ATS Resume Readability Tips Career Advice

ATS Resume Readability Tips Career AdviceATS Resume Readability Tips Career AdviceWeve told you before that hiring managers spend an average of 6 seconds scanning your resume, but thats only if your resume passes the initial screening of anapplicant tracking systems or ATS. A IBM executive who is an expert on these systems estimated that90% of large companies use an ATS, saying it would be very rare to find a Fortune 500 company without one.In todays world, your resume has to stand out to humans and robots alike. Here are some tips to help your resume get past the ATS and into the hands of a hiring manager.Focus on Keyword Quality, Not QuantityATS do search for relevant keywords, but they also scan for keyword stuffing. For example, if you are applying for a marketing manager position, writing Managed marketing as Marketing Manager for marketing firm Ace Marketing Management would likely be filtered out as an over-stuffed resume.A good way to gauge just how often you should use a ce rtain keyword, is to see how many times it is used in the job posting and stay close to that number.K.I.S.SWhen it comes to formatting, K.I.S.S your resume, that is Keep It Simple SillyAn ATS takes your resume and parses it, turning it into a text format so it can easily be searched. When there is lots of logos, pictures etc. it makes it more difficult for the ATS to simplify. As well, stick to standard fonts like Arialand Times New Roman. The ATS cannot read fancy or customized fonts.Proofread Proofread ProofreadAs we always say never rely on spellcheck. An ATS is searching for specific words and does not account for any spelling mistakes. Even one error can cause the ATS to trash your resume so make sure you double, triple, quadruple check your spellingStick to Standard TitlesYou may think Professional Experience sounds better, but its best to stick to the basics when it comes to section titles. Use Work Experience instead of Professional Experience or Professional Profile.No He aders or FootersIt can be hard to fit everything you want to in a 1s)No Lines, No TablesAvoid breaking up your resume using tables (even if they have invisible borders) and lines that stretch across the page. Some ATS will view these as stops and are unable to scan the entire resume past the line or table.RememberYour PersonalityYes, the ATS is a robot but the hope is your resume eventually makes its way to human hands. You want to ensure to balance your resume but making it legible and easy to read for ATS, but not making it so tailored that it feels cold.Start building your resume that passes the ATS and human test today

4 Ways to Survive Sink-or-Swim Training a New Job - The Muse

4 Ways to Survive Sink-or-Swim Training a New Job - The Muse4 Ways to Survive Sink-or-Swim Training a New JobOn the first day of my new corporate job, I expected a strategically laid out, step-by-step training plan, which would flawlessly transition me from timid newbie to confident, competent professional.What I actually received was a swift shove into the deep end of a bottomless pool of information. To my dismay, my company didnt have a formal training plan- new employees were just supposed to jump in, learn as they went, and do whatever it took to keep their heads above water.Is this the ideal way to do things? Probably not. But unfortunately, sink-or-swim training is the norm at many workplaces. So, how can you survive- and more importantly, succeed- without getting overwhelmed or over-stressed? After being on both sides of the table (both as a new employee, and later, as a manager at the same company), I can tell you that its not going to be easy- but with ansicht tips, you can make it.1. Make Friends QuicklyWhen you dont have a trainer by your side, your saving grace will be a few go-to co-workers who you can approach with your questions. Your teammates probably had similar panic-inducing training experiences, so theyll likely be willing to lend a sympathetic hand to help get you settled. So, strike up friendly conversation from the get-go, because when you cant remember how to access your voicemail or find a clients account in the CRM software, youre going to need the help of someone who does it regularly.However, keep in mind that while your team is a great resource, training you isnt necessarily part of your co-workers job descriptions. While theyll probably be happy to answer a few questions, they wont be able to dedicate a huge chunk of their time to explain every detail of the job. So, forge a connection with as many of your teammates as you can- youll be able to evenly distribute your questions and, more importantly, develop relationships and a cu lture of teamwork along the way.2. Put in the Extra EffortSure, the rest of your team may leave the office at 5 on the dot, but if youre truly committed to succeeding in a trial-by-fire environment, youre going to have to put in a little extra effort until youve grown more comfortable in your new position.This looks a little different for everyone, depending on your specific role and the field youre in. For example, if your position requires you to learn detailed processes, maybe you need to take notes throughout the day, then set aside time in the afternoon to type up a summary of each thing you learned. Maybe you just need a little extra quiet time in the morning before everyone else arrives to make sense of the mess of files stacked on your desk. No matter what approach you choose, putting in a little extra time and effort in these first few weeks will make a huge difference in your learning curve.3. If You Cant Find What You Need- AskAs I struggled during my first few weeks on t he job, Id watch my boss bustle from meeting to meeting without a glance toward me, and I couldnt help but think, Does she even know she has a new employee?Heres what I quickly learned Instead of pouting at your desk, waiting for your manager to come ask if you need something, take the schritte to approach her. Its intimidating to ask your new boss for help, but its important, particularly if youre having a hard time learning something important or cant track down the resources you need to finish an assignment. Remember, even though shes busy, she wants you to succeed.That said, when you ask, be specific. You may be tempted to approach her with a broad So, what should I do now? But considering she may not know exactly what youve already learned and what you still need to tackle, itll be hard for her to provide direction.Instead, try, Im getting ready to dig into a clients account, but Im not too familiar with our customer service policies. Is there a training video I can watch, or a specific employee I can shadow to learn more?4. Jump Right InIm typically very timid in new situations, and I like to have as much information as possible before I start on an unfamiliar task- if Im going to do something, I want to do it right the first time So imagine when, on my third day at my new job, there was an angry client on the phone and my boss volunteered me to jump on the line.I tried to protest (But I dont know what Im talking about) and even suggested a compromise (Can Sam take the call, and Ill listen in? That way, Ill be prepared for the next one). But it wasnt up for discussion- the call was mine.And Ill be honest It wasnt pretty. I didnt convey confidence, I stammered through my words, and I had to put the client on hold- several times- to ask co-workers how to handle specific questions or issues. But, no matter how terrible it was, the worst was over- and the only way to go was up.Unfortunately, when youre in a sink-or-swim position, youre not always going to be fully prepared when you face unfamiliar tasks. So you can either fruitlessly wait (or in my case, beg) for sufficient instruction, or you can embrace the uncertainty and jump in. Of course, dont go crazy- offering a customer a full refund without knowing company policy probably isnt a great idea- but go ahead and take a call from a client, or take your best shot at putting together a report youre not familiar with. You may not do it perfectly, but youre going to impress your team a lot more than if you had refused to try at all.Needless to say, youre going to feel stressed- and thats normal. But if you relentlessly pursue the end goal (i.e., finally figuring out what in the world youre supposed to be doing and how to do it) with confidence and initiative, youll make it out of the deep end. Probably sooner than you think.Photo of woman working courtesy of Shutterstock.

I cannot tell a lie or a good one, anyway

I cannot tell a lie or a good one, anywayI cannot tell a lie or a good one, anywayWe asked recruiters using Ladders what was the worst lie you have ever heard during an interview.When looking for that next career move, its imperative to put your best foot forward, but after asking our recruiters, what is the worst lie youve heard during an interview? it became apparent that all too often, job seekers wind up putting their foot in their mouth instead.After reviewing the recruiters stories, which they happily shared, we found that during the interview/onboarding process, therbeie are four main types of lies1.Resume past accomplishmentsHad a candidate that stated on his resume that he was a graduate of the United States Military Academy (my alma mater). Our company, a government contractor, verified his history. Apparently our company didnt think to verify that he actually graduated from West Point. To mislead someone about that would be really brazen. Brazen he was. Terminated. He pro bably would have been better off saying he graduated from the Canadian or French, or Botswana Military Academy.2.Criminal backgroundI asked the candidate point blank, is there anything negative that may come up in a background, credit and DMV check?. He said, nope, nothing, for sure. Turns out he forgot about the 2 felony DUIs he had in the last year, and a court appointment scheduled for the following week3.Current drug useJust heard my boss telling this one this morning. A candidate failed the drug test, coming up positive for of all things crack cocaine. When confronted on his start date, he claimed his step son must have put some in the coffee creamer or something. Really?4.Unreal and elaborateHad a candidate interview as her twin sister (using her ID and all. It wasnt caught until the background check when she used her own SSN. She stuck with the lie until her past residences didnt match up. Her reason for lying was that she didnt have a high school diploma but her sister did .The offer was rescinded.The common theme is that every lie reported by recruiters was easily identified. With todays technology enabling near-instant background and drug tests, not to mention simple common sense (one jobseeker claimed to have an IQ of 290 when the highest IQ ever recorded is only in the 250 range), it pays to follow George Washingtons advice The truth will set you free.

Startup Suns

Startup Suns Startup Suns Startup SunsThere is scarcely a mora futuristic sounding technology than nuclear fusion. It is the power source in the heart of every star, the process that created every atom of oxygen, carbon, and iron in the universe, and the far-off hope of clean and bountiful energy.In Vancouver, B.C., a kollektiv of engineers and technicians is developing a machine that will demonstrate a path to making practical, affordable fusion power. Talk to Mike Donaldson, vice president of engineering at General Fusion, the startup thats building the machine, and he will go on excitedly about the worlds biggest plasma injector his team has built and the smoke ring-like vortices that will hold their shape due to magnetic fields the rings themselves produce.But there are also hammers.General Fusion builds large devices, tests them, and iterates based on the resultsmuch like a software company. Image General FusionNot exactly hammers, but pistons that mechanically smash the sphere of molten lead that encases the plasma. The hollow space in the center of the sphere crunches down on the plasma, raising its density to the point where the ions of heavy hydrogen merge together to make helium and release energy.If all goes well, the pistons will compress and recoil once every second for months on end, unleashing around 80 kWh of thermal energy with every stroke.Weve already built the pistons at scale and demonstrated that they will have the repeatability required to do this compression, Donaldson said.It sounds outlandish, squashing plasmas with hammers to make pollution-free energy. But no mora outlandish than the contention that General Fusion and a number of other startups have madeand made convincingly enough to attract millions of dollars from such billionaire tech investors as Jeff Bezos and the late Paul Allenthat a demonstration commercial fusion reactor will be ready by the end of the next decade. And that it will be built not by an international Big Scien ce research project but by a scrappy startup.Commonwealth Fusion, launched in March 2018 as a spin-off of MITs Plasma Science and Fusion Center. Others have been operating under the radar for nearly two decades. Befitting the merging of plasma physics and startup culture, each company has a bit of secret sauce that they hope will make the difference between success and failure.Blackboard PanaceaWith wind and solar power growing at incredibly fast ratesand with their prices now rivaling some of the cheapest power on the gridits easy to imagine that no new sources of power are necessary. Why even bother with fusion?When you take any technology and scale it up by many orders of magnitude, there are issues that arise with a massive deployment that dont necessarily arise at a smaller scale, said Stewart Prager, the former head of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, a fusion research facility in New Jersey. The problem of clean energy is so significant that it would be foolhardy not to pursue all attractive approaches.The nuclear power that has been deployed up to now is based on fission, the process in which heavy atoms capture stray neutrons, become unstable, and split into two or mora parts. The energy embodied by one atom of uranium or plutonium is greater than the sum of all the daughter particles, so when an atom fissions, the result is a release of energy. Capture that energy in a reactor and it can power a city.The basic insight of fusion is similar to that behind fission the mass-energy equivalent of two atoms of heavy hydrogen, known as either deuterium or tritium depending on how many neutrons they have, is greater than that of one atom of helium. When those deuteriums or tritiums fuse together to form helium, that extra energy must be released. Astrophysicists in the 1920s and 1930s realized that process is what powered the stars, and weapons designers adapted it to produce higher-yield thermonuclear weapons. Once physicists began sketching out how much energy could be captured through extracting heavy hydrogen from seawater and fusing it, fusion became a byword for clean, unlimited power.Getting from a blackboard calculation to a viable energy source has been almost impossibly difficult.Recommended for You Special Report on Clean Energy Some of the difficulty has been in the physics. Unlike uranium and plutonium, which can fission spontaneously in a large enough pile, atoms dont fuse together unless given a mighty shove. Thats because each atomic nucleus is positively charged and as the nuclei get closer together, the repulsive electromagnetic force ramps up exponentially. To overcome that force, atoms have to move incredibly fast expressed as a temperature, the atoms need to be hundreds of millions or billions of degrees, so hot that the electrons are stripped away.One doesnt want a billion-degree plasma hitting a wallthe plasma will cool and the wall will be damagedso proposed fusion designs have bottled the plasma up in a magnetic field. But that makes extracting the energy from a fusion reaction tricky. Also, while fusion is usually described as clean, the fusion reactions that are easiest to produce (involving neutron-bearing isotopes of hydrogen) wind up throwing off lots of stray neutrons, which embed themselves in the surrounding equipment and create radioactive welcheste.Until recently, fusion was a challenge so daunting that it took resources on a national or international scale to tackle them. The U.S. Department of Energy built a series of large facilities to blast small pellets of hydrogen with high-energy lasers in hopes of producing a plasma hot enough for fusion. Sandia National Laboratorys Z machine has the saatkorn goal, via running a nanosecond pulse of 18 million amp current through a wire. A number of groups built facilities to contain plasmas within doughnut-shape magnetic fields, called tokamaks, with the aim of eventually holding them long enough to ignite fusion.The biggest effo rt, the international research facility known as ITER, is under construction in southern France. The culmination of decades of Big Science research, the $20 billion project to build an enormous magnetic bottle will be considered a success if it can run continuously for 20 minutes and fuse atoms together sometime after 2035.Negating NeutronsITER is emblematic of Big Science and casts a huge shadow, but there are a surprising number of publicly announced smaller fusion efforts. In 2014, for instance, aerospace giant Lockheed Martin released promotional materials about a fusion reactor development program being run out of its famed Skunk Works research complex in Palmdale, Calif. The goal of its compact fusion effort was to create a reactor small enough to fit on the back of a flatbed truck. The company has filed for several patents derived from this research, but to date little concrete information has been divulged.Fusion start-up TAE Technologies sprung from a very public sourcea 19 97 paper in the journal Sciencebefore spending most of the next two decades in so-called stealth mode. The papers proposed accelerating two beams of ions to very high speed then slamming them together, much as what happens within a particle accelerator. The hope was that colliding beams would be mora efficient at creating fusion-friendly conditions than the plasmas that had been used up to that time.As research at TAE continued through the 2000s at its headquarters in Foothills Ranch in suburban Orange County, Calif., the original beam concept was abandoned. But another fresh idea in the Science paper lives on.Instead of fusing isotopes of hydrogen together, TAE is working toward fusing single protons into nuclei of boron. That reaction results in an ion of standard carbon, but one that is too energetic to remain stable. It quickly falls apart, decaying into three helium ions and a burst of gamma rays. (The name TAE is contracted from tri-alpha energy, a reference to the atomic phys ics name for helium ions alpha particles.) One thing that the reaction doesnt produce is stray neutrons, which means proton-boron fusion would make less radioactive waste than other types of fusion. The boron itself is also non-radioactive and is more abundant in the Earths crust than uranium or thorium, and unlike deuterium or other exotic forms of hydrogen, it can be mined and stored as a solid.Hydrogen-boron is difficult to do. It requires 20 to 30 times more energy to cook than deuterium-tritium fuel, said Michl Binderbauer, president and chief technology officer at TAE and one of the co-authors of the 1997 Science paper. But the upside is that over a 40-year lifetime of our machine, there will be no consequential damage from neutrons. That is a huge difference.Even so, the energy requirement is not trivial. Whereas the plasma to be created at ITER is expected to be 100 million C, TAE will need to reach 3 billion C to create the force necessary to push the protons and the boron ions together.The magnetic bottle to contain this hot plasma is configured differently than most conventional designs. Instead of a doughnut-shape vessel to avoid open magnetic field lines from which the plasma could escape, the TAE reactor is long and designed to allow some of the plasma to leak out the ends so that the helium produced via fusion doesnt dampen reactions.You can control the plasma profile with the outflow, Binderbauer said. And when you do it right, you can select what you are pulling out. TAE plans to draw energy from the decelerating outflow of electrically charged particles as they fly past electrodes outside the magnetic envelope.The company has spent more than a decade developing the technology to hold the plasma in place long enough to achieve fusion, and researchers there believe they have reached that benchmark. In February 2018, the company announced that its latest experimental plasma generator, a $100 million machine nicknamed Norman for one of the compan ys founders, had been making progress toward hitting the hot enough benchmark.Though Binderbauer and his team are confident they can overcome the technical issues needed to achieve fusion in the next decade, Princetons Prager noted dryly that opting for proton-boron fusion makes reaching that goal daunting. Compared to other efforts, Prager said, the physics challenges of the TAE approach are very much harder.Atom SmasherIf TAEs secret weapon is its fuel, General Fusion is betting on its reactorsimultaneously ungainly and elegant. The rendering of the reactor makes it look like an elephantine pincushion a massive sphere with large cylinders radiating outward. Rather than contain a plasma within a magnetic bottle for seconds until the ions smack into each other, the reactor actively compresses the magnetically held plasma to the point of ignitionwhich should take just milliseconds.Its a daring departure from conventional fusion set-ups, and it will require some innovative engineering to work. In addition to the injectors that create a ring of deuterium-tritium plasma in the center of the sphere, the General Fusion reactor must spin a wall of molten lead and lithium then, once a second, fire pistons that drive the wall symmetrically to the center. To produce the maximum compression, the compressed gas-powered pistons need to move in sync with an accuracy of a few tens of microseconds, repeatedly, for as long as the reactor runs.For all its smashing atoms with hammers vibe, the concept, called magnetized target fusion, offers some decided advantages. For one, the lead-lithium blanket soaks up all the stray neutrons produced through the fusion of deuterium and tritium, and absorbs their energy as well. That heats up the blanket and conventional heat exchangers along the wall of the reactor to generate steam for power conversion. The molten blanket also protects the rest of the reactor from damage from the high-temperature plasma.A lot of the other fusion schemes h ave the problem where, even if they create fusion, their machines are going to get brittle due to neutron bombardment, Donaldson said. Weve taken care of that as part of our architecture.In its Vancouver facility, General Fusion has already fabricated and tested many of the subsystems needed to make the hydrogen plasma and compress it to the point of fusion. Theyve even made cavities in liquid metal, as they will need to in a working fusion reactor, and pounded the metal with a few pistonsThats the biggest engineering challenge weve tackled to date. The ethos has been to build devices, test them, and then iterate based on the results. The pace is more like that of a software company than an international science experiment like ITER.The next step, Donaldson said, is to integrate all these systems into a demonstration of the technologyfiring once a day rather than once a second.We feel our concept has the easiest and most practical path to commercialization, Donaldson said. Though Do naldson and his team are confident they are working toward a power plant, they are following a less proven route to fusion, so they will need to demonstrate that the concept is practical.Small and FastCommonwealth Fusion doesnt have that problemthey are building on the work that has been done by large-scale fusion researchers for decades. According to Bob Mumgaard, Commonwealths CEO, the number of unknowns in their design is vanishingly small.ITER is a science experiment, and its being built in that bespoke, scientific experiment manner, Mumgaard said. In our case, we feel the tokamak has reached a level of maturity where we can strip things out of it, simplify it, and make it more applicable to a commercial product.Mumgaard says the model is much like space launch vehicles NASA built generation after generation of experimental launch vehicles to push the limits of the technology, then startups like SpaceX could come in, strip out the redundant features, and create new products that were both more reliable and less expensive.The startup emerged from the plasma physics lab at MIT in early 2018. Many of the companys principals, such as Mumgaard, chief technology officer Dan Brunner, and chief science officer Brandon Sorbom, are graduates of the school. And the early renderings of Commonwealth Fusions proposed reactor look like scale models of international tokamak fusion experiments to which MIT physicists have contributed.The scale is the key, though. Mumgaard explained that Commonwealths fusion device will take advantage of new types of powerful magnets that will enable it to contain its plasma in a smaller, tighter torus than has been previously possible. That, in turn, will allow other parts of the power plant to become smaller and less expensive.We now have technologybasic engineering technology, not moonshot technologythat can produce much higher magnetic fields because of new superconductors, Mumgaard said. You can make plasma systems smaller with the sam e performance. And if we can make them smaller, we can make them more power dense, more economical, and easier to build.Rather than pursuing a new avenue that might create a shortcut to a commercial reactor, as TAE and General Fusion are, Commonwealth is using the expertise built up over decades of mainline fusion research and working to turn it into a commercial product as quickly as possible.Mumgaard projects the confidence of someone who sees the object of a long quest peeking over the horizon. Indeed, he lays out a fairly short time frameabout three more years of RD, then four years of buildingto reach the first prototype reactor. By the time ITER is up and running, Mumgaard believes Commonwealth Fusion may have the capability to begin producing commercial reactors.One of the advantages of the approach that were taking is that we dont need a lot of plasma physics and fusion expertisethats embodied in the mainline approach, Mumgaard said. Were adding in the engineering of making it manufacturable. That requires mechanical engineers and structural engineers and systems engineers, the type of high-end engineering youd find on a Formula One team or a place like SpaceX.Princetons Prager believes Commonwealth Fusions approach of taking the existing state of plasma physics and turning that into a product is a sound one. That effort is different from many other companies in the field because it is developing the mainstream fusion concept, he said, and adding the technological advance of high-field magnets.Thats not to say that other approaches wont work. Prager suggests that we may eventually wind up with multiple fusion power concepts breaking into commercialization.There might be a first-generation fusion reactor, Prager said, citing the doughnut-shape reactor as a potential winner, but then another one of these concepts, such as the one TAE is developing, could become a second-generation reactor.Fusion will probably remain a futuristic-sounding technology for t he time-beinga byword for something that would be world changing if we could only get it. But the momentum in the field seems to be building, and money and talent pouring seems to point to a breakthrough that will catch the cynics by surprise.We have come very far with fusionthats something not generally appreciated by the public, Prager said. We still have engineering and science challenges, but I think we can see our way through them. We might not have a commercial plant in 15 years, but its not 50 years off, either.Jeffrey Winters is a senior editor at Mechanical Engineering magazine.Also readSpecial Report on Clean Energy Readthe latest issue of theMechanical Engineering Magazine.

The Free Resumes Online Game

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Why Law Firms Should Consider Using Video Interviewing - Spark Hire

Why Law Firms Should Consider Using Video Interviewing - Spark HireWith video interviewing technology becoming more prevalent, its increasingly common to see businesses from all industries utilizing this highly effective and efficient means of finding the next addition to their team. In fact, many law firms have begun to use video interviewing technology when theyre looking to expand the firm. Some of the perks they enjoy by making use of this technology includeIt opens up the talent poolFlying a candidate in for a face-to-face conversation takes time and money, but having a phone conversation just isnt quite the same. Video interviewing solves both of these problems. Youre not forking over hundreds of dollars for a plane ticket, but you can still see a candidates facial expression and mannerisms.It makes scheduling the interview much more convenientParticularly for attorneys with hectic schedules, finding time to interview candidates isnt always feasible. Because of this, the hiring process can drag on for weeks or months, simply due to scheduling issues. Video interviewing helps to eliminate some of this, as candidates can record answers on their own timetable. Employers are also free to watch the responses at their convenience. This streamlines the process and helps to speed it up.It promotes consistencyYou want to be consistent as you interview in order to give each applicant a ritterlich shot, however this can be hard when youre having an ongoing dialogue with someone face-to-face. Video interviewing helps to level the playing field. Each candidate gets the same questions to answer, so everyone is being judged based on the same standards. Also, candidates can have a chance to re-record their answers. This is an added bonus, particularly for those who may be feeling a bit nervous about the interview.It shows that youre tech savvyPeople are becoming increasingly tech savvy today, particularly millennials. If you want your law firm to stand out, its important to show that youre open to new technology. Utilizing video interviewing helps to illustrate that your firm embraces new methods and isnt stuck on outdated technology simply because thats what youve always used.Video interviewing can be a huge benefit to law firms looking to add to their team, while also providing a number of perks to the candidates being interviewed. No longer reserved just for startups and tech companies, many law firms are already making use of video interviewing technology to enhance and streamline their hiring process.Image AndreyPopov/BigStock.com

How to get rid of stress and feel centered in 5 minutes

How to get rid of stress and feel centered in 5 minutesHow to get rid of stress and feel centered in 5 minutesFeeling stressed? Like the type of stress where youve got so much going on your brain ends up racing every night, or you just feel lost and dont know what to do? I used to feel it, too. Overwhelmed with clients, my work, my personal life. I had no time for my relationship. No time to paint (which is my passion). No time to spend with family and friends. I felt like my life welches in an endless whirlwind.Then, I learned one of the most amazing techniques for getting rid of stress. Over the past 10 years, through coaching some of the worlds most successful business women and with my deep study of the subconscious mind, I reframed a powerful technique from my mentor Dr. Coletta Long, a leading pioneer in the field of regression, to help even mora people achieve the freedom from stress and anxiety.Its called the Emotional Reset Method. And its so simple (kind of like the Mel Rob bins 5-second method, which I love).So what is it?The Emotional Reset Method (ERM) is a five-step technique to identify, name, and release that feeling or sensation of stress/anxiety/pain/worry that you dont want in your body anymore (so you can move forward with more lightness, freedom, and purpose).It only takes about five minutes, but if you sit, center, and do it with integrity- it can really help you get back to doing what you do.Follow Ladders on FlipboardFollow Ladders magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and moreStep 1. Pause. Tune into what you feel. The first step is to pause. To stop, sit still, and breathe deeply into your belly. Before you can discover where youre carrying your emotions, you need to ground yourself in your body.Were often so busy that we spend a lot of our time out of our bodies. Many mindfulness practices start with the breath, which allows you to slow down and bring yourself back into your body. Thin k about a tree when the wind blows, its the root that lets the wind sway through the limbs without knocking it over. It just takes a minute to breathe deeply, connect your mind and body, and root down.Sit down in a comfy seat, place your hands on your thighs, close your eyes, and breathe deeply, starting from your belly (your diaphragm). Slowly count in-and-out for five seconds. This will center and ground you. Youll feel more calm and present.Step 2. Describe it. What do you feel?Next, ask yourself What sensation am I feeling? Let go of any self-judgment. Theres no need to critique or criticize. The key of this step is to be relaxed and honest with yourself so you can feel into the sensations of your body (and emotions). When you release and let yourself feel, different sensations, emotions, and reactions will come up. Is it anxiety? Fear? Just tired? The key here is to just sink in, let yourself feel, and then name that out into the world.For me, what I welches feeling welches hea vy anxiety and fatigue. A desire to do it all. That desire to do a million things and try to fit it all into my chaotic day.Step 3. Locate it. Where do you feel it?The third step is to identify where youre feeling it. Have you ever been incredibly anxious or worried and felt a tightening feeling in your stomach or lungs? That feeling you perceive is emotion making its presence known physically. Locate where that place is in your body.In my case, it was right in the middle of my stomach. So, I brought my attention to that sensation and location.Step 4. Give it a visual. Can you describe it as a color?Whats most easy to describe is a color and use it for visualization. You need to be able to visualize this feeling you defined in Step 3. For many, its easiest to describe it as a color. Just keep that feeling in your mind and say whatever first comes to your head. Is fear a deep blue? Is anxiety a subtle purple? It will be different for everyone and every sensation, but if you pause and feel it out you can think of a color that represents this emotion and feeling.In my case, it was blue. That heavy, radiating feeling in my stomach was like a deep, fuzzy blue just sitting there.Step 5. Release it. Time to let it go.Visualize the power of the mind pushing that defined feeling up and out of the body. Once youve named your feeling, located it in your body, and labeled it with description/color, youre ready to let it go- to release it.Take one more deep breath and then really picture pushing that feeling/color out of your body. Do you feel it sneaking up your chest and out of your head like a mist or cloud? Do you feel it pushing out of your feet and fingertips?Everyone will experience this differently. Feel into it and picture it leaving you. Imagine the emotional block inside you dissolving. Fading out and away.After doing that whole process, I felt such a lightness - a weight lifted- I ended up releasing this ball of stress and fatigue that was inside of me.ERM wi ll remind you that you have the power within to take charge. To create a plan to take action on what needs to get done and let go of what is not as important as you think it may be.So, whenever youre in the office and feel that wave of stress coming over you or if youre dreading a conversation with your partner do the Emotional Reset Method. Your body, your mind, and your heart will all thank you.This article originally appeared on Create and Cultivate.You might also enjoyNew neuroscience reveals 4 rituals that will make you happyStrangers know your social class in the first seven words you say, study finds10 lessons from kleinstes Franklins daily schedule that will double your productivityThe worst mistakes you can make in an interview, according to 12 CEOs10 habits of mentally strong people

Ways the Concert Guest List Can Help Promote an Event

Ways the Concert Guest List Can Help Promote an EventWays the Concert Guest List Can Help Promote an EventAt a show or concert, a guest list is a list of people who are allowed to enter the show for free or without a ticket. People on the guest list usually include the press, anyone working in some capacity for the musicians, and if there is space, the friends and family of the musicians and of the people who work for the band. ConcertGuest List, All Access, and Backstage Passes Being on the guest list is not always the same thing as having an access all areas pass or a backstage pass. At larger shows, there are usually two guest lists a list of people who are to be allowed free entry into the show and a list of people who should be given a backstage pass. It is up to the musicians and the musicians representatives just who ends up on which list. How to Use the List to Your Advantage The number of people that can be granted guest list places is determined in advance of the sh ow between the impresario and the band/band reps. Usually, if a show is sold out, the promoter will be very strict about sticking to the guest list quota out of necessity, but often, if ticket sales are slow, the promoter will be willing to add additional spaces on the night of the show. Wondering how you can use concert guest lists to promote your event or music? Incentives for Volunteers and Street Teams Some music promoters, venues, or concert halls choose to spread the word on upcoming shows through volunteers or street teams (a street team helps to promote and create buzz around shows and concerts). Often, spots on guest lists are offered as incentives for the work put in by these volunteer promoters. Contests Prizes for Online Influencers An influencer is a regular rolle with a large following or audience (think bloggers, writers, artists, and social media stars). Providing these influencers with guest list passes as contest prizes are beneficial to both you and the in fluencer as contests over social media can create a lot more buzz from its shareability and viral nature. The influencer can continue to grow their audience through fun contests while you are able to get the word out on your event to large audiences. A Way to Get On-Air Plugs Giving local radio stations a large number of tickets and guest passes can ensure hours of promotion and on-air plugs leading up to your event. A Way to Get More Reviews Providing individual writers, journalists, bloggers, and industry experts with their very own guest and press pass is one sure fire way to get that person to attend your event and perhaps write a good review. A Way to Fill Seats There is nothing worse for your career than having empty seats and space available at a music event. Being strategic about who and how many people you put on the guest list can help elevate the concert experience for both the audience and the band.

Going the Distance

Going the Distance Going the Distance Going the DistanceAs the engineering profession seeks to develop a robust, diverse workforce, one category of future engineers represents an attractive but at-risk resource.Every year, thousands of students enroll in two-year engineering-related programs at community colleges, technical schools, and vocational programs, many with the intent to transfer into a four-year B.S. program. About half never make it to the finish line, not because they dont want to, but because they often face higher financial, academic, and social hurdles than their fellow undergrads.When a student who otherwise has the qualifications to be a great engineer abandons hopes of a higher degree, its mora than just an individual hard-luck story. Each loss represents a setback to the professions ability to meet societys future needs.Engineering educators are exploring a number of strategies aimed at retaining full- and part-time two-year transfer students. Pilot studies show, if given the right blend of financial and academic erleichterung, many of these students not only succeed but outshine peers who have taken a more traditional academic path to a baccalaureate.The NeedCommunity colleges, vocational programs, and occupational schools serve almost half of all the undergraduate students in the U.S., awarding more than a half-million associates degrees annually, according to the U.S. Department of Education. Along with preparing students to move into a four-year college, these institutions offer noncredit courses and train job-seekers in workforce development and key skills.Based on 20052006 government statistics, women represented 63% of new associates degree graduates while students from under-represented minority groups accounted for at least 30%. Nearly 10% of these students expressed an interest in engineering and technology fields. In terms of expanding and diversifying the future engineering pipeline, these students represent some of the lowest-ha nging fruit.Compared to undergraduate population as a whole, transfer students tend to have the greatest financial need. They get less monetary help from their families and are more likely to qualify for federal financial aid. But the cost of college isnt their only barrier to a bachelors degree. Studies show many students face difficulty transferring enough program-specific academic credits from their two-year schools to enter as third-year students. To them, that means a longer path to full-time employment and more time in school re-taking courses theyve often already passed. And, although all engineering students need academic advising and support to thrive, many transfer students require special interventions to build their academic skills and navigate the requirements of their new school.One Bridge to a BachelorsIn 2008, a faculty team at the Rochester Institute of Technology led by Surendra Vinnie Gupta, prof of mechanical engineering, launched a project for retaining two-year transfer students that has yielded promising results.RIT students on campus. Image source RIT.eduWith a nearly $600,000 National Science Foundation scholarship grant, Guptas pilot projectnamed the Engineering and Technology Transfer (ET2) Scholars program, has been successful in recruiting, retaining, and graduating promising transfer students. Whats more, they found that with proper support, transfer students can stand toe-to-toe with other students both academically and in real-world work settings.Gupta says the project goals were to graduate 25 additional transfer engineering students per year over the grant period. Participating academic units included 11 ABET-accredited degree programs in RITs departments of civil engineering technology/environmental management and safety, manufacturing and mechanical engineering technology and packaging science, mechanical engineering, electrical and microelectronics engineering, and electrical, computer and telecommunications technology.Gupt a says the group requested $8,000 in NSF scholarship support for each ET2 scholar, to be augmented by other RIT financial aid programs and a $50,000 university commitment of ongoing support after the grant period.The ET2 program addresses a national concern by helping to expand and diversify the engineering/technology workforce of the future, says Gupta. In designing the program for engineering and engineering technology (EET) transfer students, we needed to answer the following three questions Is the financial aid adequate to attract and retain transfers from two-year schools do our programs have curricular flexibility to award transfer credits for most or all of credit-bearing coursework at two-year-schools and do we have the infrastructure and resources to inform, advise and support transfers from two-year schools.Gupta explains the plan combines financial aid with targeted recruitment of transfer students through direct mail, in-person faculty visits to area community colleges a nd on-campus open houses. Although all qualified students are eligible for NSF scholarship support, a goal of the recruitment effort is to build awareness of the program among women and minority applicants.The issue of transferring academic credits from two-year programs to RIT is addressed through articulation agreements with about 20 two-year schools. These agreements are reviewed periodically to ensure they are in step with current best practices. Faculty members review transcripts and advise the admissions office after evaluating each students program-specific credits. In general, Gupta says, RIT tries to develop these agreements with the goal of transferring adequate credits so that a student begins at or as near as possible to the third-year level.Once a transfer student is enrolled, RITs challenge is to keep them there. Transfer students are assigned a faculty advisor who can direct them to resources if they need academic help. Conversely, care is taken to applaud standout sc holars through written communications aimed at keeping them on track. Building a sense of community among transfer students is also part of the project, and informal events over lunch bring students with similar interests and backgrounds together with their faculty advisors.Through dedicated faculty advising and intervention, the one-year retention rate for transfer students stacks up favorably against the universitys overall performance. Transfer students are graduating at a higher rate than freshmen students in engineering and engineering technology programs, Gupta says. We are hoping this project will serve as a model for other selective universities to provide transfer students with access to the baccalaureate.Michael MacRae is an independent writer.Transfer students are graduating at a higher rate than freshmen students in engineering and engineering technology programs.Surendra Gupta, professor of mechanical engineering, RIT