Research Commuting in this state is worse than in any other

Research Commuting in this state is worse than in any otherResearch Commuting in this state is worse than in any otherResearch has found that adding 20 minutes to your commute is like getting a 19% pay cut, but recent results from the Esurance Smart Commuting Index show that commuting in Delaware is worse than any other state in America.The research had a detailed methodology, but the site reports that they combined a variety of sources to develop 6 indexes, which we then aggregated to generate an overall index, among other practices.The 10 states with the worst commuting cultureYou already know the state with the worst, but here are the rest41) New Hampshire42) Alabama43) Connecticut44) Maryland45) Rhode Island46) Tennessee47) New York48) South Carolina49) New Jersey50) DelawareBut why did this state come in last place?Esurance elaborated on the reason, reporting that Delaware ranks last in the Index results. Across the board, Delaware scores the lowest on critical categories for co mmute time and limited use of alternative transportation methods. In fact, Delaware residents experience a commute thats increased by almost nine percent from 2007-2016. Its best score was for safety, where it ranked 34th.On the other hand, here are the top five highest-ranking states on the list1) Alaska2) Utah3) Montana4) South Dakota5) WyomingThe best and worst states for commuting safetyHere are the top five in this category1) Minnesota2) Hawaii3) Illinois4) Washington5) New YorkHere are the bottom five in this category46) Arizona47) Kentucky48) Louisiana49) South Carolina50) Florida

Heres The Answer When They Ask How Old You Are

Heres The Answer When They Ask How Old You AreHeres The Answer When They Ask How Old You AreINBOX I have been out of work for over a year. Ive had at least 30 interviews but not a single 2nd interview. My age? Well lets just say Im a very mature over 55. But I was surprised when one lady flat out asked me how old I am. I was so flustered that I answered, even though I knew that shouldnt even be a question shes allowed to ask. And of course no call back.Employers seem to be getting bolder and bolder. Age discrimination is more and more in your face. Some interviewers are asking straight out. The nuance there is that the question is not illegal. Whats illegal is using the answer against the candidate as a basis to rule him out. But thats the part thats difficult to prove. Plus, its depressing and draining to even spend time and energy on it.After getting over the initial shock if you do the 1st tendency may be to reply with, I thought you werent legally allowed to ask me that. You c an smile and use a calm tone of voice while you say it, but the effect will be perceived as you putting up a brick wall during the interview. And the interviewer is likely to think youll be tough to get along with in a team environment. So lets go over the answers you can give when the employer wants to know your age.Turn The Question Back Around On ThemWhen the interviewer asks how old you are, respond with, Is there a minimum or maximum age for being able to perform this job? Again, smile and keep your voice calm. You answering the question with a question is likely to prompt the interviewer to drop his line of questioning. Of course, his answer is going to be, No, theres no minimum or maximum, at which point you can redirect and bring up a qualification or achievement you offer that matches what theyre looking for in the job.Provide An Answer, Not THE AnswerYour other response to the question can be to say that youre over 18 and legally able to work in the United States. Still sm ile. Your response doesnt prompt another question, so smoothly go right into what you bring to the table that qualifies you for the position.Whats key in fighting back against ageism is not just having something ready to say being armed with language helps you not be nervous and shocked, which is definitely useful. But what it really takes to win is for you to demonstrate how your experience will solve an issue the company is facing today.Treat the interview like a 2-way conversation between colleagues. Youre not in the saatkorn company yet, but youre most likely in the same industry. Ask questions of your own, especially around whats happening in the organization either now or next. When you pick up on something relevant to your background, float a trial balloon and make a recommendation.For example, if the interviewer says theyre actually looking to bring their customer service function in-house, you can talk about a similar experience in your past that you handled with success, such as, Sure. When I was at Wayne Enterprises and they decided to launch their own customer care operation, one of the 1st things we did was make sure the call center technology was fully-featured and easy to deploy quickly. What call center solutions have you looked at so far? Youre telling them what they likely need to consider, demonstrating your knowledge from your very specific experience, then throwing the question back to them to promote that 2-way dialogue.This approach distinguishes you. If all you do is field their questions in police-interrogation style, then youre giving the interviewer every reason to compare you against all others. But if you demonstrate your knowledge in a manner that others are unlikely to do, you elevate yourself from commodity to unique.If you want to find out more about specific strategies to fight age bias in every phase of the job search process, join us for a free presentation, How To Get Hired In HALF The Time Without Getting Ghosted Because Of Age Discrimination Plus youll see stories of how real people ages 57, 69, 63, and more got over the hurdles, got hired, and are working in the jobs they love today. Click here to register now.

Military Obedience

Military ObedienceMilitary ObedienceIts no secret that obedience to bestellungs is a big part of being in the military. But if youre considering joining, youll need to do some soul-searching first - and forever after, if you do sign up - to be sure you can face the nuanced hazards of this type of work structure. The sad truth is that psychology research shows our personal moral courage is much more precarious than we think (and we really do like to think highly of ourselves, despite the evidence.) It gets especially dicey when our morals come into conflict with figures of authority. Laws of war and personal honor aside, it takes good old knowledge of self to pass through such challenges. Unlawful Obedience From day one, military recruits are not only taught the value of instant obedience to orders theyre conditioned through the rigorous, rapid, and heavily directive nature of boot camp. The idea is to acclimatize new recruits to the idea of following the leader to hell and bac k When people are dying around you and your lieutenant tells you to Take that hill it doesnt do much good to have a bunch of snotty know-it-alls respond with, Why dont we stop here and come up with a better idea? But as a society, weve had to embrace the hard lessons of unthinking obedience gone wrong. The Nuremberg defense is the classic example of why just following orders is an unacceptable excuse for morally damning actions, but it wasnt the last and it wasnt always an enemy of the US damning themselves. In his article Military Orders To Obey or Not to Obey? Rod Powers provides a great pocket history of cases when US troops were punished for following unlawful orders. Among recent von rang und namen cases are the court-martial (and conviction for premeditated murder) of First Lieutenant William Calley for his part in the My Lai Massacre and the horrifying abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq by soldiers who claimed that they were only following the orders of military intelligenc e officials. To reduce such crimes, part of the boot camp curriculum includes training on codes of conduct and the laws of war. The central theme is essentially to remind recruits that theyre the good guys Exercise appropriate moral judgment and decline to follow orders that are obviously illegal, such as murdering innocent civilians, looting, or abusing prisoners. But is it that simple? Social Psychology When I returned to school after my second tour in Iraq, I dabbled in psychology courses for a while. The course that impacted me most profoundly was social psychology, which examines the effect of groups and society on thought and behavior. (It often, though not always, appears to be the study of how horrible people can be in large numbers.) I never saw direct combat in Iraq, yet I still felt my stomach turn as we studied two very important experiments in the history of social psychology The Milgram Obedience Experiment and the Stanford Prison Experiment. These two studies stro ngly support the idea that influences such as perceived authority, environment, and assigned social roles can (often easily) overpower a noble sense of self and lead to the commission of immoral acts. In addition to their obvious consequences, these immoral acts can have a devastating psychological effect on the person committing them. Thats because, despite the objective evidence supplied by social psychologists, we have a natural, self-preserving tendency to believe we are inherently good. Go ahead and present a room full of students with the facts of the Milgram study. Ask them if they would, at the urgent behest of a stern man in a lab coat, continue delivering shocks to an unseen person whom they might have just given a heart attack. Most will still believe themselves incapable of such an act Im a good person. The issue, unfortunately, doesnt come down to good or evil, but to understanding ourselves and our human nature. Obeying an unlawful order or even just one you find pers onally troubling is not a guaranteed behavior, but we should all understand that social pressures can often be much more powerful than our own perceived morality, especially in the heat of the moment. Consider What You Would Do Some people who join the military may never have to face a psyche-shattering situation like My Lai or Abu Ghraib. But sometimes, its the luck of the draw. Thats why its important, before even enlisting, to begin examining how well you know yourself. To this day, I recoil at the opportunity to abuse others or my power over them (and being a future nurse, caring for people at their weakest, Ill have plenty of opportunities.) Yet at one time, even though I never saw direct combat, I witnessed and even enabled dehumanizing behaviors that, though not technically criminal, certainly kept me up at night for some time after. It took me a few years to get over wallowing in my negative feelings about those experiences every time Id had a few beers. Neither am I as hamed of my entire career in the military because of these experiences. I simply bring them up to illustrate my point Before embarking on a career that requires you to walk the fine line between being a good team player and exercising individual moral judgment often under extreme pressure, when it counts consider who you are, and what you would do. Then keep considering it every day, even if you decide not to enlist. We all have as much capacity for evil as good when it counts most, and often the only deciding factor in our control is knowing ourselves.

A Practical Guide to Being Better Than Your Boss

A Practical Guide to Being Better Than Your Boss A Practical Guide to Being Better Than Your Boss Heres Phil Libin, co-founder and CEO of Evernote Hiring people smarter than yourself is the long-term answer to your micromanagement problem. I take it very seriously, and I encourage all of my directreports to apply it to their direct reports, all the way down the organization to the most junior levels. This is hard to do, and were certainly not perfect at executing the rule allthe time, but we come pretty close.AndRyan Blair, author of Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain It is my goal to be in awe of every person I hire. I want to see traits in her or him that are mora dynamic or more positive than my own abilities in that area, because I know that simply by working with that person, I will be able to grow and the company will prosper, thanks to this continuous reach for improvement.But while experts are extolling the virtues of hiring people who are better than their baboes, employe es are often grumbling about the very same thing. How many times have we heard friends, relatives, coworkers, or ourselves complain about incompetent leaders and managers. Employees, by and large, still ascribe to a traditionally hierarchical approach to the workplace we want our bosses to be smarter than us if they arent, their leadership is illegitimate, and we feel they should be removed from their positions.Employees its time we readjust our thinking. If were smarter than our bosses, then, by most accounts, our bosses are actually doing something right. With that, I offer three tips for employees who find that they are smarter than their bosses, with the hopes that theyll stop complaining and start seeing the benefits of their situations.Oh, and if our CEO, Miles, is reading this these totally are not culled from personal experience. Youre somehow both the best CEO ever and the smartest guy in the room. Please dont fire me.1. Realize that They Made the Right DecisionAccording to Blair, the semi-legendary Bill Gates makes a habit of hiring people who are smarter than he is.Libin jokes that, thanks to his hiring practices, hes the dumbest person at Evernote and maybe thats exactly why his company was Inc.s Company of the Year in 2011.The point is if your boss hired you, and you are smarter than they are, then your boss made the right decision. You may be smarter, but your boss clearly knows how to manage. Take your bosss willingness to hire a smarter subordinate as a sign of your bosss strong management practices.And if your boss didnt hire a smarter employee on purpose? If your boss still manages you poorly and tries to assert dominance? Recognize that you may be in a position to change that.2. Flaunt What Youve GotYour boss hired a smarter employee because they saw your potential. They saw the talent you could bring to the table. Dont go hiding your light under a bushel, then.It can be tempting to downplay your skills. You dont want to seem like youre c hallenging the bosss authority. However, downplaying your skills is exactly what the boss doesnt want you to do. Smarter employees are good for the company show off your skills and watch your employer grow.3. Learn from Each OtherOf course, while youre busy showing off your skills, dont let it all go to your head. You may be smarter than your boss with respect to the job that you do, but a boss who knows to hire smarter employees is a boss who knows how to manage a workplace. Youre great at what you do and, chances are, your boss is great at what they do.So learn from your boss see the way they manage people who are smarter than them watch how they lead a group of people who excel in the very fields that the boss fails. Use these lessons to inform your own habits as an employee. You may be a boss one day, and you can draw from your own bosses best practices. And even if you never are in charge of a team, youll still be working with other people all your life, both in and out of th e office. You wont always be the smartest person in the room.And, of course, a great boss knows to learn from their employees as well. As Libin says, I interact with roughly 30 Evernote people on a daily basis, and I can say without hesitation that they all do their jobs better than I could hope to. Every time we have a discussion about work, I learn something.Of course, when all is said and done, some bosses who hire smarter employeesareincompetent. If your boss really is terrible well, thats a much sadder story for another day.

How to answer the salary question in online job applications

How to answer the salary question in online job applicationsHow to answer the salary question in online job applicationsWhat are your salary expectations? This is the minefield every job seeker must navigate carefully. In salary negotiations, you already know that saying a number out loud based on your salary history can weaken your stronghold if you know you are underpaid. When employers hear a low salary number right off the bat, your final offer is likely to be low too, according to psychological science.Your job is to not shoot yourself in the foot by blurting out your salary of pennies. You can keep mum and dodge the question by giving a salary range, or by stating a high starting salary number to anchor the negotiation if you are having an in-person conversation. But what if you are at the beginning of your job hunt and are filling out a job application on a website?This is the problem that the desired salary question in online job applications raises. You cannot dodge, deter, or explain your reasoning for not answering the question to an automated answering form.Heres advice on how you can answer the salary question without getting accidentally disqualified for not answering the questionTry putting a word over a numberThe fear of leaving the salary question blank is that you may get disqualified by a computer system that will only surface candidates within a certain range or with complete answers. To avoid disclosing your salary history without getting overlooked, you may need to put something down. Salary expert Jim Hopkinson says that one option is giving an answer that does not disclose exactly what you want.If you are filling out an application on paper, or if the online form allows you to type in whatevertext charactersyou want in that field, then leave an open-ended response that defers the answer until later, Hopkinson writes. If you are applying for an entry-level job, you can answer entry-level to the question. If you want to talk about this to a human interviewer, you can delay and say to be discussed in interview, or negotiable, he advises.If you have to put a number, plektron a rangeBut what if this is an online form where you literally cannot proceed until you answer with a number? Then your best bet may be putting a salary range, Ask a Managers Alison Green advises. Do your research and come up with a range based on what comparable positions pay for your experience level and in your geographic area, she writes.Be careful about what numbers you put in the bottom of your range, however. That is likely to be the numberthat human resources will later offer you. If you give a wide range like $40,000 to $55,000, dont be surprised if youre offered $40,000, because thats what you told the employer youd accept willingly, she cautions.Above all, the goal is to avoid being taken out of the running for a job before you even have a chance to interact with a human employer. At best, you want to have the salary conversation when the interviewer is at maximum love for you and wants you as their first choice. That way, you can negotiate for the salary you deserve, not the one your previous low salary projects. When you are in the room with an employer who wants you as their next employee, you avoid having tojustify your salary expectations to an uncaring, unfeeling computer algorithm.

The Business Administration Resume Chronicles

The Business Administration Resume Chronicles Business Administration Resume Secrets In a few minutes, youll have a flawless instance of exactly how incredible you are as a prospective hire. To acquire a sense of what works, strengthen your own resume by viewing sample resumes. Referring to our organization administration resume sample is able to help you determine any weak points in your document. First things first, bear in mind a cover letter is comparable to an instrument marketers use to keep a posture to acquire customers to buy a thing. To put it simply, having a positive attitude is completely crucial if you need to stick out from your peers. The Unexposed Secret of Business Administration Resume Writing a resume particularly if youre starting from scratch can be challenging. One of the greatest regions to get resume examples is online, since there are lots of websites offering templates an individual may download and use. In the region of private wohlbefinden and w ell-being, labels are utilised to help with diagnosis and communication of a broad selection of conditions. People labels in a multitude of various ways. Strong communication and organization are a part of what it is that theyre searching for. Communication skills ought to be considered. Become involved in on-campus pursuits. Review the work post carefully and note down the necessary skills. Details of Business Administration Resume An overall small business degree is a superb alternative for students who know they would like to work in operation, but arent certain what kinds of position they would like to pursue after graduation. Different company and administration jobs need specific degrees and certifications, so remember to highlight your education. With such a degree, you can work in an assortment of businesses in a variety of distinct industries. When it isnt really pertinent to the position then you ought to only include it below your education section only. There a re a few positions in the actual estate field which do not need a degree. Pick your very best abilities which mirror the needs of the work ad. It has to likewise be able to cite the reasons of your skills for the job that you chance to be aiming for. How to describe administrative experience to receive any job you desire. Keep it focused and relevant to the particular job for which youre applying. It is critical to highlight your relevant experience, focusing on the most crucial or impressive abilities and achievements. Another means to show off interpersonal skills is to scan the work listing for absolutely any soft skills it could have mentioned. Communication skills are required for each job. Possessing the technical skills that are needed for administrative works will allow you to multi-task when necessary and focus when required. The Foolproof Business Administration Resume Strategy In any business, job applicants are thoroughly screened so as to identify their respec tive capabilities and strong points specifically areas. Even in the event you lack professional work experiences, you should make sure your administration resume will showcase how versatile youre in terms of providing services that may benefit the administrative operations of your intended employer. To begin with, however, it can help to review some higher-level ideas to create your resume fantastic and focus it on jobs in administration or company. To outperform the competition and make sure that your resume earns the interest of a hiring manager, never forget to follow best practices. In case the organization is hiring for numerous positions, your objective statement can assist the human resource department distribute your resume to the hiring manager responsible for administration. A medical care management degree almost always results in a management career in the healthcare field. If youre interested in a holistic education that comprises all facets of business administra tion, with an emphasis generally business gives you an overall introduction to each business area, including management, marketing, finance, economics, and company law and regulations. As an operations research analyst, you will be involved in a variety of areas of the organization and will use statistics, mathematical modeling and other analytical methods to solve emerging problems and help senior management gather the information that they will need to make operational decisions. Standard administration resumesAshould be in a position to concentrate on your technical abilities and other skill sets that may help you strengthen the support ordnungsprinzip that the business requirements. If at all possible, research about the provider initially before you come for the appointment. It has to be able to discuss how you know the company that you want to get. The company should know they can trust you to be the face and voice of different employees and even the corporation.

How Mainstream Are Video Interviews in the Hiring Process

How Mainstream Are Video Interviews in the Hiring ProcessIts no secret we at Spark Hire see the video interview as the hiring tool of the future. But has the video interview really become a mainstream hiring technique?Lets look at some numbers about verbunden video in general and video interviewing to find outPress PlayOnline video is gaining traction as the internet becomes a mora visual environment. Just a few years ago, Netflix was a company that sent out DVDs and Hulu was just a made up word. Now Netflixs streaming service is arguably more popular than its DVD rental branch, while Hulu is the place to turn to catch up on all your favorite television shows.The role of zugreifbar video is expanding, so it makes sense recruiters, hiring managers, and employers would use it to connect with great candidates. Lets take a brief look at how the presence of online video has grownAccording to comScore, 84.9 percent of the US Internet audience watched online video in 2012.Americans watch up to 9 hours of online video per week.Plus 50 percent of smartphone users are watching video directly on their phone.So What About the Video Interview?Obviously, people love watching video online. Its convenient and easy to watch your favorite TV show, web series, or even just a short video of a cat jumping into a box. (This is the Internet after all everything becomes about cats eventually.) But what about using the video interview as an important hiring tool?Theres no denying video interviewing is starting to break into the mainstream. Thanks to built-in webcams in most laptops, its easier than ever before to perform a video interview with a top candidate.So just how mainstream is video interviewing?Six in 10 companies are utilizing video interviews in their hiring process, according to a survey by Office Team.Of these companies, 85 percent plan to use video interviews just as much in 2013 as they did in 2012. While 12 percent plan to increase their reliance on video interviewing.I t should come as no surprise why you can view 10 video screens in the amount of time employers can perform only one phone screen. Plus, video interviewing saves 67 percent of the travel costs associated with hiring.And remember all those smartphone users cuing up video on the go? Thanks to the Spark Hire mobile app, employers and job seekers can now view and record video interviews right from their smartphone.So obviously the video interview is becoming a more mainstream hiring tool. Employers and job seekers are realizing the potential of video to connect more easily and more personally.But what do you think? Are you seeing video interviewing going more mainstream? Do you think the video interview is just a fad? Sound off in the comments