Jobs for neat freaks

Jobs for ‘neat freaks’ by Genna Robinson Do you squirm at the site of mess? Or maybe you find yourself feeling frustrated when something isn’t quite faultless? Luckily, there are thousands of jobs which will let you put your penchant for perfection to good use. Here are just a fewRestaurant ManagerThis position is made for someone who’s highly organised. It’s the perfect combination of delegation and precision.Being a restaurant manager involves dealing with customers and staff confidently. Hospitality management requires every member of the team to work together to ensure the restaurant is run as smoothly as possible.A successful and well-run restaurant is aesthetically beautiful and service should flow without a hiccup. Your perfectionist ways work wonderfully in a job like this. From noticing upturned table cloths to spotting crumbs on the floor, you’ll be the first to fix it. But it’s also a role which requires dedication and hard work, an eye for detail is essential and you’ll also be responsible for managing everyone from the front of house team to the kitchen staff.  Key duties include:• Managing the kitchen-staff, equipment, processes, and health and safety obligations • Customer care and complaint management • Communicating with staff and customersThe starting salary of a restaurant manager averages around £32,000, you can expect to earn up to £60,000 in top restaurants.Check salariesHousekeeperLove to keep your home immaculate? Housekeepers work in both private households and commercial establishments (such as hotels or residential homes) and can take charge of all aspects of a building to ensure a clean, comfortable and tidy environment is maintained for all. Key tasks can include cleaning, catering, laundry and some facilities management.The position can be rewarding and exciting. It’s aimed at those who have a natural ability to organise and incorporates multiple key skills, including:• Being highly organised • Working to a high standard • Training and managing teams • Identifying and solving problemsThe salary of a housekeeper can vary widely and is normally based on expertise and experience, as well as the complexity of the job. The average salary is around £19,000 but can reach up to £50,000 If you’re up for some hard graft and enjoy being in charge, then maybe housekeeping is for you.Check salariesPA/ Executive AssistantThe role of PA (Personal Assistant) is an excellent option if you love being outlandishly organised. PA’s carry out a huge range of tasks and, for many people, working life would be impossible without them. Along with careful and detailed planning, some of the duties a PA carries out include:• Managing your manager’s or team’s diary • Creating travel itineraries • Planning meetings and events • All sorts of other duties besidesAs a PA there’s an expectation to meet your boss’s every need think Anne Hathaway in the Devil Wears Prada: there may be occasions where you wil l need to run frantically around the city, but the job satisfaction will make it all worthwhile.Salaries as a PA/ Executive assistant average around £30,000 and reach up to £50,000 plus. This role not only provides excellent pay but opens the doors to many different career opportunities and industries.Check salariesArchitectThe role of an architect involves clarity and precision. Your general role will be to design buildings, including houses, offices, schools, etc. As an architect you will be adhering to specific requirements and working to tight deadlines in a position that’s made for neat and organised individuals.And, of course, architecture also involves applying your creative flair to work. The most successful architects have changed the way we live: the world would be a far less interesting place if every building looked and functioned in the same way.As an architect it’s all about envisioning the bigger picture and having the drive to complete a project which, for the most part, will simply look like a construction site. This job involves combining your creative side with your mathematical skills in order to create a final product. The role of an architect includes the following:• Designing and planning buildings • Organising builders and construction • Communicating with clients • Working to deadlinesAlthough this job requires a lengthy degree of around seven years, salaries can be exceptionally high, ranging from around £32,000 and up to £60,000 plus for more experienced architects.Check salariesLibrarianBeing a librarian is all about organising and alphabetising books, magazines and newspapers, etc. It involves constant engagement, especially if your managing a large library, as things can quickly get out of hand.If you have a passion for literature, and love browsing books, then maybe the job of a Liberian is for you. The key is organisation and planning: if your books aren’t in the right places then people won’t be able to find them. It can also involve managing often complex sets of data and ensuring that all online resources are working correctly.The position is perfect for the types of people who get satisfaction from seeing a neat, organised and well run organisation. There are many benefits to being a Librarian, the main one being that you can be active in research and attend academic events at the same time as doing your job. This role is likely to involve the following key skills:• Organising and understanding literature • Answering customer queries • Assisting teachers, lecturers, students and school children • IT skillsThe salary of a librarian averages between £28,000 and up to £30,000.Genna Robinson is a 2nd year Business Management at York St John University.  Find a job What Where Search JobsSign up for more Career AdviceSign up for moreCareer Advice Please enter a valid email addressmessage hereBy clicking Submit you agree to the terms and conditions applicable to our service and acknowledge that your personal data will be used in accordance with our privacy policy and you will receive emails and communications about jobs and career related topics. Getting Started What job suits me?

Im moving out of New York City

Im moving out of New York City It used to be that people moved to where their job was. But where you live has a lot of impact on how happy you are. So it makes sense that today people pick a city first and then find a job, and cities maven Wendy Waters thinks this trend will increase. I will be part of this trend on Monday, when I move. I have spent the last six months studying statistics about cities and matching them with statistics about happiness. This is serious scientific research that is changing how universties teach and how city planners think. Here are the two guiding principles of my research: 1. People are very bad at predicting what will make them happy. We overestimate how bad the bad will be, for example. We think we will be really sad if we lose a leg, but in fact, people who lose a limb are not any sadder, as a population, than people who have not lost a limb. I learned this from an interview with Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard, and I quote him so often he is practically my guest blogger. 2. The studies about happiness will most likely apply to me (and you). This I also learned from Gilbert. He says that even though most people think they are exceptional, most people are normal. Of course. Thats what normal is. But most football players think they are above average (they are not) and most people think they are below average jugglers (they are not). We are all basically average. (You can read more about this in his book, which I also constantly hype.) Here are the two things that I thought were most important when we talk about the intersection of geography and happiness: 1. People are happy if they earn what their friends earn. Relative income, rather than any certain level of income, affects well-being, according to Daniel Kahneman, who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for applying the principles of psychology to economics. I remember a piece I read in the New York Times (which would be a link youd have to pay for so Im not even going to bother looking for it.) It was a story about how real estate agents know way too much about their clients. One agent talked about when a husband and wife were looking for summer rentals in the Hamptons. They walked into a five million dollar home and the wife said, We wouldnt have to live like this if youd get a decent job. Its not about how much you have, its about how much your friends have. So you should live in a place where you will have as much money as the people you meet. My husband and I are constantly examining our jobs and our childcare setup, so I know we need a city with a low cost of living in order to guarantee that we never fall below the median during our trials and errors. 2. You will like what other people like. I want good schools because I have two young kids. I checked out lots of school rankings. The more I pored over these different rankings, the more I distrusted them. Every list had different results, and the whole process seemed to be pretty subjective. Gilbert is doing a study right now that shows that if you want to know if you should date a given person on Match.com, ask the last person he dated. If the last date liked him then you will like him. So I decided that choosing a school district is like dating, and the most important thing in picking a school is that other families love the school district. Finally, as a tie-breaker, I looked at how economic development experts rated cities. I love the economic development people because their job is to think about how to leverage the community to make life vibrant. I focused on the rock star of economic development, Richard Florida. He ranks cities according to how creative they are. You can search by topics like how technology-oriented the city is(technology=innovative business), or how gay it is (gay=diversity=open minds for new ideas). Each city gets a score that reflects the level of creative thinking among its population. So, where did I choose? Madison, Wisc. Madison is inexpensive, the people who live there love the schools, and the city comes up on best places lists all the time. For all the research Ive done, though, I have no idea where to live within the city. So itd be great if theres a Madison native out there who could post some suggestions.

Charisma on Command Building Conviction

Charisma on Command Building Conviction Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'ibHXa6QzSil3XrGJS07TQQ',sig:'wCFHMK9CtHzMhDxh-FO3UPct5jUeg-Ep88nZk8nRZaM=',w:'507px',h:'338px',items:'516655531',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })}); In a previous post, I wrote about Charlie Houpert, the 20-something author of Charisma on Command: Inspire, Impress, and Energize Everyone You Meet . He has a formula for “taking your confidence and charisma to the next level in the situations where you need it the most.” His formula is: Charisma = Conviction + Energy + Presentation Houpert says conviction is the belief that you are going to succeed. When you really believe in yourself, he says, other people will be able to look at you and see the belief. He writes: “[Charismatic people] are simply displaying conviction through every physical method possible.   Eye contact, tonality, flinching, muscle tension, breathing and myriads more.   They are so minute that we don’t consciously pick up on them as an observer.   But our subconscious processes them all and provides us with a feeling: “He’s lying,” or “He’s telling the truth.”” These micro signals are also called subcommunications, and he says they “tell everyone how to treat you.   Which is why conviction is so crucial not only to charisma, but to life.   You are sending a non-stop broadcast out that says, “Treat me like I’m awesome.” Or you’re sending one that says “Treat me like wallpaper.”   Either way, people do as you say.” So becoming more charismatic is, in part, about learning to master your feelings. You’ll need to develop your confidence and let it shine out in every gesture you make. Easier said than done, I know.   But Houpert does have some ideas on how to begin. He calls them charismatic convictions, and they are the building block of confidence and conviction. Here are two of his charismatic convictions. “I’ll be OK.” Sounds small and easy, doesn’t it?   But it’s a powerful mantra. What if she turns me down for a date? I’ll be OK. What if I don’t get the job? I’ll be OK. What if my idea bombs? I’ll be OK. What if no one comes to my workshop? I’ll be OK. The power of this mantra is in knowing you can survive if you take a risk and fail.   People who don’t think they’ll be OK don’t take risks. They don’t fail often, but they don’t succeed either. Both success and failure build confidence, especially after you realize that you’ll be OK after you fail. I am more concerned with my character than the opinion of others. Coach John Wooden said: “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” Houpert says you should only change what you do based on other people’s opinions when the feedback is: Consistent Not in line with your values In other words, if you hear something once, it may or may not be important, but you shouldn’t worry about it. But if you start to hear it consistently, it might be time to pay attention. But ONLY if the second criterion is also met: the feedback is not consistent with your values. If what they’re saying does not reflect who you want to be, then it’s probably time for a change. How many times have you let others dictate how you feel about yourself? Have you ever let one disparaging comment change your course? What if you had the courage to continue to be yourself, despite what others were saying? When you’re in control of your character, you become much more charismatic. You’ll never be able to please everyone, so you’ve got to please yourself.

Tips for Measuring the Influence of Your Personal Brand - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Tips for Measuring the Influence of Your Personal Brand - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Measuring the influence of your personal brand is a necessary first step towards increasing the influence of your personal brand. Measurement creates a baseline against which you can track your increasing influence. How do you measure the influence of your personal brand? Brand measurement is more important today than ever before. Theres more competition for personal branding success. As a result, obvious expert status in our fields is harder to achieve and maintain than ever beforeand more competition appears every day. The starting point The starting point for measuring, or re-measuring, the influence of your personal brand is to review the best of whats been already written on the topic. Here are three of the best posts Ive read on the topic: The Quantity Vs Quality Debate Revised, by Dan Schwabel, clearly separates quantity (which opens doors) and quality (which opens wallets). The post contains 2 graphics that reinforce the two extremes. The Personal Branding Authority Flowchart, by Chad Levitt, also contains a helpful info graphic which also reconciles quantity versus quality. Personal Brand Equity, by Beverley Macy, appears in my Top 3 list because she includes some specific ways you can track your brand influence. Quantity approaches I have long been skeptical of quantity approaches, based on numbers of social media friends, followers, Retweets, Trackbacks, subscribers, pass-alongs, or blog post comments. However,   after rereading the three posts listed above, I came away with increased respect for the quantity approach. As Dan said, To the majority of the world, numbers matter. My initial knee jerk preference for quality over quantity may have been a short-sighted. Using action to measure quality Regardless of where you weigh in on the quality-versus-quantity question, you still need to measure and track the influence of your personal brand, if only so you can track the direction of your influence, (is it increasing or decreasing), and to identify whats working and whats not working. To do this, you need numbers; metrics that permit comparisons, even if they are only relative to a month ago, six months ago, or a year ago. As many quality consultants and web usability experts have always said, You cant improve what you dont measure! Approaches to measuring action When it comes to measuring influence, nothing equals making an offer that requires action, and measuring how many of your followers, friends, or subscribers take you up on your offer. Options range from the easiest for you to set up, (and the least risky for followers to take), range from tracking website visits to tracking sales: URL visits. Your action measurement can be as simple as using Google Analyatics to monitor visits to specific articles, blog posts, or landing pages on your own website, or a marketing partners website. The action can also be watching a YouTube video or listening to a podcast. Downloads. A more accurate action measurement involves tracking registration-free downloads, such as PDF newsletters, white papers, or special reports or audio/video files. Download volume, of course, depends on the amount of commitment you ask for; downloads that are not tied to registration will be greater than downloads that require a name and e-mail address, plus a confirming e-mail. Free Trials. Likewise, the degree of commitment required to try before you buy also influences software and online services. Purchases. The ultimate action measurement, of course, is based on tracking sales that take place on landing pages tracked to specific social marketing media, marketing promotions,   or pay-per-click campaigns. Fast Companys Influence Project Those interested in a fresh approach to measuring the influence of their personal brand may want to check out Fast Company Magazines Influence Project. Fast Company Magazine wants to discover 2010s Most Influential person. There are several interesting angles to this project: Emphasis on photographs. Have your photo and bio handy when you visit, in case you want to take part. Your photograph is immediately added to the website. It will also appear in Fast Companys November, 2010, issue. The the size of your photograph depends on the number of visitors you influence, or have sent, to the project. Fresh perspective. Your influence is measured not relative to your subject area, or your immediate competitors. Instead, your influence is measured relative to others around the world, from all fields of endeavor. Im intrigued, for example, that I became involved because of a Tweet from an individual living in South Africa. Biography. As always, when you take part, you can describe yourself in a brief bio, but there is no website link, and URLs added to the bio are not active hyperlinks. This puts a premium on defining your niche, or relevance, as concisely as possible (always a good exercise to repeat). Im impressed by the democratic, or grass-roots, feel to Fast Companys Influence Project. Certainly, there are high-profile participants, like Guy Kawasaki, Joan Stewart (the Publicity Hound), and other familiar faces. Yet, its fascinating to make the acquaintance of a refreshing number of new faces. Given the fun of participating in a very visual competition that puts all participants on a level footing, and the fact theres no cost involved, and so far I havent received a flurry of e-mail from Fast Company, Im glad Im participating. In the spirit of full disclosure, my picture gets a little bigger each time one of my referrals visits the site. (My influence also increases if you also decide to measure the influence of your personal brand.) Accordingly, heres a link to visit if you prefer to go directly to the site. Conclusion As Dan Shawbel wrote in his post mentioned above: We all need to review how weve been connecting and promoting ourselves online. All of us have to guard against the tendency to get excited about new ideas and new techniques. Often, the newness of the new blinds us to the importance of the basics, like measuring the influence of our personal brands. Our attempts to measure our brands influence may never be 100% accurate, but theyre better than nothing; imperfect measurements are better than continuing to act without any measurements or tracking at all. Question: How do you measure the influence of your personal brand? Share your experiences and suggestions as comments, below. Author: Roger C. Parker shares ideas for planning, writing, promoting, profiting from brand building books in his daily writing tips blog. His latest book is #BOOK TITLE Tweet: 140 Bite-Sized Ideas for Compelling Article, Book, Event Titles.

CV Editing - Writing Services to Get Your CV Ready

CV Editing - Writing Services to Get Your CV ReadyResume writing services Vancouver BC offer a number of services that are used in today's busy world. Whether you are looking to make your CV stand out from the rest or simply need to edit it, here are some tips for editing resume writing services.First, a few words about the CV, and about what it is in the first place. You may be wondering why anyone would write a resume in the first place. To get a job requires a lot of time and energy, and most people simply do not have the time or the energy to do so.The resume is basically a checklist of what you do for a living, what skills you have and some of your accomplishments. You have to build a CV from this list of information, and in addition it has to be able to persuade the hiring officer that you are the right person for the job. That is why the CV is usually written with such care.Second, resume writing services will help you with the writing and cover letter of your job posting. Som etimes, there is so much that can go wrong with these letters that they do not make it past the first two rounds of the HR department. The letter needs to be short and to the point, as well as to the point; it should clearly communicate the position, as well as spell out what the responsibilities of the position are.Also, you need to take your resume to another level by sending it to Human Resources (HR) who in turn will go through it and cut and paste it into a job ad. This will get you noticed on the first page of the job posting, as well as possibly on the second page if the HR department sends you an ad that is already there. This is how most of the job vacancies are filled.Third, hiring professionals will even offer career counselling to you. Career counselling is a valuable service that most people never use because they either do not know that they need it or they think it is unnecessary. If you have the CV, then it is crucial that you see this counsellor to learn about your options.One key thing that you must remember is that the career counsellor will come to the conclusion that you need a job based on your CV, so you need to be prepared. A key recommendation that will help you in this regard is to write your CV before you even go to get it done.You will be asked for some personal references that you can use to write a letter of reference. This is a form of resume writing service that can only help you. Also, for the value of your letter of reference, you may want to have it professionally done if you can.

Paragraphs vs. Bullets On Your Resume Why Too Much of a Good Thing is Bad - CareerAlley

Paragraphs vs. Bullets On Your Resume Why Too Much of a Good Thing is Bad - CareerAlley We may receive compensation when you click on links to products from our partners. Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao Tzu Author Byline: Jessica Holbrook is an expert resume writer, career and personal branding strategist, author, and presenter. Author Website: http://www.greatresumesfast.com Many career experts today are focusing on content and harping on key accomplishments and selling yourself to the hiring manager. Weve covered those topics, but we are still seeing weaknesses with job seekers resumes in the format/design area. So weve decided to write a series of articles addressing different strategies with resume format and design. First up on our hit list: Paragraphs and Bullets. Which one is better, and what should you avoid? In this instance, too much of a good thing is a bad thing. If your entire resume is in paragraph form, you will bore the hiring manager, and he or she wont invest the time necessary to read through the text-dense material. Use paragraphs sparingly, and never use one longer than three to five sentences. Pass that five sentence mark, and youve lost them for sure. Bullets are a great way to create white space and break up information into shorter, easier-to-read points. However, if you get carried away and use too many your great accomplishments and key selling points will get lost in the mix. Try to limit yourself to three to five bullet points per position. And ALWAYS put the most impressive, most relevant, and more important bullets FIRST. So the moral of the story use a combination. Its not an either/or situation here. Use both, but use them sparingly. I recommend starting each position with a three-sentence introduction/description about primary, relevant detailsthen below, include a list of three to five hard hitting selected accomplishments. By utilizing a combination of both you are making the most of the space available while simultaneously attracting the readers eye by breaking up text-dense material and drawing them in with a few short bullet points. Your content will have a better chance of being readand your resume will make a better first impression. Article courtesy of the Recruiting Blogswap, a content exchange service sponsored by CollegeRecruiter.com, a leading site for college students looking for internships and recent graduates searching for entry level jobs and other career opportunities. Good luck in your search.

The 20 most common objections to happiness at work and why theyre wrong - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

The 20 most common objections to happiness at work and why theyre wrong - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog It seems weird, but some people are against happiness at work. Very serious pundits and cynics are coming out of the woodwork to declare that happiness at work is stupid, impossible, na?ve, silly, manipulative and/or bad for you. Theyre wrong and their criticisms often reveal a fundamental lack of understanding of the happiness research. I was getting tired of slapping these curmudgeons down one by one, so here is our?combined definitive smack-down of the 20 most common anti-workplace-happiness objections. If you like the video, please share it we need your help to stand up for happiness at work against the cynics :) Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related