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4 Ways to Create Your Next Career Opportunity – US News
Everyone who works – whether it’s a part-time, full-time or even volunteer job – wants to feel a sense of satisfaction, productivity and success. Part of that desire to succeed includes getting ahead in their position. Getting ahead can look different for different people. For some, it’s an increase in salary, for others it’s increased responsibility and for many of us, it includes being continuously challenged and learning on the job by using and improving our skills. (A 2013 Society for Human Resource Management survey demonstrated that compensation/pay and the opportunity to use your talents and skills at work fall in the top three indicators of job satisfaction.) Here’s the rub: While we all want to get ahead at work, this can be difficult sometimes, because there are so many other people trying to do the same thing – often within the same office. Getting to the next level in your career requires work, creativity and thinking outside the box. It’s not something that gets handed to you on a silver platter.
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Annual Career Check-Up: Your Year In Review | CAREEREALISM
The New Year is just days away now. For many of us, that means our thoughts are turning to the goals we want to achieve in 2015. Whether you’re motivated by New Year’s resolutions or just enjoy end-of-the-year planning, these last few weeks of 2014 are a great time to review the overall health of your career before you begin strategizing for 2015.
With pen and paper or your favorite word processing program at hand, jot down these career check-up categories. Work your way through the suggested exercises to help you capture key insights and learning from the year now winding down (for a companion process to improve your job search in 2015, try conducting this SWOT analysis as a career year in review):
Relationships
List the most critical relationships in your work life. These might include direct reports, indirect reports, your boss, key clients, or vendors. They also might include your mentor(s), your coach, select peers, colleagues, or industry association members. Next to each name, jot down a number between 1 and 10 which reflects the quality of that relationship (where 1 is disastrously poor and 10 is spectacularly fantastic).
Goals
Make a list of the 2014 goals you aimed to achieve. Next to each goal, make a note of how well you performed. Be sure to give yourself credit for partial achievements – they count! Do you wish to carry forward any of your 2014 goals into 2015? If so, mark those goals with an asterisk, as you will use them in my upcoming article, “Annual Career Check-Up: Your New Year in View.”
Read more at http://www.careerealism.com/annual-career-checkup/#pbiKx90dlgKcWQFu.99
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How to Transform a Millennial Employee into a Leader
Many employers often see employees of the millennial generation (those born post-1985) as unreliable, egocentric and in perpetual need of instant gratification. This is not necessarily the case, according to David D. Bernstein, author of the book “Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation is Shaping our World.”
In his book, Bernstein says millennials are forging a revolution in the workplace, which will cause drastic changes to how businesses are run in the future. “Millennials are more global, more tolerant, more diverse, more educated, more connected, and bigger than any generation before them,” said Bernstein.
“They embrace change. They are the only generation to come of age with one foot in the old world of pre-internet, pre-Facebook, pre-computer, doing their first research projects in libraries, and another foot in the digital era.” Read more…
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Short and Tweet: How to Improve Your Twitter Profile for Your Career
With time seeming at an ever-higher premium, it can be hard to find time to improve your career prospects whilst studying or working full-time. With Twitter, however, you can do it in only 140-characters.
Follow potential employers:
If you’re thinking about a career change or looking for a graduate job at a specific company, make sure you’ve followed them on Twitter. That way you can keep up-to-date with anything and everything that is happening with them. Whether they’ve just completed an important purchase or had a huge bake sale, you can use this information to your advantage in applications and interviews. Moreover, companies often have specific career-focused profiles, so follow these for information on vacancies, deadlines, etc.
Clear out the dead wood:
Once you’ve followed all your potential employers, your Twitter feed might start to become increasingly busy. If you haven’t got time to scroll through hundreds of updates every day, have a look at the people you’re following. We’ve all made the mistake of following amusing accounts which now result in viral spam and clickbait. Unfollowing someone only takes a second but could save you loads of time in the long run. If you really can’t bear to lose all that humour, consider making another Twitter profile, and separating work and social accounts. That way you can have all the career-relevant information in one place. Read more…
Stephanie L. Gross, MSLIS 