13 Valentines cards to let your work crush know youre into them

13 Valentines cards to let your work crush know youre into them by Michael Cheary So you’ve got a workplace crush. It happensYou’ve liked them for ages. You know it. Everyone at work knows it. In fact, you’re pretty sure they even know themselves. But short of shouting ‘swipe right’ at them loudly and running away, how can you let them know you’re into them? Two words: Witty. Cards.To help inspire you, here are 13  cards you can choose this Valentine’s that will do the hard work for you:1. For the stationery-stealing work crush…2. For the ‘I’m not sure this is really a thing’ work crush…3. For the ‘constantly  correcting  other  peoples  grammar  together  at  work’ work crush…4. For the ‘you’re not much of a morning person’ work crush…5. For the ‘always quoting Harry Potter in the canteen’ work crush…6. For the ‘Did you watch it last night?’ work crush…7. For the ‘techie’ work crush…8. For the make Valentine’s Day great again work crush…9. For ‘The one where we’re always quo ting Friends’ work crush…10. For the ‘office ego’ work crush…11. For the fashion-conscious work crush…12. For the work crush with all the allergies…13. For the ‘we have the same sense of humour’ work crush…Ready to love Mondays?  View all of our current vacancies nowFind 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. Features

The 10 Most Common Webinar Mistakes You Need to Avoid - Classy Career Girl

The 10 Most Common Webinar Mistakes You Need to Avoid What makes a successful webinar? The number of attendees? Traffic? The value of the content? The quality? Webinars are one of the most effective online marketing tactics for your business. They can be your main source of traffic and engagement. Delivering meaningful content in a webinar is important, but so is making sure your audience actually sees learns from it. Does thinking about all that stress you out? We get it. Weve compiled a list of the 10 most common webinar mistakes. As long as you avoid these common mistakes, your webinar will definitely be a hit. The 10 Most Common Webinar Mistakes You Need to Avoid 1. Promoting Only One Week in Advance and Not Enough Ov?r 25 ??r??nt ?f ??m??ni?? ??nd ?ut th? first ?m?il? inviting contacts t? w?bin?r? at l???t 15 d??? b?f?r? the event. If you ?t?rt ??ur promotion campaign tw? full weeks in advance, ??u h?v? a l?rg?r window t? build ?tt?nd?n?? numb?r? and remind ?tt?nd???. The art of driving webinar registration is all about catching people at a moment of receptivity with a message that resonates with them. Extending webinar promotions beyond a week and delivering multiple messages and email types will increase your chance of successfully hitting that moment of receptivity. 2. Not Respecting The Audience’s Time People start to lose interest after an hour. Sometimes your audience will be using their lunch period to watch your webinar. People are busy. If you market your webinar at an hour, keep it at an hour. If you market your webinar masterclass at 2 hours, keep it at 2 hours. 3. Using a Double Opt-In Feature We get the double opt-in argument. And some email providers strongly encourage using the double opt-in as a confirmation of not spamming. However, people are busy and will forget to confirm subscription. If it makes sense for your business and your email provider allows you to turn off the double opt-in feature, do so. 4. Not Providing an Add To Calendar Tool If you don’t provide a quick and easy way to put your webinar on their business calendar, chances are good that your prospects will double-book or miss your event. Calendaring tools dramatically improve registration-to attendee conversion rates. Embed a calendar tool on every landing page, allowing registrants to place your webinars on their business calendars. Include login details in the information that goes to the calendar. [RELATED: How to Save Facebook Live Videos for Webinars] 5. Not Visually Appealing and Quite Boring Make your webinar visually appealing! Keep the attention of your audience by not speaking too long on any one talking point. 6. Not Engaging With Your Audience Bring your audience into the presentation. Its not a lecture. It should more or less be a discussion. 7. Too Much Text Too much text is hard on the eyes and gets really boring. If your audience could just read whatever valuable information it is you have to share, they would just do it on their own time. 8. Letting People Know There’s a Replay Don’t let people know there’s a replay off the bat. By doing so, you are training people to watch the replay. You want your registrants to attend live. 9. Mostly Selling and Not Providing Enough Useful Content No one wants to be sold to. Lead with value and the sales will come. 10. Not Analyzing The Data Reflect on the numbers. Let me repeat. Look back at your numbers! See what needs improvement so you wont make the same mistakes the next time around. Now its time to avoid these mistakes!! Which mistake are you going to focus on first?

Working, Traveling and Living the (Nomad) Dream

Working, Traveling and Living the (Nomad) Dream Is it narcissistic to want to live the life I want over one that’s been laid out in front of me by society? If it is, then I’m a proud egotist. I’m so over the template lifestyle of working hard to fulfill someone else’s dreams. Remote work is the future. The number of digital nomads is predicted to grow to 1 billion by 2035. That’s a lot of people living a location-independent lifestyle, while others sit in their office wishing they were roaming the beach that beckons on their computer screensaver. It’s time to empower yourself to up your game and become a traveling professional. Globetrotting Opportunities I prefer to write sitting next to a cenote in Tulum, over a cubicle in Pittsburgh. I do my best work when 33,000 feet above sea level and I choose to eat Mexican food in Mexico on my lunch break rather than at a Chipotle in Cleveland. If you want this too, there are five types of professions that let you make travel part of your career: Digital Freelancers: Digital nomads have skills that can be done online. These are your writers, computer programmers, marketers and graphic artists. Online entrepreneurs: Online marketplaces like  Etsy  make it easy to sell your handmade goods online, while global companies like  Amway  afford you the opportunity to sell products you’re passionate about through direct selling. Remote workers: Those who take the job out of the traditional office. According to  com, 20-25 percent of the U.S. workforce frequently telecommutes. This would include the healthcare sector, educators and any type of company that will allow it. Hospitality Industry: The service industry helps globetrotters find work in restaurants, transportation, facility maintenance and direct operations. This would include the airline industry, tourism, cruise lines, cosmetology, tour operators and hotels. Service/Volunteers: Work to make a difference in underdeveloped countries through the  Peace Corps  or volunteer agencies. How to Live the Dream To make travel part of your career, you actually have to work. It takes a disciplined, independent self-starter to get up and work in any environment. Before you hit the road, identify why you want to do it and by what means you will make it happen. Have a plan. It might be easier to begin in affordable locals like Southeast Asia or Africa where you can get by on less than $50 a day. Make smart decisions with your money. The people who succeed at living a life of travel have a clear vision and commitment to make it happen. The Drawbacks Living a life of travel isn’t all rainbows and unicorns. There are drawbacks to everything. Routines are hard to come by. You don’t know where you’ll be in a month down the road. You live out of a suitcase. Dating is hard. There’s no instruction guide, so you’re on your own. Embrace Your Wanderlust Working remotely is professionally accepted. Microsoft and Google send some of their privileged employees on a remote year to let them explore abroad while working. If you have wanderlust, find a way to work and travel. Invest in yourself to live the best life possible. Were the asset-light generation. Our portable, lightweight lives give us the freedom to work while indulging in adventure.

How a Blog Can Really Help You In the Tight Job Market

How a Blog Can Really Help You In the Tight Job Market Employers who cut their teeth doing quick internet searches on old high school boyfriends and girlfriends in years past now turn their attentions to you, their potential employee. A Microsoft study shows that a full 80% of employers regularly check job applicants out online before deciding to move forward with the time-consuming process of bringing people in for an interview. For someone with a robust digital footprint (lots of social mentions, membership in professional groups, an updated LinkedIn page. etc.), this will come as good news. After all, employers are checking you out online to make sure that your work and educational history matches up with your CV and also, presumably, to make sure there are no red flags wilding about that might make you a bad hire. However, honesty and not a bank robber , are not enough to land you your dream job. What if there was a way to help your potential employer come away with the perception that you are all of the above as well as knowledgeable, an authority in your field, analytical, creative, well-connected, and strategic? If you have a blog, or contribute to a blog regularly, congratulations! A well-executed blog can achieve all of this and more. Here, we take a look at how a blog can help you land your next dream job. Along the way, we’ll also stop to consider some of the best blogging practices as well as some pitfalls you certainly want to avoid. How can a blog help you in a tight job market? Increase online visibility: While a LinkedIn profile is a must-have for 2014 job-seekers, simply showing up on LinkedIn is not enough to wow that potential employer. Why? Because, well, everyone who is looking for a job has a LinkedIn page! A blog, on the other hand, is something that can help you stand apart from other, blogless candidates. Nowadays, blogging technology is so simple and user-friendly (consider Tumblr, WordPress or Blogger) that there is really nothing standing in your way if you want to start flexing those wordsmith muscles of yours. Highlight your skills: By: Eric Cuthbert To be clear, there is a difference between a blog that complements your online and professional persona, and one that relates to more personal aspects of your life, such as a hobby, your family, or your favorite dog breed. Blogs of this stripe can be immensely personally satisfying, but may not help employers see you as the professional that you are. The blogs that really help those on the hunt for a new job are blogs that show you, the professional, in action. Whether this is a blog that doubles as a portfolio for a copywriter or photographer, or an educational blog for other educators, employers will be intrigued to see you doing what you do best, even before they interview you. Showcase your  professional network: In addition to allowing you to show off your professional chops to prospective employers, blogs are useful ways to demonstrate the professional connections that you will bring with you to your next position. Guest posts from high profile individuals in your field, a post that garnered shares and comments from bigwhigs, and even your Blog Roll are all ideal ways to show employers that you are a somebody who knows lots of other relevant somebodies. Your professional network of colleagues, friends, and associates is a valuable asset and a professional blog can set this asset off to strong effect. Demonstrate commitment: One thing that employers consistently look for in their employees is their stick-to-it-ness. There are many ways to demonstrate this, some of which include long periods of employment with the same company or organization, as well as a demonstrated commitment to gaining new skills in the field via certificate programs or continuing education credits. Want to know another way to demonstrate your ability to commit? You guessed ityour blog. One of the Best Practices in Blogging that we’ll discuss below is to post regularly and to avoid going into radio silence for long periods of time. Let’s say you are a wine buyer, and for the past four years, you have posted weekly on a topic of interest to your field. Even without reading the post you have toiled over so carefully, a potential employer can glean that your interest in wine is no fly-by night passion. Additionally, your weekly posts demonstrate that you are a person with follow-through who can stick to a schedule, something that employers care about. Provide  useful talking points during an interview: While we don’t recommend making your blog that star of the show at your interview, there are many ways to tactfully bring your well-curated blog up in conversation. For example, if you enjoy delving deeply into your blog’s analytics and have used data to improve views, SEO ranking, or readership, why not mention that as an example of an accomplishment? Or, if you have encountered a problem while blogging that you solved in a typically clever fashion, it might be appropriate to bring this up as an example of your problem-solving skills. Finally, even if your experience in the blog world doesn’t extend to analytics and celebrity guest posters, if an interviewer asks you about hobbies or what you like to do for fun, your blog on hiking the Pacific Crest Trail or baking a new French pastry each weekend can do much to show that you’d be a fun person to join the office community. Blogging best practices: Now that you are convinced that a blog can help you win the job, you’ll want to make sure your blog is in tip-top shape before you start sending out those CVs. Below, a list of blogging best practices: Post frequently: As mentioned earlier, posting frequently and on schedule is a must. Failure to do so may alienate readers or suggest that you aren’t that committed to your topic. Integrate your blog with other social media: Give your blog its best chance to be visible link to it from Twitter, create posts that you push to LinkedIn, make sure people can get to it from Google+. The best blog in the world can’t do much for you if no one can find it, after all! Optimize for mobile: Nowadays, web users are glued to their smart phones and expect to be able to view content on their mobile devices in the same way that they could on a desktop. Make sure your blog is set up for mobile use or risk losing readers. (Take into consideration that 58% of mobile users check their phone at least once an hour and you will understand how crucial it is for your blog to be optimized for mobile!) Make use of about me: The About Me (or similar) section of your blog is an ideal place to provide key information about yourself to potential employers. If you decide to post a picture of yourself on your blog, consider using the same photo you use on LinkedIn or Twitter so that employers will know you are one in the same. Maintain a narrow focus: One of the guiding principles of blogging is to maintain a tight focus on a topic. If your blog is focused on educational reform at the K-12 level, it probably should not also be about your garden. Proofread, proofread, proofread: This may seem obvious, but one of the quickest ways to lose authority in a reader’s eyes is to confuse their and they’re and there or too and two. Blogging worst practices: Just as there are several must-dos in the blogging world, there are also a host of Do Not’s that it is important to be attuned to, especially if you are hoping to impress potential hiring managers. These include: Offensive language: Whether this is swearing heavily or calling that old so-and-so an idiot, it is best to keep your language polite in your blog. Not only will you come off as fair and balanced, but you will do much to suggest that you will be an appropriate and tactful member of a team. Attacks on colleagues/employers: Nothing will make a prospective employer turn tail quite so quickly as attacks on colleagues, past or present. Not only is it unprofessional, but it is one quick step of the imagination for the hiring manager to imagine his or her own employees cast in a similar rageful post sometime in the future. Dead links: Dead links are links from your blog (or anywhere) that simply do not go anywhere. Whether this is because the site no longer exists or because you entered a link incorrectly, a bunch of dead links can appear sloppy and unfinished. A good rule of thumb is to check for these dead ends once a month as part of your general blog maintenance. Selfie overloads: Unless you are a fashion model and your blog is also your portfolio, selfies aren’t the way to go on a professional blog. The takeaway: The right kind of blog can be a tremendous asset during a job search. Not only can your blog demonstrate your skills, but it can provide potential employers with a much fuller and more genuine representation of you than your CV could ever do alone. Whether you are an experienced blogger or have simply been wondering whether or not a blog could help you in your job search, there has never been a better time to blog than right now, when blogging platforms are cost effective and employers are cruising the internet for someone just like you. Author: Rosie Scott is a digital content strategist at an online marketing company and an avid blogger.  Lover of everything craft, you can find her and her knitting at The New Craft Society or on twitter @RosieScott22 where she’s always up for chatting!

How to Write a Resume Objective

How to Write a Resume ObjectiveWriting a objective for resume is not something easy. In fact, it is very time consuming and frustrating. If you are one of those people who are not aware of how to write a resume objective, here are some things that you need to know.So what is the purpose of an objective? It is a portion of the resume and is in the first section. The purpose of it is to guide the reader when you do not have enough time to explain your skills. An objective is basically the introduction for your resume.You can have more than one objective in your resume. That is why it is important to keep them separated. For example, if you have four objectives in your resume, one for each section, it will be more organized and understandable.When you are writing a resume objective, make sure that you state everything clearly. You should also choose your words carefully because if you put too much information, the resume could easily be confusing.This is a word problem, though. In order to figure out how to write a resume objective, here are some tips.When you are trying to write an objective, it is important to state the things that matter to you in detail. You should also think about the information that will be useful to your employer or recruiter.There are some rules that you need to follow when writing a resume objective. When you put too much information in your resume, it will be hard to understand. When you use too many words, it is too difficult to comprehend what is written.To summarize, yourobjective should be short, to the point, and concise. When you put too much information, it is difficult to read. If you follow these rules, you will be able to write a resume objective that will make your resume easier to read.

Book review Open Space Technology - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Book review Open Space Technology - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog If you want to read about open Space Technology, this book is the only place to start. Harrison Owen who came up with the concept, explains the practicalities and the history of Open Space meetings in his usual clear, engaging and entertaining way. Open Space meetings are characterized by their ability to consistently create the right background for incredible achievements. They are amazingly efficient and they also create enthusiasm, stimulate the open exchange of ideas and avert most conflicts. To me, Open Space is the meeting form that most acknowledges us as independent, self-reliant humans capable of taking responsility for ourselves and others. This book explains every detail needed to hold your own Open Space meetings. Invitations, the place, the pace, the people and the little tibetan temple bells. I know is sounds weird but they work, you can get 200 peoples attention (in a nice way) with two small bells. I recommend this book to anyone interested in better meetings, which ought to include many people. What the book cannot tell you (no book could) is what its like to be a part of an OS meeting. The amazing energy. The buzz. Seeing people take leadership and ownership. The deep and honest exchange of ideas. The amazing results. For this, you need to try an OS meeting yourself. Heres one. Owen ends the book with a nonconclusion, from which the following quote is taken: In another time and another place, it might have been well to heed the voice of caution and wait until all the results were in. But my natural impatience, combined with a growing conviction that Open Space Technology does work and does do some good in our crazy fragmented world, drives me to the conclusion that action research is the only way. Do it. Think about it. Do it again ? better. Please join me. I couldnt agree more. Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related

Pros and Cons of Becoming a Police Officer

Pros and Cons of Becoming a Police Officer The Police Service is one of the most respected and trusted organisations in the UK. As a Police Officer, you would be responsible for safeguarding the residents of the community that you are policing, and instilling a sense of trust. But what are the pros and cons of becoming a police officer? How2Become decided to investigate…The Benefits It’s rewarding. The biggest benefit to becoming a police officer is that, on a personal level, it’s extremely rewarding. As a police officer, you will be responsible for improving community relationships and protecting civilian rights. You will be seen as a pillar of the community, and someone whom people can trust. At times, you may even be required to save lives.It’s challenging. If you are looking for a career that will challenge you and push you to your limits, then police work could be perfect for you. The nature of the job means that every day is extremely varied, and will bring new difficulties to overcome. Working as a police off icer will take you to new places and locations, and bring you into contact with all different kinds of people. You need to be someone who is assertive, confident and accepting of people from all cultures and walks of life. It’s a learning experience. Working as a police officer will teach you a great many things, and lead to significant self-improvement. Along with the people you’ll meet, working in the police service will ultimately help you to mature and grow as a person. Along with the responsibility that you will take on, you’ll also hold responsibility for your colleagues/other members of your police unit, the public and in representing the name of the UK Police Service. Along with this, the opportunities for progression are endless, and hard work will see you swiftly rise within the service.The Disadvantages It’s dangerous. There is no disguising the fact that police work is often extremely dangerous, and therefore it’s not for everyone. As a police officer, you will be responsible for tackling dangerous criminals, in a direct manner. That means that there are times when you may have to give chase, or even physically restrain/subdue individuals who have intention to hurt you or others. If you aren’t prepared to do this, then you might need to reconsider this as a choice of career.It’s emotionally challenging. While police work will bring you a range of new experiences, not all of these experiences will necessarily be positive. Crime has an impact, and as a police officer it is your job to deal with this impact. That means that there are times when you will have to deal with unhappy or devastated victims of crime. You might see people being shot or stabbed, you might have to break up fights or deal with drug related incidents. It’s important that you are someone who is emotionally prepared to handle all of this. Dealing with the public. While the police service are still held in high regard by the majority of people, their reputation has d iminished slightly in the past decade or so. What this means is that there are some people who no longer trust the police service, and are quite prepared to show their opinion. This has not been helped by budget cuts, which mean some police officers struggle to do their jobs effectively. As a police officer, you’ll have to deal with the resources at your disposal, even if these are sometimes limited. This can be frustrating, as can attempts to change public opinion. However, if you work to the best of your ability, there is no doubt that you can make a difference to the reputation of the service as a whole.To apply for police roles, check out the official PoliceCouldYou website! This entry was posted in Police, Career Advice. Bookmark the permalink. Jordan Cooke Top Careers In Demand: Jobseeker’s Guide 2016GCHQ Summer School 2016: The Cyber Insider