First JobMob Pro Chat Payroll Specialist Moshe Egel-Tal, July 15th 2008

First JobMob Pro Chat Payroll Specialist Moshe Egel-Tal, July 15th 2008 6 The idea behind JobMob Pro Chats is simple: bring industry experts to you so you can get answers to your questions right away. Invitee: Moshe Egel-Tal Moshe Egel-Tal is a certified senior payroll professional (CSPP) with over 20 years experience in the finance field. He has vast experience in payroll instruction to end users, setup and implementation of payroll departments and fine-tuning payroll processes for companies. Moshe has lectured at university on labor laws in HR managers' courses and at payroll comptrollers' courses. Born in Chicago, Moshe made aliya in 1978 and resides with his wife and 3 sons in Jerusalem. Get Moshe's book “Tax Benefits for Salaried Employees in Israel“. For more information about Moshe, see his Jobshuk profile or LinkedIn profile. If you need help with labor issues in Israel,Moshe can help you with his consultation services. What topics will be discussed? Moshe Egel-Tal: JobMobbers can ask about… “anything that pertains to Israeli labor laws, employee rights (including termination/resignation â€" severance pay, advance notice, etc) … If it is something I can't answer or don't deal with â€" I will say so and direct them to the proper channel.” Ask any pertinent question. Moshe has a lot of experience and many real-world stories to tell.eval When is the chat? The chat will take place for one hour on July 15th 2008 from 7pm â€" 8pm Israel time (check your local time). How can you join the chat? To be hosted in a new JobMob chat room on geesee.com, anyone can participate in the chat and you don't even need to be a JobMob subscriber, so bring your friends.eval From about 30 minutes before the chat begins until the end of the chat, a link to the chat room will appear in a banner beneath the JobMob logo here on the site. Clicking that link will take you directly to the JobMob chat room. More information on the chat Got your questions?

Why Doesnt LinkedIn Have Any Serious Competitors

Why Doesnt LinkedIn Have Any Serious Competitors With millions of highly skilled employees on LinkedIn, the professional networking site is an essential tool for corporate and agency recruiters alike. The ‘serious network’ has been the dominant player since it first launched in 2003 and no new platforms have seriously challenged its market position. The world’s largest professional social network has over 467 million users worldwide, including 133 million in the United States. For individuals, it’s a place to network, for recruiters it’s a platform to post jobs and source talent. LinkedIn today remains the ultimate tool for anyone looking to make professional connections or find employment. Cornering the market LinkedIn hasn’t become the “Facebook for business” by accident. The network was first launched by founder Reid Hoffman on May 5, 2003. Within one month it had 4,500 users. Today, they have 467 million users and no serious English language challengers. LinkedIn was successful early on at driving high quality professionals to their site. Hoffman deliberately seeded the product with power users, as he knew that creating an aspirational brand was key to going mainstream. The network would have failed if there hadn’t been a major adoption of influencers in 2003. LinkedIn also crucially deployed an Outlook style contact uploader to allow it to go viral. By doing so they managed to increase their user base far quicker than any competitor. Even today, no other brand has invested in this area despite the distribution benefits you get from Outlook compared to webmail. Empire building During its formative years, LinkedIn deferred any content related revenue or engagement strategy until its growth path was established. Despite substantially increasing its B2C content output since then, most employees consider LinkedIn a low maintenance network. It doesn’t require constant engagement or day-to-day management. Most LinkedIn’s users have no tangible need to register anywhere else. The account creation process is lengthy and once completed, the average LinkedIn user has little incentive to job hunt on smaller platforms. As LinkedIn grows, more people use the exact same platform, and using any other professional networking website becomes less attractive. Where’s the competition? From being the first major online CV directory to becoming a content powerhouse for recruitment, B2B  sales, marketing, and lead generation. LinkedIn is now established in more than 200 countries, receives 100 million unique visitors a month and currently up to 60% of US companies use it to hire staff. That’s a phenomenal market share by anyone’s standards. Indeed, there doesn’t appear to be any successful English speaking business networks other than LinkedIn. Future challengers? LinkedIn could face serious competition from Workplace by Facebook (previously  Facebook at Work), which launched in October 2016, and millennial focused entrants such as Jobr and Debut. While European companies such as Xing (Germany) and Viadeo (France), are too small to rival their 467 million user base, Workplace by Facebook  has the brand power to challenge LinkedIn. Workplace by Facebook lets you create a work account that is separate from your personal Facebook account, says Facebook. With a Workplace  account, you can use Facebook tools to interact with co-workers. Things you share using your work account will only be visible to other people at your company. Facebook has the global popularity to attract millions of professionals, despite being banned at several workplaces. The professional version is separate from the social network, and if successful, it might be easier for them to challenge LinkedIn, than some of their European competitors. However, it doesn’t appear to be a traditional market challenge as Facebook is targeting team building within an organisation, while LinkedIn remains a medium for users, recruiters and organisations/industries. Facebook at Work is more likely to disrupt team building apps such as Slack and Yammer than LinkedIn’s global network. Is  LinkedIn unstoppable? Microsoft successfully  closed its $26 billion deal for LinkedIn in December 2016, making it the largest acquisition in the tech company’s history. Bolstering their respective markets, LinkedIn will be looking to accelerate their growth by integrating Microsoft’s premiere features (Microsoft Outlook and Office 365). Having cornered the business market early doors, LinkedIn began as a frontier product and only fragmentation and niche competitors can threaten their long-term position as the world’s leading business-network site. Will it last forever? Unlikely, but for the foreseeable future it remains an essential tool for recruiters and employees. Like all successful empires, LinkedIns biggest competition is probably themselves.

How To Improve Your Life With Meditation - Classy Career Girl

How To Improve Your Life With Meditation Burned out from your 9-5?  Ready to get past mental emotional blocks?  Just want to get out of that funk?  Ready to start seeing feeling changes in life? It is the nature of our mind to think all day long. Meditation helps us to understand the nature of our thoughts as simply thoughts and our relationship to them, so that our thoughts can be more at our service rather than the other way around. How To Improve Your Life With Meditation A recent study published by Biological Psychiatry indicated that mindfulness meditation can change the brain and potentially improve health. Throughout the past decade, meditation has done wonders in maintaining peace and balance. The longer I practice, the better I am at tapping into my intuition when making tough choices in life. In the past, tried everything but kept feeling stuck, overwhelmed, and hopeless. In the midst of anxiety and bouts of depression, I kept changing jobs, moving locationsyet nothing seemed to work. Heres what happened at one of my lowest points in life Broke up with a guy that I was set on marryingended my work contract a year early because I couldnt stand the jobunfortunately, the list goes on. When it rains, it pours right?! Ugh! But, while life was falling apart, I was able to manifest milestone breakthroughs like crazy! Life was chaotic but that didnt mean I had to stay at rock bottom. I tapped into my intuition to gain clarity and thrived in the silver linings of all the challenges. How? Incorporating daily meditation into my mornings and energy work. So, how can you start meditating to improve your life? With a busy schedule and a busier mind, taking the time to meditate may be tricky. However, five minutes of practice can be as effective as an hour. The sincerity of the effort matters far more than elapsed time since meditation is about stepping out of minutes and hours and into moments. 1.  Start Small So if you can only manage one minute of mindfulness, that is great! It means you have already remembered the value to stopping and shifting even momentarily from doing to being. 2. Try Walking Now, meditating does not mean you have to sit still. Walking meditations are just as beneficial! So go out in nature and just be. No music, no iPhone. Just be. 3. Dont Worry If your Mind Wanders Also, meditating does not mean you have to somehow make your mind blank. If your mind wanders, that’s natural. All you have to do is bring the attention back to your breath each time. 4. Make It a Habit Meditation, among many other types of energy work, certainly helps with focus and improving intuitive abilities. The more you practice meditating, the easier it becomes to hear your inner voice, your intuition. May your days be balanced with relaxing and renewing activities!

How a Game Designers Interview Blunder Led Him to Conquer the World

How a Game Designer’s Interview Blunder Led Him to Conquer the World I can’t believe I just said that… I’d be interested to see statistics on what percentage of job interviewees have suffered such a thought. And I wonder how often the interviewer even noticed or was bothered by the interviewer’s supposed gaff. Twenty-two years ago, a young Tim Schafer made a big gaff…and the interviewer certainly noticed. But after some creative thinking, he landed the job. Today, he’s a computer game industry icon. Check out these excerpts from his fantastic blog (where you can even see copies of his rejection letters for even more inspiration!): My job hunt was getting kind of depressing. I was building up a pile of rejection letters, most of them from jobs I didn’t even want. But then, one bright summer day, I walked into the campus career center and saw this. That’s the original posting for the “Assistant Designer / Programmer” position at Lucasfilm, Games Division. I called David Fox right away and scribbled all the notes you see while I was talking to him. I told him how much I wanted to work at Lucasfilm, not because of Star Wars, but because I loved, “Ball Blaster.” “Ball Blaster, eh?” he said. “Yeah! I love Ball Blaster!” I said. It was true. I had broken a joystick playing that game on my Atari 800. “Well, the name of the game is Ball Blazer.” Mr. Fox said, curtly. “It was only called Ball Blaster in the pirated version.” Gulp. Totally busted. It was trueâ€"I had played the pirated version. There, I said it… The rest of the phone call didn’t go much better. But at the end of it, David told me to send in my resume, along with a cover letter describing my ideal job. Since I figured I had blown the interview, I had nothing to lose. So I did my cover letter in the form of a semi-graphic adventure. It worked. What we can learn from Tim’s application: 1) Know how to sell your strengths: Tim could easily have penned a typical cover letter, but his creativity wouldn’t nearly have been apparent. Granted, the traditional cover email/CV combination is more appropriate for the vast majority of positions. But candidates must still use these mediums to demonstrate their skills and capabilities. That’s why we’ve given candidates the option to attach multi-media work samples to their Innovate CV. After all, sometimes a candidate needs to go beyond ‘telling’ and start ‘showing’ in order to stand out. 2. Exclusive applications: I’d be willing to bet that Lucas Films were more taken aback by Tim’s sincerity than by his creativity. After all, this wasn’t merely a creative application that Lucas Arts had received…along with a hundred other companies. Tim’s application was designed and created exclusively for them! Imagine that. Hiring staff can tell immediately tell when they’re receiving a generic CV (as good as it may be) versus a customised CV. The tailored approach takes into account the industry, organisation, and position. When candidates respectively make the effort to personalise an application, they present themselves as a far more professional and thoughtful. Innovate CV’s management system allows you to easily oversee your various CVs. 3. Play with the rules: Lucas Film’s asked Tim to submit ‘a cover letter describing [his] ideal job.’ Tim understood that they likely wanted to ascertain his writing skills and creativity. So with that in mind, he took a risk, and took a different route. Hiring managers want the best, and unless the organisation is stuck in her procedure, they don’t mind if candidates break the rules to stand out. Read between the lines to determine where you have space to try something different. But of course, know your limits. Common sense applies. 4. Be proactive, even if when it hurts: Tim’s job hunt wasn’t going well, yet he persisted. His proactive visit to a campus career centre led him to his dream opportunity. Job hunting is emotionally exhausting. When the lousy jobs even seem out of reach, it’s easy to give up on one’s dreams. There’s a world of gamers out there who are forever grateful that Tim didn’t do just that, no matter how tempting the option may have been. 5. Interviews aren’t everything: Despite a lousy interview, Tim’s fantastic follow-up won him the position. One strike doesn’t mean you’re out. Candidates who struggle in an interview can confidently bounce back. Take stock of what went wrong and remedy the issues with a thoughtfully worded follow-up email or letter. Well done, Tim. Thanks for sharing your story. What else can we learn from Tim? What have been your nightmare interview moments? Related: The 7 Qualities Employees are Looking for in Candidates. Innovate CV  is a free online tool  that lets you create, manage, share  and track your new-generation multimedia CVs.

Writing and Other Activities to Include in Your Resume

Writing and Other Activities to Include in Your ResumeThere are a number of different activities you can do to prepare your resume for interview. A resume is your document that you use when you are ready to make a resume cover letter to present to the employer. A resume is nothing more than a synopsis of your career, accomplishments, and skills. It contains all of the information that the employer will be looking for to determine if you have what it takes to fill their job opening.Resume writing and other activities to include in your resume preparation will be included with the rest of your resume. When you are preparing your resume it is important to pay attention to everything that the employer asks you to write about in order to better understand what they are looking for. Writing your resume is an important part of the application process. If you do not do your resume properly, it can end up damaging your chances of getting the job. You will want to have a thorough understanding of all of the parts of the resume to ensure that your resume stands out among the rest.Write your resume based on your skills and qualifications. While you are preparing your resume, take the time to list out your strengths and weaknesses. This will give the employer an idea of what you will bring to the table if hired. It is also a good idea to list your skills so that it is easier to understand where you fit in.Review your curriculum vitae before you send it off to the company. Go through it carefully and look for any grammatical or spelling errors. Having a good looking resume can mean the difference between an employer looking at your resume and another who is going to pass it by.The most important thing you can do for your resume is to make sure that it is accurate. The resume can be edited and changed so do not be afraid to correct your work. It is also a good idea to make sure that you spell correctly format your resume.Other activities to include in your resume are your aca demic and professional experience. The work history and letters of reference should also be included in your resume. All of these things will be considered when the employer is reviewing your resume. If your resume does not have anything that they like you may not get the call back for an interview.When sending out your resume to prospective employers, be sure to send them copies of all of your college transcripts. Do not be embarrassed to turn in work samples. Sending in a portfolio of work can be a great help to the employer as well.These are just a few of the resume writing and other activities to include in your resume preparation. It is very important that you are able to fully explain yourself to the employer in order to make sure that you have exactly what they are looking for.