Who Are the Most In Demand Employers in the US

Who Are the Most In Demand Employers in the US People are attracted to a company for a variety of reasons and there are many different things that people look for in their ideal workplace. Whereas some may be drawn to an organisation who have a  great reputation, as a long standing and successful business; others may look for a company who share and support their personal values.  Regardless of the specific factors that appeal to individual candidates, its essential for a business to nail their employer brand making and  come across as a great environment to work in, in order to attract the right kind of people. LinkedIn have recently released their list of  North America’s 100 Most In Demand Employers of 2015. Heres a sneak peak at some of the most attractive employers in the US this year and where their staff come from. Top 10: Google Apple Facebook Microsoft Nike The Walt Disney Company TESLR Procter Gamble Starbucks Shell Who are the largest and smallest companies in the top 100? The smallest companies on the list are Dropbox and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The largest companies are HP and IBM. Where do the top 100 companies usually hire from? The most new employees came  from the University of Washington and San Jose State University. Other popular Universities are New York University and Berkley. What are the top industries represented in the top 100? Technology. Media and entertainment. Retail and consumer products.

How to Perfect the Digital Job Search

How to Perfect the Digital Job Search It is the year of the online job search and everyone is doing it. Whether it be normal websites or social media, people are actively looking for jobs online instead of newspapers, shops and walking into recruitment companies. However, its a tough world out there and the internet can be a confusing place. Where do you go? Who do you talk to and what do you say? Searching for jobs can be a tough process, especially online. So, Washington State University have come up with a few ways you can nail your online job search and persevere with confidence! Use instant messaging Yahoo Messenger, Aim and Google Talk are all useful. This helps to get direct contact in real time, avoid going back and forth via email! Clean up your resume You only have around 6 seconds to impress. Use tools such as Resunate to help give your resume a new look. Use social media 93% of recruiters use LinkedIn. 66% use Facebook. Network by joining groups related to your industry on LinkedIn. Tweet your job search. Use Indeed Indeed is the largest jobs aggregator on the planet. Get email alerts when a certain job position comes up. Indeed as 50 million unique users a month. Go mobile with the Lunchmeet app You can meet executives and business recruiters for lunch! use this to learn about a companys job culture. Read more below on how to perfect the digital job search!

An Overview Of 3 Years On A Fashion Course Third Year

An Overview Of 3 Years On A Fashion Course Third Year This post is part of Laura Brandons Fiery Fashion Series. Read her overview of each year on a Fashion course.  First Year. Second Year. Third Year.   Hello again ?? Firstly, I must apologise for the long break between posts but my business is taking off now, so you can imagine how crazy these past few weeks have been! I won’t bore you guys too much with the details, but it’s all exciting stuff.   The Third Year on a Fashion Course The third year on a Fashion course will be the most difficult and the most stressful one. I’m just going to throw that out there now and get it over and done with. There is no easy way round that, I’m afraid! Most students will have dissertations and essays to write, whereas with most Fashion courses, there will also be a final collection to do as well. It will be hard work, and there isn’t any way around that. You might find yourself pulling a few all nighters! The best advice I could give for the third year is to plan plan plan, although that’s easier said than done in a creative course. I sometimes find myself inspired by something in the middle of the night, and then can go a few days without any ideas and I know that’s the case for a lot of people who do creative courses and jobs.   I’d recommend that you have lots of other work to do when youre feeling less creative. Whether its something technical, research of some kind, or even working on a written piece. The Final Collection All universities will have a different system when it comes to a final collection and the final year. At my university, we had to submit 4 finished outfits, with shoes and accessories on models, and paperwork including layout plans, final illustrations, etc. It’s hard to comment on what you should do specifically, because, as I said before, all universities have different systems. The best piece of advice I can give you, future third-year students, is: don’t ever make or design something you are not comfortable with, because you may be put under pressure by people. I’m not saying be stubborn and reject all pieces of advice; be open-minded to suggestions and improvements, however, this will be your work and your collection ultimately, and the worst thing you can do is be stuck doing something uninspiring.   I made this mistake in my third year, and really regret it. I caved into pressure and tried to please everybody with different ideas and ended up designing and making a collection that I wasn’t happy with, and absolutely hated, meaning I lost all passion for it. Pretty please, don’t make my mistake ?? Be Organised with Your Dissertation Dissertation-wise, again be organised! Make sure you find a subject that really sparks your interest, and that you can stick with, without it becoming too draining. But likewise, try and find a topic that you can find a lot of information and different opinions on, from different sources, and are able to analyse in depth. My dissertation was about gender in the Fashion industry and trans-gender models. While I found the topic fascinating, it was a fairly new topic, it was difficult to find a wealth of information about, so make sure you find the right balance. Start to research as soon as you can, and don’t be surprised if your idea and topic change several times before submitting (don’t change it at the last week though, totally not a good idea!). Dissertations can be daunting and scary, but don’t freak out it isn’t that bad! Just don’t make the mistake of thinking it can be written quickly, make time for it and stock up on biscuits and tea! Make a chilled out playlist ( I recommend Hans Zimmer, and Ludovico Einaudi) and you might even start enjoying yourself…maybe. I’m aware that I’ve made the third year on a Fashion course sound incredibly scary. It is hard work, it will get stressful and you will cry, I can’t sugar-coat it. However, don’t forget to have fun and enjoy your last year. It might be hard, but if you organise yourself properly, there’s no reason why you can’t have a few cheeky parties every now and then. I hope this helps anybody who is feeling apprehensive, or a little confused about their third year. As always, if anybody would like to chat, please feel free to email me at lauracbrandon@yahoo.com Good luck! This post is part of Laura Brandons  Fiery Fashion  Series.  First Year.  Second Year.  Third Year.   2

Alan Weiss Schools Us On How to Build a Powerful Consulting Brand - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Alan Weiss Schools Us On How to Build a Powerful Consulting Brand - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Today, I spoke with Alan Weiss, who is a world renowned consultant, author, blogger and speaker. This interview is short and to-the-point,which is attributed to his communication style. He tells it like it is no matter what and will give you straight facts as to how you can become a rich consultant. From interviewing Alan is seems that you either have the goods or you dont with consulting. It is definitely one great path to establishing your brand though! What are five attributes of a successful consultant? How do you know if you arent meant to be a consultant? 1. Superb language skills 2. Rapid framing skills 3. Ability to create or combine processes to improve client conditions 4. Ability to manifest expertise so that clients are drawn to the consultant 5. Focus on output, not input; result, not methodology 6. Strong feelings of self-worth, no fear of failure Typically, I hear that people need to work for a company for years before they break away and start their own consulting firm (or do it as a solopreneuer). Is it possible for someone out of college to start off as a consultant, even without the experience? Not likely because they lack the basic business acumen which forms the underpinning for client discussions, and they’ve been in an environment in which idealistic professors with private agendas pollute the learning process. [youtube=http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=8PqTo6fn1qc] What is your process for beginners who want to start a consulting business? Establish your value proposition (Not a stupid elevator speech). Identify who will write a check for that value. Create ways to reach out to those buyers and attract them to you. How does a consultant get more clients? Do you have some marketing strategies you can share? Platinum Standard: buyer-to-buyer reference Gold Standard: commercially (not self-published) published book and other intellectual property that is manifest. Silver Standard: history of outstanding work and testimonials. Most clients do not ask for referrals nearly often enough. Too many consultants have self-esteem issues. How have you built your personal brand as a consultant for the past few decades? What have you learned along the way? I’ve created intellectual property. I have written more books on consulting than any other author in history. I’ve never been afraid to fail or take on a tough job. I’ve constantly reinvented myself. I make well into seven figures working from home, and 75% of this year’s revenue came from services I was not providing 5, or even 3, years ago. Alan Weiss is one of those rare people who can say he is a consultant, speaker and author and mean it. His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc. has attracted clients such as Merck, Hewlett-Packard, GE, Mercedes-Benz, State Street Corporation, Times Mirror Group, The Federal Reserve, The New York Times, and over 400 other leading organizations. Alan is the author of the new book, The Global Consultant: How to Make Seven Figures Across Borders. He is a 2006 inductee into the Professional Speaking Hall of Fame ® and the concurrent recipient of the National Speakers Association Council of Peers Award of Excellence, representing the top 1% of professional speakers in the world

5 Key Elements of a Strong Online Personal Brand - Executive Career Brandâ„¢

5 Key Elements of a Strong Online Personal Brand Do you want to increase your chances to be found by executive recruiters and your target employers? What job seeker doesn’t? Most recruiters and hiring authorities source talent by searching relevant keywords on , Google, and other search engines, and then assessing the people those searches reveal by what they find about them online. If youre in a job search and have no online footprint â€" that is, a good number of positive, solid search results when your name is Googled â€" you may be invisible to the very people you need to be positioned in front of. The better your online reputation, the better you position yourself online, and the stronger your presence online, the more appealing youll be to these people. Take a look at your own online footprint right now. Type your name into a Google search, and see what you find. Do you own the first several search results? Or does it take several pages of results before you get to anything related to you? What information will people find about you when they click on those search results? Is it what you need them to know about you and your potential value to the companies or organizations you want to work for? [Note: If you are logged into your Gmail, Google, or Google+ account, Google usually personalizes your search results specifically for you, so log out first to see what the rest of the world sees.] Here are the 5 components necessary to build a strong online brand for your job search: 1. Relevance You should know, before starting your job search, which companies or which kind of companies youre targeting, and what information about you is relevant to them and will resonate with them. Without a clear target, how can you possibly differentiate your personal brand, ROI value and best-fit qualities, and create career marketing communications (online and offline) that will hit home, attract them and clearly distinguish you as a good hiring choice? Keep your brand messaging relevant to your target, detailing how you can help them solve their current problems, and position yourself on sites that are relevant to and frequented by them. 2. Quality Be careful what you post on social networks, or anywhere online. Continuously monitor your online presence. Get used to self-Googling regularly (about once a week) to see what exists on the first several pages of search results. If someone has posted something nasty about you, see about getting it taken down. Adjust what people will find, whenever possible. Are you finding any digital dirt that may disqualify you? Do you have the same name as others who have an online footprint? If so, you may easily be confused with them. That’s bad news for you, if any of them have a sordid reputation. Youll have to work on building more positive search results to outdistance those of the bad guys. 3. Diversity You need a good mix of static profiles/web pages and vibrant real-time content. A few online profiles that all contain the same content wont cut it â€" change up the information in each one. Express your opinions, showcase your expertise and add value by blogging on your own site, commenting on other sites and/or guest blogging on other sites. Get busy on social networks like Twitter, Google+,

How To Make A Better First Impression

How To Make A Better First Impression One of my readers recently asked me to write about first impressions: What qualities really stand out to you when you first encounter people? Are there certain things you always assess when you meet someone in a work context? Are there any examples that spring to mind of something someone said or did that really marked them out early on (positively or negatively). Here are my thoughts. Make It Count You only get one chance to make a first impression, so it pays to make it count. The trouble is that you can’t be sure what others are looking for. And what if you don’t even know you’re making a first impression? A friend of mine recently took a new job as an assistant coach for a men’s basketball team. While watching the team workout at his first session, he noticed two players who stood out. Joe (not his real name) reminded my friend of problem players he had coached in the past â€" aloof, slow to get into the drills, didn’t muck in with the rest. These types of players were invariably difficult to coach and a bad influence on the rest of the team. My friend wondered how long Joe would last on the team. In contrast, Calvin (also not his real name) was hustling like crazy and improving the energy level in the gym. What he lacked in natural talent he made up in terms of attitude, effort and devotion. My friend saw in Calvin some of the most successful players he had coached over the years. When my friend asked the head coach what he thought of Joe and Calvin, he was surprised to learn that Joe had recently joined the team from a bigger program. The head coach explained that since Joe had just arrived 3 days before, he was giving Joe a chance to settle in before making any judgments. In contrast, Calvin was just working out with the team and not an official member of the squad. My friend’s response was that shouldn’t Joe have been trying to make a better first impression on his new coach and teammates? Of course he should have! And the right thing for a winning team to do is to cut their losses with Joe and sign Calvin instead. In this situation, Joe got off on the wrong foot and didn’t seem to know it. The reality was that he was on the rebound from having been unsuccessful in the bigger league and still nursing his bruised ego. Unless he decisively changed his mindset and behavior, Joe wouldn't succeed in his new situation either. The good news is that Joe has a daily opportunity to change this perception, but the bad news is that he seems oblivious that he needs to do so. First Impressions Can Be Conscious or Unconscious The thing is, there are the conscious first impression situations â€" the ones you’re aware are coming up and that you can prepare for. Such as a job interview, presenting on stage, meeting the potential in-laws. Then there are the unconscious first impressions that are going on all the time without our realizing it. For example, the potential client standing behind you in the Starbucks line, sitting in the dentist’s waiting room, or seeing you cheer on your niece at a basketball game. You never know who might be there, and these unconscious situations can be just as important to your career. Most importantly, these situations show off the real you. As I like to say, “you are who you really are when you think no one is looking”. If you kick your dog in the privacy of your own home but wouldn’t dream of doing that in public, the dog kicker is the real you. And if you’re kind to people who have no apparent direct impact on your life, that’s the real you too. Somewhere, somehow, it will all show through. What Qualities Stand Out? When we meet someone or see them in action for the first time, different aspects will strike each of us. For me, even in a work context, I’m not consciously ticking through a series of boxes. I’m forming an overall impression. In particular, I’m interested in discovering what kind of person you are, which generally involves the following: Personality: What’s the vibe you give off â€" is it upbeat and constructive, or negative? Do you bring energy or drain it? Are you calm and composed or easily frazzled? What’s your stance â€" Defensive? Cautious? Arrogant? Combative? Skeptical? Open-minded? What’s your approach to work â€" are you a self-starter? Do you like to get things done? What’s your work ethic? Are you trustworthy? Do you have that “hustle factor”? What’s your attention to detail? Do you get along with people? Intelligence: How do you think? How does your brain work? How quick are you? I’m less interested in grades and more interested in intelligence and the capacity to learn. Future Potential: What’s your potential to learn, grow and develop? How open-minded are you? Will you make the team better? Bring a different dimension that improves our results and enhances our culture? How far could you go in our organization? And when someone shows signs of patterns I’ve seen over and over again through decades of observation, my antennae go up. Especially when they remind me of someone who is either great (the “oh wow!” types) or awful (the “oh no, not one of those…”). For my friend, Joe was one of those outliers in the “oh no” category â€" that bottom 10-20% of the normal distribution. And Calvin was in the “oh wow!” category â€" that wonderful top10-20%. Some People are “Hard Work” In the “oh no” category are those who are going to be “hard work”. Here are some of the signs: Needy â€" extremely insecure, highly strung, lacking in self-esteem, needs constant reassurance and handholding, will be in my office five times a day Clueless â€" not self-aware, can’t stop talking, doesn’t listen, doesn’t realize they’re drowning themselves Negative â€" sucks the energy out of the room, Eyeore-like Chip-y â€" has a chip on their shoulder, always takes things the wrong way, feels slighted â€" as though the world owes them something â€" the Woody Allen effect Entitled â€" has a sense of entitlement, questions are all centered on “me, me, me”, expectations out of line with reality, wants to get the benefits without doing the work Arrogant â€" tone and demeanor say that they’re too good for the organization and certainly the current company they’re in; clearly think they are the proverbial “greatest thing since sliced bread” but without the goods to back it up Lazy â€" needs to be kick-started into do anything People who exhibit any of these signs have the potential to be very, very difficult to work with. The question is: are they worth it? Even when they have an outsized talent in some area, it’s often best to pass. Every once in a while I take on one of these people and invariably end up regretting it â€" the problem only gets bigger. And if this is the profile of your company founder’s offspring looking for work, then it’s even more important to avoid taking them on if at all possible! When You See a “Mary Poppins”, Grab Him or Her On the other end of the spectrum are the delightful “Mary Poppins” types who are “practically perfect in every way”.     Grab them immediately. Or do a quick check and then grab them immediately. Here are some signs to keep in mind: Positive â€" has a positive outlook and brings a positive energy and vibe to the group Bright yet Humble â€" intellectually capable of handling the work and grateful for their talents Good with people â€" able to engage and interact with others in a positive way Work ethic â€" hardworking, high standards of excellence, willing to do what it takes to get things done Learner â€" interested in and open to new ideas, to developing and growing Sense of humor â€" doesn’t take themselves too seriously, able to roll with the punches, enjoyable to be around Composure â€" able to handle pressure without losing their cool, calm and collected when the chips are down, maintains perspective even in tough situations, doesn’t lose their temper unless it’s on purpose, a mature and calming influence on the rest of the group How You Can Make A Better First Impression Whether you’re (understandably) a bit self-absorbed like Joe, or on top of your game, here are three strategies to help you make a better first impression. Get out of your own head and focus on others If Joe spent even half as much time focusing on the people around him rather than mired in his own disappointment, he could have seen how to contribute and make a great start. Life is big, and it’s mostly not about any one of us, although that’s hard to remember when we’re not feeling our best. So, notice when you’re turning inward, and encourage yourself to look at what you can do to serve others. You’ll feel better and make a better first impression as well. Get in touch with your best self If you want to excel at those first impressions, especially the unconscious ones, then get into the mode of letting your best self shine through more of the time. Get in touch with what you are like at your best, and see what it takes to live in a way that you allow that best version of yourself to be present more and more. What usually trips people up is stress or the opposite, which is boredom. Those are the times when people don’t self-manage very well. So, start to catch yourself when you’re displaying behaviors you’re not proud of â€" the ones that don’t represent you at your best. Then, step back, take a breath and replace it with the better behavior you know you’re capable of. Get a little help from your friends How do others experience you when they first meet you? Find some people who you’ve gotten to know well enough to ask for their initial impressions when first meeting you. See how well this matches the impression you try to give, and improve from there. If you come across as the “Ice Queen” at first, but you’re really a warm person, figure out whether that serves you well. If it doesn’t, then start displaying your warmth from the outset. Simply smiling, nodding and leaning forward rather than leaning away can make you seem more approachable and warm. Or if you seem junior when you’ve been in your role for decades, then it could be choosing more powerful attire, speaking more deliberately, and adopting a more measured way of entering the room. Being Your Best Self More Of The Time So when it comes to making first impressions, see if you can put more situations into the “conscious” category where you can show your best self. And focus on being aware of when you’re being your best self â€" or not â€" so you can encourage yourself toward being the best you can be more of the time. When you do that, you can make those first impressions accurate without so much effort. It’s called being comfortable in your own skin. So, what do you look for when you meet or experience someone for the first time? And how do you go about making a better first impression?

Do You Need A Resume Writing Service?

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