Developing your social skills will:
1. Open doors of opportunity.
2. Increase your earning potential.
3 Enhance your relationships.
4. Attract better and higher paying clients
5. Increases your self esteem
6. You will have more power and influence.
About the Administrator
This charming and informative fan page is administered by Walethia Aquil.
I was captivated by the quote she has on her website:
“What price would you pay for freedom, enhanced relationships, and living the life style you want and deserve.” -Walethia Aquil
She also said, “Don’t allow the lack of knowledge to sabotage your business and personal relationships.”
Yes, according to Aol’s special report there are still jobs out there. Read this article I just saw featuring CVS. As you read further you will see a list of other companies and the job titlad es available.
Of course there are probably more so if you have access and information please share. As baby boomers many of us just cannot retire right now. Hence, we are still looking for jobs when we get downsized, fired or just need to improve our benefits.
Some of you reading this may have grandchildren or even children of age to consider these scholarship or job opportunities. I was on the look out because of many friends I know who have a child or grandchild jumping out there into the workforce hustle or still need some assistance.
I will continue to post things I come across but if you have additional information please post as a comment. Thanks so much.
I admit that I am tempted to go back to school, take the SAT again, score high and apply for some of these programs. But only the ones that do not have an age cap then I can say to Eyewitness News…(Just kidding, I think)
Princeton University has a Summer Journalism Program for low-income high school sophomores or juniors with at least a 3.5 GPA(on a 4.0 scare) who have an interest in journalism. The cost is FREE including travel costs to and from Princeton. Apply Now
Graduating sebuirs 17-24 can consider applying for a paid community service program in Washington, DC for 10 months. Visit the website for more information on this Americorp opportunity. Or you can call 202-776-7780. Remember this is a paid community service position that will provide oodles of experiance.
Do you know of any family earning less than $60,000 per year with an honor student graduating from school in spring 2010? If yes, let them know that Harvard University wants to pay that students college tuition. Visit Harvard’s admissions website.
I don’t know anyone who has used it yet but I ran across this online resource called Summer Jobs.
You can help someone get a job using only 60 seconds of your time. . How? Just cut and paste the text below into your email signiture for a few days. It will only take about 60 seconds to do that. Now, I am not a betting woman, but I am convinced that someone just might get a job when they go to this resource page. Who knows, it is worth a try.
So donate a little real estate space on your email signature line for, let’s say three days and see if YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
P.S. If you or someone you know is looking for a job, check out the Help Wanted section at Boomer Diva Nation:
Ready to work from home? Save commuting costs, dressing up and office politics? Need something that does not ask your age but trust your expertise? Well maybe working from home might be a realistic alternative for you.
To start this series I wanted to review a site called Hire My Mom.
This site is web-based job service designed especially for professional working mothers. They hire virtual assistants and professional bloggers.
Let’s take a quick look at the founder of this innovative service. This information is directly from thier ABOUT PAGE
About Lesley Spencer Pyle
Lesley Spencer Pyle started the national association of Home-Based Working Moms in 1995 after having her first child. Her passion is to help other moms find work at home success. She has a Master’s Degree in Public Relations from the University of Stirling in Scotland and a BA Summa Cum Laude in Journalism / Public Relations from Texas State University. Pyle has been featured in numerous publications including Forbes, Entrepreneur, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Home Office Computing, Parenting, Business Start-Ups, Dr. Laura’s Perspectives, Family PC and many others. She was recently selected as a monthly columnist for WomenEntrepreneur.com. Pyle has been working from home for over 12 years. She is married with three children of her own and one “inherited” daughter by marriage.
You are required to join the company via a membership fee per quarter or save if you join annually. It is also required that you have at least 1-2 years experiance in your field of expertise.
What can you do if you are downsized or rightsized over 50 years of age? Read this inspirational as well as instructional article by James Armstrong.
Men and women have asked me, as the Editor of NowWhatJobs.net, exactly what motivated me to write my book and, subsequently, to start my website? Here’s my response.
Actually, I went through a rightsizing/downsizing exercise on three separate occasions during the decade of the 1990s. So I personally experienced what my book, “Now What? Discovering Your New Life and Career After 50,” is about on a personal level. And I can tell you that one of the keys is this: Instead of doing the minimum in the search process for a new job, you have to do the MAXIMUM. Instead of sending out one or two resumes each week, you have to work at getting a job as though it was your full-time endeavor. It is literally a job to get a job.
Make a plan
When people are downsized, the very first thing they need to do is to sit down and write out their plan. That plan needs to include interacting with friends, relatives, people at their current company plus men and women in their industry. The search process needs to include a results-based resume, where you focus on your accomplishments in your current and past jobs. This process also needs to include a visit to the local unemployment office to check out what government programs might be available for you in your unique circumstances. Plus, it needs to include an aggressive approach to looking for a job every day, as though this effort was your full-time job. In this way, you will be successful sooner.
IMPORTANT: Don’t ever consider giving up because at the moment you choose to quit you’ve already failed.
The more education the better
Part of the strategy which constitutes a winning formula is this: More education is always better to have. In other words, in the United States, we know that for most of this past year the unemployment rate for college graduates, for example, has been between 1.8% and 2.0%. So, in essence, there are no college graduates without a job. As a first step, if at all possible, go back to school to finish high school by getting a GED, for example. Next, consider either going to a local community college for two years to get an Associate’s degree or go to a trade school. Or, you can choose to go back to college and finish your Bachelor’s degree. Or, consider going for your Master’s degree or even a professional credential.
The more education you complete, the better off you will be, because of the lower unemployment rate for your higher education level.
Education and training are critical. The formula I have found is this: The more education you have, the less vulnerable you will be to being downsized, rightsized or losing your job. Plus, you will have an easier time finding a job on the next round, even if you find yourself temporarily out of employment. Remember that everything having to do with education and training is part of your resume going forward, whether you’re in your current job, in a future job in a different company or even in a different industry.
In addition, many companies offer training as one dimension of your benefit package. For example, I remember when I worked for McGraw-Hill, you literally had to go through so much training and/or education every year in order to meet your annual objectives. In other words, it was an explicit requirement of the job. Plus, each of us needs to realize that the overall job market is constantly changing, which means that we need to continue to update our skills, as well.
Retraining assistance
In the United States, please understand that if you’ve lost a job from a manufacturing company, in many instances, there will be assistance for displaced workers. This analysis even includes money to go back to school in order to get more education and/or training. So, it’s important to check out your County Jobs office to see what’s available for you in your particular circumstances.
Accomplishments go into your resume
One of the typical mistakes people make is this: They tend to look at their past jobs in terms of specific dates instead of their accomplishments in that position. But, if 10 people are being evaluated for the same job and essentially everyone has the same education level, with a similar job background, the man or woman, who enjoyed success in the last job or several jobs, will be the one who is hired every time.
In fact, as you’re talking with former employers and suppliers, it’s a good idea to even suggest to them what they might say about you in a letter of recommendation, which they can then send back to you.
One of the articles on my website, NowWhatJobs.net, has a discussion about the myth of the two-page resume. Many people think that two pages is too long, but that’s really not accurate. A professional human resources consultant/coach walks you through how to put together your resume. So that’s just one of many resources, which are available on my website right now.
Forgiveness is critical
The whole element of forgiveness is also critical in the process, as you go forward into the next chapter of your life. In other words, without forgiveness, which for a Christian is mandatory from the New Testament, but for others is simply a good idea, you simply wind up spinning your wheels.
The story that I imagine in illustrating this point is this: A man goes into a tavern or a bar, which is the same place every single night for the two months after he has lost his job. And the very same crowd of people at the bar every night has heard him tell the same sad (and tired) story, which you can appreciate after the 50th or 60th time of telling the same tale of woe, everyone around that man is getting sick and tired of hearing that story. So, now, people begin to move away from him. My challenge to the reader today is this: When are you going to give everyone a break and stop telling that same sad and tired story?
The next chapter might be your very best chapter
A layoff can be devastating, but so much of it has to do with your attitude and how you look at things going forward. It’s possible that next chapter of your life might be the very best chapter that you have ever experienced in your life.
Unfortunately, we must sometimes go through that dark tunnel in our life, before we can get to the meadow on the other side, where the light begins to shine. Then, we will have walked into that beautiful valley, which is the entrance to the next chapter of our lives.
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James O. Armstrong, President of NowWhatJobs.net, Inc., http://www.nowwhatjobs.net, also serves as the Editor of NowWhatJobs.net. NowWhatJobs.net is the resource for job and career transitions for workers 40 years old and over, Baby Boomers and Active Seniors. Read NowWhatJobs.net for skills training, relocation options, job opportunities and much more. In addition, James is the author of “Now What? Discovering Your New Life and Career After 50″ and the President of James Armstrong & Associates, Inc., a media representation firm based in Suburban Chicago.
In this decade of economic upheaval it is good to know careers that are still in top demand.
Here is another great article with deep insight from James O. Armstrong
There are critical shortages of these men and women all over the United States in medical practices and hospitals everywhere.Therefore, healthcare options provide one of the fastest growing professional fields for Baby Boomers and Active Seniors.Let’s look at healthcare careers that you can pursue right now.
Healthcare administration worker
There are unlimited possibilities because the hospitals nationally are all adding “new wings,” particularly for cancer and cancer research, heart surgery and other specialties, which different hospitals pursue.
Information Technology knowledge will increasingly be required in most of these positions.It’s no longer someone laboriously keeping records by hand anymore, but it’s an individual entering the information into a computer at a reception desk, for example.Today’s medical community is increasingly moving toward a paperless trail of information.Companies such as Kansas City’s Cerner, which is a New York Stock Exchange company where my son Jim works, are very much on the cutting edge of this type of development.
Nurse practitioner
This is going to be a growing field in the future.Walgreens and one of the other major pharmaceutical chains have now established urgent care facilities owned by their respective firms, which feature a nurse practitioner for more routine procedures.
In the future, a growing number of these clinics will open to treat patients, who may or may not have healthcare insurance, or whose doctor’s office may not be open that day.
Geriatric care manager
It’s a growing field.Men and women have all different levels of education and experience leading into these positions.There are even temporary employment agencies that send people out on assignments, which may take place every day, a few days each week or a certain number of hours per day for three days each week, depending on a given family’s needs.
Hospital worker
The good news about hospitals is this:the current AARP list of top employers for men and women over age 50 includes hospitals throughout the U.S.In fact, two of those hospitals have significant facilities in my home county of McHenry County, Illinois.One is Centegra Health System and the other is Mercy Medical, which is based in Southern Wisconsin, but they also have a significant presence in northwest Illinois.
Nurse and nursing assistant
My sister Tanis Caras, who is 59 years old, has been a nurse and a nurse supervisor, principally in ICU, for many years.In the ICU ward, my sister typically worked three days each week for 12 hours per shift.However, she was literally able to take off four days each week.But, on those days when she was working, she really worked long hours.Please bear in mind that people she monitored were men and women in life and death situations in the Intensive Care Unit of her hospital.
The American Nurses Association, which is headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, estimates the future shortfall for Registered Nurses will be 800,000.But, there is already a shortfall of nurses all over America.This analysis also does not include the LPN category of nurses.
So the overall category of nurses in our society, especially as Baby Boomers continue to age, will exceed a one million nurse shortfall in our society in the future, which makes this a really critical issue in our society.Fortunately, there are men and women who have been previously trained as nurses, especially women who may have left the profession to raise a family, for example.The nursing profession today is reaching out to these women to encourage them to come back to their nursing career later in life.
Nurse educator
In order to address the increased demand for nurses, there is also today a crying need for nurse educators, who are willing to go back to school to earn a Master’s degree or PhD so that they can be qualified to teach in a nursing school or at a college level.
Medical technologist and hospital worker
These men and women do all sorts of testing, CT scans and various things having to do with specialized practices in medicine or as workers in a hospital.
Dental hygienist
This professional also receives high pay in a dental office.Typically, this individual is a woman, who works as an independent contractor for a dental office or several dental practices.
This high demand individual has typically pursued a two year curriculum at a local junior college.But, the sky is the limit in terms of where that woman will wind up working.Most often, she will be able to choose a dental office or offices close to her home.Finally, these women normally do not work every single day, but rather they pursue their skill three or four days each week.
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James O. Armstrong, President of NowWhatJobs.net, Inc., also serves as the Editor of NowWhatJobs.net.NowWhatJobs.net is the resource for job and career transitions for workers 40 years old and over, Baby Boomers and Active Seniors.Read NowWhatJobs.net for skills training, relocation options, job opportunities and much more.In addition, James is the author of “Now What?Discovering Your New Life and Career After 50″ and the President of James Armstrong & Associates, Inc., a media representation firm based in Suburban Chicago.
Humorous Reality is all about becoming successful at work. And yes, the blogging team, Harry Humorous and Lisa, serve a full meal of dynamic information garnished with humor. Both bloggers are very serious and accomplished professionals who know their stuff.
Read just a little from the comprehensive ABOUT page about each blogger.
Kevin Thompson (Harry Humorous) is the managing principal of Inspired Communication LLC, a Human Resource consulting firm headquartered in Keyport, NJ.
Kevin is an author and eight time award winning professional speaker honored by an international organization. He is passionate about helping people just like you unleash their hidden greatness, develop their gifts, talents and use them to be successful at work.
A Six Sigma Black Belt in Process Improvement, Graduate of Rutgers University with a Masters in Public Administration and an undergraduate degree from Tufts University, he was inducted into the National Honor Society for Public Affairs and Administration.
As a consultant and trainer Kevin has trained and coached scores of business professionals from executive to entry level staffing in: Customer Service, Project Management, Executive Strategic Coaching, Networking, Recruiting and Interview strategies, Career Transition Coaching.
Leisa Douglas (Rita Reality) is the managing principal of The Douglas Group, a Human Resource consulting firm headquartered in St. Louis, MO.
As a Human Resource consultant, professional speaker trainer, career coach, and life coach, Leisa assists businesses with a variety of Human Resource related needs. Leisa assists her clients on: Recruiting and Interview strategies, Exit Interviews and other Human Resource related matters such as employee handbooks and diversity surveys. Leisa also helps individuals with finding the right careers to help them step into their greatness by offering coaching in the following areas:
Career, Transition & Executive Coaching returning to the workplace, Life coaching for individuals wanting to stretch into their purpose, building self-esteem and confidence to achieve their highest potential.
As a consultant, Leisa facilitates numerous trainings: Diversity Training, Time Management, Stress and Emotions in the workplace.
When you go to this blog you are engaged by funny cartoons in each post. This compliments the blog theme and highlights the comfortable navigation of the site.
What I also like about the site is that the design provides an opportunity to share, on the front page, what the site is all about. This makes me want to go beyond the cartoons to get to more of the meaty substance.
Many of us dream of being successful at work but are unsure how to make this dream reality. At Humorous Reality our focus is helping you develop a successful work life and culture in your office and organization.
We accomplish this by helping you realize this dream with a little humor while keeping it real. It is this selective mixture of humor and reality which allows you, co-workers and direct reports to embrace, understand, and implement strategies developing into a more highly engaged and productive workforce.
Harry Humorous and Rita Reality work together in a cartoon format on this blog to deliver timely information and content that you can use now.
One of my favorate posts is on Listening. Which is also one of my passionate topics. They provide eight(8) clear strategies to improve your listening skills. An must in any job situation. In addition I was impressed with the opportunity to include my Twitter Id. I need to add it to this site as well.
I think that they could benefit from a separate page on the site for meeting planners who want to know their training and speaking details. As well as anyone needing personal coaching. The current economic situation in the US makes the skill set of the authors in more demand beyond the blogging platform. In additon, I wanted to see what product offerings they had available.
So, thanks to the authors of this blog that both educates as well as entertain. Go visit and be sure to laugh a bit as well and soak in the cutting edge content presented by two great professionals.
