The ability to describe succinctly who you are and what your accomplishments and goals you can for the success of the series in networking and interview process. These three elements form a "personal business." Creating a sales team, which exactly reflects who you are, what is adjusted to a target group and can give birth with confidence should be the goal of every job seeker.
Shutterstock There are many steps in the job search by using the profile of the art for the art of the interview. Unfortunately, a lot of time and effort in the first two job seekers often difficult for the interview "close" to prepare, the crucial step where you the opportunity to personally must appear in terms of sales, the Just.
There are several types of interviews with the maintenance of the phone screen on the new digital and traditional Skype interview interview personally -site. Each has its own challenges and tactical success.
(This article appeared in Cafe.com , a human interest magazine.)
Spam is that most spam is an endless stream of fire hoses. Penis enlargement, Nigerians in a financial situation, hardcore porn, escorts are so accustomed to the influx of these exciting views more. But some of these spam-Project The Container Store caught my attention. "We are now recruiting for the holidays!" Exclaimed his head.
You are? I thought. Huh. I hovered my mouse over the subject line, hesitantly. And, dear reader, I clicked.
The illusion of an orderly life
I was looking for a new job for months in the study was not as good as I expected to go, and The Container Store, let's be honest, it's my kind of porn. I literally can not go past without popping in for a quick look. Not that I fall in kiosks quarters these days, but knowing that all of these boxes, containers, baskets and boxes are there when needed, gives me the comforting illusion that my life someday as my bookshelf cereals: in arranged transparent , neat, clean, contain vessels.
The body of the email, once exposed was even more attractive. "Seasonal positions in our stores from coast to coast," he said. The editor in me wanted to change the tiny capital C, but so be it. Since I too painful meeting, nobody wants people like to hire me to no longer do this kind of work. On the same day, in fact, the New York Times announced the dismissal of hundreds of people.
But it was what after the uppercase C, one of which was the money shot came: "great benefits" Great benefits immediately say no more I welcome fill the online form for a holiday.?. the front of the store. So what if it's not the best job in my chosen field? These days, a job is a job, and a job with benefits is a unicorn. I could say hello to customers and identify a thief, the Container Store as easily as the next victim of a possible creative class enters.
Yes, dear reader, I was desperate.
My Annus horribilis
Last year, over a period of 10 months, the following happens in this order: I am of my husband for two decades, the left after losing his job in the recession, he moved across the country to be separated starting a business, and me as the sole provider and mother of two children still at home; I gave the novel I was working and found a job with benefits as an editor for an online health and wellness; I had left a guest in the room recently returned from my first year of college to help pay the rent, the new owners, who have completed an additional $ 900 per month because she could not; I was diagnosed with stage 0 breast cancer ; I looked at my company, the production was to go public, qualified dozens of firefighters in my first month of working people, after I was informed that my work was in the pit; I survived cancer, but I was fired from my job. So you can no longer pay the rent, I pulled the rest of my family in small excavations .
During the first two months without pay before my little setbacks allowances, I tried in vain to get a contract to write a new book. I also received a bill for COBRA for $ 1764.29 on my family of five for the month of April to cover. I called ADP, the company that manages our account of COBRA and asked if I pay monthly instead of quarterly. No problem, Christy said, you beautiful woman manning the phone. I noticed the reference number to our call from 2 to 7068130583rd Then before the end of the current quarter ADP, sent a check for $ 5,292.87.
ADP charged. Then immediately my COBRA coverage. "Why?" I asked the new person, not Christy, who answers the phone. It seemed as if I was in a call center in India. I explained that I have with my three children for our annual visit to the doctor, assuming I'm covered. You must pay the bill me just sink.
"Because you have to pay every month," he said, "like sending letters told him he had to do." Christy and I told my number. He said if I do not disagree with this decision, you can write a call. I wrote a call. He refused. Without money to hire an attorney or file a second complaint, this was the end of it. It took three months to get my $ 5292.87 back. I had to call several times to remind people, call center in India to send the check. When he finally did arrive, my old address they sent.
I tried Obamacare apply immediately, but because three months - I thought covered the district - officially passed since my coverage was canceled, I'm not in the 60-day window for the application is required. I could coverage during the next open enrollment fall, they said. Meaning November 15. The problem was that I was. An appointment for an MRI at Sloan Kettering in August that my body was not returned Without insurance, the MRI only run me about $ 6,000. I pushed the RM to October and asked for a break on the employment front and good health.
Later this month, ran after my release, has a Hail Mary pass flew to Los Angeles on the flight, crashed with a friend points and let my eight year old son in the care of her 17-year-old sister back to New York for three days at a colleagues and I could run a TV pilot. A few weeks later, I collapsed on the kitchen floor of my new apartment, when I heard that we sold. This means, among other things, get health benefits Writers Guild. But not until April 1 of next year.
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The e-mail from The Container Store to help holiday came a week before my rescheduled MRI. Of course I showed up! You would too if I had a son to pay his own way through school, another application without health insurance, a package of hip, a broken marriage and an empty bank account. No time for shame in a recession. Do what you gotta do. There are many ways to spend the worst days to the visitors in front of a business by a company whose products you actually use to run welcome. A week later I received an email from the loss prevention service from Manhattan to The Container Store. Here is what he said:
Hi Deborah -
Thank you for your interest in employment opportunities at The Container Store.
All applications will be carefully reviewed and considered current and future potential of each individual. At this time, we are moving forward with other candidates for this position.
Again, thank you for your interest in the container store. We wish you success in your job search.
With best regards,
The Container Store Loss Prevention Manhattan
Readers, at first I laughed when I read that. Then I cried. Oh, dear reader, I cried and cried, long and deep and sad. I cried for myself and my children, I called everyone in my situation, so I called for everyone in the worst ships. In an emergency, if a winner, The New York Times Emmy bestselling author for that matter, or elsewhere, as I try hard - - and a Harvard graduate can not get a job as a receptionist at The Container Store, we are all doomed ,
For years, Americans have fed a convenient lie: study hard, work hard in their respective fields, work hard at your wedding, save money, organize your flour, salt and sugar in labeled containers and you will keep control of your life and your destiny. Control is an illusion for the better.
Loss of a job away from the abyss
Now, in this new golden age in which benefits outweigh the people and commerce trumps art; where CEO makes 331 times the salary of the average worker and a public company will no scruples in ordering layoffs seem to feel inclined investors; where a woman always wins only 78 cents for every dollar men and access to health insurance - though much improved - still bears strange gaps, some of us discovered to leave for months; where none of us is capable of almost as much as we should save despite cutting back on everything, including basic needs such as food and accommodation ,; where the universal affordable childcare, child care and maternity leave with pay are fantasies that our only appear in other countries, not; where higher education of our children requires the kind of ropes massive debt take too poor to pay for a future will have material goods on the need of the organization and contains most of us are just a job loss, a diagnosis doctor a retired broken marriage with a whirlwind, chaotic abyss, totally confined. Put all three of these stressors and in connection with a motion, and you have a 48-year-old mother of three sobbing at the sight of a rejection letter from The Container Store.
These are small favors, really. I am very grateful for them.
What's with the bankrupt and isolated?
But what about the others? What others? I often wonder. I think all these people layoffs at my old company before the IPO, with plans and the families and children of college age and disease and parents in difficulties and the rents and mortgages. One of them was a great video producer who navigate the complex worlds me both the diagnosis and removal of the tumor, which she had helped well lived. She was fired and summarily dismissed from the building before I had a chance to say goodbye or your e-mail address or telephone number.
When was the last MRI? I wonder. And he had the means to pay for it?
I've planned for Saturday, November 22, the first open meeting at Sloan Kettering. I hope that for once the good news is. If you or someone you know is to take time off in the morning to care for a greater good, obsessed Pokemon 8 years let me know. You can take it to the container store and there in the crowd. Let's believe that if he keeps his cards so Pokemon, nothing bad happened to him.
Deborah Copaken is the best-selling New York Times author of the Red Book, here and there between April and Shutterbab and Hell is other parents. His writings have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Nation, Slate and the Financial Times, among others.
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Help! My boss invited me for Thanksgiving dinner. (. The people in the office know that I am single and live far from my parents), I do not want to go - but I * have * to go? So confused.
You should not go. Make no mistake, this was a very good deal (thanks to the generous boss), and you should take comfort in the fact that you are your superiors not completely rejected by you. But:
A) It is possible that the boss has compassion come not quite so pathetic with you; I will.
B) You do not want the office, the boss think unknown, right?
C) If this limit of work / home, it is difficult to cross again. AND ...
D) can be the hardest meal in the history of mankind.
But how do you handle it? Easy. You have received an invitation from his "cousin". If you "friend" that the boss might offend say - his friend is more important than me, but exceeds office blood nest 10 times out of 10. And no one knows how many cousins do not even probably know ..?!?
Then ready in your head after work of Thanksgiving . You should be able to simulate it pretty well; They have been dinner and seen in movies and TV rental. Check football matches, as it is always good for a little chat. Good luck, and do your best for your imaginary family.
Kelly said:
My boss is the worst. He often commented on my clothes. And when we go to meetings, she insists that I wear a suit jacket she keeps in her office. What can I do?
Hmm, looks like someone is not invited to Thanksgiving dinner. There are a few ways to look at it. A Human Resources representative or a company manual to see if there is a dress code. A boss will likely recommend a certain dress ("Dress for the job you want, not the job you have"), but can not everything the company did not necessary in the guidelines. You could even enter the harassment , At some point, you might want to report the behavior, but only you can decide. All I can say is that if you do not want "the game" and not. Life is too short. But maybe bring your own "nice" section to keep at work, so that you never still to reuse this jacket fear.
If you have a problem working for Jack? Write it in the comments below (the best answers to questions this week are also welcome!) Or Tweet AOLJobs#AskJack with the hashtag.
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Maybe I should be the one to tell people what to wear! There is an opening for a cabinet Associate at Legoland California. How cool does that sound?! Hmm, it's real plastic bricks closure or clothing? Just click to find out. If a work wardrobe does not "suit" on your own to do research on AOL work at this time. They are something that is a perfect fit to explore!
Alamy Pippa Middleton may be the latest addition to "The Today Show" on NBC? That's what Page Six of the New York Post said, indicating that the source said the Duchess of Cambridge's younger sister could prepare for a holiday concert.
"" Today "did a test with Pippa in Utah, and if it works well - and it seems he will - to get involved as a correspondent," said the Page Six.
NBC has so far rejected any involvement with Middleton, but his contract could be a smart move for the network: an interview with Matt Lauer in June earned good grades. Daily Mail reported that in 2012 NBC plans to $ 600,000 for Middleton royal party offer, but not allowed by the network.
As with the current rumors, do not get too excited about Middleton potentially spread rumors of the royal family. According to Page Six, they should treat the lifestyle and health, in line with his work as a former columnist for the Daily Telegraph (the currently writes for Vanity Fair).
However, they are just that - rumors. "This is 100 percent not true, and it seems that someone else says is" "jealous" Royalty, said a representative of the NBC page six.
Company, offering Internet marketing takes off. A recent meme, popular Internet as a "target Alex" known to be a marketing gimmick , according to Gawker. If so, it is one that has made millions, including the press and even Ellen DeGeneres. The girl that started the whole event with a tweet However, he never says according to claim authorship of marketing for the company belongs.
The " target Alex photo "shot a teenager in a red T-shirt that was bagging products in one of the places the string at the time of Internet fame. On Sunday, a Twitter user with handle leauscalum posted a picture of Alex. Within 24 hours it was mentioned a million. Degeneres tweeted him and visited the teenager at your destination of choice of their work.
But watch what appeared to be a celebration of an attractive child can get the attention nothing can be cleaner. Based Dil-Domine Jacobe Leonares, CEO of social media company in California, Beverly Hills, called Breakr, claimed for the phenomenon to be responsible in a post on LinkedIn:
Yesterday we had fun on Twitter with the hashtag #AlexFromTarget ended up being one of the most amazing experiences I enjoyed Social Media. We wanted to see how powerful demographic fangirl took a good boy and use unknown destination in Texas viral internet sensation overnight. Abbie (auscalum), one of our fangirls Kensington, Great Britain published this photo of Alex Lee (@ acl163) on Twitter. After spreading the word among our students Fangirl #AlexFromTarget tends started to add fuel to the fire by. About it with our biggest influencers YouTube
In other words, Leonares said called, it was an experiment to show publicly that his company was effective. He said neither Abbie nor Alex Lee was hired by his company, but not the same as saying uncooperative.
Abbie seems that they never heard of the company and not to follow. Perhaps more Leonares distorted perceptions and reality has nothing to do with it. Or if he did, there were other experiments that flopped? Who knows?
But even if Breakr had something to do with the case, credit for an Internet phenomenon is a risky proposition. Many companies and people are trying to delete content that create viral, but you can not something that will suddenly catch fire online without a significant and probably expensive support plan.
What is really happening, it seems that the relatively innocent pleasure is now officially #alexfromtarget.
Click on the arrow / Empics Entertainment The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo accident during a test flight has many who were interested in the project, such as AOL reported the biggest shock. Well, at least one person who is supposed to have a place on the maiden flight, Princess Beatrice of York, apparently not travel , according to the Daily Mail.
"Beatrice was excited by the idea of space tourism, but there is no way she will visit one of the flights that may never take place," a 'source close to Buckingham Palace, "said publication.
The 26-year-old Beatrice, daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, is in a relationship with Dave Clark, CEO of Virgin Galactic astronauts.
The owner of Virgin Galactic, billionaire Richard Branson, plans to travel with his son and three guests.
Mansour Travel in Beverly Hills, a licensed Distributors Aerospace, told Reuters that the customers not request a refund . Tom Hanks and Angelina Jolie have booked trips.
Reuters wrote that 800 people paid to ride $ 250,000 in a two suborbital spacecraft driver with room for six passengers at a time. The cabin is the size of a Falcon 900 business jet to Virgin Galactic, with large windows to passengers the best possible view. A trip would take two hours and have several minutes of weightlessness.
"This is what it's all about exploration," the president of the Foundation CEO Peter Diamandis said XPrize, a trip we booked and Reuters. , "We risk our lives, and we believe that this is the American way - the way of the browser, for one, am proud to be a customer of Virgin Galactic be .."
A press representative Virgin Galactic said, AOL work immediately knew someone canceling a flight, but would try to get an answer.
Although it is called the first round of commercial space tourist, US businessman Dennis Tito paid $ 20 million to $ 20 million to Russia in 2001 for a trip paid on a Soyuz to the International Space Station by Space.com.
The accident occurred the life of his passenger SpaceShipTwo, while the pilot ejected, seriously injured. But it was not the first flight of the project. By October 30, there were a total of 172 flights.
Space is a dangerous business since time immemorial. Discuss shuttles Challenger and Columbia, Apollo 1 test and cause a fire or problems in the Russian space program, have more than 20 died before the accident, according to Live Science Blog.
