Our Thoughts Are With The People Of Orlando - Hallie Crawford

Our Thoughts Are With The People Of Orlando - Hallie Crawford We were deeply saddened by the recent tragedy in Orlando. We received this email from a former client last week and we wanted to share it with our community in case you are looking for ways to support. Because my employer has a large presence in the Orlando area, I have been fortunate to collaborate with a wonderful group of individuals in finding ways to help those most affected by this terrible event. Since the attack, we have been focused on working with local organizations to identify how we can provide relief to those with the greatest need. When talking with communities that have been through similar tragedies (Sandy Hook and Boston), we have been told to plan for a recovery period of at least 2 years so we want to offer meaningful, sustainable support â€" both in the short and long term. Many of you have contacted me with your thoughts and a lot of you have even asked how you can help. If you would like to make a monetary donation, please do so to one of the following funds: OneOrlando Fund  â€" Funds will go to organizations involved in the recovery efforts. Orlando Health Foundation  â€" All funds donated will go to the Trauma Center. Equality Florida GoFundMe  â€" Funds will go directly to affected families. While the above funds will deliver tremendous aid to those that need it, there are additional opportunities to provide support: Hand-written letters/pictures to victims who are still in the hospital (Please note: there is a need for letters written in both English and Spanish) â€" Many of the wounded do not live in the Orlando area and are without friends or family to comfort them during this difficult time so receiving letters of encouragement would bring them some much needed comfort while they heal. If you or your kids would like to write letters/draw pictures, please send them to: Volunteer Services, Attn: Trauma Team 1414 Kuhl Avenue, MP# 83 Orlando, FL 32818 In closing, I ask all of you to continue to provide love and prayers as you and the world has so graciously done ever since this ordeal happened. I know I speak for all of Orlando when I say this â€" we cannot thank you and the many people around the world enough for the solidarity and compassion. While this tragic event has definitely left a hole in our community and so many of us are broken, sad and angry, we also stand united and for that, I am proud â€" we are Orlando and we will choose more love and less hate. Please Share This

Work Sharing to Reduce Layoffs

Work Sharing to Reduce Layoffs Work Sharing to Reduce Layoffs Work sharing, or brief timeframe pay (STC), is an Unemployment Insurance (UI) program that permits a business to diminish the quantity of hours a representative works during seven days while ?joblessness pay has up a portion of the effect in pay. Work-sharing would regularly open up during a business log jam. Work sharing is a success for the two businesses and representatives. The business can decrease the quantity of hours that a worker bunch works without possibly losing the representatives. Workers influenced by decreased hours can have their lost wages made up through a bit of their week by week joblessness pay installments. Along these lines, for instance, if an organization is encountering less interest for its items, and thusly less deals and down income, it can present an arrangement to its state UI program mentioning work sharing to pad the decreased hours for its representatives. Work sharing likewise permits businesses to maintain a strategic distance from cutbacks and conceivably, the loss of basic representatives, who may pursuit of employment in a circumstance, for example, an obligatory activity leave of absence. At the point when the business has endured the down business atmosphere, it has the gifted and prepared laborers it needs to raise back to an acceptable level rapidly. The representatives were saved the expense and agony of occupation looking during extreme financial occasions. They had the salary they expected to watch out forever and family needs. Key to the Success of Work Sharing The way in to the accomplishment of work sharing is the pay substitution factor for representatives. The utilization of this type of joblessness protection (UI) empowers bosses to seek after this choice for their workers. A case of work sharing is: the business needs to plan representatives to work four days (32 hours) seven days for a half year as an option in contrast to cutbacks. The business builds up an arrangement and applies to the state UI program. On the off chance that the arrangement is acknowledged, representatives would then be able to apply for and get a bit of their ordinary remuneration from the UI program. Starting in February 2012, as indicated by the US Department of Labor Blog, direction to states was issued by the office's Employment and Training Administration about the practice of work sharing. The capacity of states to utilize UI benefits for transient pay programs, frequently known as work sharing, was explained with the marking of the Middle-Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012. One of the objectives of the enactment was to help empower states to actualize or grow a work sharing system, through the accessibility of roughly $100 million in government awards. This additionally implies states that as of now have dynamic work-sharing programs may now be qualified to start getting 100% government repayment for working sharing installments. Rules and guidelines about work sharing shift by state. Yet, with the issuance of the Federal direction in 2012, fundamental lucidity exists in the states. As indicated by the National Employment Law Project, as of October 2014, 26 states had received work sharing projects. 24 states had not. As you would expect, during intense monetary occasions, businesses' utilization of work sharing skyrockets.

Should You Leave Off Awards to Put on Resume?

<h1>Should You Leave Off Awards to Put on Resume?</h1><p>There are a great deal of things you can put on your resume when you are searching for a vocation. Be that as it may, the most significant thing that ought not be incorporated honors that you have won. This may appear to be a surprising subject, however there are some valid justifications why you ought to abstain from remembering any of these sorts of grants for your resume.</p><p></p><p>When it comes to grants that are given for explicit kind of exercises, they ought to never be recorded on your resume. They are frequently time by individuals who don't perceive the way that the honors were not so much piece of the work that they were doing, and they simply need to establish the best connection possible.</p><p></p><p>The reality of the situation is that there are numerous things that ought not be remembered for your resume in the event that you don't need any kin d of issue with your pursuit of employment. One of the most significant things that you ought to never remember for your resume is whatever will make the business see that you are not genuine about the open door that you are seeking.</p><p></p><p>This is one of the most significant motivation to maintain a strategic distance from an honors for explicit honor that you have succeeded at an occasion. In the event that you notice that you have won any honor whatsoever, you might be taking a chance with your odds of getting recruited in light of the fact that businesses are going to consider what on the planet you imagine that they are going to discover on your resume.</p><p></p><p>You ought to likewise keep away from an honors to put on your resume that are not identified with your aptitudes as an expert or somebody who is able to be in the position that you are looking for. There are numerous things that businesses will give you on quickl y, yet in the event that they feel that you are gloating about being the victor of any honors that you may have won, you may have an issue with the company.</p><p></p><p>One of the principal things that you have to consider ishow to abstain from referencing grants to put on your resume. You can without much of a stretch add them as an approach to demonstrate your encounters and capabilities to be hired.</p><p></p><p>You can make reference to these honors and occasions to give the feeling that you went to an occasion or that you were welcome to one to get some sort of acknowledgment for your commitments to the gathering. Simply be certain that you don't make reference to that you were the victor of any honors for the occasion except if it was an extremely incredible and amazing honor that you ought to have been perceived for.</p><p></p><p>Hopefully, at this point you understand the significance of excluding any s ort of grants to put on your resume. Ensure that you are going after positions for those organizations that require and value your abilities and information as opposed to utilizing the kind of grants that may make the recruiting administrator wonder what in heaven's name you felt that you had won.</p>

First job offer, Why you should accept and not negotiate

First job offer, Why you should accept and not negotiate Accept the first job offer First job offers, @alarecruiter provides perspective as a recruiter for a world class employer Accept the first job offer The first job offer, should you take it?  Last week I posted my real thoughts on the low ball job offer and cheating candidates out of their just due. A good friend and colleague @alarecruiter (who you should be following) left some comments on that blog post which inspired a side discussion. That discussion resulted in a post of her own on the topic of the first job offer.  This was posted on RecruitingBlogs.com where she is a regularly featured poster. I asked if I could share her perspective here and she graciously agreed.  I have the post below in its entirety. She posts quite a bit on the recruiters perspective and having worked in an agency and now for a world class employer, she has the experience and insight. If you are looking for a new gig, check her out. Below she shares her wisdom on why you SHOULD take the first offer and not negotiate. @alarecruiters post on first job offers I’ve written about salary negotiations before here. I’m not against salary discussions, I actually believe they are very important. So important, in fact, that you should talk money early and often with your recruiter. I get a lot of questions from friends and family about how much they should ask for, or how to counter an offer. I willingly share my thoughts and recently helped a friend get a pretty significant increase over her current salary AND a slightly higher bump to the offer she was originally given. I’m not against salary negotiations. I do, however, have a significant aversion to bullshit. I don’t believe in negotiating just because you can. I reject the idea that candidates leave money on the table if they take the first offer. That’s what I did. My good buddy and mentor HR Nasty wrote an EXCELLENT must read post about the reality of lowball offers. Simply put, we just don’t make them. Instead of trying to recreate the brilliant article that he’s already put out there, I decided to share my story. A little history â€" most of you know I joined Microsoft earlier this year. I’ve had a solid run in recruiting, starting in agency and moving to the corporate side a few years ago. I’ve always had a “bucket list” of sorts, a handful of companies I’d like to work for before I die. Even though I loved my job, as I told my husband â€" “when Microsoft calls YOU ANSWER”. And I’m so glad I did. Just because I’m a recruiter, doesn’t mean I’m exempt from the recruiting process. I had to apply. I went through a recruiter screen followed by an interview loop. I received an offer. I took it. That’s right â€" the professional recruiter who some would say should know better took the first job offer she was given, and liked it. Here’s why â€" I did my homework. I knew going into the process where I “should” be. I talked with other people in similar places in their careers at a lot of different companies. There were no surprises and I never felt that my expectations were unreasonable. A lot of information you’ll find can be somewhat suspect, but it’s still worth at least checking out. The most important thing, at least for me, is that I felt prepared. I trusted my recruiter. We talked about money pretty early in the process. He knew not only where I was in my current role, but also where I wanted to get to. We had a multiple honest and transparent conversations. I felt very comfortable that, even though my recruiter worked for the company, he cared enough about me and my career goals to make sure I was treated fairly. I got a solid first job offer. Remember all that homework I did, and the conversations with my recruiter? Well they paid off, since the offer I got exceeded my expectations. I had a number in mind, and all in, the number was more than met. What more can you ask for? I was honest with my trusted recruiter. This may not be an issue for the average job seeker, but as a recruiter, it immediately came to my mind. Was I supposed to negotiate? I told the recruiter that I was thrilled with the first job offer and wanted to accept â€" BUT â€" I had to be sure. As a recruiter, was I being tested? Did my new boss expect me to counter? My new recruiter BFF only laughed at me a little and assured me that was not the case. He felt (as I do, when I make an offer) that it was a fair package taking into consideration all the relevant factors. I would have to be an idiot not to accept it immediately. I am not an idiot. I jumped on the opportunity and never looked back. I’ve never once wondered if I left money on the table. By accepting a fair and competitive offer at the first pass, I saved everyone a lot of hassle. Now I certainly don’t know all the backstory conversations my recruiter and boss had during my offer process, but I can tell you how it feels as the recruiter making offers. There’s not much I find more frustrating than negotiating with a hiring manager, nailing down a solid first job offer and delivering it to the candidate only to have to go BACK to the hiring manager because the candidate is under the (incorrect) assumption that we’re intentionally low-balling. No one wins at that game, and I hate to lose. There are times when negotiating makes sense â€" in the case of my friend, she was significantly underpaid (one of the reasons she was looking) and was worth, in my opinion, more than the offer she ended up accepting. By taking my advice and stating her case succinctly, pr ofessionally, and with data to back it up, she was able to get closer to her target number. She happily accepted and when we did the math, realized just what a huge percentage jump she made. It was a great end to a tricky situation and I’m glad I was able to advise her on smart salary negotiations. It’s just not always necessary. HRNasty:  For those of you who are thinking @alarecruiter is your stereotypical HR dolt, I am here to say that she is a savvy HR operator, someone I enjoy hanging out with and of course knows how to rock some HRNasty swag.  Follow @alarecruiter See you at the after party, HRNasty   nasty: an unreal maneuver of incredible technique, something that is ridiculously good, tricky and manipulative but with a result that can’t help but be admired, a phrase used to describe someone who is good at something. “He has a nasty forkball. If you felt this post was valuable please subscribe here. I promise no spam,