Clear your fear in career transition - Hallie Crawford

Clear your dread in vocation progress Do you fantasy about exploring new territory in your vocation? Do you go through hours wandering off in fantasy land about how things will be brilliant in your new profession and not stuck in the one you're in? Do you get yourself reluctant to step forward, despite the fact that you realize you need change? You are not the only one. As a lifelong mentor, I have spoken with several individuals who fantasy about accomplishing something else with their lives, yet can't push ahead. What's holding them back? One word: Fear. I consider dread to be the #1 reason individuals remain in occupations they don't care for. It could be dread of the obscure, dread of what others will think, dread of disappointment, or dread of money related instability. There are the same number of various feelings of trepidation as there are individuals. So what would you be able to would on the off chance that you like to make a lifelong change yet are stuck in dread? Here are my three top tips to clear your dread and make a lifelong change: Make Things One Stride at a TimeThe quickest approach to feel overpowered and frightful is to hop 10 strides in front of where you're presently at. Rather, simply focus on the following stage before you. For example, don't stress over being extended to the employment opportunity on the off chance that you haven't conveyed any resumes. First get your resume and introductory letter all together. At whatever point you bounce ahead past the progression you're on, you will feel dreadful. Invest Energy Getting Clear Inside YourselfMany times dread depends on what others let you know and what you hear in the news. Putting together our choices with respect to what we figure others will believe isn't useful for you in getting clear on your vocation change. Rather, invest energy journaling, contemplating, and asking yourself what you most need. Permit yourself to get energized and propelled towards rolling out an improvement. You are accountable for your own life, so invest energy getting clear about what is best for you. Discover SupportIt is trying to roll out huge improvements alone. It is essential to enroll a strong group to assist you with your change. You don't need to accomplish this work alone. Why rehash an already solved problem if there are experts who can help? On the off chance that you are ready to get support in your vocation progress, reach us today and we'd love to give you a complimentary interview. Darcy Holoweski Affirmed Career Coach P.S. Are you baffled with your pursuit of employment? Look at our FREE REPORT: Take Control of Your Career Transition: Uncover Hidden Opportunities today!

Make a difference - or do something else - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Have any kind of effect - or accomplish something different - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog On the off chance that you can not genuinely say that your activity is in general improving life for somebody some place here and there that is important to you, at that point you ought to accomplish something different. Much obliged for visiting my blog. In case you're new here, you should look at this rundown of my 10 most well known articles. What's more, on the off chance that you need progressively extraordinary tips and thoughts you should look at our pamphlet about bliss at work. It's incredible and it's free :- )Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related

Could Internal Sabotage Happen At Your Company

Think What Happened To Elon Musk Won’t Happen to You? Think Again! Reverse Engineering Internal Sabotage for Prevention [Part 1 of 3] Discovery Fire Galaxy 2016 The Tesla sabotage incident  Elon Musk made the world aware of last week raises a few great questions. All great questions, but we’re going to focus on #1 today and tackle the other two in subsequent posts. If you took a look at Tesla’s Glassdoor profile, you’d see that they rate highly, at 3.4 out of 5 stars, but only 57% would recommend Tesla as an employer to a friend. Overall, people are in it for the mission of disrupting the energy and transportation industries, and 85% approve of the job Elon Musk is doing. The common complaints, however, are lack of work/life balance â€" long hours with minimal pay and inflexible attendance policies. The benefits are not quite making up for the lack in fair pay, either. Plus, lack of procedures are making employees feel like they can’t even be efficient in the time they spend there. Apparently, people get fired unexpectedly and are given little to no feedback on their performance. Also, one employee reports that it’s rare to be recognized, even if you’ve achieved the “impossible;” it just becomes the standard expectation from that point forward. They are letting go 9% of their salaried workforce (outside of production) to cut costs. They also are churning through people who find it hard to stay more than a couple years. Musk knew when he decided to step up and disrupt very wealthy and powerful industries that he would become a target. However, with the workforce complaints piling up, I wonder why he didn’t see an internal attack coming. Perhaps he isn’t familiar with altruistic punishment â€" a reaction embedded in our brain that gets triggered when a person believes he/she or someone else is being treated unfairly. Why did nature install this type of reaction in our brain? To promote cooperation that supports the evolution of our species. In answer to #1, biologically, science has proven all human beings are capable of inflicting harm on someone who has treated others unfairly. It stands to reason that people have varying thresholds. I think of Clark Griswold when I think of altruistic punishment. It hardly matters what National Lampoons movie you choose. He always had the best of intentions to show his family a great time and make meaningful memories. When other people’s shenanigans and acts of God threatened to sabotage his plans, he felt fully justified in breaking laws and violating other people’s safety and/or property to achieve his well-intentioned mission. In the end, people admitted that they were being unfair and Clark and his family got away without punishment and with amazing memories that brought them closer together as a family. Good times. I don’t see the Tesla employee enjoying such a happy ending, but maybe. I’m sure Musk has his own justifications for keeping things the way they are â€" in order to be profitable, the company has to produce 5,000 Model 3s each week. People have proposed that he be stripped of his Board Chairman position. The company’s shares are worth 16% now than they were last year at this time. No doubt, Musk is under a lot of pressure to control costs and boost production to survive as a company and achieve his mission. I’m sure employee belief in the mission is the thing that Musk was depending on to get him and his over-stretched workforce through these challenges. Unfortunately for Musk and his mission, it wasn’t enough, and the costs have been extremely prohibitive, though he still remains certain that he will achieve his production goals. Yes, Musk confessed to sleeping at the factory. I’m sure he wants his workforce to see him as a model employee, to see that he’s willing to put in every drop of his effort and time for the sake of his mission. Can he really expect them to show the same level of commitment AND perform, stay, endure with few perks to their lifestyle? Once they have been hired by any of his companies, they become premier talent for the taking. He suspects the jilted employee was collaborating with someone associated with Wall Street or the industries he’s disrupting. Here’s the thing: if you were losing or stood to lose millions of dollars with the widespread production and purchase of solar/electric vehicles, and you knew that many employees were unhappy with the conditions under which they work, might it occur to you to convert an employee into an accomplice? Not all companies have such enemies, but they do (or will) have competition. Out of curiosity, I scooted over to Elon Musk’s other companies’ Glassdoor profiles to see what was said about them. I had heard that a recent graduate I know received an offer to work for SpaceX, but turned it down because it required 70 hours per week. SpaceX is very highly rated at 4.4 out of 5 stars, and Musk’s approval rating is even higher at 97%! It seems that even though lack of work/life balance is still a very common complaint, improvements have been made since 2015. So far, though, it looks like the mission and the high caliber of talent is keeping the workforce going. It’s been rated a top place to work for 2018. I headed over to SolarCity, which has been part of Tesla since 2016 and is being led by Lyndon Rive. As you might expect, lack of work/life balance is the #1 complaint, but other common complaints are also poor training and lack of communication from executives. It also seems that background checks are quite extensive. One employee waited 12 weeks for verification. This was while the company was part of Tesla, and before the saboteur came out with his confession. I wonder if the saboteur made it through the same comprehensive and stringent background checking, yet still wound up wanting retribution. So, should you tweak your hiring practices to include measuring the altruistic punishment threshold of potential employees, or should you address workforce complaints to the best of your ability? It seems to me that sound, fair workforce cultures and policies are the best way to prevent internal sabotage. These are fixable problems! If I were a shareholder, I’d be highly skeptical that the company could become profitable by cutting the workforce outside of production while doubling production. I wonder how the costs of attrition, lack of efficiency, quality issues, and extensive internal sabotage rack up against the costs of more flexible work days, increased monetary incentives, improved feedback and communication, and career planning. Could Musk have avoided quality issues, delayed launches, sabotage and having to do a workforce reduction if he invested in solving the issues affecting his people? As much of a visionary as I can agree Elon Musk is, it seems his eyes are on the prize and not his people. This is a strategic failure I hope doesn’t result in the combustion of his company, especially as new competitors emerge regularly. One employee already stated that he feels everyone fears that the company is one disaster away from imploding. Could it be? Is your company at risk of a similar fate? If you answer yes to any of the questions below, then your company is at risk. Please nominate your company for a workforce audit (all submissions are confidential!) by e-mailing us with your company’s name and the name(s), direct e-mail address(es) and direct phone number(s) to any and all contacts who would be the most logical point(s) of contact. C-level executives are logical points of contact, but so are majority shareholders and Vice Presidents empowered to make workforce investments. Music video by The Beastie Boys performing Sabotage. (C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC Karen Huller, author of  Laser-sharp Career Focus: Pinpoint your Purpose and Passion in 30 Days  (bit.ly/GetFocusIn30), is founder of Epic Careering, a corporate consulting and career management firm specializing in executive branding and conscious culture, as well as JoMo Rising, LLC, a workflow gamification company that turns work into productive play.   While the bulk of her 20 years of professional experience has been within the recruiting and employment industry, her publications, presentations, and coaching also draw from experience in personal development, performance, broadcasting, marketing, and sales.   Karen was one of the first LinkedIn trainers and is known widely for her ability to identify and develop new trends in hiring and careering. She is a Certified Professional Résumé Writer and Certified Career Transition Consultant and Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist with a Bachelor of Art in Communication Studies and Theater from Ursinus College and a minor in Creative Writing. Her  blog  was recognized as a top 100 career blog worldwide by Feedspot.   She was  an Adjunct Professor of Career Management and Professional Development at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business  and recently instructed for the Young Entrepreneurs Academy at Cabrini College, where her students  won the national competition and were named America’s Top Young Entrepreneurs.

Resume Language - Common Mistakes Made By Job Seekers

Resume Language - Common Mistakes Made By Job SeekersDo you know what the four basic resume language skills are? If you're a person who has never written a resume, then you may not be familiar with them and this article will help to explain them.The most common mistake made by job seekers is that they do not have a resume at all. They simply leave it in a file drawer and never bother to look at it again. It is very important to make sure your resume is on hand for all the interviews that you attend. You should have your resume with you when the interviewer calls you to come in and you should always have it with you when you go to meet the employer.The second mistake made by job seekers is that they tend to cut and paste resumes that they have produced previously to the employer. They forget that when they are receiving a job offer, they are still in the process of trying to get hired. In order to get hired in the first place, a good resume needs to be created.There are many job seeke rs who find that the resume that they have written is not suitable for an entry level position in a different industry. You do not want to cut the resume and just send it to a position that you would be successful in getting a job in. At this point, a new resume needs to be created. This is the part where the skilled and experienced resume writer can make the difference between success and failure.The third common error made by job seekers is that they use words that are not on their resume. You need to make sure that every word that you write on your resume should be something that the employer can identify with. If the employer reads an acceptable resume but not your cover letter, then the employer will never take the time to contact you further.A resume language skill is knowing what words to use on your resume. Your resume is your advertisement and if you do not know what words to use to market yourself to the employer, then you are not going to get hired. There are many places on the internet where you can learn more about resume language. You should consider hiring a professional resume writer to help you improve your skills.A career coach can help you overcome these common mistakes and help you develop your resume to attract the employer. By simply using some basic resume language skills, you can attract the employer's attention and get hired.Job seekers often overlook resume language because they know that there are so many words that need to be used. It can be frustrating to go through a resume that does not match what you wrote. An experienced resume writer can help you avoid some of the mistakes that are made and provide you with a resume that is ready to send to the employer.