Three Simple Steps to Improve your Job Description Results

Three Simple Steps to Improve your Job Description ResultsThree Simple Steps to Improve your Job Description ResultsThree Simple Steps to Improve your Job Description Results Customer ServiceCustomers often ask how they can improve their job description results.We recommend a simple three-step process that will help your job postingbe seen in job search results by relevant job seekers. Heres how it works1)Do a job search. Go to Monster.comand search for your job using a job title that candidates who arein your industry would use. For instance, if your job title is Customer Appreciation Specialist, but seekers are likely to search on Customer Service, search on that term.Note Even if you havent posted your job yet, this is a helpful step to see the terms that are showing up in search. 2)Compare the search results with your job title and job description. Do they match? Does the title you searched for match your job title? Be koranvers to optimize the job titleand avoid terms that are i ndecipherable to candidates.Then check the phrases and keywords within the job descriptions listed. Make sure they align with keywords and phrases in your job description.Finally, search for your job description by location. If your listing doesnt show up in your search, its likely that you listed your job in another location.3)Make a note of the needed changes. Then log into your account to make your updates. Remember that job seekers do not search using internal phrases or jargon. By using more common terms, you will successfully sync your job title and description with how real-life seekers are actually looking for your type of position.If you find that your job description needs a lot of adjustments, dont feel bad. The truth is that many people skip this process altogether.By taking a few minutes to complete these steps, you can maximize your job posting for real life search practices and gain additional job seeker exposure.More importantly, after syncing your job posting detail s with real life search practices, your next step will likely be to research interview questions to ask allthe candidates that apply to your jobAll the best with your recruiting and hiring

This is the way to be brave again

This is the way to be brave againThis is the way to be brave againIllustrations by John P. Weiss.Follow Ladders on FlipboardFollow Ladders magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and moreSeveral years ago, during the holidays, I encountered a street poet. He was plinking away on a very old typewriter, selling short poems for whatever patrons felt appropriate.close dialogAdvertisementclose dialog/* effects for .bx-campaign-1012257 *//* custom css .bx-campaign-1012257 */.bx-custom.bx-campaign-1012257.bx-type-agilityzone .bx-close z-index 2-ms-keyframes bx-anim-1012257-spin from -ms-transform rotate(0deg) to -ms-transform rotate(360deg) -moz-keyframes bx-anim-1012257-spin from -moz-transform rotate(0deg) to -moz-transform rotate(360deg) -webkit-keyframes bx-anim-1012257-spin from -webkit-transform rotate(0deg) to -webkit-transform rotate(360deg) keyframes bx-anim-1012257-spin from transform rotate(0deg) to transform rotate(360deg) bx-close-inside-1012257 top 0 right 0 /* rendered styles .bx-campaign-1012257 */.bxc.bx-campaign-1012257.bx-active-step-1 .bx-creative *first-child padding 0width auto.bxc.bx-campaign-1012257.bx-active-step-1 .bx-creative background-color transparent.bxc.bx-campaign-1012257.bx-active-step-1 .bx-close stroke whitebackground-color blackborder-style solidborder-color whiteborder-width 1pxbox-shadow 0px 0px 0px 3px black.bxc.bx-campaign-1012257 .bx-group-1012257-3RBnJGC position absolutetop 50%left 50%transform translate(-50%, -50%)z-index -1.bxc.bx-campaign-1012257 .bx-element-1012257-wryzWV5 width 55px.bxc.bx-campaign-1012257 .bx-element-1012257-wryzWV5 *first-child animation-name bx-anim-1012257-spinanimation-duration 800msanimation-iteration-count infiniteanimation-timing-function line ar.bxc.bx-campaign-1012257 .bx-group-1012257-lyDBLV9 width 900pxheight 550px.bxc.bx-campaign-1012257 .bx-group-1012257-me4p1bl padding 10px.bxc.bx-campaign-1012257 .bx-element-1012257-ZdLO37u width auto.bxc.bx-campaign-1012257 .bx-element-1012257-ZdLO37u *first-child padding 2px 4pxfont-size 10pxcolor rgb(255, 255, 255)text-transform uppercasebackground-color rgb(0, 0, 0)background-color rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.34)He typed his poetry on thin, onion skin paper. I remember the distinctive clickety-clack sound of the keys striking the paper. An utterly foreign sound in todays world of laptops and touch screens.He was staged just outside a popular downtown bookstore. Location, after all, is everything. Busy, frazzled shoppers couldnt help but stop and take in this intriguing spectacle.Poet Kevin DevaneyI inquired about his services. He told me there were several clients ahead of me, but if Id like a personal poem, to leave my name. He suggested I include whatever I was passionate about. So, I w rote down my name and the word art.Close up of Kevin Devaney typingI left to explore the bookstore and shop. An hour later I returned and the poet told me my poem was done. Heres a photo of the poem he typed for mePoem by Kevin Devaney.This is my favorite line in his poemStretch the paint, until you have built a stair on which man may climb out of his lack of kindness.The poets name is Kevin Devaney. Hiswebsitestates that he is a graduate of the Sarah Lawrence College MFA program (2011) and a spoken word advocate.He is the founder of the Santa Cruz, California weekly poetry open mic, the Sarah Lawrence College Spoken Word Collective, the Northampton Poetry Brothel, Northampton Poetry, and the former Art Bar Cafe Philanthropub. He is passionate about devising new ways for art to intersect with daily life. You can find more of his work on hisInstagram page.What I admire about Kevin Devaney are his passion and fearlessness. Not a lot of people are willing to open up shop on a busy cit y street, during the holidays, and perform.Push just a tiny bitlongerHow many of us are held back by fear? By that nagging voice in our head, telling us were not good enough?Perhaps the answer to our fears, then, is to stretch the paint. Take out our creative brushes (or whatever tools you use), and dive in.And what about fear, you ask? How do we be brave and recover the essence of who we are? Or who we want to become?Fortunately, there is a way to be brave again. All it requires is one thingLet go of the past. Ignore the voices of those who discourage you. They are mired in their own fear and threatened by the ones who platzset sail.Illustrations by John P. Weiss.Let go of your self-doubt and fear of failure. Risk a little to let your true self emerge. Others will appreciate your authenticity and uniqueness.And should you get knocked down, dust yourself off and learn from the experience. Figure out what went wrong. Dont waste time blaming others, even if it was their fault. Find a better path forward. Regroup, and when youre ready, try again.Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer.?- ?SethGodinClinging andgraspingWriter Melissa Kirk, in anarticlefor Psychology Today, had this to say about the power of letting goIn my life, the most amazing things that have happened to me have been direct results of me facing the crippling terror of letting go of something. Whether a relationship, a job, or a story about myself and what I am and am not good at, the best things in my life have come when Ive chosen to hold my breath and dive under the terror, even if Ive tried hundreds or times before and failed.Author and mindfulness expert Jon Kabat-Zinn, in the following YouTube video narration, encourages us to stop clinging and grasping at things, especially when we cannot have them or theyre not good for us.Kabat-Zinn talks about how they trap monkeys in India. They cut a hole in a coconut, and tie the coconu t to the base of a tree.Then they distributions-mix a banana inside the coconut. The hole is crafted so that when the monkey grasps the banana, the size of his fist prevents the monkey from removing his hand.The monkeys refuse to let go of the banana. They are caught by their own desire.Sound a bit familiar?How many of us cling to a desire? How often do we grasp and hold on to unhealthy habits, relationships or behaviors?As Kabat-Zinn points out, letting go really means letting be. Allowing yourself not to get caught up in something. When we stop grasping and clinging, we let go of the psychological banana. We open the doorway to freedom. Freedom to be who we want to be.A more peacefulstateThe street poet Kevin Devaney inspired me. He reminded me that creative passion is such a gift, if we are willing to be brave, let go of our fear and share our art with the world.Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be r esponsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.?- ?MelodyBeattieI hope you let go of whatever is holding-gesellschaft you back, and learn to be brave again. Doing so will enrich your life and the lives of many others.Before yougoImJohn P. Weiss.I draw cartoons, paint landscapes and write about life. 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3 things to do when everything appears to go wrong in your life

3 things to do when everything appears to go wrong in your life 3 things to do when everything appears to go wrong in your life First of all, when everything is going wrong in your life, you should keep in mind that emotions are big fat liars. You feel everything is going south, but it’s not true.Adversity is often a stepping stone to success. That is, if you don’t give up because the cloud of dark emotions discouraged you completely.A couple of things NOT to do:1. Don’t focus on what’s wrongWhen everything seems to go wrong, you have this unfortunate tendency to focus on what’s wrong. Don’t.When people practice speed driving, they drive their cars where their sight goes. If they stare at the approaching wall, they invariably steer the car toward the wall, even if they know very well they should turn the wheel and the car.Your life goes where your attention goes. If you dwell on what’s going wrong, you will only get more bad things and events. New Age believers will tell you that you “attract” negative energy or your quantum vibrations emanate negativity, so positivity has no access to you. They may even be right.I think the explanation is a bit simpler. Your brain’s primary function is one of a search engine. It absorbs millions and millions of sensual impulses every second and its main job is to segregate this ocean of data so your nervous system and conscious mind can make sense of it.Bad things and good things are happening all the time in your life. The focus of your conscious mind determines which data your search engine will fish out from the data ocean. The title says it very aptly: it appears everything goes wrong. Positive impulses will be weeded out from your brain’s query, so the end picture will get darker and darker.2. Don’t beat yourselfBlaming yourself for the situation is a default option. Let’s not philosophize why,   just assume it as an axiom. In your internal dialog you always assume you are the center of the universe, so if anything goes wrong, it must be your fault, right?You may be even right about this. All in all, most of what you rece ive in life is the result of your thoughts, words and actions.But beating yourself won’t improve the situation one bit. It will make it even worse. If you get yourself into the present situation, guess who can take you out of it? Yes, you. And if you beat up the only person who can get you out of troubles, getting out of troubles is unlikely.It may be wise to examine how your vices and past stupid decisions brought you to the miserable place you are in now. If you can reflect on the past with an inquiring mind and track down your mistakes, you can figure out eventual solutions.Sadly, most of us are incapable of such impersonal detachment and we fall into the default mode: beating ourselves up.If you know you get on that path too easily just don’t go there. It’s a slippery slope and you should attempt a sober reflection only when you are skilled in self-analysis. If your emotions got in the way, don’t even try. There are better ways.3. Get your personal philosophy straightI can give you dozens of tips on how to survive tough times, but if you are stuck in a dark place there is no use bombarding you with advice.You need to know deep in your heart that it is still worth trying to get better. You need to be convinced that hard times are only temporary. And in the end YOU need to implement the advice. Knowledge without implementation is as useless as ignorance.I went through periods of depression in my life; some of them were relatively mild, others were downright excruciating. I know what it’s like to be unwilling to raise your finger because nothing makes sense and your soul hurts. You need a driving internal power to get you out there. You need reasons to keep trying.What are your deepest beliefs about hardships? Is it a punishment from God or a trial? Can you see it’s just a passing state of affairs or you feel like you’re closed in the dark room?If you are a Christian, then I encourage you to turn to God. There are never true “wrong” times in a Christian’s life; everything is under God’s providence.4. Be with great peopleAn amazing shortcut to fixing your personal philosophy is spending time with people you want to be like. Do you know someone who went through times when everything appeared to be going wrong in their lives? Spend more time with them. Surround yourself with such people.Do a simple mental exercise: reflect on your hardships and think of someone who was in your situation and not only survived but came out of it thriving. Remember the “everything appears” part? The fact is that it’s almost sure there was someone in your situation in the history of humankind who dealt with it.“That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.”Friedrich NietzscheSomeone broke your heart? Happens all the time.Your close friend or relative died? Death will accompany humanity as long as it exists.Are you terminally ill? That was the fate of millions of people before you.Your child made terrible life choices and ended up suffering like a dog? This is the story of many parents.Were you fired? So were countless folks before you.Find them. Search for stories of people who experienced what you experience and became stronger. Let their stories affect your self-centered thinking. If they did that, you can do it too.The secret of those who survived similar hardships was their attitude. It’s not what we go through, but what we think about it.Thousands of people got their bodies destroyed and landed in wheelchairs after car accidents and they cracked. Hal Elrod, after an initial shock accepted his situation and was happy that he was alive. Doctors said he would never walk again. Because of his positive attitude he recovered to full health miraculously fast.The Best TipDon’t dwell on what’s wrong. Put your mind on what’s right. Your brain is a search engine. Give it orders to search for what’s right.The easiest way to do it? Keep a gratitude journal. Every morning write down three new things you are grateful for. It will unlock your thinking patterns. You will stop focusing on things going south and rewire your brain into positivity. You will notice positive events and influences. You will see new opportunities.It’s a ver y simple habit to get into. Even if you suffer heavy depression you can write down three bullet points. It doesn’t take much time. You don’t need special resources or skills to do this. It’s easy.This article was originally published on Medium.

How to Be the Worst Manager but the Best Boss

How to Be the Worst Manager but the Best Boss How to Be the Worst Manager but the Best Boss How to Be the Worst Manager but the Best Boss K. Williams, author of The 7 Non-Negotiables of Winning: Tying Soft Traits to Hard Results (Wiley, 2013) The worst managers can make the best leaders. And a great leader can become the very best kind of boss. How can this be true? Ill explain. To begin with, consider what a managers role truly is. Their job is essentially to accomplish work through others. Managers instruct, supervise, motivate, evaluate, and mete out rewards and punishments. Some manage from behind by cracking the whip, micromanaging, and shouting orders in the same way cattlemen or shepherds manage: by fear, intimidation, and authority. The first problem in this scenario is the way people come to be managers in the first place. Typically, managers are employees who are promoted because of their expertise in a certain subject matter. They move up in an organization by becoming highly proficient in their original jobs. Unfortunately, despite their skill in their previously held roles, they are generally untrained as managers. Many lack mentors or positive role models to guide them in this much different path. And even when companies provide training, it is generally schooling on the various facets of measuring work production and controlling employee behaviors (I refer to this as managing from behind). Little or no thing is taught about the character traits and values a company stands for, the ones it would seemingly want its managers the face of the company for every employee within it to represent and exude. So what do these individuals do? They become terrible managers because they do the following: Micromanage Take credit for others ideas and projects Create rules for the many that are meant to police and control the behavior of a few Make decisions that support their near-term compensation at the expense of the organizations long-term goals Hire and fire the wrong people for the wrong reasons Rule by force, fear, intimidation, and title None of these approaches achieves anything positive. A team will naturally follow a leader who is willing to lead from the front, instead of drive from behind. We could write many books on bad managerial behavior. In general, however, the result is the work environment we all know too well: fear, mistrust, worries over job security, and feelings of unfairness and ill will and a terrible company culture. What Can and Should Businesses Do? For one thing, they can take a cue from our company, where we have extended the principles of Agile Development into Agile Leadership. Management is simply not a word in the Fishbowl vernacular. We create paired leadership teams that guide and empower employees to do their jobs in the way they see fit. Our Captains work side by side with their teams, rather than directing and controlling them in a traditional sense. They lead from the front and set the pace. They show by example and their people follow. Captains are terrible managers, but they are incredible leaders whose teams produce great results. Here are a few of the traits that can turn a seemingly terrible manager into an incredible boss: 1.Trust your employees to get their jobs done. No micromanaging allowed. 2.Help others get ahead when deserved, even at your own expense. What a novel idea! Dont concern yourself with climbing the corporate ladder. If your people and teams are successful, youll naturally rise, as well. 3.Give credit where it is due. Dont take undeserved credit for others work, however enticing the idea might be. It will not pay off. 4.Set the strategy, but allow others to choose their own tactic. Its amazing how empowering and motivating it can be when individuals get to manage the details of how they achieve a particular strategic goal. They will become unstoppable. 5. Hold fewer (and more focused) meetings. The fewer attendees you have at each meeting, the better. Define exactly what you need to achieve in each meeting, and stick to an agenda when you arrive. 6.Celebrate failure and reward innovation. Encourage team members to try new things, even when you know that they wont always produce perfect results. They will make mistakes which are opportunities to learn and Fail Up. This will result in employees who are brave and excited to work. 7.Be in the people business. If your people know that you have their backs, trust them, and care for their well-being and their families, they will naturally be motivated to work hard for you. How do you find individuals with this terrible-manager potential? Against prevailing wisdom, they may not be proficient (or even familiar) with the teams tasks. But they will be highly capable and teachable in the values your organization stands for. The rest will follow. An anthropology graduate could become a development lead. A licensed attorney could lead a world-class sales organization. A culinary student could become a standout leader in customer support. An electrician could become a top sales executive. A banker could become a top account manager. The possibilities are endless. Excerpted with permission of the publisher, Wiley, from The 7 Non-Negotiables of Winning: Tying Soft Traits to Hard Results by David K. Williams. Copyright (c) 2013 by David K. Williams. All rights reserved. This book is available at all bookstores and online booksellers. Read More: Do your Managers Know How to Manage People? A Guide for New Managers: Six Steps to Become a Successful Manager Management Skills: Managing Emotions in the Workplace

5 reasons big money doesnt get people excited about working in Silicon Valley

5 reasons big money doesn't get people excited about working in Silicon Valley 5 reasons big money doesn't get people excited about working in Silicon Valley All that glitters isn’t gold in Silicon Valley.Scoring a job at a major company like Apple or Google means membership in the highest tax brackets, so you can afford anything right?Not necessarily.Mid- to senior-level engineers from a handful of companies in San Francisco, including Airbnb, Google and Twitter, fork over between about 42%-54% of their monthly income to live near the office,  according to rental listing company Radpad and job-seeking site Anthology.With astronomically  high costs of living, even well-paid tech workers can be alarmed by their quality of life.Here are five classic stories of the worst living conditions and housing problems that come along with good jobs in one of the richest metro areas in the world.Using a compost bucket as a bathroomAn Apple employee living in Santa Cruz was taking shelter in a  garage in Santa Cruz, according to The Guardian. How did he manage to use a  restroom in the garage, you ask?Two words: compost bucket.The same article also h ighlighted the experience of a Silicon Valley techie at a coding bootcamp, who shared a two-bedroom apartment with 12 other engineers through Airbnb.“It was $1,100 for a f***ing bunk bed and five people in the same room. One guy was living in a closet, paying $1,400 for a ‘private room’,” he told The Guardian.Living in a homeless campOne of the worst horror stories we’ve seen is a worker whose life spiralled downward after being unable to find housing in San Jose, California, near San Francisco, where the median home price broke a record last year at $1 million, according to the National Association of Realtors. Robert Aguirre used to own a Silicon Valley engineering consulting firm, but after losing his apartment and then his job, his living situation went sharply downwards: he had to live in his car, then move with his sick wife to what has been called “the nation’s largest homeless encampment,”  according to Mother Jones in 2014.Part of the problem, he suggested, is age discrimination against older tech workers.“The jobs that do remain are very technical and usually they hire people right out of school or while they’re still in school. Old farts like me don’t have a chance of competing. I lost my business and the house I owned. When the economy took a dump it took me with it,” he told the magazine.Aguirre believes tech companies need to think more carefully about how they hire and maintain employees.“I think the tech companies have an obligation to help out; they’re the ones who’ve outsourced middle-class jobs and driven rents and property values far beyond many people’s reach,” he told the publication.“It sold in 24 hours for $1.7m”Navigating the housing market in Silicon Valley is no joke.Michael,  an employee at a networking firm, took home $700,000 last year - that’s Wall Street-level money - and attempted to  cut down on his 22-mile, hours-long commute by looking at a place closer to the office. He was too late to get in on the property market, according to The Guardian.The place was snapped up by hungry house-hunters.“We went to an open house in Los Gatos that would shorten my commute by eight miles. It was 1,700 sq ft and listed at $1.4m. It sold in 24 hours for $1.7m,” he told The Guardian.He told The Guardian that since he’s tired of  the grueling route to work and cost of living, he’s packing his bags for San Diego to take a job for half his previous salary - and a lot less frustration.Bunking in a truckSome have chosen to avoid the unforgiving housing market  altogether.A software engineer moved from Massachusetts to the San Francisco Bay Area to work for Google.While interning at the company in 2014, he bunked in Google’s cheapest housing option: four people sharing two bedrooms at about $65 per night (about $2000 a month), he told the publication.  He chose to live in a truck in the company’s parking lot to save money in 2015, according to Business Insider.“I realiz ed I was paying an exorbitant amount of money for the apartment I was staying in - and I was almost never home,” he says. “It’s really hard to justify throwing that kind of money away. You’re essentially burning it - you’re not putting equity in anything and you’re not building it up for a future - and that was really hard for me to reconcile,” he said.But Facebook is one company that has given its employees a leg up on the Silicon housing market before.People working in the social media company’s Silicon Valley office were offered at least $10,000 to find places closer to work, according to Reuters. Generous, but hardly enough: by our count, that would cover only about three months’ rent in the Bay Area.

This is the city where you should buy your first home

This is the city where you should buy your first home This is the city where you should buy your first home You might want to check out one of these areas if you’re a first-time homebuyer.If you’re in the market to make possibly the biggest step in adulthood, Tampa, Fl was recently ranked the best city in the US for first-time homebuyers, according to personal-finance WalletHub.The study compared 300 US cities across three key components - affordability, real-estate market, and quality of life - while evaluating different metrics to give each a numerical score.Follow Ladders on Flipboard!Follow Ladders’ magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and more!The findingsTampa ranked No. 2 on the real estate market while having a strong quality of life, ranking within the top 15 in the country. Other cites that filed in behind the top spot were Overland Park (Kansas), Thornton (Colorado), Grand Rapids (Michigan), and Boise (Idaho).For the most affordable housing, WalletHub found that Ohio is a hot-bed for cheaper options with Akron, Toledo, and Cleveland taking the top three spots. Cleveland also had the highest rent-to-price ratio at 6%, which is more than six times higher than Sunnyvale (California), the lowest city in that category.On the flip side, finding a home in most areas of California was considered the worst option, according to the survey. The Golden State had seven cities ranked in the worst cities for first-time homebuyers including Berkeley, which took the top spot due to it being in one of the most expensive markets.Outside of California, Detroit (Michigan) and areas in Northern New Jersey (Newark and Elizabeth) were ranked as some of the worst cities, as well.

The State of Tech Hiring in Nashville

The State of Tech Hiring in Nashville The State of Tech Hiring in Nashville THE STATE OF TECH HIRING IN NASHVILLE Q3 and Q4 2019 TOP SKILLS IN IMMEDIATE DEMAND: 1. Cloud security 2. Cloud architecture 3. Cloud computing 4. Cybersecurity 5. Virtualization; Mobile development; Agile* OF TECHNOLOGY LEADERS SURVEYED … 69% plan to expand their teams. 30% plan to fill only vacant positions. 87% say it’s challenging to find IT talent in their area. 99% are confident in their company’s prospects for growth. 97% will bring on project-based IT employees. Below are the top reasons: When there’s a sudden vacancy 67% For especially busy times 53% Consultants are part of our hiring strategy 50% For unplanned, time-sensitive projects 41% When a skill does not exist internally 38% Multiple responses allowed. TOP BUSINESS CONCERNS 1. Maintaining security of IT systems 2. Innovation or helping grow the business; Investing in new technologies* 3. Cloud projects/initiatives