A Brand You World Summit Recordings Are Available

A Brand You World Summit Recordings Are Available 2 If you missed the A Brand You World Summit, you'll be happy to know that the recordings are now available for download as podcasts. How Can You Get These Podcasts? 1) Via iTunes. If you have an iPod, you'll probably choose this route. 2) By downloading the individual mp3 files. Depending on your browser and the software installed on your computer, clicking on any of the purple ‘MP3' links will either start downloading the file or begin streaming it immediately like a YouTube video. All the recordings are available on the official website. They're conveniently split into 2 categories for entrepreneurs and ‘careerists'.eval Below are direct links to the podcasts that I think you'd most benefit from. Recommendations How Finding and Developing Your Personal Brand Helps Your Career with Anita Bruzzese Branding Your Resume, Bio or CV: Trends and Tips, a panel facilitated by Susan Guarneri with Deb Dib, Megan Fitzgerald and Bernadette Martin Use Personal Branding to Take Your Job Search from Zero to 60 with Jason Alba Changing Careers to Pursue Your Authentic Personal Brand with Andrea Kay Grab your headphones!

Successful Interviewees Follow This Advice Be Authentic! - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Successful Interviewees Follow This Advice Be Authentic! - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career In order to make a good choice for your next job, there’s one thing you must do: Be authentic.  But that doesn’t mean you should open up so much that your brains fall out! Authentic candidates are clear, open and certain about what s/he brings to the table. They know specifically how they could add value to the firm and why they would fit into the culture there. Don’t assume that you’re being authentic (or truthful) requires you to tell your interviewer every detail about yourself. It’s necessary to employ good judgment and to be discreet when you share personal and professional matters. Employers appreciate candidates who show discretion, as after all, whomever they hire would also need to be discreet on the job with how much they share about personal matters. Two major do’s for authenticity 1. Be authentic about what you’re really looking for in your search. Being authentic relates to everything about your search for the right company, the right position and for what you sincerely bring to the table. Search for a company that appeals to you in as many ways as possible. Research as much as you can about your perspective employer and how they treat their employees. Glassdoor puts out an annual survey that has employees rank their employers (The Best Companies to Work For 2014  ). Ask yourself, do I identify with this company’s mission and its product/service offerings? Try to connect with someone in the firm who knows about the company’s culture and the specific job youre seeking to gain perspective on whether you would be the right fit for a position there.  The questions you ask should help you discern whether you would be suitable for the job and excited about working there.   Be intellectually honest with yourself. Is this a job that fits your personality and skill sets? If yes, pursue it with gusto. If not, don’t waste your time or the hiring managers time and move on to another opportunity. For instance, if your skills are really in computer sciences but the job offering requires fifty percent of the work to be in financial analysis… don’t try to falsify or exaggerate what you can do for them. In the end, you’ll be happier in a job that utilizes your dominant skill set. 2. Be authentic about what you can bring to the table. Know what your value is and be able to articulate a compelling, authentic message about what you can do for your prospective employer.   Be specific and tailor your narrative to their needs. Emphasize the skills, interest, abilities and accomplishments that will matter most to your hiring manager and above all make sure you’re truthful.  You don’t want to get a job that isn’t really a good fit! You want a job that will be appropriate for your abilities and one that will challenge but not overwhelm you.  If you know what they’re looking for and you really think you can meet the requirements for the position, go for it! If you’re not sure, don’t try to convince yourself or them that you are right for the spot. When you’re true to yourself and truthful to your employer you’ll start your job off on the right foot, sleep better at night and have a much better chance of excelling at your work! Two main donts for authenticity 1. Don’t ever exaggerate your skills, abilities, contacts or experiences. It will raise expectations that will cause a person inevitable stress. 2. Don’t highlight your idiosyncrasies that could get someone to raise their eyebrow and wonder about you and you also don’t need to open up about flaw you’ve made unless the interviewer asks specifically about an error in your past. A savvy interviewer knows his strengths and knows exactly why s/he could add value to a particular organization. They are sensitive to the needs of the hiring manager and are  clear, precise and truthful in explaining their value. The prospective employer appreciates authenticity in an interviewee as it allows for making a better fit in the hiring process. In the end its a win-win for the firm and for the new hire as everyones expectations are realistic and achievable.

Summer reading is serious business

Summer reading is serious business The flair with which you grow and prune your reading pile directly affects your career trajectory. Sure, you can learn from enlisting mentors and taking on new projects, but you can learn with the most focus and speed by reading on your own. But dont be swayed by the business book bestseller list. Instead, devise a reading plan for yourself that encourages major shifts in thinking; Leaps in your thinking encourage leaps in your career. Here are some guidelines for your summer reading: Make summer a time for big questions. All-day beach trips are great for long books. Blow up rafts promote uninterrupted thinking. Dont waste these precious chunks of time on John Grisham. Instead, think of a big question, the kind that has no right answer but lots of angles, and dive into the relevant reading. One summer, when I was looking for the meaning of my nine-to-five life, I asked the question: What makes a career feel satisfying? Another question that has ruled my summer reading is, What sort of human-computer interaction is fun? Sometimes, the answer to the question isnt nearly as revealing as just discovering what question really piques your interest. Think like youre studying for a mid-term. For most of us, rigorous thinking ended in college. But the organized, complex, thinking that gets you through upper-level philosophy courses also makes you sharp at the office. So keep on your toes by reading about Supreme Court decisions: They twist and turn the Constitution in ways that will give anyone an intellectual workout; theyre not as dry as Kant and not as brain numbing as Martha Stewarts lawsuit. (Bonus: reality TV cant hold a flame to some of those cases. For example, a guy kills a cop, and gets shot back blind in one eye and paralyzed from the neck down. Another cop follows the guy to the hospital, and interrogates him. The injured man screams, Im about to die! Leave me alone! Then he spews self-incriminating information. Legal gathering of evidence, yes or no?) Read to understand people. Your career is dependent as much on people skills as it is on how well you do your work. So I recommend An Nas novel, A Step from Heaven (Front Street, 2001), which I love. Its a kids book. (For those of you who dont read kids books, you should. Theyll remind you of that terrible time of life that is junior high school, and then youll appreciate where you are in life now, no matter where you are.) A Step from Heaven is about a Korean immigrants, and it does a great job of showing the barriers to success that people of American-born parents do not face. Think of these barriers when you manage someone who didnt have all the advantages in life that you had. Remember that topics like patience and compassion are as important to your reading pile as leadership and finance. Dont read to stroke your ego. Just because you have already accumulated a summer reading pile tall enough to last fifteen summers doesnt mean that you have to read those books. Our tendency is to be attracted to topics we already know a lot about. For a while, I was reading too many books about time management. I am a good time manager, so each books recommendations would allow me to say, Great, Im already doing that. Im great. When I forced myself read about sales, because I was uncomfortable in that area, my reading became much more productive. Force yourself to read in areas that are unfamiliar to you. Read about your weaknesses. Read about people who annoy you and topics that bore you. The best antidote to disdain is a deeper understanding.

The Realities of ROWE - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

The Realities of ROWE - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career There are pros and cons to working in a ROWE. Where ROWE means  Results Only Work Environment. One pro is You know exactly what is expected. One con is… You know exactly what is expected. This is meant to be flippant in that it forces both the buyer and the seller of ROWE services to set clear expectations. This is not an indictment of the concept or the execution of Results Only Work Environments. They can and do work. In fact, ROWE’s have been in existence for thousands of years. Where specific products and services have been brought to market and offered for sale or barter with others offering their products and services. The timing  for the rise of ROWE is  appealing in today’s business environment. Partially because businesses are expecting more from everyone and everything. Resources are becoming scarce  â€" including people. There is a need to find the right person that has the right skills and, as always, at the right price. The  people that fill these roles become contractors that work in a ROWE model.  The good news is that these  ROWE contractors are going to come from different generations of workers. ROWE is cross generational Smart business people are looking across generations to find the skills and experiences they need to accomplish specific tasks. This does not necessarily mean the cheapest. There are experts in every generation that know how to do things better, faster and not always  cheaper. There is the old adage that has been espoused for many years whether it’s for a carpenter or computer software. It’s both funny and telling. Do you want it… Fast, Cheap or Right? Pick Two! As Millennials are entering the workforce and learning to navigate the corporate machine they will be on both sides of these hiring situations. They will need to be able to communicate cross-generationally and to be able to crisply define expectations and timelines. The people that can do this effectively will find great success in a ROWE. Which will help them personally and professionally as they build peer and cross-generational relationships. In a previous post I wrote about Succeeding in a Results Only Work Environment where I mentioned ROWE needs to embrace Gen X, Y and Z. The people that take the time to hone their cross-generational communication skills will be well positioned to grow their business, extend their relationships and stand out in their career. Of course, these are some of the same skills that every business has had to manage over the decades. However, it’s becoming more acute in this day and age as the traditional models of climbing the corporate ladder are being dismantled. ROWE has grown up (and gone corporate) The big difference in today’s ROWE compared to those of a few decades (and millenia) ago is that today there is a much more litigious aspect. In the past if you promised something and didn’t deliver the word got out and you were out of business. The community would drum you out. In today’s ROWE a similar thing happens in the way a community can impact the business, but on a broader scale with the use of Social Media. This is why it’s imperative to understand and use Social Media tools. Both as a hiring manager and as a ROWE contractor knowing how to communicate across Social Media channels will be critical for finding projects, maintaining relationships and keeping everything on a professional level. Also, in the modern ROWE there will often be contracts, NDA’s and other legal agreements. Be ready for them, but the smart businesses won’t let the legal aspects over-burden the ROWE process. Be careful what you wish for You just might get it. And, only it. The pros and cons and modern realities of ROWE’s means that communications need to be crisp and well defined. That ROWE contractors will come from every generation. And, that when possible try to keep the legal eagles at arms distance. Not because the legal aspects are bad, but because they can slow things down and ultimately may cause the prices to rise. Which might obviate the value of the ROWE process. The realities of a ROWE is that they can and do work. In the future, most of us will not have a choice on whether we choose to work in a ROWE. And, that’s Ok. when done right the pros can far outweigh the cons and everyone can win in a well executed ROWE. So, let’s get started and build up our ROWE skills.

If you hate your job, a pay rise isnt going to make it any better - Debut

If you hate your job, a pay rise isnt going to make it any better - Debut Nobodys ever going to say no to a little bit more money in the bank. Were only human, after all. However, if youre using a pay rise as a reason to stay even if you hate your job  think again. Any employers reading this, take heed: a recent study of executive pay in the UK by the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute (CFAI) found the relationship between someones pay and someones performance is negligible at best. In plain English, this means paying someone more to make them work harder just aint going to work. There is very little or no causal relationship at all between pay and performance The CFAI study isnt the only piece of research on the topic. Unfortunately, this has been reaffirmed in quite a few studies. The earliest of them, undertaken by psychologist Edward Deci in the 1970s, was the first to draw this conclusion. Deci got students to volunteer as headline writers for their universitys student paper, with one group working on a Tuesday and the other on a Friday. During a brainstorm session, a supervisor covertly recorded the time it took for the group to come up with each one. After a few weeks, the Tuesday group were told that they would be paid 50 cents a headline, but not to tell the Friday group. The excuse given was that there wasnt enough money in the budget for both groups. Interestingly, the prospect of money (or lack thereof), affected both groups in different ways. The initial average time for both groups to write a headline was 22 minutes. The volunteers in the Friday group became faster and faster at writing headlines, and actually cut the time of 22 minutes in half by the end of the experiment. As for the paid group on Tuesdays? They saw no improvement whatsoever. In fact, most of them stopped coming to meetings over the course of the experiment. Seriously. The paid group became lazier and lazier, whereas the unpaid group kept turning up, and in fact, got better at the job. This is called the over-justification effect A baffling result at first, the Deci studys strange findings were defined as the over-justification effect. Its the idea that an external reward is actually detrimental to a persons inner drive to do a job well. Over the years, there have been many more experiments attempting to get to the bottom of the over-justification effect.  In 2010, a Japanese study made a breakthrough. Researchers Kou Murayama, Madoka Matsumoto, Keise Izuma, and Kenji Matsumoto figured out its actually to do with whether the job requires a skill. Getting paid for something that doesnt require a skill may actually decrease your  motivation So, the Japanese experiment. The researchers came up with a game requiring volunteers to stop a stopwatch at exactly five seconds. The volunteers were observed during the game through an fMRI scanner. As the game progressed, the scientists observed the reward networks in the volunteers brains light up when they won a round. During the first round of the experiment, some of the students were paid only if they stopped the clock on time and others were paid simply for taking part. In the second round, no one was paid at all. Heres what they found out. In the second round, the participants who had previously been rewarded for their performance played the game far less. Not only that, the activity in their brains reward centres fell dramatically. This goes to show that the game stopped being fun when they stopped getting paid to win. What does this have to do with how much I hate my job? The thing is, this experiment seems pretty obvious. However, a follow-up study published by researcher Murayama shows that this may not be so obvious after all. The study revealed the results of the game experiment to new participants. Most actually thought that being paid for your performance would actually  increase your motivation to keep playing the game after they stopped being paid. This this is not what happened in the experiment. Employers will continue to ply employees with more money in order to retain them at their job. However, as we now know, getting paid, or getting paid more to do a job is not an effective way to motivate a workforce. In fact, a 2010 study in the  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences proves this. Information from half a million U.S. residents showed that once an employee starts to earn more than $75,000 a year, no amount of bonus money will significantly change their happiness or productivity in the long run. Which brings us back to our very first point. If you are dissatisfied in your job and you get a sudden pay rise, the money will not make you happy. Trust us on this one. Download the Debut app and get Talent-Spotted by amazing graduate employers! Connect with Debut on Facebook and Twitter

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Fitness for Career Transitions

Fitness for Career Transitions An important requirement for a successful career transition is having the fitness to accomplish it. In working with clients who are considering a move to a different job, a change to a new career, or creating an encore career, too often I hear the same limiting health and wellness thinking: Im overweight, but thats a losing battle. I used to run marathons, but I dont have time to train anymore. I love exercise, but I am too tired when I get home at night. I dont have time to cook healthy. Meditation is not for me. I am so stressed out trying to figure out what to do. Sound familiar? With my clients, we discuss the advantages of proper diet and exercise and how it fuels the body. It controls weight. It gets more blood to the brain to foster creativity and clearer thinking. It reduces stress from work and life. It combats disease. It improves your mood. It enhances your sleep. It can be fun. You may live longer. Hearing this, few would disagree. Meditation is another reliever of stress. But, making exercise, diet, and meditation happen is another story.     Below are a few tips from my clients who have taken the steps to improve their health and wellbeing: Schedule it on the calendar. Commit, make a date with yourself to exercise. Exercise with a buddy who will serve as your accountability partner. As a coach, I am my clients accountability partner. I believe healthy clients, happy careers! Keep track of your progress. If losing weight is a goal weigh in once a week to see your progress. Putting it on paper helps you acknowledge your progress. Join a weight loss program. Two years ago, I joined Weight Watchers when my two best friends were French fries and chocolate chip cookies. In one year I lost 20 pounds and have never felt more energetic and full of life. Set weight goals and award yourself at milestones. Just not a fat piece of cake! Consult with a dietician on healthy meal planning. Meditation is a stress reliever and going into the quiet zone, can help you get a different perspective on your career journey. Checkout my recent blog post on my own introduction to meditation. Start slow and increase exercise levels over time. Take breaks from your day at work to either meditate or just take a walk. Use the corporate gym if you have one. Taking care of yourself is so important to career transitions. There is only one you to offer the world.     Let it be your best body and mind! By Katie Weiser, Associate Coach at HallieCrawford.com Schedule a free consult with HallieCrawford.com today