Cooking Up A Career Change or Two

Cooking Up A Career Change â€" or Two Ten years ago, would you have guessed that gluten-free crackers, salty savory chocolates, and popped potato chips would be popular and successful products? Probably not. After all, who in the world thought those things would actually sell? Rachel Hofstetter, a former Food Editor for O, the Oprah Magazine, wanted to know the stories behind such ventures â€" the wins, and the mistakes involved along the way. So she got to know the people behind companies like popchips, Justin’s, Evol, and smashburger. And then she wrote Cooking Up a Business: Lessons from Food Lovers Who Turned Their Passion into a Career and How You Can, Too. We recently spoke with Rachel, who has gone through a few career changes along the way, and she shared these nuggets of career wisdom with us: How knowing someone’s story changes everything (2:15) Why “loving what you do” isn’t always wine roses (6:18) How stress is actually good â€" and why you need it (7:10) How she knew she was in the wrong career (7:45) The one question you must ask yourself before leaving a job or career (10:30) The skills you need â€" but don’t necessarily show on your resume (12:00) How to painlessly build an amazing network (27:01) Her advice on approaching a career change (33:17) Hope you enjoy the interview!

Staying Productive During the Winter Months

Staying Productive During the Winter Months https://stocksnap.io/photo/A4MD0OAEJ0Winters are long. Too long in the Western Hemisphere!!And with winter comes shorter days, darker days, colder days and a loss in motivation. As a result productivity declines for most of us. I have felt this first hand over the past week. I already feel groggy,tired and unmotivated.I don’t think I need to give you tons of scientific evidence to prove to you that it is harder to stay focused and work on during the winter. You know how it feels!!evalI will be sharing some ideas on how you can stay productive during the winter months.a) RELAXI know this totally sounds counter-productive.If you are like most professionals- the last few weeks of December provides you with some downtime.Most of your colleagues clients are usually away or have already shut down for the year. So, don’t try to climb an uphill battle. Instead, take advantage of the downtime.Use this time to catch up with past clients. Meet up with colleagues and friends. Use the holida y spirit to boost up your spirits. A word of caution don’t go overboard with the celebrations. Too much drinking and eating during the winter months is detrimental. So exercise caution here.Take some time to smell the roses. Reflect on the past 11 months. Review your successes, trials, tribulations,lessons,failures,etc. This will help you set the groundwork for the months aheadb) SET GOALSevalMost people get too caught up in the Holiday celebrations. Carve out a day or so during this time to pause reflect. Don’t wait till January 1st to start making resolutions and goals. Start Planning on your goals right away.Infact, if possible start right away. For instance, if your goal is to lose weight. Don’t gorge until Jan 1st, gain 10 lbs to regret it later. It is impossible not to give into the temptations of the holidays. Realizing that in advance will help you to be smart about your choices.The same goes with career goals. If your goal is to have a stellar 2016 â€" start making p lans now. Decide what you would like to accomplish, what action steps you will take to make it a reality. And most importantly start today. Take small action steps, so when 2016 comes you are riding the momentum.c) STAY ACTIVEevalYou know that you will be eating a lot during the holidays. Trust me- it is hard not to.To counter that â€" add more physical activity to your schedule. Use exercise as an excuse for you to indulge in the sweets delicacies that come during the holidays. If you start the habit of exercising now â€" there is a good chance that you will continue the habit as the days get more colder.Your exercise schedule does not have to be crazy â€" even if you manage to spend few minutes a day with some cardio, push-ups,squats,etc. That small habit will build momentum as the weeks progress.d) LEARN SOMETHING NEWYou might not be excited about heading outdoors during the winter. That is great!! You can use this opportunity to grab same hot chocolate and catch up on some read ing.I use the winter months to read a lot. Also take advantage of online courses through Lynda or Udemy. Maybe you want to learn a new language. Now is the time to do it. In the summer months you will be too busy, and you will not get a chance to do much learning. Take advantage of the downtime in the winter.e) BE SMART WITH YOUR MONEYIt is hard not to indulge in over-spending during the holidays. Parties, events, family events and before you know â€" you have burnt a huge hole in your bank account. And thanks to credit cards we feel invincible with our spending So avoid the predicament in advance by being smart about your money starting now.I might have missed one or two other ideas. Tell me what are some other ideas you will use to stay more productive during the winter months.

One Simple Habit to Avoid Falling Behind in Your Career

One Simple Habit to Avoid Falling Behind in Your Career As Senior Advisor and Executive in Residence at Arizona State University, I get to spend some quality time on the university’s campus. I always find it so refreshing because it's an environment set up for learning and development. It’s an ideal situation for anyone interested in personal and professional development. In contrast, once we get into the work environment it can be difficult to keep learning and developing ourselves. There’s no instructor providing a syllabus and no set curriculum we're supposed to be learning. We don't have a major that we've chosen to help direct us to know which courses to take. This absence of guidance means you have to be much more intentional about your self-development if you don’t want to fall behind or get stuck in your career. In fact, there are two common challenges we all face that can keep us from continuing to learn and develop while we’re working. Two Challenges for Developing Yourself on the Job When it comes to developing yourself while you’re working, I’ve found there are two main challenges. Once you face up to them, you’ll be freed up to take action to keep moving yourself and your career forward. Challenge #1: What to learn? As a self-proclaimed “life-long learner”, I know how overwhelming it can be to sift through the vast amounts of information available to hone in on the right areas to focus on. I’ve also learned that it’s important to tie what you’re learning into your goals. That gives your learning a purpose which makes it much more likely you’ll stick with it. To figure out what topics to learn about, think about the following three areas for development. To what extent would you benefit from: Working on Your SelfThis is about your self-awareness. Notice your presence. How are you coming across? How's your mental game? Working with PeopleAre you being a good leader? Are you communicating well? How are you relating to stakeholders? Working on the BusinessAre you being strategic? Are you making good decisions? Growing the set of opportunities? Working on these three key areas will always stand you in good stead in your career. But to get the biggest pay-off for your efforts, it’s best to focus on one at a time rather than try to work on all three of them at once. So, choose the one that will most help you become more successful if you work on it right now. Focus on that area first. Challenge #2: How to learn? Once you’ve identified what you want to learn or develop, then it’s about finding the best way to go about it. As in how to do that learning. For some, it might be taking a course or even getting a degree. But for those of us who can’t or don’t want to take time off work to study formally, the easiest and most effective way to learn is to develop a reading habit. The easiest and most effective way to learn is to develop a reading habit. Recommended Reading To help feed your reading habit, there are three books I highly recommend â€" one for each key development area (working on your Self, working with People, and working on the Business). Start with the one that intrigues you or that will help you the most right now or both. 1. For Working on Your Self and Your Self-Awareness Mindset: The New Psychology of Successby Carol Dweck In Mindset, Carol Dweck talks about the difference between having a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. Guess which one will serve you better in your career? Yes, it’s the growth mindset of course! My biggest takeaway was how to think about failure. I've always had this huge fear of failure. That fear drove me to achieve and accomplish in my chosen field. But it also kept me from playing bigger and being the very best I could be. Early in my career, I was offered an opportunity to become a product manager which would have given me a new area of expertise as well as exposure to all the regional coverage bankers. But I turned it down because I was afraid. I feared I wasn’t technical enough to become a product expert. Maybe I wouldn’t be able to answer clients’ questions about the product. What if our market share dropped because I couldn’t do the job properly? My mindset kept me in my comfort zone, and it was only when my boss moved on that I (as his deputy) was forced to find a new role. But it was from a position of weakness. Unfortunately, this is just one example of how my fearfulness got in the way of my career. Reading Mindset has helped me see failure as a learning and growth opportunity, which has taken a lot of the pressure off for me. If only I had this book back in the day to keep my fear of failure from holding me back! Failing is not an endpoint. It’s a learning and growth opportunity along your journey. 2. For Working with People The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Foreverby Michael Bungay Stanier The Coaching Habit is about being an exceptional leader by using coaching techniques. My big take away from this book is that as a leader, you don't need to have all the answers. Which is a relief because none of us can know all the solutions. Often, the most important thing is to ask a good question. Asking a question can really empower your team and allow them to shine. Plus, as a leader you always have the option to share your input after they've given an answer. Asking a question can empower your team and allow them to shine. I’ve used this technique in my own team meetings with great results. We were in planning mode for our upcoming strategy session and I was all set to tell the team about the agenda I had put together. After all, I’m the one “in charge”. So it felt natural that I should “do my job” and “take charge”. At the start of our weekly team call, I was about to launch into, “Here's what we're going to do…” But when I looked at my team, I suddenly realized that I was surrounded by A players with diverse and relevant experience, including people whose backgrounds ranged from: COO for a $250mm business unit Member of a corporate strategy team Founder of a digital marketing business Analytics guru for a $1bn organization That’s when I put aside my planned script and said, “I want to tap into the wisdom of the group here. In your experience, what’s been effective in these kinds of strategy sessions?” This one question led us to a lot of great ideas that I hadn't thought of myself. Thank you, awesome team! 3. For Working on the Business The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goalsby Sean Covey, Chris McChesney and Jim Huling The Four Disciplines of Execution is about getting your most important strategic priorities accomplished and keeping the whirlwind of urgent daily tasks from knocking you off course. This book has been super helpful for me because I indeed work in a whirlwind â€" some that I create, and others that just happen. In my world, there are always deadlines, lots of things going on, and attractive shiny objects to chase! Sometimes, I wonder whether all my activities are the equivalent of splashing around in the swimming pool but not getting to the other side. This book has really helped me focus on the most important 1-2 big goals that are important but not yet urgent, and to make time to get them done. This includes getting my team to buy into them too so that we're all working together. That’s how we were able to plan ahead and deliver our Career Masteryâ„¢ Kickstart Summit in January with 50 experts sharing their best advice to help over 14,000 professionals get their careers off to a great start in the new year. All while doing our “regular work”. What’s on Your Nightstand? I hope these three suggestions give you some food for thought in your ongoing self-development journey. Whether you’ve got a reading habit already or need to make a fresh start, spending just 5-10 minutes a day can go a long way. Start by getting in touch with why you’re doing the reading. Link it to something important to you, whether that’s improving your skills and confidence so you’re able to get promoted to the next level, having more interesting things to say to your clients, or something else entirely. Then figure out what kinds of things you want to learn about to help you achieve that purpose. An easy way is to think through which of the three key development areas would most help you if you worked on it right now. Is it about working on your Self, working with People, or working on the Business? Then you’re ready to choose a book to start with, whether that’s by asking people for recommendations (a great way to connect with your network!), doing a few searches online, going to your local book store or starting with one of the three books listed here. So, what are you going to read next? What’s the book that you’re putting on your nightstand? Leave a comment and let me know.

What Is RSum?

What Is RSum?RSum (relative sum of independent transactions) is a tool used to determine whether you have an efficient trading strategy or not. It does this by determining the most profitable options from your position. If it finds one, it reduces the size of your position to zero and pays you a percentage of its profit. RSum will also keep track of your overall performance.The Technique: RSum comes in two variants: heuristic and algorithms. Heuristic algorithms are less sophisticated, while the more powerful algorithm requires a higher level of investment capital.Heuristic RSum is less precise. It uses the rules of the universe to reduce your losing trades. It gets its name from the fact that it tries to figure out what would happen if you placed one position against another.On the other hand, the algorithms work on a different principle and makes use of the principles of probability. In this form of RSum, you place as many bets as you can afford. It looks for the best win rates fro m each position and reduces them to one. After a short while, the algorithm will tell you which profitable options are the best options.Both methods are fairly reliable, but the algorithms are a lot better than the heuristic. It uses complex algorithms, so it may be better to try both when you first get started with trading.RSum and CFD: One of the best ways to utilize RSum is to use it in conjunction with CFD (contract for difference). A CFD is a bet that one side will lose more than the other. The reason why they work well together is because RSum takes the key factor of CFD and adjusts it in order to come up with more profitable options.The RSum Strategy: This RSum strategy is based on a combination of the heuristic and the CFD method. It may be of some assistance in helping you spot profitable positions, and then allow you to lessen the size of your position, since you're able to make a profit even when it loses.A lot of traders rely on RSum in order to make the easy way out of their trading. It doesn't require much time, and it doesn't require a lot of resources. It's easy to use, fast, and gives a more thorough and accurate analysis than most other methods.

How to Write a Perfect Resume

How to Write a Perfect ResumeResume writing books are in abundance and there is one particular manuscript that is being recommended to students in a writing class in college. This book has been written by professionals in the industry who can supply students with valuable information and ideas on how to write a great resume.PDF resumes are one of the best resume writing scripts available. This resume writing script teaches students how to edit their resume while making it more unique and interesting to people. With this script, students will learn how to use all kinds of fonts in order to make their resume stand out from the crowd.One major concern that people have with letters is that they get sent out to a million people in the first day of sending them out. It becomes necessary for students to carefully tailor their letters in order to only give their message to the intended recipients. One way to do this is to utilize the personalized font option in the Adobe Dreamweaver.Resume w riting books provide students with the strategies to write a resume that goes a long way to getting themselves a job. These tools will show students the benefits of doing so. Online schools do not typically have a degree program that teaches the proper methods of writing a resume. There are different things that you need to know in order to be able to write a successful resume.People often feel guilty about giving out too much information in order to get a job. If you are writing a resume with a good-looking cover letter, resume and cover letter, you will never have to worry about the fact that your potential employers might be looking at a lot of other candidates for the same position. These resume writing books teach students how to make sure that you are not wasting their time by having them reading or scanning through hundreds of resumes. The better way to go about it is to have them write their own letters.A pdf resume is easy to read and it is also very important to avoid mist akes when writing a resume. The good thing about a PDF resume is that students will learn how to avoid certain mistakes that are commonly made in an electronic document. They will also be able to identify the mistakes that they may make and be able to spot them before the final draft.One of the most important reasons that students should be taught these new methods is because it provides them with the opportunity to make changes to their resume, if they feel like it. This will also give them the chance to put their best foot forward in a job interview. The focus is on finding the best job possible for every student no matter what the cost is.

Resume Writing Students No Work Experience - What Is It?

Resume Writing Students No Work Experience - What Is It? The Upside to Resume Writing Students No Work Experience Don't worry, locating a job free of experience is extremely possible. Everyone that has a work right now has, sooner or later, had a very first job. Finding it can be hard for anyone, even a highly experienced professional who has successfully navigated several job changes. Therefore, when you sit down to compose your first resume, attempt to consider your prior jobs in a new light. Write about different challenges you faced in your prior jobs and the way you overcame them. Student resume template no work experience. The Do's and Don'ts of Resume Writing Students No Work Experience You might also have extra-curricular activities which you didn't list below the Experience section that may be included in a sub-section. In fact, a seasoned writer can get the job done much faster than any student as they've been writing academic assignments during their entire life. If you don't feel just like you have enough time to write essays all on your own, we will give you a hand, any instance of the day, seven days weekly. Resume examples and templates are very helpful, especially when you're writing one of your very first resumes. Learning how to do a resume when don't have any work experience is far easier if you may demonstrate some seasonal or short-term work experience. Your prior work experience has become the most significant part your zookeeper resume. Whil e the functional resume format may be an attractive alternative for job seekers with very little experience, most employers would rather have a chronological or hybrid resume format. As our group of writers is pretty big, we always have free writers keen to bring a manageable and well-paid purchase. The New Fuss About Resume Writing Students No Work Experience In case you have any part-time work, that will go a ways towards an excellent experience section. If you follow the suggestions above you will have an interesting, compelling resume summary that is likely to make the reader want to find out more about you even regardless of your lack of work experience! Stick to the tips above, and you'll have a resume that compensates for the deficiency of expertise and gets you the interview. You can trust the very best essay help online.

How Employers Can Retain Millennial Talent - Work It Daily

How Employers Can Retain Millennial Talent - Work It Daily As millennials enter the workforce, they are more interested in exploring a variety of different careers in temporary jobs rather than staying with one company for a longer period of time and making their way to the top (In fact, temporary jobs are expected to grow 13% over the next five years, according to a new study by CareerBuilder). Related: How Millennials Can Help Bridge The Workplace Generation Gap This attitude that millennials have about jobs being temporary is making an impact on the way companies go about hiring employees. Employers are having to tweak the way they approach job candidates to show why staying with their company will benefit them in the long run. When hiring millennials in these changing times, employers should use these tips to help grow employees and build a successful company culture so that they can retain millennial talent. Recently, PWC.com, a multinational professional services network, conducted a Millennials At Work Survey. The results were: 38% of currently working millennials said they were actively looking for a different role 43% of currently working millennials said they were open to job offers 18% of currently working millennials said they expect to stay with their current employer for the long term “Gen Y's notoriously short attention span has even transferred over to the workplace, where it's not uncommon for a 20-something to have worked for three or four different employers just in the last few years,” said Nicole Fallon in an article for Business News Daily. Here are two ways employers can retain millennial talent: 1. Put yourself in the shoes of the potential employee. “No matter how passionate you are about your company, it's important to always look outside a person's job responsibilities and guide them to focus on areas where they want to develop themselves in,” said Aaron Harvey of Ready Set Rocket. If you’re hiring a new employee, take a second and put yourself in their place and consider these questions: -Will I be able to use the skills I have to effectively do this job? -Will the skills I have currently improve from this job? -Will I gain skills that will be useful to me later in my career? -Do I have the opportunity to learn additional skills that aren’t required for this position? -Will this job open up opportunities for me in the future? -Do I fit in with the other employees here? Of course these questions are rather broad, and depending on the industry that the company falls into, they will vary. Additionally, when hiring a new employee, while it’s important that the potential employee can handle the job responsibilities, it’s also important that the employee has the opportunity to develop other skills that might not necessarily be needed to do the job. If the company ends up hiring this person, they can entice them to stay in the position by offering professional development programs. 2. Help employees see their future with the company. “Your employees will want to be in your shoes one day,” said Harvey, “help them paint that picture. If you're not tying someone to the big picture, then you're not doing it right, you need to let them see what they are trying to achieve.” Starting at the top of a company from the beginning of your career is nearly impossible unless you’re starting your own company. You can’t expect to be hired as an upper level manager or executive immediately after graduating from college. However, what many recent graduates can expect is an entry-level job that will likely involve a lot of grunt work that’s not particularly rewarding. While grunt work needs to be completed, if employers can show millennials that doing the grunt work will eventually pay off and earn them a higher position with the company, then the company will be able to better maintain millennial talent. “For millennials, their jobs are everything,” said Alyson Krueger in this Forbes article. “Their job is everything â€" how they introduce themselves at parties, what they think about during their free time, how they make friends, even how they express themselves creatively. Because it is the center of their lives and their identity, they are concerned with how they are going to advance in their career and succeed.” Finding and retaining millennial talent can be an arduous task, but using these tips can make the process a little easier. Related Posts 11 Job Search Commandments For College Grads 4 Common Fears Of Recent Grads 4 Ways Young Professionals Can Stand Out In A Crowded Job Market   About the author Sarah Lynch is an intern for CAREEREALISM Media. She is a senior Mass Communications Major with a minor in Public Relations at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina. Connect with her on LinkedIn or follow her on Twitter.     Photo Credit: Shutterstock Have you joined our career growth club?Join Us Today!