Who is Winning the Social Media Talent War

Who is Winning the Social Media Talent War The talent war on social media is fierce but which network is winning? This infographic (from Recruit Loop) has all the answers. Takeaways: Facebook has the biggest talent pool, with 1.06 billion active monthly users, whereas Twitter has 500 million and LinkedIn has 200 million. 89% of recruiters have made a hire through LinkedIn. Google is the most desirable company to work with in 2013, and has one of the biggest Twitter followings too. Defence Jobs Australia is the YouTube company career channel with the most amount of views over 5 million. There are other tools available such as Instagram, Pinterest and Google+ each with millions of users. RELATED: How Many Companies Use Social Media to Recruit? [INFOGRAPHIC]

On the Job by Anita Bruzzese How to Get Colleagues to Trust You

On the Job by Anita Bruzzese How to Get Colleagues to Trust You When you buy your popcorn at the movies, you probably dont have more than a fleeting thought about the concession clerk, which is why such a relationship is referred to as transactional. You hand over the cash, and the clerk hands over the popcorn. Its a transaction, and you dont have any real investment in that relationship. But at work, you probably chit-chat with colleagues before beginning a work-related discussion. (How was your weekend? Did you see the game?) When you do that, you transform the relationship. Youre not quite ready to give the person your kidney, but youre more receptive to the person and they in turn feel warmer toward you. Youre building a relationship through that non-task conversation. Its more than transactional, explains Maurice Schweitzer. Schweitzer, author of Friend Foe with Adam Galinsky, says that kind of conversation in the workplace may be more critical than many believe, because it helps establish trust. Without that trust, collaboration, productivity and success falter. At the same time, knowing who to trust can be equally important. In their new book, the authors use science to explain how to best establish trust, such as: Building rapport. By asking about a persons family or hobby, you let the person feel good about talking to you, and you show them that youre taking the time to listen. Some people find it hard to get outside themselves because they believe they are the most interesting thing, Schweitzer says. But when you ask someone to tell you about their goals and interests and ask follow-up questions it shows youre paying attention. Smiling more. Maybe you dont feel like smiling when discussing losses in the 3rd quarter, but begin by talking about something that does make you genuinely smile, such as a favorite hobby or your child. Research shows that people who inspire the most trust are those who exhibit two distinct traits: warmth and competence. We trust warm people because we know they care about us, the authors write. In contrast, cold people pose a potential threat to us. We trust competent people, because they are credible, effective and efficient. Apologizing. It doesnt really matter what the apology is for (Im sorry its raining, Im sorry your flight was delayed) because studies show that the words themselves project warmth. This increased warmth leads people to cooperate. Meeting in person. This shows you value the relationship, and helps build trust. Whether (read more here)

The Types of Personalities Youll Find in Every Office #WisdomWednesday

The Types of Personalities Youll Find in Every Office #WisdomWednesday In every office, you find a wide range of personalities, from the one who constantly complains about anything and everything happening in the business, to the workplace gossiper. But which one are you? Hint hint, if you cant associate one of these personality types with a member of your team, theres a good chance you fall under that category! Nationalpen.co.uk  have created an infographic that gives a run down of 13 kinds of people youll find in every office. Im sure some of you will be able to relate! The usual suspects: The chatterbox: Likes to share their lifes story whenever you bump into them. Avoided by the entire office like the plague. The kitchen slob: They stick burritos in the microwave that explode, mouldy food in the fridge and of course dirty dishes in the sink. The backstabber: They pretend to be your friend, but steal your ideas!  They creepily watch your every move and next thing you know, they steal your idea, get a raise and corner office with a view. The delegator: Always gives work to other people and never does any of their own. Also  goes by the name of manager. The Debbie downer: Does nothing but complain!  Operates like a black hole for any positive vibes in the workplace. RELATED:  Which Type of  Office  Worker are You?

Questions To Ask Before You Start To Write A Book - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Questions To Ask Before You Start To Write A Book - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Here are 7 questions to ask before you start to write your book. These questions will help you write and publish a book that builds your brand and establishes you as an expert in your field. These questions will help you avoid the temptation to focus your attention on the writing, rather than paying attention to your books big picture. Theres more to publishing a book that successfully builds your brand than just writing! Addressing these questions as early as possible increases your chances of a profitable writing and publishing experience. As you answer the questions, youll find each question leads to other questions that help you take a fresh, impartial look at the realities and goals that surround your book. Why do you want to write a book? Examine your motives for writing a book. What are your specific goals and objectives? Create a detailed vision statement describing the role your book will play in your life. In particular, describe how youre going to profit from your book. Few books are best sellers, and few nonfiction authors can afford to depend entirely on income from book sales. Identify the different ways you can leverage your book into opportunities, profits, and relationships. Who do you want to read your book? Next, identify the target market youre writing for. Its unrealistic to write a book for everyone. Instead, identify the types of coaching and consulting clients you want to attract, or the types of speaking opportunities you are looking for. Identify market segments defined by age, education, employment, experience, health, income, location, marital status, occupation, or sex. What is the change your intended readers want? Successful books are not about you, what youve done, or how much you know. Instead, successful books are about your readers and their desire for change. The best brand-building books help readers solve problems or achieve goals. Focusing on your target market and their goals ensures that youll write the right book, one that your market is waiting for you to write. What books are competing for your readers attention? Competitive research during the planning stage will play an important role in the success of your book. By analyzing the pros and cons of existing books, you can identify the missing book the book that readers want, but isnt yet available. By focusing on writing a missing book, with significantly different content than existing books, youll be able to write a book that will stand out from the competition. Which publishing alternative makes the best sense? Today, there are more publishing options than ever before. The first step to choosing the right publishing alternative is to evaluate the pros and cons of retail, i.e., trade publishing, versus self-publishing. Its important to look below the surface and balance pros and cons from both a long-term and short-term perspective. What do you need to know about manuscript formatting and delivery? Pay attention to your printers or publishers text formatting and file-naming conventions. Failure to pay attention to them can cause your manuscript to be rejected, resulting in lost time and extra costs. Today, publishers often expect authors to format their words as they write them, and each publisher has its own preferred file submission standards. How are you going to market and promote your book? An authors marketing and promoting responsibilities begin months, sometimes, years before their books publication. When evaluating book proposals, publishers pay a great deal of attention to the authors platform which previews their ability to promote their book to its intended market. Indeed, many publishers search the web looking for marketing-savvy authors active in areas where they want to publish books. Closing thoughts Cultivate the habit of asking questions as you write, promote, and profit from your book. Planning never ends. Asking questions helps you make informed decisions at every step. Reality check. Asking questions helps you keep your ego in check, as you decide what to include, and what to leave out, of your book. This helps you write the book your intended readers are waiting for, rather than writing a book thats already been written or that readers dont want to read. Avoiding future problems. Evaluating your current online visibility or author platform as early as possible allows you to create a realistic long-term marketing plan, rather than rushing to get things done in a last-minute panic. Youll save money by building your platform one step at a time, and achieve higher results. Ideas versus words. Asking questions and taking the time to answer them helps you focus on ideas instead of words. Writing is easier after you have identified the information your readers are looking for, rather than writing words to fill an empty screen. Purposeful writing reduces the need for time-consuming rewriting and research under deadline conditions. How do you answer the 7 big questions? Regardless whether or not you want to write a book, take a few moments to jot down your responses to the 7 questions asked above. If youre not writing a book, answer the questions from the perspective of whatever youre doing now, such as writing articles, blog posts, or content for your website.   Or, use the 7 questions as a framework to plan your next presentation, speech, or teleseminar. Share your impressions and concerns as comments, below. Author: Roger C. Parker shares ideas for planning, writing, promoting, profiting from brand building books in his daily writing tips blog and his latest book, #BOOK TITLE Tweet: 140 Bite-Sized Ideas for Compelling Article, Book, Event Titles

Dream job opportunity Earn up to £22k as a professional cat cuddler - Debut

Dream job opportunity Earn up to £22k as a professional cat cuddler - Debut Look, here at Debut, we just want everyone to do what makes them happy. Maybe even pull down their dream job. We understand, however, that it might be not be a grad job youre after. The hustle and bustle of graduate jobs in London, lets say, isnt for everybody. And then there are those among us that just want to cuddle cats all day. Well, to those people I say, your dreams have come true. Dream job alert! Pay close attention to this now a veterinary clinic in Dublin, Ireland is looking to pay someone to literally cuddle cats all day. For real, though. The Just Cats veterinary clinic and cattery, based in Clonsilla, is seeking a warm and fuzzy person with plenty of cattitude to work in a new role as a professional cat cuddler. A  paid  role. It might sound trivial but its a genuinely important job. The cat cuddlers official job is to calm anxious feline inpatients with light petting, stroking and cat whispering . Its the ultimate career for the crazy cat lady or gentleman in you. The purrrfect candidate (Im so sorry), according to Just Cats, will have gentle hands, be softly spoken and be able to understand what different types of purring mean. Oh, you also have a qualification recognised by the Veterinary Council of Ireland. Thats pretty important. The salary is said to be between £17-22k, but it isnt clear, so be sure to check every claws of your contract. Okay, Ill stop, I promise Ill stop. If this opportunity tickles you just right, then you can still apply by sending a CV and a cover letter to  miaow@justcats.ie. If it doesnt quite suit you, however, there are plenty of neat alternative careers and internships for current students and graduates on the Debut app. Connect with Debut on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn for more careers insights.

5 Critical Reasons You Struggle To Feel Loved, Appreciated and Respected In Life and Work - Kathy Caprino

5 Critical Reasons You Struggle To Feel Loved, Appreciated and Respected In Life and Work Todays my birthday, and traditionally, Ive loved this day June 2nd.  I have very happy memories going way back, of celebrating this day with dear friends and family. One of my fondest memories is of a wonderful party for my 18th birthday given by my dear friend Nan in her garage (because the outdoor party was rained out). I felt treasured and very happy on that day, even with the heavy downpours and dampened festivities, because I felt the true love of my friends. Its wonderful to experience deeply the love and appreciation from others, and to receive and hear messages that people reserve only for special occasions like birthdays. But Ive found too that sometimes, soaking in these loving messages really taking them in, down to my toes can be challenging for me, and many others have shared that they have this challenge too. Why is it hard to truly embrace and accept (and be healed by) an outpouring of love, appreciation and gratitude from others? I believe there are 5 key reasons we keep ourselves from truly feeling love, respect and appreciation   why we block ourselves from  letting it in, and healing from it. Here are the top five reasons we stop ourselves from soaking in love and appreciation: #1: We have grown distrustful of what people say to us, especially if its kind. Even when friends, colleagues and family share beautiful sentiments about us, many of us have grown distrusting and skeptical of what people say, and find it hard to believe people are being truthful when they’re being highly complimentary.  Sadly, we wonder, Why are they being so nice whats in it for them? #2: We keep ourselves too busy and distracted in life, that we fail to give ourselves the breathing room to inhale all the love. Being over-the-top busy every minute of every day is a true disease today in our society that affects millions of people. We run round and round like hamsters on a wheel, only to come to the end of each day with no time for real rest, or to contemplate our blessings, and acknowledge what were grateful for. This pertains to love as well many of us are stingy with ourselves, our time and our ability to take in love. #3: We dont feel worthy of this love, deep down, or comfortable holding it, so we deflect it. So many folks I work with and know have been trained NOT to love themselves. Their parents or authority figures encouraged them to be blind to (and neglectful of) their own magnificence, beauty and amazingness. If we dont believe in our own extraordinary qualities, then external words of love and praise simply dont get through. #4. Some of the hurts weve experienced from the past can be like bottomless pits that wont be filled, even when love is pouring in. In conducting therapy and coaching with thousands of people over 11 years, I’ve seen firsthand (and lived it) that some of the hurts we have remain open â€" like deep, unprotected wounds that won’t heal. These wounds are like bottomless pits â€" love and kindness may pour in, but the wounds don’t close and don’t fill in until we take proactive measures to heal them. #5: Were so used to love thats conditional meaning, that weve learned we have to bend ourselves in half and do back flips in order to earn love from others  that we dont know what to do with beautiful, unconditional love that comes our way. Most of us have been trained that, in order to be loved, we have to be pleasing we have to do what others want us to do, and avoid getting in the way, and making trouble. But real love doesnt depend on our pleasing others. Real love is unconditional, and were not used to how that feels. Today,  Im committed to soaking in all the love Im receiving. And Im determined to hold and savor this love and appreciation every day of my life. Not just my birthday. * * * * * * How about you can you feel the love, appreciation, respect and gratitude people have for you, and can you bring that forward in your consciousness every day of your life, even when its not your birthday? I hope you can. Please share below what you believe holds you back from feeling loved and appreciated in your life and work, and what you can do about it today. To learn more about healing your life and your work, visit The Amazing Career Project and listen in my weekly podcast Best Work/Best Life  with Mo Faul.  Love to you!

Facebook Networking Sites

Facebook Networking Sites FACEBOOK NETWORKING SITES I admit, at first I thought the idea of Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and other networking sites were, well, silly. It seemed juvenile and strange not to mention an invasion of privacy. Why would anyone put pictures of family members on a site where virtually EVERYONE could look at them? I didnt get it and poo-pooed the idea. Clients begun sending me invites to connect on their different sites and boy, are there a lot of them.. Plaxo, LinkedIn, Fast Pitch, Tagged, and Twitter, just to name a few. Not wanting to seem rude to my clients, I finally broke down and started an account with LinkedIn. I found it to be very professional and a great way to have an online bio that perspective clients and colleagues can read to have a better idea of what it is I do. Finally, after hearing my nieces and nephews talk about Facebook all summer long, I decided to cave and start an account. I did one for business and one for personal. Once I got the hang of it, it was like a giant light went on and suddenly, without warning, I was hooked. The first two weeks I was like a fiend, connecting with old friends and family in my personal accountcatching up on what everyone had been doing, who was having children, where were they working, who had moved, married, etc. I had to keep checking. It was like a drug. Who was doing and posting what? After about a week and a half, the dazzling draw of it started to wear off. Thank goodness. I realized a few things in my networking journey so far: 1) You can control your privacy settings, so only your friends can see what you posted not the whole world. 2) With my business account, it is a fantastic way to see what my colleagues are doing, what articles they find useful, clients or projects they are working on, etc. 3) You dont have to invite EVERYONE in your address book (my first mistake when joining I invited everyone to join me). Invite who want to hear about. 4) Use these sites sparingly at workremember, many companies ban the use of these at work due to loss of productivity and the system resource drain. Your job could be in jeopardy if use them without permission (although, cmon who ever really asks their bosses if they can Facebook while at work?). Save your networking for home. 5) Pick and choose your networking forums. You dont need to join every one. It gets to be too time consuming trying to keep up with more than one or two. I still check my Facebook everyday. Although maybe just one account or the other, and only about twice a day. Who has the time? I am still catching up from the work I missed while on my Facebook high. If you are contemplating joining one of these sites, read my 5 tips first and be ready to enjoy yourself. As a former skeptic, its easy to get hooked. Until next time Erin Kennedy