My Newest Product Line for Career Centers (Career Center Software)

My Newest Product Line for Career Centers (Career Center Software) This isnt really a new product line but it is indeed awesome. I just havent announced it before, because I know my competition likes to see what Im doing and try and do it on their own. I wanted to get some clients before I announced it I have some clients on this system now, and sometime next year Ill fully announce it.  For now Ill tell you this: It is for university career centers, It is NOT JibberJobber (although JibberJobber is integrated with it), It is my version of a learning management system. I love referrals to career centers, and alumni offices.  If YOU have a connection at your career center, reach out to me.  Im happy to give you information about this system, and even show you a very short demo of how it works. If you are comfortable with it, you can introduce me to your career center cool?  Id love that thank you in advance! NOTE: this is for the career center CLIENT, not for their office staff. My Newest Product Line for Career Centers (Career Center Software) This isnt really a new product line but it is indeed awesome. I just havent announced it before, because I know my competition likes to see what Im doing and try and do it on their own. I wanted to get some clients before I announced it I have some clients on this system now, and sometime next year Ill fully announce it.  For now Ill tell you this: It is for university career centers, It is NOT JibberJobber (although JibberJobber is integrated with it), It is my version of a learning management system. I love referrals to career centers, and alumni offices.  If YOU have a connection at your career center, reach out to me.  Im happy to give you information about this system, and even show you a very short demo of how it works. If you are comfortable with it, you can introduce me to your career center cool?  Id love that thank you in advance! NOTE: this is for the career center CLIENT, not for their office staff.

Adjusting to Working From Home - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Adjusting to Working From Home - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Whether you’re telecommuting, starting a home business or freelancing, working at home comes with big changes, some of which can be surprisingly difficult. You can make the adjustment easier by anticipating challenges and planning your routine. Here are tips to help you succeed working from home: 1. Designate a work area. An office with a door is ideal, as it helps prevent distraction from household activity and creates an external cue that it’s time to work. 2. Set boundaries with family and friends. For some reason, many view working at home as a hobby or optional, so they’ll call you on the phone, stop by for lunch or want you to take care of errands for them. Protect your work time by being firm with family and friends, and if necessary screening calls. 3. Anticipate and deal with distractions before they occur. Having a separate office and setting boundaries can help, but some distractions such as the television and children can be hard to avoid. Identify potential distractions and set up blocks to keep them from getting in your way. For example, if you have kids at home, take them to a play group. If you’re prone to taking naps, remove the couch from your home office. 4. Create a schedule and routine. Because working at home can be flexible, it can be too easy to take care of chores and indulge in non-work activity. A schedule and routine gets you into your office to work and helps you avoid distractions. 5. Use a to-do list. Some home-based workers get into the office, but then are stuck on what tasks to complete. As a result they waste time trying to get into work mode and figuring out what to do first. A to-do list helps you get to work the minute you sit down at your desk. Working from home offers flexibility and freedom, but if not managed correctly, can result in getting nothing done. Through a little planning, though, you can set up a work-at-home situation in which you are productive and efficient.

How Small Business Leaders Fail Engaging in Candid Communications - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

How Small Business Leaders Fail Engaging in Candid Communications - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Last week you read why it is important for small business leaders to engage in direct, candid communications in their workplaces. They should also invest some energy in creating a culture of candid communication, where direct, candid conversations between all personnel and all levels is the expectation. Few do, however. The reason is, it is hard to do. First of all, most small business leaders are uncomfortable with it themselves so they rarely approach the conversations the right way and some avoid them altogether. If this is the case its virtually impossible for a leader to hold this expectation for others in their organization. Even if they did, it would go bad as few would engage in them properly and effectively. They would be creating more conflict rather than building people up to higher performance and morale. One clients employees told me that their boss (my client) was sending mixed messages and creating confusion around expectations. When I informed him of this he said, oh, no, Skip, I was quite clear. There was no confusion. Obviously not! If his people (and it was more than one) are saying they are getting mixed messages and its generating confusion in the workplace, then there are mixed messages and confusion in the workplace. Secondly, because many small business leaders are uncomfortable with the candid, one-on-one conversations they often avoid them until a situation becomes more serious and theyve reached a breaking point. This is not the frame of mind to have a candid, direct, one-on-one conversation as emotions are often too intense at this stage. Third, they often end up engaging in the wrong conversation with the right person! Since creating the concept around The 4 Workplace Conversations  Im continually amazed at how often people start too far down the conversation scale. Too often small business leaders start the candid, one-on-one conversation about an issue they need to address with the individual. Doing so often gets people defensive and upset. Whereas there may be a behavior or performance issues that needs to be addressed, the better conversation to have, at least at the beginning, is more about the relationship between the two people. Small business leaders too often get caught up in the Im the boss, I sign the paycheck mindset, thinking this is enough to have employees comply with job requirements. It can be. If the small business owner wants robots who dont think for themselves and just do what theyre told. Instead the conversations should center around building relationships with their employees based on trust and commitment to the common vision for the company. Rarely do those conversations take place in small businesses. They should. If you want some ideas as to how to do it in a way that will create a workforce that thinks, feels and acts like owners, reach out to me and Id be happy to have a strategy conversation with you about how to do it.

How Can Recruitment Businesses Profit from the Gig Economy

How Can Recruitment Businesses Profit from the Gig Economy Long gone are the days when people would remain in a single job for most of their career. With recruitment agencies providing UK businesses 1.2 million temporary workers according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, temporary employment is an embedded work practice. And now modern workers have another way to secure short-term job and project opportunities that match their skills and availability facilitated by the web and online platforms. Defined as a labour market characterised by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work as opposed to permanent jobs, the “gig economy” represents a social, cultural, and business evolution. In the UK its estimated that five million people are employed in this type of capacity, and the gig economy has grown by more than 70% since 2010 in London with no signs of abating. This new hiring model is understandably therefore seen as a threat by those recruitment companies that don’t understand how to capitalise on the gig economy. As more workers provide their skills on-demand, fitting their careers around their lifestyle and personal commitments, platforms such as Upwork and Wonolo are becoming increasingly popular.  This technological disruption and generational change has shifted expectations of staffing companies to have technology and processes in place to facilitate similar on-demand work opportunities. Communicating in real-time with candidates via mobile technology, changing the recruitment process to emulate online models and enabling peer-to-peer ratings are all part of the equation. So how can recruitment businesses stay current with candidates and clients and capitalise on the growth of the gig economy? 1. Make relationships count By leveraging your candidate database and utilising assets that online platforms dont have â€" local relationships recruitment agencies have an advantage. Selecting workers with the right skills, work ethic, and personality to fit with a company’s culture and engaging with the employer throughout the assignment duration are service elements that the majority of online platforms don’t offer. Reinforce these relationship benefits with existing customers. 2. Play the legally compliant card   In recent months there has been a backlash about the infringement of workers’ rights associated with some online models.  The Taylor review of modern working practices  highlights seven key principles for protecting the workforce and is worth a read for anyone in the recruitment industry. There’s a real opportunity for staffing firms to adopt technologies that allow them to compete in real-time, giving the speed of response delivered by online platforms, at the same time as safeguarding workers’ rights. 3. Embrace technological disruption The gig economy workforce is not just tech-savvy, they are tech-led, capable of interacting with businesses at any time over any device. Adopting the right mobile-centric software makes the temporary candidate management process easier allowing you to compete with lower overhead online models. This doesn’t necessarily mean cutting headcount, it’s more about having your recruiters focus on value-adding relationship building with the time saved through greater efficiencies. By making it easier for workers to share their real-time availability via a mobile app you can deploy workers more quickly according to their skills, preferences, and location. A new breed of recruitment software, classified by  The Staffing Industry Analysts as “Online Staffing Enabling Technologies”  allows staffing companies to private-label their own human cloud service delivery. 4. Do your homework The work and employment landscape is constantly evolving. Stay abreast of trends so you can act as a trusted advisor to your clients. Attend recruitment events to hear from respected speakers, technology companies, and your peers. Share relevant articles and blog posts via social media to show you are top of your game. Initiate conversations with clients to learn their views and understand their candidate attraction game-plans. To stay current and build sustainable relationships and profitable growth you need to facilitate the level of immediacy the gig economy trades on, combining it with the value-adds you offer candidates and clients. There’s still time to be an early adopter in this new way of working. Game on. About the author:  Rachael Moss, is the Group Marketing Director of Bond International TempBuddy.

A Comprehensive Guide to Starting a Career in the ELearning Field

A Comprehensive Guide to Starting a Career in the ELearning Field Photo Credit â€" Pexels.comA technology advert is a double-edged sword: on one side, it considerably simplifies our lives, on the other one â€" cuts short the number of available jobs, and thereby sets off a so-called “technological unemployment”.While some people give up because of this, others, in their turn, retrain and go all the way with their heads held high. If you are more of a second type, I prepared a guide to the eLearning job market for you, where the number of jobs with the rise of technology has only increased.ELearning Since the distance education is more affordable, readily available and is more flexible in terms of schedule, more and more people around the world prefer it to the traditional, classroom-based education, which, in its turn, sets off the need in the eLearning industry professionals.The eLearning job market is quite wide and to find a job that is interesting and at the same time corresponds with the expertise you possess might require some time and ef fort, particularly when there is no experience or skills required for the desired job position.But who told that’s going to be easy?1. Market ResearchevalThe first step is to do the market research.There are several ways to enter the eLearning industry field:1. By becoming an online educator or instructor. If you have a blog or teaching experience you can monetize the knowledge by applying for a job of an online instructor or by opening your own online training school.2. By reselling the educational software like Learning Management Systems* *A Learning Management System 3. By consulting people on eLearning software. There are over 700 Learning Management Systems vendors and around 50 eLearning Authoring Tool providers. It is not surprising that instead of looking for the right software themselves people prefer to hire eLearning consultants to give them technical advice.4. By administering an LMS. Learning Management Systems can be free and commercial, hosted in the Cloud and inst alled on the client’s website. If an LMS is free or there is a need for an LMS to be installed on the client’s website To read books, blogs, online journals, industry reports and statistics;There are a few I like most of all:brandon-hall.comtalentedlearning.comtheelearningcoach.comelearninglearning.comelearning247.orgelearningindustry.comblog.capterra.comtheedadvocate.orggettingsmart.comthejournal.comteachercast.netedtechtimes.comtheeducatorsroom.comchronicle.comtheelearningcoach.comevalJoin groups on Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ where people share valuable insights or answer each others’ questions:LinkedIn ELearning and EdTech Groups:Learning, Education and Training Professionals Group eLearning Industry E-Learning 2.0 ISTE â€" international Society for Technology in Education The eLearning Guide TechinEDU Elearning edge â€" For Global Learning Strategies Training and Development for eLearning eLearning Companies Instructional Design Forum Learning and Development Learning Dev elopment Institute LMS and e-learning Education Technology Group â€" The 21 Century ClassroomRapid e-Learning eLearning Professionals Network Education Technology Specialists Google Plus ELearning and EdTech Communities:Education Revolution Educational Technology Education Teaching Resources EdTech Technology innovation in Education Teachers Helping Teachers Higher Education Technology eLearning Development Massive Open Online Courses instructional Design E-Learning Professionals’ G Tech in Edu. Future Classroom Scenarios;E-Learning technologies;EU Educators;eLearning Specialists;eLearning Industry;eLearning Club;Instructional Designer;Educational Challenges in Digital Era;OpenEducation;E-Learning Resources;e-Learning in Developing and Developed Countries;Connect with industry professionals on LinkedIn and Twitter;Apply for an internship;Participate in forum discussions;Attend online webinars;Request free trials of educational software;Attend eLearning conferences where you can not only gain knowledge but also meet industry professionals and HR specialists Social media websites;Freelance websites Employment-related search engines

The Future of Work and the Rise of Worker Burnout

The Future of Work and the Rise of Worker Burnout My son says I work too much. He sees me at my desk when he leaves for school in the morning long before the start of the traditional workday. He often sees me there again when he first returns home from school in the afternoon. And he sees me sitting beside him and working again while he is doing his homework in the evening. He thinks Im an anomaly. But Im starting to realize that I may be the new norm.Last week at the National Resume Writers Association conference, Business and Workplace Author and Speaker Alexandra Levit keynoted the conference with a presentation called The Future of Work. One of the trends she discussed was the rise of virtual work spaces followed by the rise of worker burnout. Levit reminded us that people like boundaries, but in the evolving world of work, boundaries are becoming fuzzier and fuzzier. Work and personal lives are  becoming intertwined to the point where its hard to differentiate which is which. For many of us, the world of  9 to 5 is gone as wo rk and personal demands co-mingle and become a part of everything we do.I sometimes pine for the days when a boss or client couldnt reach you after 5pm, a business trip truly meant you had limited phone contact, and calling someone about work-related issues while they were on vacation was considered taboo. I constantly struggle with the efficiencies of the virtual workplace versus the far less efficient, yet saner workplace of decades ago. I revel in the fact that I can Skype with a client in Singapore for free, yet cringe at the fact that I may need to be available as early as 7am to accommodate the time difference and the expectations of that client. The new world of work fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.But its my Gen Z (demographic born in 1995 or later) son who lives for technology and never knew a world without it that has forced me to reexamine the impact technology has had on my life and encouraged me to take the leap of faith to just say no in certain work si tuations to create boundaries for myself.  Heres my short listHave at least one unscheduled hour in the morning or midday for exercise or just to clear my head.Ban Droid usage and email checking on the subway and read a book instead.Insist on a hard stop for at least an hour at 4:30 (on the days I am working from home) to welcome my son home and enjoy his company.Set a time where my home office closes and I dont return until the next day.Limit email use for business on the weekends.Its not perfect but its a start. Is the new world of work causing burnout for you? And if it is, what are you doing about it?

Tough (Question) Tuesday How can you give yourself a boost

Tough (Question) Tuesday How can you give yourself a boost Boost by shellypaints I am in love with the print above! Thinking of the cow needing clearance to jump over the moon made me think of how we all need support to get from Point A to Point B, whether its from ourselves or others. And that brought me to todays Tough (Question) Tuesday (yay inspiration!): How can you give yourself a boost? Jumping over the moon isnt something you should be doing yourself, thats for sure. Join me in the comments section with your answer well clear the moon-jumping path for each other! ********************************************************************************************************* 1 person. 12 session. $0. Announcing the 2nd Annual When I Grow Up Scholarship! Get Danielle LaPorte’s Nuggets of Genius in your own home, on your own time. Announcing the Digital Firestarter Sessions from my “cult leader.” Great Giveaway! Win a fantastically awesome print from Artsyville.