Career Comics Funny Caption Contest #17 - Work It Daily

Vocation Comics Funny Caption Contest #17 - Work It Daily In the remark segment beneath, work out the most clever inscription you can consider for the image on the right. Whoever has the most votes by 11:59 PM ET on Wednesday, May 18 will win!How to Enter 1. Take a gander at the image and think about an interesting subtitle for it. 2. Type your triumphant inscription into the remark segment underneath. Remember to utilize a legitimate email address when entering your name on the remark stage so we can get in touch with you in the event that you win! 3. Hit the 'Like' button on your remark. That is one vote. Yahoo! Presently, demonstrate your amusing subtitle to every one of your companions and advise them to 'Like' your remark, as well. Why You Should Play The victor will get the accompanying: FREE half-hour of individual profession instructing with CAREEREALISM.com Founder, J.T. O'Donnell [Value = $75] FREE PDF duplicate of J.T's. book [Value = $9.95] More companions [Priceless] Rule: No swearing or improper cleverness. Fundamentally, you can be entertaining yet not so much amusing. Indication: Use your internet based life accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) to request votes. That way, every one of your companions will realize how entertaining you are. Disclaimer: We can't promise you will make more companions from your support in this challenge. Photograph credit: Shutterstock Have you joined our profession development club?Join Us Today!

Young v. United Parcel Service What the Pregnancy Discrimination Case is Really About

Youthful v. Joined Parcel Service What the Pregnancy Discrimination Case is Really About Any lady in the region of her kid bearing years will need to focus on a case that is being heard by the Supreme Court today. The high court's discoveries on Young v. Joined Parcel Service should address the hazy areas of what working environment insurances are ensured for pregnant ladies. The least you have to know: What's the situation about, at any rate? The offended party for the situation is Peggy Young of Lorton, Va., who had filled in as a conveyance truck driver for UPS. As an aspect of her responsibilities depiction, she should have been ready to lift bundles weighing as much as 70 pounds. In any case, when she got pregnant, her birthing specialist thought of her a note that said she ought not lift in excess of 20 pounds. Youthful requested a transitory light-obligation task, however the organization's word related wellbeing supervisor established that she was ineligible. Youthful says the division administrator at that point revealed to her she was an over the top risk, and she was not permitted to come back to work until after she had conceived an offspring. So Young needed to take an all-encompassing unpaid time away, which made her lose her wellbeing inclusion. Wasn't that separation? That is the issue the court needs to reply. In 1978, Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act which explains that oppression pregnant ladies is a type of sex separation. That implies your boss can't fire you or deny you work benefits since you're pregnant, you may get pregnant, you've conceived an offspring, or you have any related clinical issues. Your manager needs to treat you equivalent to individuals who are not pregnant but rather comparative in their capacity to work. To demonstrate sex segregation, in any case, Young expected to show four things. To start with, that she was a lady. Second, that she was equipped for the activity, or the activity advantage. Third, her boss denied her the activity or advantage she needed. Furthermore, fourth, a comparatively arranged man got the activity or advantage that she needed. The fourth presents a specific test: Since men can't get pregnant, which men are in a comparative circumstance? Youthful says UPS gave some different specialistsâ€"workers who were harmed at work or had their drivers' licenses were incidentally repudiatedâ€"the light obligation she needed. Accordingly, Young says UPS owed her similar housing. Be that as it may, lower courts couldn't help contradicting Young. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals contemplated that UPS's approach was pregnancy-daze. UPS wouldn't have offered light obligation assignments to, state, a man who tossed his retreat by lifting his child or a lady who harmed herself during a volunteer fireman move. Since UPS didn't give all its briefly handicapped laborers light obligation, the court found that UPS didn't need to give light obligation to Young. Numerous ladies' gatherings, wellbeing suppliers, work advocates and even ace life activists unequivocally couldn't help contradicting that administering. On the off chance that sooner or later during her pregnancy, a pregnant laborer needs a minor change in accordance with her activity obligations so as to keep carrying out her responsibility securely, the business has a commitment to give that, says Liz Watson, chief of Workplace Justice for Women at the National Women's Law Center. What occurs straightaway? Youthful advanced. The Supreme Court will hear oral contentions for the situation Wednesday and issue a decision at some point before the finish of this term, in late June. Yet, in a companion of the court brief, the Justice Department contends that it may be a debatable issue. In 2008, Congress passed a law changing the Americans with Disabilities Act that should make it considerably simpler for pregnant ladies to fit the bill for lodging like the one Young looked for. Presently, wounds that incidentally limit your capacity to lift, stand, or curve ought to likewise qualify you for housing under the ADA. Also, UPS has just turned around its arrangement. While UPS's disavowal of [Young's] convenience demand was legitimate at the time it was made (and subsequently can't offer ascent to a case for harms), pregnant UPS workers will tentatively be qualified for light-obligation assignments, the organization's concise says. Meanwhile, what are my privileges in case I'm pregnant or plan to get pregnant? You are managed indistinguishable securities from Young through the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. So you can't be terminated or denied benefits. Additionally, contingent on the size of the organization, you might be qualified by law for as long as 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act. Furthermore, under Obamacare, businesses are required to permit moms sensible break time and a private space to communicate bosom milk, Watson says. I think a business damaged my privileges. What would i be able to do? You can contact the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to record an objection, Watson says. You'll have more organization than you may expect: From 1997 to 2011, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission got more than 74,000 objections of pregnancy segregation. You can likewise contact your state's reasonable business practice organization. A few states and regions have much more grounded assurances for pregnant ladies in the working environment. In the previous year and a half, Illinois, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, West Virginia, Philadelphia, New York City, Providence and Pittsburg have all passed new laws, Watson says. Or on the other hand call an attorney. We lamentably address ladies a great deal who have endured pregnancy separation, Watson says. What happened to Peggy Young, being constrained off the activity since she got a specialist's note, is going on to ladies the whole way across the nation.

Awesome Journey of a Job Seeker (Felix Feng)

Awesome Journey of a Job Seeker (Felix Feng) Take the time to read this very awesome and insightful article by Felix Fang: I spent 3 months applying to jobs after a coding bootcamp. Here’s what I learned. This is a MUST READ for anyone in job search. Think about Felixs processes and what he tracks and does. Its a very strategic, purposeful journey. In his first pro-tip, he links to a list of companies that people are collecting where it is easy to apply, as opposed to the ridiculous application systems that require you to copy and paste parts of your resume.  This is super cool: The github easy-application list. Felix talks about the resume black hole and networking into companies. Felix is a developer.  Even if you arent a developer, you should be able to glean quite a bit of wisdom, and correct your tactics and strategy. Have you thought about sharpening your saw, and becoming a better candidate, even as you interview?  Read Insight #3 and see how someone intent on getting a six-figure offer did it. Insight #4 is about dissecting your personal brand, and how you come across to others.  Its critical that you understand how your branding may be hurting your job search! Felix also talks about questions you could ask during the interview.  Dont make the mistake of not asking smart questions! Insight #5 is hard because, well, Im impatient.  But if you dont respect the longevity of the job search, and sprint, you might wear yourself out and be less-than-effective. Heres what I want you to get out of this article: tactics and strategies and ideas.  More than that, though, I want you to see what your competition (other job seekers) is doing. I want you to see that its not just a apply-and-pray approach.  Please, be smart, strategic, and purposeful as you spend your time in this job search! Awesome Journey of a Job Seeker (Felix Feng) Take the time to read this very awesome and insightful article by Felix Fang: I spent 3 months applying to jobs after a coding bootcamp. Here’s what I learned. This is a MUST READ for anyone in job search. Think about Felixs processes and what he tracks and does. Its a very strategic, purposeful journey. In his first pro-tip, he links to a list of companies that people are collecting where it is easy to apply, as opposed to the ridiculous application systems that require you to copy and paste parts of your resume.  This is super cool: The github easy-application list. Felix talks about the resume black hole and networking into companies. Felix is a developer.  Even if you arent a developer, you should be able to glean quite a bit of wisdom, and correct your tactics and strategy. Have you thought about sharpening your saw, and becoming a better candidate, even as you interview?  Read Insight #3 and see how someone intent on getting a six-figure offer did it. Insight #4 is about dissecting your personal brand, and how you come across to others.  Its critical that you understand how your branding may be hurting your job search! Felix also talks about questions you could ask during the interview.  Dont make the mistake of not asking smart questions! Insight #5 is hard because, well, Im impatient.  But if you dont respect the longevity of the job search, and sprint, you might wear yourself out and be less-than-effective. Heres what I want you to get out of this article: tactics and strategies and ideas.  More than that, though, I want you to see what your competition (other job seekers) is doing. I want you to see that its not just a apply-and-pray approach.  Please, be smart, strategic, and purposeful as you spend your time in this job search!

Bright Shiny Objects and Babies Like Me - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Bright Shiny Objects and Babies Like Me - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career I have a baby brain, even now after all these grown-up years. A baby’s brain is exceptionally plastic, “captivated by the most unexpected events” and keen on seeing probabilities, while not terrifically impressed by certainties, per Alison Gopnik in Sunday’s New York Times. Sounds like an entrepreneur’s brain, at least during the start up phase of business. And, a successful CEO’s brain if the company is continually evolving, even during the most inelegant of times: disruptive change. I think, a lot. I do, quite a bit of very different tasks. I speak around the world on communication, publish and promote authors in a variety of fields, coach young managers and mature CEOs who have life changing goals, lead a company of consultants and experts in social media and marketing, and directly serve clients who want to develop their sales and product portfolios. I’m deeply engaged in the research and literature of buying behavior. In other words: there’s a ton of shiny objects in my average day, which is unlike the average day of anyone else I know and rely on. I need a lot of “newness,” which makes me dependent on clients and colleagues to present puzzles, that to them look like problems or inconsistencies with how they would like to live life or grow their businesses. In the tornado, I can duck below flying cows and cars, and see where the land has been cleared with the opportunity to build a new and better structure. Authentic to a fault I am the same in my personal life as I am in my business life. I am authentic to a fault. I have a puny small talk center in my brain. I love to be on the phone if the discussion is nearly brain crushing. My skin itches awfully if the conversation is a continued, unending loop of the politics of anything, a relationship or some overworked knot on the planet that some people want to revisit for lack of taking action â€" like trying something different. Embrace or be embarrassed by your brand That, fundamentally is my brand. I can either embrace it or be embarrassed by it. I accommodate it by reaching out to clients and strangers in order to fulfill my desire and talent for leveraging disconnected facts, people, opportunities or even chaos. I can’t ignore the truth that I like to work with people who are much, much better than I could imagine being if I had their mission, talent or strength. It doesn’t matter if you’re a hyper talented Sudoku master or the guy in the gym who lifts more weight per inch of body mass than anyone else, or the person with the solution to healthcare in the US. I want to be with people who are remarkable, because like babies I am drawn to what is remarkable, as opposed to what is the same or certain. How about you? The sooner you come to grips with what drives you wild, both “good wild” and “bad wild,” the more successful you’ll be in defining your brand. When you know your self and what’s good for your self, you will draw the right opportunities toward you. You will also push away from things that don’t feed you. What can you do to find the real you in your brand? 1. Visit the first 200 pages of digg.com, and identify 20 posts that appeal to you. Tip: Start at the last page and move toward the first â€" to avoid the whole peer group bias thing. 2. Get to Paris. Visit the Louvre with only 30 minutes left before closing and pick the exhibit(s) that you are dying to see. Alternative: visit the virtual tours page of the Louvre online and mimic the same strategy. 3. Make a list of the 100 people you must meet before you die. Then, start working your list. Author: Nance Rosen is the author of Speak Up! Succeed. She speaks to business audiences around the world and is a resource for press, including print, broadcast and online journalists and bloggers covering social media and careers. Read more at NanceRosenBlog. Twitter name: nancerosen.

A celebration of failed New Years resolutions

A celebration of failed New Years resolutions The pressure is mounting for the New Years resolutions posts. First is the flurry of pitches from public relations firms that want to get their clients into the press. Resolve to clean your house more thoroughly! Then come the academics weighing in with their research about how resolutions take willpower and how we only have a finite amount. Or how we need to make goals for ourselves that increase happiness. Or whatever will stick in mainstream media so the professors can get six-figure book deals for their research. Next come the bloggers who round it all up in a round-up post because bloggers never get to take days off from blogging, so they write a bunch of posts ahead of time that are really lists of other peoples resolutions. Im going to skip all that this year and jump to the celebration of failed resolutions. Here are some resolutions you can be proud of breaking. 1. Spend less time doing stupid stuff on the Internet. Did you know that fifteen percent of all content online is about cats? This tells me  we have an inherent need to share cat information. You should honor that. And, while youre at it, did you ever search for pus-popping videos? There are full channels devoted to pus poppingcysts, blackheads, ingrown hairs, theyve got it all. Also, extractions have the perfect pacing of a good porn video; the digging out of the impacted blackhead has the same sense of relief  as porn but none of the guilt. Do you think Taylor Swift is gay? You would cry for me if you knew how long I spent reading articles on this topic. Its very controversial, though I am not sure I even care. But I am very goal oriented, and I needed to have an object for my sleuthing because goals are always easier to meet if you define them clearly. To meet my goal of searching for less stupid stuff on the Internet Ive limited my Amal Clooney searches to once a day. Because I have limited willpower so I use it only for important things. 2. Be loyal. Follow through. Dont waste other peoples money. Those are the types of resolutions that box you into bad relationships. How about just dumping the person whos wrong for you? Do it before you have kids, okay? It seems like its so difficult to break off an engagement, but compared to breaking off a marriage with two pre-teens in tow, ending your long-term, unbetrothed relationship is valuable rehearsal. So go ahead and call off the engagement. And honor the law that says the ring is a gift by reselling it on WP Diamonds. You can use all that extra cash to buy last years books by academics about what makes resolutions stick.  (Note: engagement rings falls under property law, and who gets the ring  varies state by state. So  if youre a girl, break off the engagement in Montana.  And if youre a guy, break it off in New York.) 3.  Write more. I am uniquely qualified to tell you to dump this resolution because I have had it for 400 years and Ive failed every year. Or not. Because heres the thing. Its semantic. This is a great time for me to mention that I have a course about how to blog. You are probably not blogging as much as you wish you were blogging because you have no idea what the point is. And you would be right to ask the question. How can you get yourself to write on your blog every day if you cant pinpoint the point? My favorite course ever was How to Write About Your Life. You can sign up for that one, too. I liked it because I got to tell people how to be reliable, consistent writers instead of hating myself over how I am not a reliable, consistent writer. Its so nice to focus on other peoples problems instead of your own. And I am, actually, a professional when it comes to that vein of escapist behavior. Instead of writing more, I suggest you redefine what writing means. Sometimes in my sons music lesson I think I should be  taking notes, so I pretend the music notebook is my journal and I write write write. And that counts. Now it counts. Now after 400 broken resolutions it counts. 4. Improve social skills. This is a New Years Resolution thats really about earning more money. Its just a clever, evolved way to say it. Because people with good social skills earn more money. But really, its only to a point.  Because we can all think of people at the top of their game with terrible social skills: Steve Jobs, Marissa Mayer, Larry David. And look at Lena Dunhams character on Girls. In Season 2, in an effort to keep her friend from taking the kitchen chairs when he moves out, she sits on a chair with no underwear and rubs back and forth on it. Its my chair now, she says. If Lena Dunham is, indeed, the voice for her generation, then the voice for her generation is lacking social skills for sure. In a good way. Chris Rock says he doesnt like to do stand up at colleges anymore. He says a good comedian is always trying stuff that pushes people a little too far, and if the joke doesnt work, you think, OK. That didnt work. But because the kids record everything on their phones, and any joke that goes too far, they publish on the Internet and scream about it. Rock says that the best artists are pushing past whats okay in order to figure out what works. Thats how you find something new. Im thinking you might have to exist in a social skills vacuum in order to try stuff  that goes too far. 5. Get more sleep. Getting enough sleep is so important that if you are sleep-deprived, you function like a drunk person. But look, you have been drunk before, and its  probably felt like a party, and your life is not so fun that its a party all the time, so you are not that sleep-deprived that you need to waste a resolution on it. Anyway, recent data has shown that while sleep is a competitive advantage at work, and the richer you are, the more sleep you get. So since most people reading this are living above the poverty line, youre probably getting enough sleep. The real issue, according to Chip Walter writing in Popular Science  is stress. He says human evolution is killing us. We are too smart for our own good and our brains have evolved faster than our bodies. He shows the  influx of data coupled with our endless supply of food is making us unable to function the way our bodies were meant to function. In other words: Sitting is the new smoking. And your brain needs rest time when its awake. So everyone should meditate  for twenty minutes a day. The army mandates it, my friend in LA says parent groups are doing it, athletes do it and musicians do it. And Silicon Valley companies like Google have been  paying employees  to meditate for years,  which is evidence that if you are making resolutions to make more money,  meditation is the New Years Resolution for you. Its a meta resolution, really. Because there is no real reason why we cant meditate. We all have 20 minutes to spare. We can do it anywhere. We can do it  even if were  sick. We can meditate when we are sad. It doesnt matter. You just sit. If you are staring at the wall,  doing nothing, you get credit. And thats probably the resolution were all looking for anyway.

10 Must Read Money Books That Will Change Your Life

10 Must Read Money Books That Will Change Your Life Wealth consciousness means making a clear decision to break out of the mental patterns that impoverish us and draw us repeatedly into the poverty cycle. It’s all about your mindset. If you feel like you aren’t bringing in the cash flow that you know you can be, these money books are definitely for you!  What’s stopping you from creating wealth in life? In these books, we  look at some common myths and mindsets we carry about wealth â€" and how to break free of them. Read some of these books every day. Get your mind used to reading wealth books like these. 10 Must Read Money Books For Every Professional Woman: 1. Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill 2. Leveraging the Universe by Mike Dooley 3. The Divine Law of Compensation by Marianne Williamson 4. The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles 5. The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn 6.  The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey 7. Get Rich While You Sleep by Ben Sweetland 8. 4 Spiritual Laws of Prosperity by Edwene Gaines 9. Get Rich Lucky Bitch by Denise Thomas Duffield 10. Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki What I learned the most from reading these money books is to look money in the eyes. We cant be intimidated by it, we need to treat it like a tool we use to accomplish things. Most people have no idea what is in their bank account. We just write checks or use a debit card or whatever we’re using to spend money or buy things without really knowing what we have. We actually have to look money in the eyes. If money was a person would it want to be hanging around you right now? Are you even making eye contact with it? Are you acknowledging it? Money likes to be acknowledged. From that perspective, if money was a person, it would like to be acknowledged. It just wants to be your friend. It wants to hang out with you, have a good time, and provide for you. When you begin to look money in the eyes, it may feel weird in some ways. It’s kind of like looking into a mirror and saying “I love you” over and over again or saying mantras while you look at yourself. I know that can be uncomfortable for a lot of folks. But the more that you allow yourself to look money in the eyes and see it for what it really is, it will start to transform right before your eyes. It will be easier and easier over time, just as it is to look at yourself in the mirror and say your mantras, to appreciate money and to energetically and consciously develop an appreciation for this energy, which is money. Which of these money books  are you going to read?

Writing a Resume For Co-Op Can Be Difficult

Writing a Resume For Co-Op Can Be DifficultWriting a resume for co-ops can be the most difficult part of the whole process. There are many things to consider, and some documents to be saved. While many schools will ask for information about your previous job experience, it is very important to keep your resume relevant to the current position.Make sure that your document is not a cookie cutter document that no one would be able to recognize. If it is not, you should try to avoid including it in the resume. A basic document that could be used for a variety of different resumes is a list of the duties of a future job, with a section for highlighting the skills and responsibilities you possess.One reason for including an information section is to make it easier for the potential employer to contact you if necessary. Most positions at universities require this section and may include a phone number, email address, or other means of communication. Include any references you may have on yo ur resume, even if they are former employees. It will help to make sure that you are included on any communications that a potential employer makes.Find out what type of documents you will need to save for each school you apply to. The answer to this depends on the level of experience you want. The more experience you have, the more you will want to consider making a document for each school.The files that you make for each resume must be relevant to the job in question. Many employers will request certain types of documents, such as a list of addresses, the names of family members, and/or dates of employment. It is not required that you write these in your document, but you may wish to find the best way to include them. Some schools will request documents like this, while others may not, so do not let this stop you from writing your own. You can make your document according to any organization style, whether it is chronological or functional. Keep in mind that employers will be loo king for an organized person, not a random one. It is important to include specific information regarding each job that you have held, and make sure that you include the date you started, ended, and responsibilities that you had. Include details of any educational work you may have done, such as degrees or professional credentials.Writing a resume for co-ops must include all relevant information. This includes achievements, education, and relevant experience. Do not forget to include any volunteer activities that you might have participated in. Try to include as much information as possible in each section, although be sure to keep in mind that some employers may require that your resume be more specific than others.Make sure that your resume is useful to the co-op position that you are applying to. There is no reason to create a document that no one will read, and it may actually hurt your chances of getting the job. If you do not know how to make a resume for co-ops, consult a res ume writing service.