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TABLET PC - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog I got e tablet PC today and Im fooling around with it. This entry is written using the handwriting recognition-but without fixing any mistakes works remarkably well , in my opinion. Iron the geeks: I got a Fujitsu-Siemens T 3010 Update: i meant to write for the geeks 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

The Thank you that will get you Hired! IM HIRED

The Thank you that will get you Hired! Dont forget your pleases and thank yous You got through the interview (hopefully you stopped by my previous blog The Interview Answers that will get you hired) and the mine field of questions fired at you by your potential employer. So what now? Well the wait for feedback begins. Although the phrase no news is good news is partly true, everyone wants the feedback as soon as possible so you can be put out of your misery. Whether that be the excitement of an offer and a new chapter of your career or even the feedback if you havent been successful. So you can use that to improve next time round. How long does it take to hear back after an interview? Well there is no definitive answers here it can be as soon as a few hours after the interview. Or Ive heard of some processes taking up to 3 months to give feedback. From experience, I would expect an employer to take approximately a week to give you feedback, so you definitely need patience to be one of your strengths during the recruitment process. The wait isnt easy but in the background neither is the decision making process, the recruiter/employer will be taking time to consider and review each applicant which is made a harder process when two applicants are just as strong, qualified and right for the job as one another. How to impress after the interview is over? Well its simply and you can probably guess by the title of this blog that a thank you goes a long way.  Now I dont mean you need to send a long detailed letter about how great the recruiter was and how amazing the interview was structured. (I mean all recruiters like a ego boost but no need to lay on the cheese) As a kid, did your parents make you write a mountain of thank you cards after birthday parties and send them out to all your distance relatives? (That being your one and only communication with them throughout the year.) Well this is similar however I have no idea how much a stamp is anymore so it doesnt need to be as formal as a letter. An email or linkedin message would work just as well, its the content that counts. So lets start at the end, the end of the interview that is. In the interview hopefully you got an opportunity to ask questions about the role, the company and culture. Reflect on their answers and really decide whether this job role is something you feel passionate about pursuing further. Every interview is a two way street; it has to be just as right for you. Before we proceed answer this question to yourself, is this the right job for me? First of all this is a good step so dont be disheartened youve learnt what isnt right for you. However, you never know when circumstances will change so leave things on a good note. Send a polite, short note to the employer explaining you wish to withdraw your application. And wish them luck finding the right person for the job. Simple, you done! You get the feeling of apprehension as you wait for feedback knowing this job is ticking off all your non negotiables. (Remember these from my What Career Suits You?  blog.) But whilst you are waiting we can help the employer/recruiter with their decision by making it clear why they should hire you.  Everyone leaves an interview wishing they had said this and talked more about that. The thank you is the perfect chance to add all that in. Firstly, you want to be quick. There is no point sending a note a week after the interview; they have most likely already decided. You need to have the note in the recruiters inbox by the latest the day after the interview, time isnt on our side. You want to write about what made you want to work for that company. Pinpoint any information they gave you in the interview makes it sound more genuine and confirms you paid attention. Again using the information they discussed in the interview. Sum up why you now know that you are definitely the right match for the job. (This isnt your CV again but sprinkling in one or two examples for them cant hurt.) Most importantly it is a thank you, it needs to do what it says on the tin. Thank them for their consideration. Allow them the option to get in touch if they wish to discuss your application any further. A simple Thank you template: Good Morning/ Good Afternoon XXX,   I just wanted to drop you a quick note to thank you for your time yesterday especially for being so flexible around my availability.   It was great to hear more about the role of XXX, and it certainly brought the position to life for me. I can definitely say it is something I would like to pursue further. It was interesting to hear more about the companys journey and transformation and I feel my previous experience in XXX could really transfer well into your company.       You mentioned that the role would involve a lot of XXX and this is an area in which I feel I have strong experience within through (give an example.)     Thank you again for your time and I look forward to hearing from the team shortly.   Kind Regards,     XXX. I am not making any promises in this blog, a thank you note after an interview is not a guarantee to getting the job.  (sorry to burst that bubble at the end.)  But it can show your passionate and willing to go the extra mile. From my experience sifting through countless applications and interviews it really does bring that person to the forefront of your mind. Now that cant be a bad thing in the decision process.

Resume Writing Service - Hire One For Perfect Writing of Your Resume

Resume Writing Service - Hire One For Perfect Writing of Your ResumeIf you want to land a job and are in search of a resume writing service, then the right service for you is San Jose CA. People come here because they want to work in the computing industry. There are people who work in Silicon Valley, which is all set to become the center of the IT world.To land a job in this company, you can do your research. If you know that there are no jobs in the San Jose CA, you can visit another city of California like Sunnyvale. Or you can even try to find a job in some other state like California. You have to make sure that you put your best efforts to land a job in the company.Resume writing service is designed to give you a resume for every position in the company. That's why if you get a resume written by the company, it will not be as impressive as a resume by you. Therefore, in order to impress the companies, you need to have a resume that is able to impress.The resume writing service t akes care of the resume with your name and contact information on it. This ensures that the resume has all the necessary information to impress the company.You should include the personal background about yourself in your resume, especially if you are just an employee. The resume will look professional when it includes all the information about you.The resume can be drafted by the person who is responsible for it. You have to ensure that the resume writer is experienced in writing resumes.Thus, if you want to hire a professional resume writing service, you should contact them as soon as possible. And only after that, you should send your resume and leave everything to their expertise. Only then you can be sure that you have landed a job and got all the required information in your resume.

Smoking Pot at Work Should I Report My Coworkers

Smoking Pot at Work Should I Report My Coworkers Q: I’m a manager and witnessed two guys under another manager smoking pot, as I was driving into work. They were on work property, and it was during work hours. While not being judgmental on a personal level, I feel compelled to report them. But I have to work with them, and I know they won’t get fired. I’d just as soon shut my mouth. Thoughts? A: I’m as pro-privacy and as anti-Prohibition as they come, but what you do on work property during work hours is your employer’s business. And as a manager yourself, you have a higher level of obligation than if you weren’t. So. Is there a safety issue? Would you report them if it were alcohol? Would you want to know if they’d been your own employees? If the answer to any of those questions is yes, then yeah, you do need to tell their manager what you saw. (You can ask them to leave your name out of it if at all possible, since you need to work with these guys.) If the answer to all three questions is no, then I’m not going to tell you that you’re obligated to take this on. Q: After receiving a job offer, I requested more money, a specific schedule, and asked about benefits. After a few email exchanges with HR, I realized their health insurance is one of the ones exploiting the ignorance of folks and claiming loopholes where there are none for my form of birth control. I would’ve had to pay $80/month just for birth control. I responded to the HR person to thank them for all their help and let them know the insurance would not meet my needs. I called the manager, and she said she thought I’d rescinded my application (!), adding that she’d received my email to HR and thought I wasn’t interested. I was very confused, given that at no point did I say I didn’t want the job; I simply said the insurance did not meet my needs. She had offered the job to someone else. She said, “Do you want to work for somewhere that can’t pay you well and won’t give you the schedule you want?” I informed her at that point I didn’t even know what the schedule was and hadn’t been informed what the final offer was, given that no one actually communicated with me at all during this time. After asking “Is the offer rescinded for me then?” about twice, she finally said that the offer was no longer available to me. My partner wants me to try to speak to their manager/supervisor and let them know what happened. Thoughts? A: I wrote back to this letter-writer and asked, “When you told them that the insurance wouldn’t meet your needs, what exactly did you say in that email? And what were you expecting to happen after that?” The letter-writer responded: I thanked them and then said the insurance wouldn’t meet my needs. I didn’t say “so I won’t take it”; there was no vague language like that at all. I actually didn’t have all the details of the offer yet, like what days I would work or whether they wanted to pay me more. The email was sent to HR, not the manager, although I found out later it was forwarded to her. So, here’s the thing: A flat statement that an element of an offer “won’t meet your needs” is potentially going to be interpreted as “this offer won’t work for me.” Now, the employer handled this poorly in several ways: They should have responded to you and either told you that the offer was final, including the health insurance, or attempted to negotiate with you. Instead, they prematurely assumed you were turning down the offer and just moved on. They also should have responded to your phone calls after this happened. So I’m not defending the employer here. But you didn’t handle this beautifully either. If I made an offer to someone and after discussing an element of it, they flatly told me that it wouldn’t meet their needs, I’d be wondering why they didn’t follow that up with something else, like “So unfortunately I won’t be able to accept” or “Would you be able to go up on salary to make up for the hit on insurance?” If they didn’t do that and just told me it wouldn’t meet their needs, I’d be left pretty nonplussed. It also sounds like you were assuming that your emails with HR weren’t part of the official discussion about the offer, since they weren’t going to the hiring manager, but during offer discussions, HR and managers are very much in communication and are sharing their discussions with the candidate with each other. What you say to HR is assumed to be as much a part of your response to the offer as what you say to the hiring manager. The hiring manager explained her thinking when she said, “Do you want to work for somewhere that can’t pay you well and won’t give you the schedule you want?” At that point, she’s thinking: “We already talked about the fact that the pay is below market. We’re not going to be able to give you the schedule you wanted. And now you’re saying that the health insurance doesn’t meet your needs. This isn’t the right match. I want to hire someone who’s going to be happy about the offer and not feel like working here is a hardship.” Again, she should have closed the loop with you after you had your conversation with HR. She shouldn’t have ducked your calls. She should have been straight with you. But I can’t totally blame her for concluding that this wasn’t a great pairing for either of you. As for your partner’s suggestion to go over the manager’s head and complain: That’s not going to get you anywhere. In the employer’s eyes, you’re going to be the candidate who said the offer wasn’t acceptable and then was upset when they moved on to someone else. Going forward, I’d just make a particular point of being really clear when you’re negotiating. If you say an offer (or a piece of an offer) doesn’t work for you but you want to keep talking about ways to resolve that, you need to say that second part explicitly. Otherwise, people may assume you’re walking away. Note: Some questions have been edited for length. More From Ask A Manager: Should you accept a job when you haven’t met in person? My employer might drop our health insurance â€" what can I do? What should I look for in a job offer letter?

Baby Boomers Unprepared For The Costs Of Long Term Care Coverage - Work It Daily

Baby Boomers Unprepared For The Costs Of Long Term Care Coverage - Work It Daily Does your company offer a group long term care coverage policy? If not, you may want to consider purchasing LTC insurance on your own. It has been determined that baby boomers are vastly unprepared for the cost of long-term care coverage. This is due in part to the various planning aspects and retirement cost aspects. For the most part, baby boomers were not prepared for any type of long-term care. Many did not feel the need in creating a savings account for long-term care or for end-of-life care coverage. In fact, many of the baby boomer generation population feel that Social Security and other aspects would take care of themselves and, therefore, the cost of long-term care coverage would not be a issue. However, in recent years, the baby boomers have found that they are vastly unprepared for the cost of long-term care coverage and may need to work beyond their retirement years in order to pay for any kind of retirement living. There have been many studies in the past decade regarding the unpreparedness of baby boomers. Several employee benefit websites and benefit news sites have decided that by and large only 25% of baby boomers were prepared for any type of long-term care. This is left nearly 70% of baby boomers unprepared for the cost with no options insight. Because of this, many baby boomers are left with the only options being Medicare or some form of retirement plan. Unfortunately, many of the baby boomers who were not prepared for long-term care were also not prepared for retirement. A recent study appearing on Benefit News showed that an average age for long-term care policy issues was 43 in 2006. Unfortunately, in 2006, the average age of the baby boomer was 10 years older than the average age for individuals seeking long-term care policies. The same study also showed that women were representing 52% of the purchasing population and, of that 52%, only a small fraction were actually purchasing items that were retirement related or that were long-term care related. The top states that were purchasing long-term care insurance were California, Pennsylvania, Florida, Illinois, and Texas. Only two of these locations were considered to be baby boomer retirement areas. California and Florida also showed that though they were the top purchasers of long-term care insurance do individuals purchasing long-term care insurance were not part of the baby boomer environment. It has also been estimated that there has only been a 5% increase in the last decade of baby boomers actually purchasing long-term care insurance plans or major medical plans that will cover long-term care insurance. The statistics are staggering and have been catching many individuals off guard. In fact, there are many institutes of thought that show the baby boomers by and large are having to resort to alternative methods in order to pay for any type of long-term care insurance. One of these methods is to choose to go on Medicare even though Medicare may not cover the full extent of their long-term care. Other baby boomers have chosen to live with their children or have chosen to allow their children to have their children pay for their long-term care. This is becoming an increasingly disturbing issue. It has lead to many individuals to decide that retirement planning should be instilled in future generations in order to avoid a baby boomer generation occurring again with the high cost of long-term care. Related Posts: When To Turn Down A Job Offer Risks And Rewards Of Taking A Job You Don’t Want Why No One Is Calling You After You’ve Applied To Over 100 Jobs Online Photo Credit: Shutterstock Have you joined our career growth club?Join Us Today!

Hiring Managers Share the Worst Interview Mistakes Theyve Seen Candidates Make

Hiring Managers Share the Worst Interview Mistakes Theyve Seen Candidates Make Interviews can be intimidating you likely spend the whole day before preparing your answers to the most common bewerbungsgesprch questions, studying up on the company and your interviewer and hyping yourself up in the mirror. And even after all of that, youre totenstill stressed out about making a mistake.The reality is that, boiled down, interviews are just two-way conversations. Youre only human everyone makes mistakes.That said, some people make bigger mistakes than otherbeis. Thats why Fairygodboss Associate Editor Liv McConnell took to the Fairygodboss community dashboard to ask hiring managers about the worst mistakes theyve ever witnessed and theyre certainly cringeworthy.This question goes out especially to hiring managers or those whove worked in a hiring capacity whats the worst mistake youve seen a candidate make in an interview? she asked. Interviews can be anxiety-inducing, so anytime Ive b een in the interviewers seat, I try to approach candidates with empathy. That said, there are certain mistakes that youd be doing a disservice to both yourself and the company to ignore.For her, she says that the most glaring mistake shes ever encountered welches when a candidate addressed her by the wrong personenname at least four or five times during the interview, despite her stating her name in the beginning.Not only did it show the candidate wasnt listening to me during our conversation, but it revealed a sense of carelessness on their part wed already exchanged multiple emails at this point, and he really shouldve done some research on me and my role at the company besides, she goes on, asking the community about the biggest mistakes theyve seen candidates make during the interview process.FGBers responded with a whole host of ugly mess-ups. Heres what they had to say (and what you should avoid doing in your next interview).1. The candidate was hungover/high.Ive had a candid ate talk about how hungover they were... They were not hired, says JamieJacobs.Another candidate came into a job interview high.I recently had someone interviewing for an entry-level position at my company come into the interview completely stoned (red eyes, lost concentration, slurred some words, laughed out of nowhere), says Dawn A. Needless to say, we ended the interview early.2. The candidate badmouthed their former employer.Ive had a candidate talk incredibly bad about their former employer thats exactly what NOT to do, an anonymous FGBer says.3. The candidate was texting during the interview.I had a candidate stop to check their phone during an interview and send what I think was a text or an email, says another anonymous FGBer. Then they offered no explanation on why they had to do that. It was weird and happened while a question was being asked to them, so then they had to ask for the question to be repeated.Other FGBers had similar experiences.Not only did this person leav e their cell phone on, but the candidate went to check the text during the interview, says Olivia Oz.4. The candidate didnt follow up with a thank-you note.Not following up with a thank you and then not being responsive (timely) in their reply are dealbreakers, says an anonymous FGBer.5. The candidate focused too much on their weaknesses.I asked Whats your biggest weakness? and the candidate responded Ive got 3, and then proceeded to explain them to me in great detail, an anonymous FGBer shares. She spent more time telling me her weaknesses than explaining her strengths. We decided to go in a different directionOther FGBers had similar experiences with candidates lowballing themselves.Ive asked someone to rate themselves on a scale of 1-10 for their abilities communication skills he gave himself a 2... This position was for a strong communications role, says Ceci.6. The candidate asked the wrong questions.Not asking questions regarding the challenges related to the role, what the co mpany values, etc. shows me the person has not imagined themselves in the role and, therefore, is not truly interested in working with us, says Coach Sandra.One person even asked all the wrong questions.One candidate asked if we provided free food and snacks and what were they he cared about food over the interview, says Julez.--AnnaMarie Houlis is a feminist, a freelance journalist and an adventure aficionado with an affinity for impulsive solo travel. She spends her days writing about womens empowerment from around the world. You can follow her work on her blog, HerReport.org, and follow her journeys on Instagram her_report,Twitterherreport and Facebook.

Unusual Article Uncovers the Deceptive Practices of Another Word for Government when Writing a Resume

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