Alexandra Levits Water Cooler Wisdom Duke University Study Shows Why People Prefer Dead End Jobs

Alexandra Levit's Water Cooler Wisdom Duke University Study Shows Why People Prefer Dead End Jobs When I was a child growing up in Maryland, we visited relatives in New York and Philadelphia often. Back in the eighties, the toll booth operator job on the New Jersey turnpike was the national symbol of boredom. I remember sitting at the booth longer than we had to just so that the poor operator could have some human conversation. Albert Camus might have been thinking of the toll booth operator when he wrote The Myth of Sisyphus. The famous essay refers to the ancient Greek story about a man who’s condemned by the gods to roll a boulder up a hill, watch it roll down, and then repeat the cycle for all eternity. In Camus’ view, the more modern worker is much like Sisyphus, working every day of his life at the exact same tasks. In the enlightened twenty-first century, we often talk about work being meaningful, and about engaging in careers about which we feel passionate. But it turns out that at the end of the day, most people will still pick a Sisyphus-like job over an engaging one if they aren’t getting paid for the extra effort required by the latter. And in a recovering economy where salaries still have not come up to post-recession levels, this means that millions of disillusioned job seekers are selecting dead end jobs. Duke University Fuqua School of Business marketing professor Peter Ubel and David Comerford, an assistant professor at Stirling University, explored the idea of “effort aversion,” or why people choose to put forth less effort even if it means less personal satisfaction. The results of their studies, “Effort Aversion: Job Choice and Compensation Decisions Overweigh Effort,” were recently published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. The researchers found that even when an effort-filled job would be more interesting and enjoyable than a boring one, people tend to price themselves out of the job market because they feel their efforts need to be rewarded. For more on the Duke study, check out the full post on Intuits Fast Track blog.

5 Smart Strategies to Automate Your Website and Save 12 Hours a Week - Classy Career Girl

5 Smart Strategies to Automate Your Website and Save 12 Hours a Week I have enough to do every week to run my business and my house and still try and get some yoga done every day. My VA is already busy and I have more things I would like her to be doing. I have an intern starting in the spring, but my task list for her is full and she hasnt even started. To keep my sanity in running my site, I have found these little tricks to help me automate my site.   5 Smart Strategies to Automate Your Website and Save 12 Hours a Week 1. RSS Newsletters I like to email my list weekly. But between writing content for my members, content for my blog, working on my funnels, and content for my social media, something had to go. The weekly newsletter was it. Thanks to the wonderful people at MailChimp, I could create an RSS newsletter. I used the RSS feed from my blog to automatically create the content for my newsletter. Now each week a newsletter is sent out automatically with the last blog posts that went up. And I dont have to do anything besides my daily blog posts.   2. Auto Posting for Social Media If you set this up properly, it can be a life saver. I have my blog posts set up to automatically post to Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and my LinkedIn Group. The posts include the image, the first paragraph and the title. So long as I have a catchy title on my blog post (which I should be doing anyways) it will have a catchy title on my social media posts. [RELATED: How to Build a Website Different From The Rest] 3. Making the Most of My Blog Posts   Whenever I have new opt-ins or masterclasses available, I write a blog post about it. Not about the fact that I have a new opt-in, but about the opt-in topic. So let’s say I have an offer about SEO. Ill write a post about SEO tips and make sure I put a call to action at the bottom of the post for the new offer. This way it will get out on social media and my newsletter. Plus, I have a permanent blog post out there to share and pin and get lots of traffic to my site. 4. Autoresponders This one may kind of seem obvious. But hear me out. I dont just use autoresponders for my free offers. I use them for all my offers. Whether its my individual sessions, my courses, my masterclasses, or a simple website review, I have an autoresponder. In those autoresponders are links to my calendar scheduler and surveys so I can learn more about them and they have easy ways to meet with me. Plus I can tell them exactly what to expect from whatever program they have signed up for. 5. My Days of the Week Themes   Every day is something new for me. Mondays I focus on my social media. Tuesdays, I focus on my website updates. Wednesday, I focus on my SEO. Thursday, I focus on my products. Friday is all about my blog. And the weekends are all about writing new content. I have my everyday tasks that I do every day but then my weekly tasks I batch out like this. It takes the guess work out of what I need to do each day. To set this up I did a little time study and saw what I was doing every day for two weeks, how I was doing it, and why I was doing it. This not only created my processes but also showed me how to use my time in the most efficient way possible.   Honestly, there are so many different things I do to help make my business run smoothly even while I am sleeping. What do you do to automate your business and help you save time each week?

Classy Career Girl Video Update Whats New In 2013

Classy Career Girl Video Update Whats New In 2013 So as you probably know by now, my future networking challenge skype videos are no longer on this blogBut, before you get too sad, check out the video to see where you can find the upgraded version of these videos in 2013 instead! (Hint: The upgraded interviews are now in the club that I have been inviting you to!  February is ASK FOR IT! month where we are going to tackle salary negotiation and how to tap into the success you want by tapping into the people you know. If you sign up before our next interview with a career expert on Monday (2/4) evening, I am offering you a Get What You Deserve: Salary Negotiation Guide AND your first month for only a $1.  Try it before you buy it!:)  Join us here: classycareergirl.com/join). Cant wait to bring you more video updates like this in 2013!

Lessons in self-confidence (from Amanda Blank)

Lessons in self-confidence (from Amanda Blank) What Im listening to right now: Amanda Blank. Heres a song to play when youre not at work. Amanda is a white-girl rapper, darling of the hipsters, and hot-girl candy for the intelligentsia. Right up my alley, right? My favorite line so far is My rhymes are painful and fresh/My p*ssys tastin the best. Today, Ryan Healy and I were in D.C. for a marathon strategy meeting with a board member. The second half of the meeting was about marketing strategy. The first half of the meeting was about finding a strategy for ending how Ryan and I are at each others throats over subjects that having nothing to do with the company. When the board member left the room for a minute, we had this conversation: Me: Its so awkward to be left in here with just you. Ryan: Its not awkward. The meeting is going well. Me: Right. It could be more awkward. Like when it was us not talking in the airport. Ryan: At least we werent sitting together on the plane. Me: Yeah. I know. I changed my seat so we didnt sit together. Ryan: Really? So did I. Then the board guy came back and I bitched about how a vendor we hired was doing no work, and how a year ago I told Ryan we should fire them and then Ryan told me to shut up and so I did. Then board guy said some obvious things: Ryan should not tell me to shut up, Im the CEO, and I should take decisive action faster. Then we all talked more, and Ryan and I started getting along again. And we all plan the next twelve months of the company, getting excited about the community. This is how it always goes with us. But the whole time, Amanda Blank is running through my head. Why does she say My rhymes are painful and fresh? Why are her rhymes painful? I ask myself this. And then I answer philosophical questions about why LinkedIn appeals more to Gen X than Gen Y. And then I go back to Amanda. She says, My p*ssys tastin the best. I have never said that. I am too shy. Even when I was her age, and I was running around in a bikini in Budweiser ads for spending cash, I would not have said that. And this is why her rhymes are painful. Because they exude so much self-confidence. And every regret I can think of is about self-confidence. Theres a really interesting study from Harvard, reported in the Atlantic, that I have spent way too much time reading. The study follows Harvard students for more than 70 years to determine what makes people happy. Here is something: The fact that people are totally pulled together and focused and in Harvard has no bearing on whether theyll have a happy life. Heres another thing: There best indicator of if someone will be happy in the future is if you are 47 and close to your siblings. After I read that, I started calling my brothers more often. Really. But you dont have to wait for your mid-forties to find out if youll be happy. Look at how you frame your life now. If you frame things in a positive light, youll be happier later in life. The optimists win. Plus, the Harvard study finds that people get better at optimism as they grow older. And I believe that. Maybe when I have a startup at 70, I will trust myself enough to act decisively and avoid all management conflicts. And then this becomes clear to me: I have spent way too much time in my life worrying that I was doing my life wrong. But now I see that I can change. Right now. Right now I can be someone who assumes I am making good decisions. Because we each have to make decisions. So we may as well assume they are good. Theres not really anything else to do. Besides, no one was ever penalized for believing in herself, even if her raps were not safe for work.

#41 - Personal Branding Expert Series Christine McAlister on a Life with Passion and Branding

#41 - Personal Branding Expert Series Christine McAlister on a Life with Passion and Branding The Career Insider Podcast Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSSChristine McAlisteris a freedom strategist and an expert at turning tragedy into triumph.evalHer company, Life with Passion helps high achieving motivated women use their unique gifts and challenges to create and lead passionate lives, doing work they love.This interview is part of the “Personal Branding Expert Series“.Episode Summaryeval1. Christine shares some of her story and background and her reasons for doing all that she does, and explains how Life with Passion came to be.2. She describes one of her fears surrounding her during the start up of Life with Passion and how she got beyond it.3. Christine talks about authenticity and how it affects branding.4. She discusses how to move beyond fear.5. Christine talks about vulnerability and how it’s becoming important during the interview process and the working experience.eval6. Christine gives some first steps on how to get started with personal branding.Quotes“That was the things that inspired me to do this, and if I wasn’t talking about it then it was inauthentic”.“I was hiding out in fear of judgment or criticism, which I think a lot of us do”.“To make sure that how I’m putting myself out there is actually authentic to who I am”.“It all comes down to having a big enough reason to do it”.eval“Why do you want this? What is it going to allow you to do for your life?”.“If that impression is positive, that goes so much farther than some numbers they write down ranking you”.“If that’s the kind of commercial they’re putting out, that’s the experience you’re going to have when you walk in”.LinksTo learn more about Christine McAlister you can visit her blog .You can followher Facebook Pageor on Twitter. Christine also runs a Facebook Group for women â€" Life with Passion SocietyBONUSChristine has shared with us her gift for the audience. The Top 10 books she recommends for people to grow their incomes quickly.Intro Music provided courtesy of Accelerated Ideas (www.accelerated-ideas.com). Soundtrack â€" Siren KickbackEnding Music provided courtesy of Accelerated Ideas (www.accelerated-ideas.com). Soundtrack â€" No Need to Rush

Careers - Of Special Interest - CareerAlley

Careers - Of Special Interest - CareerAlley We may receive compensation when you click on links to products from our partners. I dont know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby I get lots of emails asking that I post information related to this blogs topic. Many I do post (and some I dont). Occasionally, I get a little backlogged with requests. So, todays post is all about those requests of special interest to my readers. I hope you find them useful. Jobs Related: The Fastest Growing Jobs of 2011 A free guide (pdf) on the 2011 job market, with a focus on the fastest growing jobs (covering Health Care, Technology, Business and Education) all with embedded links to additional information. There is a section on how you can land a job and a section on job growth through 2018. Take a look. 25 Things to Watch in 2011 For Job Search This post is from JobMob and lists potential job search trends for 2011 carved from J Walter Thompsons larger 100 things that will become popular. An interesting read. There is a link for the larger article from JWT as well as links to related articles at the bottom of the page. While you are there, check out the links on the right hand side of the page as well. JuJu This is a job search site with a simple interface (Keywords and Location). You can also use the links at the top of the page for Category, Location, Company and Keyword. Right below the basic search is a link for Advanced Job Search. Click this to expand your search categories and narrow your search. With a generic click (nothing selected), it indicates that there are millions of jobs posted in the US. With a more specific selection it narrows the search (like over 193,000 jobs posted in NY). Job-Applications.com According to their tag line #1 Online Job Application Form Resource Site. What does that mean? You can find applications online for various jobs. Clicking through a specific job, you will find an overview (history), a link to interview tips and a link to the actual job application. There is a featured employer on the top right hand side of the page. Job categories are listed on both the left and right hand side of the page. Companies with their logos are listed down center page. Gigantic Tips Guide for Finding Jobs With LinkedIn Also from JobMob, this is like the users manual for leveraging LinkedIn for job search. The article is divided into useful sections, starting with a glossary (do you know what an InMail is?). The article covers a strategy, maximizing your connections multiply recommendations and more. Dont forget to take a look at the related links as well. Good luck in your search.Visit me on Facebook

Resume Writing-For Freshers Entry Level

Resume Writing-For Freshers Entry LevelResume-writing-for-freshers-entry-level is not a very difficult task. The general requirements of fresher looking for jobs in the business sector include: good English writing, ample knowledge on the workplace norms, dedication and motivation to work, use of relevant keywords in the job post. The important thing for any fresh entry level job seeker is to make a good impression in the company and this is the major factor for which many candidates are paid handsomely.Resume-writing-for-freshers-entry-level can be used for various purposes like. If you have a degree, but no official document yet, it's OK, you can still use your resume as the foundation for you to achieve your dream job. First of all, let us understand about the basics of resume-writing-for-freshers-entry-level.You will play a crucial role in the final acceptance of your application. Be alert, check what companies do, don't apply for jobs blindly, while getting prepared for intervie w. And remember not to overlook things like corporate culture, and you could easily make a mistake in applying for an opening, if you overlook the small details, which are critical for landing a position.In addition, you need to note that the social background of the person applying is extremely important. How would you want your resume to appear? Thus, be careful enough when selecting the job search company, because there are many companies out there, which cheat their customers.There are several things that you should be aware of, which will help you compose your resume. The first step, which is the most important is to organize your thoughts properly, and you must know how to create a professional resume. This way, you can get the job easily and conveniently.After you have organized your thoughts into a professional resume, the next step would be to make your resume catchy. Just making it all organized and formal will not work in the long run. The attention of the readers is very much dependent on the resume and thus, you should make sure that the applicant can grab it from the reader. The employer would like to be impressed by your content and it is not very much appreciated by the applicant if the content of the resume does not match the employer's expectations.The vital thing is that you should not use terms and sentences that are not readily available in the company's vocabulary. If you want to have a professional looking resume, it's necessary to ensure that your target audience understands what you have written. You should also remember that the applicant must not forget certain basic and elementary things like beginning and ending paragraphs, appropriate spacing and alignment.The hiring manager would like to see an application with no mistakes, and this is how he would be able to know what exactly you are capable of. However, you must ensure that your resume has an introductory paragraph, which establishes your worth to the company and points out wha t you are capable of. As soon as you have finished writing your resume, send it to the hiring manager, so that he can evaluate your skills and accept your application.