How to Stay Current in Tech - The Muse

How to Stay Current in Tech - The MuseHow to Stay Current in Tech Working in tech means being at the forefront of new trends, having massive opportunity for advancement, and (lets be honest) often commanding a pretty great salary. But staying at yur best in tech means constantly chasing moving targets. After all, coding languages and development environments change about as quickly as the seasonal drink selection at your local coffee shop. So how do you make sure you stay relevant and keep up? One of our favorite ways is to conduct a Personal 360 review prior to a more gestaltal company review. That way, youre on top of any feedback (positive or constructive) and can start to implement before your companys annual performance review.In short, this tactic is a way to gather feedback from colleagues, friends, and maybe even your family. You provide a list of questions, aggregate their responses, and then learn a ton about what youre great at- and where youve got room to improve. When yo ure done, youll have insight into the skills you need to learn, those you should hone, and how you can improve as a professional and co-worker.If youre anxious about the idea of another review, rest assured that this process is very different than a traditional performance evaluation. Want to learn more? Heres how a Personal 360 can keep you competitive in tech and prepare you for your next big move.Who to Ask360 reviews are becoming common within startups and major companies alike, so you might have already received one. But even if you have, a Personal 360 can shed additional light into how you can grow- especially if you tailor it to focus on gearing up for a new role.The first step is identifying people youd love feedback from. Your boss or other superiors are great people to tap. Your peers at the office are another no-brainer- they see how you interact with others on a daily basis. Definitely include anyone you work closely with whos one to two steps ahead of where you want to be now or who might have good insight on your technical skills. (Just, uh, be careful not to broadcast your desire to move on. Try couching it in terms like professional development and being a better asset to the company.) You can even consider adding a few friends or family members into the mix. These should be close contacts who know you well, not just acquaintances. And while, no, they might not be able to give feedback about your coding abilities or working style, theyll likely have insight into things like your responsiveness, sensitivity, and openness to change. How to AskOnce youve identified 10-15 respondents, its time to build the survey itself. (We love Google Forms, which are easy to use, dont cost a thing, and can be totally anonymous.) Start with questions about your tech skills- both the skills, languages, and software programs you use every day, as well as those you may need to work on. Then, focus on soft skills, things like collaboration, responsiveness and leader ship qualities. For these types of skills, consider offering your respondents the opportunity to rank you on a numbered scale, with one being needs serious improvement and five being Already mastered. Itll be quick and easy for them to score you, as well as give you a high-level overview of your strengths and areas of improvement. Whats equally valuable, though, is asking open-ended qualitative questions to gather broader feedback about your working style and skills. Executive coach Michael Melcher suggests pairing questions to help participants avoid focusing on solely negative or positive feedback, such as Whats my strength? and Whatsnotmy strength? or What career can you see me in? and What career can you definitelynotsee me in?Structuring your questions like this may make it easier for respondents to provide honest feedback without fear of coming across as too harsh.Learn more about New York Life TechnologyOur OfficeSee Their Open Jobs At New York Life TechnologyHow to Send ItWh en youre ready to send the questions to your selected respondents, create an email tailored to each person you send to. For example, tell your co-worker, I really enjoyed working with you on that sales project last month. Im hoping to sharpen my negotiation skills, so would love your input and feedback. I would so appreciate it if you filled out this Google form (its totally anonymous), so that I can see where I still need to grow. Youll likely get the most valuable feedback if you briefly introduce what youre looking to achieve, or the specific areas youre working on. How to Deal With the FeedbackSo, heres the thing about reviews (especially anonymous ones) Youre bound to get compliments, but the feedback might also surprise you, and not in a good way. Keep in mind that critical feedback is the most valuable type you can receive. After all, how will you grow if you dont know where to start? For a Personal 360 to be effective, its critical that you dont become verteidigung or angry. Be open, accepting, and grateful that your boss, colleagues, and friends value you enough to provide constructive feedback.The WrapOnce youve identified the areas in which you can grow, its time for the final step of the review Deciding what youll do with all this information. Take some time to process the feedback, then sit down to set some goals, look into courses or other resources that can help you improve, and put together a personal action plan. Oh, and you can do this more than once, by the way- perhaps annually, or any time youre considering a big move. Hone your skills, never stop improving, and youre bound to stay ahead of the curve.

Strategies to Deal With Chronic Interrupters

Strategies to Deal With Chronic InterruptersStrategies to Deal With Chronic Interrupters Getting interrupted is no fun. Whether its at work or with a friend or family member, being the interruptee can make you feel disrespected and unheard. The good news there are strategies for dealing with interrupters.First, approach the situation differently based on the context and kind of interrupting. Here are some examplesSome of these interruptions are worse than others, and theres a reason. In fact, there are deeply ingrained sociological and linguistic factors explaining why some people are more likely to get interrupted than others.According to studies by linguists, sociologists, psychologists and others (in other words, there have been a lot of studies), people most likely to be interrupted are women, minorities and people considered lower on the totem pole. White, heterosexual men are the most frequent interrupters, and theres a biological reason and a social reason for that.Heres the biology according to linguistics research , men tend to think of a conversation as a competition the more you say, the better you played the game. But women treat conversations as collaboration if everybody talks, everybody wins.Its not universally true that white men go around interrupting everybody else. But those linguistics studies were getting at something, which brings us to the social reason people who belong to a social group thats used to having power might act with an unconscious bias . Thats where the word mansplaining comes from. Not all men do it, but then, not all men who do it realize theyre doing it.Lets get something straight an interrupter isnt necessarily showing disrespect or dismissal. But if someone thinks, even subconsciously, that its okay to interrupt someone else, that can underline a difference in status that can make the interruptee seem less assertive, less in control, and therefore less likely to get a promotion or other signs of reco gnition.Which tactic you use depends on the person youre talking to and the context of the conversation, so use your best judgment. Whether its a one-time thing or merits a bigger confrontation , here are some ways to get started.There are a few ways to let the interrupter know that they interrupted and get the floor back. Just be careful how you say some of these, because they can come across as passive-aggressive or actually aggressive if you dont watch your tone.If the interruptions keep coming, it might be time to sit down with the interrupter and talk about it. Youll do this differently depending on who the person is.With a boss or someone higher in status In situations where youre not potentially risking your job if you say things wrong, its still important to be polite, and most importantly, not sound like youre blaming or attacking the interrupter.If you have the conversation but the interrupter keeps interrupting, dont despair. Habits die hard. If its someone in the wo rkplace , wait a few weeks, then bring it up again. If its a co-worker youre friendly with, maybe raise an eyebrow when they interrupt, or use the I welches just getting to that line.If you have a friend or family member whos a repeat offender, try making it playful. Keep a tally of interruptions. Ring a bell whenever they interrupt - thatll get their attention. Have a money jar a quarter for every interruption. Why not make some cash from their irritating habit?When Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swifts award acceptance speech, the audience booed him for taking away the limelight. You may not have a portable audience of thousands to follow you around and boo whenever someone interrupts, but now you have some strategies to help you out in the meantime.This article was originally published on Grammarly . It is reprinted with permission.

SEO Your Resume

SEO Your ResumeSEO Your ResumeMake your resume mora findable on sites like Ladders - optimizing your Web site is very different from doing that to your resume.I often get questions about how to optimize resumes for search engines so that they will be easier to find. Most of the people who ask the question are already somewhat aware of a process called Search Engine Optimization and understand that it is related to things called keygenaus. While this is elend exactly wrong, I would like to dispel a few misconceptionsSearch engines are not all alike Google would not find a resume the same way Ladders would, so optimizing your Web site is very different from doing that to your resume.Keywords are just, well, words. There is nothing special about any particular word - it becomes special only by how often it occurs and the company it keeps.This article will explain how to make your resume more findable on sites like Ladders and why that process is very different from the SEO we hear so much about in marketing publications.It is true that Ladders is a search engine just as Google is, but the two products look at documents very differently. No search engine is able to break a document down into segments without a map - just the way you wouldnt know that you were driving from New York to New Jersey unless you had some sort of clue - road signs, landmarks and the like. Similarly, Google knows that news articles and such have titles because documents intended for display on the World Wide Web can carry special tags that instruct a Web browser on what the primary topic of that page is and how it is to be displayed in a browser. Your resume does not have the tags, and hence lacks the map that a search engine needs. So Google would probably see your resume as just one big blob of words. Thats good enough for many kinds of documents, but not for resumes for reasons that I will get to. So, what does Ladders do to read your resume? Ladders has what we call a parser that k nows how to find things without a map and when it finds them it provides these tags and creates a new, search engine-friendly version of your resume.What does all this mean? It means that a resume is more than a blob of words - it is different from a news article or blog or e-commerce site. It has several parts - not just a title and text body. For example, a resume lists jobs and each job has two parts - a title and a description. Most resumes also have an executive summary section providing an overview of skills. The point is that each of those sections carries a different message. Therefore not all words are created equal for the search engine - the words in the titles say something different than the words in other parts of the document. Accordingly, this means something to search engines like Ladders, but not to Google. Words in different parts will be considered differently. In particular, your keywords receive greater or lesser weight depending on where they are.Jack of A ll TradesMany people who actually understand the principle of SEO make a common mistake of not understanding the difference between how general search engines work and how specialized search engines work. The widely held belief is that if you sprinkle common words throughout the resume at least two at a time, everyone will find you - you increase your chances I call this the Jack-of-All-Trades strategy and, surprising as it may seem, it will produce the opposite of the intended effect - nobody will find you. A Jack of All Trades is a very common type of job seeker. This individual has switched industries or radically changed the types of positions held throughout her career. This is not necessarily a career flaw but it is a resume flaw. The resumes that are found fruchtwein often are those that contain the most searched-for keywords in the right places. Thats right - think about what recruiters are looking for in a particular position and then think about searches. If a recruiter is looking for a marketing executive, he is likely to search for a position-level word, such as VP followed by a position word like marketing. The resumes returned toward the top results for such a search are those of seasoned marketing executives who have marketing in recent and previous job titles. Other resumes may have the same number of such words but if they are not in the title, they will not end up on top of the results pages. The only thing key about keywords is what they say about your document relative to everyone elses - and frequency alone in this case is not enough to make you stand out.Its an old-fashioned concept that actually wins the high-tech resume SEO game - show career progression. Pick a particular niche and stick with it This idea seems counterintuitive - especially to the Jack-of-All-Trades - but it works.This does not mean it is wrong to switch industries or try different jobs. Many people choose to have different resumes to account for different exper ience in special areas. If you are a marketing executive but you want to cover all bases and try for that job as an accountant, put together a separate resume documenting all your accounting experience the Jack-of-All-Resumes is the better choice

10 Tips for Keeping It Professional When Job Searching

10 Tips for Keeping It Professional When Job Searching10 Tips for Keeping It Professional When Job SearchingSometimes an bewerbungsinterview can feel more like a conversation with a friend than a professional screening of your candidacy for employment. Maybe you meet your interviewer for a coffee or cocktail. Perhaps he or she is around your age or a friend of a friend. You could interview in a casual office where the colleagues friendly rapport is extended all around. Regardless, its always important to stay professional- elend just during your interviews, but throughout your entire job search experience. From how you communicate with recruiters to how you conduct yourself in interviews, keep in mind that professionalism is always key. 10 Tips for Keeping It Professional When Job Searching Its easy to get too comfortable in a laid-back environment, but its important to stay on top of your game. Here are 10 ways to do just that. Avoid TMI. Dont be tempted to share TMI- too much i nformation- even if your interviewer does. Say youre in an early Monday morning interview, and your interviewer complains of a rough weekend and an enduring hangover. In a case like this, its absolutely best to sympathize with I hope you start to feel better soon, instead of empathizing with a Yeah, man, me too. Similarly, dont offer up irrelevant personal information. Your interviewer doesnt need to know about your recent break-up, your newest girlfriend or your fight with your roommates. Dont be a creep If youre going to stalk your potential boss or interviewer online, do it carefully. Dont connect with his or her personal profile on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, and dont like anything. Engage professionally on LinkedIn instead, or connect with the companys online profiles.Use proper grammar, not acronyms. When youre communicating with potential employers online or in text, use proper grammar, and dont abbreviate. Thank you is a lot more powerful than Thx. Along the same lines, dont use emojis in initial communications, even if youre trying to be nice or funny. Compose professional emails. Even if the person youre corresponding with is super-casual while emailing, you should be the one to keep it professional. Always use appropriate greetings (Dear Ms. Brown or Hi Ms. Brown is preferable to Hey or Whats up) and closings (Thank you, Sincerely, or Best are three go-to options) and make sure your email address is appropriate for the workplace.Develop a personal rapport, but dont go too far. Its important to develop a rapport with potential bosses and coworkers. Youre more likely to be hired if your interviewer likes you as a person. But, be professional in how you attain this personal rapport. Its fine to bond with some laughter or chatting about positive, work-appropriate and non-controversial topics, but, avoid the Three Ps, which are politics, profanity, and poking fun. You never know who you might accidentally offend. Mind your social media presence. If y oure sharing your social media profiles with recruiters or your online presence is viewable to the public, keep it clean. Be mindful of your usernames, what youre posting, what youre tagged in, what you like or share, and what profile picture you use. Employers notice everything.Use appropriate channels of communication. Only reach out to employers via methods they suggest. If they say dont call, dont call.If they say dont come in and drop your resume off, dont come in and drop your resume off.Along the same lines, even if you dig up a personal email address, social media profile, cell phone number or address, mind your boundaries and only contact them via approved channels. Act appropriately at a cafe, bar or restaurant interview. Treat an interview over food or drink in the same way you would treat an interview in an office. Listen carefully, pay attention to your interviewer and how you answer questions and dont overindulge on alcohol. Be mindful of how you interact with others a round you while in the presence of your interviewer. Dont be rude to your server or hit on the waitress, for example.Dont make jokes on your cover letter or resume. While you can express your personal sense of humor to an extent, dont go too far making jokes on your cover letter or resume. Listing Netflix bingeing as a hobby or beer drinking as a skill wont get you the job. Dont be a slob. Even when the company is casual and theres no dress code anywhere in sight, take it up a notch or two when youre interviewing. You dont need to (and shouldnt) wear a suit in a dressed-down workplace, but do dress like you want the job and not like youre stopping by between running errands and going to the gym. Casual Doesnt Mean Unprofessional Keep in mind that casual, as many workplaces are, doesnt mean unprofessional. Thats especially true when youre job searching. After you get the job, you can tailor your communications and behavior to fit the job and your new employer.In the interim, keep ing it professional is the best way to go.

Free Resume Templates for Word Fundamentals Explained

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Dirty Facts About Microsoft Word Resume Templates Exposed

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How Hiring a Career Coach Can Get Your Work Life on Track

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Learn How to Find a Music Manager to Manage Your Band

Learn How to Find a Music Manager to Manage Your BandLearn How to Find a Music Manager to Manage Your BandSo, youve decided you need a formation manager to help you out. Now what? Finding an artist manager is notlage the hard part its finding a good band manager that can be the real challenge. How do you find a music manager? Heres what you need to know. Decide If You Need One Right Now Before you pass go, ask yourself this question do you really need a manager right now? A good manager can be a vital part of your music career, but they dont come for free. When youre just getting started, management may not be the best use of your cash. Before you go manager hunting, make aya you understand what they do and why you might need one. These articles will help Enlisting Your Friends What do you need a manager to do for you? 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If you are at the point where you need a professional manager, then you are at the point where you know people who can make these recommendations. Appro ach Your Short List Getting a manager interested in working with you is much like approaching a label, agent or promoter. Be ready to provide your management prospects with Your goal is to provide your prospective manager with a good idea about the kind of music you make and how far along youve come in your career on your own. Music samples - not your whole catalog, just a few of your best songs that show off your sound and your versatility. You can treat this sample much like you would a demo you would send to a label.BiographyPress clippings, if you have any Follow Up Now, managers get inundated with pitches from musicians, so dont go calling them every hour, on the hour, the day after you send in your info. Give them a week or two, and if you havent heard anything, follow up. Ask if they have received the package and if they need any more info. It is ok to follow up at respectable intervals until you get an answer (or the impression that youre not going to get an answer, whi ch may happen sometimes). Just try not to come on too strong and be koranvers to respect the fact this person is probably busy. Patience is your friend at this stage in the operation. Meet and Discuss Lets say you send a package to a manager who is interested in working with you. Your next step is to have a meeting with the manager-to-be to discuss your goals and how they would be able to help you reach them. You also need to know the details of the financial arrangement the manager is seeking. In addition to being sure that this manager is on the saatkorn page with you in terms of direction, you need to be sure that there is some kind of chemistry between you all. You may be spending a lot of time with your manager, and you all need to be able to have open and honest communication. Sign a Contract For your sake and for the sake of the manager, you should never enter into any sort of management deal without a contract. If youre working with a friend and you dont have the mo ney for a lawyer, its ok to work on a contract together that makes everyone happy. If youre working with a manager with more experience and they hand you a complex contract, get legal advice. Never, ever, ever sign a contract you dont understand, and never, ever, ever work with a manager without a contract. Tips and Things to Know If possible, when you get management recommendations from people, get them to make an introduction for you. Things will be a lot easier if you dont have to cold call people. It is important to have the same sort of music industry philosophy as your manager. If your manager is more experienced in the business than you, then you will be able to learn a lot from them. However, if, for instance, youre seeking chart music stardom and theyre committed to the indie music scene, or vice versa, then the relationship is not going to work for either of you. Remember that you are choosing a manager while they are choosing you. You dont have to jump on board with t he first manager that comes along if youre not sure that it will work. A manager is almost like a member of your band - the best management relationships click on the professional AND personal level. Need help figuring out if you and your potential manager see eye to eye? Check out these questions to ask a manager. Before you approach managers, have a good idea of what you need from them. If youre trying to land a deal, then a manager who has lots of contacts at labels is a good choice for you. If you have a deal on the table and need someone to walk you through negotiations, then a manager with that sort of experience should be high on your list. Managers have lots of different styles, and some are more hands-on than others. Before you try to hire someone, make sure you have an idea of the job description. When youre putting together information for potential managers, dont try to create a package that you think gives the right answers. Yes, you do want to put your best foot forwar d. However, if, for instance, youre a folk band and youre approaching a hip-hop manager, dont go out and record some verses for your demo. You need a manager who gets what youre doingand the only way to find someone like that is to give them an honest representation of your work. Youll find the right manager. Spinning things to try to match yourself to a particular manager is never a good call. What You Need to Get Started DemoPress KitBio