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Use a Mobile Device for Your Job Search

Mobile technology is rapidly changing how job seekers look for new positions, according to a survey by global talent mobility consulting firm Lee Hecht Harrison.

The results revealed that 90% of job seekers utilize mobile devices to conduct key functions when looking for their next career opportunity. Only one in 10 workers isn’t using mobile applications.

Lee Hecht Harrison surveyed 375 job seekers via an online poll in October 2014 asking, “How do you use a mobile device for your job search?” The results found:

Search for jobs	33%
Research companies	22%
Online networking	20%
Apply for jobs	15%
I don't	10%

“Landing a new position requires more than a great resume – it requires speed, connections and flexibility,” said Greg Simpson, Senior Vice President for the career transition practice at Lee Hecht Harrison. “Mobile technology is profoundly altering the ways job seekers find employers and employers find prospective candidates – enabling companies and job seekers to search smarter, connect faster and hunt anywhere, anytime. Going mobile keeps job seekers connected and facilitates the quick response needed when applying for an open position.” 

   Women, Know Thyself: The most important knowledge is self-knowledge. 

 

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 Everyone you meet these days is overworked and out of time. 

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Wonder Woman's Secrets

Wonder Woman is the most popular female superhero of all time. Created in 1941, “beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, stronger than Hercules and swifter than Mercury,” she was an Amazon who came to America to fight for peace, justice and women’s rights, sacrificing immortality for the love of her rescued pilot Steve Trevor.

Poor Steve was forever begging her to marry him, but she had villains to conquer in America and fascists to combat abroad.  The comic strip author, a professor of history at Harvard, places Wonder Woman squarely in the story of women's rights in America.

Author William Moulton Marston kept his private life secret.  He lived with his wife, Elizabeth Holloway; his lover, Olive Byrne; his four children (two by each woman); and intermittently with another lover, Marjorie Wilkes Huntley.  All were advocates for women's equality, free love and contraception.

Holloway had the freedom to pursue a career.  And Olive, who yearned for a family to ease the loneliness of her mother's abandonment, would raise the children.  Talk about solving women's work-family dilemma!

The threesome lived and worked together, cheerfully blurring the credits of who wrote what among their books, papers and ideas for Wonder Woman.  Holloway was often the only one bringing in a steady income.  But no outsider knew about this arrangement, and the adults kept secrets within the family as well.

In 1972, Ms. magazine published its premier issue, with Wonder Woman on the cover.  She was back.  The rest, as they say, is history.

Source: The Wall Street Journal, October 25, 2014

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Do You Have a Mentor and Personal Coach?

  Women often say they wish they could find a mentor and/or coach.  What exactly do they mean?

A trusted friend, counselor or teacher

A more experienced person with whom they might be paired or matched

Someone who could serve as an example as they advance

Someone who might advise them in their careers, their education or their networks

Women are searching for many different things: trust, experience, a match, an example, and advice.  They want an advocate as well as a guardian angel or protector.  They do not trust very many people within the business setting for several reasons: they are not familiar with it; they may not be comfortable with competition or risk; or they may face undesirable behavior.

There are great debates about how women make it to leadership roles. 

Women entrepreneurs have begun to emerge in significant numbers thanks to the mentoring/coaching of both women and men business leaders.  After spending time in the corporate world, many women choose to open their own businesses so they have more control over their time.

What is mentoring?

Mentors are trusted advisors who draw from their own personal experience to offer guidance. They usually will take a long, industry-wide view to help the individual navigate the business terrain. 

Mentoring can occur naturally, informally or formally. 

It can be a formal part of a program within a professional organization or an informal relationship. 

It can last a day, several weeks, just long enough to help an individual over a “hump,” or it can last several years.  We usually encourage our clients to seek out several mentors over the course of their career. 

Corporate sponsored mentoring is sometimes used to achieve strategic business goals, such as retaining new employees and/or for leadership succession planning. 

A mentor could be a highly visible and experienced company executive advising a rising star. Although a senior manager may be helpful to your career, working with someone from outside your organization, who is not invested in organizational politics, can ensure that conversations, concerns, and issues are kept in strict confidence.  An experienced executive/business coach will also offer an objective view from the outside looking in.

What is coaching?

Unlike most mentors, a coach is less visible, but very much present. 

We sometimes call ourselves invisible partners. Coaches are normally drawn from outside the organization, to provide individual—and, most importantly, confidential—support on personal, career and business matters. 

Coaching is about partnering in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires you to maximize your personal and professional potential. 

The coaching relationship is a strong, resilient, dependable, and safe vehicle in which the need is identified and positive growth can take place. Professional coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help you produce fulfilling results and enhance the quality of your life.  A coach is a listener, sounding board, and awareness-raiser. 

Coaching creates a safe climate for purposeful dialogue. This is why it is important that the coach be from outside the organization. 

Among other things, an Executive/Business Coach will help you learn to: 

Develop your leadership abilities 

Improve interpersonal skills 

Move beyond self-imposed limitations 

Align yourself with corporate objectives 

Manage staff through increased personal effectiveness 

Embrace feedback as an improvement tool 

Bolster your self-determination 

Understand the necessity of good communications 

Key into gender-based behavior 

Improve your decision-making skills 

Develop your team-building know-how 

Utilize proven conflict-resolution techniques 

Take more than one perspective on issues 

Understand the environment in which you work 

Improve your problem-solving abilities 

Develop a flexible management style 

Plan an appropriate approach 

Execute winning business strategies 

Develop a talent pool and create loyalty 

Cultivate a network that helps you and your organization 

Establish priorities and receive exceptional performance reviews 

Balance work and life priorities

Each of us has been given the gift of choice and the power to act. How we do that is up to us. Executive coaches routinely offer their clients a safe and confidential environment in which they can share both their personal and professional concerns.

Sources: Elizabeth Ghaffari: Tapping the Wisdom That Surrounds You: Mentorship and Women

  Barbara A. McEwen: When Doing It All Won't Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women--Workbook Edition (paperback)

 

"When Doing It All Won't Do: A self-coaching guide for career women" by Barbara McEwen & John G. Agno.  

 

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Moms Mean Business

 

Two key reasons for reading "Moms Mean Business" are:

1.  You work--a lot.  In the hope that you will make more money, you continue to work harder and longer than you should.

2.  You don't have time to plan your time.  Planning is great for people who don't have a lot going on.

It was Gloria Steinem who said, “I’ve yet to hear a man ask for advice about how to combine marriage and a career.” 

Aspiring women deserve a solid “heads-up.” 

Women who ascend the corporate ladder are expected to give up, to go up.  This is a critical consideration for woman with children. Whoever first noticed that we get what we wish for was right. We need to make sure that our career goals coincide with our personal goals—and if, at present, they don’t appear to, we should think long and hard about how to make them harmonious. 

Countless mothers of young children have surprised themselves by creating professional opportunities while they’ve been home with children. Others have impressed themselves and others when they demonstrate how their organizational abilities at work translate well on the home front, in locating the right support network and helpers to make both work and home function smoothly.

After spending time in the corporate world, many women choose to open their own businesses so they have more control over their time.

Moms Mean Business is a powerful, portable reference book that helps you create a successful and happy life as a mom entrepreneur.  Enjoy the stories and interviews from the women who have gone before you.  Enjoy the process of figuring out what will work best for you.

When Doing It All Won't Do: A self-coaching guide for career women (Workbook Edition) helps you explore your natural talents, focus on what you do best and how to manage your stress and default behaviors.  You can benefit from getting a better understanding of how your personality impacts others and how, too often, we “get what we tolerate.”   There is no longer need for you to self-sabotage or embrace limiting behaviors.  You can also challenge yourself to change some of your outdated beliefs.   It is not all that difficult.

Sources: Erin Baebler: Moms Mean Business: A Guide to Creating a Successful Company and Happy Life as a Mom Entrepreneur (paperback)

  When Doing It All Won't Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women--Workbook Edition (paperback)

 Women and Time Management (ebook or paperback)