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Friday Link Round-Up

It's a rainy Friday, the last in January 2012. The video above is an example of how one PA One Stop (CareerLink) is using YouTube to provide an orientation to its services. And here are the rest of your links for the week:

• Social Media for One Stop Career Center Front-Line Staff--the newest Brief in a series on social media from the Heldrich Center at Rutgers University. There's also a 10-minute podcast to go with it. 

• What Can Workforce Development Boards Do for Me?--The Employer Services Director at a Wisconsin WIB is writing a series for a local newspaper to "demystify WIBs." Might be something for NJ WIBs to try. 

• Microenterprise for People with Disabilities--A microenterprise is a business that employs 5 or fewer people and requires $35,000 or less in start-up costs. This webinar explores why microenterprise is a trend that workforce professionals should leverage and the many different types of microenterprise available to people, with or without disabilities. 

• How the US Lost Out on iPhone Work--from the NY Times, this piece explores the challenges of creating and maintaining US middle class jobs in a global economy. 

• Thoughts on Workforce Development--from a CC administrator. 

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Keep Yourself Motivated

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Here's this week's link collection:

• 13 Ways the Recession Has Changed How Millenials View Work--Interesting observations. Could be worth discussing with staff. 

• Generation Jobless: For Those Under 24, a Portrait in Crisis-The Wall Street Journal examines the joblessness crisis among young people. 

• Telecommuting is Coming of Age--Looks at how more companies are using telecommuting. 

• "No" is the New "Yes"--From the Harvard Business Review, four practices to help you reprioritize your life. 

• How to Avoid Getting Fired for Facebook--Four tips to keep Facebook from being your professional downfall.

• Four Easy Ways to Spot Awful Company Culture--Good advice for people to have prior to interviews. 

• The Rise of the New Groupthink--Evidence shows that time for individual reflection and creativity is at the heart of innovation. 

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2012: 12 Themes - What to expect in the year ahead

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Here's your round-up of links for the week. Enjoy!

• Making it in America--a long, but fascinating read that gets at the heart of what's happening on the two ends of manufacturing with "skilled" and "unskilled" workers.

• The Four-Year Career--"According to recent statistics, the median number of years a U.S. worker has been in his or her current job is just 4.4, down sharply since the 1970s. This decline in average job tenure is bigger than any economic cycle, bigger than any particular industry, bigger than differences in education levels, and bigger than differences in gender." So what does this mean for "career planning"?

• 6 Email Cover Letter Tips to Make a Good First Impression--Includes a link to a free cover letter template to make it more visually appealing. 

• How Leaders Kill Meaning at Work--from the McKinsey Quarterly. You have to sign up for a free account to access the full article, but there's lots of other great info there as well, so it's worth it. 

• Tips for Dealing with Employment Gaps--some decent advice here. 

• Plan Your Free Online Education for Spring 2012--a great list of FREE courses available through some of the best universities in the US. 

Friday Link Round-Up

2012: 12 Themes - What to expect in the year ahead

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Here's your round-up of links for the week. Enjoy!

• Making it in America--a long, but fascinating read that gets at the heart of what's happening on the two ends of manufacturing with "skilled" and "unskilled" workers.

• The Four-Year Career--"According to recent statistics, the median number of years a U.S. worker has been in his or her current job is just 4.4, down sharply since the 1970s. This decline in average job tenure is bigger than any economic cycle, bigger than any particular industry, bigger than differences in education levels, and bigger than differences in gender." So what does this mean for "career planning"?

• 6 Email Cover Letter Tips to Make a Good First Impression--Includes a link to a free cover letter template to make it more visually appealing. 

• How Leaders Kill Meaning at Work--from the McKinsey Quarterly. You have to sign up for a free account to access the full article, but there's lots of other great info there as well, so it's worth it. 

• Tips for Dealing with Employment Gaps--some decent advice here. 

• Plan Your Free Online Education for Spring 2012--a great list of FREE courses available through some of the best universities in the US. 

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Here's your first round-up of links for 2012!

• Wisconsin Workforce Development Association Online Workshop Initiative--The WWDA is broadcasting workshops to several locations at once using video-conferencing. Could be a good way to leverage staff. 

• R.I.P Personal Branding--a good reminder on what REALLY goes into creating your "personal brand." 

• Meeting the Demand for Workers with Social Media Skills--how community colleges are responding to increased employer demand for people who can work in social media. 

• E-Learning Outlook for 2012--good discussion of trends in e-learning. 

• Men Grabbing Most of the New Jobs--Men are recovering more than 2/3 of private sector jobs, even in retailing, which has traditionally employed more women. Although the reasons why are unclear, researchers suspect it's largely men's willingness to accept work they wouldn't accept before. 

• What Job Seekers Need to Know in Today's Digital Job Market--On the importance of using and leveraging social media. 

• Six Email Mistakes You Should Never Make--although we all know that we do. 

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10 secrets of a super connector t.a. mccann

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Here's this week's collections of links:

• Aligning Community Colleges to Their Local Labor Markets--From Jobs for the Future, this report discusses new sophisticated “spidering” and artificial intelligence technologies that can aggregate and analyze these online job ads and provide a more comprehensive, “real-time” source of information about the hiring and skill needs of local employers.

• Three LinkedIn Career Tips for Novice Networkers--basic, but important advice. 

• USDOL App Community--The USDOL is now sharing data that can be used by developers to create online and mobile apps. 

• 15 Fascinating Studies Done on the Workplace--could be good info to share with job seekers and businesses. 

• Effective and Non-Creepy Ways to Stalk People on LinkedIn--emphasis on the "non-creepy" part. 

• 5 Changes to Make to Your Resume Now!--from Glassdoor. "Start every sentence with a verb" is good advice. 

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Here's this week's collection of links for a chilly Friday:

• Instead of Whining About the Skills Gap, Use Training to Close It--From Fast Company, this article argues that businesses need to stop looking for the "perfect" candidate (thus leaving positions in their companies open) and start doing some training. 

• Make an Employee's Day in Two Words--some good advice on the value of praise. 

• Unemployed Could Be Forced to Upgrade Skills to Receive UI Benefits--Florida has proposed legislation that will require jobless citizens to take free skills upgrade training if skills fall below a certain level or they will not receive their benefits.

• Job Interview? Avoid These 6 Psychological Leaks--Thinking fallacies that impede the job search. 

• Categorizing the Unemployed by the Impact of the Recession--a working paper from the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers, it examines the current situation of those individuals originally surveyed in 2009. 

• Measuring Business Impact: A Workforce Development Practitioner's Guide--step-by-step instructions to measuring the business impact of workforce programs. It features case studies, tools, tips and worksheets based on Commonwealth Corporation's experience in measuring business impact of workforce programs in Massachusetts.

• New Law Paves Way for Green Jobs Certifications--Gov. Christie has signed a low that allows CCs and Vo-Tech schools to create green certification programs. 

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30 Recruiting Strategies in a Down Economy in 30 Minutes

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It's another Friday, which means more links!

• Why You Should Care About Big Data--This is a must-read. The capacity for companies to access "big data"--information that goes beyond spreadsheets into things like analyzing emails, conversations, etc.--is getting ready to go mainstream. It will have MAJOR impacts on what we do and our capacity to provide services. If we don't keep up with this, we will become increasingly irrelevant. 

• Only One Way to Recruit Talent--If recruiters were allowed only one way to find candidates, these are the methods they would choose. Note that although job boards are on there, they are dismissed as expensive and a poor way to find good candidates for anything other than entry-level positions. 

• 23 Awesome Resume Mind Map Examples--For some job seekers, it might make sense to begin putting their resumes together by creating a mind map. It helps people remember what they've done and organize the information. Here are some great examples of how that could work. 

• Robot Army Helps Run Warehouses--From CNN. We have to wonder what automation like this is going to do to many of the jobs we currently take for granted. 

• 10 Questions You Should Never Ask in a Job Interview--"What does your company do?" tops the list. That question will kill the interview right there. 

• Self Starters: Going from Unemployed to Entrepreneurs--This PBS segment profiles Oregon's program that encourages the unemployed to use their UI benefits to start their own businesses. 

• 6 Ways the Work World is Changing--The last item on the list is that long-term unemployment may be here to stay. If this is true, how do One Stops and WIBs adapt?

• 5 Ways to Make a Killer First Impression--The most important is to "set an intention"--that is, be clear about the kind of impression you want to make and the interactions you want to have. 

• 16 Smarter Ways to Use LinkedIn to Build Your Business--for those One Stops and WIBs that are on LinkedIn, there are some good tips for building connections and interactions. Also good to share with business customers. 

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Personal Branding 102811 WSGA

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Here's your link collection for the week:

• Promoting Self-Sufficiency in the Public Workforce System--a best practices guide for WIBs. 

• Not Qualified for a Job? Don't Apply--Harsh, but realistic assessment of the negative consequences that come with overshooting for an opening. 

• Dealing with Skills Shortages in a Complex Economy--A bit of a dense read, but good information. 

• 10 Tips for a Powerful Elevator Speech--Employers look for people who know how to sell themselves effectively. These tips can help. 

• Four Ways to Use Social Media to Sell Your Personal Brand in the Nonprofit Sector--This advice is useful for all sectors. 

• A Better Way of Conducting Lay-Offs--Might be helpful information to share with employers. 

• The Business Owner's Hiring Toolkit--This is good info to review as you think about business services to offer, as well as good to share with employers. 

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Careerealism Webinar - Tanked Industry

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Here are your links for this last Friday in October--Happy Halloween!

• Hidden Jobs and Why Workforce Participants Can't Find Them--Edward DeJesus works with youth, but his comments apply to all job seekers. 

• Why Companies Can't Find the Employees They Need--from the WSJ, this article says that business difficulties in finding employees is because they have unrealistic expectations about wages and qualifications and don't want to provide training as they've done in the past. 

• The 9 Skills Needed to be a Super Connector--Developing collaborations is all about connections. Do you have these skills? Also useful for job seekers in a networking context. 

• 106 Excuses That Prevent You From Ever Becoming Great--How many of these have you used? 

• Get the Mentoring Equation Right--This is key to developing effective mentoring relationships. 

• DOLETA/ETA Region 1 Sponsoring Youth Conference in November--The emphasis is on collaborative partnerships and work/learn opportunities for youth.