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How to Rave Your Best Fit Future Job

How to Rave Your Best Fit Future Job

by | Mar 9, 2018 | Coach Iris Clermont, Job search, Job search

How to Rave Your Best Fit Future Job – Guiding Questions

by Iris Clermont 09/03/2018

Iris Clermont

To strengthen your clarity about your big future job picture.

To sharpen your magnifier view for your future job expectations.

To focus on the impact you intend to add to the industry.

with the overall benefit to find your best job fit fast and easy.

 

Part 1: High level helicopter perspective over your future job:

What attracts you thinking about your future job and thinking about the currently existing market situation?

What plays a key role for you when thinking about your future job from a helicopter or from a distant and relaxing mountain view?

 

Part 2: Closer magnifiers look to your values and strengths:

What are your TOP 3 values (reliability, honesty, security, freedom, efficiency… please find an example value list from the following link http://corevalueslist.com, which need to be met for your future job?

What are your TOP 3 strengths (maximizer, achiever, activator, innovator, futuristic…, example link: Gallup 34 strengths http://www.strengthstest.com/strengths-finder-themes)?

 

Part 3: Closer magnifier look to your best job fit:

What kind of company (small, middle, large size, startup…) attracts you most?

What industries (car, chemistry, telecom, health, travel…, example list of industries link: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/industries/) interest you most?

What kind of job (line manager, project manager, freelancer, consultant CEO, Account, finance, research, product, human resources, marketing…) fits best to your values, strengths, experiences and skills?

How do you describe an optimal team you want to be part of?

What is the concrete impact you want to add for the company, for your future clients and shareholders with your experiences, skills, values and strengths?

 

Part 4: Completion and Way Forward questions:

What are now, after looking at your job expectations from different perspectives, your TOP 3 best job fits?

What are the open questions regarding your future the best fit job?

Who or what can help you to find responses for your open questions?

What are your next 3 concrete steps towards your future career?   

 

Please feel free to use the online anonymous questionnaire open till 31. March 2017:

https://www.einfacheumfrage.de/RespWeb/Qn.aspx?EID=2237879

The outcome will be anonymously shared in one of the next articles.

 

Congratulations for your time that you invested for your future career.  I wish you great success with your best fit future job. You are more than welcome to contact me: info@aiccoaching.com and send me your insights, comments and questions.

For your consideration: You can create an impact with your decisions and actions, with your ideas, your strategy thoughts and targets.

Creating an impact is your everyday’s own choice.

 

by Iris Clermont 09/03/2018

Iris Clermont University graduated in mathematics and international professional Certified Coach with 25 years of Coaching and Consulting Projects in 20 countries for 30 international companies and author of Team Magic ISBN-10: 1905823959. You will find numerous references from her webpage: http://www.aic-coaching.com/about-me/references.html

Iris Clermont

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3 Indicators to Know If You Are Stressed

3 Indicators to Know If You Are Stressed

by | Feb 20, 2018 | Coach Guadalupe Gomez

3 Indicators to Know If You Are Stressed

3 Indicators to Know If You Are Stressed

by Guadalupe Gómez Baides 20/02/2018

Am I under stress?

Although there is a type of stress which is positive and beneficial, when we talk about feeling stressed, we mean the feeling when our active behaviour is too high, and we begin to notice symptoms of exhaustion.

It is important to know if we have reached the point of exhaustion or we are close to reach it, as it is very harmful to our body, our mental health (or emotional health) and our relationships with others.

We like to think that we know when we are stressed; we have a false sense of control over our body. It is true that we can know it, but not without being aware of it, understanding a little bit what stress is and self-reflecting. Certainly the body warns us, but not as clearly as we would like… So, how do you answer yourself “Am I under stress or not?”?

Let’s take a look of some “warnings” that our body and mind give us:

 

Emotional Indicators

When stress becomes chronic and begins to be damaging to health, it is often accompanied by feelings of “not coming”, from overwhelm to distress, a restlessness, an over-demanded feeling and that horrible feeling that you need that your days have more hours to cover more things.

Also when we are under stress we become more irritable. Studies show that when you suffer from stress, you can easier resist to those “really important things” like divorce, death, illness of a child; but it is harder to endure in everything else, that means: any nonsense affects us a lot! This explains why many people react so aggressively to minor car accidents or to a sports result.

 

Cognitive-behavioral indicators

All the cognitive clarity that gives a small dose of stress is lost when the stress is more intense and expands over time. The first thing you notice is that you are not so “awake”, it is hard to concentrate, it is difficult to make decisions, the right word that we are looking for does not appear, we do not withhold information easily, etc.

From the point of view of behaviour, we “reward” us more often with those things that we know they are bad (cigarettes, alcohol, chocolate, ice cream, etc.). Each person has his/her own and some have several 😉

 

Physical indicators

When our stress reaches a too high a level, the digestive tract warns us, but to notice it before it is too late, we must pay close attention and keep calm. If not, we will have developed some type of gastritis (when not ulcer) and/or we will have some irritable bowel syndrome (if not Crohn’s disease).

The breathing is more superficial, and we breathe only with the upper part of the lungs. This may be evident but we are not used to observe it… 

The third and the one who suffers the most is always the quality of sleep. In quality, quantity or both at once. I don’t know if we all understand the absolute importance of sleeping good in our lives (when I look around, I would say: we don’t). From the physiological point of view it is totally vital but we often forget that, from the emotional point of view, the lack of sleep is devastating. What’s worse, when sleeping badly we have more stress, and the more stress we get, the worse we sleep and so we enter a vicious circle that can end our physical and psychological health, our quality of life, and our life itself. 

So, what would you answer to the question “Am I under stress?”?

 

 

Guadalupe is the founder and Academic Director of the Cegos School of Executive Coaching www.cegos.es. She’s certified by the International Coach Federation (ICF) since 2005 and has more than 4000 hours of coaching experience (individual and team coaching). Follow Guadalupe on Twitter @GGomezBaides.
Guadalupe Gómez Baides

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Top 10 Career Building Mantras

Top 10 Career Building Mantras

by | Feb 13, 2018 | Career advice, Career advice, Career advice

Top 10 Career Building Mantras

Top 10 Career Building Mantras

by Peter Hayward

Building a career plan is a very individual affair and will depend on your own abilities, needs and what motivates you. A good career coach will help you choose one of the right career strategies for putting your career aspirations into an actionable plan. Coaching can help you explore and realize your possibilities however you will decide what you are going to put into action and pace yourself. This said, I often get asked what my top tips and tricks are for career building in large corporations. Here are my Top 10…

#1 – Don’t leave things up to chance!

This is all about setting time aside to plan your career. Think about how much time you set aside planning your last vacation and now compare that to how much time you are currently spending planning your career. If you don’t proactively plan and set time aside for yourself to plan… chances are you never will.  So set aside at least an hour a quarter in your calendar with yourself and a good career coach to consider different career strategies. Treat Yourself! Find the best time and place that works for you and block the time in your calendar so nobody takes it away.

#2 – Take Care of yourself!

Managers will change and move on. So make sure you don’t become dependent on anyone else when planning your career. Even the best and most sensible of managers will be thinking of their next move and most of the time they won’t be counting you in their plans.

#3 – Understand and know yourself well!

The one person who has spent the most time with yourself in your life is yourself. Nobody knows you as well as yourself!. You may not be aware of your needs, strengths and capabilities. A good coaching session and some simple psychometric tests will open up new doors and perspectives.

#4 – Think with the End in Mind – Think big and plan long term.

Define where you want to be and not where you are. Do not limit yourself to when you are today rather think how you would like it to be! The best jobs are the ones you create yourself not the ones you apply for! (most of the time jobs have been created for a specific person).

#5 – Build on your strengths.

Right from school onwards we are conditioned into trying to improve what we are not naturally good at! Don’t waste too much time trying to be good at something that you don’t believe in, rather instead focus your energy in excelling at what you are really good at. This great article from Alexander Wollboldt can really help you with this. So called flaws or weaknesses should be framed as development areas.

#6 – Nurture your professional Network.

Top performers in large companies are people who are influential beyond their immediate department. Make sure you are connected to the right people across your organisation. Use your network smartly when source knowledge and information. Including Mentors and sponsors in your career network will help create awareness of yourself and your skill set in others – this is one of the most effective career strategies to give your career a real boost.

#7 – Build Feedback loops into your Professional Development.

Once you have a plan of where you want to take your career to,  make sure you are sharing it with others and getting insights. Take time to not only share but also to take other perspectives on board. Communication is a two way process, so make sure you are spending time  listening.

#8 – Leverage the Career Development Tools & Resources at your disposal.

Use Talentese Resources! In addition, most companies have programs and resources to help employees build careers. These resources may not be transparent and immediately visible. Find out where these resources are and who own them!.

#9 – Build a master Plan!

You will need to find a way to formalize or capture your thoughts. Make sure you put it into onto paper!. Digital is good, writing it down in your own words in your own handwriting is better. The best career strategies are simple sets of concrete and actionable steps – built on the above mantras. This is not about massive laundry lists of items, I recommend 3 step plans. Set a time frame against anything you wish to realise what you set out to achieve. Make sure everything you put in the plan is measurable and achievable.

#10 – Explore your possibilities – this is the easiest part of the plan!

Once you know what you want it becomes a lot easier finding it than if you are searching for something abstract and vague.

If you are able to focus and start on only a few of these at a time, you will begin to see a difference, the combined power should have a noticeable impact. If you would like support or help working on any of them – please feel free to reach out. And Good luck building your future!.  

by Peter Hayward 13/02/2018

Peter Hayward is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation and works as Training Manager for the Sales & Marketing Group of Intel in EMEA. He can be contacted at 2mepeter@gmail.com or peter.hayward@coachfedereration.de.
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Getting Started on LinkedIn

Getting Started on LinkedIn

by | Feb 6, 2018 | Coach Ryan Salvanera, Job search, Tools & Skills, Tools & Skills, Tools & Skills, Tools & Skills, Tools & Skills, Tools & Skills

Getting Started on LinkedIn

Getting Started on LinkedIn

Ryan Salvanera

LinkedIn is one the the best business platforms available. It is a great place to establish yourself as an expert in your field, to grow your influence, to improve your employee branding, and most importantly, to attract clients or headhunters and recruiters from the top employers in your industry.

If you are simply looking at your LinkedIn account as just another social networking site like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, then you are most likely missing out on some great opportunities for yourself and/or your business.

Here are my top three tips to help you start getting the most out of your LinkedIn profile.

 

Complete Your LinkedIn Profile

This is all the information you need to complete your LinkedIn Profile:

– Profile photo*, Location and Industry

– Education

– Experience

– Current work position / job title

– Past positions

– Skills

– A few connections

Simple, right?

Well, apparently not.

Yes, you read that right, “half.”

So go ahead and fill-out those simple details and you just got ahead of the game. Of course, don’t stop there. Find time to fill-out the rest of the sections too, like certifications, volunteering experience, projects and a lot more.

* Please use a professional looking profile photo. Sure, some tech geniuses have very informal photos but you are not one of them yet, so let’s keep it safe for now.

 

Fill Summary with the Right Content

The Summary Section is one of the most important sections on your LinkedIn Profile and it must be filled with the right information.

By this, I do not just mean the right details about your experience. It is also not simply writing in an interesting way. By right content, I am really talking about the right keywords. No matter how beautifully written your Summary is, it will not matter if the relevant people cannot find your profile in their searches.

So, yes, be as eloquent as you want to be, but make sure that you also use the keywords that is relevant to your industry.

 

Create Content

Touch screen devices (mobile phones and tablets) has encouraged society to be good at consuming content and information. There’s nothing wrong with this per se. However, a wise man once told me that, if you want to stand out you want to be one of those few sharing your valuable and interesting content.

Now, I am not suggesting that you need to become a blogger to stand out. However, it would be good for you to publish something every couple of weeks.

Yes, I meant to say *something* instead of article because there are different types of content that you can create and share:

  • Your own article. Tough to do if you are not a natural writer but the best as far as building credibility as an expert.
  • Sharing a link to an article. It helps to include your own thoughts and insights from the article.
  • A favourite quote on a relevant topic.
  • Comment on articles shared by others on your network, especially influencers.

Time To Get Started

I hope this helped you get started with your LinkedIn profile and in finding that best company that will be a perfect fit for you.

Stay tuned as I will be sharing more tips in future articles.

 

by Ryan Salvanera 06/02/2018

Ryan Salvanera is the co-founder and chief tech guy of Wissen Solomon, a consulting firm that aims to create abundance through the empowerment and growth of MSMEs. Ryan is also a personal coach at Coach Rye and specializes in coaching high-performing leaders and entrepreneurs.
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The Way Towards Happiness at Your Job

The Way Towards Happiness at Your Job

by | Jan 16, 2018 | Career advice, Coach Alexander Wollboldt

The Way Towards Happiness at Your Job

by Alexander Wollboldt 16/01/2018

Alexander Wollboldt

“Happiness” is most likely the most common answer to the question “What is your goal in life?”. But what is real happiness? Some will say that having a filled bank account, the newest smartphone, a fast sports car or the newest designer bag will suffice your definition of being in the ultimate state of being the most happiest person. But isn’t this a little bit like a cat chasing after its own tail? Once you were able to obtain your long wished for gadget how long will it take until you start comparing it to others only to find out that there is already a better, nicer gadget out there? The way towards happiness does not seem to be found in material things.

 

Does a well paid Job make people happy?

A well paid job might not be the most singular factor to this question either. You can find some interesting contributions about the topic monetary incentives through Daniel Pink on You tube. He describes the phenomenon of highly paid IT specialists spending their spare time developing tools like the Browser Mozilla for free. Just for the purpose of seeing a bigger meaning in this serving the internet community rather than what they are getting paid for in their jobs. So what is it that we have to look for and what drives happiness?

 

Happiness Factors at Work

One of the questions in Gallup’s Q12 Employee Engagement survey is “Do you have a best friend at work?”. It’s giving us a clue on the driving happiness factors at work to look out for. Having a best friend at work describes a high sense of belonging to the workplace triggered by a person that we have a positive trust relationship with that goes beyond work. One could assume that the more best friends or best friend-like relationships we have at work the more we create an environment of comfort. Positive interactions support such an environment. It is linked to the question what triggers positive emotions in others. So it’s worth spending some one-on-one time with your colleagues talking about those areas that excites them and apply those insights regularly.          

 

The Authenticity of Shared Happiness

When you think about situations where you felt authentic happiness, aren’t those the moments that you spent with your friends, family members, sports team buddies and you experienced amazing beauty of nature, travel adventures or victories in sports competitions? And aren’t those the moments that you love to bring back into your memories and enjoy it even more when you can share those with the ones that were with you during those times? In fact, this seems to be the answers the to the initial question. Experiential happiness is the only authentic happiness that will last longest. So it is very much on us to establish the preconditions of happiness at work by creating positive interactions with our colleagues and try to create memorable moments together. Let’s pave the way towards happiness at work!    

 

by Alexander Wollboldt 16/01/2018

Alex Wollboldt is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA), – Consultant (CMC) and Gallup Strengths Coach and has a decade of corporate professional history as Finance Head and Director in manufacturing and service industries in different locations such as Germany, Japan and the Philippines. He is a founding partner at Wissen Solomon, a business consultancy that provides businesses through consulting and coaching expertise in the area of digitization, marketing, finance, operations and organizational development. Alex also acts as co-director for OSG Global Consultancy taking care of various areas involving private equity investments, financial advisory, M&A mostly in the Philippines and other South East Asian countries.

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Things From Sports That Should Be Applied to Find a Better Job

Things From Sports That Should Be Applied to Find a Better Job

by | Jan 12, 2018 | Team culture

Things From Sports That Should Be Applied to Find a Better Job

Things From Sports That Should Be Applied to Find a Better Job

by Karin Singh 12/01/2018

Karin Singh

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Whether you realise it or not, but there are two commonalities when it comes to looking for a job and taking part in competitive sports. Firstly, there is only ONE person who at the end will land the job or win the competitive race. Remember ABBA’s song “The winner takes it all”? Secondly, you need to have a certain set of skills, experiences, the right attitude and be mentally fit (and, also physically fit in sports).

I gained my fair share of experience in applying for different jobs in different countries, and I was also a very active sports person in the past (participating in various winter and summer sports). This makes it easy for me to see what character traits are required for both activities and what would help to strengthen your employee branding.

Keep a flexible approach:

If your job interview or job offer rejection letters are flooding in, you realise that something needs to be changed in your strategy to achieve your desired result. A career guidance counsellor would suggest to you to stay flexible and take a new approach in landing the job you want so badly. Going for some career counselling for experienced professionals would be a good idea, since you will find out what the reason for your failures are.

If in your sports competitions, you consistently end up on the (unlucky) 2nd or 4th position, you need to have a closer look at the possible reasons for missing out on a victory. Would a change of diet, a change of training method, a change of coach or a change of other circumstances make a difference? Find out!

Your persistence is key

How many people do you really know that applied for a job the first time and got it offered to them? Real life unfortunately tells us another story. If you approach a career guidance counsellor you will hear that some job candidates apply to hundreds of jobs with no success.

Needless to say, you need to have a high level of perseverance and persistence in achieving your goal to get the job. Not everyone is able to cope with an endless case of rejections. Getting easily and quickly demotivated by them is not unusual, which can happen before or after the job interview stage. Thus, staying positive at all time is something you need to learn, no matter how tough it’s going to be. It will not just help you in your career, but generally in life.

In sports, it’s similar, depending on what type of sport you are competing in, you need to be persistent and never give up. A competition is over only once it’s really finished. If you give up already half way through, you make it easy for other participants to win. Why would you want to do that? Have you forgotten how many hours of exercise you invested so far? You need to visualise your success and believe in yourself that not everything is lost and there is still hope to win.

It’s all about persistence, persistence, persistence!

Learn from others.

Use every opportunity to learn from others, be it as a job candidate or a sports competitor. Is there anything that can help you to land the job or win the race in a quicker, better, easier, more effective way? Try to find out what other people’s key to success is. You never know, you might get some inspiration which leads to positive results for you, too.

Be honest, or it will backfire!

Think of your achievements: How do you want to feel about them? PROUD because you worked hard for it, or like a CHEATER who used manipulative methods to achieve your goal? In the past, you might have come across some cases in which sports professionals have used performance-enhancing substances to end up as winners in their sports discipline. You might have also heard of people who paid bribes to land a job, or who inflated their CVs by telling lies about their educational background, experiences, etc.

Remember Lance Armstrong’s case? What consequences did doping have on his career and life? The loss of his record seven Tour de France titles, a ban for life by the United States Anti-Doping Agency, a damaged reputation, loss of credibility and sponsors and a huge fine to pay.

Then there was also the case of Liv Loberg, a top Norwegian bureaucrat. She held top administrative jobs in the health care industry and other public sectors and was also a former politician for the Progress Party in Norway. She lied about having two degrees (from the London School of Economics, Queen Mary College and Norges Handelshoyskole) and being a registered nurse. A journalist revealed in 2010, that she did not have the degrees she claimed she did, and wasn’t even a registered nurse. The truth was that she dropped out of high school and had just one year of practical nurse education. She got a 14 months’ prison sentence and a fine of 1 million NOK.

Do you still think it’s worthwhile to take a risk? Every career guidance counsellor will advise you to stick to the truth and not be tempted to falsify your career history in any way. No matter how desperate you are for a job, do NOT lie, it will have a negative impact on your employee branding.

Karin Schroeck-Singh’s passion lies in creating, translating and promoting content of high-quality in multiple languages (English, German, Italian). She holds an MBA from the University of Leicester (UK) and is the author of several ebooks. She gained more that 20 years of international work experience in various industries in Italy, the UK and India. Helping businesses to optimise their online presence is her priority, no client or project is too big or too small for her.

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