suggests designing, building, creating, managing. And these are the complex and subtle skills you will need to thrive going forward. In recent years recruiters did no placement process architecture. What 90% of recruiters did, and still do, is pure introduction. That’s all we did. We were like organisers of a speed dating night. Throwing loosely compatible people together in an artificial environment for a short time and hoping they would fall in love! That won’t do any more. Those recruiters who understand that the human touch is still our primary tool in making a hire work, are those who will be most successful. So how do we get better at ‘Placement Architecture’? There are three components to building strong hiring process, and these are skills you are going to need: Take the time required  Recruitment is a series of discrete human interactions, and great recruiters will manage, control, and influence the outcome of each of those interactions to maximise success. Listen better than ever before  Uncovering, questioning, and understanding are sadly undervalued recruiter skills that we need to hire and coach back into our business. Most recruiters do none of this. They act on the client’s word as if it is the true gospel, or they tell clients what to do without asking questions first. It sounds counter-intuitive, but great recruiters will purposely be “slow to understand”. Question everything  The biggest cause of placements falling through is people making assumptions. Recruiters taking what they are told at face value. Ask for the “why and how” of everything that does not ring true, and don’t stop asking until you get an answer. The good news is that the role of the recruiter, per se, is not under threat from technology or anything else. But the bad news is that the days of the dinosaur recruiter, unwilling to adapt, are well and truly numbered. RELATED: Why Being a Recruiter Rocks!

5 Ways to Overcome a Fear of Presenting

5 Ways to Overcome a Fear of Presenting He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. Aristotle There are many reasons why we fear presenting to others: fear of humiliation, fear of rejection and fear of failure are just three of the most quoted top ten human fears.  And there’s the issue they are often fantasized and rarely happen. Fear has many uses: some good, some bad. Fear can drive us forward or it can pull us back. Embracing your fears and understanding what drives them allows you to overcome them, and (as Aristotle said over two thousand years ago) be truly free.  So why are we fearful of presenting? One explanation can be found in our own human development. Many thousands of years ago, standing in front of a large group of people could have been a fatal experience. That survival instinct of ‘fight or flight’ remains with us. Luckily modern presentations have softened a little since then. Most importantly fear lets us know that what we are about to do is important. It has worth and meaning. We all know what it feels like to get to the other side of a particular fear, whatever it may be. We feel elated and exhilarated and, above all, alive. So fear can be a way of heightening our experience of life. Joseph Campbell, the American mythologist, famously said, “the cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek”. Many great movies, books and TV series are based around Campbell’s principles the hero must face his or her fear to reach a new state of understanding and it’s no different for the rest of us. Fear helps us to develop and grow. Embrace it! So what about nerves? Adrenaline puts your body into a state of alert. If those nerves become uncontrollable they can cause us to freeze, sweat and lose all powers of thought. Here are five crucial things you can do that will help your nerves work for you and not against you: 1. Breathe: Take a moment to recall a beautiful and calm place and breathe in through your nose, feeling your lungs inflate and your rib cage expanding. Place one hand above your groin as this will help you feel the breath. Slowly and easily exhale through your mouth; continue exhaling until you feel there is nothing left in you.  Breathe in when you feel your body wants to. Do this for fifteen minutes. This will calm you, centre your breath and focus your thoughts. 2. Be present: This is something you can do whilst you are waiting to speak to sharpen your level of awareness. What can you see, hear, smell, touch and feel around you? Try to do this with no judgment. For example if you notice the CEO yawning, that is all you say to yourself, (not the CEO is bored, late, wants the speaker to speed up!). The reason for this is that you are focusing your mind on the ‘now’ and not what is imagined. 3. Visualize: Another highly effective skill used by many of the world’s top athletes to improve their technique â€" is visualization. Days, hours or weeks before your presentation run it over and over in your imagination, visualizing the event going incredibly well, go into detail â€" see what you are wearing, see yourself answering those really difficult questions effortlessly. Repeat this as often as you like and keep improving and editing your own private scene. You can do this anywhere â€" walking the dog, in the shower, going for a run. 4. Move: Movement will disperse the adrenaline in the body. So if you are lucky enough to be able to run, jump or skip before speaking â€" then just do it. Moving around your stage whilst you are presenting will also help. Like an actor on stage, find your reasons to move. Get a drink, point out a detail on a slide or approach you audience. 5. Focus on your audience: We are often nervous because we focus on ourselves. “What if I forget, or they don’t laugh” etc. How can you help your audience and channel your energy out to them and not back into your own head. Think of it as a conversation. How would you like your audience to feel? Excited, challenged, under pressure, supported, there are hundreds of different ways your audience can be affected by your message. Be clear what they could be. Finally, always remember everyone wants your presentation to go well. No one wants to be bored or irritated. The vast majority of people want you to succeed and to feel they spent their time well listening to you. The recently departed Nelson Mandela once said: I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. RELATED: Are YOU Wired to Be the Best? Author:  Josh Hansen is a writer who covers a wide range of employment and digital (sometimes together) topics.

Plan for Setbacks - Its Your Job - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Plan for Setbacks - Its Your Job - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career In reality, a job is a to-do list and game plan interrupted by problems. Few days unfold trouble free. A phone message or e-mail brings an unplanned-for, unanticipated crisis. While dealing with that issue, another message or a colleague comes in with another new dilemma. It goes on incessantly throughout the day and into the next. Every day things go wrong. Doing a stellar job means you fix them. Problems range in size and intensity, but generally speaking anytime you have a difference between what you have and what you want, it’s a problem. And it needs to be dealt with in an analytical, thorough, and logical approach. Don’t be caught off guard by incessant tribulations. Assume something will go wrong today. This is not negative thinking, it’s preemptive. If you anticipate the possibility you won’t be stunned and caught off guard. Ask yourself, “What could happen to mess this up?” If you don’t consistently pose that question, you aren’t doing the complete job. Count on the probability that the worst thing will always happen at the worst time. If you expect things to get messy, by anticipatory thinking and action, you can keep them from getting messier.

How Grammar and Spelling Errors Can Be Deadly (and Good) in Executive Job Search - Executive Career Brandâ„¢

How Grammar and Spelling Errors Can Be Deadly (and Good) in Executive Job Search

To Give or Not to Give The Office Gift Season

To Give or Not to Give The Office Gift Season Holiday Gift Giving Do’s and Don’ts A  recent survey  found that 41  percent  of employees say that the number one holiday gift they want from their boss this year is a holiday bonus. However, 46  percent  say that holiday bonuses are not given at their company,  and  13  percent  go on to describe their boss as “stingy” this time of year.     “It’s a tricky line to walk because you don’t want to seem like Scrooge;  but at the same time, giving out bonuses to each employee is not necessarily feasible for many companies,” says Rob Wilson, human resources expert and President of  Employco  USA, an employment solutions firm.     Wilson also says that many employees can struggle with holiday giving as it relates to their own colleagues or managers.     “Not only do many workers feel chagrined if they don’t receive a bonus from the boss, but they also have the added pressure of figuring out what to give their boss or managers, and how much to spend on coworkers,” says the employment trends expert.     To help circumvent these holiday headaches and keep employees focused, Wilson suggests the following Dos and Donts as it relates to holiday giving:     Set a rule  about in-office gifts.   When emailing about your office holiday party, Wilson advises employers to include a line asking for employees not to give presents to their managers. “A simple line such as ‘While we appreciate your generosity, please no gifts for us.’ This will help to remove any fears of ‘brown-nosing’ or people getting favorable treatment just because they are able to splurge on a big gift for the boss while others cannot afford to do so.”     Give back to the community.   “Rather than deal with the stress of Secret Santa or the distraction of a white elephant game, ask for employees to bring in one unwrapped toy to give to kids in need. Then, you can drop the toys off to a local YMCA, Toys for Tots, or similar charity. Not only will this remove stress about holiday giving in the office, but it will increase holiday spirit and joy in the office.”     Give the best gift of all: Time off.   “Research has found that employees say ‘time away from the office’ as their favorite thing that employers give them this time of year. If you don’t have the funds for bonuses or a big holiday party, simply giving the team an extra day off or even half-a-day can go a long way in inspiring goodwill. Even turning the week of Christmas into a ‘casual dress’ week can help employees to feel relaxed and appreciated by the boss.”   In addition to  these bits of advice,  be sure to take time to walk around and say,  â€œThank you for working so hard for our company,” to your  staff. For remote employees, write a personal e-mail to each employee or be unique and write out notes.   Yes, hand-written  and mailed! Join Dana  Manciagli’s  Job Search Master Class  now  and get the most comprehensive job search system available!

Top Australian Resume Writing Services

Top Australian Resume Writing ServicesThere are many top Australian resume writing services out there. Most of these can provide the same type of service that I'm talking about: high quality job search services. The problem is, the same companies all claim to be the best. So you want to find a service that is the best for your needs.You need to be careful when choosing top jobs sites. Not all of them have one-stop-shop resume services. Sometimes it's the job seeker who chooses where to look for the right resume services. At other times, it is the employers who choose where to look.Most job posting sites have had some kind of bad reputation in the past. This means that, regardless of whether or not the job posting sites have just recently come online, they have been around for a while. Therefore, you want to look at only sites that have a good reputation in the industry.After you have done this research and you have narrowed down your choices, it is time to choose a service that you f eel will provide you with a resume that is both professional and has a chance to get you interviews. The top Australian resume writing services will not require that you use their services to submit your resume. Instead, they can simply go back and help you craft a resume that is specific to your needs.They will customize your resume service to reflect the skills and experience you need. If you know your strengths and weaknesses, you can choose the top Australian resume writing services to use. The job search services that these companies provide can make sure that your resume speaks directly to your job objectives.They will also help you avoid wasting time and money by using free job search services that do not do a good job. In addition, these top job search services will provide you with the resources to help you land interviews. This is where the majority of your time is spent. It is important that you are able to gain entry into interviews that you might otherwise be put in the proverbial 'no man's land.'The bottom line is that, if you are applying for an interview, you need to take advantage of free job search services. These services are designed to give you the opportunity to get that first interview. So, before you submit your resume, it is time to use one of these free services.A lot of these great online resume services will even allow you to post your resume on their site. This can provide you with much needed exposure to potential employers. Although you may not be getting a free resume writing service, you can still be the face of your own company by using these top job search services.