A new brain study reveals that the circadian clocks of people with depression are altered at the cellular level. Every cell in our bodies runs on a 24-hour clock, tuned to the night-day, light-dark cycles that have ruled us since the dawn of humanity. The brain acts as timekeeper, keeping the cellular clock in sync [...]
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The Top 10 Cities With Green Job Openings
Simply Hired Blog20 May 2013 | 10:47 amForbes recently published an article regarding the best cities to find Green jobs in the U.S. Based on Simply Hired's hiring data, the article discusses a fast-growing and dynamic Green industry. Today, there are 83,000 Green jobs on Simply Hired, compared to 45,000 a year ago. The continuous growth of Green jobs suggests this is definitely a new career path worth pursuing. With that in mind, here are today's top cities hiring for Green jobs. Click on the cities below to search jobs available now. Also, search for Green jobs in your area with Simply Hired's Green Job Search… -
Put yourself in uncomfortable situations
Penelope Trunk Blog16 May 2013 | 7:22 pmOne of the biggest changes in the workforce in the new millennium is that we have to be information synthesizers instead of information producers. All information is available online. So we can’t add value by memorizing it. We have to add value by reframing it. I call this synthesizing. IBM conducted a survey of CEOs to find out what they thought were the most important leadership skills of the near future. And in the top five was boundary spanning, which is networking ideas and collaborating in order to synthesize information in new ways. Side note: I have a theory that this is… -
3 Things You Must Say At Every Job Interview
JobMob16 May 2013 | 9:45 amA few unique job interview tips to make you the one they want. This is a guest post by Thomas Taylor. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines. Job interviewers read and hear so many clich?s these days that they just about walk and talk in their sleep during the recruitment process. No more “I should get the job because I’m honest, hardworking, and reliable” — it’s time to say something different if you want to them hire you. In job interviews, you’ve not just got to talk the talk. You’ve got to walk the walk. Here’s how with these… -
If You Are Going To San Francisco, Be Sure To...
Career Hub17 May 2013 | 8:36 amDuring a recent visit to San Francisco, we visited Haight-Ashbury – something I would recommend to anyone and everyone whether you are a Baby Boomer or not! As we walked along Ashbury toward one of the former residences of Janis...
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Holy Kaw!
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Depressed people’s body clocks ‘out of sync’
20 May 2013 | 11:31 amA new brain study reveals that the circadian clocks of people with depression are altered at the cellular level. Every cell in our bodies runs on a 24-hour clock, tuned to the night-day, light-dark cycles that have ruled us since the dawn of humanity. The brain acts as timekeeper, keeping the cellular clock in sync [...] -
‘Crazy ant’ invaders make fire ants seem polite
20 May 2013 | 11:21 amInvasive “crazy ants” are displacing fire ants across the southeastern United States and may have dramatic effects on the region’s ecosystem, researchers say. Unlike fire ants, crazy ants don’t consume most poison baits and don’t have the same kinds of colony boundaries. That means that even if they’re killed in a certain area, the supercolony [...] -
Kindergarten math lessons are ‘old news’
20 May 2013 | 11:12 amKindergarten teachers say they spend most of their math instructional time teaching lessons students have already mastered, like shapes and basic counting. The findings reveal a misalignment between what the students are being taught and what they already know. “This study is one of the first to raise the question: Is the content that teachers [...] -
Lack of biodiversity could topple fisheries
20 May 2013 | 10:56 amThe consequences of overfishing have led fisheries to rely on a handful of highly valuable shellfish—but new research shows this approach is extremely risky. “Shellfish make a valuable contribution to our fisheries,” says Bryce Stewart, a marine ecologist and fisheries biologist at the University of York. “But we cannot just assume everything is rosy. There [...] -
Pictures from Maker Faire
20 May 2013 | 10:55 amThese are pictures from the Maker Faire in San Mateo, California. The Maker Faire is one of my favorite events of the year. You can learn more about the Maker Faire here. I hope that you can attend one! (To zoom, click a photo.) More DIY.
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The Top 10 Cities With Green Job Openings
20 May 2013 | 10:47 amForbes recently published an article regarding the best cities to find Green jobs in the U.S. Based on Simply Hired's hiring data, the article discusses a fast-growing and dynamic Green industry. Today, there are 83,000 Green jobs on Simply Hired, compared to 45,000 a year ago. The continuous growth of Green jobs suggests this is definitely a new career path worth pursuing. With that in mind, here are today's top cities hiring for Green jobs. Click on the cities below to search jobs available now. Also, search for Green jobs in your area with Simply Hired's Green Job Search… -
Why a Job Search is Harder than a Google Search
17 May 2013 | 10:40 amIn the last two decades the job search experience has changed drastically. Here are a few things to keep in mind as you naviagate the digital landscape in search of employment. 1. A Job Search is Complex, But The Internet Helps The Google search experience has spoiled us. Today, when we go online we expect instant answers. We expect to find what we’re looking in the first three results, and if it doesn't, we change our search. This approach normally works when looking for websites, information on specific topic, or items to buy. A job search is quite different. In a job search, you… -
What Employers Want in Remote Employees
16 May 2013 | 10:50 amFor a manager, hiring remote employees comes with a specific set of challenges. Anyone who has been in a position of responsibility can tell you that managing employees twenty feet away is complex. Keeping atop of someone 1,000 miles away adds another level of stress. Because different priorities create different concerns for managers of remote employees, there are specific traits hiring managers look for when interviewing remote candidates. Autonomy - If you’re not in the office, can the manager be confident that you can and will do the work without them overseeing every detail? … -
Try Using the “Reverse Graffiti” Approach to Resumes
15 May 2013 | 11:38 amHave you heard of reverse graffiti? It’s an approach to street art in which the artist removes the grime on city buildings or sidewalks to create images instead of using spray paint. So what does this have to do with your resume? Take a look at your resume and see how hard you have to look for the hidden masterpieces of achievement. Do they stand out are are they buried? Most people approach the onerous task of resume revision by adding more recent information such as job experience or training to the same old document. Is that your approach too? Unfortunately, the additive approach to… -
4 Ways To Inadvertently Sabotage Your Job Search
14 May 2013 | 3:25 pmLooking for a new job is a daunting enough task, but will be even tougher if you unwittingly sabotage your job search. Yes, you may be turning off potential employers without even realizing it. Here are some of the ways that you may be inadvertently hurting your chances at finding a new position: Your resume and/or cover letter is riddled with spelling and grammatical errors You may indeed be a great manager, but if you call yourself a “manger” on your resume, you will not exactly make a great impression on a prospective employer. And believe it or not, some people have even misspelled…
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Penelope Trunk Blog
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Put yourself in uncomfortable situations
16 May 2013 | 7:22 pmOne of the biggest changes in the workforce in the new millennium is that we have to be information synthesizers instead of information producers. All information is available online. So we can’t add value by memorizing it. We have to add value by reframing it. I call this synthesizing. IBM conducted a survey of CEOs to find out what they thought were the most important leadership skills of the near future. And in the top five was boundary spanning, which is networking ideas and collaborating in order to synthesize information in new ways. Side note: I have a theory that this is… -
How to know if you’re in a good job
13 May 2013 | 7:36 amOne of the things I had to do as an adult was learn to see what makes a good job. Some people intuitively know how to find a job that feels good. Most of us spend the first half of our lives trying to learn what feels right and the second half of our lives trying to get it. Maybe this post can speed up that process for some of you. The bottom line of a good job is that it makes you feel like you have unlimited energy for your work because it’s so fulfilling. Psychologists would say the job matches your personality type. Mihaly Csikszentmihali would say it puts you in the state of flow. -
Before you aim for someone’s job, look at the price they paid to get there
9 May 2013 | 1:35 pmWhenever I write about grad school, someone writes in the comments about how I’m just bitter that I didn’t get a degree. But what I’m really bitter about is that no one wanted to have sex with me. Some famous poet was a visiting professor, hitting on every grad student but me. And Leslie Epstein was there, who is not only king of the Jews but the father of Theo Epstein, a big name in baseball. Leslie said I’m the best sex writer he’s ever read. So why wasn’t he asking me for sex? Probably because I’m the master of bad sex. There is no anal penetration… -
Why Jason Collins matters for your career
2 May 2013 | 12:06 pmJason Collins is a professional basketball player who just announced that he’s gay. It’s rare enough for a professional athlete to be openly gay that President Obama called him up to offer support, and former President Clinton tweeted his support, adding that he’s known Jason Collins since he was friends with Chelsea Clinton at Stanford. Collins is a 12-year NBA veteran who has played for the Boston Celtics and Washington Wizards and chose to come out in the new edition of Sports Illustrated . He says, “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And… -
The demo reel for my reality TV show (and how to turn a failure into a success)
30 Apr 2013 | 10:22 amFor those of you who don’t remember, a film crew came for three days to make a demo reel for a reality show based on my family. Here is the problem: we are too normal. I’m not kidding. That’s what the TV people ultimately concluded. But I take being too normal for reality TV as new-millennium Good Housekeeping seal of approval. The other thing the TV people said was that listening to my coaching sessions was magical. Really. They said that. So I’m writing it for you again: magical. They filmed at our house for three days, which means they heard my side of a dozen…
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3 Things You Must Say At Every Job Interview
16 May 2013 | 9:45 amA few unique job interview tips to make you the one they want. This is a guest post by Thomas Taylor. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines. Job interviewers read and hear so many clich?s these days that they just about walk and talk in their sleep during the recruitment process. No more “I should get the job because I’m honest, hardworking, and reliable” — it’s time to say something different if you want to them hire you. In job interviews, you’ve not just got to talk the talk. You’ve got to walk the walk. Here’s how with these… -
#CONTEST: Leave a Comment, Win Professional Video Resume Help
8 May 2013 | 6:00 amHere’s a contest you can win with a single blog comment. Join in before Sunday night, ok? This comment contest is sponsored by Powtoon.com. Powtoon is “the best free animated presentation online software tool and PowerPoint alternative that supercharges your business presentations and animated video marketing.” Put more simply, it’s an easy-to-use website for making professional-looking animated videos that you upload to YouTube. How is that relevant to job search? Check this out: Click here to view the embedded video. Besides making a creative, animated video resume,… -
How To Claim Your Free Job Search Consult Call
30 Apr 2013 | 1:14 pmLooking forward to helping you. As promised in last week’s article about JobMob’s 6th anniversary – you can still wish us happy birthday – May is going to be special. How special? For the first time ever, I’m offering free job search consult calls to a small number of readers, so you’ll need to act fast. My hope is to speak with a different JobMob reader almost every business day through the month of May. The calls will take place over Skype so that you won’t have any calling charges. Another benefit is that I can record Skype calls and make the… -
Happy 6th Birthday to JobMob
24 Apr 2013 | 6:29 amAnother big year. Read all the way through, you don’t want to miss the special announcement… When JobMob launched on March 21st, 2007, I never thought it would last this long. Back then, I wanted to learn about blogging while I was looking for a job, so it wasn’t hard to think of blogging about my job search. I suppose the idea would have been to stop once I found a job, or when I didn’t feel there was more to learn – or like most people who start blogging – when I’d simply had enough and couldn’t find the time or effort to blog anymore. But… -
160+ More Beautiful Personal Logos, Monograms and Wordmarks For Your Inspiration
10 Apr 2013 | 12:25 pmMake your job search documents stand out with a personal logo or monogram. Get inspired by the best. I’ve already shared with you 123 Beautiful Personal Logos, Monograms and Wordmarks For Your Inspiration. Here are 163 more. Enjoy! Question of the article Quickie question – which is your favorite? Tell us in the comments. Personal logos Angela Light, Designer Enrique Engels, Insect Photographer Luke Kirkwood, Web Designer and Developer Nigel Ortega, Photographer Sally Barrett, Editor and Writer Julia Demetriou, Bead Creation and Patterns Jason Grover, Photographer Harvey Esparcia, Graphic…
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Career Hub
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If You Are Going To San Francisco, Be Sure To...
17 May 2013 | 8:36 amDuring a recent visit to San Francisco, we visited Haight-Ashbury – something I would recommend to anyone and everyone whether you are a Baby Boomer or not! As we walked along Ashbury toward one of the former residences of Janis... -
3 Steps to Attract Recruiters to Your LinkedIn Profile
14 May 2013 | 10:10 amAccording to Wikipedia: recruitment refers to the process of attracting, screening, selecting, and onboarding a qualified person for a job. Recruiters are increasingly using social media to find and research candidates. This approach is often called social recruiting which is... -
Top Resume & Career Hurdles for Job Seekers: 15 Scenarios
14 May 2013 | 5:53 amPeople come to a career coach and certified professional resume writer for a number of reasons. One or more of the following may sound familiar to you. "My resume and LinkedIn profile are attracting too low-level jobs." "My resume and... -
Recruiters Make 25% of Executive Hires in This Channel: Are You There?
12 May 2013 | 4:20 pmWhere is that? Yup, you guessed it, social media is where recruiters report sourcing 25% of executive hires. And those are 2012 figures! I'm ready to say it straight out: "If you're not spending a portion of your time every... -
Dr. William E. Bridges: Teacher, Consultant, Author Extraordinaire
6 May 2013 | 1:48 pmEighteen years ago in Seattle, Washington, I met an extraordinary consultant named Dr. William E. Bridges, teacher for one of the best training programs I have ever attended. Last week, as I was researching something on Twitter, I stumbled upon...
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How a Pick for a Financial Adviser Can Go Wrong
19 May 2013 | 1:00 pmNew research shows why a mentor who's good for some could be bad for you. -
Stock, Bond Markets Can't Both Be Right
19 May 2013 | 10:15 amThe stock market is expecting a massive new economic boom while the bond market sees the economy remaining in a funk. They can't both be right, but they can be wrong, writes Brett Arends. -
Cultivating 'Soft Skills' to Get Ahead
19 May 2013 | 7:32 amPersonal aptitudes and attitudes like being a good listener and communicator strongly influence likability and workplace relationships. -
How Social Security Math Adds Up
18 May 2013 | 5:38 pmSocial Security tax maximums and cost-of-living adjustments are calculated differently based on formulas set by law. -
Sell Your Used Textbooks Online
18 May 2013 | 5:36 pmForget the campus bookstore. You can typically get up to 70% back selling to online resellers.
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WSJ.com: Careers
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Amanda Foreman: The Tyranny of the Micromanager
20 May 2013 | 3:42 amAs anyone who has had the misfortune to work for a micromanager knows, success only makes the manager worse. A few lessons from micromanagers through history. -
Cultivating 'Soft Skills' to Get Ahead
20 May 2013 | 3:03 amPersonal aptitudes and attitudes like being a good listener and communicator strongly influence likability and workplace relationships. -
Wanted: Digital-Savvy Directors
16 May 2013 | 10:50 amNearly every facet of corporate life has gone digital, so corporate boards are scrambling to recruit newcomers to advise on strategies for mobile devices and social media. -
Coursera Makes Case for Online Classes
15 May 2013 | 9:05 amDaphne Koller, co-founder of online education provider Coursera, discusses where teachers fit into the model for massive, open, online classes. -
Turn Bad Stress Into Good
9 May 2013 | 6:32 pmThe right type of pressure can boost daily performance. Key ingredients in transforming the bad into good: taking more control and finding better support.
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David Allen Company Updates
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GTD Connect: Incorporation Of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Theory Of Flow Into GTD.
20 May 2013 | 2:00 amHi GTDers! Word of warning. What follows is just me thinking out loud on a topic i feel has some gold to be mined. This is more theory oriented rather than practical. Still, it would be great to get your feedback. First here is a diagram of Csikszentmihalyi's flow model. http://www.mindtools.com/... -
GTD Times: Organizing actions by context = faster decisions about your focus
19 May 2013 | 6:10 amQuestion: I have been implementing GTD for approximately three years. I read Getting Things Done and Making It All Work, and have gained a lot of respect for you, and the enormous sphere of knowledge and wisdom that you have shared with the World. As an architect, I run a design-oriented architectural practice, along with several job roles, and consistently attempt to balance work and a family life. Over the years, I have found that organizing next action items by context is difficult for me to implement for the following reasons: 1. I tend to be very intuitive and think about… -
GTD Times: Video sample of GTD & iPhone webinar
18 May 2013 | 11:38 amThis 3-minute sample is from a recent webinar about implementing GTD on the iPhone. [HTML1] (This video is streaming from YouTube, so it may take a few seconds to load.) Live webinars on GTD & iPhone are scheduled on these dates. Wednesday, May 29, 10am Pacific Time Thursday, July 11, 10am Pacific Time -
GTD Times: Two key priority questions
17 May 2013 | 1:39 pmTwo Key Priority Questions One of the first things to do to trust your priority decisions is to make sure you've got a current inventory of everything you've said "yes" to. Turn over every rock. Look everywhere you've allowed input in--especially your head--and make decisions about what each one of those things means and what you want to do about it. If you're like most people, that will leave you with a pretty healthy (and long) list of things to do. When it comes time to choose what to do, you will first be limited by your context, time available, and current resources. Good chance though,… -
GTD Connect: What Day Do You Like To Do Your GTD Weekly Review?
15 May 2013 | 2:31 pmI recently polled the David Allen Company staff on our internal Yammer network about what day they like to do their Weekly Review. Here is how they replied: [ATTACH=CONFIG]982[/ATTACH] (Of course no one dared to select "What's a Weekly Review?") What's your favorite day these days? Take th...
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5 Lessons in Contentment from Billionaires Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger
16 May 2013 | 7:03 amBy Leo Babauta I sat in a crowd of 45,000 about 10 days ago, watching super-billionaire investors Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger riff off each other and deliver quick wit and worldly wisdom about finances and life in general, at the famous Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha. As I listened to these titans of the investing world, it struck me how content they are. Not just content because they have all the riches in the world and all their needs met (they do), but because they understand fundamentals of contentment with life, which I believe is a superpower. It was… -
Smile in Each Moment
13 May 2013 | 12:59 pmBy Leo Babauta There’s a tendency to get caught up in the tasks of our day, the urgency of what’s coming up, the distractions of being online. And we forget to smile. In the rush of the day, the stress of wanting things to happen a certain way, we lose the enjoyment of each moment. In every moment, there’s the capacity for happiness. It’s not that we need to be ecstatic, full of pleasure, excited or even joyous each and every second of the day. Who needs that kind of pressure? And it’s not that we can never feel sadness or anger or stress. It’s that we can… -
A Guide to Practical Compassion
10 May 2013 | 12:19 pmBy Leo Babauta If I’ve found two guiding principles in my life, they are contentment and compassion. With these two ideas, life becomes better. Contentment makes every moment better. And compassion makes your connection with others better. What Compassion Is, & Some Difficulties Let’s talk about compassion for a few minutes, because as important as it is, very few people talk about how to actually do it. First a definition: the simple definition of compassion is feeling and understanding the pain of others, and then wanting to reduce that suffering. In practice, it’s a… -
6 Steps To Healing Yourself
7 May 2013 | 7:00 amEditor’s note: This is a guest post from Lissa Rankin of 6 Steps To Healing Yourself. Take a moment and check in with yourself. How is your body feeling right in this moment? If you’re generally healthy, check in for subtle symptoms. Is your neck feeling tense? Does your lower back ache? Do you have a headache? Are you exhausted — again? Or perhaps you’re battling a more serious health diagnosis and you’re experiencing symptoms from your health condition. Whether you’re experiencing the nuisance of a minor physical symptom, the more concerning stress of a serious health… -
Find the Zen of Work
2 May 2013 | 3:28 pmBy Leo Babauta One of the most common problems I hear from readers is the difficulty in finding calm and peace in the middle of a work day. Work for many people is stressful, full of too many things to do, too many meetings and emails and incoming information and interruptions and irritations and distractions and decisions and confusion. Putting “Zen” into the workplace — some calm, some mindfulness, some letting go of that which stresses you out — is not a simple thing for most people. To help those who’d like to find a more peaceful way of working, I’ve…
