How To Feel Comfortable When You Work From Home

How To Feel Comfortable When You Work From Home When you work from home, it can feel like you’re living your best life. Being your own boss, setting your own working hours, and being in control of your income can feel so freeing. But at the same time, it can be something that you can really struggle the balance. Because the one thing that you don’t often realize when it comes to this kind of career, is that you are absolutely in charge and therefore 100% accountable. You’re the one that has to do all of the work, you have to motivate yourself, cheer yourself on, and rely on yourself for job satisfaction. So it’s important that you can get into the most comfortable position for this to take place. Let’s take a look at five things that can help you here. Create A Daily Routine First of all, you need a routine. It’s essential. You need to make sure that you know when you’re working, how long you have to get your projects and tasks completed. So, you should look to have set working hours here. This can allow you to be your most productive during the hours that you do have available in the day. Otherwise, you may find that you procrastinate too much then get stressed out when things are left unfinished! Block Out Distractions Now, one thing that it’s so true about working from home, is that it’s just far too easy for you to get distracted. If you want to make sure that this doesn’t happen to you, you’re going to want to work on giving yourself another routine for your home tasks. Don’t be tempted to do the laundry in the day or chat to your neighbor over lunch. These are the distractions that could make working from home so much harder. Set Up Your Work Space Next, it’s going to help you to choose a set workspace. If you work from the couch, it may seem comfortable but it could be too comfortable. Then you will find that you just end up getting distracted and then no work is being done! Treat The Space Like An Office Then, look to treat that space like a proper office. Make sure that you have all of the equipment you need, and look to things like Orange Security to keep it secure and safe. Bring in all of the organization and store that you need so that you can really focus on getting your work done. Take Breaks The last thing you need to do, is to make sure that you’re okay with taking breaks throughout the day. It can be natural for you to just want to work through especially if you only have a few time slots here and there. But, you really do need to make sure that you push on from that to stay productive. So take regular breaks. Psychology Today talks about exactly why it’s important. So get out of your office and your home as often as you can to really recharge your mind.

Finding Fulfillment in Your Personal and Professional Life - Hallie Crawford

Finding Fulfillment in Your Personal and Professional Life Do you sometimes wonder where the time goes? Have you felt ever unclear about where your life is headed? Do you want to have a sense of purpose in everything you do? If your answer is yes, then this presentation is for you. In the presentation, Live with Passion and Purpose! Finding Fulfillment in Your Personal and Professional Life, you will discover how to take the reins to live your life with greater passion and purpose right away. By tapping into what is most fulfilling for you in your personal and professional life, you will not only be able to develop greater clarity and direction â€" you will also achieve more, and find greater satisfaction in every aspect of your life. If you want to find out how to take the necessary steps to define your direction for greater satisfaction and success in your life, join us for this compelling presentation on living your life with greater passion and purpose. You will learn: 1. How to define what’s most fulfilling for you2. Why being authentic is essential for personal and professional fulfillment3. How to get past what incorrectly defines us to tap into our true selves Lead your life â€" don’t let it lead you! When: Tuesday September 8th at 6pmWhere: Savannah Marriott Riverfront 100 General McIntosh BlvdSavannah, GA 31401Hosted by The Junior League of Savannah Career Coach and Speaker Finding Fulfillment in Your Personal and Professional Life Do you sometimes wonder where the time goes? Have you felt ever unclear about where your life is headed? Do you want to have a sense of purpose in everything you do? If your answer is yes, then this presentation is for you. In the presentation, Live with Passion and Purpose! Finding Fulfillment in Your Personal and Professional Life, you will discover how to take the reins to live your life with greater passion and purpose right away. By tapping into what is most fulfilling for you in your personal and professional life, you will not only be able to develop greater clarity and direction â€" you will also achieve more, and find greater satisfaction in every aspect of your life. If you want to find out how to take the necessary steps to define your direction for greater satisfaction and success in your life, join us for this compelling presentation on living your life with greater passion and purpose. You will learn: 1. How to define what’s most fulfilling for you 2. Why being authentic is essential for personal and professional fulfillment 3. How to get past what incorrectly defines us to tap into our true selves Lead your life don’t let it lead you! When: Wednesday September 9th at 9am Where: 428 Bull Street Savannah, GA 31401 Hosted by United Way in Savannah Georgia Career Coach and Speaker

Career Services Offered by Cary NC Companies

Career Services Offered by Cary NC CompaniesCary NC, the state capital of North Carolina, was built on the shores of the Raleigh River. It is surrounded by rolling hills and the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was named after the original colonial governor of North Carolina. The city has a number of historical sites like the American Revolution Monument, the Colonial Williamsburg Monument, the Piedmont Park, the Canton Bluffs Historic District, the African American Cultural Center, and many more.However, what makes Cary NC an amazing city is its present population of the city, it is a very vibrant and lively city with a very high level of development in different sectors. It has a lot to offer to those looking for career and living opportunities. The place has a lot of job options in the fields of education, healthcare, hospitality, IT and law, among others. Many graduates from the Cary NC area make their way to the American colleges to complete their studies and earn degrees.Many job seeke rs who had looked at such places like Raleigh NC and Chapel Hill, North Carolina have not found the kind of job they are looking for. They found themselves unemployed because they were not aware of the present job market in such areas. With the help of resume writing services, they can find themselves a job and succeed in getting a job in Cary NC.There are a number of people who wish to relocate to the Cary NC area. However, finding the right accommodation in such a small city is a problem. This is the reason that many people are trying to look for the best places to live in such cities.In order to fulfill this need, there are a number of companies in Cary NC that are providing services to their clients. Such companies also provide the necessary services to job seekers looking for employment. So, instead of leaving the state, these job seekers can still pursue their dream and move into the real estate business in the area.Resume writing services are also available in Cary NC. These companies provide the needed support to job seekers, in order to make their life easy and smooth.These companies provide a number of services to job seekers and help them in the job hunt in Cary NC. Resume writing services provide the necessary support to people seeking employment in Cary NC.

Should You Pick A College Based on Earnings Potential

Should You Pick A College Based on Earnings Potential As high school seniors across the United States fill out college applications, many will run a cost-benefit analysis of the cost of a school against the lifetime earnings potential of a degree from there. But that is not the only equation to consider. Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) regularly calculates the value of college degrees â€" which schools and areas of study offer the best potential return in the form of career earnings. The center recently released “Ranking Your College: Where You Go and What You Make,” which listed schools by the average of what a graduate could make a decade after receiving a degree. Reuters asked CEW Director Anthony Carnevale to explain how future earnings potential should affect a student’s college choice. Q: Is the school the most important factor when it comes to future earnings? A: It’s not so much the college that matters, it’s what you take. What is most startling is the difference by field of study. If you go to college you will make, on average, $1 million more over your lifetime than someone who graduated from high school. But if you were someone with a degree in (energy based) engineering, you would get $5 million more. In the end, the way you decide is by using data on programs in conjunction with data on schools. Video Player is loading.Play VideoPlayMuteCurrent Time  0:00/Duration  0:00Loaded: 0%Stream Type  LIVESeek to live, currently playing liveLIVERemaining Time  -0:00  Playback Rate1xChaptersChaptersDescriptionsdescriptions off, selectedCaptionscaptions and subtitles off, selectedAudio TrackFullscreenThis is a modal window.Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window.TextColorWhiteBlackRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyOpaqueSemi-TransparentBackgroundColorBlackWhiteRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyOpaqueSemi-TransparentTransparentWindowColorBlackWhiteRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyTransparentSemi-TransparentOpaqueFont Size50%75%100%125%150%175%200%300%400%Text Edge StyleNoneRaisedDepressedUniformDropshadowFont FamilyProportional Sans-SerifMonospace Sans-SerifProportional SerifMonospace SerifCasualScriptSmall CapsReset restore all settings to the default valuesDoneClose Modal DialogEnd of dialog window. Q: Are there any scenarios in which the average earnings potential alone is not enough to justify the cost of attending a certain school? A. In 80% of the cases, earning a bachelor’s degree or better is worth it. About 20% of the time, people with college degrees earn no more than people with high school degrees. That has more to do with field of study. Those who study arts and humanities, psychology, education … tend to earn less. And there’s a wide distribution of earnings over the years. Some graduates end up at the bottom of the earnings distribution. Q: Perhaps it is no surprise to see schools like Harvard University ($87,200) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ($91,600) at the top of the earnings potential list. But what about the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy ($89,000) and Massachusetts Maritime Academy ($79,500)? A: Curriculum affects earnings. Maritime academies are career-based institutions. They give strong occupational preparation and strong academics. And when you go to sea, you make a ton of money. Q: How big of an effect does receiving a graduate degree have on earnings potential? A: It’s mostly positive. There are some of them that are dogs. Professional degrees are strongest over all. If you are an education major or psychology major, you really need to go to graduate school. NEWSLETTER: COLLEGE_PLANNERSign up for COLLEGE_PLANNER and more View  Sample   Q: If a college with low earnings potential is picked, is the student doomed to a life of limited income? A: What you’re talking about is an aggregate number. If you go to a school where the overall earnings potential is very low, it may be that the school has a very low graduation rate. Or it could be a school where very few have gone on to graduate school. There are some schools that have 50% education majors. They have very low earnings potential. Q: Does the data show what impact returning to school mid-career has on earnings potential and, if so, how much could that change someone’s financial trajectory? A: For them, field of study is everything. Older students are very good at picking a field of study. They may go back and get a two-year degree. What they want is access to the labor market. They are very career oriented. They are much more focused.

2016 Cover Letter Trends - Work It Daily

2016 Cover Letter Trends - Work It Daily The Old Cover Letter: Microsoft published an interesting study in May documenting research on how our attention spans have changed over the past several years. In 2000 we had a 12-second attention spanâ€"which dropped to a mere eight-second attention span by 2013. We now have a one-second-shorter attention span than that of a goldfish. Let that sink in for a minute…What influence does our ever-shrinking attention span ultimately have on our job searchesâ€"and our cover letters? What are the repercussions? It means the cover letter as we know it traditionally is dead. Related: 11 Tips For Creating Compelling Cover Letters The Old Cover Letter: Makes up an entire page in length, is too long to fit on a mobile device screen without having to scroll, uses multiple paragraphs, and is text-dense. Has a lengthy introduction with 3-5 sentences on how they found out about the position, what they do, and their interest in the opportunity. It has a 2-3 paragraph body that elaborates on experience in the industry or position; may list a few experiences or accomplishments and the connection to why they want the opportunity or feel they’re a great fit. Closes with reiterating why they’re a good fit, restates interest, may share contact information or offer to follow up. The New Cover Letter â€" Also Referred To As An E-Note, Power Note, Or Value Proposition Letter: 2016 Cover Letter Trend #1: The Shrinking Attention Span Not only have our shrinking attention spans changed the way we consume information, but our brains are changingâ€"and it’s affecting more than just how we use our mobile devices or consume content online. It’s changing the landscape of how we job search and demanding we communicate only the most vital information in the most concise way possible. It’s creating a real dilemma for those who don’t consider themselves to be professional writers, or who have a hard time writing about themselves, or who find it hard to spare everything but the details. So what’s a job seeker to do? First and foremost…forget the traditional cover letter as you know it. Consider it a part of the past, and let’s move on to better strategies for job searching. 2016 Cover Letter Trend #2: Easily Readable On Mobile Devices Cover lettersâ€"which I’ll now refer to as e-notes, power notes, or value proposition lettersâ€"must meet the demand of an increasingly mobile device-dependent audience. Your e-note, which is essentially the e-mail that your resume is attached to, should be short and fit on a single screen. Don’t expect to be able to write an incredibly concise e-note with your first draft. Go through and write your first version, and then go back and edit. Aim to use fewer than 150 words so that the entire text will be optimized to fit on a mobile screen without any scrolling. 2016 Cover Letter Trend #3: Give Them Space When you’re writing your e-note be sure to incorporate plenty of white space. Using white space in your e-note will make the content more easily digestible by the reader. Consider the impact Twitter has had on our entire generation! We’re forced to say what we want to say in 140 characters or lessâ€"but the brilliance behind it is that Twitter had the foresight to know that their audience’s attention span was short, and they wanted to accommodate it. Whether your audience’s attention span is short, or they’re just pressed for time, use Twitter’s 140-character limit as your guide and create shorter sentences. 2016 Cover Letter Trend #4: Engage Or Fascinate Your Reader When we teach job seekers how to write a Value Proposition Letter we advise them to always start with an interesting question or fascinating fact. For instance, my value proposition letter might start out by saying: Are you a busy CEO with no time to write your resume? Or it might say: Are you a time-pressed executive being vetted for an opportunity that requires a resume yesterday? Notice how I’m targeting my audience? Busy CEOs and time-pressed executivesâ€"while I’m also addressing their problem; they need a resume NOWâ€"and they don’t have the time to do it themselves. Start your e-note, power note, or value proposition letter the same way. Speak to your audience, ask a question or state an engaging fact that relates to them and their most pressing need. You always want to speak to the need. 2016 Cover Letter Trend #5: You’re The Answer Once you’ve touched on the need or the problem they have, show them how you’re the answer! How are you the solution to your problem? For example you could use three short bullets with provable results: My clients enjoy results like these: In two weeks or less my clients are interviewing. Their resume response rate increases by 75%. 85% are employed in three months or less, obliterating the average job seeker’s search time by more than 50%. Then you could tie the problem and how you’re the solution into your brand and what you do: I work with busy top-level executives on tight deadlines to create interview-winning resumes within 3-5 business days. I could change the wording to accommodate my audience, the result I want to share, the problem I need to address, the space I have, or any number of other variables. The beauty is that it’s completely customizable. 2016 Cover Letter Trend #6: Follow A Formula Keep your e-note creation easy by following a formula. You won’t feel like you’re starting from scratch every time you write a new e-note, and before long you’ll know the formula so well that writing by it will be easier and faster. Remember to keep each point short! Start with a question or engaging statement. Target the biggest need they have. State how you’re the solution. Prove it! Give them three bullets that prove you’re the solution. Don’t forget the money. Employers want to know how you made it, saved it, or contributed to it. How does this fit into your brand? Call to action close. Edit â€" Remember…150 words or fewer. 2016 Cover Letter Trend #7: Close With A Call To Action When we write value proposition letters for our clients we always end with a great call to action. Mine might say: Ready for results like these? Let’s chat! Yours could say: Ready to learn more? Or: Interested? Let’s talk! Call me at 1.800.991.5187. You can customize your call to action. However, remember that the idea is: you want them to take actionâ€"whether that action is to call you, e-mail, check out your LinkedIn profile, or visit your web resume. You don’t want it to stop with your e-note; you want them to be so compelled by what you’ve said that they have to take a next step. Keep these points in mind as you sit down to write your next cover letter, and you’ll be ten steps ahead of your competition. Having a hard time writing your own cover letter? Let’s chat! Visit my website, call my office at 1.800.991.5187, or connect with me on LinkedIn to discuss how I help busy job seekers create interview-winning cover letters, resumes, and LinkedIn profiles that cut their job search time by 50% or more and secure interviews in two weeks or less. WANT MORE ARTICLES LIKE THIS? Check out: 2016 Resume Trends INFOGRAPHIC: What Employers See When You Apply on LinkedIn This post was originally published at an earlier date Related Posts 3 Tools For Creating An Attention-Grabbing Resume Optimizing Your Resume With Keywords How To Get An Employer’s Attention In 20 Seconds About the author Jessica Holbrook Hernandez, CEO of Great Resumes Fast is an expert resume writer, career and personal branding strategist, author, and presenter. Want to work with the best resume writer? If you would like us to personally work on your resume, cover letter, or LinkedIn profileâ€"and dramatically improve their response ratesâ€"then check out our professional and executive resume writing services at GreatResumesFast.com or contact us for more information if you have any questions.   Disclosure: This post is sponsored by a CAREEREALISM-approved expert. You can learn more about expert posts here. Photo Credit: Shutterstock Have you joined our career growth club?Join Us Today!

The Most Goal-Oriented People At Work Have These 3 Habits In Common

The Most Goal-Oriented People At Work Have These 3 Habits In Common If youre feeling overwhelmed at work, youre leid alone. Many people are dealing with the same issue in todays geschftliches miteinander environment. With just a little bit of coaching, you can stay goal oriented even in the face of an overwhelming workload.But how did you get in this situation? The first thing to remember is that its probably not your fault. Today, companies are often working in the midst of budget cuts, layoffs and jobs being outsourced. Unfortunately, many people are faced with doing the job of multiple people at one time, making it hard to promote goal orientation for larger projects.Task-oriented leadership is a behavioral approach where people focus on tasks they need to achieve in order to meet certain goals. While its an easy way to focus on success, it means that employees can get bogged down with their day-to-day responsibilities. In order to successfully utilize a task-oriented leadership s tyle, a goal-oriented person must balance smaller tasks with big picture ones. If they dont, some people end up doing jobs that their skills are not well-suited for or that dont further their own career success.But what is goal orientation, exactly? Goal orientation describes the actions of people and organizations regarding their primary aims, according to Small Business Chronicle. In business, goal orientation is a type of strategy that affects how the company approaches its revenues and plans for future projects. While all businesses are naturally goal-oriented in some way, goal orientation plays an important role in focus and fund allocation. Goal orientation also plays a part in management styles and information technology projects.Luckily, there are habits you can develop to stay goal oriented even in the face of an overwhelming workload. Successful people focus on three critical areas preparation, task orientation and motivation.1. Prepare for Your Workload with a To-Do List, Folders or CalendarIf you know youre getting overwhelmed, the first thing you need to do is prepare for your workload as efficiently as you can. Successful people know that establishing a time-saving process will give you the ability to continue to find motivation as you go about your day.1.Get Organized Identify everything you can do to organize your work, desk and office. For exampleCreate a to-do list.Color code folders that relate to different projects or tasks.Create templates for repetitive tasks or reports to avoid starting each one from scratch. This process will help you save time down the road.Use the features of your schmelzglas application to route emails based on sender or subject to specific folders.2. Plan Create weekly plans and revise them at the end of each day as needed.Break down large projects into manageable steps.Develop habits where you learn how to estimate the time required to complete tasks, and assign your own due dates for interim steps.Create project m otherboards that let you visually track your progress.3.Ask Yourself Why If you want to maintain motivation, ask yourself why youre working on a project or task. You may find that youve taken on something you could delegate to other individuals. On the other hand, keeping in mind the performance goal youre reaching for will help you stay motivated.2. Check off Tasks One at a TimeNow that youre organized, your next challenge is actually getting things done. Here are some tips for making sure you stay focused.1. Block Time On Your Calendar Im sure youve heard all the statistics about how much more you can get done if you work uninterrupted for a solid block of time. Once youve set out your calendar, stick with it dont question whether you actually need it or not. If youve scheduled working on a task for one hour, your main concern should be that you result in doing that work for one uninterrupted hour.Certainly, it can be difficult to stick to that schedule, but get support from your boss and other individuals on your kollektiv to help make it happen. This is where habits will help you achieve your goal close your email application to eliminate the temptation to check your email every five minutes. If needed, schedule time to return phone calls and emails at specific times during the day. Distractions have the ability to make you question your daily priorities and your approach to goal orientation.2. Stop Multitasking Some people are proud of the fact that they can keep six balls in the air at all times. If youre one of those people, stop it now Even though the business world loves that approach to work, it wont help you reach your objectives. You may consider being a great multitasker an achievement, but it may be preventing you from reaching a great result.If you look at your schedule and task list, youll find that youre already multitasking at a global level. Dont try to actually to reach six objectives at once you wont do a good job at any of them, and you ll create unnecessary stress.3.Say No Successful people learn that there are ways to say no without looking like youre not a team player. If a request comes from people you cant say no to, like your boss, review your schedule with those individuals. Determine how to change the deadlines for your existing projects in order to accommodate the new requirement.3. Get Motivated by Tracking Progress and Keeping PositiveStaying motivated will help you achieve more and reduce stress. Here are some ways to pump up your motivation, even if youre feeling overwhelmed.1. Keep Track of Your Progress Youve got a to-do list or calendar, and you can use it to increase your motivation. Check off every task as its completed. At the end of the day, review all of the things you accomplished that day. If there are tasks you couldnt complete, reschedule them rather than let them build up throughout the week.2. Take Breaks This may sound like a silly suggestion when you have so much to do. However, breaks are very necessary as to avoid burnout.3.Promote Positive Thinking Something as simple as a sticky note that says, Youve got this or something more thorough like a vision board can have a calming effect.Keep in mind that feeling overwhelmed doesnt mean you wont do a good job and feel satisfied. Challenge yourself to maintain a sense of control and goal orientation to stay motivated at work. Its a process, but it will improve your life overall.--Wanda Sealy created Multi-Task-Her Coaching and Consulting Services to assist ambitious working mothers like herself. An experienced coach, Wanda has an uncanny ability to help women identify and address the core issues that are holding them back, allowing them to be the inspired and empowered people they were born to be. If all you have are questions, Wanda will help you find the answers. To learn more about Wanda and her company visit www.multitaskher.com or email her at wandamultitaskher.com.

Shocking Information About Tips for Writing a Resume 2017 for Felons Unveiled

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