A Cheat Sheet for Completing Part-Time Job Applications

A Cheat Sheet for Completing Part-Time Job ApplicationsA Cheat Sheet for Completing Part-Time Job ApplicationsA Cheat Sheet for Completing Part-Time Job ApplicationsYoull be graduating from college this month and beginning the hunt for your first full-time professional job. Guess what? Youll need some money in the meantime.Thats a perfect reason to get a part-time job. And we all know that part-time job searching involves the tedious task of filling out job application, after job application, after job application.Is your hand cramping just from reading that? Ouch.Heres some helpful info to make your search a little easier...Q. Do part-time job openings require a resume, or just an application? A. It depends on the company. When I welches 21 and in college, I walked into a fitness center to apply for their part-time front desk position and was shocked when the owner asked for my resume. In this case, they only wanted a resume. But there are hundreds of companieseven ones that operate mostly on part-time helpthat do make you submit your resume along with the form-style application.Q. So youre saying I need to bring copies of my resume with me when I apply for a part-time job?A. Yes It would be a very, very good idea to have your resume on hand. Not only will it help you avoid the Crap, I dont have one scenario I experienced, but having a resume is necessary for when youre looking for that full-time opportunity.Q. Okay, whats this cheat sheet youre talking about?A. If you really want to impress employers, dont take their part-time job application home. Sit down in the office/store/restaurant and start filling it out. A cheat sheet ensures youll have all the necessary information available to fill out an application at a moments notice. (Your resume is a helpful reference for some of the information on a job application, but applications usually include details that dont belong on a resume, such as former supervisors names and the reason you left the job.) Instead of fumbling to recall those details, you can just copy your cheat sheet and submit the application without leaving the premises.Q. So tell me how to make one already.A. Okay, but I have to warn youthis is really complicated. Are you ready? Sure? Here goesFill in and print this sample employment application.Thats it Your cheat sheet is an actual employment application (this ones a PDF you can complete online and print, or print first and fill out by hand). Id advise you to practice filling it in by hand since youll have to cram a lot of information into small text boxes. Nothing is worse than chicken scratch handwriting that the employer cant decipher. You can then bring this cheat sheet with you to copy from when you fill in the real applications. Note You can also ask the employer if you need to complete the application, or if your neatly-done resume will be enough.This simple tool will not only make your job search a bit easier, it will show the employer youre someone who plans a head to avoid problems.

Do you feel life is worthwhile Your health may be riding on the answer

Do you feel life is worthwhile Your health may be riding on the answerDo you feel life is worthwhile Your health may be riding on the answer I dont believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then youre spending your time doing something worthwhile. Helen MirrenThis statement by the wise Dame touches on something most of us question - if we do good, will we be rewarded? Theres this idea that if we put positive energy into the universe, well be flooded with good karma. But then sometimes we get a kick to the shins, even when were trying to be our best selves, and that can feel discouraging.Well, rest assured A recent study by researchers at University College London has found some evidence that when we believe were leading a worthwhile life, we reap the benefits. And the benefits go on, an d on, and on.Higher worthwhile ratings are associated with stronger personal relationships (marriage/partnership, contact with friends), broader social engagement (involvement in civic society, cultural activity, volunteering), less loneliness, greater prosperity (wealth, income), better mental and physical health (self-rated health, depressive symptoms, chronic disease), less chronic pain, less disability, greater upper body strength, faster walking, less obesity and central adiposity, mora favorable biomarker profiles (C-reactive protein, plasma fibrinogen, white blood cell count, vitamin D, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol), healthier lifestyles (physical activity, fruit and vegetable consumption, sleep quality, not smoking), more time spent in social activities and exercising, and less time spent alone or watching television, researchers wrote in the journalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Thats a lot to take in, so lets boil it down. Basically, researchers in the United Kingdom used data from about 7,300 men and women who were 50 or older between 2012 and 2016 and who had participated in the English Longitudinal Study of Aging. When participants were asked to rate how worthwhile the things they did were, researchers found that those who believed their lives were more worthwhile were better off in terms of their health and social calendars.That kind of makes sense. When we feel better about the things we do, we feel better about ourselves. And when we feel better about ourselves, we usually take better care of our health, have more energy, and are kinder to others.So perhaps this study tells us what we knew all along We need to have purpose in our lives to feel fulfilled, and that in turn means well have a better life overall. Time to start volunteering again, or go after that dream job. Or maybe its enough to spend more hours with friends or family.Whatever worthwhile means to you, its time to start living it - your health down the roa d depends on just that.

Aaaarrgh! Why you should think more like a pirate in your career

Aaaarrgh Why you should think more like a pirate in your careerAaaarrgh Why you should think more like a pirate in your careerMaking an impact at work is harder than ever. Companies know they need innovation to continue to be relevant, but many have a hard time creating an environment that fosters change from within. The two main corporate strategies for dealing with disruption seem to beNon-Aligned Alignment where team members agree on radical transformation in meetings, but become silent saboteurs the moment they realize the threat/cost/effort involved.Permission-Based Change where well-intended New Thinking is sent to an early grave in PowerPoint charts and email threads, suffering the death of a thousand thoughts. Perhaps todays businesses are just broken or maybe many in the C-Suite fear that transformation would force them out of the company. Either way, a new path is needed that doesnt follow current rules. Its time for Professional Rule-Breaking.Before I get attacked by manag ers across the country, this is leid about chaos, this is about change. The art of rule-breaking is in the rule re-making. Knowing that most of us are hard-wired to follow the rules and aware that I welches entering dangerous territory in already fractious times, I searched for role models who meet the needs of a workforce looking to break out of stasis and break into their future.I examined the leadership of the Civil Rights Movement, the Suffragettes, and all the movements of the sort of scale and significance that the challenges of our times demand. To my surprise, I found the role models we most need in the form Id least expect - in the Golden Age of Pirates. I discovered the romantic rogues we know in Jack Sparrow and Captain Hook are only half the story, the other half being of dynamic organizational structures that rewrote the rules of a broken system and stood up to a self-interested establishment to help change it forever.The lesser-known story of Pirates was omitted from the history books by the establishment it threatened. But it demands your attention today. These Pirates were the Millennials (average age 28) of the early 1700s, facing huge disruption, industrial innovation, and a lack of visionary leadership. The similarity in context is interesting, but its their response that makes them essential reading.My new book, BE MORE PIRATE How to Take On the World and Win, is the case for the relevance of pirates to 21st Century professionals. BE MORE PIRATE shows how Pirates became pioneers of open systems, self-organizing teams, facilitative leadership, fairer workplaces and a raft of even more surprising organizational innovations with an eerily contemporary ring. For example, there was no gender pay gap on board a pirate ship (or any pay gap for that matter, regardless of gender or ethnicity).Pirates were prescient on many more business challenges we face today. They had a system of agile networks for smaller organizations to operate at scale witho ut the drag of infrastructure the average diversity ratio stood at around 33%, and their early Holacracy and open decision-making dynamic meant every member of the crew had a voice in shaping strategy.BE MORE PIRATE is now a bestseller in the UK, where my Call To Arms for a modern mutiny at work has been met with a wave of enthusiasm. But its not just facilitating Rule-Breaking at a current job. If the rules wont bend enough, its also giving people the power to jump ship, and rewrite their entire rulebook.At first, I was terrified. What have I started? But gradually Ive begun to talk to the mutineers, and the message Ive heard is of relief, not just the chance to forge your own path, but the most important rebellion of all - liberation from our own self-imposed limitations. And the saatkorn will work for you, even for those of you in the largest, most constrained corporations. As soon as you find your crew and start to rewrite the rules that need it most, youll find a deeper respon sibility to your own rules and strength to prove your way works.And if youve chosen the right rule, and broken it just enough, then hold fast, because when it comes to being a Professional Rule-Breaker, Ive decided that the best indicator youre being genuinely disruptive, is nearly getting fired at least once a year. NEARLY being the important word.Sam Conniff Allende is the author of Be More Pirate. He is a multi-award-winning social entrepreneur and cofounder and former CEO of Livity, Dont Panic, and Live magazine.