Posted by: site admin @ 8:39 pm
Various publishers promote journal impact factors JIF to
measure ” the importance of articles by the number of times
an article is cited. This measure in light of the continuing change
of technical literature is changing and deemed less significant.
Did you know you can change irrevocable trusts that you create
with your attorney when (1) tax law is revised or cease to exist,
(2) family circumstances change, (3) errors exist in the the documents?
This is a document professionals should know about and
decide if and when it fits in your financial plan.
Linkedin profiles have not and should not replace resumes.
They are part of your professional presence and a
link is offered.
JIF DE-EMPHASIS
Ewen Calloway summarized recent discussions on the use of
journal rating and previewed articles in various fields that
suggest it going away. Worth looking at.
FINANCIAL DECISIONS FOR YOUR FAMILIES
Trusts are often created to save paying federal estate taxes in
relation to a specific tax law. There are, according to Cody,
Cody and McCarthy, five ways trusts can be modified: (a)
have a judge restate your intent, (b) adjust pay-out options
to current situations, (c) change the terms of the trust due to
unforseen circumstances, (d) invoke a trust advisor without
going to court, (e) consider another “do-over” trust.
So, if you find a need to modify your trust, or you waiver
in creating an irrevocable trust, there are things you should
know to help you.
LINKEDIN PROFILES
Robert Hellmann wrote that resumes and profiles have many
of the same information. But a resume helps us obtain interviews
and the profile does support the interview screening process
and much more. Hellmann proposes an active profile approach
in your job search.
Don’t indicate openness to opportunities in your Headline
Don’t put unemployed or looking for a job in your profile
Do consider using more informal language than the targeted
resume.
Hellmann’s article is worth taking seriously in your career
plan.
BONUS VIDEO SERIES: The Australian series “The Future
of Water” is definitely of high value to view. Each segment
offered incredible insights into the bigger picture. I was
very surprised by the underground reservoir in South
America that was recently defined.
Posted by: site admin @ 6:26 am
Innovation, experimentation and support from
leaders are often the keys to bringing progress.
Look for countering information, add more factors
and categories… Then apply the Bayesian logic of probabilities.
The suggestion here is this tool is one that can be broadly
applied and due to ease of use widely adapted. It is like
using shared cloud storage or using search engines.
Posted by: site admin @ 3:16 pm
With several requests for career paths outside the US
and in non traditional technical roles, we learned,
advised and compiled useful documents for each:
Industry Jobs for PhDs
Business focused resumes:
International resumes:
Posted by: site admin @ 9:59 am
The seminar on the titled topic highlighted three
key areas that people in grad school can focus on
in addition to items successful predecessors pointed
out, namely:
members so that they want to be allies for you in your
career for the long term.
successful. We had a true life story about how a manager
in a company micro-managed a professional repeatedly
returning to find out results. It was done to the point of
indicating a lack of trust and commitment.
is something we can learn and be able to foster and recognize.
We had a working example and then lively discussion
how this is applied in a job search where a person accepted
a temporary position. Then he navigated unemployment to
receive four interviews and multiple offers helped by
the short term position experience.
An email came from Lee the other day:
“guidance on contacting a job poster before sending a resume”
which seemed curious.
Was it a poster session?
Was it a position seen on a job board?
Did it ask to upload the resume to an online address?
We clarified things over the next few days. He read an
attractive job board posting on Linkedin for a firm that would
make sense for his career path.
But, we know you help yourself in obtaining an interview if you
can be referred by an employee or better yet the hiring manager.
To do that Lee might informally contact an employee who is
part of your network or extended network and pursue at
least an ‘information interview.’ It would possibly allow a
‘networking interview’ as well. [Parts of the Interviewing
Continuum, see the side bar for details on each type of interview]
My suggestions to him included:
1. CONTENT It would be important to formulate the public
relations documents incorporating keywords that will be sought.
2. FORMAT If you can speak to someone who does interview
for the company you can ascertain if there is any specific
elements and style resume reviewers prefer. (business style
focus, chronological, technical focus, research summary,
particular cover letter, Europass format for international, etc.)
3. Does he have network members who work at the company?
Has he spoken with the network contact about the position?
(Think about possible win-win situations– employee referral
can lead to a bonus for the employee.)
4. Liz Ryan wrote a nice piece how Linkedin can assist the
job search process of narrowing down the companies, finding
hiring managers, learning about the culture and interview
expectations you may encounter. This too could lead to a
pull marketing mechanism since you might be able to curate
your Linkedin profile to be picked up by recruiters.
5. Plan a follow-up campaign that includes thank you notes,
talking up the network participants, modifying the PR documents
as appropriate, setting a timeline for follow-up communication
and including it in the cover letter.
6. Do detailed research on the firm. Patents, business results,
investment insights.
7. Enter total information into your job search spreadsheet
that tracks all communication.