Women Career and Education

Continued From Detox Your Life - Toxic Family

Warning Sign: Every day feels like a bad Monday morning. You obsess about work during off-hours. You’re targeted for abuse, or interacting with a colleague is the most stressful thing in your life.

Mend It: Personality conflicts with bosses or coworkers are often what make a job toxic. You can’t change the way they act, but “you can change the way the situation makes you feel,” says Alan A. Cavaiola, Ph.D., coauthor. “Many unpleasant workplace behaviors resemble traits of common personality disorders,” he says.
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Whether you’ve been downsized, are looking for a career change or are just starting out, your resume speaks volumes about you. If your resume doesn’t make it past the first cut, you’re doomed; no matter how qualified you are.

Below are ten common mistakes to avoid when putting your resume together. Remember, you only get one chance to make a good first impression.

1. Multiple pages – You need to be concise. Keep it to one page and one page only. If you can’t highlight your talents on one page, you’re giving the message that you are unorganized and tend to go on and on.

2. Fancy paper – If your skills don’t speak for themselves, then your fancy paper isn’t going to make a bit of difference. Read more!

Many women (and an increasing number of men) decide to put their careers on hold from time to time. The most common reason for doing this is to become a full-time parent after a new baby joins the family. Other reasons include taking time off to care for an ailing parent, going back to school to pursue a degree, starting a home business, or taking an extended leave due to stress or illness.

Regardless of the reason, people who have put their careers on hold often make the decision to re-enter the workforce.
If they have been away from the workforce for a significant period of time, they may be at a disadvantage when they try to resume their career. Their values may have changed due to their nonworking lifestyle; their skills may not be as sharp due to lack of practice; technological advances may even have caused their once sought-after skills to become obsolete.
There’s also the issue of lack of self-confidence, as people desiring to re-enter the workforce consider those and other roadblocks now in their path. Read more!

When interviewing others the goal is to hire the right people for the job and to reduce turnover. Here are some pointers:

1) Establish and maintain control.

Your first objective should be to establish control of your interview. The following introduction has proven to be very effective:

“My purpose here today is to find out about you. If I determine there is potentially a good fit and you’re the type of person I feel I could work with I’ll invite you back for a second interview. We certainly don’t make hiring decisions based on just one interview. What I’m going to do is ask you a series of qualifying questions.” Read more!

For Stacey, using the Internet was the key to finding a great job. “You can find almost anything that you’d like to do online and respond to a bunch of ads online in the time it takes to mail your resume to just a few places.”

Stacey decided to look online to find an internship or a summer job in the entertainment industry and noticed an ad on craigslist, a Web site featuring job openings from around the country. Stacey responded immediately to ManiaTV! that was seeking on air personalities and she was called in for an audition.
And he did it, she got the job as as one of the network’s first CJs (cyberjockeys). And now she hosts two music-video shows and a spoof of the online dating scene on ManiaTV! while carrying a full course load. Read more!

To make a plan your future career, you need to take step-by-step to walk down the discovery lane.

Try to discover what treasures that lie within inside you, is your first step.
By noting your interests and discovering your values.
Many women and men, change their careers late in life to do what they wanted to do as children, try to remember what you wanted to be when you were little, this could be the closest thing to a calling you’ll ever experience.
Next, list your skills and aptitudes and finding your developmental needs and don’t forget to assess your realities Read more!