Enough with the negativity already!

Enough with the negativity already! NAB recently  announced that 6,000 of its traditional banking staff would lose their jobs as a result of digital technologies, only months after ANZ said essentially the same thing.   Customers are banking online, and high street banks are moving towards self-service for many transactions. The prospect of losing your job, particularly at a time where wholesale redundancies and a fundamental change in your industry means that fewer job opportunities exist, is extremely scary.   I experienced this first hand in 2014 when, after a 15-year career in investment banking, I got caught in between a repricing of bank balance sheets, margin compression and a focus on cost. The game had changed. With technology advancing at lightning speed, change is inevitable and we need to develop the resilience to deal with it.   The average person now changes jobs  10-15 times, and transitions careers 5-7 times during their lifetime.  Its a new world of work, but with it comes a whole new wave of opportunities most of which have not even been conceptualised yet. Thats why I am so confounded by the onslaught of  defeatist headlines.   They might trick you into thinking it is the end of the world.   Believe me, it isnt. Too bad, so sad, your job is gone, robots can do your job cheaper and more efficiently, so were promoting R2D2. The people coming leaving employers like NAB and ANZ will have valuable experience and great training. They are smart, they have leadership skills and strong personal and professional networks, and the skills they have learnt in banking operations and customer services will highly transferable. What about some headlines that are a little more glass-half-full? Experienced, motivated mid-career individuals see gap in adjacent market for disruption, starts new business using the skills learnt in first part of their career. Nearly all industries are being disrupted.   Unless we, as a society, want to leave a long line outside Centrelink, we might do well to remind ourselves of our resilience and ability to adapt, and we need to start focussing on the opportunities and less on the negative headlines. If you find yourself needing to reinvent your career, there are plenty of opportunities to use the skills you have gained to add value elsewhere, not to  mention great resources to help you structure your career transition and work through the inevitable swell of emotions that a major life change brings. Keep your eyes peeled for problems that you are uniquely placed to fix.   When  Marko and I founded FlexCareers almost 3 years ago, we knew that businesses in Australia and New Zealand needed diversity, and we knew about souring liquidity using algorithms.   We took our knowledge, invested in building the technology that we needed and we set about solving problems.   It  has been the best career move of my life. But you dont need to take a risk and start your own venture to reinvent yourself. Our algorithm is successful because it matches people to jobs based on their interests, unique skills and personal attributes.   Try to replicate that, by worrying less about job titles and whether the job is similar to one you have done before, and start really thinking (and asking recruiters) what it takes to be successful in that role.   Look at the strategy and values of the companies that interest you and uncover opportunities where you can add value. So to the 6,000 folks at NAB I say this, yes it sucks right now, but do things right and you will look back on this day as the first day of a great new career. Stop looking, and start seeing.  About Joel Joel McInnes,  Co-Founder of FlexCareers, is an entrepreneur and business leader with 15 years experience in investment banking and financial services. Prior to founding FlexCareers, Joel was Head of Equity Derivatives at Citigroup for Australia/NZ, and was previously the Founder and CEO of IIT Capital, a startup proprietary trading firm. Joel has strong insight and a passion for the startup industry and is enjoying introducing disruptive innovation and technology into the jobs market.

Find Job Training and Career Advancement With LinkedIns New Service

Secure Position Training and Career Advancement With LinkedIn's New Service Secure Position Training and Career Advancement With LinkedIn's New Service 7As an occupation searcher, you most likely realize that perhaps the best spot to promote your work skill is on LinkedIn. Recruiting administrators and potential supervisors frequently journey the powerhouse online networking website searching for their next conceivable worker. In any case, LinkedIn is going past simply giving you a stage to post your capabilities and associate with contacts. LinkedIn has another support of help individuals with negligible instruction secure position preparing. In a blog entry, How LinkedIn Is Helping Create Economic Opportunity in Colorado and Phoenix, LinkedIn's Vice President of Product Management and Co-Founder, Allen Blue, discusses how LinkedIn is making an Economic Graph for policymakers spreading over the globe. This Economic Graph will incorporate each individual from the worldwide workforce and their abilities, every single open occupation, all businesses, and every single instructive organization. LinkedIns Pilot Programs for People with Minimal Education Colorado and Phoenix are two zones in which LinkedIn is working with policymakers. The explanation: in excess of 40 percent of laborers in Colorado, and about 50 percent of laborers in Arizona have a secondary school recognition and a few or no advanced degree. Thing is, 44 percent of the in excess of 468 enrollment specialists and employing directors overviewed in Colorado and Phoenix report making some hard memories securing position up-and-comers with the correct aptitudes. Plainly, there is a distinction between what potential managers need of the activity searchers, and the instruction and preparing levels of those people. That is the reason LinkedIn joined Skillful, a Markle Foundation activity intended to help laborers in Colorado and Phoenix with secondary school confirmations (and next to zero advanced degree) procure new aptitudes to secure positions, however to propel their vocations, as well. What's more, it doesn't end there. LinkedIn has made Training Finder, another help that helps work trackers in learning new abilities and moving higher in their professions. Not exclusively does Training Finder give them preparing programs that are applicable to them in their general vicinity, yet it additionally gives them which projects are partnered with managers, regardless of whether they're authorize or not. It additionally incorporates the program's business rate, cost, and length, the abilities they'll learn, and the employments they'll be equipped endless supply of the program, including their expected pay! Will the program extend? Presently, Linkedins new support of secure position training is being used in Phoenix and Colorado's activity searchers. It appears to be very fruitful, since its will probably wed the requirements of managers with the activity searchers who are energetically searching for work, and help bring those potential employment competitors up to the level that organizations are searching for. Be that as it may, with the goal for it to all work, Zoe Baird, the Markle Foundation's leader, said that everybody needs to cooperate. In the event that businesses compose precise sets of expectations refering to the aptitudes that they are searching for in a forthcoming activity applicant rather than expansive terms that don't generally state what the position is tied in with preparing foundations would then be able to concentrate their endeavors on what managers are searching for and prep work searchers to become qualified up-and-comers that can fulfill the needs of the positions advertised. Perusers, what's your opinion of LinkedIn's most recent activity as an approach to secure position preparing? OK be keen on taking part in Training Finder if/with regards to your zone? Tell us your musings in the remarks underneath! hoto credit: bigstockphoto.com

Nows The Time To Create Your Personal Website for 2018

Presently's The Time To Create Your Personal Website for 2018 Presently's The Time To Create Your Personal Website for 2018 Nothing makes you stand apart in excess of an individual site that grandstands your instruction and experience, much the same as a standard resume would. There are a couple of reasons why individual resume sites are far superior than customary resumes . As a matter of first importance, an ever increasing number of businesses are going to the Internet as they continued looking for new workers. You have to appear in their ventures, and having a site is an incredible method to have the option to do this. Today we are going to discuss the advantages of an individual resume site, and how you can make your own site that will get saw by potential managers . Having an individual resume site isn't only an approach to flaunt your PC and site building aptitudes . There are really various advantages to having your own resume site. First of all, it will cause you to appear to be more unique than different candidates who simply send in computerized duplicates of their resumes. Conventional resumes don't give potential managers the total image of their candidates, yet you can say much more when you have an individual resume site. Different advantages of having a site include: The principal thing you have to do is get yourself a space name. The conspicuous decision here is to utilize your name with a .com expansion. You can have the space name start with your first or last name, including your center introductory or name, with your first beginning and last name, and so forth. The decision is yours. Simply ensure that individuals are effectively ready to see this is your own resume site. In the event that they are explicitly searching for you, this is going to make it simple for them to discover you. The subsequent stage is to locate the privilege facilitating plan for your own resume site. Look at Square Space . A few plans can be bought for just $5 every month, and you can regularly purchase the area name and get facilitating from a similar supplier. Search for a supplier that offers great client care. No one can really tell when you are going to require help, and you have to realize that you can understand that help when you do require it. The best suppliers offer all day, every day client help. 3. Connection Your Resume to a Landing Page It is a smart thought to make an extraordinary point of arrival that has a catch that connects to the PDF adaptation of your resume . An incredible looking point of arrival with a short history and a photograph that shows you or what you do can tempt likely businesses to need to find out additional. Having the connection in that spot makes it simple for them to discover you and investigate your full resume. Instead of having your whole resume on one page, split it up with the goal that each segment has its own page on your site. This offers you a greater amount of a chance to truly dive into insight concerning your instruction and preparing, experience, and so forth. Set up a site menu so perusers will know precisely where to go to discover the data they need to find out about you, and they can arrive rapidly and without any problem. Pick a web designer that will let you do this without any problem. 5. Make a Multimedia Timeline of Your Work History Discover a site layout that will permit you to make a page that is long and looking over, and that lets you put things into various segments, alluded to as a file. This will be utilized for your work history page, and you can truly make it stand apart by changing it up of sight and sound components, for example, photographs or recordings. Start with your latest work understanding, and work your way back. Remember to make reference to charitable effort and opposite side activities you are taking a shot at. In the event that you truly need to be seen, remember a blog for your own resume site. This is an extraordinary path for you to have the option to share your thoughts regarding the business you work in or wish to work in, draw in with more individuals, and so on. Simply recall, on the off chance that you will incorporate a blog, ensure that you update it normally with new and fascinating posts. 7. Make Downloading Your Resume Easy Ensure that it will be simple for possible managers to download your resume so they have a printed copy. Your site ought to incorporate a catch that lets them download the resume in a solitary snap, just as print it out. At that point, they will have the option to print it and offer it with other people who might be a piece of the employing procedure.

Copeland Coaching Podcast now available on Amazon through Alexa enabled devices - Copeland Coaching

Copeland Coaching Podcast now available on Amazon through Alexa enabled devices I hope you had a wonderful, and very lucky St. Patricks Day. I know I did! In fact, I have some super exciting news to share with you today! Amazon has added the Copeland Coaching Podcast to their network. This means that the podcast is now an Alexa Skill. And, youll be able to listen to the Copeland Coaching Podcast on any Alexa enabled device. Ive been testing it out on my Amazon Echo speaker. Its super easy, fast, and best of all free. But, you may be like me. I had no idea how to add an Alexa Skill. So, I made a video to walk you through it. You can click the video above, or check out the easy to follow instructions below. Get out your smartphone and open your Amazon Alexa app on your phone. Look at the top left hand corner of the app. Youll see the menu bar. It looks like 3 horizontal lines. Click the menu to open it. When the menu pops up, look near the bottom for the word Skills. When you see it, click it. A new page will pop up. Near the top right hand side of the screen, youll see a little search box. It says, Search all skills. Click in that box. Search for Copeland Coaching. A new page will come up. Youll see the Copeland Coaching Podcast on the screen. Click it. Then, click the Enable button. After youve enabled the Copeland Coaching Podcast as an Alexa Skills, you can listen to it on your Alexa enabled device. Just say, Alexa, tell Copeland Coaching to play the newest episode. Its literally that easy! After youve listened to the show, it would mean the world to me if you would leave me a review. It makes the podcast easier for other people to find (really, it makes a difference!). While youre in the Copeland Coaching Podcast on the Amazon Alexa app, scroll down. Theres a button that says, Write a review. Click the button and youll be taken to another screen where you can give the show a rating and a review. Its quick and easy! If you find that its not easy to do these steps on your phone, you can also try them in a web browser. Heres a direct link to the podcast on Amazon. Thank you for your continued support of the Copeland Coaching Podcast, and for your Amazon Alexa review! Each week, I interview an expert on the topic of job searching and getting ahead in your career. I hope you enjoy it! If you have any questions about listening to the show on your Alexa enabled device, please dont hesitate to send me an email. Im happy to help out! I hope these tips have helped you. Visit CopelandCoaching.com to find more tips to improve your job search. If I can be of assistance to you, don’t hesitate to reach out to me here. Visit CopelandCoaching.com to find more tips to improve your job search. If I can be of assistance to you, dont hesitate to reach out to me here. Also, be sure to subscribe to my Copeland Coaching Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher where I discuss career advice every Tuesday! If youve already heard the podcast and enjoy it, please consider leaving a review in iTunes or Stitcher. Happy hunting! Angela Copeland @CopelandCoach