Today Is The Last Day Of The $99 Special Offer

Today Is The Last Day Of The $99 Special Offer Just a quick post for any of you who didnt know about the buy-one-get-one-free offer to celebrate our second year at JibberJobber we had to extend it through TONIGHT. Pay $99 and each month turns out to be $4.13 ! Thats a pretty sweet deal. Why would you do this? Heres a few of my favorite reasons: JibberJobber is a LIFETIME career management tool! You might be in a job search now, but when you land your job youll be in-between job searches! The government says well be in transition every three to five years (yes, that sucks), but my partners who work with executives say that, depending on your role (CxO), you might be in transition every 12 18 months. WOW! What are YOU doing about it? The premium version e-mails you your action items. I dont expect you to login to JibberJobber to see what you have going on today but I do suspect you live out of your e-mail (I do). Ive missed too many appointments, and in my job search I missed a call-back because my calendaring system was messy. As a premium subscriber you can choose when you get the e-mail two days before its due? Cool. Five days? No problem. Twenty days on the day whenever? Its up to you! The premium version has NO limits on number of records stored. Currently, anyone who subscribes as a premium user can have as many target companies, network contacts and documents (resumes, reference letters, etc.) in the system. The premium version allows you to import and export. Have your contact lists elsewhere? Target companies in a spreadsheet? You can simply import them into JibberJobber. And if you are concerned about backups (more than what we do, which is a nightly tape backup), you can export your data as often as you please. The premium version has a Get Contact List option. This allows you to get your contacts in a variety of formats, including .csv, .html, vcard, etc. Want to send an e-mail to just a segment of your list? No problem, the Get Contact List was made for that As a bonus, anyone who is a premium user, with a one-year-or-more subscription, can get any of the CEO Training webinars for 50% off anytime! Trying to figure out LinkedIn or Facebook? You can get the webinars at just $24.95, instead of $49.95. Want to get a book out and enhance your personal brand, develop yourself as a subject matter expert and thought leader? Write Your Book has gotten great reviews, and you will be able to get it for just $24.95. Have a great blog that no one reads? This two hour special recording of Blog Marketing 201 501 will be just $24.95 if you take advantage of this special. So go login now, upgrade for $99.95, get two years of premium features, and then head over to the CEO Training site and get some webinars! Who should take advantage of this? YOU! Today Is The Last Day Of The $99 Special Offer Just a quick post for any of you who didnt know about the buy-one-get-one-free offer to celebrate our second year at JibberJobber we had to extend it through TONIGHT. Pay $99 and each month turns out to be $4.13 ! Thats a pretty sweet deal. Why would you do this? Heres a few of my favorite reasons: JibberJobber is a LIFETIME career management tool! You might be in a job search now, but when you land your job youll be in-between job searches! The government says well be in transition every three to five years (yes, that sucks), but my partners who work with executives say that, depending on your role (CxO), you might be in transition every 12 18 months. WOW! What are YOU doing about it? The premium version e-mails you your action items. I dont expect you to login to JibberJobber to see what you have going on today but I do suspect you live out of your e-mail (I do). Ive missed too many appointments, and in my job search I missed a call-back because my calendaring system was messy. As a premium subscriber you can choose when you get the e-mail two days before its due? Cool. Five days? No problem. Twenty days on the day whenever? Its up to you! The premium version has NO limits on number of records stored. Currently, anyone who subscribes as a premium user can have as many target companies, network contacts and documents (resumes, reference letters, etc.) in the system. The premium version allows you to import and export. Have your contact lists elsewhere? Target companies in a spreadsheet? You can simply import them into JibberJobber. And if you are concerned about backups (more than what we do, which is a nightly tape backup), you can export your data as often as you please. The premium version has a Get Contact List option. This allows you to get your contacts in a variety of formats, including .csv, .html, vcard, etc. Want to send an e-mail to just a segment of your list? No problem, the Get Contact List was made for that As a bonus, anyone who is a premium user, with a one-year-or-more subscription, can get any of the CEO Training webinars for 50% off anytime! Trying to figure out LinkedIn or Facebook? You can get the webinars at just $24.95, instead of $49.95. Want to get a book out and enhance your personal brand, develop yourself as a subject matter expert and thought leader? Write Your Book has gotten great reviews, and you will be able to get it for just $24.95. Have a great blog that no one reads? This two hour special recording of Blog Marketing 201 501 will be just $24.95 if you take advantage of this special. So go login now, upgrade for $99.95, get two years of premium features, and then head over to the CEO Training site and get some webinars! Who should take advantage of this? YOU!

How Only Doing Your Job Hurts Your Career

How Only Doing Your Job Hurts Your Career You are a loyal employee who does the very best at your job. You exceed goals, focus only on what you are supposed to do, and no one can ever say, “You don’t know what you are doing.” Although this may sound like a proper approach to career growth, read why this behavior can do more to harm the future of your career.Limiting Career PotentialPeople generally grow by doing things outside the realm of what they normally do every day. If your focus is solely on “getting one job done”, you will never learn anything outside of your learned skill set required for one particular job.If for some reason your job task is somehow automated and made obsolete, you will find yourself with an outdated skill set. A mid-career change will be much more difficult, if not impossible.Tip: It is highly recommended to take business courses online, in a school after hours, or on the weekend. You have a job now, so you have the money to pay for it.You Cannot Continue to Be the Best at Your One JobAs technology rapidly changes the way we live and work, new tools are entering the workplace every year that makes completing tasks easier. There may come a time when the job it takes you a full day to complete can now be done in less than an hour due to technology.As managers and new employees come into the workplace with their new theories of increasing productivity and cost-saving, you may still be using outdated tools for completing tasks. Focusing on your one job limits your ability to find new tools to complete tasks more efficiently.Tip: Always learn new technology coming into the workplace that is being used to complete your tasks. Investigate technology and fall in love with learning it while embracing the changes when they come to your office.You Lose Your Connection With PeopleIf you build a fortress around your job and let no one inonly doing that one job you do best, at some point, you stop communicating with others. The danger here is that you have neither the hard skill nor the communication (soft) skill, and definitely not the network to help yourself find new jobs when the time comes to find new work.Today’s workforce can be considered job hoppers compared to the traditional 20th-century workforce. Changing jobs 10 to 12 times in a career and working longer requires staying in touch with people. Anti-social behaviors to keep others from communicating with you will hurt your ability to grow a network, thus making job changes more difficult.Tip: Stay connected with others on LinkedIn, as you are working. You will need the people in your network one day.Getting Stuck in a “Single Loop Learning Cycle”A single loop learning cycle is a learning model identified by Chris Argyris and Donald Schon that states, “When learning, due to experience is modified behavior while thinking does not change.” It looks something like this:Imageby Organizational LearningYou may be great at your job of removing symptoms, but you never took the time to learn th e root causes of why the symptoms happen. Therefore, you are not a “problem solver”. You are a person who does one task to get one result, or you find a way to do one task and get faster results. So, when that job disappears you are ill-prepared for the job search ahead.Tip: In your career, you should focus more on “double loop learning”, which looks like this:Imageby Organizational LearningIn a double loop learning cycle, you become more of a manager and less a person who is great doing tasks, by changing the way you think to explore other opportunities you may enjoy.At the End of the DayYour career growth will take a new turn for the better the moment you recognize the importance of self-awareness, honesty, commitment to career education, and taking responsibility. You can do more than one job in your career

Susan Boyle - Personal Branding Perfect Storm - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Susan Boyle - Personal Branding Perfect Storm - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career If you havent seen the video of Susan Boyle, contestant on Britians Got Talent, youve been under a rock.  47+ million hits of her audition video have been recorded on YouTube and the numbers keep climbing.   In five days, Susan Boyle has become a global brand. Eat your heart outshes accomplished in 5 days what multi-million dollar brands NEVER do take the world by a storm by connecting deeply with people all over the globe. Simply amazing.   Shes beat out Bush vs Shoes, Obamas Victory Speech, and Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, as shown in this chart from the Mashable post about it: Social media is the star here I submit that social media is also a star here as well.  Think of the perfect storm of an already-viral TV show (like American Idol, Britains Got Talent is a phenom in terms of ratings, audience fan, branding, and more); the YouTube effect, Twitter going mainstream, Facebook (which has finally hit an international tipping point in terms of numbers) and a global consciousness thats growing every day, especially among young people.   Oh, and dont forget the mainstream media, who are falling all over themselves because Susan Boyle does NOT fit the star model they work so hard to maintain. What a great story!   Ive heard that people in China, Russia   everywhere are tuning in to watch her   video and smiling and crying and telling all their friends. THIS is the essence of personal branding The ability to associate feeling and emotion with a product, service, and/or personality is something corporations pay millions of dollars to achieve. Researchers spend countless hours pouring over the data to find the magic formula.   Consultants tell a new client, Ive got a special formula to help you break through the noise.   Whatever. Something that I love about this story is that, true to one of the main tenants of social media, Susan Boyle is nothing if not authentic.  This is the new currency that brands have to master. No, she doesnt look the part, but that doesnt matter shes wonderful just as she is and her singing is as natural and wonderful as she is.   People totally believe her and believe IN her.   We just met her less than a week ago and we feel like we already know her story.   The whole world is pulling for her.   You go, girlfriend! And as Mashable points out, meanwhile, if and when Boyle decides to jump into social media for herself, shell have a built in audience of millions of fans hanging on her every word. Its a fairly incredible, albeit not completely surprising story.     A personal branding best if there ever was one! Author: Beverly Macy is the Managing Partner of YM Partners and teaches a social media class at the UCLA Extension.   She also co-hosts Gravity Summit events.

Interning to build a creative career

Interning to build a creative career The creative sector is a rapidly growing, dynamic and exciting industry to work in which currently adds £84 billion to the UK economy (1). It is also notoriously difficult to enter and highly competitive at graduate level. The value and importance of an internship in this industry to build a reputation and network with industry contacts is well documented. In this blog post, Warwick graduate Abi Browning reflects on her experience as a Social Media, Press, PR, Sales and Marketing Intern with yada events, in the first of our new series of alumni interview blog posts. So what is it that do you actually do, Abi? My main responsibilities at yada involve caring for the company social media pages such as Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram as well as Facebook and LinkedIn. I write the general blog posts and contact event professionals and venues about featuring them on our social platforms. When I attend events I take photos and upload them to twitter and other areas. I’ve also been learning about key areas of business strategy that are vital to start-up success and how to use practical tools and techniques to create a Social Media Marketing Strategy. What were some of the challenges you faced when starting your internship? The first week was daunting. (I’m not going to lie!) I had never worked in a large office space in central London before. In fact, as I’m an English country girl, I had only very rarely been to London. The commuting was scary to start off with but I soon got used to it, especially after living in the Warwick/Leamington bubble for three years. Working in this sort of environment is fast-paced. Event tech and the start-up industry are changing constantly. It’s a very different set of daily challenges compared with student module timetables and set reading lists. However, my love for social media, especially Instagram, really helped me pick up the everyday tasks of this role which was great. What are the most exciting parts about interning for an events management app? For me, the exciting parts were the challenges associated with learning a new set of skills. At the same time, I’ve been able to draw on my interests in reading, writing, and photography. yada Events app are growing fast and they are getting involved in more and more events. I love going to new places, meeting new people and absorbing the atmosphere of events. yada is the official events app for two key student events this term, so I get the opportunity to travel to Glasgow and Leeds to promote the brand and spread the word to Scottish and English students. Even the planning stages have been fun with creative brain storming meetings to come up with ideas for merchandise and competitions. What made interning at a creative start up stand out to you? Having done summer work waitressing and working as an events assistant, this year I was looking for a more interesting role that would allow me to improve my own skills and learn more about the working world and not just about the fictional world of novels that I indulged in as an English Literature Student for three years. This internship was my opportunity to show I can grow my mind and my skill-set. It is so important to consider how your university course will allow you to build yourself into a talented team player or entrepreneur. I didn’t want a role that would be easy and that I would find myself getting bored in. What have you gained most from your internship? My internship has allowed me to understand more about what I want from a job and how I can use the skills I crafted at university for the benefit of my career and for the progression of a start-up that I am passionate about. I had thought about venturing into the events industry after finding a passion for organising parties and planning society events. When I was about to do my final exams and I was thinking about life after university, I was keen to look for a career path that allowed me to combine my creative heart with the office professionalism and social side of small company camaraderie. I was incredibly lucky to find the internship at yada because it has opened my eyes to the wide variety of career options in the events industry. Any final tips for students who want to follow in your footsteps? Id recommend looking for internships that will push you outside of your comfort zone and throw you in the deep end! Working for a start-up means that everyone is expected to aid the progression of the company. On my commute I listen to social media marketing podcasts to get me in the mindset for marketing the app and this is a great way to bring ideas to the table and help the team to build the brand image online. I’d also suggest looking around at blogs or conversations that people in your industry are having before and during your internship. You could find something really useful that will help you and your team! (1) https://www.gov.uk/government/news/creative-industries-worth-almost-10-million-an-hour-to-economy

Writing Actors Resume

Writing Actors ResumeAn actor's resume is most often a key element in deciding whether to hire them or not. When actors are needed on the set, they need to prepare their resumes accordingly. In this article we'll discuss what a resume should contain and why it is so important.Before even thinking about writing an actors resume, you must first ask yourself what kind of work do you want to get. Does your goal is to become a regular performer? Or, are you looking for a career as an actor? An actor's resume should provide relevant information about your interests, talents, and education.There are many different resume elements. The most important ones are the educational details. Take some time to think about what kind of acting you want to do and which schools you want to go to. You may also want to talk to an agent or get in touch with other professional actors to see if they have any recommendations for your acting career. While your actual work history is important, your resume is th e first thing people will see.If you want to make a successful transition into the world of acting, your work history will go a long way towards helping you land a part. By learning how to use a script, you can sell yourself as a good improviser and know how to deliver a strong performance. This skill helps you learn how to create believable characters that will draw audiences to you. It is important to remember that if you want to be a great actor, you must learn to sell yourself. The more self-motivated you are, the better your performance will be.One of the most important things to consider when preparing a resume is when you were hired. Usually, an agent or casting director has to approve of your resume before you can send it out. If they give you an award, tell them about it. This is an opportunity to make yourself stand out and be aware of what people remember you for. If you are constantly working toward your acting goals, you will be better able to get roles and eventually d evelop a career as an actor.The next thing to consider is your work history. This will help you demonstrate your skills as an actor. Before sending out your resume, take the time to write down each and every role you have done. This will allow you to compare your skill sets to other actors and to see where you fall short and where you excel.Another consideration is using actors resume template. You can choose from several different templates that offer different options. Using a professionally written template means that you have a chance to include all of the important details on your resume. Some of the options include professional writing styles, resume templates with sample testimonials, actor-specific sections, and professional cover letters. The biggest benefit of using a professionally written template is that you get to customize your document so that it meets your specific needs.Use a resume template to help you craft an actor's resume. You should be able to start preparing your resume after reading the details about it in this article. Most importantly, remember that having a professional looking document will help you land the right roles.

How to Negotiate a $109M Severance Package

How to Negotiate a $109M Severance Package Theres been a lot of press about  Yahoo COO Henrique de Castro getting fired by CEO Marissa Mayer after just one year in the job. Much of the press revolves around his $109M severance package because people are dumbfounded by how anyone could receive so much money for failing.But lets examine the circumstances under which de Castro accepted the position. Mayer snagged him from Google where he had a great gig working for the #1 company on the Fortune Best Companies to Work For list. He was given an opportunity to walk into Yahoo, a company whose revenues have been declining consistently for years, due to competition from Google and Facebook. His charge was to orchestrate a major turnaround for the company, no small feat.No executive takes on such a role without meticulously negotiating a comprehensive severance package. His severance benefits, including equity awards, were laid out in his employment letter. Im assuming de Castro knew he was taking an enormous risk teaming with Yahoo a nd the only way Mayer was going to be able to convince him to come on board was by offering him a huge insurance policy.  So what does all this mean for you? If you are in the midst of a negotiation for a new job, it may be important to negotiate your severance package on the way in, because it can be difficult, if not impossible, to negotiate it on the way out. While it might seem awkward to negotiate your exit when youve just gotten your foot in the door, its a prudent and frequently expected point to negotiate, particularly if part of the new role requires a turnaround effort. As long as you can prove to the prospective employer that what you are negotiating for is fair and reasonable, you should be able to make some headway in the negotiation process.Since negotiating severance may feel like a difficult conversation, here are a few tips.Begin the conversation by displaying your excitement about the offer and reiterate why you think you are a great fit and what value you can brin g to the role.Explain that you expect to have a long and fruitful career with the company.Discuss the reality of the risks associated with the role if there are any in terms that are fair and reasonable. For example, you might say, Given the fact that this is a volatile market, I think it would be prudent to discuss the severance package, should market conditions impact company performance. If you are being brought in to manage a turnaround, you might say, Given the fact that the firm is facing significant challenges, some that may be outside their control due to the economy, I believe it is reasonable to discuss what happens if the original goals are not met. If you are negotiating with a start up, you might say, Since I am leaving an established Fortune 1,000 company for this start-up, there is inherently more risk and I would like to discuss the opportunity for severance if the company does not take off.While I cant guarantee you will leave the negotiation table with a package as lucrative as de Castros, you will certainly be taking better ownership of what happens to you financially if your new job doesnt work out the way you had planned.

SKY NEWS BUSINESS Remote Work and Career Progression - Jane Jackson Career

SKY NEWS BUSINESS Remote Work and Career Progression - Jane Jackson Career Remote Work and Career ProgressionAn interview with Carson Scott and Jane Jackson, Career Management Coach, on Your Career.Carson Scott, Sky News Business, and Jane Jackson, Career Management Coach, discuss the option of remote work.    The challenges that people face when it comes to career progression, career change, and making a tree change.Is it possible to make remote work a success?How can you leverage technology to make it work for you?What do you need to do to be sure that you are able to influence even if you dont live in the major cities?These are discussed during this television interview that reflects the changing world of work today and whether it is possible to make remote work a viable option for your career.View the entire interview with Carson here:For comprehensive career management support, visit The Careers Academy Online for career webinars, online courses, podcasts and articles on career management and career transition.