The Benefits of Volunteering After Youve Been Laid Off

The Benefits of Volunteering After Youve Been Laid OffThe Benefits of Volunteering After Youve Been Laid OffLets say that you just lost your job due to a company layoff. Most likely, you want to start your job search as soon as possible so that you can find work again. But have you thought about volunteeringwhile youre unemployed? The benefits of volunteering after youve been laid off are numerous- and can help jumpstart your job search, too.In honor of National Volunteer Month, here are just a few of the benefits of volunteering after youve been laid offIt gives you purpose. Unless you hated your job, or knew it was coming, a layoff out of left field can leave you shaken and scared, unsure of the future. You might lose confidence in yourself and your abilities, and blame yourself for the layoff even if it was due to no fault of your own. So instead of dwelling on being laid off, volunteering can help you by thinking about things bigger than yourself. It can give you a reason to get up out of bed in the morning (because, lets face it, a layoff can be depressing), get dressed, and do something good.Its a way to help your community. Whether its volunteering at your local animal shelter and snuggling with all those puppies or helping to paint a mural in your local recreation center, doing good is always a good thing. You might have been so busy in your job that you didnt have time to volunteer, even though its always been in your heart to do so. Now is the time to channel all that energy into something positive, and by the laws of attraction, good things will surely flow your way, too.It can help you reassess your career goals. Before your layoff, you might have been so mired in the day-to-day of your job that you never really got to ask yourself if you really liked what you were doing. In this way, a layoff can be a blessing in disguise. Why? Well, most likely youll volunteer doing something that you like to do, be it volunteering at your childs school or for a n on-profit that youre passionate about. Tapping into that side of yourself can show you if you really want to continue on in your career- or not.You might find that the work that you do volunteering is something youd like to do for a job. If thats the case, then you should consider a career change, which can be a very exciting prospect indeedIt can add new skills to your resume. Volunteering is just like a job, except without the pay. But if you view volunteering as a job, then youll know that you can learn a lot from your gig. You might learn new skills such as fundraising, marketing, social media- the list goes on and on. These skills are a great way to flesh out your resume and make you even mora marketable as a potential job candidateIt can help close an employment gap. If your layoff was unexpected, chances are that you didnt have a second gig lined up to help pad your pocket. And a layoff can leave a big empty space on your resume- that is, unless you volunteer. As a volunteer, you can (and should) list your volunteering experience in the job section, because it counts as a job. Dont make a separate section for it or think of it just as a volunteer gig. Work is work, whether you get paid for it or not, and your volunteering job counts as just that, a job. And your job can help you handle a gap in your resume like a proIts a great way to network. Its important to network during your job search, so take advantage of the time you spend volunteering to create new connections and establish potential job leads. Let people know that you were laid off from your previous job (you dont have to go into the details if you dont want to), and then let them know what type of job youre looking for. And if youre volunteering in a new field, youll most likely be working alongside like-minded individuals who can offer fresh new contacts in your intended industryVolunteering is a wonderful way to make the most of your time after your layoff. Not only will it give you purpose , but it can help you get new education, skills, and who knows, maybe even your next job.Looking for even more help recovering from your layoff? partnered with LinkedIn Learning to create a whole course for you. Get a 30 day free trial with unlimited access to LinkedIn Learnings full course catalog Heres an overview on Recovering from a Layoff to learn more about the course.

3 Reasons to Send Cover Letters When Its Not Required

3 Reasons to Send Cover Letters When Its Not Required3 Reasons to Send Cover Letters When Its Not RequiredMany job search advice blogs tell job seekers why titelblatt letters are dead and no one has the time to read them. In addition, job application forms do notlage always require cover letters when applying for work.However, cover letters can be a very good idea to send even when no one required it. We explain 3 reasons why you should do it for your next job application.3. Because no one else does itThe way to stand out to anyone is by trying something new to get someones attention. Merely doing what everyone else does shows you know how to follow. However, companies like leaders that try new things and think outside the box.The very fact that you are willing to read a job description, write a cover letter expressing your interest, and send it with your application (even when not required) shows that you are not afraid to let someone know what you want. It also shows you are willin g to make an extra effort most people do not while filling out dreaded online forms.Once again, barely anyone does it. In a recent job posting to hire staff at Find My Profession, only 4 job seekers submitted cover letters out of 100+ submissions (1 of the 4 was hired). So, you will stand out for doing it, mostly for the better.2. It shows off your communication skillsUnless you are making the mistake of recycling your cover letters, writing a cover letter when not required shows that you are the type of person to initiate a conversation when you see something you like.You are communicating through a cover letter that this job interests you so much so you will take the time and write about it. Job seekers who do such a thing are showing that they know how to communicate directly when they want something, without passive actions.Important If your cover letter displays that you communicate poorly, do not proofread, or fail to get to the point, the cover letter works against you. Anyon e who writes a cover letter should always edit and proofread it before sending. Errors in your cover letter hurt your chances of getting job bewerberinterviews.1. It shows passion and personalityIt is true that there are job candidates who have landed work mainly because of the way they write. Resumes with a track record of experience show your success. But a hiring manager will get a better idea of your personality if you possess strong writing skills for conveying your passion.As the hiring manager views your resume, they may be thinking, This looks impressive. A cover letter alongside it with your personality in writing will explain to the hiring manager, I see why they were able to achieve such impressive results. Look at the way he/she communicates.The cover letter will ultimately be a topic of discussion in your job interview if written so well that it was the main reason you were interviewed, to begin with. Even though we live in a digital age of texting, blogging, and speech -to-text, things like writing skills that motivate others to succeed have not gone out of style.

Survey Women claim half as much on expense reports as men

Survey Women claim half as much on expense reports as menSurvey Women claim half as much on expense reports as menLadies, remember to claim your expenses When employers require employees to pay expenses first and claim them later, a new U.K. survey found that these expense reports end up costing women mora than men.Commissioned by Allstar, the survey of 2,001 U.K. employees found that employees let their embarrassment and forgetfulness stop them from getting back money that is rightfully theirs. One in four workers said they would rather let their work get affected than have to deal with an expense, choosing to postpone or cancel meetings to avoid paying a cost upfront.In fact, nearly half of employees over 55 years old said they never pay or claim an expense.Survey Women dont claim expenses as often as menOverall, more than one-third of employees said they forgot to claim their expenses for fuel, travel or entertaining clients.But women were more likely than men to avoid claiming an expense, and what they did end up claiming ended up being half as much as what men would claim. While men on average would claim $280 (199) per month, women would only claim $107 (76). Women were more likely to say their expenses were too small to warrant a claim, or they felt too embarrassed to have to ask for a claim.To avoid one group of employees from feeling pressure to pay out of pocket, employers should go out of their way to make expense policies a part of every employees onboarding process.Too many workers do not know how they can expense. Two-thirds of employees in the survey said they had not read their companys expense policy.

Facts dont change peoples minds. Heres what does.

Facts don’t change people’s minds. Here’s what does. Facts don’t change people’s minds. Here’s what does. If you had asked me this question â€" How do you change a mind? â€" two years ago, I would have given you a different answer.As a former scientist, I would have cautioned you to rely on objective facts and statistics. Develop a strong case for your side, back it up with hard, cold, irrefutable data, and voila!Drowning the other person with facts, I assumed, was the best way to prove that global warming is real, the war on drugs has failed, or the current business strategy adopted by your risk-averse boss with zero imagination is not working.Since then, I’ve discovered a significant problem with this approach.It doesn’t work.The mind doesn’t follow the facts. Facts, as John Adams put it, are stubborn things, but our minds are even more stubborn. Doubt isn’t always resolved in the face of facts for even the most enlightened among us, however credible and convincing those facts might be.As a result of the well-documented confirmation bias, we tend to undervalue evidence that con tradicts our beliefs and overvalue evidence that confirms them. We filter out inconvenient truths and arguments on the opposing side. As a result, our opinions solidify, and it becomes increasingly harder to disrupt established patterns of thinking.We believe in alternative facts if they support our pre-existing beliefs. Aggressively mediocre corporate executives remain in office because we interpret the evidence to confirm the accuracy of our initial hiring decision. Doctors continue to preach the ills of dietary fat despite emerging research to the contrary.If you have any doubts about the power of the confirmation bias, think back to the last time you Googled a question. Did you meticulously read each link to get a broad objective picture? Or did you simply skim through the links looking for the page that confirms what you already believed was true? And let’s face it, you’ll always find that page, especially if you’re willing to click through to Page 12 on the Google search results.If facts don’t work, how do you change a mind â€" whether it’s your own or your neighbor’s?Give the mind an outWe’re reluctant to acknowledge mistakes. To avoid admitting we were wrong, we’ll twist ourselves into positions that even seasoned yogis can’t hold.The key is to trick the mind by giving it an excuse. Convince your own mind (or your friend) that your prior decision or prior belief was the right one given what you knew, but now that the underlying facts have changed, so should the mind.But instead of giving the mind an out, we often go for a punch to the gut. We belittle the other person (“I told you so”). We ostracize (“Basket of deplorables”). We ridicule (“What an idiot”).Schadenfreude might be your favorite pastime, but it has the counterproductive effect of activating the other person’s defenses and solidifying their positions. The moment you belittle the mind for believing in something, you’ve lost the battle. At that point, the min d will dig in rather than give in. Once you’ve equated someone’s beliefs with idiocracy, changing that person’s mind will require nothing short of an admission that they are unintelligent. And that’s an admission that most minds aren’t willing to make.Democrats in the United States are already falling into this trap. They’re not going to win the 2020 presidential elections by convincing Donald Trump supporters that they were wrong to vote for him last November or that they’re responsible for his failures in office. Instead, as author and psychology professor Robert Cialdini explains, Democrats must offer Trump supporters a way to get out of their prior commitment while saving face: “Well, of course you were in a position to make that decision in November because no one knew about X.”Colombians adopted a similar strategy in the 1950s when the Rojas dictatorship collapsed. As I explain in my forthcoming book, although the Colombian military was complicit in the abuse s of the Rojas regime, civilians deftly avoided pointing any fingers at the military. Instead, they managed to march the military back to the barracks with its dignity intact. They recognized that they would need the military’s cooperation both during the transition process and in its aftermath. So they offered an alternative narrative for public consumption that uncoupled the armed forces from the Rojas regime. In this narrative, which the military leaders found much easier to swallow, it was the “presidential family” and a few corrupt civilians close to Rojas - not military officers - who were responsible for the regime’s excesses. Were they to take a different approach, a military dictatorship- not democracy- may have resulted.Your beliefs are not you.In my early years in academia, I would tend to get defensive when someone challenged one of my arguments during a presentation. My heart rate would skyrocket, I would tense up, and my answer would reflect the disdain with which I viewed the antagonistic question (and the questioner).I know I’m not alone here. We all tend to identify with our beliefs and arguments.This is my business.This is my article.This is my idea.But here’s the problem. When your beliefs are entwined with your identity, changing your mind means changing your identity. That’s a really hard sell.A possible solution, and one that I’ve adopted in my own life, is to put a healthy separation between you and the products of you. I changed my vocabulary to reflect this mental shift. At conferences, instead of saying, “In this paper, I argue …,” I began to say “This paper argues … ”This subtle verbal tweak tricked my mind into thinking that my arguments and me were not one and the same. Obviously, I was the one who came up with these arguments, but once they were out of my body, they took a life of their own. They became separate, abstract objects that I could view with some objectivity.It was no longer personal. It wa s simply a hypothesis proven wrong.Build up your empathy musclePlaying Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth on repeat to a room of Detroit auto workers won’t change their mind on global warming if they’re convinced your agenda will put them out of a job.Humans operate on different frequencies. If someone disagrees with you, it’s not because they’re wrong, and you’re right. It’s because they believe something that you don’t believe.The challenge is to figure out what that thing is and adjust your frequency. If employment is the primary concern of the Detroit auto worker, showing him images of endangered penguins (as adorable as they may be) or Antarctica’s melting glaciers will get you nowhere. Instead, show him how renewable energy will provide job security to his grandchildren. Now, you’ve got his attention.Get out of your echo chamber.We live in a perpetual echo chamber. We friend people like us on Facebook. We follow people like us on Twitter. We read the news outlets that are on the same political frequency as us.This means our opinions aren’t being stress tested nearly as frequently as they should.Make a point to befriend people who disagree with you. Expose yourself to environments where your opinions can be challenged, as uncomfortable and awkward as that might be.Marc Andreessen has a saying that I love: “Strong beliefs, loosely held.” Strongly believe in an idea, but be willing to change your opinion if the facts show otherwise.Ask yourself, “What fact would change one of my strongly held opinions?” If the answer is “no fact would change my opinion,” you’re in trouble. A person who is unwilling to change his or her mind even with an underlying change in the facts is, by definition, a fundamentalist.In the end, it takes courage and determination to see the truth instead of the convenient.But it’s well worth the effort.Ozan Varol is a rocket scientist turned law professor and bestselling author.  Click here  to download a f ree copy of his e-book, The Contrarian Handbook: 8 Principles for Innovating Your Thinking. Along with your free e-book, you’ll get the Weekly Contrarian - a newsletter that challenges conventional wisdom and changes the way we look at the world (plus access to exclusive content for subscribers only).This  article  first appeared on  ozanvarol.com.

Relocating Tips for Proactive Job Seekers

Relocating Tips for Proactive Job Seekers Relocating Tips for Proactive Job Seekers Relocating Tips for Proactive Job Seekers Looking for a job is never an easy task; this is particularly true during hiring freezes in a bad economy. The news may report a growing job market, but many of those positions are concentrated in specific regions, causing job seekers to consider relocating for a job. While some people are able to chase their dream job, others are forced to wait out the current environment, hoping for a fast recovery. For those willing and able to relocate for a job, the task of relocation is a little different than most job searches. Finding a job in the new city and preparing for the move itself are only a part of the delicate planning and preparation that goes into relocating for a job. Here are a few relocating tips for proactive job seekers. [TWEET] Step 1: Searching for a new location. First determine if relocating for a job is a viable option for you. Ask yourself if you're able to afford moving to a new city. Moving costs alone could be more than $1,000. Are you willing to move away from family, friends and close networks? Are there health concerns or family issues to consider? Once you have considered all your options and weighed the pros and cons, start making plans. Start searching for a new job. Treat the job search in the same way you would if you were looking for local opportunities. Research each new company before you apply. Look for information about salary, benefits and company environment. Don't forget to check on relocation assistance. Companies may not advertise relocation help; this shouldn't dissuade you from asking about it. Use reputable research sites. Don't limit your research to company provided information. Online descriptions and company statements are often marketing material designed to present the company in a positive light. Online job review sites provide more in-depth knowledge about the company. Glassdoor and CareerBliss provide employee-generated reviews. Once you have an interview set up in a new city, recon the area before making a decision. Relocating for a job and choosing the best company is no good if you end up hating your new city. Use a relocation research company like RelocationScout. Hotpads also allows users to search for rentals and properties for sale at the same time. Trulia provides homes for sale listings from across the nation. Never purchase a home, rent an apartment or accept a job offer in a foreign location without checking it out first. Set up a trip to view the lay of the land and a check out your potential new office during your interview. A quick three-day scouting event will provide more information than online listings and marketing material. Plan for your trip in advance. Divide your three-day trip into three search plans job, home and community. Don't forget to follow-up with the hiring manager. Being polite goes a long way. After visiting your potential new city and employer, immediately send a thank you note. Make sure to mention aspects of the company you liked, reiterate some conversational topics and note something you learning on the trip. Check back with the hiring manager within ten days. Your follow-up letter should reiterate your interest in the job, why you think this is a good fit and why you're interested in their company. Don't regurgitate your cover letter or simply use mushy, filler language. Sincerity often is welcome, while insincerity often is dismissed. Step 2: Get ready for the big move. Don't expect the company to move you into your new home. Relocation packages are uncommon in the current job market. Companies rarely offer assistance unless the job requires talent not currently available in the area or they are seeking candidates. However, it's appropriate to ask the hiring manager if they offer any assistance with relocating for a job. Just wait until you secure the job to ask. Military veterans and the spouses have other options. The Relocation Assistance Program (RAP) helps retired military and their families relocate to a new job. Keep family top of mind. Making the big move is stressful on everyone, especially family members. If you have kids, engage with them and ask them to help with the process. Children never want to change schools or lose friends. Encouraging them to help look at new schools in the new city goes a long way. Talk to them about new designs for their bedroom, fun activities in the area or a new hobbies. Help them feel excited and a part of the big move. Don't neglect them and make them feel left out of the decisions. Start early and never wait until the last moment. Give yourself plenty of wiggle room preparing for the big event. If possible, schedule the actual moving day at least two weeks before your first day at work. This gives you plenty of time to transfer medical records, enroll your child in the new school and orchestrate other necessities. Remember Murphy's Law if something can go wrong, it usually will. Giving yourself valuable extra time helps prevent those unforeseen situations from devastating the relocation process. Make a checklist. Before relocating for a job, create a checklist of things that need to be done on the day of the move and the following weeks. For future events, try to create a tentative schedule. This helps you to prevent missing important items on the list. Some items to remember include: Schedule electricity and/or gas connection. Plan a date to have TV, phone and Internet services connected. Discontinue newspaper delivery, trash pickup and recycling services. Forward your mail and ask friends or family to check your box. Change your vehicle tags and transfer your driver's license. Relocation tools. Preparation is key to making relocating for a job smoother and less stressful. Several online tools are available to help you adjust. Money concerns probably are causing you to worry. CareerPerfect offers online cost of living calculators and salary estimates for each region. Use this to determine if your new salary is fair and covers cost of living in the new area. Their budgeting tools helps you determine if your salary or loss of revenue will help or hurt the family's finances. The move itself sometimes feels overwhelming. Move.com features a wealth of moving related tools to help eliminate stress and remember easy to forget tasks to complete. Search for utility providers, calculate moving costs, plan a moving schedule or search for interstate moving companies. Want to see how your resume stacks up? Try out our free critique today! Photo credit:Nicolas Huk/Flickr

6 things you should do when traveling for a job interview

6 things you should do when traveling for a job interview 6 things you should do when traveling for a job interview You scored that big, out-of-town interview! Now, you just have to take a  plane, train or a car to get there. Here are six things to do when you have to go to an unfamiliar place for an interview.Know exactly where you’re going in advanceIt’s definitely smart to go to your interview location beforehand - especially if you get to the area at least a day before. You’ll be glad you did. This will save you some of the stress that comes with heading to a new location on an already high-stakes day.Just don’t forget to leave with much more time than you need on the day of the actual interview. You never know what the traffic conditions will actually be like at that time of day.Find a breakfast spot and a convenience storeYou might not have time for a sit-down breakfast - white tablecloth and all - on the morning of your interview. Chances are you’ll want to head to a local Starbucks or another coffee shop for a quick bite and a drink, so make sure you find a place to pick up so mething if you don’t have a lot of time to eat before meeting your potential employer.But what if you spill coffee or a little bit of breakfast on your shirt at breakfast? It’d be good to know where to pick up some stain remover. While you’re at a convenience store nearby, you can also pick up a few snacks and water, which will come in handy if you have a day full of interview sessions or panels.Have comfortable clothing options - and a portable chargerIf you plan on wearing heels to the interview, it can’t hurt to have a more comfortable pair of shoes in your bag, just in case. You don’t want to show up to the interview and already be in pain from wearing them on the way there. Or, you could just invest in shoes that are better for walking, but still interview-appropriate.Also, bring along a portable cell phone charger in case you don’t end up near an outlet anytime.Find out who will be interviewing you beforehandAsk the employer to let you who you’ll be meeting with , whether it’s a recruiter, manager, or someone else from the team with the position you applied for. You’ll be prepared for whatever comes your way, and maybe even more of an idea how the questions will be framed.This might even help ease your fear of the unknown.Make sure you know all about the companyThis is standard - you should be prepared for every job interview, whether or not it’s in your neck of the woods - but if you get ahead on your research before you leave for your trip, you’ll probably feel a lot better once you get there.This way, you can just add to what you know before interview time rolls around.Come with questions for the interviewerDid you see something that caught your eye on the company website, like an initiative you think you’d might like to get involved in, or recent research they carried out? Ask about it. You never know where it might lead.You’ll also prove that you are interested in the company, and that you can already see yourself fitting into the culture there.

How to Get a Good Work Reputation - The Muse

How to Get a Good Work Reputation - The Muse How to Get a Good Work Reputation So much of advancing in your career has to do with making the right impression- with the people on your team, in your network, and inter-departmentally, too. That means, to some degree, performing well at work is all about getting noticed. For many people, the way to accomplish that is to work late each day in order to demonstrate just how hardworking and dedicated you really are. As long as you’re not rushing out at 5 PM, you’ll develop the reputation for being a reliable, loyal employee…right? I recently spoke over the phone with Mercedes De Luca, the COO of Basecamp, to get her insight on how people fall into this trap of working longer and longer hours for just that reason. As an employer and manager who’s committed to her employees’ well beings, De Luca especially wanted to explain the value of not working overtime as a company perk in itself. According to her, “People do feel that if they’re working long hours, they’re working hard. But those two are not synonymous. The first thing is breaking that mindset.” And there are simple ways to do just that. Long Hours Alone Aren’t Enough If you consider yourself a hard worker, you know what never really clocking out feels like. You’re constantly plugged into your email, or worse, you might even notice that work stuff starts infiltrating your me-time. To be honest, unless you set a hard and fast boundary for yourself, you’re the one to blame when it comes to working more than you’d like. “A lot of it is self-imposed,” De Luca explains. “Even if you have a boss that says ‘Don’t work too late,’ I think a lot of people still confuse or still equate working long hours, being the last to leave the office, responding to emails at 11 PM, and so on, with being noticeable.” I know it might be hard to imagine how you could possibly get the same amount of stuff done in less time, simply because you’ve settled into a routine that has you believing you can’t possibly leave at 5 or 6 PM. But really challenge yourself to notice when you’re staying late as a work necessity, and when you’re doing so for face time alone. Part of the problem could be that you’ve simply adjusted to the work load and work pace involved with regularly staying late- essentially, you space your work out so that accomplishing everything on your to-do list takes you into the night. De Luca says it’s easier to notice those gaps once you start looking for them. Be aware of whether you’re spending your time meaningfully at work (especially around that afternoon slump or during those big meetings). If you think your time and energy could be better distributed, don’t be shy about bringing that up to your manager, especially if that will lead to better results for your work or even your company as a whole. Make Clear Definitions for Success This can look like a daily to-do list of actionable goals as well as more solid ones for your particular role by week, month, quarter, and so on. If you have concrete progress to point to, you can start establishing, little by little, a culture of meaningful and guilt-free productivity. We all know what it’s like to stay late because we feel a certain pressure to. But De Luca makes an extremely important point here: “Staying late- you can’t put that on your resume.” I’ll let that sink in for a minute. Your long hours- they’re not going to necessarily propel you forward in your career if that’s all you have to show for what you’ve done in your position. “What’s going to matter,” she says, “is your accomplishments and whether or not they help the company go forward.” That means defining success clearly for yourself, for your peers, and for your boss. One foolproof way to do that is to really use data and numbers to your advantage. Really understand what constitutes a fine day and a productive one. De Luca says, for example, “If your role is to produce X number of articles or get Y number of engagement or drive Z revenue, I think what you want to do is be able to point to that success. You can say, ‘Yeah, I left at 5 PM, but that’s because I achieved the goal that I set out to do.’” It’s a powerful and freeing thing to say you’ve accomplished what you said you would- and if that takes you less time than you thought, you’re allowed to own that. One thing to be careful of when it comes to this strategy: Don’t assume the work will speak for itself. Be your own advocate in building your reputation- otherwise people might assume you’re only doing the bare minimum. “You may have to share that you’re on track and working towards your results and reinforcing them,” De Luca says, “But if people say, ‘We want you to help grow the X customers we have,’ and you say to them ‘Today, we got 50 new customers,’ that’s more impressive than answering all your emails and attending all your meetings.” Results help you get noticed- not long hours in and of itself. I know, especially in a work culture where people stay late, it can be almost shameful to be the only person clocking out right at “early” a couple times a week. “It’s a matter of reinforcing what you know to be valuable to the business,” De Luca explains. “Be comfortable with being noticed by sharing the progress against the results that you agreed to.” And as long as you can point to your progress, there’s no point in staying late for appearances. Let yourself call it a day- you’ve earned it.

Almost one-quarter of people oversleep at least once a week

Almost one-quarter of people oversleep at least once a week Almost one-quarter of people oversleep at least once a week With all of the gadgets and technology surrounding us at every moment, it’s a wonder we can get any sleep at all, but a surprising amount of people still manage to oversleep. According to a  new study from Mattress-Inquirer of over 1,000 people, 55% of people oversleep at least once a week and  75% of those have missed work.A little over 30% said they oversleep once a week and 24% do it multiple times a week. As for which generation does the most oversleeping it is Gen Z for the win as 36% of them oversleep multiple times a week followed by Millennials at 25%, Gen X at 20% and Baby Boomers at 12%. Of course, keep in mind that Gen Z includes people born from 1998 to 2017 which means a great chunk of their day is devoted to naps (and we aren’t just talking about college students.)You snooze, you loseInterestingly our wonderful smartphones, which we can’t live without have trouble doing one of the main things they are supposed to do. The survey found that 1 in 4 people who used a smartphone to wake up tended to oversleep then those who didn’t use a physical alarm clock.  Nearly 1 in 3 people ‘always’ snooze their smartphone alarms. A significant number of people also reported that they had  no consistent method of waking up. They just rely on their inner alarm clock. However,  these people woke up an average of seven minutes later than those who used a smartphone.As for the ramifications of sleeping late, they aren’t very good. It found that 27% of women who overslept felt anxious about being rushed, while it was only 15% for men. However, 11% of men worried they would miss out on an opportunity if they overslept while only 10% of women did. Take a look at some of the other consequences of pressing snooze.  And these were the top reasons people overslept.

How to Craft a Meeting Agenda That Actually Works

How to Craft a Meeting Agenda That Actually Works How to Craft a Meeting Agenda That Actually Works You probably hate meetings, and who can blame you? Theres a reason 71 percent of us  find meetings to be wastes of time. But heres the thing: Its not the meetings fault.  Meetings themselves are not inherently flawed. No, the reason you hate meetings is because youre bad at them. Well, you or whoever runs the meetings you attend is bad at them. Meetings could be quick and effective gatherings where major breakthroughs occur, but they too often go off track or get bogged down in meaningless details. Youd be surprised at how much you can achieve when a  meeting  has a solid structure impervious to digression. You can give your meetings exactly such a structure by checking out this infographic from The Business Backer, providers of business funding. The graphic lays out exactly what you need to do to create a meeting agenda that people actually stick to. See for yourself below:

Benefits of Having a Mentor

Benefits of Having a Mentor Benefits of Having a Mentor */ Read the infographic text. BENEFITS OF HAVING A MENTOR 86% of CFOs say it’s important to have a mentor for career development … 42% Very important 44% Somewhat important 8% Not too important 5% Not at all important … But only 26% of workers have mentors WHO HAS A MENTOR? Men 33% Women 18% Age: 18-34 years 41% 35-54 years 17% 55+ years 15% Top benefits of having a mentor, according to CFOs: 48% Learn firsthand from someone in a role you aspire to 20% Learn the unwritten rules of the company or industry 11% Have a neutral sounding board for your ideas 9% Get help navigating office politics 8% Get introductions to new contacts 4% No benefits/don’t know Source: Accountemps surveys of more than 2,200 CFOs and 1,000 workers in the United States Responses may not total 100 percent due to rounding. © 2016 Accountemps. A Robert Half Company. An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veterans.

Seize Unique Hiring Opportunities During The Holidays

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