25 Articles about Searching for a Job

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4 Tips for Getting a Journalism Job - MuckRack

5 platforms to help you find your next journalism job - Poynter

5 Tips for Aspiring Digital Copywriters - Mashable

9 tips to help you find your first job — and nail the interview - CNBC

Are you searching for a job? Here’s real talk about possible red flags - Poynter

Cal State Fullerton Career Center director provides tips for finding jobs virtually - ABC-7

Didn't get the Job? You'll never know Why - Wall Street Journal

Finding your next job: Three things to do before starting - Chronicle of Higher Education

How Companies Mislead And Take Advantage Of Job Seekers And Employees - Forbes

How Do You Apply to a Company Way Out of Your League? - Life Hacker

How Helicopter Parents can ruin kids' job prospects - CNN

How to Find an "In" at your dream company-fast - The Muse

How to Job Hunt (When You’re Already Exhausted) - Harvard Business Review

How to Pick and Ask for Job References - LifeHacker  

How to Request a Letter of Recommendation from Your Professor - YouTube

'Overqualified' May Be a Smokescreen - Fortune

Job-Hunters, Have You Posted Your Résumé on TikTok? - New York Times ($)

Not getting interviews? Troubleshoot your job search with these 3 checkpoints - Fast Company

Six Ways to Score a Job Through Twitter - Mashable

Should you Reveal a Disability in your Job Search? - Fortune

The top 3 skills employers are looking for in 2022 - CNBC

Tried and true job hunting advice based on my own real world job search - Fox Business

What the Great Resignation means for new grads - Fast Company

ZipRecruiter vs. Glassdoor: Which Is the Better Job Search Site? - Entrepreneur

ZipRecruiter vs. LinkedIn: Which Is the Better Job Search Site? - Entrepreneur

Top five regrets of the dying

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What would your biggest regret be if this was your last day of life? An Australian nurse who counsels the dying recorded the most common regrets she heard from people at the end of theirs lives. Bronnie Ware put them in a book called The Top Five regrets of the Dying.

1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

This was the most common regret of all. When people realize that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people had not honored even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made. Health brings a freedom very few realize, until they no longer have it.

2. I wish I hadn't worked so hard.

This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children's youth and their partner's companionship. Women also spoke of this regret, but as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence.

3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.

Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they were truly capable of becoming. Many developed illnesses relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result. 

4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

Often they would not truly realize the full benefits of old friends until their dying weeks and it was not always possible to track them down. Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets about not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved. Everyone misses their friends when they are dying. 

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

This is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realize until the end that happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits. The so-called 'comfort' of familiarity overflowed into their emotions, as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content, when deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again.

Happiness v Meaning

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In a study published in the Journal of Positive Psychology, psychological scientists asked nearly 400 Americans aged 18 to 78 whether they thought their lives were meaningful and/or happy. Examining their self-reported attitudes toward meaning, happiness, and many other variables -- like stress levels, spending patterns, and having children -- over a month-long period, the researchers found that a meaningful life and happy life overlap in certain ways, but are ultimately very different. Leading a happy life, the psychologists found, is associated with being a "taker" while leading a meaningful life corresponds with being a "giver."  

"Happiness without meaning characterizes a relatively shallow, self-absorbed or even selfish life, in which things go well, needs and desire are easily satisfied, and difficult or taxing entanglements are avoided," the authors write.  

Emily Esfahani Smith writing in The Atlantic

Does refusing to act your age delay aging?

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In a UK study, researchers found "people who thought old age began earlier were more likely to have had a heart attack, to be suffering from heart disease or be in poor physical health generally when they were followed up six to nine years later."

Becca Levy of The Yale School of Public Health "followed more than a thousand people who were at least 50 at the time. She found that people who had positive ideas about their own ageing (who agreed with comments such as "I have as much pep as last year" and who disagreed that as you get older you get less useful) lived for an average of 22.6 years after they first participated in the study, while the people who felt less positively about ageing lived for just 15 years more on average."

Claudia Hammond writing for BBC Future suggests "People who think old age starts later in life may be more conscious about their health and fitness and therefore take active steps to stay in better shape. They think they are younger and so behave in younger ways, creating a virtuous circle."

Tuesday Tech Tools: 12 Tools to create animated videos

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Animaker
Tool for making infographic videos with animated characters. Easy to use for beginners. Limited free version or accounts starting at $144 a year.

Animatron
Many video clips to use to create animations along with your own voice. Create animated banner ads, white board videos, and more. Used by some major companies.

Biteable
Animated video maker for social media or making an explainer video. Interface is easy to use and the product looks professional. Prices start at $15 a month.

FlipAnim
Make animated videos easily. Nice interface.

Meograph
3D animation of people from 2D video of people. Video explanation. 

Moovly
Drag and drop to create video animations. Directly uploads to YouTube. Integrated with Shutterstock. Interface could be better.

Powtoon 
Animated infographics web tool for creating videos. Best for presentations. User-friendly basic cartoon software with plenty of templates and social integrations. No 3D or keyframing. The free version has company branding on it while the expensive pro plans start at $19 a month. 

RenderForest
An online animation maker with many templates. Easy to get started. Aimed at small businesses. Limited control. While you can add your own text, photos, and video clips, you can’t easily add clips with just text, No start from scratch option. A video explanation here. Free or paid accounts with more options starting at $9.99.

Video Scribe
Create animated videos, replicating the popular whiteboard-style tutorial.  7 day free trial. $16.50 a month.

Vyond (formally GoAnimate)
Make animated videos. Many images and videos to use. Free 14-day trial. Subscription plans: $39 a month or $299 each year.

Wideo
Will do some editing for social media video but its primarily for making keyframe-based animations and using premade animations. Simple, user-friendly, so it works for beginners and semi-pros alike though there is a learning curve. Templates, transitions, and illustrations. Storyboard creator and text-to-speech generator. One week trial then $59 a month.

Xtranormal
Create animated movies.

Don’t take the job you want to talk about at parties

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Work is not a series of words on a LinkedIn profile. It’s a series of moments in the world. And if you don’t enjoy those moments, no sequence of honorifics will dispel your misery.

Some people take jobs with long commutes not fully considering what it will do to their health. Or they take jobs that require lots of travel not fully intuiting what it will mean for their family life. Or they’ll take horribly difficult jobs for money they don’t need, or take high-status jobs for a dopamine rush with a half-life of about three days. Don’t take the job you want to talk about at parties for a couple of minutes a month. Take the job you want to do for hundreds of hours a year.

If you outsource your sense of worth to the feedback of crowds and the approval of peers and professional counterparties, your working identity will feel like a sailboat in a hurricane. You have to moor yourself to something that doesn’t change direction every few moments, whether it’s the confidence that you’re helping people or the joy of pure discovery.

Derek Thompson writing in The Atlantic

What does it means for a human being to possess the truth

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Kierkegaard’s concern is really not with the adequacy of a philosophical theory of truth, but with the question of what it means for a human being to possess the truth. To grasp the significance of this, we must not think of truth in the way characteristic of contemporary philosophy, focusing on the properties of propositions, but in the way ancient thinkers conceived of truth. For Socrates and Plato, at least as Kierkegaard understood them, having the truth meant having the key to human life, possessing that which makes it possible to live life as it was intended to be lived.

C Stephen Evans, Introduction: Kierkegaard’s life and works

Was there nothing worth fighting for?

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You’ve probably heard the story of the guy who climbs up the steep steps to the Golden Gate to presents himself to St. Peter and St. Peter says, “So, show me your scars!” “Scars?” the guy says, “Uh, I...I don’t have any scars..” “No scars?!” St. Peter asks incredulously.” Was there nothing worth fighting for?”

What is worth fighting for? As the American rock singer, actor, author and poet, Henry Rollins says, “Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength and move on...”  

Gail Blanke

 

Tuesday Tech Tools: 26 Twitter Tools

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Botometer
Checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot. A high score suggests the account is probably automated. Accounts rated above 48% are flagged as potential bots—anything over 60% rates as a “likely” bot. It's a free product out of Indiana University. 

DeBot
Like the Botometer, this is a bot detection system for Twitter accounts. The information is archived so it can be searched. It's free tool from the University of New Mexico.

Folier.me
Insights into any public Twitter profile. Free.

FollowerWonk
Find people to follow on Twitter through search, shows you when your Twitter follower are online so you can plan accordingly. Analysis by region. Reports can take a while to build. Free but more metrics with a paid account.

Glisser
Glisser "makes presentations social"  by making slides sharableto audience phones and laptops. Live polling, Twitter feeds and other audience interaction. Free but a paid subscription offers more options.

Hashtagify
Search for trending hashtags that will be most relevant to your audience. Free trial. $9.99 a month.

Kurrently
Search engine for Facebook and Twitter.

Lapse It
A time lapse video capture apps. Up to 1080p on the Pro version. Free or $3.99 for the Pro version.

Make Adverbs Great Again
Helps Twitter users determine if an account is a bot. Offers a rating of 1-10 as to whether an account is likely to be an artificial troll. Free.

Mapbox
This Photoshop for maps—and just as difficult to learn. However, it has some of the most powerful style editing of any map maker. Not for beginners. Instead of using Google Maps, Mapbox uses Open Street Maps. An impressive example of how Vox has used it here. There is a free version with paid accounts starting at $50.

Ninja Outreach
Automated social media outreach to find influencers. 

Plume
App for Twitter users. Customizable options. Free for Android, $3 for iOS.

Proporti.oni
Can give you a gender breakdown of your followers and the people you are following, categorizing them as male, female, nonbinary or unknown.

SocialBro*
Helps businesses manage and monitor their Twitter accounts, discover key influencers, schedule Tweets at the best times, track engagement, and analyze competitors. Free Trial with pricing starting at $13.95. Video explanation.

Tweet Beep
Get email alerts whenever somebody tweets about something you're interested in--even keep track of who’s tweeting your website or blog, even if they use a shortened URL. Free account available or paid account at $20 a month for more options.  Video explanation here.

Tweet Chart
Allows you to generate a report of custom data for anything you can search Twitter for: hashtags, words, phrases, usernames or URLs. A reporter could determine which hastags were used most frequently in the past week, deciding to, for instance, report on a recent crime spree or a particular local event. Free.

Tweetbot
Mac app with customizable options. View threads showing co-worker tweets only, for example or retweet from multiple accounts. $3.

TweetDeck*
Look at multiple Twitter feeds on your desktop. Powerful filters help you focus on what interests you. Schedule Tweets, set up notification alerts for new tweets. Option to have it ask for confirmation before a tweet goes out--giving you another chance to avoid sending something inappropriate or not well-crafted. Bought by Twitter in 2011.

Tweepi
Cleans up your Tweeter feed--removing inactive followers in bulk and offers other Twitter management chores. From $7.49 a month.

Twellow
A directory of Twitter users. Lets you search for people based on their name and the information they put into their bios. Find people with similar interests to follow.

Twitonomy
Detailed and visual analytics on anyone's tweets, retweets, replies, mentions, hashtags. Easily backup and export tweets, retweets, etc. Monitor particular user tweets. Find out those you follow but don't follow you back. Download your followers and following lists to Excel. Free trial. Paid accounts start at $19 a month.

TwitterBioGenerator
A canned description of you is a mere click away!

Twitter Lists 
Tweet list manager (similar to TweetDeck)

Twitter moments
Bundled experiences of Twitter content.

Twitter Search
The search engine for Twitter. See what people are saying about your competitors by to:competitor replacing competitor with Twitter handle.

TwXplorer
Explore what’s trending on Twitter. Filter for the 500 most recent uses of a word (or phrase). The app will list of users tweeting about that phrase and hashtags being used in relation to that word or phrase. A product of Northwestern University’s Knight Lab. Free.

Is it Hard for You to Ask for Help?

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If you are inclined to avoid requesting help, it’s important to examine any thoughts or beliefs that might be getting in your way. These could include: 

·      Negative associations: you might think that someone is lazy if they can’t do something themselves.

·      Self-criticism: you could think that asking for help means you are incapable or weak.

·      Concerns about how you will be perceived: you might worry that someone will think less favourably of you if you ask for help.

·      Self-sacrificing beliefs: you might worry about burdening someone with your needs.

·      Overestimating the likelihood of rejection: ‘No one is going to want to help me out,’ you might assume – ‘why would they?’

Research suggests that we tend to underestimate the likelihood of someone saying yes to a request for help. Most people feel good when they do helpful things for others, and prefer to think of themselves as generous and willing to help when they can. If you fear that someone will like you less if you ask them for help, consider the opposite possibility: people might actually like you more if they’ve done you a favour. Expressing vulnerability and openness, by acknowledging that you could use help, can lead to deeper connection.

Debbie Sorensen writing in Psyche

22 Articles about Job Searches

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Is Learning a Struggle?

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Embrace the fact that significant learning is often, or even usually, somewhat difficult. You will experience setbacks. These are signs of effort, not of failure. Effortful learning changes your brain, making new connection, building mental models, increasing your capacity. The implication of this is powerful: your intellectual abilities lie to a large degree within your own control. Knowing that this is so makes the difficulties worth tackling. 

Peter C. Brown and Henry L. Roediger III, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

12 Upcoming Journalism Webinars: Media Law, Women's Voices, Bias, Climate, Disinformation, Suicide, Internships, Trauma, & more

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Mon, Sept 12 – Media Law Office Hours

What: Allows journalists with legal questions to help find answers.  

Who: Attorney Matthew Leish

When: 5 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free to members

Sponsor: Deadline Club of New York

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Tue, Sept 13 – Women’s voices in the news, then and now

What: A wide-ranging conversation about how women’s voices have been silenced and spotlighted in newsrooms and in the public square, and how we can ensure that journalism raises up a diversity of women’s perspectives in the future.

Who: Soraya Chemaly, award-winning author of “Rage Becomes Her,” co-founder of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project - Deborah Douglas, co-editor-in-chief of The Emancipator - Allison Gilbert, journalist and co-author of “Listen, World!” - Dana Rubin, author of “Speaking While Female” - Connie Schultz, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, novelist, professor; Moderator - Julie Moos

When: 11:30 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: National Press Club Journalism Institute

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Wed, Sept 14 – Reporters: You’ve Been Laid Off. Now What?

What: If you’re a journalist who was laid off (or is worried this might happen to you), what do you do? Several experts will explain how reporters can best prepare before and after layoffs occur. They will also provide tips for networking, freelancing and ways to practice self-care. Speakers:

Who: Rachel Cohen, senior policy reporter, Vox Media Theola DeBose, founder, JSKILLS Kathy Lu, diversity, inclusion and leadership trainer, Poynter Institute Naseem Miller, senior health editor, The Journalist’s Resource Kavitha Cardoza, public editor, EWA (moderator)

When: 2 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor:

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Thu, Sept 15 - Understanding Bias

What: Learn how to teach students to move beyond the unhelpful term “fake news” to more precisely identify the many types of misleading, inaccurate and false information that they encounter. Explore motivations behind different types of propagators of misinformation and learn fact-checking basics to help encourage student learning. By teaching a deeper understanding of misinformation, students can become less susceptible to it and more likely to prioritize reliable, verified sources of news and information.

Who: News Literacy Project's John Silva and Alexa Volland

When: 5 pm, Eastern   

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor:  News Literacy Project

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Thu, Sept 15 – Let’s Talk Journalism

What: This virtual workshop will teach aspiring journalists how to encourage vibrant conversation at their schools. The webinar will mostly consist of break out room activities.

Who: FIRE Program Associate Elizabeth Stanley

When: 4 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)

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Thu, Sept 15 - Covering Climate

What: Want to cover climate stories but don’t know where to begin? In this session, you’ll learn how to quickly access media-trained scientists and where to find (and even make) visuals to illustrate your work.

Who: Panelists include Google’s Mary Nahorniak, Google’s Mary Nahorniak, Picture Motion's Brian Walker, and SciLine’s Rick Weiss.

When: 11 am, Pacific

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor:

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Fri, Sept 16 - Combatiendo la Desinformación / Fighting Disinformation

What: The Latino community in the U.S. continues to be the target of misinformation campaigns on social media as well as through messaging apps and mass media. This is a conversation with experts in mis/disinformation campaigns that will put the problem in perspective for the Latino community and will share tools and strategies to protect us from fake news. This webinar will provide Spanish-to-English live interpretation.

When: 12 noon, Pacific

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: San Diego State University

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Wed, Sept 21 – Writing the Suicide News Story

What: How do you report on suicide responsibly and in a manner that reduces harm? What should you include or not, and why? This webinar will be an engaging case study-based training experience to hone your reporting skills on the topic.

Who: Nerissa Young, journalist and associate professor of instruction in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University; John Ackerman, suicide prevention clinical manager for the Center for Suicide Prevention and Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital

When: 12 noon, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: WOSU Public Media 

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Wed, Sept 21 - Early Childhood Journalism Initiative Webinar Series

What: In this panel, we look at how losing a parent or caregiver can impact a child’s health and what are possible ways to protect them in the future. This is fundamental to learn how to report more thoroughly on tough personal stories and hold governments accountable as well as methods for ethically and sensitively including these children in our reporting.

Who: Charles H. Zeanah, Professor of Psychiatry & Pediatrics, Tulane University Lucero Ascarza, Peruvian journalist, Salud con Lupa Mythreyee Ramesh, Indian journalist, Irene Caselli, early childhood journalist

When: 10 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: The Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma

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Fri, Sept 23 – How to land a journalism internship in Washington, D.C.

What: You’ll learn about the reporting, visual journalism, production, and other opportunities that exist, as well as: What makes an internship applicant stand out. What recruiters wish applicants would do differently. How to frame your journalistic achievements and best stories. What types of work samples catch an editor’s eye. How to decide whether a paid or unpaid internship opportunity is right for you.

Who: A panel of recruiters for D.C.-based news internships

When: 2:00 PM, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: The National Press Club Journalism Institute

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Wed, Sept 28 - The Aftermath of Trauma for Journalists

What: After covering difficult topics, what are strategies to cope with the aftermath? Panelists will share resources that support journalist mental health.

Who: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Saker, retired from the Cincinnati Enquirer, will share her experiences covering health care, suicide and trauma and how she survived a decades-long career on the front line of journalism; Bailey Fullwiler, MSSA, LSW, a licensed community social worker and independent grief consultant, for Mental Health America of Ohio; Moderator: Nerissa Young, journalist and associate professor of instruction in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University.

When: 6 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: WOSU Public Media 

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Thu, Sept 29 - Disinformation, Midterms, and the Mind: How psychological science can help journalists combat election misinformation

What: Learn: How misinformation and disinformation is impacting journalists and newsrooms; the latest scientific research from the nation's leading psychologists about how to infuse proven methods of prebunking and inoculation in your reporting; what tactics make a piece of misinformation or disinformation go viral and how to inoculate the public against it; tips for overcoming cognitive traps, tripwires, and our own hidden biases as journalists

Who: Dolores Albarracín, Alexandra Heyman Nash University Professor; Director, Social Action Lab; Director, Science of Science Communication Division, Annenberg Public Policy Center Jay Van Bavel, Director, Social Identity & Morality Lab and Associate Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University

When: 11:30 AM, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsors: The National Press Club Journalism Institute, Pen America, and the American Psychological Association

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