5 Social Media Photos to Avoid Using During a Job Search

5 Social Media Photos to Avoid Using During a Job Search5 Social Media Photos to Avoid Using During a Job SearchAs a job seeker, you know how important it is to put your best foot forward during your job search. One of the ways to do just that is by having a great profile photo on your social media channels that represents you in the best light. Problem is, many times, what one person might consider flattering, another could perceive as a huge faux pas. If you want to be successful during your job hunt (i.e., land a job), below are five social media photos to avoid using during a job search.Five social media posts to avoid during a job searchStart your search for a flexible job here1. The Party Girl (or Guy) PhotoSure, you looking slamming in that festivitt pic, but posting a photo of yourself at a party is a definite job search no-no. While no potential boss expects you to never ever go to a party, you shouldnt advertise your busy social calendar online, either. And that especially goes for any photo in which youre holding a glass of anything that could be construed as beer, wine, liquor, etc., as these can get your job application pitched to the trash can ASAP.2. A SelfieWhether you love them or hate them, selfies (and their sticks) are here to stay. That doesnt mean that you have to use a selfie as your social media photo, though. After all, your boss-to-be doesnt need to see you taking a shot of yourself using your bathroom mirror (and spying all the clutter on your bathroom counter, to boot). Grab a friend or family member to take a nice photo of you with a clean, well-lit background- and save the selfies for your private Facebook page.3. Your Wedding PhotoWhile you might have made a beautiful bride (or groom), you dont want to use a wedding pic as your social media photo. For starters, depending on when you got married, the picture could date you (e.g., your poofy taffeta 80s wedding dress can give it away), and you dont want to give a potential boss a gl impse into your personal life before hes even had the chance to call you in for a job interview. That said, you should get dressed up for your social media job search photo, though. Men should wear a suit and women can wear either a dress, or a blouse and a skirt or pants, to make them look as professional as possible.4. A Family Photo You color-coordinated all of your outfits to match, and the photo of you with your family got a ton of likes on Facebook. Surely, its good enough for your job search social media profiles, right? Wrong. Employers arent really allowed to ask you if you have children or not, but posting a photo of your kids automatically answers that question for them. Unfortunately, some hiring managers have a bias against job seekers who have children, and might pass over your (very qualified) job application in favor of a childless candidate. Yes, its illegal, but it does happen. So let a potential boss judge you by your skills, qualifications, and prior work experie nces- not the number of children he can count in your family photo- and opt for a pic of just you.5. A Quote-Filled PhotoYou live by the mantra Carpe diem. But that doesnt mean that it has to be the first thing a hiring manager sees when he searches up your social media profiles. Try to avoid using quotes as photos- and ditto for adding them at the end of your email signature, too. Keep it simple and straightforward by using an image of yourself in a well-lit environment with a clean background- and seize the day instead by focusing your efforts on having a great job search that puts you in the best light possible.During any job search, there are always a bunch of dos and donts. But make sure your search goes smoothly by posting the right pics of yourself- and avoiding the wrong social media photos.Readers, have you ever posted one of the dont social media photos above? Did you find that it affected your search? Let us know in the comments belowphoto credits istockphoto.com

The Future of Power Generation in a Post-Fukushima Society

The Future of Power Generation in a Post-Fukushima Society The Future of Power Generation in a Post-Fukushima Society The Future of Power Generation in a Post-Fukushima SocietyA Partnership of Rising Renewables and Promising Nuclear Technologies (2012 Arthur L. Williston Award Winning Paper Abstract) On paper, nuclear energy seems like a miracle of modern science, a futuristic way to cleanly produce large amounts of electricity. When nuclear power plants were first being built, it welches estimated that by the year 2000 there would be over one thousand nuclear power plants in operation. Today, there are only 439 worldwide, with a mere 119 of those in the United States. While nuclear energy is not without drawbacks, one of the biggest reasons that growth has stopped is the public outcry against it. Nuclear technology is seen as different from other forms of energy creation as it is not well understood by most of the general public. It welches conceived in secrecy, born of war, and f irst revealed to the world in horror. No matter how much proponents try to separate the peaceful atom from the weapons atom, the connection is fiercely embedded in the mind of the public.1 On top of its connotation with hugely destructive weapons, there have now been three major incidents at nuclear power plants Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and most recently, Fukushima. Disasters of this nature are mora extreme than conventional power plants considering radiation comes into the formula. The last nuclear power plant to be built in the United States was back in 1977. There are plans to have more built in the next decade or two, but they remain the same type as weve been building for 50 years. The newest trend in energy is renewables, but behauptung are low impact and most require a large area to create even a fraction of the energy a nuclear power plant provides. The question for the future becomes if we will outgrow ur dependency on coal and gas and what technologies will be impleme nted to do so. Renewable energy (or green energy) has been picking up a lot of momentum in the past decade or two, although it still has many limitations. The three major renewables are solar, hydroelectric, and wind. Solar power has been stuck with similar technology for decades, still plagued by inefficiency and expense. Hydroelectric powers issue is that much of its potential has already been tapped out by current damming systems. This leaves wind energy as the great hope for renewable power generation. The growth of the wind industry has been exponential in the past decade, and has only gained more ground due to the current climate of concern over nuclear power. After the Fukushima disaster, Germany declared that they were shutting down all nuclear power plants and put in motion a plan heavily involving wind power. It is easy to see why wind power is so attractive, but is it enough? Considering wind energys current limitations, is it really the solution to our energy crises, and reason enough to abandon nuclear technologies? 2008 saw more growth in wind energy than the previous decade combined, with 27,051 MW added to make a totalf 120,798 MW worldwide, which is a growth of 29% in just one year.4 This growth is not slowing down either. Technology having to do with modern wind turbines is ever evolving, resulting in more efficient, larger, and higher capacity turbines. On paper, wind power seems like a no brainer. While the building of a turbine is expensive initially, after the structure is there, it has almost no cost associated with it whatsoever. With many countries such as Germany abandoning nuclear power in favor of wind power, the scientific facts of energy generated by the wind are even more important to know and understand. When electricity became something that was necessary for society, the engineers building power plants had six major criteria concerning commercial electricity generators 7 Could they provide large amounts of electricity? Could they provide reliable and predictable energy? Could they provide dispatchable electricity? Could they service one or more of the grid demand elements? Could their facility be compact? Could they provide economical electricity? When you go through this checklist with older, non-green power plants such as coal or nuclear, its clear that the answer to all six questions is yes. Back in the early 1900s, this was enough, which is why coal is still the way we produce most of our electricity. Now however, a seventh criterion has been added 7 Is it detrimental to the environment? This has become not only an addendum to the first six concerns, but in some ways has overridden the other six completely. Going through each criterion with wind power, its easy to see that a society built entirely off of wind power and wind turbines simply will not work. In fact, the only one wind power passes is the latest addition to these criteria. And even that it does not pass with flying colors. In an independent scientific study done by the National Academy of Sciences, it was postulated that even by 2020, the U.S. CO2 savings will amount to only 1.8% thanks to wind energy. 7 It is clear that even if wind power could provide us with the type and quantity of energy the world required, it is a long way off from being lucrative or becoming the primary contributor to the power grid. So, assuming that the main reason wind power has becoming the nations fastest growing source of power purely on the fact that it is green, what kind of solution can we provide that satisfies not only the environmental concerns, but also releases zero carbon dioxide? The obvious choice seems to be a new generation of nuclear power plants. In their current form, it would appear that nuclear power plants are susceptible to failure, which is a much more dangerous than when any other form of energy fails. Radiation poisoning is a serious situation, and while two of the three disasters in the history of nuclear energy have claimed no human lives, they may have shortened some, and that sort of effect is difficult to measure.Fortunately, there are new ideas and technologies that along with increasing the safety of nuclear power also have other benefits, such as increasing the efficiency and convenience or decreasing the costs. These designs include Small Modular Reactors, Gas-Cooled Reactors, Liquid-Metal Reactors, and Molten Salt Reactors. These innovations improve nuclear power in several ways such as making them more efficient, smaller, easier to build, and most importantly, a lot safer.My father is an avid fan of German made strategic board games, and we have quite a collection of them at my home. While no game can accurately represent the complexity of the real world, one game in particular attempts to duplicate the situations discussed in this paper. The game is entitled Power Grid, and players must buy power plants and resources to power cities they build on the board. There are five different types of plants coal, gas, nuclear, trash, and green. The first four require the player to purchase fuel in one of the stages of the game, while green plants (which have pictures of wind turbines on them) dont require any resources at all. After playing the game many times, I discovered that it was impossible to win buying just the green power plants. While it seems like the best strategy (considering you never have to waste your money on any resources), the other power plants have a cheaper initial price and can power more of your cities on the board. Conversely, completely ignoring these green power plants also rarely ends in victory. To win the game, you must have a combination of conventional power plants and green power plants. In a way, this is a simplified model of the real world. In order to power our cities, we cannot rely solely on green energy. If we truly want to get away from coal fired power plants and those that release carbon dioxides into the air, then we have to combine these renewable energies with something else that fits all six of the requirements stated above. With new, safer, and more efficient nuclear power plants being designed and built, it is my belief that the best possible scenario for the future is to combine these plants with something like wind power. Both of these have great potential, and combining the two should address all seven criteria of making a successful power grid. The Williston Award is presented annually by ASME to the student engineer or recent graduate who authors the best acceptable paper in the area of civic service. References 1 John Byrne and Steven M. Hoffman. Governing the Atom The Politics of Risk. Transaction Publishers. 1996. 2 HydroElectric Power Risks and Rewards.The Electronic Universe. Web. 17 Jan. 2012. http//zebu.uoregon.edu/1998/ph162/l14.html. 3 Hutchinson, Alex. Solar Panel Drops to $1 per Watt Is This a Milestone or the Bottom for Silicon-Based Panels? - Pop ular Mechanics. Popular Mechanics. Web. 17 Jan. 2012. popularmechanics.com/science/energy/solar-wind/4306443. 4 Wind Power Growth.Reliable Plant Magazine. Industrial Info Resources. Web. 20 Jan. 2012. reliableplant.com/Read/17664/wind-power-growth-in-2008-exceeded-past-decade. 5 World Wind Energy Report 2010 (PDF). Report. World Wind Energy Association, Feb. 2011. 6 Madsen Krogsgaard. Offshore Wind Power 2010. BTM Consult. 22 Nov. 2010. 7 Droz, John. Wind Power How We Got Here. 11 Aug. 2008. Web. 20 Jan. 2012. northnet.org/brvmug/WindPower/HowWeGotHere.pdf. 8 OGrady, Eileen.E.ON completes worlds largest wind farm in Texas Reuters, October 1, 2009. 9 EnerPub June 8, 2007. .Spero News. 10 Kashiwazaki-Kariwa.Power Technology. 2011. Web. 29 Jan. 2012. power-technology.com/projects/kashiwazaki/. 11 Marcus, Gail H. Nuclear Power After Fukushima.Mechanical Engineering Magazine1 Dec. 2011. Print.

Ten phrases smart people never say

Ten phrases smart people never sayTen phrases smart people never sayThere are some things you simply never want to say at work.These phrases carry special power They have an uncanny ability to make you look bad even when the words are true. Worst of all, theres no taking them back once they slip out.Looking for an inspiring way to start your day? Sign up forMorning MotivationIts our friendly facebook inc robot that will send you a quick notlagee every weekday morning to help you start strong. Sign uphereby clicking Get StartedIm not talking about shocking slips of the tongue, off-color jokes, or politically incorrect faux pas. These arent the only ways to make yourself look bad. Often its the subtle remarks - the ones that paint us as incompetent and unconfident - that do the most damage.No matter how talented you are or what youve accomplished, there are certain phrases that instantly change the way people see you and can forever cast you in a negative light. These phrases are so loaded with negative implications that they undermine careers in short order.This is the way its always been doneTechnology-fueled change is happening so fast that even a six-month-old process could be outdated. Sayingthis is the way its always been donenot only makes you sound lazy and resistant to change, but it could make your boss wonder why you havent tried to improve things on your own. If you really are doing things the way theyve always been done, theres almost certainly a better way.Its not my faultIts never a good idea to cast blame. Be accountable. If you had any role - no matter how small - in whatever went wrong, own it. If not, offer an objective, dispassionate explanation of what happened. Stick to the facts, and let your boss and colleagues draw their own conclusions about whos to blame. The moment you start pointing fingers is the moment people start seeing you as someone who lacks accountability for their actions. This makes people nervous. Some will avoid workin g with you altogether, and others will strike first and blame you when something goes wrong.I cantI cantisits not my faultstwisted sister. People dont like to hearI cantbecause they think it meansI wont.SayingI cantsuggests that youre not willing to do what it takes to get the job done. If you really cant do something because you truly lack the necessary skills, you need to offer an alternative solution. Instead of saying what youcantdo, say what youcando. For example, instead of saying I cant stay late tonight, say I can come in early tomorrow morning. Will that work? Instead of I cant run those numbers, say I dont yet know how to run that type of analysis. Is there someone who can show me so that I can do it on my own next time?Its not fairEveryone knows that life isnt fair. Sayingits not fairsuggests that you think life is supposed to be fair, which makes you look immature and nave. If you dont want to make yourself look bad, you need to stick to the facts, stay constructive, and leave your interpretation out of it. For instance, you could say, I noticed that you assigned Ann that big project I was hoping for. Would you mind telling me what went into that decision? Id like to know why you thought I wasnt a good fit, so that I can work on improving those skills.Thats not in my job descriptionThis often sarcastic phrase makes you sound as though youre only willing to do the bare minimum required to keep getting a paycheck, which is a bad thing if you like job security. If your boss asks you to do something that you feel is inappropriate for your position (as opposed to morally or ethically inappropriate), the best move is to complete the task eagerly. Later, schedule a conversation with your boss to discuss your role in the company and whether your job description needs an update. This ensures that you avoid looking petty. It also enables you and your boss to develop a long-term understanding of what you should and shouldnt be doing.This may be a silly idea/I m going to ask a stupid questionThese overly passive phrases instantly erode your credibility. Even if you follow these phrases with a great idea, they suggest that you lack confidence, which makes the people youre speaking to lose confidence in you. Dont be your own worst critic. If youre not confident in what youre saying, no one else will be either. And, if you really dont know something, say, I dont have that information right now, but Ill find out and get right back to you.Ill tryJust like the wordthink, trysounds tentative and suggests that you lack confidence in your ability to execute the task. Take full ownership of your capabilities. If youre asked to do something, either commit to doing it or offer an alternative, but dont say that youll try because it sounds like you wont try all that hard.Related from LaddersNew study This is the one email mistake thats unforgivable (dont let t happen to you)6 things not to say in a job interviewThese are the 9 most annoying phrases peo ple use at work, according to a new surveyThis will only take a minuteSaying that something only takes a minute undermines your skills and gives the impression that you rush through tasks. Unless youre literally going to complete the task in 60 seconds, feel free to say that it wont take long, but dont make it sound as though the task can be completed any sooner than it can actually be finished.I hate this jobThe last thing anyone wants to hear at work is someone complaining about how much they hate their job. Doing so labels you as a negative person and brings down the morale of the group. Bosses are quick to catch on to naysayers who drag down morale, and they know that there are always enthusiastic replacements waiting just around the corner.Hes lazy/incompetent/a jerkThere is no upside to making a disparaging remark about a colleague. If your remark is accurate, everybody already knows it, so theres no need to point it out. If your remark is inaccurate, youre the one who ends up looking like a jerk. There will always be rude or incompetent people in any workplace, and chances are that everyone knows who they are. If you dont have the power to help them improve or to fire them, then you have nothing to gain by broadcasting their ineptitude. Announcing your colleagues incompetence comes across as an insecure attempt to make you look better. Your callousness will inevitably come back to haunt you in the form of your coworkers negative opinions of you.Bringing it all togetherThese phrases have a tendency to sneak up on you, so youre going to have to catch yourself until youve solidified the habit ofnotsaying them.Travis Bradberryis the co-author ofEmotional Intelligence 2.0and the cofounder ofTalentSmart.This article first appeared at LinkedIn.

Tips on Tailoring Your Resume for Different Jobs

Tips on Tailoring Your Resume for Different JobsTips on Tailoring Your Resume for Different JobsWant the best results with your resume? Then you need to tailor it. By fine-tuning the contents of it for each job you apply to, you can better speak to your fruchtwein relevant experience and career highlights. This will increase the likelihood that youll get a call for an interview.But when it comes to tailoring your resume, where do you begin? And which areas are most important to focus on? As professional resume writers, ResumeSpice has the answers you need. Heres are some tips to help you customize your resumeRead through the job posting.Grab a highlighter and the job posting and read through it carefully. Highlight the areas and requirements that seem most important to the employer. Then write down which skills, abilities and accomplishments you have that tie in best with their needs.Rework your summary of qualifications.Now that you know the areas the potential employer would be mos t interested in, focus on the summary of qualifications at the top of your resume. It might be a matter of simply reworking the order of the bullet points to include the most relevant information first. Or you may need to add in some new points and eliminate other ones to ensure this area is as personalized as possible to the position.Edit your career experience.Once youve completed the summary, work next on your experience. Your goal here is to identify the aspects of your career history that would make a hiring manager most excited about you, and then put that information front and center.Ask a friend to check it. Once youre finished, perform a quick check to make sure youve hit on all the important points you need to make clear. Then ask a trusted family member, friend or colleague to review your resume, as well, and offer their assessment.Submit a custom cover letter too. Dont stop at your resume when it comes to customization. Make sure youre also tailoring each cover letter. T his goes beyond changing out the employers company name to being able to explain why youre a good match for the specific organization and their job opening.Looking for professional help with your resume?Consider the resume writers at ResumeSpice. We know what employers look for on resumes and can help you tailor yours, so you grab their attention and get called for an interview. Call 832.930.7378 today to learn more.

What Everybody Dislikes About Assistant Manager Resume and Why

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Report Women, Millennials Directly Tied to Business Success

Report Women, Millennials Directly Tied to geschftsleben Success Management consultant Development Dimensions International (DDI) and The Conference Board have released a new report, The Global Leadership Forecast (GLF) 2014 2015, Ready-Now Leaders Meeting Tomorrows Business Challenges, where they discovered that companies with higher percentages of women in leadership roles perform better. The new research also shows a connection between the percentage of millennials a company has and its overall business success. The new report is the seventh since DDI began this research in 1999, and it includes responses from more than 13,000 global leaders and more than 1,500 human resource executives within 2,031 participating organizations, from 48 countries representing 32 major industries.The findings clearly indicate that of the participating organizations, those in the top 20 percent of financial perfo rmance have 37 percent of their leaders as women and 12 percent of their leaders are high-potential women, said Evan Sinar, Ph.D., DDI Chief Scientist, Center for Analytics and Behavioral Research (CABER) Director and study co-author. Organizations in the bottom 20 percent count only 19 percent of their leaders as women, and 8 percent of their leaders as high-potential women.Report highlights includeThe report showed no differences in self-evaluated leadership competencies by gender. Although competency is equal, men surveyed tend to say they are more effective leaders overall than women.Aggressive growth companies, those in high-tech industries for example, have a higher proportion of Millennials in leadership positions (30 percent) than organizations with cautious growth (25 percent) or no to low growth (21 percent). Also, companies that were more financially successful were more likely to have a higher percentage of Millennial leaders.Organizations with high leader quality were s ix times more likely to be among the top 20 financial performers for all organizations. Organizations with both high levels of leadership quality and engagement and retention, were nine times more likely to outperform their peer companies.To access the complete report, click here.