Six tips to improve your workplace wellbeing

Six tips to improve your workplace wellbeing by Amber Rolfe Is your workplace wellbeing suffering? Don’t ignore it…Staying happy and fulfilled at work could be as simple as changing your routine, becoming more proactive, or moving your career progression forward. All it takes is the right attitude, and the ability to identify which approach works best for you.To help you add a little positivity back into to your day-to-day, here are six tips to improve your workplace wellbeing:  Turn healthy choices into your new favourite habitFrom planning healthy lunches and staying hydrated, to stretching and exercising as regularly as you can, adopting a healthy lifestyle in the office is a key element in improving your workplace wellbeing.Start by considering the effects certain foods have on your productivity. For example, if you’ve got a lot of work to do in the afternoon, going XXL at lunch probably isn’t the best choice (neither is skipping lunch completely). Not unless your boss takes a pretty casual approach to under -the-desk napping.Similarly, if you’re sat staring at a screen all day, getting up and getting away from your desk is a necessity when it comes to avoiding fatigue. So, always ensure you make an effort to move around regularly and, if you can, go for the occasional walk.Even if you can only manage a few minutes at lunch, you’ll be surprised what a difference it can make to your mindset â€" not to mention your mood.Dedicate more time to mindfulnessYou could be able to cope better with stressful situations â€" just by incorporating a few simple techniques into your day-to-day.Mindfulness boosting exercises could include: meditating for a few minutes before work*, focusing on one task at a time, switching off from digital devices a few times a day (lunch, at the very least), and spending at least five minutes a day doing absolutely nothing (you know, outside of working hours).By taking time out to become aware of yourself and your surroundings, you’ll be able to keep any negativi ty in check. This, in turn, could reduce stress, lower your blood pressure, improve your relationships with your co-workers, and even make you more productive.  Actually start making an effort with your colleaguesAlthough it’s always important to give 100% in your work, maintaining a good relationship with your colleagues should never be underestimated.Even if some days you just feel like zoning out and not speaking to anyone â€" proactively getting involved with the people you work with could actually improve your mood in the long run.Don’t be the person who refuses to participate in absolutely everything. All you’ll end up with is an awkward working environment and a probable absence of progression opportunities, all down to the lack of a little effort on your part.And if, for any reason, you really can’t get on with the people you work with, it’s always best to bring this up with your boss (or with your colleague) and get it resolved ASAP. Because nobody works well with an elephant in the room…Never stop working on your work/life balanceIt’s a well-known fact that someone who works constantly, and doesn’t devote any time to their personal life, isn’t going to be the happiest of people (see: Jack).Even if you’re a naturally hard worker, you still need to give yourself a break from time to time in order to prevent burnout â€" both personally and professionally. No matter how busy your schedule is, setting some time aside for personal tasks and hobbies will help make sure you don’t spend every waking hour on work.So whether it’s five minutes every day to learn something new, or just going off-the-grid on your commute, there’s never an excuse not to indulge in some regular ‘me-time’.Get your posture rightEvery job comes with occupational hazards, but some can be easily overlooked.For example, if you spend a lot of time sat in one place, excessive slouching could actually affect both your body and mind negatively. Similarly, if your job involves a lot of standing, walking, or lifting, failing to follow the correct procedures for each task, or taking on more than you should will only result in health issues in the long run.It could be as simple as ensuring you have the right sized ladder for a job, using a pillow or back support on your chair if you drive all day, or even just keeping your legs uncrossed and your feet flat on the ground while seated.Whatever it is that you do, improving your posture could decrease depression and tiredness, and generally make your body â€" and you work better.Don’t ignore your problemsMost importantly, if you’re not being given the means or allowance to improve your workplace wellbeing, it’s always a good idea to bring it up with your employer directly (providing your requests are appropriate).A workplace has a vested interest in keeping its employees happy, and if a particular working environment doesn’t allow that â€" it’s up to the employer to make changes and adap t to ensure a better staff morale and productivity.Allowing regular breaks for exercise, working flexible hours, or implementing new incentives to boost your ambition and drive are all sensible ways to improve your workplace wellbeing â€" and they should always be taken on board and considered by your employer.  *If you’ve never meditated before, try an app like Headspace to help get you started.Need to find a workplace that works for you? Find your perfect position now.Find a job What Where Search JobsSign up for more Career AdviceSign up for moreCareer Advice Please enter a valid email addressmessage hereBy clicking Submit you agree to the terms and conditions applicable to our service and acknowledge that your personal data will be used in accordance with our privacy policy and you will receive emails and communications about jobs and career related topics. Life At Work Work-life balance Workplace culture

The Top 3 Techniques To Land an Interview With a Hiring Manager [FB LIVE] - Classy Career Girl

The Top 3 Techniques To Land an Interview With a Hiring Manager [FB LIVE] Hey ladies! During the month of August, I’m answering your questions on making career transitions and discovering what your dream career is. Every Tuesday, I’m  going to be on Facebook live to answer one of your questions. Today we’re talking about how to land an interview with a hiring manager. Our question is from Mary Corcoran: What are the best techniques to land an interview with a hiring manager. It seems with electronic applications and recruiters its difficult to actually talk with a hiring manager these days!! I completely agree! Theres actually nothing different about now than when I was job searching 5 years ago. It was still really hard to get through all the online application systems and actually talk to a real person. I want to tell you a story about what I did and what worked for me. When I was job searching, I was kind of stuck in a rut trying to make my career transition. I didnt really know exactly what I wanted, but I knew I needed to get out of my current role because it didnt fit me at all. I did the networking challenge where I challenged myself to meet with 4 people I did know and 4 people I did not know every single month throughout all of 2011. Within that first month I had two interviews with different hiring managers just from doing this networking challenge and informational interviews. Why? It showed I was prepared, proactive, passionate, and that I would be a good employee. They were really impressed by how I conducted informational interviews (and that  I even asked for one.) At the end of the interview, I asked if there was anyone else they know that they could introduce me to. Two times I got referrals to the hiring managers of that company just by talking to someone who works there. At the very end of an informational interview, they would say, You know, I think youd be a great fit at my company. Id be happy to refer you in. They both gave me information to be referred into the company they worked at and I had hiring interviews just from doing informational interviews. So you can guess what one of my three techniques is going to be! Let me give you 3 tried and true techniques to land an interview with a hiring manager. The Top 3 Techniques To Land an Interview With a Hiring Manager 1. Referrals, Referrals, Referrals Ernst and Young, Deloitte and other companies hired 50% of their employees through employee referrals. That number may actually be as high as 80%. Online job searching is the first thing people jump to when they want a new job, but not all jobs are advertised online, so its not the best place to start. Find people that work in the companies you want to work in and start meeting/getting to know them. When an employee refers someone into their company and the company hires the person they referred, the employee who referred them in gets a bonus. Since employee referrals usually find better candidates than just online calls for applications, employers give them a bonus for each new employee they refer that stays in the company. Its really a win-win situation: you want a job, they want bonuses. Change your mindset from completing online application upon application into employee referrals. 2. You Guessed ItInformational Interviews Ive mentioned this in every August blog post so far. Informational interviews are when you interview someone in a position you really want and learn more about their career, what they do, and why theyre passionate about it. You may not know if their job is perfect for you (and thats why youre interviewing them!), you just want to learn more. Remember that its not your interview. Youre not the one on the spot. Youre interviewing them about what their career is like. But this is all about you discovering more about them and what they do. So you could ask them stuff like What a typical day is like What the best part of their day is What the worst part of their day is How you could get in their role If they have any tips What educational requirements or skills you need If theres anyone else they could introduce you to (ESSENTIAL) More often than not, most everyone has someone they can introduce you to. Not many people even ask for informational interviews, so after they see how well youve conducted an interview, theyre going to be very impressed. 3. Do a Networking Challenge You dont have to do the 44 challenge that I did in 2011. You can just start with informational interviews once a month. Find one person you dont know that you would like to get to know and do one informational interview. I highly recommend a networking challenge so youre on track with your goals and meeting with one person you already know and dont know. I also want you to meet with one person you do know. Sometimes we get busy and forget to reach out to the people that matter most to us, like our close friends and family. This might not lead to a new job opportunity, but its also something you dont want to forget about because it strengthens your current relationships. People you know are more likely to let you in on something you dont know about yourself. So, to summarize: Get an employee to refer you into their company, conduct informational interviews asking people about their careers, and challenge yourself to network and meet with people you do and dont know every month. Best of luck! I wanted to leave you with two free resume templates that you can use that were giving out. Get it here: Two Free Proven Resume Templates You are going to need a good-looking resume. You can also join us in the Classy Career Girl Network Facebook group. Were almost always online, so you can always ask us questions!

Personal Branding Interview Linda Hill - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Personal Branding Interview Linda Hill - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Today, I spoke to Linda Hill, who is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, the faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative, and author of Being the Boss. In this interview, Linda talks about how to be a good manager and leader, how to handle conflict, and more. What does it mean to be the boss? It means to be responsible for the work of others, to answer for the results others produce. It means to be the one, when work is done poorly and results fall short, who is called in and told to explain. Bosses carry out this responsibility by influencing others making a difference in what others do, think, and feel including both those who report directly to them and many others who do not. Being the boss refers to being the one with formal authority and accountability for a group’s performance. Just because you have formal authority or the power “to tell others what to do,” does not mean you should rely on that source of power to get people to do what is necessary or right to get a job done. If you want people to be committed to a particular course of action, formal authority is a poor tool of influence, although sometimes necessary and even crucial but usually best used rarely and lightly. Instead of authority, the key to influence is trust based on the bosss competence (knowing what to do) and character (intentions, values). Besides many of the people you will be dependent on to make sure your group performs well are people over whom you have no formal authority (e.g., bosses and peers upon who you are dependent to get the resources your group needs). We use the term boss because its widely used by all generations and it avoids the often unhelpful distinction between managing and leading. Someone responsible for the work of others usually has to do both. Being the boss is a role assumed overnight but mastered through a journey of self-discovery and learning from experience that takes years. Why years? Because mastering the role almost always requires the boss to undergo a change in their professional identity, a personal change, akin to the kind of change we all experience on leaving home, getting married, or having a child. Like these profound life transitions, becoming a fully effective boss requires a personal transformation in how we see ourselves, relate to others and get satisfaction from work. Too many bosses underestimate whats required and how long it will take them to become the boss they can and should be. Sadly, because they dont understand whats required, they develop to the point that theyre comfortable with the role. But then they mistake comfort for competence and stop growing. What are your three imperatives for becoming a great leader? In Being the Boss we argue that managers need a new way of thinking about their work a way of thinking about what must be done to influence their people to make them productive and achieve results. We present an approach that we call the effective manager’s 3 Imperatives: manage yourself, manage your network, manage you team. Manage yourself â€"Your core task as a boss â€" to influence others â€" begins with who you are and comes down to one key question: Do people trust you? Many managers, new and experienced, don’t realize that their ability to influence others begins with them as individuals and the relationships they create with others. Some create relationships based on authority â€" “I’m the boss!” â€" and others use personal ties â€" “I’m your friend!” Both approaches are flawed. All real influence besides coercion is based on trust â€" people’s belief in your competence and character. Manage your network â€" To succeed, you must create a network of those outside your control whom you depend on and who depends on you. Interdependence is a fact of life in all organizations today. Many managers dislike and avoid the political side of organizations. Others relish the internal battles and focus on them to the exclusion of all else. Both groups fail to appreciate the need to work effectively in political environments without becoming enmeshed in or controlled by them. Instead of the fly caught in the web, you must become the spider that creates the web â€" your own network â€" and dances lightly over it. Manage your team â€" Manage your team is about building a high-performance team that’s more than the sum of the individuals involved. In managing their own people, many managers never grasp the critical difference between simply managing a collection of individuals and managing a real team. Not only is a real team more productive and innovative, but its members are more engaged and committed. Effective bosses manage through a team and its social structure its purpose and goals, which are critical, along with the culture (norms, ideals, standards) and processes team members develop for working together. How do you handle conflict in the office without looking bad? Conflict is inherent in all organizations. Division of labor (people and groups have different jobs and goals), interdependence (all groups depend in some way on each other), and scarce resources (the pies not big enough for everyone to get what they want) guarantee conflict. The ability to work effectively in such an environment, to keep conflict constructive, is a crucial part of being an effective boss. As a boss, youll be able to handle conflict more effectively if youve built a network of relationships that predate and will survive any conflict. Its hard to build relationships trust when the only time you talk to someone is when theres a problem and you both start with different interests and points of view. A network of relationships wont prevent conflict, which is inevitable for the reasons given above, but it will create a setting in which all parties will be more interested in reaching a fair resolution. if you in effect take the high road by focusing on the work and work-related issues, not personalities or personal differences, and if your interests are clearly aimed at achieving work, not personal, goals. Work hard to keep work conflict from degenerating into personal feelings. if youre open, honest, and forthright with others about the issues as you see them, and always, always, treat others with respect. Being open means reaching out to those who oppose or disagree with you. It means that you take responsibility for maintaining relationships and constantly moving toward resolution. Can you give an example of a time when someone was the boss?? Here are three examples: John heads a product development team working in a highly competitive, fast-developing field. They cannot predict the future, but they must constantly makes bets about how the field will develop and how they can nudge it in the directions they want. John created a wiki for the team to use as a place where together he and other team members can constantly update their views of the future with new information, ideas, and possibilities. Material is welcome and expected from everyone. In fact, John keeps track of contributions and jiggles those who say little. He not only contributes his ideas but he also adds his knowledge of the organization and its goals and strategies as a context in which the team operates. Mary goes to see Kim, a new group member, one morning. Kim regularly prepares and distributes a report to other members who depend on the information it provides. Kim had only done the report twice and the second time, the day before, he was a day and a half late. Kim, said Mary, I want you to go talk to Quentin and Josepha. Theyre expecting you, not to chew you out but to show you how they use the report and why when youre late its such a problem for them. Jackson is conducting a regular meeting of his direct reports, managers who run their own groups. The end of the quarter is approaching, a tense time for making sure their quarterly numbers reach target. One report is describing problems he and his people are having with an important project when another report jumps in to accuse the first of holding down his own expenses by slowing down work that the second group needs to finish its work. Theres a tense exchange between the two over the reasons for the slowdown, and Jackson lets the conversation go forward. But when the second report blurts out, All you guys care about are your own numbers! I dont know if youre lazy or just dont care about finishing something on time, but go be lazy on your At that point, Jackson interrupts to say, Enough! I know its tense times. But there are reasons for whats happening and I expect you, both of you, in fact, to keep each other informed and work together. Personal accusations and feuds wont be tole rated. If you cant work it out, come see me right away. What are some tips for managing yourself? Three important ones come to mind: Know your strengths and weaknesses. Figure out which are killing you or will keep you from advancing, and focus on those. Part of this is knowing your own needs and inclinations. If you dont know them, theyll dominate you. If you dont realize, for example, that you dislike conflict and will do almost anything to avoid it, youll let problems fester until they turn into disasters. If you understand that fault, you may not be able to change it, butyou can look for it and take care that it doesnt lead you to act (or not) without thought. And you can ask others to help you face and resolve conflict. Reflect on your daily experience. Find some regular time during the day, perhaps on the commute home, when you review the days events and think about how you might have done them better. Think of each in terms of the options you had and why you chose the one you did. We dont learn from experience automatically. We need to work at pulling from it the lessons we should learn. Seek feedback. The evidence is overwhelming that we all evaluate ourselves more favorably than others do. We need to know how we come across to others. Are we having the effect we think we are. Though her presence wasnt required, a manager we know stayed late two nights in a row to show support for her team as it rushed to make a deadline. Only by chance a month later, when she happened to mention those late nights to someone who had been there, did she find out that she had miffed people, who took her unnecessary presence as a sign of distrust. So find ways to get candid feedback. Try as well to find out how working with you shapes how people feel about themselves. Do they typically leave an encounter with you feeling belittled, incompetent? Or do they feel able and confident? Linda Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, the faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative, and author of Becoming a Manager. Her latest book is called Being the Boss.   Linda has chaired numerous HBS Executive Education programs, including the Young Presidents Organization Presidents Seminar and the High Potentials Leadership Program. She is a former faculty chair of the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School, and she was coursehead during the development of the new Leadership and Organizational Behavior MBA required course. Professor Hill is a member of the Boards of Directors of State Street Corporation, Cooper Industries, and Harvard Business Publishing.

Acupressure Points for Neck and Shoulder Pain Relief

Acupressure Points for Neck and Shoulder Pain Relief Neck pain and Shoulder pain are often termed together for causes and treatments as well. It’s because neck pain causes become an indirect reason behind shoulder stiffness and vice versa. The principal causes of shoulder and neck pain aren’t much diversified. Physical stresses caused in hectic day to day work schedules will be in the first place of what causes body pains, especially migraines and headaches, and neck pains. What Causes Neck and Shoulder Pain? Before thinking of neck pain treatment and all, we must get the awareness of what pulls us to the severity of the problem that we have to get medication. There must be a lack of conscious health care in us that may lead to any health issue. So, let’s find out some major shoulder and neck pain causes, just by avoiding which, we won’t be needing the therapist anymore. Restless work schedules, stressful physical work. This even causes migraines because of both physical and emotional imbalances. Strain due to work that is out of one’s physical strength. Bad sitting and sleeping postures. Spraining is the most direct cause for pain in the neck and shoulders. Meningitis and arthritis cause severe neck pain. Meningitis is due to inflammation arising out in the brain region. Along with joints, arthritis also affects shoulders by causing chronic Acupressure Points for Neck and shoulder pain: Acupressure treatment has got age-old medication techniques which are still not outdated. Though they do not have any scientific evidence, the treatments of alternative medications are proved to be successful practically. As acupressure and acupuncture are widely popular for curing body aches, pressure points for neck pain and shoulder pain get you instinctive treatment and results. Let us get into the list of pressure points for neck and shoulder pain relief now. Shoulder Well Shoulder well acupressure point is located in the well region of the shoulders, two finger-widths outwards from the base of the neck towards shoulders. It is the point on the meridian where the tension in the neck muscles and shoulder muscles are accumulated. By pressing the point, we can relieve stiffness in the shoulders and also relieve neck muscle pain quickly. The point also works for back pain. Union Valley The Union Valley is the most used pressure point in whole acupressure treatment. It is located in the fleshy region in between the thumb and forefinger, on your both hands. Union Valley is the best-known point for relieving stress and anxiety. The same will be helpful in clearing neck and shoulder pain by relieving stiffness in the muscles. We get great relief from tension and dizziness with 3 to 4 minutes of application. Back neck region: On the back neck, we find profound acupressure points for pain relief. Let us observe the useful points which give shoulder and neck pain relief. Heaven’s Pillar Heaven’s Pillar points are located in the tendon of spine and skull’s conjunction. The two points take an offset of an inch from the line of the spine. Heaven’s Pillar cures a cough, tension headaches, and stiffness in neck muscles. Pain in shoulder is healed by relieving stiffness, and it also cures numbness. Gates of Consciousness Gates of Consciousness is also a pair of points on the back neck region just below the skull where the neck bone starts. The points are in the hollow of the muscles. A firm pressure needs to be applied on the pressure points for neck pain relief. It also clears headaches, dizziness along with shoulder and neck pain. Pressure points in the side-neck region: Relevant to neck and shoulder pain there are two pairs of acupressure points in the back parts of ears, viz. Completion Bone and Celestial Window. Completion bone is on the optical ridge behind the ear. It is in the depression of the muscle and bone region. It treats insomnia and headaches as well. Pain in neck and shoulders will be cleared gradually by applying pressure with two fingers mildly. Celestial Window is in the muscular region behind the earlobe. It aids in relieving stiffness in muscles. It also clears a headache through mild acupressure treatment. Head Region: The head region is well-composed with continuous seven pressure points in line which work for a various number of pains in which neck and shoulder pain become mainstream results. Arthritis, a cause for pain in the neck, is also cured by utilizing acupressure points on the head. The seven points need to be massaged smoothly so that you can observe the gradual relief from all sorts of related pains and ailments. The names are here for the seven pressure points starting from the back part of the head. Jade Pillow Declining Connection Celestial Connection Light Guard Fifth Place Deviating Turn Eyebrow Ascension Why Spend The Money On Acupressure or Acupuncture? In todays world, medical care is expensive.   Even those with insurance can find medical bills so high they have to borrow money to pay for the care they need.   So the key is prevention and taking care of oneself in ways that prevent illnesses to the extent possible.   Acupressure and acupuncture can help you accomplish that.

Questions That Power The Negotiator Job Search - Career Pivot

Questions That Power The Negotiator Job Search - Career Pivot Questions Questions power the entire negotiation and job search process. The goal is to ask questions that will probe for pain points. We want the interviewer to spill the beans! In Jim Camp’s book, Start with NO…The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don’t Want You to Know, he writes: We use the specific goals of behavior and actionâ€"goals we can controlâ€"that I call the “fuels of the system.” These are the behavioral habits that allow us to peel the onion of the adversary’s business situation and negotiating a position and find out what’s really going on over there. The single most important fuel that you have, the most important behavioral goal and habit you can develop, is your ability to ask questions. Your goal is to ask questions to find out why they are hiring, what problems they want to solve, what is the budget, when do they want to hire, how is the organization structured, etc. You need to ask questions from the hiring manager’s perspective. You want to get into his or her head! The Power of Correct Questions Camp writes: Asking questions is a science and an art. The science is in how you intellectually construct a question. The art is found in how you ask it: your tone of voice, your creative choice of words, your behavior and remarks before asking your question. We will start with the science. Questions can start with a verb or an interrogative (who, what, where, who…). Examples of questions that start with a verb: Listen to the most recent episode Will you be hiring soon? Do you have a budget for this position? Is this a new position? There are only three answers to these questions. Yes, no or maybe. These kinds of questions do not get you the information you want! Interrogative based questions are open ended. Your goal is to develop a clear picture of what is going on in the organization so that you can best position yourself. Let’s take a look at these kinds of questions: Why is this position open? What is the budget for this position? What problem are you trying to solve by filling this position? Who has the final decision on who you will be hiring? When do you plan to fill this position? How will you determine the final candidate? All of these questions can be used in the initial phone screen. When you interview in person, you can ask: What are the main business issues you are facing? Where do you see this position going? What keeps you up at night? What is the hiring manager’s management style? How does the team interact? How often does the team get together? All of these questions cannot be answered with a yes, no, or maybe. The key is to keep these questions short and ask only one question at a time. Remember K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid). Never, ever revert to asking questions that start with a verb. It is very easy to fall into. You will need to practice this with an interview partner. Next Steps Develop a set of interrogative based or open ended questions. Use the same set of questions in every interview. Compare the answers after each interview. Are you getting conflicting answers? The next post, called Nurturing and Reversing â€" The Negotiator Job Search, will discuss the art of asking questions. Do you have a standard set of questions that you use in every interview? Are they open ended questions? This is the 4th post in the Negotiator Job Search series. You can read the rest of the series here. Marc Miller Like what you just read? Share it with your friends using the buttons above. Like What You Read? Get Career Pivot Insights! Check out the Repurpose Your Career Podcast Do You Need Help With ...

Job Postings Gone Bad

Job Postings Gone Bad I just reviewed a job posting for a mid to senior level IT position with a major electronics company. The list of qualifications was so generic that it was obvious that absolutely no effort was put into benchmarking the job and determining what the key qualifiers were. Heres the list of qualifications:  Strong organizational skills  Team player, but also must be able to work independently  o Strong problem determination skills in a multi platform environment  Must be able to effectively interact with other IT professionals  Clearly communicate with non technical clients  Available for on-call rotation  Some travel required  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience      Its no wonder that most peoples resumes are boring and lack substance. Job seekers are writing them using poorly written job postings as their guide. So here are my questions for whoever is crafting these postings.How can an employer expect to get the best talent to apply for their open pos itions if they cant even differentiate the position via the job posting?  How can they expect job seekers to be passionate about these open positions when they are so bland and written so poorly?  Why do hiring managers act surprised when people who arent a good fit post for their jobs? How would a job seeker know if they are a fit based on these useless  descriptions?And the sad thing is that this job spec is not unusual. Most job specs I read lack clear language, are full of  corporate speak,  or say nothing meaningful or specific about the job. Lets face it. The job posting system is broken and it doesnt look like it is getting fixed anytime soon.  Spend a minimal amount of time on the job boards and get out and meet people. Talk about your real life accomplishments and successes that go past the general and generic information listed on a job posting. Build credibility, trust, and rapport by letting people know about the specific ways you impacted the company bottom line. Be me morable and not just another team player with strong communication skills.

Resume Writing and Interview Skills

Resume Writing and Interview SkillsYou should be able to follow basic resume writing and interview skills. It doesn't matter if you're a new graduate or an established professional looking for a job interview, it's essential that you're able to craft a cohesive resume that lists all of your qualifications in a way that's easy to read.The first step to basic resume writing and interview skills is to write your own resume. This will require you to fill out a profile on the career site and then give that resume a title.By giving your resume a title, you tell the search engines, and most importantly your prospective employers, what this is for, and this will help them find you faster. When they see this, it's much easier for them to narrow down their search through keywords, instead of having to comb through hundreds of individual resumes.On top of using the resume creator, you can also look up previous job titles by using any search engine. If you're not a computer whiz, don't worry, be cause there are free online resources to get these as well.Next, you need to fill out the cover letter, and attach your resume. The cover letter is really just a formality, so don't feel the need to spend too much time crafting it.Finally, begin sending out your resume to as many companies as possible. Include the 'survey' at the end of your resume that asks the company if they have any other positions that they're currently recruiting for.After receiving a few responses back, don't be afraid to send out your resume to other companies. You don't have to follow up on every response, but make sure that you follow up on any companies that you do choose to respond to. These tips will help you begin to create a resume that has your best interests in mind. With a bit of practice, you'll be able to write a resume that's not only informative, but also written in a way that attracts potential employers.