Think you are free from the chains of academia and can now roam freely to do what you want in real life? Or maybe get a job? For those who don’t have any experience with job interviews, they might ask the people around them, their family and friends, or even the Internet for tips or advice on how to ace a job interview.
If you’ve put effort in your CV/resume and you’re confident with your qualifications, chances are you’ll soon receive calls from your targeted companies to come in for a face-to-face interview. Normally a candidate is selected for an interview session is because one of these factors got the attention of recruiters: the right degree or professional background, your impressive portfolio, your valuable working experience or just asking for the right salary range.
Oh, Google and Facebook. Thanks to the two giants of search and social, you can’t really hide very easily anymore. If you have things in your past that you don’t want known, businesses considering hiring you don’t have to hire an investigator to go beyond the standard background check. They simply need to find you online.
Maintaining productivity at a rapid but high quality level is a daunting task. It can seem overwhelming to even try to begin. How can you keep yourself going without burning out? How do you know that you’re heading down the right road with whatever new initiative you’ve got in your brain? Where should you begin? Are you just crazy?
Overcoming doubt and hesitation about creative endeavors — blogging, making videos, coming up with new products — can seem overwhelming in and of itself. Let’s look at tried and true successful techniques and methodologies for maintaining that productivity that you need in order to be profitable in a highly competitive world.
As creative people, designers tend to delve into the design work and don’t realize how much unnecessary time they’re wasting by failing to develop consistent, organized methods of working. Though it seems to go against the grain of creative thinking, once these habits become a part of your routine, they’re seamless. Furthermore, each of these routines make the work faster, easier and more efficient.
Working from home is a dream come true for a lot of us. We get to choose our own hours, spend more time with family, work in our PJ’s if we want to and can even take an unplanned day off! But as awesome as awesome as working from home is, it can seriously affect your creativity at times.
Looking for a new job?
It helps to know which companies are hiring.
But more than that. It helps to know which companies have lots of openings. The more employees they need, the better your chances to get the job you want at the salary you want.
With that in mind, we asked job search site Indeed.com to sift through its massive database of job openings to tell us which tech companies are in hyper-hiring mode, with thousands of openings.
I have taken my share of awful gigs just to make a buck and put something in my portfolio but it was all just a headache; I have decided not to do that after a while and I very happy I made that decision. In this post, I will go over a pricing strategy that will ensure you to get the best clients for you. I am going to change your life – okay, fine career. In short, if you have the work to back it up, the best way to get the best clients is to set high prices. That’s about it. Now, I am going to explain to you why this is true.
I often read about designers who cannot stand freelancing yet continue to use this path for solid income. I suppose there is nothing wrong with hating your job, but some designers actually enjoy freelancing. It is not a career choice that many people would keep for decades. But it does offer a unique lifestyle of working on various projects and studying new trends.
This video is the first time scientists have ever been able to image the whole brain of a vertebrate creature in such a way that you can see individual cells and simultaneously how they're firing and behaving in real time. This is how the brain really, really works—and it's amazing.
The research, published in Nature Methods, explains how scientists from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farm Research Campus were able to use a technique called high-speed light sheet microscopy to image the activity of 80 percent of the neurons in the brain of a zebra fish larva. They were able to capture images once every 1.3 seconds—which, as Nature explains, is a speed approximate to neural activity patterns in the brain.
If you’re hiring in the coming months, you very likely have at least one eye on the newest crop of potential future employees: soon-to-be-graduating college seniors.
New grads can be a great resource for companies of any size—they’re full of energy and new ideas and willing to get their hands dirty in their first real-world job.
But as you’re thinking about recruiting new grads this spring, take a peek at what things look like from the other side of the table.
College recruiting has some interesting—and sometimes unfortunate—parallels to dating in middle school. Students are “flirting” for the first time, and recruiters are all too often making the big mistakes their parents told them to avoid during early courtship.
As you’re interviewing new grads for their first gig, there are three rules to follow to make sure you don’t jump into the wrong relationship (or lose a great candidate).
Marissa Mayer recently demanded all Yahoo employees work in a corporate office. They're no longer allowed to work from home, unless it's with good reason.
Yahoo has faced world-wide backlash for this decision.
That's because many people have proved to be successful, despite not working in an office environment.
"Yours truly has never worked out of an office, and never will," Virgin founder Richard Branson wrote shortly after the Yahoo memo was leaked.
There are certain teams that are considered “dream jobs” by those who enter a field. Baseball players often dream of playing for the Yankees. Children of farmers who go to school for engineering often dream of working for John Deere. Tech geeks dream of working for Apple.
“I don’t think the companies we will have in 10 years will be structured in a way that will even allow your eye to draw analogies with the companies we have today,” Philip Rosedale, founder of SecondLife and Coffee and Power, recently said in an interview with Peter Diamandis.
So what exactly does he think this new employment landscape will look like? In the lengthy post, Rosedale outlined a seven key features, but here are the highlights:
Turnover will go through the roof. The trend of employees rapidly cycling through companies (currently, on average, a young person changes jobs every 18 months) will dramatically increase, redefining the way we work.
"People won't necessarily think of themselves as being employed by a single company. They won't necessarily work at one company for 10 years; they might work at it for 10 months or even 10 days,” Rosedale told Diamandis. “The companies of the future will be these aggregations of people who work together not necessarily because they're working for one person or on one project, but because they're somehow useful to each other at a high level."
The job hunting can be a tedious task despite the field in which everyone of us performs, but in my opinion, we designers have a great advantage in front of other professionals at the time of do the search, we can attract the attention of the employers, more easily, even making them ask us to work for them (this applies if you’re good at what you do).
FreelanceSwitch is chock full of promotion tips. We’ve given you ways to use email to get your message across, showed you techniques to nab hot clients, talked about how to build buzz, and we may even have helped you embrace cold-calling.
But sometimes, before you learn all the techniques to promote yourself as a business, you have to step out of your own way. As in, you have to get over your fear of self-promotion.
Think about it: How can you tackle putting your best foot out there if you’re insecure and anxious about how it will all go down. There’s not much sense in spending the time to promote yourself if you doubt what you’re doing. Freelancers may be able to mask our insecurities by working solo–or even working from home, alone like myself–but when it comes to promoting ourselves, it’s best done with confidence.
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From: Themaplekind.com
This amusing and entertaining infographic takes a look at the truth about being a freelancer. People assume that working for yourself and not having a boss is a dream job. However most will tell you it’s not as easy as you think and can be highly frustrating at times. Maintaining a balance between personal and professional life is a must. If you’re currently a freelancer, you will agree and have a few laughs throughout this infographic. Even if you’re not a freelancer, this will give you a better perception of the reality for people in this profession.
If you're used to the hours of sedentary, stressful working conditions that come with your office job, you may want to know that this kind of working environment is killing you a lot faster than you think.
Aside from the stress that comes from tight deadlines, plenty of things you do every day in the workplace are slowly chipping away at you.
From the printer to your keyboard, the dangers presented in an office can have real effects on your physical well-being, just as mental strains can hurt you in the long-term.
Professionals who are in careers today will change jobs much more frequently than in previous generations. Therefore, you need to be prepared and proactive in managing your career. But does this mean you have to sacrifice in other areas of your life that are important to you? Our lives are busy enough balancing work and family without having to find time for making major career changes as well. The tips below provide you some solid strategies to achieve your career goals.
If you feel like you’re mentally stuck in a rut, making the same life mistakes, feel like your life is unchangeable, want to be a better person but don’t know how, and generally feel like you’re suffering from any number of pains, strains and angst – don’t worry – because firstly, you are not alone and secondly, there’s a good reason for it.
All too often we get consumed by the micro minutiae of every day living and end up losing sight of the bigger picture of our lives and their meaning. As Francis Chan said “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” But is this scenario resolved by some simple practical adjustments? Change a schedule here, cancel an appointment there, take up yoga and you’re done? Problem solved? Or is it fair to assume that there is a deeper imbalance to our lives that we ignore – consciously or not?
