Tough (Question) Tuesday What are you afraid of

Tough (Question) Tuesday What are you afraid of oh my by whimsystudios Such a simple question, and yetIve never asked it, and this is Tough (Question) Tuesday Installment 91. (Yes, 91) I think I finally thought of this one because I started thinking about the new year today, and how 2011 is right around the corner, and how I feel that my business is going to look differently then. Of course, Im talking about it like I have no control over what it looks like, and of course, I do. Im the one pulling the strings, and I can decide how/if/when/why it takes a new shape. But while I know whats working and whats broken, I feel a bit stuck. Scared. Im not sure what to do first/next, whats right for me, whatll work for my future clients, how I can better serve my current and past client. Im not looking for expert advice I just want to have a better sense of my own compass, and what will build on my wins. Ill join you in the comments in answering: What are you afraid of? ************************************************************************************************************** Need help finding your own inner compass? Come join us in The Declaration of You!

How to Use Resume Buzzwords to Increase Your Resumes Resume Weighting Factor

How to Use Resume Buzzwords to Increase Your Resume's Resume Weighting FactorIn the job market, job seekers are using resume buzzwords to attract a great employer who may give them an interview. Career seekers are constantly looking for new jobs. Searching for an employer is a daunting task to say the least and the resume itself can't do it alone.It is not difficult to identify the best keywords in a resume. But, the question is, how can one get the best resume buzzwords? There are sites and resources that offer a huge selection of good resume buzzwords. These are followed by professionals and other job seekers who do good job searches on the internet. Some of the most popular buzzwords include 'targeted', 'driven', 'proficient', 'good decision-making', 'personal value', 'future potential', 'long term benefits', 'network effect', 'organize', 'multiple' and others.The main purpose of buzzword is to attract attention towards the job seeker. It makes the reader think that the writer of the resume has well researched about the candidate. After reading these words, the reader would have a good idea about the content of the resume. This makes the candidate feel valued and will open doors to get better positions at a better company.Another advantage of buzzwords is that they are usually memorable and will get you noticed by employers who are actively looking for qualified job seekers. This makes the search successful and gives positive results. Companies that put extra efforts to use these buzzwords will get candidates that are qualified for the job.Another factor that helps the most effective and well-liked buzzwords is that there are many websites that offer this kind of services to their customers. They will help the writers and job seekers find the right words. For example, if you are writing a career listing for a specific career, they would be able to use the keywords for you. Fresh resume buzzwords are also available online. This is also helpful for those write rs who would be visiting the website and have the same keywords. Instead of looking for the best keywords, you would be able to choose some fresh and relevant buzzwords for your resume. And this is much easier than hiring a writer or choosing keywords from a dictionary.All these are some of the ways to attract a perfect job searcher. These words work on two levels. On the first level, they let the candidate know that the resume should be rewritten and not just being read out. The second level tells the reader that this candidate has the ability to get a great job and the right company.

Donald Trumps Fight With Apple Is Risky

Donald Trump's Fight With Apple Is Risky “I would come down so hard on him â€" you have no idea â€" his head would be spinning all of the way back to Silicon Valley.” â€"Donald Trump, about Apple CEO Tim Cook It seems that the more enemies Donald Trump makes, the more votes he gets, and as he races through the primary calendar Trump stepped up his campaign against one of his bigger targets: Apple. Trump’s calling for a boycott of Apple (and apparently a head-spinning knockout punch at the CEO) until Apple agrees to unlock the San Bernardino shooter’s phone. Really, the Trump-Apple fight started before the San Bernardino shooting. It’s not just failing to unlock the phones that Trump thinks is un-American. It’s much of Apple’s way of doing business. A month ago, Trump promised that when he’s president, he’ll “get Apple to start building their damn computers and things in this country, instead of in other countries.” The message here is that Apple sells stuff here while making it abroad, and we shouldn’t stand for that. That’s an argument brought out, in various forms, whenever politicians talk about how to create jobs. Unfortunately, the Donald approach fails in two ways: First, a trade war would hurt American companies (including Apple) and their investors more than anyone else. And second, forcing Apple to make phones in the U.S. would likely do a lot less to create jobs than you might guess. Let’s take trade. Apple does manufacture its products abroad. Cost is one reason for this. But so is expertise, as Cook has often pointed out. Once merely an inexpensive place to make things, China now has developed an expertise in manufacturing that’s unmatched anywhere else. As China’s own industry has grown, something else has happened: China has become a very, very big market for U.S. companies. Apple’s sales in China last year totaled $58 billion. Overall, 60% of Apple’s $234 billion in sales came from outside the Americas. (You can see a breakdown, taken from Apple’s annual report, at the end of this post.) Apple doesn’t break out more detailed numbers for each country, but Apple probably sold more iPhones in China last year than in the United States. READ NEXT: Trump Says ‘Boycott Apple’ So if you talk about building the damn computers in this country, it’s worth wondering if other countries will take a similar approach. Actually, stop wondering: They will. China has its own rising mobile phone makers â€" hello, Xiaomi â€" who will be happy to take over Apple’s production lines, and a government that (yes, like Trump) favors local manufacturers. Now let’s say the U.S. is willing to forgo a large share of its foreign sales in favor of a “sell it here, build it here” philosophy. How many jobs does that create? One way of thinking about that is to compare it with the experience of Motorola, the phone manufacturer briefly owned by Google. With much fanfare, Motorola opened a Texas plant that reportedly employed about 2,000 workers and could manufacture 100,000 phones a week, or about 5 million a year. Last year, Apple sold 231 million iPhones. It doesn’t break out how many of them were sold in the U.S., but we know that 40 percent of Apple’s revenue comes from the Americas â€" that includes Canada, Mexico, and all of South America, not just the United States. Let’s use the same number as a guesstimate for its phone sales; this would mean Apple sold about 92 million phones in the Western hemisphere. If Apple’s plants need the same number of workers as Google’s to produce the phones, we are talking about 35,000 or so jobs. For comparison, Apple now has about 76,000 U.S. employees. Some of those are in retail stores, but many are in highly paid programming and research and developments jobs. Adding some factories would add a few of those (setting up factories takes specialized skills), but most of the assembly line jobs would not be very highly skilled or paid. Economically, it’s just a drop in the bucket, a much smaller factor than the tens of billions of dollars in sales Apple would give up in a “sell it here, build it here” world. If you cut through the rhetoric, the real issue economic issue here is that even if Apple did make its phones in the U.S., it wouldn’t come close to creating as many jobs as the industrial powerhouses of previous decades. Those, by the way, don’t create as many jobs as they used to: General Motors had more than 700,000 workers two decades ago; now it’s at less than a third of that. Technology companies do create good jobs, just not enough of them. This is a genuine 21st century problem, for which no oneâ€"least of all Trumpâ€" has offered a fix. Demands that Apple move a few factories from Shenzhen to Arkansas only underline how far away we are from solving it. Apple sales by region. Source: Apple SEC filing.