Five things you can learn from a job you cant stand

Five things you can learn from a job you cant stand by Amber Rolfe You can learn a lot from a bad jobLet’s face it, we’ve all had to toil away at a job we hate at least once in our lives. And as miserable (and downright soul destroying) as it may seem â€" that doesn’t mean it doesn’t count for anything.To help you see the silver linings, here are five things you can learn from a job you can’t stand:There’s always a bright side  Unfortunately, you won’t always get what you want.But the key to being happy isn’t to avoid everything potentially difficult (see also: seemingly impossible) â€" it’s to make the best out of a bad situation.And the good news is, the more you do what you hate the better you become at seeing the positive. After all, the only way to stay sane in a tough situation is to put the pros above the cons (no matter how few and far between they are).Not only will you become the master of looking at the bright side of things, you’ll also be able to apply this newfound skill to your next job. Be cause even the best role in the world is going to have its downsides.Also, something about lemons.Big changes don’t happen overnight So you’re in a job you hate right now and it sucks.But still, you drag yourself into work every day no matter how much you play out dramatic resignations in your head. Sure, it might be reluctantly, and of course, you’re constantly looking for something better â€" but the point is, you’re sticking it out.Although the road to getting a job you love might seem endless, the patience, commitment, and dedication you’re putting in on the journey to finding it are invaluable skills in their own right.And you know what they say, unless you’re one of those lucky people you secretly openly despise â€" the perfect life won’t get handed to you on a plate.You actually have to work for it.Small issues aren’t worth worrying aboutBad moods can get the best of all of us.Say you’re filling in the worst spreadsheet of all time. You’ve been looking a t the same piece of data for four hours â€" and to top it all off, Tim from finance won’t stop fiddling with his pen. Whose idea was it to order the clicky-tops anyway?But what you’ll realise from daily frustrations like these â€" is that there’s no point in sweating the small stuff. And lashing out about something minor when your work is the real problem won’t help anyone.Because of this, you’ll learn to let the little things slide. Who knew you could be so tolerant?All experience is good experience OK, so you might not be in your dream job right now. In fact, maybe you’re not even in your preferred industry.But luckily, you don’t need to be in your perfect position to learn something. Transferable skills can be gained from any job â€" no matter how different it is from the direction you want to go in.Whether you’re working in retail whilst looking for a job in media, or you’re still at your bartending job because you didn’t realise your degree in classical stud ies wouldn’t be all that useful (who knew?) â€" you’ll be gaining everything from communication and time management skills to resilience and adaptability.All you have to do is communicate them effectively to future employers.What are transferable skills?You’re stronger than you think You know what they say, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.And providing your terrible job doesn’t kill you (step away from that open window) it’s going to teach you how to stay tough no matter what.Whilst old you would turn and run at the thought of evening stock takes, new you is able to grin and bear it. In fact, when you’ve had the rudest client on earth spitting in your face, you can handle just about anything.So aside from giving you a newfound confidence in yourself â€" the job you hate is also teaching you how to deal with difficult situations.Take that skill to your next interview, and you’re bound to impress.How to prepare for an interview  Ready to find your perfect pos ition? View all available jobs nowFind a job What Where Search JobsSign up for more Career AdviceSign up for moreCareer Advice Please enter a valid email addressmessage hereBy clicking Submit you agree to the terms and conditions applicable to our service and acknowledge that your personal data will be used in accordance with our privacy policy and you will receive emails and communications about jobs and career related topics. Features Life At Work

Business is All About Connecting

Business is All About Connecting The more you connect, the more efficiently you connect; and the more credibly you connect, the more success you will have. Social media networking enables people to connect more and more efficiently and cost effectively than ever before. Social media has shifted the way people make, build, and nurture relationships. It gives you incredible new powers to create new business opportunities and connections for yourself and your company. Stated another way, it can be a game changer for you where properly applied. When you consider the various ways that you can optimize your opportunities and improve the trajectory of your business career giving you the ability to truly up your game, the tools of todays social media can be amazingly impactful: A revolutionary way: When I had an issue that needed resolution, I used to walk down the hall of my office and consult with colleagues to seek their advice. But this old-school  method of corporate problem solving was time-intensive and limited in perspective there were, after all, only a few people at that water cooler. Today, there is a revolutionary way of getting things done and finding solutions brought to us courtesy of social media and commerce that has swept the Internet world. Going to lunch with Bob may be easy and comfortable, but it is incredibly inefficient and unlikely to have a significant impact on your future business. Of course, you wont just take Bobs perspective, youll want the perspectives of many to make an informed decision. But that represents a whole lot of lunches. Instead, you can seek the knowledge of the masses to quickly and efficiently help you further your success in business. For example, hiring a VP of marketing might take you days, if not weeks, to achieve if you asked one or two personal colleagues at the water cooler for recommendations. It can now be achieved in a matter of hours, if not minutes. People wonder all of the time at my capacity to get so many things done seemingly simultaneously. Let me tell you my dirty little secret: I dont have just one or two friends helping me solve my business issues, I have thousands of them! Dont rely on old-school luck: Through social media networking, I am able to effectively uncover the people who have specific expertise on any issue I may be confronting. I dont rely on old-school luck that a colleague in the adjacent office will have the perfect solution. I do this by blasting questions, by categorizing, and by micro-targeting. Let me explain how this works. Quite simply, I frame my question to thousands of internet connections and try to obtain the best possible result. For example, if I am looking for a Sr. VP of Marketing with digital media experience, I can post a Facebook message to my 5000 Facebook friends that asks simply: Who is the best marketing person you know in matters related to digital media? In a matter of minutes, I will instantly have qualified resources offered through responding posts and emails. Categorizing in  social media: One of the personal categories I use to organize my connections on my email accounts and on Facebook is Marketing and PR. Approximately 350 of my Facebook friends have backgrounds in this area. How do I know? Whenever I add a new Facebook friend, I religiously, and almost obsessively, study that persons background and interests by perusing his or her profile. I, then, place that person into the appropriate lists or categories. So, when I am ready to find that VP of Marketing, I can quickly access my list of marketing contacts from my Facebook database and seek advice, ask for references, or pursue one of my Facebook friends as a possible candidate. On LinkedIn, I have more than five million contacts that are only one degree of separation from me. In fact, using LinkedIn gives me the power to contact over 30 million people directly or through a connection. This allows me to search, as I frequently do, for qualified resources to find expertise in Information Technology, Computer Hardware, Software, Telecommunications and Wireless Markets, among others. This gives me a thousand times better results than asking Bob at the water cooler. Micro-targeting is also a useful tool. LinkedIn allows me to send messages based on job title, location, size of company, or industry. Let me share a real-life example. Several years ago, I was raising money for the Checketts Global Sports Fund, a $250 million fund whose investors own parts of professional sports franchises. I needed to quickly and effectively target high net-worth investors. I targeted relevant categories within LinkedIn and blasted out an email to those targeted categories and successfully connected with millions of potential dollars in investment. Clearly, social media networking can increase your effectiveness through blasting questions, categorizing, and micro-targeting. Compel the  masses: The possibilities are endless when you harness the tools that compel the masses. While the principles themselves are timeless, the marriage of principle and application create the synergy that we often see as an ìovernightî success. That missing link is what I believe many of you in business are hungering for but are somehow missing. What old-school tendencies do you need to revolutionize? Id love to hear your thoughts in the comments section below. Author: David Bradford, “The Bottlecap Kid”, is Executive Chairman and former CEO of HireVue, former CEO of Fusion-io, and a member of the Utah Technology Council Hall of Fame. Learn more about David at  DavidBradford.com.

Media Club Next Wednesday 21 November, 5.15-6.30pm University of Manchester Careers Blog

Media Club Next Wednesday 21 November, 5.15-6.30pm University of Manchester Careers Blog Our next Media Club session is a week on Wednesday, 21 November â€"   5.15pm to 6.30pm in room 5.4, Crawford House, Booth Street East, above the careers service. News Associates will be delivering a journalism workshop â€" What is News? â€" giving you a chance to discuss what characteristics make up a good story.   There will be a chance to ask questions.   Please bring a pen and notepad so you can take part in the practical exercises. This kind of session should be helpful for anyone interested in Journalism and any role that involves liaising with the media, e.g. Public Relations.   To reserve a place go onto Careers Link http://www.careers.manchester.ac.uk/careerslink/ and look for the event (Wed 21 Nov) and register here. Or click on this link https://www.myinterfase.com/manchester/event_view.aspx?token=I+1uI%2fPM7QyeQxwup7GXIw%3d%3d Looking forward to seeing you there. All Media

Save Your Brand And Dump The Teleprompter - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Save Your Brand And Dump The Teleprompter - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Will video help of hurt your personal brand? Actually, it can do both. A poorly made video will give the impression that you don’t put forth quality products or service. And, a poorly executed video will give the impression that you’re less than professional in your appearance or position. Yet, for any brand video is hard to ignore. It’s viral, it attracts more people and just like words, it can communicate so much â€" very quickly. How do you succeed at it? Practice speaking succinctly. And, practice your speaking voice. Read books out loud. Practice reading quickly yet emoting at exactly the right times to emphasize key points of the story. Practice to ensure that you voice stays at the right decibel level and consistent. Waivering in a voice give an impression of weakness and uncertainty. Practice telling stories in two to three minutes. Then, practice doing so in half that time. It’s important to be clear, on video, and just as important you must be brief. Practice to become better at quickly going through â€" Stating the Problem Describing why you are best able to solve it How you would solve it And, a call to action Practice also ensures that when you speak to the camera you speak like you’re in conversation with someone across the table. Instead of rolling your eyes to the top of your head (a common reflex when people are trying to ‘remember’ what to say next) and appearing forgetful, you can look someone (and yes the camera is your ‘someone’ when you’re shooting a video) in the eyes and engage. Get rid of the teleprompter. It is more powerful when you speak from the heart and with your eyes looking directly into the camera. If you’re a professional anchor person, then you posses a practiced skill in reading a teleprompter yet looking like you are giving good eye contact. Sadly, that’s not true for the rest of us. Even a few inches away from the cameras lens, reading a teleprompter (or just your notes on a poster board, dry erase board or on anything) looks fake, insincere and actually hurts your brand. Think of the last video you saw someone post who was most definitely “reading” yet hoping they can fool you into thinking they are having a conversation with you? What I recommend is to just shoot a video of you speaking passionately about something you enjoy in your industry or in what you do. Then, enlist the help or pay for someone who is a really good video editor. That video editor can make sure that any of the useless or redundant items that exist between golden nuggets of information is discarded â€" leaving a richly passionate, genuine video. Other suggestions? Author: Maria Elena Duron, is managing editor of the Personal Branding Blog and is also the CEO (chief engagement officer) of buzz2bucks.com â€" a word of mouth marketing firm. She helps create connection, credibility, community and cha-ching through mobile marketing and social commerce around your brand. She is co-founder of #brandchat a weekly twitter chat focused on every aspect of branding.

Keeping Abreast of the Changes in The Sports Officials Industry

Keeping Abreast of the Changes in The Sports Officials Industry The United States has a sports culture that starts at a young age, but a referee shortage is causing problems at the secondary school level. While there are 300,000 to 350,000 total high school officials, many states are seeing a steep decrease in officials in all sports.In Nevada, the number of officials registered is 812 down from 1,300 in 2015. Kansas’s basketball referee numbers are at 1,887 down from 2,027 in 2013.There are several reasons being named for the decrease in sporting officials. The older officials are retiring but the younger generation is not replacing them.evalFor example, the average age for softball umpires in Kansas is 60. A policy implemented in Tennessee requiring officials to pay their own fee for a criminal background check is being blamed for the state’s 200 referee decrease.The ability to advance in officiating is very difficult much like many other careers. A limited number of college positions open up each year causing younger officials to spend fiv e to 15 years at the high school level.One of the biggest reasons for the decrease is the increasingly negative environment officials are subjected too. Verbal and physical abuse from fans is increasing each year and it has been cited as the number one reason for officials to leave the field. Another 85 percent of officials have said they will terminate their services if the environment worsens.This shortage of officials is affecting secondary school athletics. Many sub-varsity teams are being dropped from schools, because officials are assigned to varsity games first affecting the younger teams. There are also fewer games per sport each season and some schools are even having to drop certain sports altogether.To learn more about the reasons for the shortage and what is being done to reverse the trend, check out this infographic from Ohio University’s Online Master’s in Athletic Administration. Ohio University Online

Video How To Figure Out What Your Job Search Goal Is

Video How To Figure Out What Your Job Search Goal Is How To Figure Out What Your Job Search Goal Is 1. Narrow down your Job Goal. Do research about possible functions, occupations, vocations, etc.https://www.bls.gov/ooh/https://www.bls.gov/audience/jobseekers.htm Go to job search websites such as Indeed.com, Monster.com, etc. Dont apply to anything! Just shop. Dont even worry about the city right now. Find 10 positions or job descriptions that you see yourself not only qualified for, but something that gets you excited. Spend hours reading the entire descriptions, including the skills they are looking for, the tasks you would be doing, and what other requirements they need. Print 10 jobs you find. Circle keywords of things in common. Are they all positions that help others (customer service), or that sell something, or that need a lot of analysis? Are they all in big corporations or small start-ups? Identify the functions, occupations, or vocations you see yourself being a part of from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (or whatever the job hours are). You will be applying to join a team, even if you are working alone. Where do other people work who are doing what you want to do? If you are searching within your own company, find jobs on their career site and, ultimately, be able to narrow down to specific positions in specific divisions. When internal job seekers come to me for coaching within my own company and say they are not sure what they want to do next, I advise them to go and talk to people about what they do. Ultimately, they should be able to name individuals, such as, I want a job like Mark Smith has. 2. Borrow or buy books on career selection. The web has a variety of resources as well. Joe, who didnt know what he wanted to do next, told me, It was a copy of What Color Is Your Parachute? by Richard Bolles that saved me. I poured through it and the workbook, completing all the exercises, and it worked.

Lead Your Organization By Leveraging Your Strengths Leadership Workshop - Hallie Crawford

Lead Your Organization By Leveraging Your Strengths Leadership Workshop HallieCrawford.com presents our latest professional development workshop to enhance the performance of your team! Years of research have shown that individuals and teams playing to their strengths significantly outperform those who don’t. Despite all this data indicating the value of engaging strengths, research also indicates that less than 17% of people within the workplace play to their strengths most of the time. This workshop can be provided at your organization as a 1.5 or 3-hour workshop. , Certified Career Coach and the founder of HallieCrawford.com, will lead this workshop directly. Course Objectives Learn the research that demonstrates why playing to your strengths will enable you to be your most productive. Understand your strengths. Awareness of leadership default tendencies and follower needs. Determine the steps you will take to proactively spend more time leveraging your strengths in your work. Our certified coaches work collaboratively with companies who want to add professional development and leadership programs to their offerings for their employees as a competitive edge.  By offering a different perspective and an objective viewpoint, participants’ views are challenged and pushed beyond their perceived limitations and assumptions. To learn more and discuss options for your organization, email admin@halliecrawford.com