British Employees Cant Get No (Job) Satisfaction

British Employees Cant Get No (Job) Satisfaction Job satisfaction plays a big part in the productivity of an organisation. According to Depoel, workers in the UK are reporting the highest levels of pride in their job this year. See more in the infographic below! Takeaways: 3 out of 5 women describe themselves as proud to work for their employer. 3 out of 5 employees believe their employer empowers them to do their job. 50% of UK legal workers are proud to work in their organisation. RELATED: What’s More Important: Job Satisfaction or Salary?

How to Write a Resume Summary

How to Write a Resume SummaryIf you are wondering how to write a resume summary, this article is going to help you. The title is pretty basic. You should do that but as a refresher course, the process starts with the introduction, followed by the objective and your job description, and the advantages of the job.You want to make sure that you are able to give them a brief career history. Then give them your current work experience. You can add in any other qualifications that you have such as certifications or graduate degrees. You can also add anything that you have done or held that will point out to them your skills and talents.They are looking for people who can produce results and do the tasks that they are asking of them. They would like to see if you are able to meet the responsibilities, show an ability to lead and a good work ethic. As a means of that, they may check your references that you have listed on your resume.You should include a section where you can explain how you met and become acquainted with the company or people reading it. You can also mention any formal educational programs you may have attended that are pertinent to the position you are applying for. Also, you can mention anything you have been known to do in the past that shows that you are an asset to the company.This is also a great time to discuss your future plans and how you plan to move forward. You want to also mention any extracurricular activities that you participate in and whether they are appropriate or not. This is very important because it shows that you are responsible and will be able to meet the requirements of the company.This is where you would break down your work history. You would want to give them a short chapter about your primary role in the organization. It would also be best to have a few lines about a secondary role or projects that you worked on. You may also want to include a paragraph about the event that brought you into the company.Finish up with the accomplishments and skills that they are looking for. You can also give them a little bit about your skills and abilities that they are looking for. This makes the resume summary very professional and neat looking.When you are thinking about how to write a resume summary, this is what you want to give them. You want to be able to get through to them and they need to be able to find you easily when they need your services. They are hiring you!

Too Many Men How Female Photographer Vicky Grout is Slaying the Grime SceneÂ

Too Many Men How Female Photographer Vicky Grout is Slaying the Grime Scene   Grime music has really shot up in popularity over the last few years with artists such as Skepta and Stormzy making headlines in papers and festivals more and more often. Photographer Vicky Grout has been involved in the London grime scene from the off and has worked with most of the prolific names within it.  Originally Vicky would attend grime nights as a fan and take pictures of the acts for fun, until April 2015 when Skepta chose a picture she took of him to be the cover for his single ‘Shutdown’. Since then her work has featured in the likes of Time Out, Clash and Fader magazines (to name a few), providing inspiration for so many young budding photographers to get out there and get noticed. On top of that however, her success has highlighted how a woman can break the mould and be a successful woman in an industry dominated by men. Starting Out Vicky (@vickygrout) specialises in portrait photos, which is partially why her shots work so well on album covers, but it wasn’t until 2014/2015 that she really started getting noticed. She has been heavily involved in shoots for the new PUSH magazine, shooting covers featuring BBC Sound of 2019 winner Octavian and West London prodigy AJ Tracey (who’s debut album peaked at 3rd in the charts earlier this year). But nowadays being on a shoot with Vicky is almost a mark of achievement within the grime scene itself. Many newer, less established artists are being shot by her too, such as Suspect and Murkage Dave, who both operate outside of the mainstream grime scene. Even host of BBC Radio 1Xtra â€" a platform for up and coming artists in both grime and drill â€" Kenny Allstar has employed the skills of Vicky to produce the cover for his album ‘Block Diaries’. So how did she gain recognition in this male-dominated industry? “It was all so unintentional. I was a raver and a fan with a camera,” she tells us, “It’s exciting to document something which is underground or up and coming. My pictures have got us both [Skepta and herself] noticed, so I feel like we’re helping each other out. It isn’t just male artists that Vicky photographs though.   She’s been influential in providing both a platform and an inspiration for so many women in the music scene in general. A quick scan of her Instagram account shows her involvement with female artists far and wide, from Mancunian singer IAMDDB to a whole host of up-and-coming musicians in Palestine. Vicky has recently collaborated with mobile network operator O2 to produce O2 Sessions: a photography tutorial based around capturing high quality portrait photos on your mobile handset. Follow Your Passion Talking on starting out, Vickys mentions the importance of being involved in your subject of choice: “Find a topic or a niche you’re passionate about.   Because if you’re not passionate, it will come through in your work and people will see it.” Most importantly, find confidence in yourself. “Make sure you get your work out there” says Vicky.    â€œI know so many artists who torture themselves over their work and never put anything out â€" and nobody sees it. Don’t be overly critical of yourself and your work.” This guest post was authored by Joe Franklin Joe Franklin was born and raised in London, England. He writes about the music scenes in London from the rise of grime to the fall of British rave culture.   And every pulled up tune in between!   Happiest at 140 bpm. For more photography tutorials and stories on how photographers turn a passion into a career check out O2 Sessions.

Is Recruiting a Business of Failure

Is Recruiting a Business of Failure So, I had an article already to post, all about why “Hard Closes” never work. Then, as is the nature of our business and life in general, things change I haven’t been able to get some thoughts out of my brain as I watched situations unfold. I said maybe writing about it for The Undercover Recruiter will get me to have some process. Also, I forgot to take my Lexapro last night, so maybe that is contributing? Who cares, we’re all going to die anyway. (Wait, that was 100% missing the Lexapro). In my last article I gave you 10 phrases that were very trite and very true. I promised you I had many more, so without further ado, try this one on for size: Recruiting is a business of failure. When I think about that line, I think about baseball players. (Man, I hope this analogy rings true for my mates across the pond but I’m going to roll with it…) Buster Posey had the highest batting average of every single full time Baseball player in 2012. It was a very strong .336. That means for every 10 pitches thrown his way, he hit the ball a little more than 3 times. I wish I had a placement for every 10 candidates I submitted. I’d be the best recruiter out there and they’d call me King of the Head Hunters with the “Greg Savage Trophy of Excellence in Achievement”. As recruiters, we fail a heck of a lot more than we succeed. If you can’t take failure, then go home or go Corporate (Just kidding. A bit). Any Head Hunter worth their salt will admit, at the end of the day, there is no way to know exactly why someone got an offer for their new opportunity. We can match resumes to a job description. We can find that passive candidate with a left hand monkey wrench skill set and build their resume to perfection. From there, we can get them excited about the opportunity and to where it will lead. We can impart interview skills learned by witnessing why others have failed, both in the specific and the general. We may know our clients to the point that the HR manager came to our wedding, and while we expense that lunch, it was more pleasure then business. We know every hot button on both sides of the aisle and offer perfection on a platter…. And it still falls to shit. Sometime we think we know why, but I promise, it is an illusion. People are not products, though in a way, it is what we sell. More often than not, there is simply nothing that makes sense. That’s what it means to be in a business of failure. I wish I could tell you that if you read every article on The Undercover Recruiter, you’d be guaranteed to be El Numero Uno. I wish I could tell you all the expensive training and webinars and certifications can help. Most of all, I wish I could tell you that Hard Work is all it takes. I’d be a liar, though, and I will not do that. It is all about luck. Skill and Hard Work play 98% of the game. If you do not work on improving your skills, if you do not manage your time, make connections, which become submittals, which then lead to interviews which then become “THE PLACEMENT”, you will fail. You might also fail if you do all those things, too. That’s the luck part. That elusive uncontrollable 2% that makes people think they are good recruiters. They should remember that luck is as fickle as a 15 year old Justin Bieber fan. We have all had our ups and downs, and seen fellow recruiters and sales people come and go. I’ll often hum to myself The Wheel by the Grateful Dead, when I get melancholy about it. My buddy Steve Levy and I once had a Twitter convo. He tweeted: I just read an ad for a “permanent agency recruiter”, There is no such thing! I replied asking him what would make an agency recruiter permanent. His answer did not have to be made shorter for Twitter. It was simple, sweet and to the point: A positive revenue stream. I get up, come in every day and I am still working on that lottery moment. The big 100k+ Fee placement, that client who throws job orders so fast and hard that I think his last job was in the adult entertainment industry, that level of success that I become the Buster Posey, maybe even the Babe Ruth, or, if I dare to dream, the Jorgen Sundberg of recruiting. The key phrase is that I am Still Working, and working hard. Every excellent recruiter worked to get that break. They earned that luck by using their box of tools, techniques, and tricks. Most of all, they never stopped pounding out calls and emails. They never stopped going after new business or sending out candidates.  I could fill 20 pages with stories of failure, of people (me included) who worked very hard, had a crap run of luck and ended up jumping ship, or being made to walk the proverbial plank. Personally, I allow myself what I call “5 minutes of Anger” when I lose something I thought was going to happen. The candidate who vanishes, the client about to make an offer who then tells me they filled it internally, the scheduled interview that never happens, the person fired 89 days into a 90 day guarantee we know them all! If I get fired, I give myself a “Day of Rage”. I have no illusions about the fact that I am only as good as my last deal, or in the words of Mr. Levy, my revenue stream. That is it, though. I pick myself up, dust off and move into whatever is next. If you can’t handle that, you need to find another line of work. Anyway, I’d like to dedicate this article, if I may, to every deal that didn’t happen but should have. To every frozen job order and everyone who had a client who decided a VMO was more efficient then a personal touch. I offer it to every email that said, “After budget cuts, all your contractors bill rates are hereby reduced by 20% across the board”. Most of all, I’d like this to dedicate to the hardworking recruiter and salesperson, that cog in the machine, who toils day in and day out, who makes night calls and Sunday coffee dates chasing an elusive dream that they have no idea if this one will be, THE ONE. For everyone who knows the sad and simple truth that you are only as valuable as your last deal.

The Essentials of Writing a Resume With Priority Information

The Essentials of Writing a Resume With Priority InformationWriting a resume can be difficult, if you are not aware of what to put in it and how to write a resume with priority information. Priority information is basically the sections in a resume that you can put in your resume that you are looking for.First of all, priority information is composed of your qualifications. When writing a resume, you should make sure that you are listing all of your qualifications as much as possible in your resume.Second, you need to list all of your professional experience. You should include your position in the job you have had, and the experiences you've had in your job. You should also include your skill sets such as:Third, you should list your special skills as well. For example, if you are skilled in customer service, you should list it on your resume as well.Fourth, you should list your address fields as well. You should make sure that you include all of the contact information that you woul d like to include on your resume. This is important so that you can send it to potential employers.Fifth, you should also list your education and any professional certificates that you may have as well. While these are not mandatory, they may get employers to take a second look at your resume.Writing a resume with priority information can be a little bit difficult, but it is easy once you know how to go about it. Knowing what to put in your resume and what to leave out can make the difference between you getting an interview or getting the job.You should keep your professional and educational background updated regularly. Being on top of your professional background is important to anyone who wants to succeed in the workplace.

How Could You Be The Right-Hand Of A CEO

How Could You Be The Right-Hand Of A CEO There are lots of pathways that lead you to becoming a CEO one day. The most common and perhaps the most difficult is actually, climbing up the ranks. Form the lowly employee that is seen as expendable only until they prove themselves, to the apprentice, you can climb up the corporate ladder to be the top dog. However for someone who perhaps hasn’t been in the workforce for too long at all, such as a young mother or a mature woman who wants to change career, there are other routes. If you see in yourself the drive to be a leader one day, then take these nonlinear routes to reaching the top of the tree with serious curiosity. Often times you can learn how to become a CEO by behind the right-hand man or right-hand woman to someone in this position. Working closely with them, the first hand experience you will receive is priceless. But how can you get to work directly with a CEO? Not always c-suite Traditionally, the aim to becoming a right-hand person for a CEO would be to become a c-suite title holder. This could be a chief of any area of the business such as, Chief of Marketing, Chief of Design, Chief Operating Officer etc. Yet in today’s very fluid modern age, you don’t need to always be a c-suite before you are considered worthy enough to listen to the confidential conversations in boardrooms. There are many roles that are needed around the CEO that are not linked to a c-suite position. For example if you took an online mba finance course you will learn how to financially understood a business from top to bottom. A lot of it is administrative work so again, understanding how to keep things in order is a huge asset. Using modern tools and systems, and mba can net you skills that will improve your organizational skills. With such skills and knowledge you can become a financial analyst which every CEO has beside them at all times. You can also become a risk manager which again, every CEO always has near them to get key advice. Understand the playing field If you’re a woman who wants to change career, takes things slow. One of the best things you can do for yourself is to be prudent in your new career choice. Its important to understand that technically you are behind other professionals since you just started. Yet, you are capable of catching them up if you study your career and role of choice. For example, just watching and understanding how the market is now operating can get you ahead. Businesses always want to invest their profits so essentially their money makes money for them. Study how index funds have evolved to be the safer, broader bet. Study how mutual funds have evolved. If you become adept at this you can be an investment manager for businesses. Small businesses especially want some kind of investing guidance making it a good place to begin for you. There are many ways to get to the top in the world of business. Learning how you could become a CEO can be done by working for a CEO. The right person will be a right-hand for a CEO, someone they can rely on for great advice, for analyzing the finances and risks.

7 ways to optimize your LinkedIn profile - Sterling Career Concepts

7 ways to optimize your LinkedIn profile 7 ways to optimize your LinkedIn profile Almost every professional today knows about LinkedIn and has created a profile page. Hopefully you can count yourself among them. If not, take a look at the following ways to create and/or enhance your LinkedIn profile. 1. Connect with at least 50 people. You don’t need to shoot for 500. 50 has been proven as an effective number of contacts at which you develop an effective number of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degree contacts. 2. Add a picture. For two reasons â€" 1) you want to make yourself appear friendly, personable, and likeable, and 2) it’s been proven that profiles with pictures are more likely to be opened when they appear in search results. 3. Add skills to your summary section. One of the sections you can include under Summary is “Skills.” (From the “Profile” tab in the main navigation toolbar, click “Edit Profile.” Under the main box is a small section that says “Add sections to reflect achievements and experiences on your profile.”) This is a great way to include more keywords in your profile. Also consider listing your proficiency level and years of experience. 4. Maximize your summary. After the headline, the most-often read section of your profile is the Summary. LinkedIn allows you up to 2,000 characters in your summary. Use them wisely â€" and use them all! One popular format for Summary is the “Who/What/Goals” structure. Using this format, you outline Who you are, What you have to offer or add (what is unique about you or your experience), and what are your Goals for being on LinkedIn or your career. 5. Be unique. According to LinkedIn, these are the 10 most overused words/phrases on the site. Avoid using them in your headline and summary! Extensive Experience â€" Innovative â€" Motivated Results-Oriented â€" Dynamic Proven Track Record Team Player Fast-Paced Problem Solver â€" Entrepreneurial. 6. Customize your summary section. Utilize and maximize the recently added optional sections that are available for your summary, including: Certifications â€" Courses Honors and Awards â€" Languages Organizations â€" Projects â€" Patents â€" Publications. 7. Post updates to keep your name top of mind. What kind of information should you post in your updates? The content that you share doesn’t necessarily have to be yours 100% of the time. It’s a great idea to share links to content from others in your industry, along with your thoughts on how this work will affect your industry. Some additional ideas to enrich your LI profile include: sharing current and upcoming trends in your industry; offering insights from projects you’re working on, events and seminars you’ve attended or training courses you’re taking; linking to articles/blogs within the industry; or sharing an inspirational quote. Take advantage of this opportunity to create a free online presence. A LinkedIn profile is important today whether you are employed or unemployed. Recruiters and hiring managers are using LinkedIn heavily as a resource to search potential candidates. If you need a professional service to help you create a strong LinkedIn profile, please contact us for more information.