The Value of Enabling Employee Career Plans

The Value of Enabling Employee Career Plans The way we do business is constantly evolving â€" disruptive technologies such as AI and biometrics, cloud technology, the war for talent, changing demographics and a difficult economic environment â€" all mean that our organizations are redesigned with implications for the whole workforce. At 10Eighty we have long championed the need to address employee engagement as a route to creativity, collaboration and improved productivity and profits. We believe that organizations need to maximize the development of their talent pool with robust career planning and development opportunities. Employees are the real source of value in any organization and it’s crucial to define and enable career growth and development â€" to show employees career pathways that work for them. It should be part and parcel of your employee value proposition to delineate clear roles, pathways and role criteria to allow the employee to navigate career options. Plainly it is not a one-way street for the organization to enable employee career planning because it allows management to plan for critical roles with a talent pipeline that capitalizes on their human capital. Successful career planning which allows employees to achieve their goals and objectives in alignment with organizational goals affords employees job satisfaction while improved productivity and profitability leads to the success of the organization. Employee expectations and engagement It makes sense to leverage the strengths and potential for growth of your employees. Good staff want to grow and learn, they need development opportunities and encouragement to build skills and to enhance their personal growth and professional options. Meeting employee expectations with regard to career growth and providing development opportunities will lead to decreased employee turnover and enhance employee engagement; it’s also likely to improve staff wellbeing and reduce absenteeism. Enabling career planning shows employees that the organization looks after their people in seeking to help them meet their personal ambitions and aspirations with the organizational career framework. The obverse of this coin is that attention to what their employees want allows the organization to plan ahead for skills that will enable the achievement of corporate strategy. Good career planning motivates, inspires and encourages the employee to reach for personal growth and development while enabling the organizational talent pipeline and succession planning. Enriching the employee career experience provides greater job satisfaction and productivity at an individual level while offering greater organizational agility and mobility of their human resource for the leadership team. Employee experience and empowerment We work closely with Fuel50, their CEO, Anne Fulton says that “creating agile career paths to match employees’ different talents, values, and aspirations to business requirements, delivers a powerful payoff stronger engagement, higher productivity, and optimized talent.” This is a powerful element of the employee experience â€" when the organization helps employees to understand career options and their transferable skills and development potential for career progression they become an employer of choice where people want to work. This about empowering employees to understand key career drivers, creating motivating career pathways linked to current role and goals aligned to their values and aspirations while ensuring the organization has the right people and resources for a sustainable future the right people, in the right place at the right time. At 10Eighty we believe that constructive and connected conversations between managers and employees is the best route to enhance career development and performance at work, creating a place where employees actually want, not need, to show up to work.

Personal Branding Interview Arielle Ford - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Personal Branding Interview Arielle Ford - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Today, I spoke to Arielle Ford, is the president of The Ford Group and author of The Soulmate Secret. She was instrumental in launching the careers of many NY Times bestselling self-help authors including Deepak Chopra, Jack Canfield, and Mark Victor Hansen. In this interview, Arielle talks about how she got started in non-function book publicity, how book PR has changed, lists some marketing tactics for authors, and explains what doesnt work in book marketing. How and why did you get started in non-fiction book publicity? During the late 1980’s my PR firm, The Ford Group, handled luxury hotels, upscale art galleries, and some of the top residential real estate firms in Los Angeles…with the recession of 1990 I lost 80% of my clients in six weeks. Suddenly I had a lot of free time to reflect on my life and was shocked to discover that I had been so busy making money that I forgot to be happy. With my huge income down the drain, the depression set in and I realized that my business had not been fulfilling my soul. I created a new mission statement for myself. I decided to only represent people, places or products that were good for the planet. During this time I self-published a book and figured out effective ways to secure media coverage and book sales. Within a short amount of time I found myself representing ALL of my favorite authors: Deepak Chopra, Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer, and Marianne Williamson. My the mid-90’s my client list expanded to Chicken Soup for the Soul (I handled there first 3 years of books), Neale Donald Walsch, Gregg Braden, Dean Ornish, and many others. By the end of 2004 I was fairly burnt out on book publicity and decided to step back and create new ventures. My at-home study course Everything You Should Know About Publishing, Publicity and Building A Platform is a 23-hour, 500 page guide that is the compilation of my knowledge as an author, book p ublicist and literary agent. Has book PR changed since you started? How? YES!!! It’s changed in so many ways. Long ago, when authors still did book tours, you could send an author to a city and keep them busy with media interviews from early morning to late at night. There were slots for interviews in all the local TV news outlets including 6am, tam, 9am (usually a Regis type talk show), News at Noon, News at 5pm etc. Then there were locally produced shows such as PM Magazine. Local radio had tons of local talk show hosts who loved authors. And it wasn’t unusual for a big to medium size city to have two or more daily newspapers. Many of the TV talk-show formats no longer exist. The radio stations now utilize syndicated hosts. You can hear Dr. Laura, Rush Limbaugh, and the BIGGIES in 300 or more markets across the country, which means there are fewer and fewer local radio hosts looking for guests. And, even if there are shows, they prefer call-in (using landlines only!) to in-studio interviews. Newspapers have shrunk and rarely do author interviews unless there is a strong local angle. Often when they run an author-interview it’s from a syndication service. The book tour is officially dead for all but the biggest names in publishing. The good news is that while many of the old media outlets have dried up, new opportunities have emerged. I am most excited and encouraged about using social media for spreading the word about authors and their books. Creating online communities via Twitter and Facebook is a fast and low-cost way to reach a targeted audience. Speaking directly to your audience via teleseminars and webinars has replaced the in-store book-signing. Creating massive sales with internet bestseller campaigns is one way authors can quick-start their book launches. I cover all of these topics at my annual conference 21stcenturybookmarketing.com where I gather the experts to share what’s new and what’s working RIGHT NOW. Top three tips to score a big publishing deal. First and foremost you must write a great book. One that is fresh, original, extremely well written, and one that serves a specific market. Secondly (and for many publishers this is actually the most important point) you must have a large and growing platform. A platform is the combination of your email list, social media connections, media interviews and paid speaking dates. They want to know that you already have thousands fans out there that will buy your book the moment it hits the bookstores. Finally, the author must be a media-genic, highly articulate, engaging spokesperson for the book. What PR/marketing tactics do you have for published authors who want to be bestsellers? To be a bestselling author these days you must become a marketing machine. There is no “one” tactic that will land you on the bestsellers lists short of appearing on Oprah and only then if she holds your book up to the camera and gushes over it. (Many authors have appeared on Oprah with only tepid sales as a result) Begin creating your platform today, even if you are a year away from writing your book proposal. Start with a blog, a weekly newsletter and then re-purpose the content via your social media. Collect those all-important email addresses, gather fans on Facebook and get the ball rolling. Build a website and offer an “ethical bribe” to have people sign up fro your newsletter. Start writing content-rich articles to spread throughout the web with links back to your website which will hopefully lead to sign-ups for your newsletter. Start attending book marketing conferences to learn everything you can and begin to network with other authors. Authors are generally a friendly group of folks who love to trade information and contacts. Lose the “competitive thinking” and learn that cooperation and co-creation are two of the winning attributes of all the bestselling authors I’ve ever worked with. Understand that there are no “overnight” successes in this business but with hard work, a clear intention plus a great book, becoming a bestselling author is possible. What have you found that doesnt work when it comes to book marketing? That’s easy….being stingy! Authors who withhold the key messages of their book become lousy interviews that don’t sell books. Authors who tease the audience by saying “you’ll have to read my book to find out… generally are unsuccessful. When it comes to your juicy content, give it all away in your interviews, newsletters, blogs, websites. Those that are attracted to it will buy your book…even if it’s just to have all the details in one easy to find location. A few authors I know gave their entire book away for free via the internet and still sold a ton of books. - Arielle Ford is a leading pioneer and personality in the personal growth and contemporary spirituality movement. For the past 25 years she has been living, teaching, and promoting consciousness through all forms of media. Her stellar career includes years as a prominent book publicist, author, literary agent, TV lifestyle reporter, television producer, Sirius radio host, publishing consultant, relationship expert, speaker, columnist and blogger for the Huffington Post. As the president of The Ford Group, Arielle was widely recognized as America’s foremost book publicist and was instrumental in launching the careers of many NY Times bestselling self-help authors including Deepak Chopra, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Neale Donald Walsch, and Debbie Ford. She is also a founding partner of the Spiritual Cinema Circle. Arielle is a gifted writer and the author of seven books including her most recent, THE SOULMATE SECRET, now in a 4th printing and 21 languages. www.soulmatesecret.c om and www.soulmatekit.com Arielle is the creator of the at-home publishing study course Everything You Should Know About Publishing, Publicity and Building A Platform www.everythingyoushouldknow.com and the annual 21st Century Book Marketing event which is the premiere book-marketing event for authors.

10 Best Personality Assessments For Your Career - Classy Career Girl

10 Best Personality Assessments For Your Career Before you jump into your next job, do yourself a favor and get to know yourself a little better. There are many personality assessments out there and benefits to taking different ones. Knowing  your personality type is important for your career success so you can determine what the best career is for you. 10 Best Personality Assessments For Your Career MBTI (Myers Briggs) One of my favorites is the MBTI (Myers-Briggs). I took it in my first job out of college and realized I am an introvert and that was why I felt so different around my co-workers.  MBTI is an introspective self-report questionnaire designed to indicate psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.  The  Myers-Briggs  Type  Indicator is the most popular personality assessment tool. Strengthsfinder StrengthsFinder assessment is very helpful in identifying the areas where you have the greatest potential for building strength and how to use those strengths. Its important to focus on y our strengths in your career rather than trying to improve your weaknesses. Youll be more energized and fulfilled if you are working in your strengths which is why this is one of my favorite personality assessments.  This is a must for all job searchers and entrepreneurs. [RELATED: 4 Personality Traits That Make Women Successful] Enneagram Test The enneagram is a profound and powerful guide to understanding your personality and inner workings.  The Enneagram is a personality typing system that consists of nine different types. Everyone is considered to be one single type, although one can have traits belonging to other ones. Insights Discovery Insights Discovery begins by helping you to uncover who you are and how you interact with others. Every Discovery Personal Profile provides information on an individual’s strengths and weaknesses, communications style, and their value to a team. It uses a simple and accessible four color model to understand an individual’s unique preferences. Then you can measure these preferences based on responses to a short online evaluator. Values in Action (VIA) Survey The VIA Survey of Character Strengths is a simple self-assessment that takes less than 15 minutes and provides a wealth of information to help you understand your core characteristics. It focuses on your best qualities and youll be able to discover your strengths and values when you are finished. DISC Personality Testing DISC  Personality Profile Assessment is based on answers to the 12 short questions. It’s fast and it’s free.  You can probably finish it in less than 10 minutes. You can use  the results to gain insights to better understand why you communicate the way you do and how you can communicate with others more effectively. Social Styles Since Social Styles is a behavioral style model, it has been used by thousands of organizations to improve leadership performance and sales results.  It is powerful because it’s easy to understand and easy to apply with others.   It will make your relationships more effective. 16 personalities 16personalities.com will help you learn a lot about yourself particularly the effects of your personality on forming and maintaining relationships. 5 Love Languages You can take the 5 Love Languages  official assessment to discover your love language and begin improving your relationships. It  will explain your primary love language, what it means, and how you can use it to connect to others. 123 Test  DISC personality test This free DISC personality test determines your DISC type and personality profile quickly. Find out how the DISC factors, Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance predict your behavior towards others and the everyday things you do. This assessment is designed to test your personality by calculating your personal DISC profile based on your everyday typical behavior. The goal of knowing about personality type is to understand and appreciate differences between people. As all types are equal, there is no best type. What personality assessments have you used that you have found helpful for your career and personal development?

Consult Professionals to Speed Up Your Job Search - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Consult Professionals to Speed Up Your Job Search - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career A recent visit to a public restroom made me smile. I was hoping nobody saw me smiling, but it was quite humorous. In this recently remodeled restroom, everything was automated. To wash my hands, I placed one hand under a U-shaped pipe, which squirted soap. I then moved my hand under the faucet, and water flowed out. When I then needed towels, I waved a hand in front of a paper towel dispenser, and a towel rolled out. Yes, I could have placed my hands under an automatic dryer too. Such advanced automation made me smile and started thinking, Why can’t the job search be so simple? And indeed, when searching for a job, we find that almost everything is still done manually. Yes, you need to create a résumé. Yes, most people ask their friends to just “look at it” and suggest improvements. No, your friends are not professionals, but they can still offer you advice. My suggestion is that you get a recommended professional resume writer to assist you. It will cost you some money, but would you have your car repaired by your friend who’s an amateur? And when you get really sick, would you consult your friend who typically gives you health-related advice? If you post your résumé and nobody calls, that means your résumé is lacking. A well-written résumé that highlights years of significant accomplishments will get reaction. If your résumé is written in an intriguing way that arouses curiosity about how you achieved your results and how you could do the same for others, then your phone will ring. When passing billboards on the highway, do you notice them? Some of them you may still remember. And then comes interview preparation. So you think that since you’ve gotten jobs in the past, you can be good at it again? Really? Today’s extraordinarily competitive job market rewards only the very best. There’s no gold, silver, and bronze here. Gold or nothing! So think again about your need of a professional for preparing for that interview. As a career coach, I help job seekers every single day. In the past I used to think that the more senior an executive is, the less preparation the person needs. Not so, I found out. At times even though executives might be more articulate than average, many of themâ€"just like nonexecutivesâ€"still neither understand nor know how to apply the strategy of convincing an interviewer that they represent the ideal candidate. The only automation within a job search consists of the various alerts one can set up so that when certain keywords appear in a job posting, the job seeker gets alerted. Try setting up an e-mail alert via indeed.com.  You can also use Google Alert for specific keywords etc.   I’m hopeful that technology will evolve to make the job search easier and more automated. Until then, job seekers have to do things manually, and my advice is to get professional help.   Those of you associated with the real estate industry know the expression FISBO.   This is the pronunciation for the acronym FSBO which means for sale by owner.   These are the do it yourselfers. People not using real estate agents do save on commission.   But how long is their house on the market?   Do you know the tactics how to negotiate for a better price?   Be smart in whatever you decide doing. Author: Alex Freund  is a career and interviewing coach known as the “landing expert” for publishing his 80 page list of job-search networking groups via his web site  http://www.landingexpert.com/. He is prominent in a number of job-search networking groups; makes frequent public presentations, he does workshops on resumes and LinkedIn, teaches a career development seminar and publishes his blog focused on job seekers. Alex worked at Fortune 100 companies headquarters managing many and large departments. He has extensive experience at interviewing people for jobs and is considered an expert in preparing people for interviews. Alex    is a Cornell University grad, lived on three continents and speaks five languages.

How to save money once you stop officially being a student

How to save money once you stop officially being a student This post was written by an external contributor. Katherine Sayer  give us her advice on how to save money once youve graduated. From theatre to travel, theres no need to cut out the fun stuff just to save some dosh.   Leaving university can be a daunting prospect; after several years of pretending to be a grown up during your studies, you are thrown into the big wide world of adult work, adult living â€" and adult finances. Gone are the glory days of your NUS card bringing you 40% off at Pizza Express, and your Unidays account wielding a healthy discount for all your online clothes shopping sprees. But rest assured, all is not lost. As a young person, you can still use your youth to your advantage and save some money with these discount schemes for young people: Theatre It may not quite be student theatre prices, but lots of the big city theatres offer discount schemes for young people that are free to join and make a night out in the West End a viable date night possibility. The RSC Key scheme can get you £5 tickets to sample some Shakespeare in London or Stratford-upon-Avon, while the National Theatre Entry Pass Scheme grants you £5 entry AND lets you bring a friend for £7.50. Both schemes are available to under 25s and are free to join, and for the under 30s, the Almeida Theatre in London will give you £18 off any Monday performance of a show (excluding the final week of its run). Being cultured has never been so thrifty. Transport In mourning for your Student Oyster Card? Look further afield for an answer to your transport woes. A Young Persons Railcard will save you 1/3 on all rail journeys, including off peak fares, and at £30 for a year (or £70 for 3 years) is certainly worth it for the money you’ll save. While the scheme is officially for 16â€"25-year-olds, a sneak peek at the small print on the National Rail website will tell you that if you buy a 3-year railcard up until the day before your 24th birthday, you can keep the discount for the duration of the card’s lifetime (so up until the day before your 27th birthday, essentially). There’s never been a better time to plan a city break via train. Cinema If the theatre isn’t really your thing, get excited about these discount cinema tickets for a night out that won’t break the bank. Signing up for a British Film Institute account online (ticking the ‘25 and under’ box) means you can keep up to date with opportunities for young people, including â€" most importantly £3 cinema tickets on the door for any film screening at the BFI Southbank. All you need is some proof of age to claim your £3 ticket 45 minutes before the screening starts â€" and given that nowadays you could pay 3 times that for popcorn, we think this is a steal. Opera If you fancy a spot of high culture, impress your friends with your operatic knowledge by taking advantage of Glyndebourne’s membership scheme for Under 30s. The scheme is free to join and will get you £30 tickets for certain festival shows, as well as priority booking for Festival and Tour performances. Definitely one to impress your Grandma with. Exercise Student gym memberships may be a thing of the past, but you can still shed the pounds without shedding any pounds at all (if you’ll pardon the pun) by trying out a free exercise scheme. The organisation Parkrun coordinates weekly 5k runs all over the country, which are safe, community-oriented â€" and free. Alternatively, Sweaty Betty runs free in-store fitness classes that range from Boot Camp to Yoga, and with over 70 classes a week completely free of charge, there’s never been a better time to embrace your inner suburban mum and whip out the lycra. Travel Finally, if all this talk of adult life has made you want to escape, then fear not â€" we have a discount for that too. Interrail tickets for under 28s are 25% cheaper than so-called “adult” interrail tickets, with prices starting at £238 for 7 days travel over the course of one month. The obvious answer? Go off to the continent, forget about your student loan, and find yourself. You can always pretend to be an adult next year. Connect with Debut on  Facebook,  Twitter,  and  LinkedIn  for more careers insights.

Paralegal Careers - CareerAlley

Paralegal Careers - CareerAlley We may receive compensation when you click on links to products from our partners. Most people who are interested in law already know that lawyers can specialize in many different areas. Well, so can paralegals! Depending on the program, paralegals may take any number of elective classes that deal with different aspects of law. When they enter the field as working professionals, paralegals generally seek employment with law firms that specialize in the types of law that interest them the most or in which they have prior experience through internships. Here are just some of the ways students seeking paralegal careers can specialize when they graduate. Litigation Paralegal Careers Because litigation attorneys work with lawsuits and court cases, a litigation paralegal career can be exciting and heavily involved in trials. A litigation paralegal will spend a great deal of time before a trial interviewing witnesses, preparing affidavits and other documents that may serve as testimony, and sifting through records for evidence. Litigation paralegals may attend trials with the attorneys they work for to help them with courtroom tasks like setting up exhibits, going through trial transcripts, and interviewing jury members. When a case is settled out of court, a litigation paralegal will help the attorney prepare the necessary settlement paperwork in accordance with the terms of the agreement. Constitutional Law Paralegal Careers Students who are interested in contemporary and hard-hitting issues being debated right now may find a perfect fit in the field of constitutional law. Law firms that deal with cases involving civil liberties, human rights, privacy, gay rights, and workplace discrimination rely on paralegals to research these cases. Whether you dream of helping to protect the NRAs right to bear arms or working for the ACLU on freedom of press issues, paralegals involved with constitutional law cases can make a real difference in the world. Immigration Paralegal Careers Immigration is another aspect of law that is always being debated and constantly changes with the political climate. An immigration paralegal must stay current with all new legislation about how people may legally enter, work in, and live in the U.S. Immigration paralegals interview clients about their specific circumstances and help them secure necessary documentation like visas and green cards to maintain legal status. Real Estate Paralegal Careers Anyone who has ever bought or sold a house knows how much legal legwork is involved in the transaction. What most people dont realize is that real estate paralegals do much of this work behind the scenes. Real estate paralegals draft all sorts of documents involved in selling, purchasing, and renting residential and commercial property. Its a good idea for people who want to become real estate paralegals to have some experience in sales and finance, particularly lending. Corporate Paralegal Careers Instead of working for a law firm, a corporate paralegal performs similar functions for a corporation under the supervision of a company attorney. This kind of paralegal career requires skills in many areas of law, as corporate paralegals are called upon to do everything from drawing up employee contracts to keeping minutes of board meetings. They may also work on securing loans and researching how new legislation will affect the company. To get started you can find a list of paralegal schools in your area to earn a paralegal degree, or search for online paralegal programs that you can complete at home. BioThis article was written by Todd Garner for the team at http://www.onlineschoolsnetwork.com/ This is a Guest post. If you would like to submit a guest post to CareerAlley, please follow these guest post guidelines. Good luck in your search. Visit me on Facebook

How to Build Resume the Right Way

How to Build Resume the Right WayMany people are trying to figure out how to build resume the right way, and what it takes to make a successful one. There are actually many components that go into making a great resume, and it is actually not as hard as it may seem.First off, you will want to make sure that you are using the proper formatting and information. The important aspect of all resumes is always the title, so make sure you do not forget about this first. Make sure that you list the title of the position you are applying for with the name of the person who has the position. This will allow them to read it properly, and the resume should read in such a way that it does not appear to be rushed.Next, you will want to make sure that you have all of the right qualifications listed. Remember that this will always be a review, and making sure that you get all of the qualifications right is very important. You should also not assume that you are qualified for the position, but if the y say that you are, then you want to verify this.Also, make sure that you have all of the appropriate formatting. These can vary from simple to complicated, and the more complex they are, the better they will look. You will want to make sure that your title and resume have the correct font size, and you should not forget to use the proper spacing. By doing this, you will ensure that it looks professional and does not appear rushed.Finally, you will want to make sure that you make sure that your background is accurate. You should list your job history accurately and do not put anything else in. You should list your skills that you have, and what type of work experience you have had. If you have previous work experience, you should list this along with your current work experience.A very important component of a resume is the content. This should be relevant to the position that you are applying for. Never list any information that will be hard to prove or verify. For example, if you are applying for a position as a cook at the local McDonald's, listing all of your qualifications for cooking will be easy to verify, but listing all of your qualifications for a six-pack abs will not be easy to prove.Finally, make sure that you proofread your resume for accuracy. You should proofread each paragraph, and you should also have the resume checked by someone else. Make sure that it is free of any spelling and grammatical errors, and that there are no glaring errors that cannot be overlooked.The last thing that you should do is to keep in mind that you should not make a mistake on a resume. If you do make a mistake, then make sure that you fix it before sending it out.