Thanks for the raise!

Thanks for the raiseThanks for the raiseWhether youre searching for a job or seeking a promotion or raise, you have lots of questions about how much you can get paid in exchange for your daily grindCould I earn more somewhere else? Whats the competition like for my role? Do I have the right skills to move up in my career?This Thanksgiving, youll give thanks for a new feature were unveiling here at Ladders. Weve combined market research and 10 years of data from our six mio+ members to bring you salary and job demand data for jobs like yours. Just visit our comprehensive job market guides here to help empower and improve your career.Heres what youll find when you visit our job market guides Annual Compensation Shows the average annual compensation and income distribution for a particular title in a specific location.Compare locations to see which city is likely to yield a high income for that titleIf youre considering a move into a certain career, you can gain a better understanding o f what compensation will be likeCompetition Shows what the level of competition is like based on how many job seekers there are per open job in the city for that title.Helps decide when to move on to a new job if competition is high, it may be worth waiting until its average or lowGives you an understanding of how likely it is that you will land the job you wantYou can determine how hard youll have to work for the job (although you should be pulling out all the stops anyways)Desired Skills Shows the 10 skills recruiters mention most in job postings for the title in question.Gauge your level of candidacy for this title based on how many of the top skills you possessUncover which skills you should acquire to propel your careerPlay to your strengths in interviews by highlighting the skills you possess that are most desired by recruiters (insert these into your angeschlossen profile, resume, and cover letter as wellLadders Rank Ladders Rank is a grading system that calculates the optim al cities for this job title. We take into account annual compensation, volume of jobs, and job competition. Shows the top 3 cities for this job title, and where the city you searched for falls on the list.Gives you an understanding of how feasible it is for you to land a good job in your city with a good salaryIf youre open to relocation, it helps you gauge which cities will be best for your disciplineSo I hope youll enjoy these job market guides - after turkey and football of course - during this Thanksgiving week, Readers, and that theyll lead you to a better compensated 2015 Theres nothing we like to hear more than Thanks for the raise

Robotics The Software Stage Is Here

Robotics The Software Stage Is Here Robotics The Software Stage Is Here Robotics The Software Stage Is HereIts 2017, and robots are still pretty dumb.Robotic hardware has mora or less arrived, and machines are currently hard at work in a wide range of industries including manufacturing, health care, and more. But the truth is, todays robots are not yet the stuff of science fiction dreams. They are only capable of performing rote, monotonous tasks, arent good at adaptation, and still struggle with jobs requiring human interaction.In buchen for robots to reach their full potential, then, its time for the software that controls them to catch up with the capabilities of todays hardware. Researchers worldwide are working on this challenge right now, leveraging everything from artificial intelligence, to machine learning, to Big Data in order to better train robots and more seamlessly integrate them into daily life.It really does feel like robotics is exciting again, says Chris Roberts, he ad of industrial robotics at product development and design firm Cambridge Consultants. Since the seventies, there has been this general steady progression of robots getting bigger and more precise and more powerful and more expensive. This hasnt really been a revolution in technology, but lots of individual things getting a bit better. Processors getting a bit faster and sensors getting a bit cheaper. With labor costs going up I expect what well binnensee in the next few years is more of the very low-skilled jobs getting automated.According to Dr. Dezhen Song, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas AM University, high-level intelligence for more advanced tasks is still probably five to 10 years off, depending on the difficulty of the task and the robot behavior involved. Simpler, more repetitive taskssuch as picking and sorting producecould be outsourced far sooner.If you want a fully autonomous system that functions like a human, thats probably very far off, he said. But if you have specifically set up a task you want them to do, then we are very close. We actually are already there for some tasks.FANUC (a), Kawasaki (b), KUKA (c), and other major robotics companies are now manufacturing systems designed to work alongside humans.Partners, Not ToolsIn order for robots to become an autonomous part of the workforce they will need to become better at interacting and working side-by-side with humans, a process that robotics experts refer to as cobotics, literally human-robot collaboration.Imagine youve got a robot working at the same lab bench as you and the robot is helping you, says Roberts. Say you both reach for the same test tube. The robot will stop and it wont hurt you, whereas the last generation of robots would have. Thats cobotics. But its still too hard for that robot to plan around you. So, when you both try to reach for the same test tube it will stop, it wont try to retry, it wont say youre reaching for that so Il l take a different route to get it.The challenge of cobotics is the fact that humans and robots tend to have overlapping skillsets, so developers need to determine which tasks to assign to robots and which to leave up to humans. It isnt solely a question of creating machines that handle tasks for us, but rather making them flexible enough to know when to step in and help us and when to let us take over.Deep Learning Teaching the RobotsThis is where artificial intelligence and machine learning come in.Deep Learning is a nerven betreffend network-based approach to machine learning that makes use of todays massive sets of data to train machines on behavior. By using these large data sets programmers are now able to improve robots object recognition skills, their natural language processing, their image classification and more, resulting in smarter machines.A graph showing the number of organizations engaged with NVIDIA on Deep Learning in 2013-2015. Image NVIDIAAccording to Jesse Clayt on, senior manager of product management for intelligent machines at Nvidia, three factors have enabled this new approach to machine learning Big Data, so there is more data available to train neural networks new training algorithms that are far more efficient than previous generations and advanced new graphic processing technologies, enabling robots to see and perceive more about the world around them.The key part is training, he said. This is where youre exposing a neural network to the sort of data that you want it to learn. So, if you want it to learn to detect people, or you want it to learn to detect cars, or if you want it to learn to detect widgets in a factory, you simply show many, many instances of that data and through that process it learns how to distinguish between cars or people or different types of widgets in a factory.This is the process by which artificial intelligence becomes intelligent, and thanks to Big Data and cloud computing, it is accelerating.Right now, robots know to pick up a widget from this spot, move it over to this spot and put it back down, Clayton said. They cant deal well with things like dynamic lighting, changing environments, or changes to a manufacturing line. So, theres a lot of opportunity to automate so many more things throughout the entire industrial supply chain, if robots could be smarter about dealing with more dynamic situations, and also smarter about being able to work with humans.Clayton says he expects Deep Learning to start making real changes to robotics in the next five years, affecting not only manufacturing but a whole host of other industries as well.The Rise of the RobotsOf course, no discussion of Deep Learning and robots teaching robots is complete without addressing the risk factors associated with having sentient, autonomous robots in close proximity to humans. By definition, machines are stronger and more resilient than the average person, and that creates a potential danger in the case of a ma lfunction or other breakdown in the cobotics working relationship.This has not gone unnoticed by researchers.With robots, were going to have situations where they might work in some environments, situations where I can control the environment, but might not work when we are in an environment where we cannot anticipate of all the possibilities, says Dr. Song. So, we will have to be very careful. We have to have a fence, and within the fence we know the robot can work safely. The problem is its not always possible to establish that fence, especially as robots start getting closer and closer to humans.Autonomous driving is a very good example of this, he explained, because in a self-driving car a person is essentially sitting inside a robot that is fully in control of the situation and is driving very close to other people out on the road. This is a car, and it can do real damageto the occupant as well as others around itin the event that something goes wrong. The possibility of any so rt of accident, then, is unacceptable, and many layers of safeguards must build in to protect the humans that are interacting with these machines.This is a process that takes time and careful effort, meaning that the transition to fully interactive robots is going to be slow and methodical.It is good to be optimistic, says Dr. Song, but its not good to be overly optimistic about this technology. We have many years of work to do.Tim Sprinkle is an independent writer. For Further Discussion With labor costs going up I expect what well see in the next few years is more of the very low skilled jobs getting automated. Chris Roberts, Cambridge Consultants

11 Tips About How to Deal With Tragedy at Work

11 Tips About How to Deal With Tragedy at Work11 Tips About How to Deal With Tragedy at WorkFor Americans and many around the world, the Kennedy assassinations, the Challenger and Columbia shuttle explosions, the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, the mass shooting in Las Vegas and other mass shootings are high on the list of Americas incomprehensible tragedies. Personal Tragedies Affect Workplaces In your workplaces, mora personal tragedies also occur regularly. Coworkers and their family members die. Customers file for bankruptcy and leave hundreds unemployed. Manufacturing plants burn down. Friends are diagnosed with dem tode nah illnesses. An incident of workplace violence leaves coworkers dead. While not as riveting and all-encompassing as the major, national tragedies, the more personal, closer-to- home tragedies and the national, bigger-than-life tragedies have much in common for people in workplaces. National Tragedies Affect Workplaces To start, you frequently find out about national tragedies while you are at work. You gather with coworkersand watch thenational news unfold on televisions and computer screens. You gather in groups and talk about the event. Who can ever forget where you were when the Challenger space shuttle explosion killedChrista McAuliffeand her six crewmates? Same with the planes flying into the World Trade Center and the assassination of President Kennedy? You know where you were when you learned about these events that are indelibly etched in your mind. In these circumstances, employees share information and talk incessantly. They reach out to understand how the tragedy is affecting their associates. Coworkers look out for each other. As an example, many of you watched the planes crash into the World Trade Center while at work. More Personal Wor k Tragedies Affect Your Employees Deeply With the more personal tragedies, your actions and wishes are likely less public, but there is that same sense of wanting to do something to help and not knowing what to do. In most instances, for positive mental health, coworkers reach out to each other for friendship and erleichterung. Sometimes, its the personal tragedies about which you feel the most inadequate. After all, they are occurring right here- and you feel like you should be able to help. A national tragedy or a personal tragedy has a huge impact in the workplace. And, organizations can help people successfully weather the tragedy. They can ease the passage people experience during a tragedy. They can help people deal with the helplessness and grief they experience. They can provide a support system to help prop people up during grief. These ideas will help you help your employees as they experience either a national tragedy or the regular, life-changing tragedies that occur wi thin your own workplace. Recommended Actions During Tragedy in Your Workplace 1. Make Sure People Are Safe If the incident is happening in your workplace, make certain people are stahlkammer before you do anything else. Implement your disaster plan, ring the fire alarm, do whatever your company emergency evacuation plan prescribes for safety. The plan should designate a meeting location, where attendance can be taken, so you know the members of your workforce are safe. 2. Cut People Some Slack People cannot return to productive work immediately upon hearing about a tragedy. If you expect them to continue working, people will make errors and mistakes because they are distracted by the events or information. Dont pretend. Just tell people that it is all right to focus their energy on the happening. If you do this, most individuals will return to productive work more quickly when their need for information and interests are satisfied. 3. Assess the Personal Involvement of Employees If the tragedy impacts an individual personally, offer release time, support, a ride, help obtaining information, and anything else the individual appears to need. For major and direct impacts on your workplace, you may need to decide whether to continue paying employees, even though they are not working, for a period of time. You may offer shelter, relocation, or other forms of compensation during a tragedy, too. 4. Give People Information If you can do so without totally disrupting work, provide televisions and computer screens so workers are informed about events as they unfold- even if only in break rooms. In more personal tragedies, give all employees as much information as possible, as soon as the information is available. (This does not mean providing employee confidential information, but other information is essential.) Information helps people process the events. Turn on radios, broadcast breaking news over your speaker system and recognize that people will call friends a nd acquaintances to share information and compare notes. The closer you are to the tragedy, the more people will want to know. 5. Provide Places for People to Gather and Talk Many people take comfort in being close to other people when tragedy strikes. You can informally provide opportunities for this interaction by leaving conference rooms with televisions unused. Wheel the television into a break room. Bring in lunch for your staff so people are encouraged to spend time with each other for encouragement, shared grief, and support. Suggest a potluck lunch for the second or third day, depending on the nature of the tragedy. Many people talk incessantly during a tragic event others suffer silently. You will want to draw your silent people out when possible. Central gatherings will help. 6. Schedule a Meeting to Share Information In a national tragedy, people want to know the latest information about what is happening. They want reassurances that they and their loved ones are safe. In more personal workplace sorrows, correct information is also important. Without breaking the confidentiality of the people involved, and with their permission, tell people as much as you can. The more legitimate information people have, the less likely they are to depend on rumors and gossip, the less time they spend seeking information. 7. Give People Something to Do to Help In times of sorrow, when people draw together for sustenance, many want something to do to help solve the problem or to ease the situation. In the instance of the terrorist attack on America, stories of volunteerism, sharing of food and space, giving blood and helping out neighbors and friends abounded. The same kind of stories dominated the Gulf Coast residents response to Hurricane Katrina. People want to bring a casserole to the bereaved family, send flowers to honor the dead and the living, send memories of the employee to the family, and make donations to favorite charities. Many companies held company me etings to bring people up-to-date and share how to donate to relief and the location of the nearest blood donor center during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, for example. Others hold company raffles, with the money designated for donations to whatever disaster relief is needed they purchase raffle items with American Express travel points and employees donate other offerings for the raffle. Many employers match the amount collected. Some companies match employee donations up to a certain amount of dollars with a receipt from the charity. Surely, you can imagine more ways to help that are congruent with your workplace culture. 8. Make Managers and HR Staff Available Supervisors, managers, and HR staff members are critical company members during a tragedy. In a study done years ago by the American Psychological Association, employees overwhelmingly listed personal attention from the supervisorin as one of the most rewarding aspects of work. Free up your calendars when tragedy stri kes and spend time walking through the workplace and meeting with people who need support or just a listening ear. Be visibly available. 9. Offer Employee Assistance If your company has an Employee Assistance Program or counseling available via your health plan, make sure employees know it is available for people who need it. Some programs offer counseling in the workplace. Explore possibilities. 10. Be Prepared Before Disaster or Tragedy Strikes Every organization needs a disaster plan. You also need plans for fire, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and any other natural disaster that can occur in your area. All employees should be trained in the specifics of the plan. Prepare people about what actions to take if they are confronted with a potential injury in the workplace. Think about whatever is likely to happen and make a plan to handle it- in advance. 11. Make Grief Training Part of Your Training Program When tragedy strikes, people are uncertain about what to do. As an examp le, the spouse of a coworker dies. Close work associates attend the funeral or remembrance ceremony. They may supply the family with food and time. When the employee returns to work after their bereavement leave, however, few fellow employees know what to do.Should they offer sympathy or encourage the person to talk about their loss. The employee is often isolated because people dont know what to say or do, so they say and do nothing. Teach your staff members about grief, the stages of grief, how to deal with grief in self and coworkers, how to tell children about a tragedy, and more. It will support your workplace positive morale, build employee self-confidence, and lessen the long-term impacts of tragedy. Tragedy does happen in this world. From major national tragedies to more intimate, personal tragedies, all people experience sorrow and tragedy in their lives. Implementing these ideas will help you address those that occur or unfold in your workplace more effectively.

Should you break up with your job (6 signs its time to quit)

Should you break up with yur job (6 signs its time to quit)Should you break up with your job (6 signs its time to quit)Do Monday mornings make you dread getting out of bed? Do you feel unappreciated by your manager or emotionally drained by your never-ending workload? Just like a bad romantic relationship, a toxic workplace can have a huge impact on your happiness and mental health. If you feel like youve tried every possible compromise but your job is still making you feel burnt out and bored, it might be time to quit your job and move on to the next great opportunity.If youre unsure whether its the right time to look for a new position take our quiz to help determine if should break up with your job or stick it out. Then, check out our break down of the different reasons why your current workplace may not be right for you.If youve been wondering if its time to hand in that resignation letter, consider some of the following warning signs1. Your Sunday stress has turned into full-on anxietyEveryones experienced a case of the Sunday scaries, those anxious butterflies you get at the end of a fun, relaxing weekend when you realize you have to go back to dealing with everyday responsibilities. However, if your Sunday nights have you losing sleep and feeling full-blown dread about having to face the office on Monday morning, its a sign that your workplace isnt adding value to your life like it should be.Ladders is now on SmartNewsDownload the SmartNews app and add the Ladders channel to read the latest career news and advice wherever you go.2. You seek out procrastinationWere all guilty of occasionally switching over to Facebook or sending a quick text while at work. But if youve gotten to the point where sitting at your desk is a constant battle of trying not to look and the clock, your skills are clearly not being put to use. If you spend the majority of the day pretending to work and are departureing to actually get a kick out of doing as little as possible, youl l probably be better off elsewhere.3. You feel stuckTheres a reason why so many high school sweethearts eventually outgrow their first relationships. People are always maturing and changing which is why professional development is an essential part of any career. If you keep getting passed over for promotions, blocked from participating in any upper-level responsibilities or have simply reached the highest point of your career path you might want to seek out challenges by starting over in a new role.4. Youre not appreciated by your bossA bad boss is a deal breaker even if every other part of your work life seems fine. Your boss should be your mentor and a source of leadership and stability at work. If your boss is constantly criticizing you without providing feedback, ignoring your suggestions, or taking credit for your work without giving you any acknowledgment, its time to cut them loose.5. Complaining about work has become your part-time jobEveryones needed to unload to their inn er circle after a tough day at the office. But if every single happy hour features your standard rants about your crazy cubicle neighbor and how much you cant stand your demanding manager, your friends are going to get sick of it and start wondering why you bother sticking around somewhere you clearly hate. If your friends or family members seem bothered by how much your job affects your mood you may want to take their concerns to heart.6. Youre excited about outside opportunitiesWhether you feel a twinge of envy hearing about all the cool perks at your cousins new office or have been curiously checking online job boards for any openings at that exciting new startup, your mind is clearly no longer in it. While it may feel like youre trapped in your current company forever, new positions are posted every day. Take advantage of employee feedback and online reviews to make sure your next job is a perfect fitThis article first appeared on Kununu.

The High School Student Resume Pitfall

The High School Student Resume Pitfall High School Student Resume - Dead or Alive? The very first section of your resume should consist of information on the way the employer can contact you. Change career resume examples demonstrate that you should begin with personal details. The cover of the page needs to have your kids full name. You could adzu siche to the guidelines supplied in the job resume template here and produce your own resume. Practically everyone has some degree of communication abilities. Conveying any particular accomplishments or leadership roles you might have had is critical. Examine the accomplishments, skills and experience youve listed. It is essential that you indicate your abilities and achievements in your resume. Writing a high school senior resume isnt easy that is the reason why it is necessary to understand what you ought to do. High School Resume templates are a fantastic resource for such students. Students often think that you will need e xperience to have a job and conversely, you are in need of a job to obtain experience. High School Student Resume and High School Student Resume - The Perfect Combination A lousy summary has typos and its focus on duties while a great summary present meaningful info. Though you might notlage have a work history or lengthy collection of impressive degrees, you can surely find something to include. Now, in case you have worked work during your teenage decades already, we normally tell you to compose a resume summary. If you produce a great job, you can place your professor as one of your references when you get started trying to find a true job in the close future and he is going to be in a position to provide you a nice recommendation. Employers already know that you need their job, so instead its much better to compose an elevator pitch at the cover of the page that will assist your prospective employer understand you as a man and remember whats on your resume. Your contact i nformation should always go on top of your resume, so that employers can readily find it. Our site is just one of the most appropriate for essay help. You can trust the very best essay help online. The Downside Risk of High School Student Resume As a high school student, employers arent going to expect you to develop into an authority in your work in a week. They can learn all they need to know about a candidate from their school performance, so your Education section needs to reflect well on you. A typical college application doesnt always provide a student room to highlight all her or his accomplishments and experience. Consult your parents or a teacher to ensure the resume reads right and there are not any incorrect dates. If youre a high schooler that has been accepted to a college already, you may also state your colleges name and the date you will start attending. Include the field in which you mean to major and, if its not a resume youre submitting to a college, incl ude where you want to visit school. In fact, lots of successful small business professionals have several college degrees that apply right to their line of work. You might also have the city and state where the organization is situated in case youd like. Volunteer working experience on high school resumes are an excellent means to add work experience if you dont have anyor even when you do. After your own intuition will act as a little step towards independence. If you would like to pursue a career in writing especially, now is an excellent time to go ahead with it. You may also have volunteer experience. Some may become your age while others might be older. You need to try to give only snapshots of your skills, hence the hiring officer could choose whether you would fit with the organization or not. Due to the rise in competition, you will need to draft a strong application to grab the employers interest. Employers try to find staff that have a history of creating positive contributions. Just make certain it is totally clean of whatever you wouldnt need a possible employer to see. However tempting it may be to stretch the truth, lying on your resume is always a poor idea. Theres no doubt that a resume which is both cohesive and professional will have a much better likelihood of standing from the crowd even supposing its made utilizing a template. Bear in mind, that theres no harm if your accomplishments are over by the conclusion of the very first page. Your resume will be broken up into sections.

Getting the Best Freelance Writing Resume Samples

Getting the Best Freelance Writing Resume Samples My experience is very beneficial to achieving your objectives. Your skills are determined by the job. Concentrate on anything related to the job that you are applying for. If youre asking for work thats a stretch, you must do extra work. The Freelance Writing Resume Samples Chronicles There are many different kinds of Professional ResumeA samples. Resumes come in assorted shapes and sizes. They still play an integral part of the job search. Freelance Writing Resume Samples Ideas Knowing the difference between a resume and course load vitae is a lot more important before you pick a template. You may have heard that a prosperous writer resume must fit on a single page A4 paper size. Choosing Good Freelance Writing Resume Samples When you do good work, you are going to observe that the amount of referrals you get from happy clients is sufficient to keep you with lots of work (the majority of the moment) So all of your ex perience sounds impressive, but they will need to understand how you are going to help them. You may probably get by with no more than two or three standard resumes, which you will then adapt further for particular customers. The thing to keep in mind is that sometimes clients hire freelancers due to the fact that they dont understand how to do what you do. An independent writer should possess skills aside from writing. It can be difficult to fit a self-employed career into a traditional resume structure. As a freelancer, you might believe you dont require a freelance resume. You can open a freelance writing career with zero experience. When youre finished, you have your initial on-line sample that you are able to share on social networking, add to your portfolio and provide in your pitch. It is recommended to use individuals web sites to acquire the specified themes for any increased job. You are going to learn about keyword research, link-building, and other practical p ractices. Conventional ways just arent working for you and you want a way to construct your portfolio with internet content.