Author: Mike Scaletti With everything going on in the world, Zoom has exploded in popularity. Businesses are meeting digitally for everything from strategy sessions to happy hours. It's a brave new world where a face to face meeting with someone requires digitally signing into an app first, but although there is a bit of a learning curve, there are some simple tips and tricks you can learn to become a Zoom Master in no time. 1) Be Aware of Your Background Whether it is your m

Excerpt From: danamanciagli.com Everybody’s career will have ebbs and flows, challenges, and opportunities. No matter how great someone’s journey may look on paper, everyone goes through career and business struggles. Even those who may appear to transition seamlessly from one great job to the next run into struggles throughout the course of their career – how you bounce back and move forward is what defines true success. I recently had the opportunity to speak with Luvleen S

Excerpt From: scotthyoung.com Energy, not time, is the basis for productivity. Having all the hours in the day won’t help you if you’re exhausted for most of it. Your habits define your energy levels. If you have good habits, you’ll feel energized and be more resilient to burn out, both physically and mentally. If your habits are misaligned, you can get into a cycle where you feel worse and worse, until your it’s a struggle just to keep up. Here are nine habits you can work o

Author: Michael Scaletti Changing careers is scary. Generally, once we’ve been on the same career path for a while, we get comfortable. Comfortable can be nice, but eventually you may decide that it’s time for a change. Whether that is too look for higher earnings potential, to follow a passion, or simply to find a new challenge for yourself, once you’ve made that decision you need to figure out how you go about it. Research, Research, and More Research The first thing you ne

Excerpt From: Ms. Career Girl As humans, we’re innately social, which has many benefits; we get to enjoy dinners out, new experiences and going to the movies with our friends and family.  However, our modern lives often have a way of making socializing difficult, especially when we reach our 30s and 40s.  In fact, 44% of Americans said that their plans are often cancelled because friends are simply ‘too busy’, and as a result, one in five haven’t seen their best friend in the

Excerpt From: Work It Daily Job hunting is so much more than crisp suits, smiles, and polite, easy conversations with your interviewers. It’s also not a time for you to be imaginatively hopeful. Let’s get real. You’re on the prowl night and day. You’re rigorously looking for a job and gaining momentum. Despite being a pretty awesome candidate, you keep getting rejected. What makes unemployment worse is that your Indeed monthly reports show the positions you’ve applied to have

Excerpt From: Lifehacker We learn to talk at an early age, but most of us don’t have formal training on how to effectively communicate with others. That’s unfortunate, because it’s one of the most important life skills there is, and one you use your entire life. Whether you want to have better conversations in your social life or get your ideas across better at work, here are some essential tips for learning to to communicate more effectively. Watch your body language You tel

Author: Michael Scaletti We get asked that question a lot by our candidates. They want to know what they can do to increase their chances of landing a job. And while the answer will certainly vary from position to position a certain extent, there are some pieces of advice that stay relatively consistent. In general, following these pieces of advice will help put you in the best position to land a job. Be Proactive We work with a lot of candidates and have many clients. While

Author: Michael Scaletti Getting fired sucks. Maybe you deserved it, maybe you didn’t. None of that matters now. The bottom line is that once you’ve been fired you’re going to have to look for a new job, and they’re going to ask you why you left your previous job. Many people’s first instinct is to lie, but that is definitely not the correct approach. It’s perfectly normal to feel frustrated after a firing, but the key is to not let yourself start to feel hopeless. A 10 year

Author: Michael Scaletti When I was in college, I sometimes had trouble completing assignments on time. While I was generally a good student, participating in discussions in class, doing well on tests, and completing some of my projects and assignments to a high level, occasionally I would just not get an assignment done. I’d end up going out with friends, or playing video games, or watching movies, instead of working on a project that I knew had a deadline right around the c

Author: Michael Scaletti Time management is important. There’s no way around that. Getting bogged down in project creep, a growing to-do list, and creeping deadlines can quickly overwhelm you if you’re not careful. According to LinkedIn, time management ranked as one of the 5 most desired skills in 2019. It’s not like you can simply decide to be better at it though. Just like any other skill, it takes practice, learned behaviors, and dedication to actually improve. There is a

Author: Sarah Landrum Source: Punched Clocks Whether you’ve been out of school for a few months or many years, it’s normal to miss learning new things. While you’re probably introduced to a few new skills, strategies or processes on the job, it’s not quite the same as immersing yourself in a new topic. When you don’t have the time or budget to head back to school, you may feel like you’re out of options. Luckily, there are a number of ways you can keep learning while at work.

Source: Career Alley Today’s job search is almost entirely Internet-based. Whether you are looking for software engineering jobs available on LinkedIn or applying for a job on a job search board, it has become increasingly easier to apply for a job. You can apply for 20 jobs in the time it used to take to apply for 1 or 2 jobs. This is, of course, a double-edged sword and is the primary reason why most people feel that the “hit rate” (the actual number of interviews you get a

Author: Josh Fechter Source: Introvert Whisperer Introverts may initially be seen as shy individuals who are intimidated by those around them, but this is far from the truth. These individuals typically have amazing strengths that can help them become invaluable members of any work team. For example, they are usually independent, detail-oriented workers who are amazing listeners. They are also hard and trustworthy employees. However, to shine at work, you must take wise steps

Author: John Schwarz Source: Fast Company I still remember my first meeting with the vice-president of my department more than 40 years ago. I was a junior developer at IBM and when he asked what my professional goals were, I told him I wanted to be a CEO. He nearly fell off his chair. Then he got serious and helped me map out a plan to get there. For the next 30 years, I followed that plan. (Spoiler alert: It worked.) That kind of career trajectory might seem quaint today. F

Author: Amy Blaschka Source: Forbes Wow! It’s 2020, and in honor of the new year (and new decade!) we thought we’d share some of the best ways to step up your career game. Here are the 20 best (and free) ways to improve your career as the new decade begins: 1. Get your (career) story straight Everyone has a unique story, but not everyone leverages its power. Properly crafted, your career story helps to differentiate you from your competitors, highlight your value, and to draw

Author: Shivani Vyas Source: Work It Daily You’re anxiously awaiting your first day after nailing the interview and landing your ideal job. Skip to your start date at 7 a.m. and coffee spills on your white shirt, now pushing you one hour behind to your first team meeting. Or even worse, you’ve completely missed your first day because of a flight malfunction. There can be so many variations of this story but regardless of your circumstance, you now come off as unreliable and

Author: Helen Tupper Source: Marketing Week Does your day look anything like mine? Email. Meeting. Reading email in meeting. Eating in meeting. Grab coffee. Check email in queue. Need I go on? I hazard a guess that many of us are seemingly trapped in this cycle of ‘doing’. As work mounts up and time flies by, our addiction to back-to-back working and multitasking has us operating at an unsustainable and unhealthy pace. To some extent, we’re fighting our own biology, as each

Author: Cheryl Simpson and Jenna Arcand Source: Work It Daily It’s that time of year again, when job seekers think they may as well stop looking for a job throughout the holiday season. No one will be hiring anyway, so you may as well take the rest of the year off, right? Not true, according to HR and job search experts. Although some companies may have no budget left for hiring, others still have openings they need to fill by the end of the fiscal year. That means it’s unwi

Author: Liam Berry Source: WayUp Every job interview is a chance is to make (or break) your career. That’s why—even if you’re not sure the role is right for you—you should enter into every interaction with a recruiter or human resources professional with the same sense of respect. In the small, high-turnover world of talent acquisition and human resources, making a bad (or good!) impression can go a long way. At least, that’s what Danielle, a Recruitment Operations Manager,