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Mind Blown: Time to Re-think Happiness vs. Success [Infographic] | The Savvy Intern by YouTern

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Mind Blown: Time to Re-think Happiness vs. Success [Infographic] | The Savvy Intern by YouTern.

Mind Blown: Time to Re-think Happiness vs. Success [Infographic]

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Bryce Christiansen

How often have you felt beat up at work?

You just met your sales goal… so now they doubled your quota. You got passed over for promotion in favor of the CEO’s best friend from college.

You really don’t want to go to work today, and your stomach does feel a little icky, so you take a sick day. You feel unsuccessful; in return… you’re unhappy.

What if we have this backwards? What if I could show you the true secret to better work?

Well here you go… Today we present a special infographic from our friends at Careertopia, based on Shawn Achor’s book, The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work:

Apply Yourself : Hack Library School Blog

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When I tell people what I am doing in Florence, Italy for a year, I am invariably asked one question: “How did you land such a position?!” To which I smile broadly, often chuckle a little and answer simply and honestly: “I applied.” This, my LIS, MLIS and MSIT friends is one of my best hacks for library school and life.

“80% of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen

You have to show up. For most positions and roles that you want to land, that means tossing your hat in the ring with an application.

If you have been following HLS’s new series “So What Do You Do?” you have heard about a number of great internships and programs to round out your LIS education. In none of them (at least so far) does the hacker say: well I was just standing around on a street corner and someone…

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Are We In The DIY Era? Helping patrons help themselves – The Ubiquitous Librarian – The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Are We In The DIY Era? Helping patrons help themselves – The Ubiquitous Librarian – The Chronicle of Higher Education.

October 13, 2011, 5:20 pm

By Brian Mathews

UCSB’s Ole checking out some books

A core theme I see in LibQUAL+ data is that most libraries do pretty well in the service dimension, but when it comes to enabling users to help themselves their perceptions are typically much lower.

When you put all the numbers together the narrative goes something like this:

You’re pretty good at helping me, thanks, but I’d really prefer to do more things by  myself—and by the way, you don’t make that very easy for me.

But is this changing? Over the past several months (years?) a common theme seems to popping up everywhere: self-service. A few examples:

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Free Tax Help at NYPL!

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Free Tax Help at NYPL!.

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It’s tax time and the Library is a great place to get help. Find the most popular tax forms, e-file your taxes, or meet an IRS-trained volunteer who can assist you with your basic income tax return free of charge.

Learn more and find a tax assistance center

Browse tax events at the Library

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Tax forms subject to availability. Some branches may not offer this service because of space limitations or because the forms have not been made available by the IRS or NYS Department of Taxation and Finance.

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Convert Your Word Doc into a Plain-Text Resume

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Resume

Word .docs look terrible as plain-text files if you just change the extension. Follow these steps to ensure your formatting meets best practices no matter what version you’re using.

Convert Your Word Doc into a Plain-Text Resume

If you’ve spent time carefully selecting the right font for your resume, aligning the margins and crafting a clean outline of justified section titles and subtitles, the last thing you want to do is render the whole thing in plain text. But that’s just what you need to do, said several resume-writing experts, includingBarbara Safani, owner of the career-management firm Career Solvers and Job-Hunt.org.

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By Lisa Vaas

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