Are You [and your company] Ready for Flu Season - Workology

Are You [and your company] Ready for Flu Season - Workology The headlines are filled with talk of Ebola butI wanted to turn attention a little bit towards the flu. I’m sure that you and your company are encouraging flu shots but if that’s all that you’re doing… you may not be ready. Regardless what industry you’re in, here are a few things you should be thinking about. This is a key part of our jobs as HR people to help support the business and we should give it some kind of consideration. Are You [and your company] Ready for Flu Season? First off, if you’re not encouraging the flu shot encourage it. WebMD reports that about 45% of the U.S. population aged 6 months and older got a flu shot last season. While its significantly higher for those in the healthcare industry that’s still a lot of people who aren’t protected through a vaccine. Regardless how you feel about the vaccine, making it easy for those who DO want to get the vaccine will help in your preparations. If your health plan offers discounts or covers vaccines be sure to call that out to your employees. Consider working with health partners and providers who may even offer to do this for you onsite I think that some places will even bring a bus so you don’t have to have a space to give them to set-up. So many grocery stores and big box stores are offering this now no appointment needed work with those in your area. Speaking of partnerships don’t be afraid to work with other businesses in your area, especially for organizations that are small er or in a more remote location. Next, take a look at your sick time policies and practices. If you have employees who are sick what are their options? You may be looking at the screen now saying, “DUH, Andrea, if they are sick they should use their sick time.” However, you and I both know that not everyone has sick time… whether its because they ran out, they are in a probationary period, or they are a consultant for you. So be sure that you know how that might work and have a plan. I also read in the same WebMD report that anywhere from  5% to 20% Americans get the flu and about 200,000 hospitalizations.  Do you read that and blow it off and say, “Whatever Andrea that’s mainly the very young and very old, likely not in the range of my employees.” I’d tell you to think again, those children and elderly may be OF your employees and they may need to help take care of them so be sure to evaluate your practices and programs for those situations as well. And speaking of taking care of others who may be sick consider options that you have for keeping sick people at home so that you can keep your healthy people healthy. Encourage people who are not feeling well or maybe even taking care of others who may be ill to stay at home. This is where you have to give some thought to your business and possible options. For some, working from home is a real option. I know for me personally having the option to work from home has been wonderful option when I’m feeling sick I can still take conference calls, stay on top of urgent items, and feel good knowing that I’m not spreading any more germs. Frankly what is more stressful to me all the work that I think I’m missing because I am sick so I want to rush back to the office so get back to it and then ultimately end up getting sicker because I pushed too hard. I bet you have been there too. If this is an option for your business and workers, invest in equipment and resources to make this real ly work. Now I also remember a time in my career when working from home was not an option for example, when I was in retail. If this is your option, look at your staffing plans and try to staff up for those who may fall ill. Don’t stress your team out by making them feel like if they do not have the option to take sick time because there is not enough coverage to handle the work. Plan for it. Get with your managers and think about what might work best for you it could be everything from literally adding more staff, hiring seasonal employees, or even implementing an “on-call” program. Finally think about how to keep your healthy people healthy its mostly just the basics wash hands regularly, cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze, disinfect items. Here is a more  complete list of things that you can do to help prevent the spread of the flu from the CDC. .ai-rotate {position: relative;} .ai-rotate-hidden {visibility: hidden;} .ai-rotate-hidden-2 {position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;} .ai-list-data, .ai-ip-data, .ai-fallback, .ai-list-block {visibility: hidden; position: absolute; width: 50%; height: 1px; z-index: -9999;} What’s your flu season prevention plan(s)?

6 Ways to Treat Your Job Hunt Like a Business to Speed Up the Process

6 Ways to Treat Your Job Hunt Like a Business to Speed Up the Process 6 Ways to Treat Your Job Hunt Like a Business to Speed Up the Process Employment looking is a without a doubt testing and once in a while unpleasant undertaking. It very well may be hard to appropriately shuffle your time, apparatuses, and assets to streamline your pursuit of employment without legitimate arranging. I'm here to reveal to you that it very well may be simpler! As I think back on work looking and the most recent two years I spent in the workforce â€" especially this year, working with jobseekers here at Simply Hired, I understood that advancing your pursuit of employment is a great deal like arranging a venture. Actually, I expounded on the most proficient method to convey on an undertaking half a month back. A similar six-advance system can be applied to the procedure of occupation chasing. Here is the ticket: Build up a business case Building a business case for your pursuit of employment will set the establishment for your hunt. It can assist you with sectioning your hunt and recognize high intrigue occupations employments that are a high counterpart for your objectives. Start by characterizing the justification for your pursuit of employment. Thoroughly consider your explanations behind leaving on the quest for a new position. Do these reasons line up with your profession objectives and way of life needs? It might be useful to make a brisk money saving advantage examination as a major aspect of your business case. What are the advantages of getting another line of work at this phase in your vocation? What are the dangers? Characterize the extension Characterize the extent of your pursuit of employment. In venture arranging, scope comes down to two fundamental segments, time and assets. Similar segments can be applied to your pursuit of employment. To what extent do you see your pursuit of employment enduring? Be sensible here; as indicated by Simply Hired information, about one out of five quests for new employment take seven months or more. What sort of assets will you need? Do you have a refreshed resume all set? If not, free online assets to refresh as well as draft resumes are generally accessible. Another accommodating strategy to survey assets is to draft an abilities stock. Separate aptitudes into three segments: Interests, Abilities, and Rather Not/Needs Improvement. Again, be straightforward with yourself. This appraisal is essential to comprehend what sorts of occupations you meet all requirements for and on the off chance that you need to take a shot at abilities in your Needs Improvement section. These disclosures should factor into your course of events. Breakdown your course of action Endless supply of degree, you ought to have a feeling of time and asset prerequisites. From here, you can separate your pursuit of employment venture plan. It regularly assists with breaking out your pursuit into headers speaking to the fundamental parts of the inquiry. For instance, these parts could be Exploration, Overhaul, Apply and Development. Under every one of these headers you would then be able to list singular assignments. Each assignment ought to have a date of anticipated consummation and rundown of prerequisites. Get out conditions; in the event that an undertaking requires expectations from an ancestor, at that point that ought to be plainly labeled. Check out the model headers underneath. Characterize your objectives When you have your approach, you ought to have a total image of what you should finish all through your pursuit of employment. Channel this sense towards distinguishing significant achievements and objectives. A similar talk question from venture arranging can apply to your pursuit of employment. What are the markers of fruition? What is the best result for each undertaking? In what capacity can this result be quantitatively and subjectively estimated? Remember to set time objectives on these significant achievements. This will empower you to design your procedure at a progressively granular level. Record and report Documentation and detailing are significant in a sorted out pursuit of employment. To begin with, archive your advancement in an Arranged versus Genuine table. The arranged section records all the significant achievements and the dates of their arranged culmination. The genuine section records a similar significant achievements and the dates of their real consummation. In the event that there are long postponements in genuine fruition, give a clarification to the deferral. This will assist you with distinguishing issue territories and forestall further deferrals. Another supportive tip is to make a pursuit of employment log, particularly for online requests for employment and make segments for each phase of the application procedure. Audit Audit your advancement at repeating stretches. Contingent upon your general course of events, this survey could happen each 4 a month and a half. Investigate your unique course of events, abilities stock, Planned versus Real table, and pursuit of employment log. Is it accurate to say that you are hitting the entirety of your achievements in the designated time? Why or why not? Dissect these motivations to comprehend what to cure or imitate (as proper) throughout the following 4 a month and a half.

Thousands of Entry Level Jobs - CareerAlley

A huge number of Entry Level Jobs - CareerAlley We may get remuneration when you click on connections to items from our accomplices. Long-go arranging works best in the present moment Doug Evelyn One of the fresh out of the box new, simply out of school folks that I work with is continually posing inquiries about how to excel, should he get his MBA, what sorts of occupations should he complete quite a while from now, how can he plan for turning into a chief. These are extraordinary inquiries and he is posing to them as a feature of his drawn out arrangement. Be that as it may, all things being equal, he is asking them in the present moment as a component of his drawn out arrangement (I know, this sounds insane, yet consider it). Your pursuit of employment is a lot of the equivalent. Each decision you make will lead you to where you are eventually going. Some will feel wrong, and some will be great, yet every progression is the present moment of your drawn out arrangement. Presently about those Thousands of employments, truly, a great many occupations. Truth be told, likely 10s of thousands of occupations. I love running these posts like clockwork since it gets everyones consi deration. In any case, its not only an allurement, there extremely thousand of occupations out there, so investigate. Hotjobs.com There were 8,353 passage level employments (when I checked) from extraordinary compared to other realized pursuit of employment sheets. Utilize this hunt connection and afterward modify the models on the left hand side of the screen to coordinate your measures for city, work classes, occupations by organization and that's just the beginning. There are extra assets at the base left hand side of the screen (exceptionally base of the page) for resumes, meeting, pay and that's only the tip of the iceberg. Job.com Where else would you start your inquiry yet with a pursuit of employment board with a name this way! In excess of 1,000 section level employments from this site. Utilize the pursuit inside these outcomes box at the top to refine your inquiry and you can spare your particular quests also. There are extra assets on the correct hand side of the screen just as at the base of the page. CareerRookie.com This site represents considerable authority in passage level employments, however utilizing that models returned in excess of 300 section level occupations when I checked. You can limit your pursuit by utilizing the catchphrases or other rules at the highest point of the page. Beneath this are extra choice models like class, organization, city and state. Top of the page has joins for assets like resumes, guidance and the sky is the limit from there. Beast College Monster.coms school site had in excess of 1,130 passage level occupations when I checked the site (and more than 2,000 section level employments on the off chance that you looked on this models from Monster.com). This site is likewise equipped to school and section level employment searchers and has joins at the highest point of the page for vocation counsel, recruited 101, gatherings and that's just the beginning. SimplyHired.com This site is unique in relation to the greater part of the others as it look across organizations and other occupation sheets. There were more than 3,000 passage level employments when I checked the site. Channels are on the left hand side of the page just as catchphrase refinement alternatives. Top of the page has joins for neighborhood occupations, compensation patterns and work patterns. Spare your hunts here as well. Indeed.com Hard to accept, yet the section level hunt on this site returned in excess of 77,000 passage level occupations (seems like a ton to me). Like a portion of the other quest for new employment destinations, you can refine your pursuit by placing an area in at the top, or utilize one of the numerous refinements on the left hand side of the page. Top of the page has joins for discussions, pay rates and patterns. Good karma in your inquiry.

Career Goals and what your manager needs to hear and see from YOU

Career Goals and what your manager needs to hear and see from YOU Articulate your career goals to land a job promotion Managers are not mind readers. We need to articulate our career goals Articulate your career goals to land a job promotion Everyone has career goals and wants to take his or her career to the next level. For some the next level may be a promotion and for others, the career goal  may be a position in another department or discipline. Career goals means different things for different people, but regardless of our career goals, the way we go about achieving our next level  is the same. Today’s blog post paves the way. Hard truth: In most manager’s minds, the majority of employees are hoping and praying for a promotion vs. doing anything about it. Why communication is important This week we discuss why it is so important to articulate our career goals. Next week, we discuss the specific steps you can take to pro-actively move your career in a forward direction regardless of your direction (or lack of). One of the questions that all senior executives ask of candidates and  employee is “What do you want to do with your career?” This is a variation of “What is your five-year plan?” This is a common networking question and a guaranteed interview question so we should always have a prepared answer. A candidate that is not able to answer this question makes it tough on the hiring manager to extend  an offer because managers don’t want to hire anyone that: Doesn’t have any ambition Hasn’t thought about what they want to do with their life. Just dont assume your manager knows you want to be a manager An employee who isn’t able to answer this question is very difficult to promote because the manager doesn’t know what position to promote the employee into. The LAST thing your manager wants to do is assume an incorrect path  with your career goals. (You would be surprised how many employees do not want to be a manager, so dont assume this is the norm).   Requisite dating life example When we go on a first date with Ms. Right and ask her: “What do you want to do this evening?” the last thing we want  to hear is “I don’t know, what every you want to do is cool.”  As flexible as Ms. Right sounds, this response makes it very difficult to set up an evening for success. Now, if Ms. Right responds with: “I think it would be great if the two of us could check out the new restaurant X” “Id love to see the new Y movie with you” “I want to take a drive and see the tulip festival. The drive will give us time to get to know each other” The date becomes much easier to set up for success. Even if you do not like food X or movie Y, for Ms. Right, we suck it up. For Ms. Right, we  would probably go see Fried Green Tomatoes, 50 Shades of Grey, and yes walk through muddy fields of tulips. The point is that relationships take work from both side. Mr. Right (your manager) is not a mind reader and “I dont know, What ever you want to do” is very difficult to work with. Whose career is this? Could Mr. Right (your manager) make a suggestion and plan the evening? Absolutely, but at the end of the day, we are individually responsible for our dates and our careers. We need to be pro active and set ourselves up for success. The date and your career is about your happiness and we need to take some initiative. Five Year plan Back to the executive asking about our five-year plan. In this competitive market, just having a career goal isn’t enough. If we really want the executive to take us seriously, we need to provide a few more details. 1.) Why this goal means something to us and 2.) What we have been doing to attain this goal. Anyone can have a career goal but few actually make moves. Managers notice two things, initiative and complacency.   If  I survey 20 employees with the question: “What are your career goals?” 15 will say “I am still trying to figure that out” or worse, “I don’t know. 4 will say, “I want to be a manager” (very generic and without context this answer is meaningless) 1 will have a specific goal, it is X What we dont say The response “I am still trying to figure it out” is the equivalent of Ms. Rights response, “I don’t know”. This lack of direction makes it very hard to provide guidance or help towards the next level. I want to be a manager is as generic response as they come and the number 1 answer I hear when it comes to carer goals.   This can be a legitimate answer, but because everyone wants to be a manager and most are doing nothing to about it, your response loses meaning and puts us into the same category as all of the other chaff in the department. Provide the Why and the What This can be a great answer if we provide theWHY we want to be a manager and WHAT we have done to move us closer to the goal. Without this context, this answer sounds like everyone else in the department and we need to differentiate ourselves.   If I am lucky, our Go-Getter will explain what they want to do, what steps they need to take to hit the goal, AND what steps they have already taken towards the path of enlightenment. The first step in setting career goals The first step when it comes to career goals is to figure out WHAT we want to do. Without that answer, it  becomes  very difficult to make introductions to the specific people who  can help and very difficult to give an employee related projects which can prove we are ready for the “next level”. Let’s say you are a bank teller and you want to be a manager of the bank tellers at the local branch or the Director of bank tellers for the local area. The wrong answer When I ask, “Why do you want to be a manager of X department?” what I usually hear is: “I have been in the department the longest, I know about all of our work flows and have great relationships with our customers”. We have two things going against ourselves at this point. We had to prodded for the reasons we want to be a manager AND none of the above are good enough reasons for promotion. Everyone in the department can say they understand the process and have great relationships with the customer. Once we figure out our destination, we need to go an extra step In addition to explaining what we want to do, we need to explain WHY we want to get to that next level and HOW we are planning on getting there. A wet dream of an answer and  what I hear from 1 out of 100: I want to be a manager in customer service for two reasons. The first reasons is that I am really passionate about our customers being treated right. My experience in the trenches has shown me  how managers can effect results at scale vs. what I am doing at a one-on-one level  here at Acme Publishing. I have talked with a couple of Directors in similar positions and admire what they do. I am currently in the customer service department and am trying to show leadership  ways I am contributing to the department to improve efficiency: Quantifiable accomplishments Posting up great call center stats Putting together specific workflows for the entire department to improve efficiency Created a FAQ which answer the top 10 questions that come in so new employees can have a guideline for the most common questions. Mentoring new hires Do you have any advice for me? Am I missing anything? Could I set myself up more efficiently? Now we are cooking with gas. I can work with this at all kinds of levels: The above answer gives me confidence that the manager title is what our Go-Getter is looking for. This is not a flight of fancy or the career goal  of the month. Initiative I know that this hopeful candidate is taking the initiative. They have me engaged and I want  to help someone who  helps himself or herself vs. someone who  wants me to do the work for them.   This hopeful has proven they are walking the walk and not just talking the talk. There are two things all managers here from their employees: “I want to be a manager” and “I can do that job”. Trust me, this is not enough. When you dont know your career goals We continue the discussion and explain the specific steps you can take to pro-actively move your career in a forward direction. Even if we dont know what we want to do, there are specific steps we will discuss that can set you up for success.   See you at the after party, HRNasty nasty: an unreal maneuver of incredible technique, something that is ridiculously good, tricky and manipulative but with a result that can’t help but be admired, a phrase used to describe someone who is good at something. “He has a nasty forkball. If you want to ditch the corporate ladder, take the elevator and subscribe to the weekly updates here. Knowledge drops are free and I promise, no spam. “Like” us on Facebook here, I read all comments below. Thank you!