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Skype Chat: HFCN ExtraCare4Careers

2008-08-28T20:54:00.004-04:00

Have you read any good career development blogs lately?
Got a great resource you want to share with jobseekers?
OR just feeling a need to connect with others on how to make your career vision a reality?

Come chat about it.. Tweet, or just get in touch/stay in touch! You are among friends! A new HFCN Chat Room is offered using Skype Chat for fun and periodic networking, career development best practices, and of course to provide a human face to "career seekers" who just wanna chat to a person from time to time! We can arrange this ChatRoom for special events, but for the time being, we are just going to create an open Skype Chat Room on Thursday evenings beginning at 8:00 pm. EST, 6:00 MTN, 5:00 PST.

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2.0 Job Search, Network, Productivity Tools

2008-08-15T15:43:00.005-04:00

What are your favorite Web 2.0 Job Search and Career Development Tools?

Job Search Utilities:

Mashable provides 70+ Tools for Job Seekers.
Helping Friends Career Network of Open Jobs Widget for your Website or Blog.
ExtraCare 4 Careers Tips for your competitive Web 2.0 Job Search.

How to: Networking for Jobs:

JibberJobber.com
Jason Alba and his Book "I'm On LinkedIn, Now What?"
Institute for Community Inclusion "Making Networking Easier Job Seekers: A guide".
LinkedIn Tools for Jobseekers.
Helping Friends Community Networking Tips Widget for your Website or Blog- Tips, Profiles.

Web 2.0 Productivity Tools

Career Branding: Will Tweet for Work

2008-08-12T04:56:00.004-04:00

Nice tweet by Rodney @Rumford " 25 startups using twitter" http://tinyurl.com/6pwbza
inspired the notion of Career Branding or being a Focused Professional using Twitter.

What should professionals be doing to produce opportunity or partnership that transcends the tweets from "what are you doing now?" Twitter's microblogging utility offers many use cases for a start up as highlighted in this excellent article about how start ups are using twitter to create brand and businesses awareness inspired a desire to highlight how top business professionals are using twitter in their job search.

Do you tweet for work? Here are some possibilities for Career Branding Professionals to create or extend relationships.

Resume Social Networking
What are YOU learning? Notes and Observations from Professional Association Involvement
Highlighting/Introducing corporate or colleague thinkers you respect.
Responding to marketplace news with Intelligent Business Logic
Creating Conversations and Logic that supports your expertise, as brand that produces opportunity!

Who do you follow that represents that special "Career Branding" example using Twitter?

RESOURCES :
200 Internet Marketing Gurus on Twitter
Jason Alba, Founder of JibberJobber and Social Media Career Possibility Thinker
ExtraCare4Careers, help on your 2.0 Career Strategy
Dale Carnegie - Expert on Personal Development
Twitter Treats for Business Networking

3 Professional Tips on Personal Development

2008-08-05T16:12:00.008-04:00

Cool Career and Professional Wisdom Shared with the Friends Recently:

Financial Success and Managing Real Life Debt is a really cool blog on how to really get mileage with your $.
Because words become things.. Positive Affirmations-- some feel affirmations is so much baloney. Garbage in/Garbage out is more than a programming term in computer science.. We can affirm positive or negative thoughts, and do so either deliberately or automatically. Subscribe to Daily Quotes for inspiration on picking good thoughts from Abraham Hicks.
The Engaging Brand Blog offers much great wisdom on becoming your best self. I was introduced to this via Twitter when I saw a url link to "5 Leadership Thoughts for a Bad Day". Another good resource for this is the Personal Branding Blog article "When a Company Hires you They Endorse your Brand".

Affirming your Best Career Aptitudes

2008-07-31T11:35:00.004-04:00

Supercharge your capacity to demonstrate your "Best" career aptitude.

Are you excited about the opportunities and person you are working to be? Let that excitement show through in your social networking profile and career portfolio.

Patient, persistent, persuasive, potential over doubtful, fearful, uncertain and skeptical limitations.

EDIT> FIND > REPLACE: Let your experience be what it is, working harder for you than against you. Remove references to "minimally sufficient", "insufficient, "not enough" from your descriptive vocabulary. Remove all references to negative experiences, brutal career stories, and career regrets. Replace that with statements of experience and skills that compliment your skills to your employer's needs. If you undersell yourself on your own limitations, enlist the help of writers to craft your experiences makeover. This is not about exaggerating your words and experience, it's about representing your best self.

Cool Links on Topic:

Daily Career Connection--..Secrets of How to Do Effective Company Research
Extra Care for Careers-- FREE where your shared career profile gets jobs 2.0 visibility!
Copy Writing Tips and Tricks -- The Persuasive Power of Simplicity

Refresh your Profile and Resume

2008-07-23T08:14:00.003-04:00

Our fortune is not in our future, it is in we choose to embrace this moment of greatness happening. Part of social networkings great benefit is a fun and casual way to create and exchange competitive infomation that improves your career. Great does happen! Will you allow yourself to benefit such greatness? Will you celebrate with others? Did you know that focus on what is working (for yourself and others) has a tendency to create more positive momentum.

Now is the perfect time to update your references, your profile, your picture. Who is the business colleague that you really appreciate? Go endorse them on your favorite social networking profile-- giving out that which you hope to receive helps as well. Update and back up your address books.

Search Engine Optimization is hot because it helps companies with an online presence to be found... Try the same for your resume. What skills are companies most working for, that you possess? Highlight the areas where your specific skills makes a difference-- this differentiator helps, and it is a delight to see greater response to your resume or social networking portfolio, simply because you created the fortunate momentum to be noticed.

Opening Doors of Opportunity through Conscious Careering

2008-07-18T07:36:00.003-04:00

What is it that you Want to Achieve?
Why is it that you Want to Achieve It?
I choose this direction because when I accomplish this ___?

Much of our professional life is invested in a life balancing act of contrasting values. Some of the simplest and most elegant career alternatives that might be calling to us, unheard, because they were talking in a whisper, and overpowered by that louder more familiar noise.

Your answers do not need to be eloquent, or elegant... They simply are your desired outcomes. Consider this an exercise in visioning, and exploring what the ideal end state looks like. Over the years, we have seen many a brilliant professional attach so much focus, activity, and fear to "What they DON'T want to happen, that they neglect to define the case for what they will do when the DO want this to happen. It feels better to think of a successful outcome, and throughout history, it is those able to vision a situation uncommonly satisfying to their objective that improved their options tremendously.

"Extreme" Conscious Careering is a study in opposites, and a deliberate awareness of challenging our thoughts and actions to finding the myriad of positive options that exist for us. Some starter tips are here, we will be sharing more:

"Feeling" good,is allowing good." If good and bad despite circumstances are both options, we can create, learn and appreciate, by identifying from this moment, the choices, and the milestones we will pass while achieving the end state objective.
Absorb the experience and appreciate progress in yourself and others. We evolve by accepting progress more than feeling stuck. Try an exercise of "over-response" Trade some of your deadlines, fears and judgements of failure for being trapped in overly responsible demands to explore the gentler process of recognizing what is the more attractive, fulfilling, and rewarding outcome."
"Progress" with a "Principle" is enjoying the positive action, rather than pushing out an unpleasant one. There are at least 5 alternatives we could explore that might be better than the approach, or results we would like to change. Challenge the thoughts, beliefs and limitations that start an automatic dance of "stuck". As a brilliantly conscious career agent, we have choices, and some of them involve choosing a more inspiring dance. We do not have to be unsensitive we simply have to be aware of our role, our choice, and our options. Not every song requires we dance, and we can challenge the rules, when we are conscious of them.
Nourish yourself and others with the tools of optimism, options, and creativity. Let us be a better reminder of seeing the good intent and capabilities and reminding one another than keeping score of metrics that keep us feeling "stuck" in the illusion of not good enough. Optimistic thinking does not involve ignoring your feelings, but it does involve managing the choices we take as a result of feeling stuck. "Feeling" and "being" are not the same thing, but we forget conscious choice, when we get too busy with our dance.
You have been productive far more than unproductive, so stop doing what you know is bad for you, and start being radical about meeting your conscious careering, "BEST" self! Stop chasing, comparing, judging, and assessing, and start appreciating, recognizing, and feeling progress.

TIPS:

Connect to others who have accomplished what you aspire to do, and are willing to share and inspire. If your choice is "limitation" or possibility, choose the extra care option.
Choose marketing, thoughts, objectives, and words that inspire and represent you, even by letting go of the lack, and attaching marketing agents that help you brand yourself.
Do something each day that stretches you. Take the one super charge step that you typically like to avoid.

Extra Care 4 Careers (defining Job Search 2,0)

2008-07-15T16:40:00.004-04:00

Extra Care 4 Your Career is a job search 2.0 program available July 15, 2008.

09/30/05 Tim O'Reilly offers the best clarification for Web Business 2.0 as to what a web 2.0 is and is not. If it's got a glossy graphic, maybe a starburst or style distinction, is that enough to satisfy the buzz? Nope. Using Tim's definition as a jumping off point the jobs and employment market itself must come to reach the Web Business 2.0 model as well.

Web Business 2.0 is not a proprietary site, broadcasting out, a traditional medium with manual response and minimal relationships. It's become an interesting mash of intellectual content plus open sourcing and collaboration. The spinning of Web Business 2.0 produces a speed, and a richness of business interaction.

So how does the Traditional Job Search and Job Search 2.0 Compare?

Traditional Job Search
Resume In Microsoft Word
Register on Monster > wait for a call.
Fax your Resume > wait for a call.
Read the Want Ads> where next?
Resume Blasters> wait to be found
Recruiters as "resume collectors"
Job Board Ad > wait for resumes
Yahoo and LinkedIn Requests

Job Search 2.0
Social Networked: Naymz, LinkedIn, Lijit, FaceBook
Sound Strategy: JobHunt.org, JibberJobber, HFCN
Leverage the network of win win business networkers.
Microblogging Matters- Great blog by Cheezhead
Responsible quality, relationships, and service delivery.
Resumes, must be connected to credible talent.
RSS Feed Model and Recruiter community networking
Go direct to a community where supply meets demand.
Recruiters Partner and leverage Recruiter Networks for shared results.

Read More About It:
"Happy About" Books on Social Networking for Linked In and Facebook.
Helping Friends Career News Blog

CareerInk Enhances Resumes

2008-06-29T15:37:00.003-04:00

JUNE 29, 2008: What a perfect day to introduce the "CareerInk" wisdom of founder, Roberta Gamza.

One of our Helping Friends advised that working with the professional expertise of someone who knew IT, and Marketing, really helped to express their best self, even better. The result of working with a resume writer helped them to overcome their own "cultural limitations", producing a resume that concisely represented their skills. this gift of words that create results is rare but deligthful to witness in action.

Roberta is a smart professional that knows how to make people shine. Using her 15 years of experience in High Tech Marketing, she helped professionals to produce that perfect career portfolio package that offered them distinguished career advantage that helps open doors to desirable interviews.

CareerInk is the "marketing and communications" support to help find the right words to motivate, to pursuade, to inform-- techniques and services exist for marketing communications, resume creation or strategies for strengthening your career portfolio position.

Or, take advantage of our free résumé review.

CareerInk
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2008-06-17T10:11:00.003-04:00

JobSeekers & Recruiting Professionals This is a reminder that it is time to Refresh!

Helping Friends Career Network features a FEW candidate resumes every month in our "extra care" program. We network these great candidates with our peer recruiters in the industry.. This is a new service offering that costs nothing to our job seekers, but is part of the value added service to professionals with a polished career package, looking for a network boost.

Tips to Refresh Career Profiles

WHY Social Networking on LinkedIn (Presentation).
Lifehack Sticky Ideas Workshop Credible Endorsements. (Nice article by Dustin Wax )
Top Ten Reasons You Shouldn't Write your Own Resume (blog by Kim Isaacs)
Career Reference Guide (excellent suggestions from Virginia Tech)
Tips for Nurturing Relationships (excellent suggestions from JibberJobber's Blog)

Call To Action: Have resources? Want resources? Offer ideas?

Jobseekers- Try a refresh of Resume. Send updates to your recruiter. OR ask a Friend for Extra Care.
Service Providers- Request an invitation to join the LI2Jobs/ExtraCare Career Community. Introduce and network with other HFCN Business Networkers to share resources. Imagine if Recruiters, Resume Writers, and Career Coaches could create a referral stream that helps us deliver more for all our clients.. Be part of a career development community movement.

Lets consider and get involved in what our community can do:

Blog Streams to help our clients and community.
Link Exchanges, Referrals and Resources to connect supply and demand.
Practical referrals to experienced professionals with solid business values.

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EXAMPLES: Will expand as others join us, perhaps creating a group RSS Feed!

HFCN Job Leads and Career Tips Blog and RSS Feed of jobs and career tips now. If you produce a similar career development, resume tips, or jobs list feed, lets work together to combine that which we can do well to share.

HFCN Excellent Candidate or Job Exchange Feed: Blog & RSS Feed of top candidates and or job order splits available now. IF you produce a similar candidate or job feed, lets work together to combine that which you can automatically share. Requirements to participate in a shared feed, is that you must be able to define the basic terms and summary/contact information in each entry, must be able to share that feed free and clear.

Recruiting Professionals Community News: Blog and RSS Feed of Career Service Professionals Networking taking place now.

Career Resilience Inspiration

2008-05-28T10:47:00.007-04:00

Extra Care for Career Resilience:

Helping Friends Career Network celebrates the thinkers in our industry that are helping to inspire others towards becoming their best professional selves. There have been some notable contributions to career resilience and we like to celebrate them here. Please let us know what you are reading that is inspiring and helping others as well!.

Orienting the notion of your social networking plan to building your credible and hireable brand, is more than "trendy", it's practical. In response to career information requests from our community, we are blogging on Empowered Career Resilience.

John Hadley, is dedicated to inspiring people to their best selves. He has announced a "Career Accelerator Blog" with tips on the type of questions your resume must answer, and strategies to help you become successful and efficient in achieving your career goals.

Jason Alba, one of my favorite experts in career agility has shared on FoxBusiness.com and JibberJobber Blog, some ideas that have been picked up and applied to create success for other professionals as well.. The notion of blogging to bigger job opportunities is a great one.. Helps you define your brand and career expertise.

If "Perfect" employment is the goal, clear objectivity is necessary. Employment Digest has a great blog "7 Ways to find your Perfect Job". Great stuff about what you can do to determine or validate an opportunity. Most important to that process is of course, 'trusting your instincts" after applying those steps.

HFCN Resources

HFCN Jobs Database - http://arunaurl.com/2e0g

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Rosie the Riveter or 5 Counterproductive Career Ideas

2008-05-08T10:29:00.007-04:00

Many of us do not think about why the image's we connect to, happen... it just kind of clicks. In life, in our careers, and in our experience, we have choices...

Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of career optimism, produced by J. Howard Miller, during World War II, a representation of about 6 million women women who assumed the role of the real life, Rosie's. Sometimes in life, we are so busy trying to survive, we miss the beauty found in optimism and action. We need to celebrate more stories of possibility, like that of Rose Will Monroe.

Our original "Rosie", Rose Will Monroe was born in Coppell, Texas in 1920. During World War II she moved to Michigan and worked in manufacturing, as a riveter at the Willow Run Aircraft Factory. She did not choose to be an riveter because it was glamourous.. Her work was uncommon, but her choice to do this work was not so uncommon.

A job needs to be done. Let us not get bogged down in the story, let us just do that job to the best of our ability, we can do it!

The widower, Mrs. Monroe, joined the workforce to manage a difficult time. She was left with 2 young children after her husband was killed in a car accident. What made her special? She did. She chose to do what needed to be done. The sadness of the circumstances would not be near so compelling as the decision that regardless of what happens in life, we will find the abundant resources to make the right decisions. We can learn to employ tools that are familiar or unfamiliar to produce results that are uncommon.

Rose Monroe had lifelong dreams of becoming a pilot, and a working optimism to allow dreams to happen. She worked hard on many careers, providing for her family, while training towards her big vision... At some 50 years of age, Rose became a pilot, and the only female member of a local aeronautics club.

Do what you love. Do a little bit of it everyday, while you are doing what matters for your family, your community, your country, and your world.. This has expansive possibility in helping us to recognize our best selves.

Let us not get too bogged down in the doom and gloom news about how bad it is.. It would indeed be a sad story, if "Rosie the "Widower" was where the story ended. We have a celebration at hand, it's called living... let us do so with zeal.

5 Counter Productive Career Ideas We Shouldn't Try if Really We Intend to Fly.

Maximize the fearful threat, minimize the potential good.
Flaming anger at a seemingly repetitive situation feels great for a minute, then flames the fire of a gentler path that might be waiting you.
Those who try hailing a cab, dressed like the Grim Reaper, might have difficulty getting where they want to go.
Mis-spelling quality when emphasizing your 'attention to detail', in a resume, doesn't work.
Assuming the job won't pay as much, if the range isn't posted, or it might be looking only for top performers.

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Telecommuting Trends and Greener Business

2008-04-18T21:30:00.004-04:00

Helping Friends Career Network has traditional office and telecommuting or flexible working opportunities nationwide. Some of our hot telecommuting opportunities are in IT, Sales, Marketing, and Sarbanes Oxley/Financial Auditing.

If your company would like to explore listing jobs with flexibility, let us know and we can recruit for the experience professional with proven skills in any industry, working from home. Telecommuting need not be an all or nothing sort of strategy.

There ARE companies leading industry in their telecommuting practice-- because they can hire and solve problems from anywhere, expand their reach, and imagine saving thousands annually by being able to hire either for an office or the best talent from where they live!

Nice article "Some Companies Rethink the Telecommuting Trend" written by Sue Shellenbarger for the Wall Street Journal underscores an important notion as to companies who have embraced, but modified it's telecommuting strategies.

Work at home professionals are wise to plan and deliver requirements for keeping a productive telecommuting opportunity, the power of this article is in the practical tips for an individual to accomplish their telecommuting career.

This article's corporate perspective suggests a myriad of reasons for changing the telecommuting policy- some included worker abuse, bracing for a recession, aggressive new business requirements, lack of proven productivity, and relative greater ease with releasing a telecommuting employee than an office employee.

Tips for Corporate Telecommuting:

One size strategy does not fit all. While telecommuting is not for everyone, it can be significant where the policy, expectation, and agreements are clear. rmLibrary has identified some excellent tools for calculating costs, creating agreements, managing risk, and implementing strategy.
Telecommuting requirements should be clear in terms of schedule and performance expectations. It must establish the terms for allowing telecommuting. Some companies might explore telecommuting as an option with other work options - flex time, condensed work week (4, 10 hour days instead of 5, 8 hour days). WomenforHire.com has some advice for exploring options.
ERE explored Inside Recruiting Telecommuting issues, some of the biggest issues are recognition, career pathing
How and why develop skills to manage a distributed workforce? A LITTLE strategy can go a long way. Ask your recruiting team to help you create a strategy for attracting and retaining qualified work from home staff. The trick is in balancing the needs of a work from home employee and a traditional office employee. At the end of the day, it is about being effective in getting work done, whether in an office or in a Virtual Private Network from Home.
What real savings exist? Recruiting suddenly opens a nationwide possibility, that can create local presence. Check out the WHAT YOU CAN DO to Take Action on Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth page. It's environmentally sound, Sun saves $63M in telecommuting benefits and has reduced the environmental CO2 emisions by 29K tons.
Create a plan for bringing together the IT needs of a good telecommuting strategy-- connecting, visibility, security, information protection, etc. CIO.com featured tips a CIO must know about telecommuting.

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Recession Proof Career Resilience

2008-04-11T08:22:00.004-04:00

I want to explore if a newer better job fit exists for me. The situation too often starts like this:

Where am I and what steps can I take to feel better about my work? Queue background noise about current events, fears, limitations, and hopes.

Oh but it's pretty bad out there, what evidence do I have that this time, I could make the right decision to move my career to a happier place? Queue supporting feedback that justifies how stuck you are from former critics, historic evidence of your past failures in business..

I should feel bad, guilty or insane for trying to aspire a better me in this economy, project, environment, or responsibility. Rationalize that we have choices, and choose to either be happier in our ability to make choices, and appreciate the journey. OR Stop trying to take actions on the better vision, because evidence has shown the time is not right, you are not right, the mood is not right, or you just don't deserve it.

Recession Proof Career Resilience Creates Opportunity!

Releasing a romantic attachment to how hard it is, creates the conditions for alternatives.
There is always supply and demand, unless we attach too much to the lack of resource.
Balance is found in healthy dreaming, and consciously realistic choice.
There IS a way to choose a positive direction, despite the limitations at hand.
Appreciating a possibility thinker on your life design board can go a long way.
Value friends who offer realistic input when you need it.
Embrace the positive choice in a negative message to be an advocate of possibility.
Find the courage to articulate the positive values and opportunity, despite popular opinion.
Do a little bit each day to stretch your comfort zone for what success looks like.
What are you avoiding? Select actions out of procrastination and locked thinking.

Counterpoints to environmental buzz noise:

Where thousands are unemployed on the news, remember you don't need thousands of jobs, you just need one.
If your phone is not ringing, growth is still happening. Keep your mind on the prize, and the process will take care of itself. Focus on the lack, and the lack will multiply.
The biggest resistence to your success is not external news.
Happiness is created in a string of actions put together to create a sense of greatness.
Where there is dis-ease, there is both limitation and possibility.

Empowerment:

What is it that I want to create?
What does success look like?
What alternatives exist for the "same old" approach?
What will I need to be willing to release to accept this better place?
What actions can I take to move away from my attachment to lack-- lack of support, response to my resume, my professional capabilities, my market demand, a bad management string?

April: Celebrating Administrative Professionals

2008-04-07T10:08:00.005-04:00

April 23 - 26, 2008 Administrative and Secretarial Support Professionals Week.

Highlights:

Resources:

Recognition Ideas:

Gifting Resources - Ideas for Admin Professional's Day

Networks and Career Resources:

Admin's Favorite Tools:

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Telecommuting News, Tips, Strategies

2008-03-29T19:36:00.004-04:00

Telecommuting News:

Air Quality Improves If More Telecommute! ~ San Jose Mercury News
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Telecommuting ~ CIO
Strategies For Surviving A Slump~ Businessweek
3 Ways To Cut Technology Energy Costs Now ~ MIS Asia
AT&T Case Study ~ Geofax Conway Data

Career Tips:

20 Essential Tips for Telecommuting Success ~ Leo Babauta
Stress Management for Telecommuters ~ PC.IBM.com
Telecommuting Resume and Cover Letter Tips, FAQs Samples
Telecommuting Jobs Bulletin ~ Helping Friends Career Network
Telecommuters Job Interview ~ Workaholics 4 Hire

Policy Strategies:

Greener Business Innovation
How to Write a Telecommuting Strategy ~ Forrester
Telecommuting could Help Staff Balance, Work, Life ~ UC Santa Cruz
Ten Tips for Hiring the Best Employees for your Home Based Business ~ All Business
10 Considerations in Developing Telecommuting Policies ~ HR.com
8 Recruitment Trends for '08 ~ ThomasNet IndustrialNewsRoom

Telecommuting Resources:
HFCN Jobs | Telecommuting Yahoo Group | Telework Coalition | Telework Advisory Group |

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Celebrating Friends: Looks Whos In U.S. News and World Report

2008-03-26T02:29:00.004-04:00

Hey check out this Friend!! Celebrating Friends Today.. Lookie who is featured in the U.S. News and World Report!

Nice article in U.S. News and World Report interviewing Jason Alba, Founder and CEO of JibberJobber.com. Jason' shares with others the open sources for business social success in "I'm on LinkedIn Now What?", and in this new book "I'm on FaceBook, Now What?".

Follow your future with an optimism that there IS a plan, then keep doing the next logical thing and before you know it, the plan is known. Out of work internet designer, turned entrpreneur and social networking guru. People relate to those that chose to be relateable and refuse to be discouraged for too long.. Jason is amazing and Jibber Jobber Tools are favored by many jobseekers because they were designed to offer practical value while doing the next logical thing!

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Part of Embracing the Best Case Scenarios..

2008-03-22T15:02:00.004-04:00

Being able to anticipate, and prepare to mitigate for the worst case scenario has served me well in my work in Information Technology Support. The organizational hero in IT seems to be the one person that scoops in at the last minute and saves the day. For a long time then, many of us lost ourselves in thinking that preparing for the worst case scenario and disaster recovery would be sufficient.

I extended this notion to the rest of my life planning, hence, I was prepared for what I would do if I lost my job like so many thousands of others. I could prepare for if the symptoms I had progressed into cancer...

All this hoping for the best and planning for the worst was what needed to be released however. Too many people are willing to tell you why you are a failure and are never going to make it in an effort. By way of returning the old beliefs that no longer serve, we will include some real live career limiting beliefs and inspirations.

Helping Friends Career Network was founded by people who believed in possibility regardless of headlines, and are grateful that others felt enough to represent their Business Beliefs. For those who presented their beliefs with such strong fear and limitations, we are Returning with appreciation for your desire to make an impression, and a sincere desire to pursue more productive options to what you would offer to dissuade others..

Honestly, I think you have too great an opinion of yourself and your skills.
Are you even sure you can solve this problem? You can't even speak normal English?
Why are you even in this business, I am of the belief you are incompetent?
What the heck are you going to do with another degree at your age?
Why do you think anyone else will pay you what we overpay you? You should be happy you still have a job in this layoff environment.

These beliefs are too often the kinds of things we take as proof that things are as bad as we let them be. Let us challenge the limitations with a few real life inspirations of individuals that would not back down to "Career Limiting Opinions" of others.

Summarized the heroes are those who challenge traditional limitations with uncommon success. Not because they are "warring" against negativity, but because they take so much genuine joy in what they do, that the critical words of another does not affect their stronger desire to be part of something more meaningful.

You are good enough to define your career path, and work for productive, deserving career stability.
You are smart enough to manage your own resilience, and your success was surely an indication of your potential, your setbacks, an opportunity to make a clearer decision.

Resources and stories of inspiration:

Jackie Streeter is a delight to know. She has inspired many in business at Apple where she worked in Cupertino CA as a senior Engineering Director, proving the belief that it is not the size of an organization, but results that matter.. Today she inspires the heart warming tradition of thoughtful business networking over a great cup of coffee! All who know Jackie can not help but feel she is THAT inspirational! Two years ago she and her sons became owners of the popular California Bay Area Coffee Society Coffee Shops.
Bob Love - overcame the limiting disbelief from others, and was a peak performer despite a serious stuttering problem. Humble beginnings to top in the NBA for the Chicago Bulls, to overcoming serious health setbacks, this champion was a winner at all times.
Career Success for Newbies
You might be a redneck if... you think Jeff Foxworthy was always just a funny hillbilly! He traded his career as an IBM Mainframe Support Person for a career in comedy... Hey, that's funny!
We knew his technical talent! IT Development Program Manager Tu Trinh helped many of us with the web stuff that we could not resolve on our own. He was a talent, but we never knew the depth or capacity of his dreams until he LEFT Sun.. Last year he won Vietnam Idol!
Too old for WHAT!!! Anna Mary Robertson was the wife of a Virginia based farmer.. She was perhaps better known as Grandma Moses, an American Folk Artist, sold her first painting when she was nearly 80 years old, she was shortly thereafter features on TIME and LIFE magazines!
Be Special, Be Anything, But Mediocre. Was the title of one of Carol Eacret - Simmons Art shows. She grew up in central IL, raised 3 kids, and went back to college when her last child left home, got her AA, BA, and MFA. At the time most of her friends were looking forward to retirement she accepted her first professional opportunity ever for Dickinson State in North Dakota. She is an example of loving her work, and living her inspiration.

Telecommuting Buzz: National Green Jobs Conference

2008-03-13T06:54:00.002-04:00

Dr. Peter Beadle, the President of Greenjobs: "We created Greenjobs to ease the path of talent into the renewable energy industries, to ensure that their growth stifled through lack of people. "

A nationwide dialogue is being held today and tomorrow in Pittsburgh PA, to tout the importance and benefits of a new green economy approach to jobs creation. The event is being coordinated by the bluegreen alliance with partnership between The United Steelworkers and The Sierra Club.

Pennsylvania has added 3,100 non-farming related jobs to their community. In New Jersey losses were in the business of trade transportation, utilities, and professional services sector.

A good Green Jobs Program SHOULD Be about creating a sound change advocate team that serves to develop a few necessary outcomes:

Reduce the carbon footprint
Change buying and commerce incentives for alternative energy production, creation, consumption.
Create needed jobs that creates competitive local advantage to employers who embrace telecommuting.
Train the workforce on workforce and team skills necessary to participate in a Green Jobs Program.

Enough Already...

2008-03-11T23:43:00.002-04:00

In my life experience, I have had great experiences to learn from, many gifts have been given and to whom much is given, much is also expected. So what is it that IS expected of me, and what will I be willing to give my time, my value, and my resources to.

If our outer world mirrors the reflection of our inner creation, then doesn't it stand to reason that our thoughts do create our reality. Do you think smaller, limited, or "worst case scenario"? I don't know if you relate, but I recognize suddenly that I have given too much of my own life to creative and empowered living, who 'manages' her experiences to the "what is the worst thing that can happen".

Exploring the beliefs and the harmonic mirror of our life.. What are we doing to add to or subtract from our core values. I had to be willing to give up the time spent on what I would do if the worst case scenario happened... Now in program management and in business this has served me well... however for career resilience, I have got to be willing to also explore what is the best thing that can happen if I dare to articulate it?

If people mirror what is going on within us, the answers are resonating without having to fix them, we can just accept them, and manage our choices more creatively. What must we do to face our greater fears, and embrace our bigger self.

What if I try and fail?
What if I am alone and abandoned?
What if I am not really needed or necessary?

The real question is what if we are not so attached to the limitations? What would we do instead?

Claiming your universal vision by confronting those limitations, by calling them to higher ground, and becoming our best selves.. What does this look like for you? For me it looks a bit like this for me:

What would I be doing in life, in health and business success?
What does being complete and connected do for me?
What if I no longer held my important relationships hostage to my fears, my loss, and my need to control? What if we just loved one another?