How to Build Your Support Group (in 3 Easy Steps!) - When I Grow Up

How to Build Your Support Group (in 3 Easy Steps!) - When I Grow Up I know that finding your support network can be super duper uper hard, which is why  I thought it would be fun to lay down a How to Build Your Support Group (in 3 Easy Steps!) video (and seriously, the steps are  easy  and theres even a bonus tip at the end!). I mean, I live in freakin New York City and when I was starting out as The When I Grow Up Coach, I felt all alone having to build it (and connect with others!) from my cubicle. Thankfully there was The Interwebs, and I can say now that Ive found some of my current bestest friends online. OK, I know that makes me sound like a loser to The Normal World, but if youre here hangin on my blog I have a feeling youre pickin up what Im puttin down and you  know that your Tribe is out there. Lemme help ya find em by watchin the video below!

Resume Writing Services in Maryland

Resume Writing Services in MarylandIf you want to hire someone for resume writing services in Maryland, you need to choose the right one. You have several options such as freelancers, corporate outsourcing, and others. We can help you choose the best one for your needs.Freelance writers are needed if you are on a tight budget. They offer less prices compared to other service providers. There are various freelancing agencies in the area.For small business writer, hiring one is also possible. It gives you quality output because they are not employed by big companies. Many people can do it because of its flexible work schedule.However, if you are looking for one that has lots of experience and excellent delivery of the work, you will need to look for professional companies. This type of writing requires more interaction between the client and the writer.Corporate outsourcing works for larger companies with the help of marketing and design experts who work out of one place and do all the business writing tasks for them. This kind of hiring is helpful especially for firms with a lot of work they need to write.Besides these, there are professional organizations that provide such services. These include but not limited to the American Writers Guild, National Center for the Book Arts, and Writers Guild of America. By taking professional resume writing services, you can save money, time, and effort.In addition, you need to hire talented writers that will produce a great output in accordance to the company's needs. You should know their skills and whether they are able to offer you quality output. If you want to hire one for resume writing services in Maryland, you have a few options to choose from.

Im a Millennial Millionaire. Heres How I Got So Rich

I'm a Millennial Millionaire. Here's How I Got So Rich By any definition, becoming a millionaire by your 30s isn’t easy, unless you happen to come from a lot of money. Tips abound on how you can accumulate wealth through saving and smart investments, but unless you’re putting away a lot of cash, a seven-figure net worth at such a young age can seem like a pipe dream. But it is attainable, at least if you’re resourceful, driven, and of course, lucky enough. While millennials have gotten a reputation for being entitled, many in their cohort have proven exactly how flexible, creative, and ultimately successful they can be in the business world. In some cases, they’re redefining what success looks like, all while pulling in massive incomes. We talked to two millennials who have achieved millionaire status about what it took to get thereâ€"and the wisdom they have to share. Find the ideal ‘side hustle’ Entrepreneurship is highly prized in American society, but it can often seem vague and unattainable. Knowing what it actually involves and forming a strategy can make all the difference. Grant Sabatier, founder of Millennial Money, more or less fell into it. His “aha moment” came when he started his first freelance project. “I was working full-time at a digital marketing agency and had only been there about three months when I sold my first side-hustle gig,” Sabatier, 32, said. “The project was building a website for a small law firm in Chicago for $500. I was so pumped to sign my own client, but really realized I was onto something when I sold a $50,000 website to a much larger law firm about 60 days later.” From that point on, Sabatier devoted himself “150%” to building his business, sacrificing much of his free time to do so. “Within a year I had made almost $300,000 and left my job to become a full-time entrepreneur,” he said. He says he went from having $2.26 to his name to over $1 million in assets in five years. Sabatier recommends that millennials who feel they’re in a professional rut should look for as many extra revenue streams as possible. Keep searching until you hit upon the gig “you like the most that makes you the most money.” But you may already know which business you want to target. Taso Du Val, the cofounder and CEO of the freelance talent network Toptalâ€"which counts J.P. Morgan and Airbnb among its clientsâ€"had a singular vision in mind for his company. He felt secure in his idea when Toptal signed its first deal. “The ability to scale it, for me, was clear,” Du Val, 32, said. Want it more than anything else Taso Du Val courtesy of Toptal It goes without saying that accruing significant wealth at a young age requires focus, but the sheer amount of dedication can be too much for some to bear. “You have to really want it. A lot of people say they want, but they don’t really want it,” Sabatier said of the effort required in becoming a millionaire. “You have to cancel your Netflix subscription and stay off Instagram and focus on building a business. You have to be willing to spend your extra time learning and pushing yourself. Read business books, listen to podcasts, or take a free online course instead of watching Netflix. Focus on investing in yourself and your skills. Slowly you’ll start seeing money-making opportunities in places you’ve never seen before.” That doesn’t mean you should drive yourself mad or lose out on worthwhile experiences. Sabatier went “overboard at times and struggled with finding balance” between work and everything else, and it ultimately led to “regrets,” he said. “I was working 80-to-100-hour weeks for a few years in my mid-to-late 20s, so I missed out on a lot of opportunities to hang out with friends and to travel as much as I wanted to.” Value your time. It is money… If you feel yourself stagnating in a nine-to-five routine, it may be time to rethink what those hours mean to youâ€"and their potential earning power. That was a revelation for Sabatier as he embarked on his new career. “The biggest lesson for me came from the book Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin, which in my opinion is the best book on money ever written,” he said. Among the takeaways is that whenever you’re working for a paycheck, you’re trading large pieces of your life for money. “This blew my mind and the mindset shift was immediate. I started valuing my own time and tried to make as much money as possible for my time.” He believes in figuring out the right amount of money you need to support the kind of life you want, and aiming for that, so you can free up time to do everything you’ve dreamed of. …And make money by adding value The key to large earnings often lies in understanding what it is you have to contribute and how it’s received by people in the position to pay you. Simply being young and hungry isn’t quite enough. “Money is a means to add value. You make it by adding value and you spend it on what’s valuable to you,” Du Val said. “I understood its importance by having little of it and studying every intricate component that adds value to a business.” His keen ability to identify how an innovative talent network like Toptal could serve major companies in new ways propelled his business. Toptal supplies freelance software engineers to clients with fluctuating demands. ‘Work to invest, not to spend’ Just because you can make a lot of money doesn’t necessarily mean you’re good at holding onto it. But saving is essential to seeing more commas in your bank statements. “Common wisdom is that you should save 5-15% of your income depending on who you ask. But if you can push it to 25%, 50%, or higher you can dramatically cut the number of years it takes to retire,” Sabatier said. “Sure, you have to cut back, but you should view saving as an opportunity, not a sacrifice.” And once you’re able to save money, putting as much of it in a diversified investment portfolio as possible is the fastest route to wealth-building. “I was saving at least 60-80% of my income and put literally every dollar I made on the side into investments so it could grow. I worked to invest, not to spend,” he added. Embrace the openness of being a millennial, but also be tough courtesy of Grant Sabatier Being a digital-native generation puts millennials at the forefront of the new economy. And as traditional office schedules slowly fade away, they’re primed to take advantage of new modes of working. “You can make money doing tons of different things online from anywhere in the world. That’s empowering. We are super scrappy and are figuring it out,” Sabatier said of his age cohort. But Du Val has observed a certain personality quirk among his generational peers that could put them at a disadvantage in becoming self-starters who add value to the world and make a lot of money while doing so. “They seem to be easily offended,” Du Val said of American millennials. “This is often correlated with being weak, so I would suggest to improve that.” Part of developing strength, after all, is acknowledging your weaknesses.

6 Most Horrifying Resume Blunders Employers Have Ever Seen - Work It Daily

6 Most Horrifying Resume Blunders Employers Have Ever Seen - Work It Daily For the most part, your resume is the very first impression you give to employers â€" you don’t want to give them the impression that you’re careless, lazy, or obsessed. A single resume faux pas can instantly turn off a hiring manager or recruiter, and, in some cases, creep them out a little bit. Horrifying Resume Blunders We asked a bunch of employers what was the absolute worst resume mistake they’ve come across. These are our six favorite. Laugh... and learn: 6. Dear... Sir? Elle Kaplan is the CEO of Lexion Capital Management, one of the only 100 percent women-owned and operated investment firms in the nation. So, it goes without saying that Kaplan is, in fact, a female. And yet, on more than one occasion, applicants have “been assuming that I am a male! Huge mistake,” she says. 5. LOL @ Text Language Susan Hawkins, a SEO content writer from AMSVans.com once saw a resume in which the applicant had used an ampersand () in place of the word “and” in every instance. Job seekers, this is a terrible, terrible way to show them you’re tech savvy! “Twitter and texting has led to the ubiquitous idea that the ampersand can be substituted for the word ‘and’ in all forms of writing,” she says, “It’s really sad.” 4. Template Bloopers Josh Hiebel from Saratoga Wine Exchange just got a resume this week from someone who didn’t finish filling out the template. “At the bottom it said, your name here and your address here,” Hiebel says. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the country, Elaine Simon from DeBebians.com encountered a similar, careless job applicant who used a template and forgot to replace all the information with their own details. “Seeing the telltale ‘ABC School- Sometown, NY’ on a resume definitely sends that candidate directly into the trash,” Simon says. It’s hard to believe that you’ll get stuff done if you can’t even finish a resume, people. 3. Unbelievable Embellishments We all know what happened when Yahoo’s former CEO Scott Thompson fibbed about his computer science degree (he got canned). Job seekers, bending the truth is just not worth it. “When I told one applicant that no one at his former company had heard of the ‘Executive Merit Award,’ he’d cited, he simply replied that was probably because, after he’d won it three years in a row, the company retired the reward in his honor,” said Barry Maher, speaker, trainer, consultant at Barry Maher Associates. Okay buddy, we weren’t born yesterday! Greg Szymanski, HR director for a Seattle real estate development firm, is fed up with all the lies. He especially encounters “education credentials from degree mills or other shady institutions or misrepresenting degrees earned.” 2. The Stalker Manifesto Researching online before a major event in our lives is pretty much second-nature to us now. Before you apply for a job, researching the company is a given â€" but spouting off too much information is a sign of desperation and, frankly, creepiness! One candidate sent Steve Jones, VP of programming for Newcap Radio, a resume and cover letter that could have easily been used in a horror movie. “He knew my wife’s maiden name and the names of my kids. He referenced not only things that I had accomplished in my career, but family events that he should have no knowledge of,” Jones says. “Using social media, he had gone deep and done his research,” he says. Beyond creepy! 1. Whoops! Wrong Upload When you upload your resume, all it takes is one click of a button â€" make sure it’s the right file! Because once it’s out there, there’s no turning back. Rachel Dotson from ZipRecruiter opened up a job applicant’s email only to find a screenshot of a desktop background. “While it’s an honest mistake, the fact that he didn’t check to make sure the document uploaded correctly reflects poorly,” Dotson says. But it could have been a lot worse. In fact, a similar hilarious resume blunder went viral recently. Vanessa Hojda, a York psychology student in Canada, uploaded a picture of crazy-eyed Nicolas Cage instead of her resume. Moral of the story: Don’t save your favorite celebrity photos in a folder among resumes and cover letters… oh, and always double check your upload before you send! Image Credit: Shutterstock Have you joined our career growth club?Join Us Today!

4 Tips For Starting A New Job As A New Mom

4 Tips For Starting A New Job As A New Mom Starting a new job can be overwhelmingly stressful. If youre starting a new job when youre also an exhausted new parent, that stress level will mora than double. When everythingin life is new from the new baby and boss in your life to hour new schedule and routines its nearly impossible not to be at least a bit off-kilter.A new mother recently reached out to me to ask if I could address new moms (or relatively new moms) starting a new job, especially when so much bandwidth and attention is required, and nerves are at play, too?In thinking about the best way to approach a new job when you are also a new parent, I turned to my favorite, long-time career coach (who, in full disclosure, happens to be my husband) for advice. Jason Levin of Ready Set Launch LLC explains that its normal to feel anxious about the transition. As is the case with any new job, you feel like you have to prove your competence to your new employer, you probably have hig h expectations of yourself and both your home and work environments are drastically different from what they once were.As you transition into a new job as a new parent, keep in mind Jasons four tips for success1. Focus on the quality of your work.Think hard about how to deliver the best possible work product. Yes, youre exhausted. Yes, youre probably dealing with sick kiddos. Yes, concentration is likely a struggle. But focusing on quality is key to establishing yourself as a trusted brand with your new employer. Give yourself as much time as possible to arrive at a quality product. If you need help in the concentration department, try out the Pomodoro technique to get some of your focus back.2. Communicate expectations about your schedule.If you havent already done so, make sure you have an open and honest conversation with your manager about your schedule so that everyone is on the same page. You can enlist your managers help in determining how to communicate your schedule to othe r colleagues, and go in knowing that how you behave in the beginning, schedule-wise, can affect perceptions of how you will use your time in the future.Particularly if you have negotiated a flexible schedule, think hard about setting strong boundaries at the beginning. Once you have developed your colleagues trust and expectations around when you will and wont be available, you can loosen up a bit and be more flexible with your flexibility.If you are still in the negotiation stages regarding flexibility and your schedule, check out the great advice here from the Diversity Flexibility Alliance. Consider trial periods and committing to a split-shift as negotiation tools.3. Learn your managers personalityThe key to succeeding in any job often depends in part on the working relationship you develop with your manager. This relationship is especially important when youre starting a new job and when youre a new parent, as youre in a more vulnerable position. Spend the first few weeks tryi ng to get a sense of how this person works, her personality, and expectations. Does your manager say what she means? Is she into bigger picture strategy or focused on details? What type of communication does she prefer? How often? What does she value?Consciously trying to get a sense of these data points about your new boss will help you navigate the best way to interact with her.4. Prioritize relationship-building.When you are so sleep-deprived that you feel like you could sleep for a year, it is understandably hard to focus and to engage with others. But you MUST prioritize building relationships within your new organization, and you need to commit time to this. Set realistic goals around relationship-building, and stick to them. Perhaps meet one new colleague for coffee, lunchor even a short chat per day.Some practical tips on how to do this?a. Use LinkedIn to identify colleagues at your new organization who may have gone to your same university, graduate school, etc. Reach out t o them.b. Take people up on their offers of introductions. Perhaps someone you know outside of work says hey, I know so-and-so at your new employer. I can introduce you. Follow up on this offer and meet that person you have in common.c. Meet individuals from other departments (not just your own), to help you get a better understanding of the organization from a broader perspective.d. Seek out other working parents. Theres likely to be an immediate bond between you, and they can help you navigate the culture around families and the workplace.You only have the opportunity to be a new employee once.Take full advantage of that clean slate now to get to know as many people as you can throughout the organization. By building relationships from the beginning, youll be giving yourself your best shot at integrating well into the organization.Finally, be kind to yourself...These 4 strategies will set you on the path to a successful integration into your new role. Id be remiss if I didnt remin d you to be kind and patient with yourself during this process, though. All transitions (and most especially, really big ones like these) take time. Be sure to focus on things that bring you calm. Get into routines that help you feel some rhythm, pattern, and consistency in your days. Hang in there, mama. And remember to celebrate having landed that new gig--Lori K. Mihalich-Levin, JD, is the founder of Mindful Return, author of Back to Work After Baby How to Plan and Navigate a Mindful Return from Maternity Leave, and creator of the Mindful Return E-Course. A partner in the health care practice of a global law firm, she also is mama to two beautiful red-headed boys. Lori holds a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center and completed her undergraduate studies at Princeton Universitys Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Facts, Fiction and Resume Writing Awards

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