10 Career Goals to Set for Yourself This Year

10 Career Goals to Set for Yourself This Year10 Career Goals to Set for Yourself This YearFrom very specific and concrete goals, to more broad resolutions, the 10 readers featured below provided us with fantastic career goals for the new year. While the resolutions may not work for everyone, they do offer great advice for different ways you can focus on your career, specifically in the form of flexible work.As a flexible job search service, we love hearing how flexible work has or will make a difference. This not only applies to your career, but your personal life as well. We LOVE work-life balanceRead through the following career resolutions, and the rest of the career resolutions from brde months contest here, and see what you can apply to your own job search and careerHere are career goals from users and readers just like youSeek out challenges Work at a job where I am challenging myself and learning new skills. JessicaHelp others and yourself Find a job that will allow my talent s to be best used to help others, as well as meet my needs, wants, and desires. JohnPromote yourself effectively This year I am looking forward to promoting my small business more efficiently. AlejandraReinvent your path It is time to reinvent my career path, and I love the flexibility of telecommuting. DebExpect success Perform with an expectation of great success. AngelaLook for exciting opportunities I would like to find a new job that is exciting and challenging. On the side, Id like to find another job to have extra income. ShereenStop procrastinating Just one thing for 2015no procrastination. AlessandraFind steady gigs Overcome the ebbs and flows of contract work and find a telecommuting opportunity that keeps me working year round. KarieFind time for meaningful moments I would like to do meaningful work without missing meaningful moments with my family. JenniferLearn new skills Take some classes on how to use social media in marketing in order to update my skills. Fa yeThe great thing about these career goals is that they are applicable to professionals at all career stages and in all industries. Whether you are looking for more flexibility, to grow your business, or expand your skill set, these are great career goals to have all year long.Readers, what are your career goals this year? Share you resolutions, goals, and career aspirations with us in the comment section below

3D Printing Better Root Canals

3D Printing Better Root Canals 3D Printing Better Root Canals 3D Printing Better Root CanalsBioengineers at an Oregon dental school are using 3-D bioprinting to take some of the bite out of root canal therapy. Their fabricated vasculature restores natural blood flow to a treated tooth, leaving it healthier and more resistant to damage and reinfection two major reasons for repeated root canal treatments.More than 15 million people undergo root canal therapy every year. Its a beneficial treatment that relieves pain and lets patients retain their natural teeth longer. But root canals rank right up there with colonoscopy and mammography in the rogues gallery of beneficial but dreaded medical procedures. Whats worse, in a small but significant number of cases, the treated tooth becomes reinfected or damaged and the patient has to undergo another dreaded root canal. X-rays, anesthesia and new materials have made the tooth-saving treatment safer and more comfortable, but no one wants to go through it twice. Once perfected, this new 3-D printing method could keep treated teeth alive and healthier, decreasing the need for second root canals.Prof. Luiz Bertassoni works on the process he helped develop to engineer artificial blood vessels, which are used to help regenerate teeth. Image Kristyna Wentz-Graff/OHSUIn current treatments, the infected blood vessels and nerve tissues inside the root canal are completely removed, replaced with a biomaterial and sealed with a crown. But Luiz Bertassoni, an assistant professor of restorative dentistry and biomedical engineering at Oregon Health Science University (Portland), believes his work could lead to root canal treatments that actually restore a living pre-vascularlized pulp-like tissue construct to the treated tooth.We believe this finding may change the way that root canal treatments are done in the future, he says. (The traditional) process eliminates the tooths blood and nerve supply, rendering it lifeless and void of a ny biological response or defense mechanism. Teeth without that functionality are more likely to be lost much sooner, resulting in bigger problems like the need for dentures or dental implants, he says. Fabrication of artificial blood vessels can be a highly effective strategy for fully regenerating the function of teeth.More for You Read about the latest in bioengineering from ASME.orgBertassoni has already made strides in growing networks of blood vessels and capillaries that could potentially support the fabrication of large, complex human tissues and organs for transplantation. Central to this work wasdevelopment of a3-D micromolding technique using bioprinted agarose template fibers to create capillary-like microchannel networks within hydrogel scaffolds.The current work zeroes in on the dental vasculature to put those earlier findings to work.The work was carried out using extracted human premolars that were shaped into 9-mm-long root fragments and sectioned longitudinally. Th e interior soft tissues and vasculature were removed. The two halves were reconnected and held in place with laboratory film. The kollektiv placed a 500-micrometer-diameter agarose fiber mold created with their specialized3-D printing method into the center of vacant root canal. They then injected a biocompatible gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA) hydrogel scaffold containing dental pulp cells into the canal, surrounding the fiber mold. After the hydrogel was allowed to photopolymerize, the team extracted the fiber mold, leaving a 500-micrometer microchannel in its place. They inserted endothelial colony forming cells grown from the interior lining of blood vessels into this void and allowed them to grow for a week. Afterward, the artificial construct had begun to grow dentin-forming cells near the tooth walls and an artificial vasculature within the root canal.Publishing their findings in Nature Scientific Reports, the authors state, This approach represents a simple, yet effective, stra tegy to engineer pre-vascularized dental pulp-like tissue constructs with highly translational outcomes.Michael MacRae is an independent writer. Fabrication of artificial blood vessels can be a highly effective strategy for fully regenerating the function of teeth.Prof. Luiz Bertassoni, Oregon Health Science University

How to make $1,000,000 doing absolutely nothing

How to make $1,000,000 doing absolutely nothingHow to make $1,000,000 doing absolutely nothingJennifer Aniston just made over a million dollars doing nothing.Only one word in that sentence is debatable. That word is not nothing.Its just.Follow Ladders on FlipboardFollow Ladders magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and moreWhen I say just, I mean last December. Toward the end of 2018 Netflix renewed its agreement to air the show Friends. The price tag on that agreement? $100 million.To we viewers, it will appear as if nothing happens. We keep rolling Friends to put us to sleep at night, or at the very least, watch the thumbnail on the trending now row rotate between Rachel in a skimpy negligee to Ross in a skimpy Frankie Say Relax T-Shirt.Behind the scenes, each of the six stars of Friends watch another $1.4 million fall into their already-crammed bank accounts.Ca-ching.I dont talk about this a lot. I should. At the end of the day, i t is nice to disappear into creative land. It is nice to have a hobby or a job you enjoy. It is nice to chase art for the sake of art.It is also nice to make money.David, Courtney, Lisa, Matthew, Matt, and sweet Jennifer of Friends fame are all cashing in 7 figures not because of what they are doing now, but because ofcreative work they did in the past which reached the right audience.They have, as my business friends would say, an asset.Quickly, here are some other assets I can think of real estate, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, equity in a business.Look the list of assets together and answer this question Which one doesnt seem to fit in?Real estateStocks or bondsMutual FundsEquity in a businessCreative Property**You lawyers can go ahead and say intellectual property.Now answer this question which of these assets feels most accessible to you?All these things (with the proper care) grow over time and pad your financial health. Only one of them can be started with absolutely zero cash up front.herbeies an example In 2016, I released an ebook. A friend did the cover for free. Another friend did the formatting for free. I asked a few thousand followers (which were also not paid for) to buy the book.The gut-wrenching price I charged? 99 cents.Out of those thousands of people, only 120 bought. I used that money to buy a microphone. The microphone and I retreated to the basement, where we recorded my audio book.This is where it gets fun.In 2016, the audio book made $200.In 2017, the audio book made $742.33.In 2018, the audio book made $2,060.97.In 2019, the audio book has made $596.16.If I stay on pace, the book will make somewhere around $3,500 this year.Which is nice, considering I only thought of it once in the last 18 months.But Todd, Audible/Amazon could change their algorithmSure. And Netflix could refuse to renew Friends. And the stock market could crash tomorrow. And, and, and.But Todd, the people from Friends have way more exposure thanme.In Belgium, there l ives a musician named Angle who has 427,000 Youtube subscribers.Have you heard of her? No. Her songs are mostly in French.Everyone is a nobody to somebody.But Todd, you have a talent in writing.Talent? Maybe. I do have theskillof writing.All it cost me was 1,000,000+ words on hard drives and clouds.But Todd, I just cant make a living from creatingart.Why? Because someone told you it is impossible?A long time ago, somebody told me that too.But today, all the money I make is a direct result of things I make up in my brain.And it all started with a little book.Even, then, I had no idea where that one book would lead. I just listened to a close friend who told me these wordsStart today.Start now.Much love as always ?This article first appeared on Medium.You might also enjoyNew neuroscience reveals 4 rituals that will make you happyStrangers know your social class in the first seven words you say, study finds10 lessons from Benjamin Franklins daily schedule that will double your producti vityThe worst mistakes you can make in an interview, according to 12 CEOs10 habits of mentally strong people

Military Jokes and Humor About Rules

Military Jokes and Humor About RulesMilitary Jokes and Humor About RulesJoking within the military branches of service is as old as this country itself.Each branch of service as well as different MOS or rating have different rules and jokes made about them.Here are a few classics The reason the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines bicker amongst themselves is that they dont speak the same language. For instance, Take the simple phrase secure the building. The Army will post guards around the place. The Navy will turn out the lights and lock the doors. The Marines will kill everybody inside and set up a headquarters. The Air Force will take out a 5 year lease with an option to buy.How the Military Uses the Word Suck. Army InfantryAn Army gruntstands in the rain with a pack on his back, weapon in hand, after having marched 15 miles, and says,This sucks. Army RangerAnArmy Airborne Rangerstands waist deep in the rain with a pack on his back,weapon in hand, after having jumped from an airpla ne and marched 30 miles,and says with a smile,This sucks just fineArmy Special ForcesASpecial Forces soldierlies in the mud, pack on his back,weapon in hand, after swimming to shore, crawling through a swamp andmarching at night past the enemy positions,says with a grin, while biting the head of a snakeThis really sucks, I wish it could suck more.....Air ForceAnAir Force Pilotflying over the battlefield, the rain is pouring down,looks down at the soldiers below and saysSure sucks down thereNavyA Naval Officer, sips his coffee, eats a donut on the bridge of the ship as it rains outside looks to the shore and saysSure does suck over there.Air Force OfficerAnAir Force officersits in an easy chair in his air conditioned,carpeted BOQ room and says to his friend,Man.. Cables out This sucksU.S. Marine Corps Rules 1. Be courteous to everyone, friendly to no one.2. Decide to be aggressive enough, quickly enough.3. Have a plan.4. Have a back-up plan, because the first one probably wont work.5 . Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.6. Do notlage attend a gunfight with a handgun whose caliber does not start with a 4.7. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life is expensive.8. Move away from your attacker. Distance is your friend. (Lateral diagonal preferred.)9. Use cover or concealment as much as possible.10. Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours.11. Always cheat always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.12. In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or tactics. They will only remember who lived.13. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating your intention to shoot.14. There are some assholes in the world that just need to be shot.15. Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet. 16. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon. The last three rules are courtesy of General Mattis. Navy SEALS Rules 1. Look very cool in sunglass es.2. Kill every living thing within view.3. Adjust Speedo.4. Check hair in mirror. Ten rules to live by (From Admiral Bill McCraven) Start your day with a task completedYou cannot go it aloneOnly the size of your heart mattersLife is not fair, drive on.Failure can make you strongerYou must dare greatlyStand up to bulliesRise to the occasionGive people hopeNever, ever quit U.S. Army Rangers Rules 1. Walk in 50 miles wearing 75 pound rucksack while starving.2. Locate individuals requiring killing.3. Request permission via radio from Higher to perform killing.4. Curse bitterly when mission is aborted.5. Walk out 50 miles wearing a 75 pound rucksack while starving. U.S. Army Rules 1. Select a new beret to wear.2. Sew patches on right shoulder.3. Change the color of beret you decide to wear. U.S. Army Special Forces Rules1. Always look cool.2. Always know where you are.3. If you do not know where you are - look cool. US Air Force Rules 1. Have a cocktail.2. Adjust temperature on air-c onditioner.3. See whats on HBO.4. Ask what is a gunfight?5. Request more funding from Congress with a killer Power Point presentation.6. Wine dine key Congressmen, invite DOD defense industry executives.7. Receive funding, set up new command and assemble assets.8. Declare the assets strategic and never deploy them operationally.9. Hurry to make 1345 tee-time. US Navy Rules 1. Go to Sea.2. Drink Coffee.4. Deploy the Marines.

Energy Storage Smooths the Duck Curve

Energy Storage Smooths the Duck Curve Energy Storage Smooths the Duck Curve Energy Storage Smooths the Duck CurveThe stability of the electric grid affects millions of residential and business customers. One blipamounting to just secondscan interrupt critical systems across a city or an entire region.Maintaining grid stability is a challenge as utilities rush to add renewable power to their generating portfolio. The business case for renewables is undeniable as prices for wind turbines and solar panels keep dropping and the costs of installation go down, renewable electricity becomes some of the cheapest power available. But the inherently inconsistent nature of solar and wind energy has grid operators looking for new ways to seamlessly integrate their output into the system.Dont Miss June 2018 Energy Special ReportThis challenge is being faced around the world, and in the U.S. it is playing out initially in California. A law passed by the California legislature in 2015 mandated util ities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase the capacity of renewable projects. In response, the California Independent System Operator, CAISO, began landseeing solar power provide an increasing share of electricity in the middle of sunny days. By 300 PM each day, however, the sun begins to sink toward the horizon and the power provided by the states solar projects also starts to fall offand this loss in power happens just as daily electricity demand starts to rise.To meet that demand, California utilities figured they would turn to natural gas-fired peaking plants that could ramp up quickly. Southern California Edison, one of the states three major electric utilities, owns five such peaking plants.In 2015, however, a massive leak of natural gas from underground storage wells at Aliso Canyon threw that strategy into question. The leakthe worst in U.S. historythreatened the reliability of fuel for those gas-fired peaking plants, and the California Public Utilities Commissio n ordered SCE to quickly build an energy storage project to mitigate the supply loss.The utility turned to battery storage. In January 2017, utility officials opened two 10-MW battery systems supplied by Tesla at its Mira Loma substation that can store 80 MWh of renewable energy, one of the largest battery storage projects in the country. Today utilities and systems operators are recognizing battery storage as one of a number of effective tools for managing an increasingly interactive electric grid powered by more and more renewable energy projects. These tools will have to respond quickly to the sharply rising demand and must scale so as to add gigawatts of power in as little as an hour.For an industry that had relied on large and lumbering baseload power plants, these sorts of fast and flexible systems may feel like a shaky foundation to support critical energy infrastructure. But the new energy paradigm promises to be cheaper and cleaner than anything that has come before.The Duc k CurveOver the course of a typical weekday, the electrical load follows a regular pattern. After a lull in the middle of the night, demand for electricity ramps up between 500 am and 900 am. From then, demand often stays fairly constant until the late afternoon or early evening, when residential lighting and air conditioning overlaps with the last few hours of the business day. The load only begins to decline around 900 PM as stores close and early risers head to bed. (The load curve changes on the weekend and over the course of the year, with August seeing the highest peak demand and April the lowest.)Traditionally, the rise and fall of the load welches met via a combination of baseload power generation from coalfired or nuclear power plants and nimble peaking plants or dispatchable power from hydroelectric dams. But the addition of wind and solar power to the energy mix has altered the calculus. Wind, for instance, often blows fruchtwein steadily in the middle of the night when d emand is at its lowest. In regions where there are a large number of wind farms, deliverable wind power can at times be greater than the total demand.Solar power can be more predictable than windon sunny days, the sun shines most strongly in the middle of the daybut it creates its own challenges to the load curve. Solar power generation ramps up in the morning and stays constant until mid-afternoon before fading for the last few hours before sunset. Unfortunately, that diminishing power supply corresponds with the rising load in the late afternoon, meaning the net loadthe difference between electricity demand and the portion met by solar powerrises even faster than the actual load. That means peaking power has to be added, and fast.Back in 2008, researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory traced out the net load curve as it responded to more and more solar power being added to the grid. One wag noted that in time the curve looked like the back of a duck high like the tai l in the morning, sagging down in midday, then sharply up along the neck in the late afternoon and only rounding over the top of the head and bill in the evening. From that point on, that net load profile was referred to as the duck curve.In California, the middle is sagging ever deeper and the neck is growing even steeper as the state leads the way in mandating more renewables. By 2030 renewables must account for 50 percent of each of the states large investor-owned utilities generation portfolio.Those are aggressive renewable goals, said Vibhu Kaushik, SCE director of grid technology and modernization. Renewables have a lot of intermittency in them. Batteries can change momentarily to balance and maintain reliability. It is not the only thing, but storage for integration will be a big chunk of flattening the curve.While the utilities are required to increase their mix of renewables, CAISO manages the grid and is responsible for integrating that power into the states grid. At prese nt, the system now comprises just under 30 percent of renewable sources. Of that, 48 percent is generated by solar power.Our job is to maintain reliability and renewables are just one parte, said Peter Klauer, CAISO senior advisor for smart grid technology. We dont favor one technology over another. But there is a lot of solar generation hitting the grid and that presents an operating challenge to balance with other resources.CAISO looks at many ways to find the highest value of its assets at the lowest cost. Klauer notes battery storage is just one way to do that. Shipping excess energy outside of the grid to neighboring states and connections is more effective.Curtailing demand from renewables also is an option, and has been CAISOs most effective tool for managing oversupply. But that results in the state not using all of the renewable energy it could be generating.According to CAISO data, in 2016 the system operator was forced to curtail more than 308,000 MWh of renewables, up fr om 187,000 MWh the year before. Most of that came in the form of economic curtailments During times of oversupply, the bulk energy market competitively selects the lowest-cost power sources. Renewables can bid into the system in a way to reduce production when prices start to fall and CAISOs market optimization software automatically adjusts supply with demand.Curtailing renewables runs counter to the states economic and environmental goals, notes Klauer. As costs for lithium ion batteries come down, battery storage is helpful, and can alleviate the rush of solar during the day, he said.The whole energy world is shifting, noted Mark Frigo, vice president of energy storage North America at E.ON Climate and Renewables North America, part of global energy developer E.ON. The company has 2,700 MW of renewable projects in the U.S. One factor is cost-effective renewables. But the increasing electrification requires a high quality of electricity and a decentralized demand-response system t o deliver. Things are much more complex than ever before. Thats where battery storage can come into play.Battery storage can solve several simultaneous problems, from maintaining grid stability to deferred transmission and distribution. It provides both supply and load, although batteries are limited in how long they can produce power.Operating batteries is not as simple as flipping the switch. It requires utilities to buy electricity in advance to charge the batteries, and at a low price so that the value of discharge is greater than the value of charging.SCEs emergency 10-MW project has supplied power every day since being commissioned, the utility reports. It now has 400 MW of storage in its portfolio mix, including long-running pumped-storage hydroelectric plants. But in an innovative twist, it also is using batteries to supplement gas-fired peaking plants and respond to the states frequency regulation market.Peakers are linked to the frequency regulation market, but because the y are nonspinning, they can take as long as 10 minutes to go online.Adding batteries that can react immediately while the gas turbines are starting makes the entire unit eligible for spinning reserve statusthat is, capacity immediately available to the grid and thus more valuable.Last year, SCE partnered with GE and Wellhead Power Solutions to install an 11-MW, 4.3-MWh battery at two substations, pairing them with a 50-MW gas-fired peaking plant. The utility calls the Hybrid Enhanced Gas Turbine the worlds first low-emission hybrid battery storage system to be fitted with a gas-fired peaker.These relatively small batteries unlock a lot of value with existing plants, Kaushik said. The batteries are always synched to the grid and provide power at a moments notice until the peaker comes on line.Over the 40-year life of the plant the batteries are also projected to reduce operating costs for the turbines by 60 percent.There is a lot to like about battery storage, Kaushik said. For a sma ll capital investment, you can add value to the grid and so much more, he said. They are modular, easily stacked. It is a game-changing technology.And batteries are getting cheaper. A recent analysis by Lazard pegs the cost of lithium ion batteries used for peaker replacement between $282 to $347 per MWh, with costs projected to drop by 36 percent over the next five years.Those declining costs will entice more utilities and systems operators to add installed battery capacity, though Kaushik sees more value in hybrid applications, except in locations where congestion pricing on the grid is high.In Gaildorf, Germany, about 65 km northeast of Stuttgart, a private developer is using another hybrid concept, pairing a wind-power station with pumped-storage hydroelectricity. Max Bgl Wind AG has built four 12 MW wind turbines atop 40 m tall concrete tanks on top of 200 m high hills. The tanks will eventually serve as the upper reservoir for the pumped hydro power plant, holding enough water to produce 70 MWh of electricity with a peak output of 16 MW. When completed later this year, the storage component will have a response time within 30 seconds.Pumped storage is a proven technology and this has a design life of about 50 years, said Susanne Kleineheismann of Max Bgl Wind. Batteries, she points out, must be replaced after about eight to 10 years. The company will not release project costs, reportedly at $81 million, but Kleineheismann says capital costs for what the firm calls a water battery will be 300 to 400 Euros per kWh.Pumped hydro is not an option at sea level, so for offshore wind projects, electrochemical batteries still make sense. In March, Bay State Wind announced a partnership with NEC Energy Solutions to add 55 MW and 110 MWh of battery storage to a planned 800-MW offshore wind farm 15 miles off of Marthas Vineyard, Mass. Bay State claims the combination will help reduce Massachusetts winter electricity prices by some $158 million per year. In the U.K., Danish power company rsted said it will install a 2-MW battery to provide frequency regulation at its offshore 90-MW Burbo Bank wind farm. And the worlds first floating wind farm, Norwegian energy giant Statoils 30-MW Hywind complex, will be fitted with a 1.3 MWh battery system.In a show of the flexibility and potential of battery storage, the electric car company Tesla installed a 100-MW station in South Australia last year in the wake of widespread outages, after a bet by Teslas Elon Musk that the firm could have the station built and operational within 100 days. The station can respond to power outages within 140 ms and competes with natural-gas plants for peaking power and frequency regulation services. Grid operator Australian Energy Market Operator reports lower prices being bid into the system since the battery plants startup.Rules and RegulationsAnother way to smooth out the duck curve is to increase demand during the day, instead of tossing out the excess renewable energy. SCE, as part of its plan to meet Californias energy and environmental mandates, thinks much of that wasted energy can be deflected to charging stations as electric vehicles gain market share.In Columbia, Mo., Columbia Power Light Co. last year started to pay higher rebates for solar arrays facing west rather than south. The move is an effort to bring solar production more in line with peak demand, as west-facing solar panels produce more power later in the day when demand picks up.Batteries and storage now are getting a boost from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. In January it approved an order directing operators of wholesale markets to devise market rules for energy storage in wholesale, capacity and ancillary services. The rules, scheduled to be developed and implemented in two years, should codify how energy storage can be applied across the country, establishing market-driven parameters. That will change how the market has developed until now, driven by state regulat ory demands. California, New York, and Massachusetts are already ahead of the ruling, and Texas is following suit.Texas does not yet have Californias duck curve, but E.ONs Frigo says most parts of the country will soon face the challenge of integrating renewable power. The renewable train has left the station, Frigo said. Well see much greater numbers of renewables on the grid. Fossils will be retired. But that brings challenges of intermittency so you will see the duck curve elsewhere. Heres where energy storage plays as a good solution. 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Shortcuts to How to Include Linkedin on Resume That Only the Pros Know

Shortcuts to How to Include Linkedin on Resume That Only the Pros Know Employers care a lot more about your successes, and the way it is possible to mirror them at their company. Likewise if youre changing career and will need to compose an entry-level resume for a new industry, internships can help you to get the break you require, and they need to be among the focal points on your resume. Federal jobs often need you to have experience in a special type of work for some period of time. Employers want to understand that youre reachable at any moment, not just when youre at home. They need to know what youve done to contribute to the growth of your department, team, and company to determine whether your strengths align with the needs and responsibilities of their company and the job opening, Nicolai says. Its more important to employers you have the appropriate transferable abilities and you will fit nicely in their team. Most employers are very picky when it concerns the colle ction of employees for a work opening. The Definitive Strategy for How to Include Linkedin on Resume It is critical that you pepper the proper keywords throughout your profile. To include things like the utmost quantity of keywords, you should fill up each part of your profile. Dont neglect to update your profiles as needed to make aya that it stays current. Your profile should incorporate a couple of crowd-pleaser things which will interest a broader audience. At the same time that you may excel at the technical facets of your job, its imperative that you display good people skills and have the ability to communicate well. It is possible to access insights, knowledge and assorted job opportunities. All work experience does not have to be listed if it doesnt deal with the skills required for the career change. Your activity on social networking impacts whether youll get work. A favorite assumption that experiencing job satisfaction and a prosperous career needs to be underp inned by a well-rounded suite of tangible advantages, no longer is true for a number of us. No matter your field, most careers need consistent, usually constant, interaction with different people. After youve decided where to set your language skills, your next task is to establish how to describe them. In case it demonstrates you have the necessary skills and experience for work, it is going to offer you a huge benefit. Or all you have to do is click the word Profile itself. Freelance work ought to be included as a boost to your resume, and is less valuable if youre doing work that doesnt relate to your field or wouldnt lead to a reference. Offering to give a recommendation for one more individual may inspire them to return the favor. Writing a resume can be an intimidating task, especially in case you dont know the best places to get started. A simple resume template is going to be your very best bet. Nowadays you know why utilizing the default current-job Headline is n ot a great idea By selecting a template, you dont need to be worried about the format itself. The appropriate format ought to be there along with the style of writing. Your LinkedIn profile is among the very first places people will land when theyre searching for information about you and your business. When it can be useful for LinkedIn contacts to understand when to send you a birthday wish, you do not have to incorporate any personal info, including your age or birthday, on your resume. Including a web-adresse to a terrible LinkedIn profile will do more damage than good. The reply is it is dependent on your LinkedIn profile and resume. A properly executed social media profile on LinkedIn is a significant job-search tool which increases your visibility, but it doesnt guarantee that youll be viewed, or seen by the folks with the authority and the urge to seek the services of a professional like you. One of the absolute most important components of LinkedIn is your profile. No matter the industry is that youre interested in, mention it in your LinkedIn profile. Rather, it is a strategic tool for marketing your personal brand. There are scores and scores of possible skills to look at using. The easy answer is that you ought to consist of freelance work on your resume. Whether youre looking for your very first job or seeking to earn a career change, the approach starts with your resume. When it has to do with landing the data science job that you dream about, you merely get one opportunity to produce a first impression. Tailor each work description to the one that youre applying for. You might have heard that employers compare resumes and LinkedIn profiles, and youre probably wondering why and what they want. When you would like to land that ideal job then you ought to have a stellar resume. If youre actively pursuing work, I would only put information applicable to the job that you are looking for. A hiring manager or recruiter will hunt for those who possess the skills they want in a work candidate. You can have different resumes for various jobs you would like to pursue, and you are able to send such carefully customized resumes right to the headhunters, company recruiters, and hiring mangers you most want to speak to. Recruiters utilize Boolean searches to seek out applicants. Show the recruiters youre worth what they are ready to pay.

The Power of an Internship

The Power of an Internship An interesting infographic welches recently sent to my inbox. Created by WhoIsHostingThis, the Do Interns Secretly Run the Worlds Largest Tech Companies? infographic details how, unlike in past times, leading tech companies recognize interns as the future of their companies. The infographic begins supporting this claim by offering 16 examples of people who started out as interns and ultimately became CEOs. A few interesting examples includeSteve Jobs The infographic explains that Jobs landed his first gig at age 12 on the Hewlett-Packard lineassembling frequency counters after he called President Bill Hewlett himself.Ursula Burns At age 22, Burns worked for Xerox as a mechanical engineering summer intern. Today, not only is she the companys CEO, but the first black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company.Andrea Jung Jung worked as a summer intern for Bloomingdales, and now i s the CEO of Avon Products, a multi-billion dollar business.Steven Spielberg Who hasnt watched one of this mans films? At age 17, the infographic explains how Spielberg landed an internship with Universal Studios purchasing department. After convincing one of the studios executives to watch one of his early films, they signed Spielberg to a 7-year contract.Anderson Cooper The popular journalist and TV personality interned for the CIA during his sophomore and junior summers at Yale.Oprah Winfrey Winfrey was an intern at a Nashville CBS affiliateand the rest is herstory.The infographic also offers some average American statistics when it comes to how people benefit from completing an internship. It references a National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) study, which revealed that 63 percent of paid interns received at least one job offer in 2012 compared to 36 percent of graduates who didnt have any experience. The NACE study also found that 75 percent of employees who were hired out of internships were retained after one year compared to 60 percent for those who didnt.And employers favoring students with internship experience is no recent trend either. According to this 2012 USA News World Report article, Degrees Are Great, but Internships Make a Difference, 74 percent of Longwood Universitys 2008 graduating class received jobs within six months of graduation, this was despite, the article states, the fact that students were thrust into one of the worst job markets on record.The Virginia University requires an internship for all graduates. The articles author also writes, University officials and employers almost universally maintain that partaking in an internshipor several, which sets a student apart from his or her peers even morebefore graduation is integral to finding meaningful employment in todays seemingly impenetrable job market.I couldnt agree with this idea more there is absolute power behind completing an internship.I graduated from a co llege preparatory high school, which required all seniors to complete an internship to graduate. At 17, I received my first internship experience as I worked a couple hours each week for an interior designer (my career aspirations at the time).Then, throughout college, I completed seven consecutive internships before being offered my first full-time position post-graduation. Although I started small interning (for free) at local magazines and womens organizations, these experiences built up my resume, opening the door for many othermore predominate and paidopportunities. And as I interviewed for each internship, the hiring managers universally were impressed with one thing The fact that along with my school workload, I had also gained real-world experience by working in positions relevant to my major.I honestly dont believe I would have a full-time job or the opportunities I have today had I not gained hands-on experience via internships.When I received the infographic below and loo ked at all the celebrity examples of interns to CEOs, I became inspired. I wholeheartedly believe that internships offer invaluable experiences from the people you meet, the different scenarios youre able to work in and the skills that you gain. And to see real-life examples of people, especially prominent individuals, who started as interns and are now successful businessmen and women is motivational. Not to mention that there are countless other examples of success stories, even if they have not attained celebrity status like those listed in the infographic.So, just to drive this point home to any current students, any job seeker or any employee looking to change fields Dont overlook the power behind internships. Completing internships will offer practical, hands-on experience that will give you the skills a classroom and exams simple cannot. And if youre a job seeker or currently employed but hoping to transition to a new field, starting at an internship is also a great way to ge t your foot in the door and gain some experience in a field/role where you may lack the credentials.

68A Biomedical Equipment Specialist Job Description

68A Biomedical Equipment Specialist Job Description68A Biomedical Equipment Specialist Job DescriptionAn Army Biomedical Equipment Specialist takes care of all the medical equipment used by medical personnel such as doctors and nurses. The equipment ranges from mechanical and hydraulic to electronic and digital. From scalpels to catheters, whatever tools Army medical personnel use, its almost certainly a Biomedequipment specialist, which is military occupational specialty (MOS) 68A, has handled them. Though not usually involved directly in combat situations, the behind-the-scenes work these soldiers do is critical to the care and health of fellow soldiers who need medical procedures. Duties of MOS 68A Soldiers in this job performpreventive maintenance checks and services all medical equipment, including lubricating, adjusting and cleaning. This also includes troubleshooting and checking equipment for any malfunctions or defects, and submitting reports about all equipment inspecte d. MOS 68A also is responsible for installing medical equipment, and they supervise and advise subordinate personnel. Training for MOS 68A Job training for a medical equipment technician is the usual ten weeks of Basic Combat Training (aka boot camp) followed by 41 weeks of Advanced Individual Training (AIT), including practice in repairing and replacing equipment parts. Soldiers in this MOS will divide their time between real-world experience in the field and classroom instruction, with the AIT to take distribution policy at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. The AIT for this job is a bit longer than some others in this field, but its important that soldiers who want to be medical equipment technicians are trained in the latest principles and protocols for proper handling and maintenance of the tools of the trade. The training will include instruction in the principles of electronics, theuse and maintenance of electrical and electronic test equipment, and equipment repair exercises. Qualifying for MOS 68A Soldiers who wish to pursue an Army career as a medical equipment technician need a score of 107 in the electronics (EL) aptitude area of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) tests. Theres no Department of Defense security clearance required for MOS 68A,but anormal color vision is necessary (colorblindness will be disqualifying). Civilian OccupationsSimilarto MOS 68A There are some parts of this job that are specific to the military, but several civilian career paths may be open to you thanks to the training youll receive. You may be able to pursue work as a surgical technician, once youve obtained the necessary license for your area. Youre likely qualified to work as a supervisor of mechanics or other personnel who work with tools, or as a medical equipment repairer.

using a third-person bio instead of a resume

using a third-person bio instead of a resume using a third-person bio instead of a resume Occasionally someone sends me a bio instead of a resume. By that, I mean a narrative of their career, written in the third person. (Am I explaining this right? Like a magazine profile, without the colorful tidbits. Or, well, like an obituary.)Dont do it.Its odd.Maybe celebrities do this, but Im unnerved to see you, a regular person, talking about yourself in the third-person, and I wonder why you chose to jettison a regular resume in favor of this weird profile/bio.Whats wrong with a regular old resume format?

Sick of Re-Entering Your Info After Uploading a Resume Heres Why Companies Do It

Sick of Re-Entering Your Info After Uploading a Resume Heres Why Companies Do It Sick of Re-Entering Your Info After Uploading a Resume Heres Why Companies Do It Youve spent an hour or more painstakingly tailoring your resume. You researched the company, learned everything you could about the role, and perfectly optimized your resume for the job description. You click Apply Now and upload your resume. Done, right? Not so fast Now re-enter your personenname and contact information. Re-enter every single job title, employment date, and qualification from your work history. Re-enter your education info. Answer a questionnaire while youre at it.Youve now sunk an entire evening into a single job application and are wondering why the resume was necessary at all. Why are hiring companies torturing applicants like this?Why Companies Make You Re-Enter Resume InformationBelieve it or not, one of the reasons online applications are set up this way for the applicants benefit.Some applicant track ing systems (ATS)automatically parse your uploaded resume into a digital candidate profile that can be searched or filtered by recruiters. Unfortunately, systems that rely on parsing tend to let highly qualified candidates slip through the cracks. For example, if yourresume isnt ATS-friendly, critical information might not be parsed correctly. This could cause you to be overlooked when a recruiter runs a keyword search for a skill that is on your resume.Read more What is an applicant tracking system?When a company configures their ATS to receive your resume then ask for all that same information via text input fields, theyre avoiding some of the problems associated with resume parsing. The resume you uploaded will be used if a recruiter wants to give it a once-over or print it out. The information you manually input into the system will be used for searches and other ranking algorithms.In some cases, this redundancy may simply be the result of a poorly configured recruitment process or a necessity of corporate process and bureaucracy. Nevertheless, assuming that its intentional and taking text fields seriously could provide a big boost to your application.Do Not Write binnensee ResumeAfter youve already invested so much time into creating the perfect resume, re-entering all the info might seem like a bridge too far. Its easy to fall into see resume mode.Via TwitterJust know that see resume and similar responses could be death to your application. By punting these fields, youre counting on a recruiter to manually sift through all their (potentially hundreds of) applicants, click on yours, and decide to read your upload.Thats not typically how recruiters operate. Often, they search for skills and keywords to narrow down their applicant pool before looking at any resumes. Unless they search for see resume, youre out of luck.Take Text Fields SeriouslyAt a bare minimum, paste in the information from your optimized resume. Get instant optimization tips and keywords by using the form below.You might also gain an advantage over other applicants by beefing up application text fields beyond whats in your resume. If you were struggling to fit all your qualifications or resume keywords onto a single-page resume, use these supplemental sections to expand upon your experience. This could help you come up for additional search terms.????Challenge AcceptedRemember, if an application feels arduous or overwhelming to you, other applicants are feeling the same way. Many will have abandoned their application and others might be phoning it in with see resume responses. Giving your full attention to redundant fields can be enough to get your resume to the top of the stack.Learn more about ATSWhat is an Applicant Tracking System?Taleo 4 Ways the Most Popular ATS Ranks Your Resume8 ATS Resume Secrets You Need to KnowJobscan Learning Center Applicant Tracking Systems