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It’s the one thing out of the entire process you can control. That’s what makes your attitude vitally important in the job search. You can’t control when someone is going to call you back, or if the person liked you, or what the economy is going to do, but you can control your attitude and how you conduct yourself throughout the process.

Battling Depression

The job search process inherently comes with ups and downs — moments of excitement and anticipation blended with feeling defeated and beaten down. It’s crucial that job seekers keep the negativity of the process from affecting their attitudes. If negativity starts seeping in and you feel defeated and hopeless, the hiring manager will see and sense the baggage, and will likely pass. They want someone who is positive and upbeat; someone who says, “Give me the ball and let me run through the line.”

While you’re in job search mode, think about the way you ask for help, whether it’s from friends, work acquaintances or potential employers. Stay away from, “I know you don’t have time for me …” and instead say, “I have a lot to offer and would love to be able to share what I know and what I can do.” If you are sitting in the room anticipating the end of the play before the first act, it can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Even when you’re frustrated, you can ensure it doesn’t come off as a liability — that’s when you pump yourself up, keeping yourself from going down the negative road.

Your Attitude Can Persuade Your Potential Employer

Conversely, a great attitude can make you stand out from all the candidates for a job opening. If you want to impress your potential employer, think carefully about the possible things going on in his or her work life that cause stress and anxiety. Talk about how you can go into that job and make things easier and better for the manager. Think, “I’m here to lighten your burden and load.”

Accentuate your value at all times. Talk about demonstrated skill sets, not just, “I’m a good guy.” Instead, “I’m a good manager of people, I’m a good problem solver, I’ve been ahead of quota every year.” And in talking about past jobs, never criticize anything or anyone. Maybe you were let go, and that is emotional. But that shouldn’t bleed into your presentation — it’s negativity that the hiring manager doesn’t want to deal with. Your attitude and story need to always come across with positivity and confidence.

How do you impress a hiring manger with your attitude? Here’s a few phrases that can be used as mantras as you navigate the job search. You might try repeating these to yourself if you become frustrated, or perhaps write some of your own that are personal to you.

• “Give me the ball; I don’t have to have my hand held.”
• “I’m an awesome team player; not a lone wolf.”
• “I take initiative.”
• “I am fiercely loyal; I run through walls to get the job done.”
• “I’m aware of politics in the field of play around me and can navigate effectively.”

What’s worked for you in maintaining a positive attitude in your job search? Share with us in the comments.

Social Media Job Listings

Every week we post a list of social media and web job opportunities. While we publish a huge range of job listings, we’ve selected some of the top social media job opportunities from the past two weeks to get you started. Happy hunting!

• Designer at Million Dollar Baby in Montebello, Calif.
• Digital Integrated Marketing Manager at Viacom in New York
• Software Engineer — Search and Data Mining at Yelp in San Francisco

  Cited from http://mashable.com/

When most people talk about safe sex they are teaching about disease prevention or promoting birth control, yet there is another layer that is just as important: developing the emotional safety net required to protect your evolving erotic self. Deep emotional scarring in the early years of sexual exploration can have as big of an impact on your ability to engage in healthy sex as unwanted pregnancy or STDs.  While attending to the life changing physical consequences of sexuality is important, it should be just the start of the discussion. Safe sex isn’t just about your body. It involves your mind and spirit as well.

Going with the flow in the sexual culture of your peers can introduce you into many situations which are at once compelling and disconcerting. Being curious to explore is a healthy response, but staying safe requires that you have the skills to measure the physical and emotional risks against the potential benefits. The sooner you start nurturing these skills, the sooner you can develop your true erotic self that can lead to mind-blowing experiences.

I see this continually in my own work. My company, Good Clean Love, makes organic personal lubricants and natural aphrodisiacs. A conversation with a customer often begins with an explanation of why we use organic high-quality ingredients and how our products differ from those, such as K-Y and Astroglide, which contain toxic, carcinogenic preservatives and petrochemicals. But the conversation quickly turns towards socioemotional issues stemming from scars received early on in that person’s sexual history. Questions like “how can I communicate my desires?” “why don’t I feel emotionally satisfied even though I had an orgasm?” and “why do I feel bad after random hook ups?” come up time and again. These issues and many others could have been avoided all together by establishing an emotional safety net early on.

Start by becoming familiar with your erotic self which has been emerging slowly throughout your adolescence. Be honest with yourself about your desires, fantasies and any fears that may come up. This is internal work that only you can do. It is a key factor to being able to communicate clearly with your intimate partners and is essential for positive outcomes.

Knowing what you want sexually is also a powerful place to attract the right partners.  As with most things in life, learning about your sexuality and listening for your erotic self is a journey that requires some trial and error. Friends with benefits might seem appealing until the sexual vulnerability that gets tapped sours a great platonic relationship with differing desires. Likewise, a casual hook up in the wee hours of the night might not look like as you imagined in the full light of day.

Establishing safety parameters begins with assuring that your sense of self respect and dignity will walk out the door with you after any sexual encounter. The safest sex is the kind that makes us feel desirable and worthy before and after the event. It grows out of consensual agreements about the boundaries of the sexual encounter. This is the space in which the discovery of orgasm can flourish because when your safety issues are satisfied you can open up to letting go which is where sexual magic is achieved. Honoring your needs for sexual safety is ultimately the best way to nurture and trust your erotic self to attract the kind of sex that will not only titillate you physically, but also empower you.

Cited from http://www.collegenews.com/

Are charitable donations on your holiday to-do list this year?

The American Red Cross says despite the public outpouring of donations in 2012 people are still willing to give more this holiday season.

According to the American Red Cross’ study, 56% of people make donations in-person, 52% send donations by mail and only 21% use a charity’s website. No mention of using apps to donate, but considering how the popularity of smartphone shopping really took off this holiday season, it’s possible apps for making donations will grow in popularity in the future, too.

We know you’re using your mobile devices more than ever — for everything from shopping, to researching health information to playing games. And since you’re willing to make purchases on your mobile device, why not donations, too?

An increasingly popular gift idea is to give a donation on behalf of the receiver to their favorite charity or organization. Donors can even encourage their social networks to donate, by sharing the news of their charitable gift on Facebook or Twitter from a number of websites.

Mashable has rounded up some apps that let you make donations and give to various charities through a variety of ways.

Whether traveling for business or pleasure, no one wants to arrive at a hotel to find expensive Wi-Fi access. Hotels could potentially lose business by charging guests high or hidden fees for Internet. But many establishments — especially luxury lodging — still charge a pretty penny to go online, with little guarantee for a fast connection, either.

According to a recent J.D. Power & Associatesstudy, about 55% of all hotel guests access the Internet during their stays — up 20% from 2006. About 87% of that group is using Wi-Fi.

Although most travelers have come to expect connectivity to be cheap or included, it’s not always the case. The good news is there are ways to avoid paying for Wi-Fi at hotels all together.

Here are a few tips to keep in mind for your next trip.

1. Tether Your Mobile Device

It’s possible to tether your 3G or 4G connection from your smartphone to your computer, but many carriers charge fees to do so. Once you have added the service to your data plan, turn on your phone’s personal hotspot option, located in settings. By setting a password, you will be able to prevent other guests in nearby rooms from connecting to your hotspot.

2. Buy a Wireless Router

Although many hotels charge for Wi-Fi, some provide ethernet cables for you to use free. You can then connect your Apple AirPort Express or similar portable Wi-Fi hotspot device to send connectivity to your laptop and mobile devices.

3. Check the Lobby

It might cost you more to access the web in your hotel room, but some places offer free Wi-Fi in the lobby. To prevent guests from using valuable bandwidth to stream media on sites such as Netflix — which also takes money away from in-room pay-per-view — hotels often restrict free Wi-Fi in rooms, but open it up to guests at no extra charge on the main floor.

4. Find Nearby Connectivity

WeFi has a database of more than 132 million Wi-Fi hotspots worldwide, from small towns to urban centers. The company also has apps for both iOS and Android, so it’s easy to locate the closest Wi-Fi on the go.

Cited from http://mashable.com/

Google search has become part of our medical check-up these days. If you browse WebMD, Google or various online forums for answers before a doctor visit, you’re not alone.

It’s tempting to see if we can find an answer to our health questions in an instant when a world of information is at our fingertips, rather than leaving work or home. Flawed and inaccurate as some of that information may be, there are also many useful sites and forums with advice from actual doctors.

A study compiled by Demi & Cooper Advertising and DC Interactive Group shows that more than 90% of people ages 18-24 said they would trust health information they found on social media channels. One in two adults use their smartphone to look-up health information.

Patients are also taking to the Interwebs to talk about the care they received: 44% of people said they would share positive or negative experiences of a hospital or medical facility, and 42% said they wouldn’t hesitate to post comments about a doctor, nurse or healthcare provider on social media.

More than a quarter of hospitals have a social media presence. And 60% of doctors say social media improves the quality of care.

There’s no doubt hospitals and doctors benefit from social media — at least when patients leave them good reviews and talk about their positive experiences.

But since doctors are required to keep healthcare information private, in accordance with HIPAAlaws, it’s essential that they are aware of boundaries while using social media, says Ryan Greysen, assistant clinical professor in the department of medicine at University of California, San Francisco.

Greysen tells Mashable doctors should be careful with what information they give to patients on social networks. The security of such sites is important to consider since medical advice and information should be completely private.

“The great thing with social media is it can be shared, but that’s the downside [for health information],” he says. “Healthcare is very new in this area.”

Greysen says he suspects it will only be a couple years until more secure technologies for doctor and patient sharing will be available.

Doctors commenting on public forums offering medical advice can present liability issues, too. However, “secured patient portals are a great way to leverage mobile technology to promote healthy behavior.” Healthcare providers often offer these through their websites.

Plus, the web may not always be the best place to go for a diagnosis.

“A lot of medical conditions require much more detail and dialogue between the patient and physician,” he said. “In many cases it [a website] doesn’t substitute for an in-person visit.”

“We haven’t turned the corner to where we can say social media have changed people’s outcomes, but there are some really interesting projects out there that are changing that,” he says. “I think we’re within a couple years of having secure sites and capturing more details about patient circumstance.”

Check out the infographic below and tell us, does your healthcare provider offer useful online tools to connect with your doctor?

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Cited from http://mashable.com/

We want to dress up for holidays and to look good but I am pretty sure for those who have pets at home, esp. Dog, they would appreciate this tips.

Finding a job after college can be a tricky feat, but don’t get discouraged. If you keep these solid tips in mind, a successful entry-level job is waiting for you.  It’s all about knowing who you are and what interests line up with your personality.

Take a career test

Everyone has interests and passions in life.  If you haven’t made a career choice, a career/personality test will help with finding a job after college because it will show you what you want to do. If you can take this test before you choose your college major, you can customize your degree exactly for what you want to do. According to careertest.org, “A Career Test is a tool that is designed to help you discover which careers are a good fit for you.”

Where to find jobs

Graduating soon? It’s time to find and apply for jobs.  Online job sites are a great source for finding a job after college, but they’re not the only sources. According to  digitaltrends.com, “Even today with so many employment websites ready to assist you, 80-90 percent or more of all hires comes through other means—specifically, personally referrals and networking.”  Job fairs in your field and online community websites are other helpful ways to meet people directly, network and  be aware of  jobs available in your industry.

Prepare to apply/create a portfolio

When you are ready to apply to a company of your choice, be sure to research the company.  It would be beneficial for you to understand the job and company so well that you’re practically interviewing the interviewer, impressing them with all the knowledge and understanding you have about the entry-level job and the company. Making a portfolio (no matter what industry your want to enter) is a great way to show the company you have already done what they are asking a potential employer to do and you’ve done it right.

Remember that finding a job after college is a full time job itself and you shouldn’t give up. If you can convince your future employers you are an asset to the company, you will be.

Cited from http://www.collegenews.com/

Christmas just around the corner and we feel more love is in the air. Some feels the mix emotions of being happy and feeling inside as well. Missing and longing for someone. We have some wishes on our minds, we have so many things in mind. The air feels so cold, and you will see some who are alone and some who choose to be alone.

But it is always nice to celebrate the holiday with someone, not necessarily with family, if they are far from you but Christmas is for sharing, it should put a smile on your face and peace in your heart.

Although not everybody is really enjoying it, for some reason that is beyond their control, but in their hearts, they try to feel the happiness and some touch other lives without even knowing it.

It is sure better to give than to received for it is in giving that we can feel some peace and real happiness inside.It does not have to be material things that you can make someone happy, it could also be just being there for them, remembering them, when they think they have been forgotten.

Visiting someone that you havent seen for long time, can touch the heart. Forgiving someone that has hurt you and letting go of the pain, can make greater happiness inside you.

Although it should not be just during holidays, that we should feel like giving, forgiving and caring. We can do this all year round.

It is not how much money we have, but it is what we give without taking that will give us real happiness. Feel the love and magic of Christmas.

Life may not be always easy, but with the love that is in the air, it makes everything easier, especially if it is shared with someone.

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From a woman’s point of view, extravagant and expensive gifts are really awesome, but they can always tell when they were hastily purchased or bought at the last minute. But good news, you don’t need to spend huge amounts of money to give an awesome, wonderful and heartfelt gift. By only showing that you put extra thought and effort into a present definitely scores high, so don’t let broken account stop you from making her feel special on a special big day. And besides, it’s the thought that always count.Here are some inexpensive gift ideas that your girlfriend will love.ChocolatesWomen would die for chocolates. A box of her favorite chocolates will surely melt her heart.Stuffed ToysAs impossible as may seem, women love stuffed animal toys. Other ideas include stuffed animals that are the same breed as her pet. She may also love to collect certain stuffed animals, so always take note of that.Collection of her favorite Love SongsWomen are always sentimental. A CD of her favorite love songs makes a great gift because you can listen to the songs or dance to them with her, anytime she feels romantic. Years from now, when either one of you hear those songs, you’ll think of that day and smile. In addition, a CD that is filled with slow love songs is the best; ones that both of you can easily sing along to. Listen to them and one day surprise your girlfriend by singing to her.CookbooksCooking is women’s passion. She will surely love you more for giving her cookbooks of your favorite dishes and cuisines. This is a simple way of saying “I love how you cook my favorite dish for me.” I am sure, she is really trying hard to please you, and this will make the task easy for her.

 

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