Why Susan Boyle Makes Us Cry

Why Susan Boyle Makes Us Cry Why Susan Boyle Makes Us Cry Ive seen some great pieces on the Susan Boyle phenomenon and all make sense. (If you dont know who Susan Boyle is, go here first). This one by Letti Cottin Pogrebin suggests that Susan makes middle-aged women cry because she represents a triumph over ageism.I wonder about this like many people, Ive watched the video a time or 10, and Ive teared up every single time. Is it because I am glad Susan is triumphing over the bias against middle-aged women? (a bias I might add, that is one of the last prejudices you can express out loud without expecting any objection).But I dont think thats it for me. I think I get weepy because of the way the audience and the judges move so quickly from ugly disdain to love and admiration. To me this shows how much we all want to accept each other how much, as humans, we want to root for anothers success. I said this on Twitter last night, and someone pointed out that the initial disdain welches u psetting. Why were people so quick to dismiss the hopes and dreams of another? So ready to laugh at a fellow human being?I think fear is the answer. I think we all fear making fools of ourselves to some extent or another. I think we all dread not having the approval of others. By putting herself out there like that with her ill-fitting dress and bushy eyebrows, Susan was bringing all those fears to the surface and so we laughed. The audience, the judges, the public watching at home everyone laughed.But all it took was one honest, pure, heartfelt line of that song and everyone changed their minds. They wanted her to be good. They desperately wanted her to succeed. Even crusty old Simon Cowell was beaming with genuine joy at the audiences reaction. So I think that when we watch Susan Boyle sing that song, we feel encouraged that maybe the world isnt as cold and scary as it can sometimes seem and that if we just put ourselves out there authentically and honestly people will see the best in us.And thats enough to make anyone weep tears of joy.

Work Perks What Are Your Favorites

Work Perks What Are Your FavoritesWork Perks What Are Your FavoritesEducation and training, tuition assistance, flexible work hours, telecommuting opportunities, and mentoring programs topped an employee perks survey of 1,400 companies conducted this year by Robert Half International. A smaller number of companies in the survey said theyd be offering gift-matching programs, free or discounted meals, child care, on-site dry cleaning, and fitness center discounts. Do these sound like the sort of perks you look for from potential employers?Inc. Magazine decided to make a list of work perks that it loved best. Out of their 10 favorites, we loved Serving locally grown organic goodies, sending professional house cleaners to employees homes twice monthly, letting employees use a percentage of their paid work time to do their own research, giving employees up to $5,000 to travel abroad and experience new cultures on vacation, and allowing employees two weeks paid leave to work for a green no nprofit they chooseEven the employers down under in Australia rely on employee perks to retain their highly qualified staff. The Sydney Morning Herald reported just this week that 80 percent of business executives say, the limited access to qualified staff is the biggest threat to their objectives and theyre trying to retain as many qualified professionals as they can using work perks. Thats mighty smart of them, because one company in the article found that 60 percent of its employees admit that a major reason they stay with the company is because of the employee perks.geschftliches miteinander Insider went even further to list 16 Company Perks that Will Make You Insanely Jealous, including the free company pub found at Molson Coors, Genetechs free dog sitting program, DPR Constructions on-site wine bar, and Integrated Archive Systems $10,000 subsidy for any employee who wants to buy a hybrid vehicle. Jealous? Yes. Insanely Jealous? Perhaps.How about you? Have you ever had a work p erk that would make your friends insanely jealous? For your situation, what is the most desirable employee perk that a company can offer? Sound off in the comments, or find us on Facebook and Twitter

J.K. Rowling Failure gave me an inner security

J.K. Rowling Failure gave me an inner securityJ.K. Rowling Failure gave me an inner securityIts graduation season, and we herbeie at Ladders have decided to take a look back and showcase some past commencement addresses that stand the test of time. Below is the full transcript of J.K. Rowlings commencement address to Harvards Class of 2008President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates.The first thing I would like to say is thank you. Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honor, but the weeks of fear and nausea I have endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the worlds largest Gryffindor reunion.Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day welches the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I cant remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, the law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.You see? If all you remember in years to come is the gay wizard joke, Ive come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable goals the first step to self-improvement.Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you today. I have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons I have learned in the 21 years that have expired between that day and this.I have come up with two answers. On this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I h ave decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure. And as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called real life, I want to extol the crucial importance of imagination.Itscommencement seasonFollow Ladders Commencement Addresses magazine on Flipboard to watch and read all of the most inspiring speeches from this year and years past.These may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but please bear with me.Looking back at the 21-year-old that I welches at graduation, is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-year-old that she has become. Half my lifetime ago, I welches striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected of me.I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mort gage, or secure a pension. I know that the irony strikes with the force of a cartoon anvil, now.So they hoped that I would take a vocational degree I wanted to study English Literature. A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages. Hardly had my parents car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor.I canelendlage remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day. Of all the subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.I would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do leid blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. What is more, I cannot criticise my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor, and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my peers.I am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted and well-educated, you have never known hardship or heartbreak. Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the Fates, and I do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and contentment.However, the fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure. You might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success. Indeed, your conception of failure might not be too far from the average persons idea of success, so high have you already flown.Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it. So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in verfallen Britain, without being homeless. The fears that my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew.Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was totenstill alive, an d I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all in which case, you fail by default.Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowled ge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyones total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.Now you might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I personally will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those books. This revelation came in the form of one of my earliest day jobs. Though I was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours, I paid the rent in my early 20s by working at the African research department at Amnesty Internationals headquarters in London.There in my little office I read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to them. I saw photographs of those who had disappeared without trace, sent to Amnesty by their desperate families and friends. I read the testimony of torture victims and saw pictures of their injuries. I opened handwritten, eye-witness accounts of summary tr ials and executions, of kidnappings and rapes.Many of my co-workers were ex-political prisoners, people who had been displaced from their homes, or fled into exile, because they had the temerity to speak against their governments. Visitors to our offices included those who had come to give information, or to try and find out what had happened to those they had left behind.I shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who had become mentally ill after all he had endured in his homeland. He trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video camera about the brutality inflicted upon him. He was a foot taller than I was, and seemed as fragile as a child. I was given the job of escorting him back to the Underground Station afterwards, and this man whose life had been shattered by cruelty took my hand with exquisite courtesy, and wished me future happiness.And as long as I live I shall remember walking along an empty corridor and suddenly hear ing, from behind a closed door, a scream of pain and horror such as I have never heard since. The door opened, and the researcher poked out her head and told me to ansturm and make a hot drink for the young man sitting with her. She had just had to give him the news that in retaliation for his own outspokenness against his countrys regime, his mother had been seized and executed.Every day of my working week in my early 20s I was reminded how incredibly fortunate I was, to live in a country with a democratically elected government, where legal representation and a public trial were the rights of everyone.Every day, I saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on their fellow humans, to gain or maintain power. I began to have nightmares, literal nightmares, about some of the things I saw, heard, and read.And yet I also learned more about human goodness at Amnesty International than I had ever known before.Amnesty mobilizes thousands of people who have never been tortured or imprisoned for their beliefs to act on behalf of those who have. The power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives, and frees prisoners. Ordinary people, whose personal well-being and security are assured, join together in huge numbers to save people they do not know, and will never meet. My small participation in that process was one of the most humbling and inspiring experiences of my life.Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other peoples places.Of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally neutral. One might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much as to understand or sympathize.And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally they can refuse to know.I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. I think the wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expre sses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other peoples lives simply by existing.But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other peoples lives? Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. Even your nationality sets you apart. The great majority of you belong to the worlds only remaining superpower. The way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your borders. That is your privilege, and your burden.If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who c elebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already we have the power to imagine better.I am nearly finished. I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my childrens godparents, the people to whom Ive been able to turn in times of trouble, people who have been kind enough not to sue me when I took their names for Death Eaters. At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister.So today, I wish you nothing better than similar friendships. And tomorrow, I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdomAs is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.I wish you all very good lives.Thank you very much.

Are You Aware of Your Hiring Biases

Are You Aware of Yur Hiring BiasesAre You Aware of Your Hiring BiasesGender, race and beauty hiring biases have been well-documented, but theyre bedrngnis the only biases that come into play when hiring. A hiring managers cognitive biases matter, too.Cognitive biases are predictable patterns of thought that people unconsciously fall back on to navigate complicated decisions by making answers seem simple and intuitive even though they arent. In the worst of situations, says You Are Not So Smart author David McRaney, They cause us to mistake our shortcuts for logic. The result is an undeserved overconfidence that we arrived at our assumptions through logic and reason.Hiring decisions are complicated, yet how many hiring managers stop and think about the many seemingly innocent ways theyre biased? (You may pat yourself on the back if you have.)Over 100 cognitive biases exist. Here are a few that hiring managers should keep in mindAnchoring Relying too heavily on one piece of information when making a decision.Example You interview someone who was unemployed for a long period of time, and you let this fact weigh more heavily than the applicants otherwise solid qualifications.Bandwagon Effect Believing something because many other people do.Example You think a candidate is right for the job, but others disagree with you. Someone under the sway of the Bandwagon Effect might be convinced that the candidate is not right because the groups opinion holds higher value than their own judgment.Confirmation Bias The granddaddy of all cognitive biases. Its the tendency to prove that ones own assumptions about the world are correct by looking for confirmation of preconceived notions instead of testing those assumptions.Example When you interview graduates from a top university, you might look for evidence theyre good workers rather than testing that assumption.Decoy Effect When a preference for vorkaufsrecht A or B changes in favor to option B when option C is presented. Optio n C is similar to option B, but its not better.Example Youre struggling to choose between two good candidates, and then you interview a third candidate. Suddenly youre infatuated with one of your first two candidates even though the original candidates value has not changed.Illusory Correlation Inaccurately perceiving a relationship between two unrelated events.Example Lowering your opinion about a job candidate who worked at two companies that failed through no fault of the applicant.Social Comparison Bias The tendency when making hiring decisions to favor candidates who dont compete with ones own strengths.Example The head of a sales team who likes to think hes the funniest guy in the room favors the candidate who will not steal the spotlight.A close relative of the cognitive bias is the logical fallacy. You may have studied logical fallacies in a psychology class in college. Theyre worth brushing up on. Cognitive fallacies- like cognitive biases- reveal a lack of sound thinking.B ecause cognitive biases occur unconsciously, theyre difficult to eliminate. Being aware of them is not enough to tamp them down, according to bias researchers Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman. Jim Benson, the author of Why Plans Fail Cognitive Bias, Decision Making, and Your Business, encourages hiring managers to step back and think about their cognitive biases within the context of the system in which they occur.HR and our current hiring practices are built almost entirely on cognitive bias, Benson said. Reducing it involves major upheavals in the profession.You cant deal with cognitive bias without dealing with the systems in which those cognitive biases occur.Bensons advice to hiring managers1. Understand why you are hiring peopleJob descriptions are inherently biased. There is a drive to be overly precise in the job description because ambiguity is cognitively distressing. The fact is, the more precise you are the more limited your candidate pool will be.2. Understand that you are hiring peopleIndividuals are worth more than resumes. Many of the architects of the tech boom would not be hired by their own companies today because they did not go to college, did poorly in high school and would have arrived with zero references.3. Understand that any decision you make is greatly impacted by cognitive biasSo hire with more than one person and dont use a checklist.4. Understand that your checklist reduces options for your companyAsk, Why is this person right for the job? instead of focusing on why that applicant should be eliminated.5. Look for ways to be surprised or enlightened by candidatesExpect no one to be right for the job expect them to be perfectly not-right for the job.6. Understand that your company is a systemYou are plugging people into that system. Are you honest about how your company treats people? How does the company motivate people to innovate, improve and create? Will this person with the perfect resume actually survive in this culture? Will this person make the culture better?Cognitive biases are extremely difficult to eliminate, but with forethought and the proper systems in place, they can be mitigated, and thats a laudable goal.Read Related ArticlesBalancing Act Ethical Interviewing That WorksThree Simple Ways to Attract the Right CandidateAnd Deter All Others

15 Career Options for Working With Horses

15 Career Options for Working With Horses15 Career Options for Working With HorsesThere are many different career options for those interested in working with horses. Here are fifteen equine career possibilities, from veterinarian to jockey. 1. Equine Veterinarian Equine veterinarians provide preventive health care for horses and treat their injuries. Becoming a licensed equine veterinarian involves a significant educational commitment, but the career has a solid average salary of $85,000. Board certified practitioners (also known as veterinary specialists) can earn much higher salaries. 2. Equine Veterinary Technician Equine veterinary technicians provide assistance to veterinarians as they complete exams and surgical procedures. Vet techs must complete a two-year degree and pass an exam to become licensed in the field. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (SBS), technicians earn a median annual wage of$31,800. The top ten percent earn $47,410 or more, while the botto m ten percent earn $21,890or less.veterinary technician specialist certification (VTS) may earn even higher levels of compensation. 3. Riding Instructor Riding instructors supervise students and direct them in riding lessons and training sessions. They may also ride the students horse to demonsttarif proper techniques. Instructors may specialize in a variety of riding disciplines such as hunt seat, saddle seat, dressage, reining, and show jumping. Independent riding instructors typically charge an hourly rate for services but on average earn about $35,00 to $39,000 a year. 4. Farrier Farriers are responsible for trimming, maintaining, and balancing equine hooves. Farriers must attend to each equine client about seven times per year on average. Most farriers are self-employed and can learn the trade via apprenticeship and certification courses. In some cases, the wage gap can be as great as$40,000for pleasure horses to$200,000or more for racing and show horses 5. Mounted P olice Officer Mounted police officers use their horses to provide crowd control and deter crime. Mounted officers must first achieve regular police officer status via police academy training (which takes roughly six months) and then spend about three years on the force before becoming eligible to apply for specialty units like the mounted patrol. Police officers earn an average salary of $70,000. 6. Broodmare Manager Broodmare managers supervise the care of mares and foals. They are responsible for assisting with foalings, teasing mares, and keeping detailed veterinary and production records. The average salary for a broodmare manager is about $40,577. 7. Stallion Manager Stallion managers supervise the care and breeding of stallions. Theyre involved in scheduling breeding shed appointments, supervising daily care, and promoting stallions to the public. The average salary for a stallion manager is $37,000 to $40,000 ay ear. 8. Jockey A jockey rides racehorses in flat or steeplechase races according to the coachs instructions. Jockeys can ride multiple races each day, as well as working horses in the morning. Earnings vary widely because the jockey earns a percentage of their horses winnings in each race, and race purses vary by track and level of competition. However, a good average gauge is that while jockeys only get paid around $100 or so to ride a mount, they collect about 10 percent of the first-place money and 5 percent of the second-, third,- and fourth-place money paid to the owners if thehorse finishes. 9. Groom Grooms provide daily care for the horses under their supervision, taking care to notice any changes in a horses behavior or body that might signal a need for veterinary care.While the BLS does not separategroom salarydata from the category of animal care and service workers, the estimated average salaryto be$19,360 per year. 10. Exercise Rider Exercise riders work horses each morning on the racetrack, following the instruc tions theyre given by trainers. Exercise riders are generally a bit taller and heavier than jockeys. Riders are usually paid by the mount, and a full-time exercise rider can earn a salary of $27,000 ($500 to $700 per week). 11. Barn Manager Barn managers supervise the care of the horses in their stable. They may be involved with hands-on horse care, managing employees, and scheduling deliveries of feed and bedding. Barn managers earn an average of $32,000 a year. 12. Bloodstock Agent Bloodstock agents evaluate horses at auction and bid on them on behalf of their clients. They may also arrange the purchase of stallion seasons, proven racehorses, or horses that are privately for sale. Most bloodstock agents are involved in the Thoroughbred industry and earn a commission for their services. New agents can earn about $39,000 per year, while experienced professionals may earn six figures. 13. Equine Dental Technician Equine dental technicians remove sharp points from a horses teeth (in a procedure known as floating the teeth). Dental care ensures that the horse can eat and perform properly. Equine dental techs usually earn a set fee per horse treated, with yearly earnings topping $69,000. 14. Racehorse Trainer Racehorse trainers condition their equine charges to compete in racing events. They must be well versed in all aspects of horsemanship and pass a licensing exam in each state where they intend to compete. Trainers earn a day rate for the horses under their care plus a percentage of their horses winnings. Most trainers earn between $20,000 and $60,000 annually, though top trainers routinely earn six-figure salaries. 15. Horse Breeder Horse breeders arrange matings that result in foals of a certain breed or foals that are suited for a specific type of competition. While the salary of a breeder can vary widely based upon what breed they produce and the quality of their breeding stock, according to the BLS, the median annual salary earned by a llanimal breeders is $39,380.

What to Expect From Scholarship Resume Examples?

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Improving Your Candidate Screening Process - Spark Hire

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Top Exam Study Guides For PMP

Top Exam Study Guides For PMPTop Exam Study Guides For PMPWhether you are studying for your Project Management Professional exams or trying to refresh your project management skills, there are some really good guides out there to meet your needs. While all of these guides are good resources, the best approach often is using a blend of materials and books during your studies. PMP certification is provided by the Project Management Institute, which has chapters in more than 200 countries. Ace the PMP Exam Apple iPad This is part of the iPad publishing app, so is not in a traditional book format for a study guide, but dont let that put you off. The guide has interactivity built in through flashcards, questions and answers, and interactive presentations. The layout is clean and easy to read, and its simple to navigate. The app includes real-world project challenges like how to apply processes to a multiphase project. This makes it practical for real-life as well as for a test-taking guide. Find it on iTunes. Head First PMP Jennifer Greene and Andrew Stellman OReilly Media, 2013. ISBN 978-1449364915 The publishers say the book is structured in the way your mind works, and it does seem to be structured in a way which makes a lot of sense for a project manager. There is an emphasis on graphical representation of the information as well as interactivity, which you may find useful if you find you learn better from those types of study aids. If you do use this guide, make sure you do all the exercises as you go through, as it really aids your learning process. PMP Exam Prep Accelerated Learning to Pass PMIs PMP Exam Rita Mulchay RMC Publications Inc, 2013. ISBN 978-1932735659 This is a well-structured guide that leads you logically through what you need to know to reisepass the exam. There are good sample questions and useful hints and tips throughout. It is easy to read and includes some well-explained definitions, which can be a real bonus, as sometimes glo ssary terms can be written in a dry inaccessible way. So when you are approaching the exam and get the inevitable mental block, a simple explanation to remind you about a concept can be a lifesaver. The PMP Exam How to Pass on Your First Try Andy Crowe, Velociteach Press 2013. ISBN 978-0982760857 Simple explanations of the complex concepts required to pass the PMP exam are contained within this book, including the project management knowledge areas. It covers the rationales behind the courses of action required to take depending on what situation you face in the exam and in the real world. It also boasts a really good glossary of terms. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide)- 5th Edition Project Management Institute, 2013. ISBN 978-1935589679 This is the official reference text you must know to pass the exam. The latest edition expands on the chapters available in previous versions and has added some invaluable details about the examinations. This book sets the standard for what you need to know to pass the exam, which makes it an essential, if bulky, tome. PM Prepcast OSP International LLC, available as a downloadable product from their website. This series of training videos can be a useful study guide, particularly if you have a busy schedule. You can study for your exam on the go across any of your devices. The visual presentation is straightforward and has a user-friendly way of accessing what can be a complicated set of information. As well as being for people who are on the move a lot, it also could appeal to anyone who finds they learn more effectively from visual sources rather than solely reading textbooks. PMIs Code of Ethics Available as a PDF download from the PMI website. Ethics relates to how we best use resources (human and other) to achieve our goals. PMI has a focus on honesty, responsibility, respect, and fairness in the work its members carry out. The code of ethics sets out how we can all meet the se standards, and your PMP exam will include questions that reference PMIs code of ethics.

5 Easy Steps to be More Successful at Work or in a Job Search - FlexJobs

5 Easy Steps to be More Successful at Work or in a Job Search - FlexJobs5 Easy Steps to be More Successful at Work or in a Job Search -4Here are five easy steps to help you kick yourself into gear and be mora successful at work or in your job search1. Aim to surprise your boss, co-workers, and people in your professional network often in a good way.Even in small ways, you can make yourself and ultimately your value to your company stand out.2. Take inventory of your accomplishments.Make a detailed list, including measurable metrics that help convey the list.3. Take inventory of your weaknesses.Make a list of areas that are important to your job, and that you want to improve upon or get become more knowledgeable in.4. Find ways to improve.Pull from both your accomplishments (how you can do more along those lines) and from your weaknesses (find a mentor or enroll in a business class, etc., to help).5. Set goals.Start with 5 or so, and add from there. Some can be small, some big. Then put a recurring appointment in your calendar to review once a month to see where you are, cross off ones youve done, and add new ones that come up.Truly, just being aware that you have a deciding role in how successful you are can help you BE successful at work and in your search. Yes, from time to time we can all be mercy tocircumstances (badeconomy, bad bosses, badco-workers, bad days, etc.), but its important to remember that YOU can help YOU be successful.

Nominations Due for Top Society Awards

Nominations Due for Top Society Awards Nominations Due for Top Society Awards ASME Honors and Awards is accepting nominations for the Societys two most prestigious honors, the ASME Medal and Honorary Membership, through March 1. Both awards are presented at the annual Honors Assembly at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in November.The ASME Medal, which was established in 1920, is the highest award that the Society can bestow. The medal recognizes eminently distinguished engineering achievement. The recipient will receive a $15,000 honorarium, a gold medal, a certificate and an expense supplement to attend the award presentation. For mora information and for a list of past winners, visit http//bit.ly/1FuZCgn. ASME Honorary Membership, which is the highest level of membership in the Society, recognizes distinctive contributions to engineering, science, industry, research, public service, or other pursuits allied with and beneficial to the engineer ing profession. The recipient will receive a silver medal, a certificate, a lapel pin and an expense supplement to attend the award presentation. For more information on ASME Honorary Membership, visit http//bit.ly/185UrIO. Nominations for both honors should be submitted by March 1 by e-mail to Fran McKivor, ASME Honors and Fellows, at mckivorfasme.org. To learn more about the ASME Honors and Awards program, visit www.asme.org/about-asme/get-involved/honors-awards.