Where Can I Get Job Resume Helps?

Where Can I Get Job Resume Helps?There are many sources of resume help. You can get information online from many sources as well as from your employer's HR department. Depending on the company you work for, there may be an extensive training program to help make your resume stand out.Many companies have special tools and resources available to help potential employees be noticed by an employer that they should apply to. Many different types of resumes are made and sent to employers in a number of different styles. If you want to stand out in a resume or need help putting together a professional resume you may want to consider using one of these tools and resources.Job Seekers has dozens of websites available to them, that have plenty of free information for job seekers. This is very helpful for people trying to figure out what their options are when it comes to applying for jobs. To find job leads or for anything else about job searching visit one of the many free websites.Internet J ob Boards offers a lot of free online resume help. For those of you that need a little bit more help with making a resume or for potential job hunters who need help learning how to write a good resume the internet offers a variety of tools and resources to help. Using an internet job board can save you a lot of time and money because you can learn at your own pace from a website that specializes in helping people to look for jobs.Job Boards is also great places to get advice and tips on how to best present yourself when applying for a job. Job boards provide many job search tools that are free to use. These include online databases of potential jobs and other information that will help you find a job or just help you find a new position.Free Resumes: These can be mailed to an employer if you need a resume made to send to an employer. They can also be used on an online job board that offers resumes to companies that require an applicant. This makes it easy to add a resume that contai ns all the needed information that the company needs to determine if the applicant is an ideal candidate.Many free resume templates are available to help create a resume that is perfect for the job you are applying for. Making a resume is not hard and can be done quickly once you know the proper steps to take. Some of the more popular and most common resume templates include: Word Perfect, Excel, and the Recruitment Machine.Career and work related search engines such as LinkedIn are often free. There are many benefits to LinkedIn including job searches and networking. You may want to consider joining LinkedIn if you are looking for more job help.

Can Tim Repurpose His Career Part 2 of 4 [Podcast] - Career Pivot

Can Tim Repurpose His Career Part 2 of 4 [Podcast] - Career Pivot Episode 49 â€" Marc works with Tim (not his real name) and takes him through the CareerPivot evaluation process, based on the Birkman Assessment. Description: Copyright: meinzahn / 123RF Stock PhotoIn this episode, Marc shares Part 2 of 4 parts of the CareerPivot evaluation process. This is the second half of the feedback session, where Marc helps Tim understand his organizational and time management behaviors. Tim shares office stories about his strengths and stresses. Key Takeaways: [1:34] Tim is a 50-year-old guy who has been stair-stepping himself out of a career and building a business on the side. Last month he got laid off, which was his trigger to complete his pivot. This episode will cover Tim’s Birkman through his organizational and time management behaviors and the Birkman measures of freedom and challenge. [2:19] If you missed Episode 48, please stop here and listen to it first. If you listen on the go, listen first without the reports and then download them from CareerPivot.com/Tim and listen to it again. Download Link |iTunes|Stitcher Radio|Google Podcast|Podbean|TuneIn|Overcast [2:53] Page 10 has the need for structure, organizing, and being responsible. Flexibility vs. Structure. Tim’s most effective behavior puts a high value on structure and order. He is systematic, procedural, and concerned with detail. His strengths are maximized when the plan is of his own making and when he has the flexibility to bend his own rules. [5:25] Tim can walk into a situation, create order, and set up procedures. But then he has to go. He cannot live under his own procedures for a long period. He gets bored. [6:33] Tim’s causes of stress are external interference in his plan can frustrate or distract him. He may overreact to pressures that threaten his personal freedom. Tim agrees with what he hears so far. He dreads a manager coming by and suggesting changes without knowing what has gone into the procedure. [7:30] Tim’s possible stress reactions would be overgeneralizing, neglect of order and system, and weakened follow through. This has appeared on his past performance reviews. [8:07] Page 11 covers Need for Authority. Being in Charge, and Suggest vs. Tell. Tim wants to win the argument. He prefers to be free of close authority. Tim is most effective when there is a minimum of controls placed on him. Strengths: Deferent and agreeable, pleasant and low-key. Tim is a nice guy who doesn’t want a boss. [9:06] Tim would much rather be asked than told. Tim wants to be in-the-know and to know why. Tim recognizes the importance of control in the environment. This applies a need for some balance. He is most at ease in environments that maintain direction and control in a fair and equitable way. [10:28] Tim would rather have a collegial boss than an authoritarian boss. Because of his need for balance, he may be annoyed by people who are too assertive, or he may become unusually aggressive in situations that seem to lack direction. [11:41] Tim possible stress reactions are becoming argumentative, and difficulty speaking up. He has done both but especially is reluctant to speak up. [12:13] Page 12 is Dealing with Change and Focused vs. Variety. Tim’s most effective behavior is his sense of novelty, adventure and readiness to start new things. His resilience to change is above average. He is easy to stimulate, responsive, attentive, and adaptive. Tim likes variety. This is a problem in the corporate environment. [14:46] Tim responds best to situations and surroundings that offer frequent changes of activity. He gets positive reinforcement from an environment that allows him to move. He has a standing desk with wheels that he moves. He is totally bored sitting at a desk. Excessive emphasis on routine can put Tim under pressure, feel restless and annoyed. [16:56] Tim gets annoyed with delays, problems with self-discipline, and an inability to concentrate. [17:22] Page 13 covers the need for kinesthetic movement in his day, and the energy he uses in making decisions. He enjoys being regularly active and can summon reserves of energy when his schedule demands it. He is energetic, enthusiastic and uses vigorous reasoning. He may take on many projects, and overlook the need to rest. [18:21] Tim has trouble shutting down in the evenings. He is always thinking. Marc recommends to him the book Positive Intelligence, and focus on one small thing at a time for 15 seconds 100 times a day. Tim’s causes of stress are hurried conditions with too little time to think things through. This leaves him feeling rushed and less effective. [20:15] Tim discusses the preparation he puts into a podcast interview. He may be flexible during the interview, but it has to follow the flow he planned, or he is unhappy. Marc notes that Tim does more show prep than anyone he knows. It makes him feel ready when he understands how he will relate the conversation to his audience. [21:54] Tim wants his podcast guests to know he respects their time, and that he took the time to prepare for the podcast. He is pleased when they compliment his work. Tim’s Stress Reactions are postponing direct action, magnifying boredom of projects, and favoring thought over action. Tim needs to take breaks. [22:39] Page 14 is Making Decisions. Tim has a primary emphasis on a thoughtful and reflective approach to decision making, considering distant as well as immediate consequences of his decisions. He makes routine decisions quickly. His need is a preference for the time to make thoughtful decisions, exhausting all possibilities. [24:46] Tim worked for his last company for 13 years, holding four or five positions. Every three years they moved him to another position. That was his need for variety being met. When Tim buys a car, it takes a long time, starting with considering if a scooter will work. He sometimes gets analysis paralysis. [26:27] Tim’s Causes of Stress: pressure mounts when he is hurried in actions and rushed in making judgments. He dreads the unforeseen, and can needlessly postpone or evade a decision. This is why a layoff for people like Tim is good. He has to make a decision. [28:00] Reactions to Stresses are becoming indecisive, fear of the unknown, and unnecessary caution. Decision making can be worrisome for Tim. At this time he worries about his lost salary. Planning helps him feel more comfortable. [29:42] Page 15 is the Need for Freedom. Tim’s Most Effective Behaviors are consistent and cooperative. He has insight into how people think and feel. He likes convention. His Strengths are restrained, consistent, and cooperative. His Need includes a preference sometimes for a personal touch. [30:29] He projects individuality against a background of predictability. He puts color in his spreadsheets and designs his own Powerpoints. He is somewhat creative and wants to do things his way. [31:23] Tim’s Cause of Stress is a lack of predictability in the environment. Tensions can mount if he is denied some freedom of thought and action. Tim wants predictability his way. He will need to think about this working for himself. [32:54] Tim’s Possible Stress Reactions are anxiety and emphasis on undue restraint. [33:01] Page 16 is Expectation of Myself and Others. Tim’s Most Effective Behaviors are natural confidence and positive self-image, focusing on his Strengths of Personal Charm, being Pleasant, and his Confidence. These have made him successful with his podcast. People readily accept to come on the Podcast. [34:27] Tim’s need is to be in situations and surroundings that do not place unrealistic demands on his abilities. His relationships should be emotionally supportive. Causes of Stress are that his strong self-image makes it difficult to accept blame. Criticism must be balanced with praise. [35:51] Stress Reactions: unrealistic expectations, sidestepping uncomfortable situations, and avoiding critical self-evaluation. [36:25] Marc has a homework assignment he will email to Tim about reevaluating times when he got mad, and what he could do differently. Tim will also need to pick out 8-15 Strength Phrases that he strongly accepts. More assignments will be based on these. Tim will be able to authentically tell who he is, not what he has done. [37:48] Next week Marc will cover with Tim his preferred work styles and his lifestyle grid. Mentioned in This Episode: CareerPivot.com Episode-41 Birkman Assessment CareerPivot.com/Tim Oristand.co Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential AND HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOURS, by Shirzad Chamine Please pick up a copy of Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd Half of Life, by Marc Miller and Susan Lahey. When you get done reading the book, please leave an honest review on Amazon. The audio version will be available in October. Watch for news of the membership community of the CareerPivot.com website. Marc has an initial cohort of members helping him develop the content. Soon Marc will start a wait list for those who want to participate. CareerPivot.com/Episode-49 Take a moment â€" go to iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play. Please give this podcast a review and subscribe! If you’re not sure how to leave a review, please go to CareerPivot.com/review, and read the detailed instructions there. 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3 Key Steps To Moving From Self-Rejection Toward Self-Love - Kathy Caprino

3 Key Steps To Moving From Self-Rejection Toward Self-Love Part of Kathy Caprinos new series Close Your Power Gaps To Live and Work As You Long To In my work as a career and executive coach, I work with women of all ages, sizes and styles, and one theme has become very apparent: women are incredibly tough on themselves, full of self-rejection, shame, humiliation and doubt, particularly about their looks, their weight, intelligence and their worthiness. I can count on one hand the number of women I’ve spoken with recently who feel “just great” about themselves. The vast majority of women I interact with are indeed brilliant, accomplished, talented and creative â€" in short, amazing â€" but feel somehow that they are not good or worthy enough. I call these women “perfectionistic overfunctioners” â€" doing everything for everyone around them and striving so hard to get an “A+” in every single endeavor and aspect of their lives. I should know â€" I’m a recovering one. Since “getting an A+” is not possible in every activity or area, and  â€" and constantly striving to achieve that level of success is damaging â€" women then fall short of their unrealistic expectations and feel even worse, seeing their “failure” as validation that they have to work harder and be better. Know that I’m not judging here. I feel deep love and compassion in my heart for all these women, because I can empathize fully. I’ve done a lot of internal work around this (and continue to), and I’m happy to say that I now know how liberating it is to free ourselves from needing to get an “A+,” and how fabulous it feels to jump off of the never-ending hamster wheel of doing more than is healthy, appropriate, necessary, and hating ourselves in the process. I’ve seen first-hand that once you close your power gaps, build appropriate boundaries and start speaking up and honoring what you want and who you are, you begin to operate very differently in the world and grow happier and more accepting of yourself and everyone around you. You begin to embrace your “imperfect, just-right” functioning rather than striving for an impossible goal of perfection. But I’m not always there â€" I sometimes fall down and forget to love and accept myself. I experienced a real wake-up call on this several years ago, when I spent a day at a photo shoot in Connecticut for my then new website. The day’s experiences took me from self-rejecting, shameful and worried (once again) about my looks, my weight, my worthiness, etc., to loving it all â€" embracing myself, my foibles and flaws, my talents and who I am at my core. I saw how the right kind of experience (with the right kind of people who align closely with your values, your heart and your worldview), can help you move from self-rejection to self-acceptance in a few short hours (or in an instant). After thinking about this experience in greater depth, I realized  there are five key stages of transformation from self-rejection to self-love, and if we gain awareness of these stages, and have the courage to embrace them whenever we can and move through them, we can accelerate our own growth away from rejection towards self-love. The five stages of transformation from self-hate to self-acceptance are: Stage 1: “I don’t rate â€" I’m just not good enough.” I started the day of my photo shoot afraid â€" afraid to share my wardrobe choices, reluctant to express what I really liked in terms of style, color, makeup, hair, jewelry and inhibited in my movements and physical presence. I compared myself in my mind to the thousands of other women my wonderful photographer Jacklyn Greenberg had shot before â€" young and older women and men I thought were beautiful and charismatic (so it seemed to me). Along with head shots, weddings and national events, Jacklyn does “risqué” photography as well, all of it stunning. Some clients are naked or are only partially dressed and from Jacklyn’s website, all of them seemed gorgeous, vibrant and unabashedly free. I thought, Oh, no â€" this is going to be a very long day. Stage 2: “Wait, maybe I’m not so bad.” As the first hour progressed, with the help of Jacklyn and her great makeup artist D.D. Nickel, things changed and I changed. I moved from fearing everything about me was wrong and inferior to remembering that what I am â€" inside and out â€" is not terrible. Far from it. I started to see how my fears about my looks, weight, age, clothes, wrinkles, skin, tummy, etc. are universal and the only thing keeping me stuck in my insecurity was me. Stage 3: “Hmmm I guess I do have some unique, valuable qualities.” Then, midway through, something interesting happened. I saw through their eyes that â€" as I let out who I really am at my freest â€" sharing my authentic personality, what I care about, my quirks, how I’m different, the shoot went much better, and the day became raucously fun. I forgot I was being photographed. We talked, shared, probed, guffawed and as I connected more deeply with Jacklyn and D.D., I saw how my qualities could be seen as unique and valuable â€" to the experience at hand, but also in relationship with these great new folks I was partnering with, and even in helping spread the word about their work and the stunning property, Winvian, we were lucky enough to be shooting on. Stage 4: “It’s ridiculous (and an utter waste of precious life) to hide â€" I’m going let it all out.” Towards the end, the idea of hiding was long gone. I wasn’t afraid, shy or reluctant â€" I was excited, energized and inspired to be even more of myself. I saw clearly how stepping up and powering up to share myself in the most authentic, vulnerable way possible was the ONLY way this whole thing would work (in a photo shoot and in life). Stage 5: “Ok, I can honestly say â€" I love and accept myself.” Finally, at the end of the day as I was driving home, tired but exhilarated, I felt a flush of self-acceptance (dare I say self-love). I had done something that was scary and challenging for me. I had stepped up to a very high vision for where I want to go â€" in my life, in my career, in my professional pursuits â€" I held out high hopes for I wanted for and the outcomes I’d dreamed of, and I pushed myself to be real and courageous enough to make this happen. Not just because I went to a cool photo shoot, but because I believed in myself and the idea that I’m worthy of putting myself out there in the world in a bigger way. At the end of the day, I was able to utter to myself exactly what my spiritual psychotherapist years ago implored me to state as an affirmation every day: “I thoroughly love and accept myself.” In the past, I had coughed up a hair ball every time I said that. Now, with each day, it’s much easier. Years later, Ive pushed myself far out of my comfort zones and done things that the old me would have run from. And I continue to commit to moving away from self-rejection. To move through these five stages of transformation, start with these steps: #1: Begin to recognize just how amazing you are. Take the time this week to understand more deeply who you are, what you have to offer, and what youve already done in the life and work that is helpful, important and valuable. (For professionals, feel free to download my free Career Path Self-Assessment to get in touch with the important accomplishments and achievements youve made that have made a difference in the world). And watch my TEDx talk Time to Brave Up to learn how to articulate who you really are and the 20 facts of you. #2. Identify your biggest fears in the way of sharing more of your authentic amazing self in the world. Some women might read this and think, I just dont love myself so how can I fake it? in part because women are culturally trained to think that if we love ourselves, we’ll be self-involved, selfish and self-absorbed. And also because many of us have experienced childhoods that trained us that were not good enough unless we behave in ways that are not in alignment with who we really are. If this is you, take the time (and get outside help if you need it) to understand the beliefs, mindsets and fears that keep you from sharing the real you in the world, and loving that honest version of yourself. Understand exactly where you got those beliefs and mindsets that youre not good enough as you are. Most likely, its damaging messages you received in childhood that told you you werent living up to the crazy, unrealistic expectations your parents and society had. (And growing up with narcissistic parents damages even further our self-esteem and self-worth in ways that most people dont understand.) #3. Stop holding back and start going for the things you really want. Keep moving through the rejection. In a powerful Forbes interview I conducted some time ago with the inspiring bestselling author Harriet Lerner on What Selling 3 Million Copies of The Dance of Anger has Taught Renowned Psychologist Harriet Lerner, she shared this about rejection: In truth, theres only one way to escape  the pain of rejection: sit mute in a corner and take no risks. If we live courageously, we will experience many rejections that will make us want to fold up in a corner and never put ourselves out there again.   Don’t let yourself stay in that dark corner for too long. Get out and accumulate more rejections. You can take some time out, but dont ever let rejection stop you. Ive learned that self-love, and dealing with rejection in a powerful, self-affirming way, is vitally important and needed in the world today. You simply can’t build a wonderful, rewarding and happy life and career â€" and you can’t be of service to others fully â€" if you don’t learn how to move through rejection (from yourself and others), and find new ways to love and accept yourself more fully â€" flaws, gaps, foibles and all. Are you ready to find brave and walk through the five stages of self-hate to self-love today?   For hands-on coaching support to love and embrace yourself more fully and get moving toward building a more thrilling life, join me in my new Close Your Power Gaps coaching program and tune into my weekly Finding Brave podcast.

5 Tips to Help You With Job Applications - Hallie Crawford

5 Tips to Help You With Job Applications Career coaching clients often ask me why they have sent out so many resumes but rarely, and sometimes never, hear back from the employer. There are so many possible reasons that it’s hard to pinpoint one. One of my career coaching clients recently asked me this very question the other day.For over a year before working with me he’s applied for jobs and never heard back.   When I looked at his resume and cover letter I realized why. His cover letter was dense and way too long. A full page of text, that’s very dense and not easy to read isnt going to be read by many employers. He needed to cut it back; we set to work doing just that. Here are the top 5 reasons you might not be hearing back about your job application: 1. Your resume isnt tailored to the position. An employer can tell if it isnt. If you don’t take the time to revise your resume for each job you’re applying for, you won’t look qualified and it will go into the recycle bin. 2. Your resume doesnt have relevant keywords for the position, and companies that use computers to review resumes to determine which ones to review by hand tosses it out. 3. You didnt follow their application instructions to the letter. That is an automatic disqualification. Always follow their instructions. If they say don’t contact them to follow up, don’t. 4. The job has been posted for weeks, and you are just now applying. Sometimes you can be way too late to apply. Stay on top of job boards and postings to apply right away. 5. Your resume is in a format that is hard to read and scan quickly. If they can’t tell if you are qualified right away, or can’t quickly review and identify your qualifications, it goes into the trash. Remember, there are many possible reasons you’re not getting calls back. There’s no way to know exactly why. You have to try to get it right as often as possible, so that your chances are increased. Ideal Career Coach P.S. Are you frustrated with your job search? Check out our  FREE REPORT:  â€Take Control of Your Career Transition: Uncover Hidden Opportunities”.

Emailing Resume and Cover Letter - The Right Steps to Make Sure You Get Through Quickly

Emailing Resume and Cover Letter - The Right Steps to Make Sure You Get Through QuicklyThe process of emailing resume and cover letter is a rather simple one. If you've been involved in job hunting for any amount of time, then you'll understand how this can be one of the most important steps in your job search. There are plenty of things to consider when it comes to job searches, but having a strong resume is often one of the top ones. What makes a strong resume more effective than a weak one?One thing that's necessary is to make sure you're prepared with a list of job listings you would like to work for. If you're an employee who has been on the market for quite some time, then you're probably tired of trying to hunt down new jobs. It's best to spend a few days or a week going through and making sure you have a list of companies that can hire you.In addition to job listings, you also need to make sure that you're fully aware of the industry you're looking to enter. This means knowin g about the job opening and what it is you should be looking for in a career. Also, make sure you do research on the company to find out if they have awards you can bring to the table.When it comes to emailing resume and cover letter, one of the best ways to ensure that it gets through quickly is to include it on your company website. By emailing a copy of your resume and cover letter, you will be able to more easily send the information to potential employers on the company's behalf. The internet is a wonderful tool to use, but it takes a bit of a time investment in order to get the information to them.Before you email the resume and cover letter to people, you want to make sure that you write it with a clear purpose. Don't just send it off for someone to read and pass it along to a recruiter, as it could damage your chances of being hired. The purpose of the email should be to leave a positive impression on the employer and offer the right kind of information.When you are preparin g your resume and cover letter, keep your goals in mind as well. Are you only looking for a position at a certain company or for an employer to place you at their company? Be sure that you've done the research to determine what it is you want and the best way to get it.While your resume and cover letter may be the most important parts of your job search, it's also important to remember that your efforts will be greatly rewarded if you give it your all. This means that you need to spend time carefully preparing the information you will send out and will receive.

Gender Gap The Invisible Workload That Drags Women Down

Gender Gap The Invisible Workload That Drags Women Down “I am the person,” wrote Ellen Seidman, a wife and mother of three, “who notices we are running out of toilet paper.” It was the beginning of a poem she wrote for her blog, Love That Max, about a role she plays in her household â€" that of worrier, organizer, rememberer, and attention-payer. The poem was about the work she does involving thinking, a kind of mental labor that, she says, “enables our family to basically exist.” “I am the person who notices,” she writes. I am the person who notices we are running low on coffee pods… I am the person who notices we are running low on toothpaste/dental floss/mouthwash/anti-cavity rinse in bubble gum flavor. I am the person who notices we are running low on granola bars, brownie bites, dried fruit, kale chips, cheese sticks, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish and other lifesaving snacks. She is the person who knows not only that coffee is essential, but also that using the wrong toothpaste is the kind of thing that can seriously ruin a child’s morningâ€"not to mention their parents. Eggs, milk, and ketchup, too, she notes. The juice her son loves, and the brand of peanut butter preferred by each family member. (“I so wish our family had consensus on p.b.,” she sighs.) Not to mention a whole myriad of soaps (body, laundry, dishwasher, etc.), gas for the car, when library books are due, when it’s time for a check-up, and when the towels start to smell. It starts with the toilet paper running out and it goes on… and on… and on. It’s exhausting to read. Sociologist Susan Walzer published a research article in 1996, called “Thinking About the Baby,” pointing to this household gender gap. Scholars had already documented that women, even those who worked full time, were doing the majority of what came to be called the “second shift”: the work that greets us when we come home from work. Walzer was interested in the invisible part of this work, the kind that occupied people’s minds. She interviewed 23 husband-wife couples, finding them through the rather quaint method of reading birth announcements in a local newspaper. All had brought a baby home in the last year. More of the Mental Work Walzer found that women do more of the intellectual, mental, and emotional work of childcare and household maintenance. They do more of the learning and information processing (like researching pediatricians). They do more worrying (like wondering if their child is hitting his developmental milestones). And they do more organizing and delegating (like deciding when the mattress needs to be flipped or what to cook for dinner). Even when their male partners “helped out” by doing their fair share of chores and errands, it was the women who noticed what needed to be done. She described, in other words, exactly the kind of work that Seidman’s poem captures so well. Seidman isn’t complaining. Her poem is funny and sweet and clearly driven by a love for her family, husband included. And, to be fair, while women who are married to or cohabiting with men do more domestic work than their partners, husbands spend proportionally more time on paid work. Today the amount of sheer hours that men and women spend in combined paid and unpaid work is pretty close to equal. But that doesn’t count the thinking. Husbands may do more housework and childcare than before, but women still delegate: Honey, I’m going to be out of town for the weekend. Remember that the pediatrician’s number is on the fridge, we’re expecting a package on Saturday and you should intercept it if you can, Susan has a sleepover at Amy’s later that night and I wrote the address in your calendar, Scotty has a piano lesson on Sunday at 10 so don’t let him sleep in, the number for Mikey’s Pizza is programmed into your phone, and the flower bed out back could really use some weeding if you’re up to it. No wonder wives have the reputations of being nags. Even a person who was perfectly happy to do household work might get tired of being wrangled by a half-frantic taskmaster. Like much of the feminized work done more often by women than men, thinking, worrying, paying attention, and delegating is work that is largely invisible, gets almost no recognition, and involves no pay or benefits. //static.apester.com/js/sdk/v2.0/apester-javascript-sdk.min.js ‘Superpower’ or No? Seidman suggested she had a “seeing superpower” that her husband and children did not. But she doesn’t, of course. It’s just that her willingness to do it allows everyone else the freedom not to. If she were gone, you bet her husband would start noticing when the fridge went empty and the diapers disappeared. Thinking isn’t a superpower; it’s work. And it all too often seems only natural that women do the hard work of running a household. We have come a long way toward giving women the freedom to build a life outside the home, but the last step may be an invisible one, happening mostly in our heads. It’s about housework, yes, but it extends to having to consider what neckline, hemline, height of heel, and lipstick shade is appropriate for that job interview, afternoon wedding, or somber funeral, instead of relying on an all-purpose suit; it’s about thinking carefully about how to ask for a raise in a way that sounds both assertive and nice; it’s about worrying whether it’s safe at night and how to get home; for some of us, it involves feeling compelled to learn feminist theory so as to understand our own lives and, then, to spend mental energy explaining to others that the revolution is unfinished. To truly be free, we need to free women’s minds. Of course, someone will always have to remember to buy toilet paper, but if that work were shared, women’s extra burdens would be lifted. Only then will women have as much lightness of mind as men. And when they do, I expect to be inspired by what they put their minds to. 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9 Things LinkedIn Should Do Right Now - Work It Daily

9 Things LinkedIn Should Do Right Now - Work It Daily LinkedIn is a great way to network with other business professionals. But it does have some easily corrected problems. Of course, LinkedIn is not the king (or queen) of customer service or listening to customer requests. So they probably won’t do any of this. But they should. 1. Get a decent customer service department. I am a paid subscriber. But it can still take days and often at least a couple of reports of the same problem to even get a response. Even then, LinkedIn rarely fixes the problem. This is unacceptable for even the free service, much less the paid service. 2. Let people invite others they don’t know. If I’m at a regular networking event, I can go up to anyone and introduce myself. They have the freedom to respond or not respond with information. But LinkedIn operates on an absurd principle that you either have to know someone or be introduced to them to invite them. Why? 3. Install a simple text editor. Right now the only emphasis one can give in a comment or discussion is TO CAP IT. This is very old fashioned and not very much fun. Almost everyone now has a simple text editor. LinkedIn should, too. 4. Stop letting group members move discussions to jobs or promotions. This should be the duty of group owners and managers only. At this time, competitors can move any discussions to never-never land, namely, jobs or promotions. There is a notification, but getting a post moved back to discussions is a real pain, especially since most group owners don’t do a very good job of responding to requests. In this cut-throat business environment, why give my competitors the right to silence me (or me the right to silence them)? 5. Require a photo to be on LinkedIn. This would cut down on spammers and frauds on LinkedIn. LinkedIn should also enforce their terms of service regarding photos, namely, no logos or icons. I like to have a picture of the person with whom I’m connecting. 6. Make it easier to respond to members who write you through LinkedIn. Right now it is a real pain. Let someone who receives a LinkedIn message respond by simply hitting “respond” on their e-mail program, rather than having to sign into LinkedIn and use LinkedIn’s inadequate response mechanism. Hint: When you send a message via LinkedIn, always include your real e-mail address. If you are going to ping me, I should be trustworthy enough to be able to write you back directly. 7. Make it easier to contact LinkedIn. Not only is LinkedIn’s customer service worse than that of airlines (that’s pretty bad), but it is incredibly difficult to place a trouble ticket. This should be a “one click.” Instead, customers have to jump through hoops to send an e-mail. For those of us who are paying customers a phone number where we can actually talk to a real person would be a nice touch â€" so long as that real person has the information, the authority and the willingness to actually solve the problem â€" something LinkedIn is really abysmal at. 8. Give us something for our money. I haven’t decided whether my money that is going to LinkedIn each month is being well spent or not. I still get the same lousy customer service. I can do a bit of enhanced searching. But not much else. If we’re going to pay, let us get our money’s worth! 9. Stop making me sign in so much! I should be able to sign-in and stay signed in. As it is, every so often I have to re-enter my password. I understand this is for my “security,” but I should be able to sign-in and stay signed in on the same computer. LinkedIn is a great tool for business. But they aren’t very responsive to the needs and desires of their customers. This is the primary attitude at LinkedIn I’d love to see changed immediately. For more business advice, join my LinkedIn Groups, “Getting Employed,” and “Spirituality in Business.” Thanks! John Heckers has over 30 years of successfully helping people with their careers. He has consulted to executives from Fortune 500 companies, five-person companies, and everything in-between. Photo credit: Shutterstock Have you joined our career growth club?Join Us Today!