Archive for August, 2011

Crafting A Stellar Career Summary For Your Resume

August 22nd, 2011

Are you a career changer? Or are you satisfied with your stable career but interested in updating your resume? You are a professional who has tried different things, but are always on the lookout for the type of work for you? Whatever your status, what your resume needs most is a stellar career summary.

What difference can a career summary for you? Here are four reasons why you believe it in your resume:

1). A career summary communicates more about you and not as strongly as an objective statement.

2) Employers love career summaries and use them to preview your CV. If they like your resume, they are more likely to read your resume over.

3). A summary is a superlative job of masking weaknesses in your work history (too much experience, too little, too many types of jobs, gaps in employment, securities, ineffective, and everything you can) think » Read more: Crafting A Stellar Career Summary For Your Resume

Work Life Balance – Review of “What Matters” by Daniel Petre

August 16th, 2011

If your work-life balance does not exist, or you work for a company that awaits your soul in return for payment – then you should read this book. Your life must not be so – and this book helps you look at what really matters in your life and make the changes.

Daniel Petre includes the company 27 days hours after work at Microsoft and other large companies. But he opted for his family and his life to focus outside of work, facing criticism from other managers who seemed to resent his decision. This book challenges the practice of the Office face-time hours worked as a criterion for the award, the office-centered social life and work, and the only way.

Here are some ideas that I gained from reading this book:
o It is important to understand what you find most important, how to do your work as efficiently and productively and spend time with other activities in your life – “ruthless with your schedule” and make sure the people’s time and activities that are most important to you

o Remember that you can not always go up in the economy. You can choose to move sideways, like recycling or below as a part-time work or less responsibility. You may be criticized for that, but you do not need to take your employees. You must ensure that your life is centered on the right things.

o focus only on the labor market is a short term perspective – your employees and colleagues will not be there when you are sick or needs a friend, or if you retire. These nights because of business expenses are large, sometimes but not every week, while your family eats, without you and your children go to bed without seeing you every week.
o Studies have shown that actually treated the way employees increases productivity more than changing their salary. Motivate people by being cheaper – everyone wins! » Read more: Work Life Balance – Review of “What Matters” by Daniel Petre

Will the Current E-Book Craze Topple Publishers As We Know Them?

August 3rd, 2011

Some 85 participants at the rally sponsored overflow ASJA free Sunday 15th May at the Berkeley Public Library belongs to both sides (and probably also a skeptic), which may be two turns radical movement in the world of editing.

The topic was “E-Books, Apps and clouds. As writers to create the future of publishing” Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, predicted the end of the large publishers as we know it. Berrett-Koehler David Marshall countered by changes to survive, the traditional publishing to, and thrive in the future. And publishing consultant Peter Berens, after replacing Coker-Marshall, offered a third view, that finally the “big houses” can easily capture and dominate the e-book format.

It is time that the public decide what they read

Mark Coker began with the words “It is time that authors and publishers to freedom of expression rose!” And it was ironic that only a few blocks from his mother (and in utero) participation in the Free Speech Movement at its height in the 1960s. And now, finally, is classified E-books as a format No. 1 among all classes of trade, there is a revival of book publishing that companies like Smashwords and offers a free edition and platform distribution to ordinary people the power over, what should be said and printed.

“The” Big 6 made “the value of writers for the commercial value of books they have found the publication sent. They controlled the presses and places of mass distribution, but the myth as the arbiter of value gives way to a new reality that the brick and mortar bookstores in the neighborhood, which the burden of post-publication publicity Pass writers, their progress book machine while they sit still, almost every offer, they take 18 months to put these few books in print and accepted if the new book does not sell within the first week in bookstores it is removed for the sale or discontinued. “

“Writers have been exploited. It’s the public who decide what they should want to read. We offer an online, open platform for writers to unlock their potential. That creates more opportunities.”

Coker said that the answers to two questions lead to the collapse of the big publishers (although they will never disappear completely, they should not): » Read more: Will the Current E-Book Craze Topple Publishers As We Know Them?