Job Interview Clothes That Kill (Your Chances)

Job Interview Clothes That Kill (Your Chances)Job Interview Clothes That Kill (Your Chances)The right job interview clothes wont seal the deal, but the wrong outfit can sink your chances. Fair or not, first impressions are largely based on appearances, and dressing inappropriately may be the most detrimental mistake job candidates make in interviews. If nothing else, employers expect job seekers to dress professionally.Whats considered the wrong outfit?Robert Half has asked managers that very question. The following examples represent some of the most bizarre job interview attire mistakes weve collected from our surveys of employers over the years A Star Trek T-shirt.A job candidate showed up for an interview in a new suit - with the price tags still hanging from the sleeve.Pajamas with slippers.A catsuit.A Hawaiian shirt and jeans.A candidate came to his interview wearing sunglasses and licking a lollipop. He commented to the hiring manager, This is my style. You can take it or lea ve it.An applicant wore the uniform from his former employer.You may think that all you have to worry about is tripping up over tough job interview questions. But clothes matter, too, and because you never get a second chance to make a first impression, here are five general job interview attire guidelines to consider1. Dress to impressPlay it safe (and smart) by wearing business-appropriate attire. While dress codes have become more relaxed in some accounting firms in recent years, a job interview isnt the appropriate venue to display your eclectic or laid-back sense of style. Even if you think the office has a more casual environment, err on the side of caution and dress a step above what you think is expected. A polished appearance provides instant credibility and tells the interviewer youre a serious candidate.2. Aim for classy and comfortableYes, you want to look the part. But you also want to come across as relaxed as possible. If you purchase new interview attire, wear it a f ew times to break it in before your meeting. When youre uncomfortable, its difficult to exude confidence and concentrate on the questions youre being asked.As soon as youve figured out what NOT to wear, head over to our Accounting and Finance Professionals Career Center. 3. Everything in moderationIts not just about the clothes you don the perfume or cologne you wear also matters. You dont want the most memorable thing about you to be the scent you leave lingering in the office. As such, go light on the fragrances. The same guidelines apply to accessories. While these aspects of your wardrobe can allow you to express your personality, be judicious in your choices. Less is usually more.4. Iron out the detailsEven the nicest, most professional outfit can look sloppy and unattractive when wrinkled. Dont rush the day of your interview. Make sure your clothes are free of wrinkles, stains and lint the night before.5. Bring a backup outfitIf it can go wrong, it will go wrong. As Murphys La w dictates, if youre going to spill an iced milchkaffee in your lap, youre probably going to do it on interview day. Guard against bad luck by bringing another outfit with you if at all possible.Its worth noting that dressing to impress isnt just important in interviews - its critical once youre on the job, too. In a Robert Half survey, 80 percent of the executives said clothing choices affect an employees chances of earning a promotion. How should you dress for a video interview? Check out our tips for acing this kind of meeting with a hiring manager.

Job Titles Are Boring Heres How to Describe Your Work

Job Titles Are Boring Heres How to Describe Your WorkJob Titles Are Boring Heres How to Describe Your WorkNetworking and being able to accurately describe your workis important. Hopefully, by this point you realize that you need to be meeting new people and expanding your network all the time. It doesnt matter if youre doing a job search or happily enmeshed in your best job ever, your network requires your attention- all the time.Your network is a living organism and by its very nature, there will be people who will spin out of your orbit for a whole variety of reasons. That means you need to be continuously meeting new people.It doesnt matter if those new people you meet are at a neighborhood party or a professional association meeting, your self-introduction and how you describe your work needs to be effective and memorable. While the thing we all gravitate to is our job title, it doesnt mean its the best way describe your job.Here are three reasons elend to use your job titlewhen meeting new people1. Its incomprehensible.Most job titles mean almost nothing to people outside your place of work. Some job titles are so cryptic, they leave you wondering where the decoder ring is. Dont make others have to play 20 questions just to figure out your work.2. Its not good conversation.After hearing a job title, its often hard to take the conversation anywhere. Its like hitting a road barrier, its abrupt, and does nothing to help you both move the conversation forward. Even expanding on your line of work can leave room for questions.3. Whats in it for me (WIIFM)?Were constantly in search of useful resources that can either help us or help others we know. Memory for something has to have an emotion tied to it. A job title doesnt do that, which means it wont be memorable. Essentially, its boring and predictable. While itll take a bit of thought to substitute how to describe your work, once youve done it a few times, itll also become second nature to you.Instead, this is how todescribe your work when networking1. Frame your results.While you do produce numerous results, pick out one or two results that youve obtained from your work. When you frame your introduction in results, people will understand and relate it to themselves. The thought is, if you can get those results for your employer or customer, you can do it for others. It starts to appeal to the WIIFM part in all of us. Its also more descriptive than a job title.2. Use powerful verbs or actions.As part of how you motto your introduction using your results, think about how you achieve those results. Do you teach? Sell? Manage? Coach?If youre kind of clueless on some good verbs, simply Google powerful verbs. Youll get great lists to pick what works for you.3. Rinse, repeat, and practice. Because you have several results and verbs you can come up with, you can devise multiple introductions that work well. If one combination doesnt really feel comfortable, then use a different combination. Once you have a few that work for you, practice them so youll remember them for various situations. Youll find that youll end up with a couple that will become your go-to introductions.Keep in mind youre building a new habit. It may feel awkward at first, just like riding a bike. It takes practice, but learning how to describe your work will pay off with everyone you meet from now on.Looking for more ideas on networking? Check outmore networking tips hereReaders, how do you describe your work when meeting new people? Share your tips with us below

Survey Majority of managers see year-end bonuses growing in 2017

Survey Majority of managers see year-end bonuses growing in 2017Survey Majority of managers see year-end bonuses growing in 2017Recent researchfound that if youre not a standout worker, you most likely wont score a big raise or bonus at your job next year, even though theres been an increase in job growth.Other research has found that most American employees didnt get a raise this year, even though some in the high-income bracket were the most likely to have a larger paycheck.Still, some have people have high financial hopes for 2017A surveyof more than 300 senior-level managers employed in the U.S., conducted by staffing firm Robert Half, found that 42% of managers surveyed think the bonuses theyll be giving out will be somewhat higher this year compared to last year, and 9% think theyll be much higher. Taken together, 51% of managers believe theyll be seeing better numbers this year. The survey also found that 39% of managers think the bonuses will be the same as last year, 7% said somewhat lower, and 3% said much lower.An outside research firm carried out the survey, and the managers were employed at companies with at least 20 workers.How companies come up with bonusesA separate survey by Robert Half explored the main methods employers use to come up with bonuses.The most popular way was individual and company performance, at 27%. Individual performance only was at 16%.The least popular was company performance only, at 8%.Paul McDonald, senior executive director at Robert Half, commented on the findings in a statement.Bonuses are a key recruiting and zurckhalten tool, especially with the intense competition for top performers If budgets are tight, other ways to recognize exceptional work at the end of the year include gift cards, a department celebration or additional time off for the holidays, he said.

Social media has same negative effect on depression as eating potatoes

Social media has same negative effect on wirtschaftskrise as eating potatoesSocial media has same negative effect on depression as eating potatoesIt feels impossible to tell if the technology ur kids use should be celebtarifd or feared. A few years ago I wrote a book, Hooked, about how technology can be used to change ur habits. I intended the book to teach startups how to build healthy habits, but now Im not so sure. With headlines telling us technology is hijacking our brains, I started second guessing the impact of our devices, especially when it comes to our kids.How alarmed should we be? Is this a crisis or a fear frenzy? I wanted to understand what the studies really tell us about the effect personal technology is having on our children.One side clearly believes the kids are not okay. Its not an exaggeration to describe iGen as being on the brink of the worst mental-health crisis in decades, wrote Dr. Jean Twenge, a professor of Psychology at San Diego State University in an ar ticle in The Atlantic. Much of this deterioration can be traced to their phones.According to the tech critics like Twenge, this generation cant look each other in the eye, isnt comfortable in conversation, and therefore cant form deep relationships. They are cyberbullied, like-obsessed, and more prone to killing themselves, she says. According to Twenges article, the teen suicide rate is now higher than the teen homicide rate, with three times as many 12-to-14-year-old girls and twice as many boys killing themselves in 2015 as in 2007.Jan Odiaga, Program Director of the Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program at Rush University College of Nursing, says she now asks kids questions about technology use at their annual physicals. Odiaga is a mother of two daughters, ages 14 and 16. It is an epidemic. I think the thing that scares me the fruchtwein is that theres so many mental health issues, depression and anxiety, Odiaga says. People are tracking it back to social pressures and social media. That frightens me. I think its going to escalate and get worse Whats going to happen next?As a father of a pre-teen myself, I worry. Its easy to get worked up about what technology might be doing to kids brains. However, there is also an argument to be made that its the adults, and not the teens, being overly dramatic.What the studies really sayStudies like Twenges work like this researchers look for correlations between various things to try and make connections. If thing A and thing B go up over the same period of time, researchers conclude there may be something there.For example, if Ivan the ice cream man opens a new ice cream shop and subsequently sale of ice cream in the town rise, one might conclude that the store opening was correlated with more ice cream consumption. Taking this one step further, some might believe the store caused people to eat more ice cream.However, there might be other factors at play that account for the change in the towns ice cream eating. If Ivan opened his ice cream shop in the heat of June, rather than cold of December, then we might wonder whether the weather had something to do with the rise in sales. Variables, like the weather, could affect the rise in sales of ice cream as might the opening of Ivans shop. Ivans shop could have driven more ice cream consumption, but we wouldnt know how much Ivans ice cream shop accounted for the change unless we excluded other variables, such as the temperature outdoors.Its true that in Twenges study, social media exposure was correlated with depressive symptoms in some adolescents. But theres much, much more to the story than Twenge and most journalists who covered the study let on.Firstly, there are many potential variables that correlate with adolescent depression. Household income, parental education, and family history all play a role, just as the weather plays a role in ice cream consumption. If you were to guess how much social media use accounted for an increas e in depression in Twenges study, what would you expect? The study was cited hundreds of times in news outlets around the world, which ran headlines like, The Risk Of Teen Depression And Suicide Is Linked To Smartphone Use, Study Says. What would you guess? 80 percent of the correlation? 70 percent? Not even close.According to an article in Wired, in Twenges study, Social media exposure could explain 0.36 percent of the covariance for depressive symptoms.Thats not 36 percent. Its not even one percent. Thats 0.36 percent.The Wired article continues, That 0.36 percent means that 99.64 percent of the groups depressive symptoms had nothing to do with social media use. The article quotes Dr. Andrew Przybylski, who the author describes as, a psychologist at the Oxford www Institute with more than a decades experience studying the impact of technology. He told Wired, I have the data set they used open in front of me and I submit to you that, based on that same data set, eating potatoes has the exact same negative effect on depression.Furthermore, even that weak correlation didnt hold for the boys in the dataset, only the girls. Why not? Nobody knows. In datasets as large as these, its easy for weak correlation signals to emerge from the noise, the Wired article author concluded.In a rebuttal to The Atlantic article that said kids are on the brink of the worst mental-health crisis in decades, Dr. Sarah Rose Cavanagh, a PhD and associate professor at Assumption College in Boston, wrote in Psychology Today that the data the author chooses to present are cherry-picked, by which I mean she reviews only those studies that rckendeckung her idea and ignores studies that suggest that screen use is NOT associated with outcomes like depression and loneliness.One of many studies not cherry-picked was conducted by Christopher Ferguson of Stetson University and published in the journal Psychiatric Quarterly. Fergusons study found only a negligible relationship between screen time and depression. Ferguson said in an article in Science Daily, Although an everything in moderation message when discussing screen time with parents may be most productive, our results do not untersttzungsangebot a strong focus on screen time as a preventative measure for youth problem behaviors.Tech critics like Twenge tend not to discuss the nuances of what their own studies reveal about how time spent online affects teens. But as so often is the case, the devil is in the digital details. A closer read finds the correlation only with extreme amounts of time spent online. The Twenge study shows teenage girls who spent over five hours per day tended to have more depressive or suicidal thoughts. But common sense would have us ask whether its just as likely that kids who have a propensity to spend that much time online have other issues in their lives. Isnt five hours a day on any form of media a symptom of a larger problem? In fact, the Twenge study found that kids who spent two hours or less online per day did not have higher rates of depression and anxiety compared to controls.A study conducted by Przybylski found mental well-being actually increased with moderate amounts of screen time before declining for excessive users. However, Even at exceptional levels, were talking about a very small impact, Przybylski told BuzzFeed. Its about a third as bad as the effect on well-being of missing breakfast or not getting eight hours sleep.More tech, less deathEven if we give Twenges study the benefit of the doubt and believe there is something happening to adolescents as a result of excessive social media use, there are still some important unanswered questions. For one, if were going to draw correlations between social media and bad things like depressive symptoms and suicide, shouldnt we also look at the positive trends as well? In the same period of time that personal tech use has increased, many of the hallmarks of self-destructive teenage rebelliousness have decre ased precipitously.Nationwide, the juvenile arrest rate for vandalism fell 75 percent between 1994 and 2015. The past-year use of illicit drugs other than marijuana for eighth, 10th, and 12th graders came in at the lowest level in the 40 years of the survey. Teen pregnancy, birth, and abortion rates in the United States all reached historic lows.The fact that teen suicide rates are now higher than the teen homicide rates is largely due to the remarkable drop in homicides, which have fallen far faster than suicides have risen. In California for example, Social trends among California youth have been spectacular, gushed The Sacramento Bee recently. Over the last generation, rates of arrests of Californians under age 20 have fallen by 80 percent, murder arrest by 85 percent, gun killings by 75 percent, imprisonments by 88 percent Back in 1980, teenagers comprised 27 percent of Californias criminal arrests. Today, 9 percent. Anecdotes of kids gone wrong remain, but theyre rarer than ev er.Of course, like depression, these are correlated factors and its difficult to draw conclusions about causation. There are certainly other factors at play keeping kids safe. But its worth considering whether tech use may be curtailing all sorts of dangerous behaviors as kids find less harmful ways to spend their time. A healthy amount of tech use may provide kids a way to socialize and blow off steam online instead of doing destructive things offline. Furthermore, perhaps knowing friends have cameras in their pockets reduces the likelihood kids do things in the real world they wouldnt want posted on Instagram?Critics blaming technology for kids ills also gloss over what exactly kids do online. Studies like Twenges classify all time spent on social media together, denying the reality that people do all sorts of things on the web, some healthy and some not so healthy. Is a teenager spending time online being bullied or looking up ways to empower themselves and building confidence on a forum for people being bullied? Twenges study lumps both activities together.How you feel after using the web depends on how you use it. Facebook admits that spending time on its site can decrease feelings of well-being when the service is used passively. Scrolling mindlessly past pictures of your friends having fun without you doesnt make you feel good. However, when you interact with others posts - commenting, posting, and liking - studies have found your well-being increases and you feel more connected to people you care about.I think theres lot of good stuff, admits Odiaga, the nurse practitioner and concerned mother who asks kids about tech use at their annual physicals. Good can come out of it. Its not all bad, Odiaga admits. Although positive stories dont make headlines and stoke fears the way those about depression and suicides do, the majority of teens use technology in positive ways. Some write music, create blogs, and use social media to stand up for social causes th ey believe in or stick up for those being bullied. Tech can open up new worlds for kids and give them skills they couldnt learn otherwiseWhy do things feel so scary?I think we need to keep some historical perspective, and to think, What is our future going to be? Odiaga says. Although thinking this time is different is a common reaction to rapid technological change, history tells another story.Swiss scientist Conrad Gessner worried about hand-held information device causing confusing and harmful consequences. That was 1565. He was talking about books.In 1883, a New York medical journal predicted a new norm would exhaust the childrens brains and nervous systems with complex and multiple studies, and ruin their bodies by protracted imprisonment. He was referring to public education.In 1936, kids were said to have developed the habit of dividing attention between the humdrum preparation of their school assignments and the compelling excitement of the loudspeaker, from the radio, accor ding to the music magazine Gramophone. At night the children often lie awake in bed restless and fearful, or wake up screaming as a result of nightmares brought on by mystery stories.It seems outlandish now, but leaps in technological innovation are often followed by moral panics. Each successive historical age has ardently believed that an unprecedented crisis in youth behavior is taking place, wrote Dr. Abigail Wills, an Oxford historian writing about youth culture and crime in Slate. We are not unique our fears do not differ significantly from those of our predecessors.It could well be that todays technology does have negative consequences. However, its hard to know if the current technology backlash is simply societys way of adjusting to some of the particularly bad elements of tech overuse and misuse. If fear turns in to action, we can adjust our tech use to moderate the harmful aspects while taking advantage of the benefits, just as we did with previous technologies. We can al so adapt our technology use with new tech tools that help our kids moderate overuse.However, if were paralyzed by our fears and try to ban our kids from using their technology instead of helping them (and us) learn to use it responsibly, we may be doing more harm than good. Tech is powerful, and now is the time to teach kids to use that power rather than pretend we can keep them from it.A research overview conducted by UNICEF found that the middle way is the best way. In terms of impact on childrens mental well-being, the most robust studies suggest that the relationship with technology is U-shaped, the study says, where no use and excessive use can have a small negative impact on mental well-being, while moderate use can have a small positive impact. Instead of headline-grabbing hysterics, moderation and adaptation seem to be the answer after all.Nir Eyal is the author ofHooked How to Build Habit-Forming Products. For more insights on using psychology to change customer behavior, j oin Nirs free newsletter and receive a free workbookhere.Thiscolumnfirst appeared atNir and Far.

Whatever They Told You About Resume Sample Is Dead Wrong...And Heres Why

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4 Hiring Process Style Mistakes Youre Probably Making One of Them

4 Hiring Process Style Mistakes Youre Probably Making One of ThemJust like candidates, hiring professionals come in all shapes and sizes. A combination of personality traits, experiences, and professional skills on the hiring team ensure companies hire diverse top talent.In fact, too much of one hiring process style can stunt your growth. This causes your process and client relationships to drastically suffer. Its important to consistently look at your overall hiring strategy with a critical eye and maintain the ultimate stylistic-balance. In my 6+ years in the HR tech world, Ive witnessed many types of hiring professionals. Each unique style has proven its own way of finding, attracting, and hiring quality candidates. Ive learned hiring professionals typically fall into four general categories. Lets take a look at which style best describes you and your hiring process1. The all recruiting, no play hiring proThe all recruit and no play hiring pro doesnt mess around when it comes to f inding the right talent for their teams. To do this, they tend to play by the book rarely ever straying from guidelines, job descriptions, or even interview scripts. They often miss out on truly connecting with candidates because theyre so focused on checking boxes. This style makes it difficult to see when a candidate shows cultural fit and the ability to grow and excel in atypical ways. Focusing too much on checking off hiring boxes limits your ability to find top talent.Click To TweetIf this sounds like you, add open-ended cultural fit and fun experience questions to your interview questionnaire. Fully focus on candidates answers and make room for deeper, more meaningful connections.2. The overly enthusiastic hiring proThis type of hiring pro is the recruiting and hiring worlds cheerleader. Everyone they meet knows theyre hiring. Having apassion for finding amazing candidates and placing them in roles where theyll flourish is a positive trait. However, an unsolicited explosion o f energy and passion comes off as disingenuine and too in-your-face a major candidate turnoff. Candidates want and deserve someone who is excited to put them in a new role. They also connect better with someone who can slow down, get real, and relate to their experience. If you find yourself trying to convince talent the role is the best fit for them instead of finding out where they want to fit in the equation, stop and take a breath. Step back and consider how youre approaching candidates. Give them time to evaluate the details and ask questions before showing your unabridged enthusiasm about the opportunity.3. The fill-it-and-move-on hiring proSaving time and money while attracting top talent is a dream all hiring pros can relate to.In fact, 56 percent of rapidly growing companies want to shorten their hiring process, according to the new 2018 Growth Hiring Trends in the United States report from my team here at Spark Hire. Even more surprising, of the companies that take less than a week, half of them responded they can still improve their time to hire. While a shorter hiring process is a benefit, the fill it and move on hiring pro is so focused on a short hiring time, theyre more likely to miss opportunities to fill positions with the best candidates. As a result, company growth remains stagnant and zurckhalten rates deteriorate. If youre focused more on a roles closing date than on candidates, this may be your hiring style. Stop looking at a timeline and hone in specifically on finding the best-suited talent for your open roles. Youll find switching your focus to the quality of your talent saves time and money in the long run. Shorten the hiringprocess by focusing on candidates, not a timeline.Click To Tweet4. The modern tech hiring proSixty-two percent of companies in our previously mentioned survey said following the latest hiring trends and using modern tools are very important for rapid growth hiring.While keeping up with new hiring tech and trend s propels your hiring strategy forward, you need to proceed with caution. Putting too much time and energy into trying every new recruitment and hiring tool will result in a sluggish hiring process. If you find yourself caught up in new hiring gadgets, gizmos, and latest hiring trends, pause and take the time to reevaluate what is already working. Focus on the tools that have improved the candidate experience. Candidates dont want to spend hours trying to figure out the latest and greatest app. They want to be empowered to apply, showcase their skills and personalities, interview, and take the next step in their career paths.Keep track of the effectiveness of your hiring tools by collecting ongoing data through candidate surveys. Before adding a new one to your process, ask yourself if it will enhance the candidate experience and improve your ability to quickly and effectively evaluate top talent. What type of hiring pro are you? Let us know