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Six companies interested in you

Publicado el por Marvin Gandis

Always keep six companies interested in you during your job search.

Why?

You’ll feel more confident, which will make you more successful

in your search.

In addition, losing any one job opportunity won’t feel as bad if you have

five alternatives still going.

Unfortunately, I’ve seen what happens when a professional puts all

their eggs in one basket.

One of your fellow Members will get confident – too confident – about

their prospects for success with one company.

Hopes are raised.

They take their eye off the ball.

They start daydreaming about their new role.

And, in the meantime, a few of their backup choices go away or end up

hiring another candidate.

And then, when the final decision comes… someone else got the job.

It’s more than just a bummer, it’s a demoralizing momentum killer.

To make sure this does not happen to you, you should always keep your

pipeline filled with six live opportunities.

A live opportunity is an open job, for which there is already a budget or

hiring requisition, that you are actively being considered for.

Don’t count casual conversations, theoretical possibilities, or continued

coffee catch-ups as live opportunities unless they meet this test – only

real jobs with budget and interest.

The reason having six live opportunities is important is that it helps

your search be more successful.

Having a half-dozen companies interested in you at once makes you

feel wanted.

It makes you feel like a winner.

And that confidence shines through.

People hear it in your voice and see it in your smile.

Employers, recruiters, and hiring managers pick up on it.

They think you’re a big deal because you think you’re a big deal.

Your interviews go great.

Your emails get answered.

Your phone calls get returned.

And, when it happens that one of the jobs doesn’t go your way, it’s just a

bump in the road, not a disaster.

Given the odds, you’re going to be runner-up on many jobs, so it’s

important that losing out on any one job isn’t a show-stopping setback.

The problem, of course, is that the good confidence you develop from

having six companies interested in you too often turns into over-confidence.

And over-confidence leads to errors.

You don’t pay attention to the companies further down your wishlist.

You skip the phone call.

You ditch the interview.

And you don’t put in the time to reach out to the next company.

Unfortunately, with job opportunities, situations change all the time.

They might hire someone else.

Budgets might get reallocated.

They might decide that you’re too much or too little of something.

And the job you thought was in your grasp disappears.

And then so does the next one.

And if you don’t have a pipeline of live opportunities, you can find

yourself without any company interested in you at all.

And that can be disastrous for your self-confidence.

It hurts enough to lose out on a job you wanted.

But it hurts even more when it leaves your job search empty.

It negatively affects the confidence in your voice, your demeanor, and your interviews.

It brings your momentum to a halt.

Now, I get it.

The job search is hard and keeping up the pace is difficult.

Nobody likes to face rejection.

Nobody wants to hear ‘no’.

Nobody enjoys finding out that they’re not going to be considered.

Putting yourself out there is tough.

But that’s exactly what you need to do to keep six companies interested in you at all times.

You need to call the seventh.

Interview with the eighth.

Return the email of the ninth.

Ask for the intro to the tenth.

Because that’s how you make sure you always have six live opportunities in your pipeline at all times.

Here are some practical tips for stocking your pipeline this week:

1-Make a list of 10 companies that you want to work for.

2- Connect with people who work there

3- Reach out to 10 old friends or contacts you haven’t connected with during the pandemic.

4-Schedule a catch-up over Zoom or coffee.

5- Save time and apply to 10 jobs.

6- Go back through your old job searches from the past five years.

7- Reach out, out of the blue, to any of the recruiters or HR people you spoke with then.

8- Ask them if they’re hiring for your new level now.

You’ll be pleasantly surprised.

However you find new leads, keep finding them until you have six live

opportunities in your pipeline – six jobs for which there is already an

opening or budget, and for which you’re being actively considered.

Do yourself this favor.

Keeping your job search strong, confident, and productive by always

keeping six companies interested in you will pay off sooner than you realize.

And then we’ll be celebrating together when you land your next great role.

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Coronavirus Sparks Hiring Spree for Nearly 500,000 Jobs at Biggest Retailers

Publicado el por Marvin Gandis

Walmart, Amazon.com and CVS are among about a dozen large companies looking to hire nearly 500,000 Americans in coming weeks, a spree that would mark a major shift of the U.S. workforce from smaller businesses that have cut staff to survive the coronavirus.

The companies are managing a surge in demand for food and other household products that have taxed their stores and warehouses. At the same time, they are seeking to lure hourly workers to front-line or logistics jobs where they face risks of being near co-workers or consumers who could have been exposed to the deadly respiratory virus.

“There are too many customers for our staffing to handle most of the time,” said Cody Clark, who works at Brookshire’s Food & Pharmacy in Tyler, Texas. Ms. Clark, 22 years old, said she has been nervous about going to the store. “Customers come in and get frustrated whenever we don’t have something. They don’t understand we’re putting ourselves out there.”

Many of the big chains have started offering enhanced benefits, such as paid sick time and child-care services, even for temporary or part-time workers. They have also temporarily boosted their hourly wages or promised cash bonuses for the people who run cash registers, unload trucks or work in e-commerce warehouses.

Separately, Instacart Inc., a grocery-delivery company, said Monday it plans to add 300,000 workers over the next three months, more than doubling the size of its current workforce of about 200,000. As part of the effort, the closely held company is looking to bring on 54,000 workers in California and 27,000 in New York. Instacart shoppers, who fill grocery orders for customers, are independent contractors who get paid per delivery.

In recent weeks, Instacart’s number of orders has more than doubled, and the size of its orders from the year prior has increased by 15%. The company also started offering up to 14 days of pay for its shoppers affected by Covid-19 or placed in mandatory quarantine.

The coronavirus has infected more than 32,000 Americans, prompting California, New York, Illinois and other states to order nonessential businesses to close and residents to limit their travel. Unemployment claims have surged in March as many small restaurants and retailers have shut their doors or scaled back.

Thousands of retail stores from Macy’s Inc. to Best Buy Co. have temporarily closed, though they continue to handle online orders and pay workers for two weeks. Marriott International Inc. plans to furlough tens of thousands of workers. But grocers and other essential stores are open and looking to poach those staff and others who have been dislocated.

Big restaurant chains are looking to add to their fleet of delivery drivers as they shut dining rooms and more people order takeout or home delivery. On Monday, Pizza Hut said it was looking to fill 30,000 U.S. jobs and Papa John’s International Inc. said it is looking to add up to 20,000 staff. Domino’s Pizza Inc. said last week it would hire more than 10,000.

Walmart, the biggest U.S. private employer, is trying to make the biggest push. It plans to hire 150,000 additional people and has enhanced its paid sick-time policy for all its store and warehouse workers. It is speeding its hiring process from a typical two-week process to 24 hours.

Walmart, which employs around 1.5 million people in the U.S., also said it would pay special cash bonuses totaling $550 million to its hourly workers and its e-commerce warehouses will receive a $2-an-hour increase through late May.

“It’s not so much about filling a gap, but there is just so much demand,” said Walmart’s executive vice president of public affairs, Dan Bartlett, on a call with reporters last week. Absences are higher than a typical flu season, he said, but not at a level that would cause alarm.

Amazon was the first big employer to move, as online orders surged. Last week, Amazon said it would hire 100,000 workers in the U.S. and raise wages by about $2 an hour for hourly employees in several countries. The company also recently began to offer paid time off to part-time workers in warehouses and its logistics network.Target Corp. also has raised wages for its hourly workers by $2 an hour and added paid leave for up to 30 days for older and pregnant workers.

Grocers too have been trying to keep up with surging demand for food.Kroger Co., the nation’s biggest supermarket chain, said it wants to hire 10,000 new workers at stores, manufacturing plants and distribution centers. Albertsons Cos., the second-biggest supermarket chain, said it plans to hire about 30,000 store and delivery staffers

across the country. Publix Super Markets Inc. said it expects to hire at least 2,000 store and warehouse workers by the end of March.

Some grocers are implementing paid sick leave as the coronavirus spreads and their workers face more risks. Kroger has extended paid time off for workers who are self-isolating or have symptoms, in addition to those diagnosed with Covid-19 and those placed under mandatory quarantine Other big U.S. employers have begun offering paid sick time, though some limit it to those who are diagnosed with Covid-19.

United Parcel Service Inc. agreed last week to provide nearly 300,000 unionized workers up to 10 days of paid leave if they are diagnosed with the virus or are required to be quarantined. The agreement came after more than 15,000 UPS workers signed a petition urging UPS to provide paid sick leave and to more thoroughly sanitize workplaces.

Similarly, FedEx Corp. has enhanced sick pay recently and is offering up to 14 days pay or guaranteed minimum pay for workers who have been diagnosed with the virus or placed under a medically-required quarantine, a spokeswoman said.

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Coronavirus Jobs: These 6 Occupations Are on the Front Lines

Publicado el por Marvin Gandis

As the novel coronavirus spreads, workers across the globe are mobilizing to help. Coronavirus jobs include nurses, biostatisticians and epidemiologists.

As the novel coronavirus spreads, workers across the globe are scrambling to treat the infected, counsel the quarantined, uncover the virus’ mutations and predict its spread.

Coronavirus jobs range from behind the scenes (laboratories and offices) to the front lines (quarantined cruise ships and hospitals). And the spread of the new coronavirus — which causes the disease named “coronavirus disease 2019,” abbreviated “COVID-19” — is shining the spotlight on the variety of and importance of public health jobs.

“Public health professionals protect and promote the health of individuals, families and communities in the United States and worldwide,” Dr. Ali S. Khan, dean of the College of Public Health and professor of the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), told PayScale. “The critical role of public health practitioners to protect health is front and center during this coronavirus outbreak.”

Khan and his colleagues at the UNMC/Nebraska Medicine campus in Omaha, Nebraska, are indeed front and center, as UNMC’s National Quarantine Unit and Biocontainment Unit has been monitoring and caring for individuals who’ve returned from places where the virus has been spreading. And UNMC began the first clinical trial in the United States of an experimental treatment for the new coronavirus. After handling the treatment of three patients with Ebola in 2014, UNMC and Nebraska Medicine have been leading health care professionals around the world in the treatment, training and quarantine methods for highly infectious diseases.

These public health experts, Khan said, are establishing national strategies and tactics to contain the outbreak, including determining travel restrictions, developing educational materials, defining guidelines for early detection, conducting laboratory testing, doing contact tracing and placing people in quarantine, and researching effective prevention and control methods.

Here are some of the public health jobs that are vital in outbreaks like that of the new COVID-19 disease.

1. EPIDEMIOLOGISTS

When disease breaks out or other threats arise, epidemiologists are on the scene to investigate, searching for the cause of the disease, identifying those at risk and figuring out how to control the spread.

While they are in the middle of the action during an outbreak, they also work in offices and laboratories, usually for health departments for state and local governments, in hospitals, and at colleges and universities. The federal government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also employs epidemiologists.

To work as an epidemiologist, you need at least a master’s degree from an accredited college or university. While some epidemiologists have completed a doctoral degree in epidemiology or medicine, many have a master’s degree in public health (MPH) or a related field.

The average epidemiologist salary is $63,133, according to PayScale, with the highest reported salaries coming from the U.S. Army, where the average pay is $92,000.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), employment of epidemiologists is projected to grow 5% from 2018 to 2028 — that’s about as fast as the average for all occupations.

With the COVID-19 outbreak, the work of molecular epidemiologists has garnered particular attention. Whereas traditional epidemiologists monitor when and where sick patients show up, molecular epidemiologists track disease by monitoring the genes in the virus itself. The new coronavirus carries its genetic code in RNA rather than DNA, and because RNA viruses mutate at an especially high rate, molecular epidemiologists are busy tracking the coronavirus mutations.

2. LABORATORIANS

While tracking the spread of the coronavirus from the field is critical, “it’s the scientific work in these laboratories that may lead the way to a therapy or vaccine that could help save lives and fight this outbreak — or the next one,” The Washington Post reports. “Studying the virus is the first step toward discovering ways to stop it: by testing potential drugs, developing animal versions of the disease and probing fundamental questions about how it makes people sick.”

A laboratorian is defined as one who works in a laboratory, chiefly as an aid in the diagnosis, treatment and control of disease. These workers can include clinical laboratory technologists and technicians, who collect samples and perform tests to analyze body fluids, tissue and other substances. They work in hospitals, medical and diagnostic laboratories or doctor’s offices.

Technicians typically need an associate’s degree or postsecondary certificate, while clinical laboratory technologists usually need a bachelor’s degree. Additionally, some states may require technicians and technologists to be licensed. The University of Kansas Medical Center’s Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences says that the majority of graduates sit for the national certification examination that grants the credentials of medical laboratory scientist, or MLS, and touts that laboratory scientists are in high demand, providing solid job security.

For clinical laboratory technicians and technologists, the median annual salary was $52,330 in May 2018, according to the BLS.

3. REGISTERED NURSES

 

Some of the patients quarantined on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan who tested positive for novel coronavirus were taken to the state-of-the-art medical facility at UNMC, where specially trained nurses like Angela Vasa cared for them. Vasa is a nurse manager and director of quarantine services for UNMC’s National Quarantine Unit, the only federally funded quarantine unit in the U.S.

“The National Quarantine Unit … is set up to provide isolation care, which means that you would be able to provide accommodation for people who have confirmed infection with a high-risk pathogen,” Vasa told ABC News. She also said her training and education have helped her remain calm during her work amid infected patients.

For those interested in a nursing career, there are many different pathways available. While some people choose to become registered nurses (RNs) by holding an associate’s degree first, many nurses will opt to take their bachelor’s degree in nursing(BSN). After that, they may choose to earn their master’s degree in nursing (MSN) also, allowing them to become advanced practice nurses. An associate’s degree typically takes two years to complete, and achieving a BSN degree takes four years on average. A further two years of study are required to become an MSN. Nurses also must be licensed in their state and pass a national certification exam.

BSN- and MSN-trained nurses are especially important for biocontainment and quarantine. And the coronavirus outbreak is highlighting the projected nationwide nurse shortage that’s expected to intensify as baby boomers age and the need for health care grows. According to the BLS, employment of RNs is projected to grow 12% from 2018 to 2028, much faster than the average for all occupations. While the career outlook for nurses overall is high, demand for RNs with MSN degrees is expected to continue to grow. Employment for that group, including nurse practitioners, nurse midwives and nurse anesthetists is projected to grow 26% from 2018 to 2028, according to the BLS.

RNs earned an average salary of $71,730 in 2018, whereas advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) and MSN-degreed nurses in nonclinical settings earned substantially more: the median pay for nurse practitioners, nurse midwives and nurse anesthetists was $113,930 during the same period.

4. BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

Others caring for coronavirus patients include behavioral health professionals. They help people who are isolated — from those without symptoms but quarantined, to those who are critically ill — deal with the psychological and emotional aspects of the experience.

Dr. David Cates, director of behavioral health at Nebraska Medicine and vice-chair of clinical operations in the department of psychiatry at UNMC, told Fox42 that the stress of being quarantined can include worry about the loss of income from not being able to work. Cates said he tries to make sure these patients have a range of activities to encourage them to have contact with their outside social support.

Vasa, the nurse manager at the National Quarantine Unit in Nebraska, and colleague Morgan Shradar, a clinical coordinator, told Slate that to help maintain a better mental health outcome for those in quarantine, having a structured schedule is really important. To do this, they try to provide “some semblance of a normal routine” for quarantined patients.

Most behavioral health positions require at least a bachelor’s degree but can include a master’s degree. The average mental health therapist salary is $44,518, according to PayScale. But there are many types of behavioral health professionals, and demand is high. Employment for positions in behavioral and mental health is expected to grow 22% from 2018 to 2028, much faster than the average for all occupations, according to the BLS.

The demand for behavioral health professionals is not limited to treating those who are quarantined or fall ill, of course. The COVID-19 outbreak is causing anxiety and stress in the public, and individuals with mental illness may be particularly vulnerable to the effects of widespread panic and threat. Mental health care is also needed for health care workers affected by the coronavirus, wrote Yu-Tao Xiang, M.D., of the University of Macau in China, and colleagues in an editorial published inLancet Psychiatry.

5. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH EXPERTS

An environmental health professional or specialist works to prevent illness and promote well-being. Per the National Environmental Health Association, they do this by “identifying and evaluating environmental sources and hazardous agents” and “limiting exposures to hazardous physical, chemical, and biological agents in air, water, soil, food, and other environmental media or settings that may adversely affect human health.”

The CDC states on its website that “COVID-19 is a new disease and we are still learning how it spreads, the severity of illness it causes, and to what extent it may spread in the United States.” While the virus is thought to spread from human-to-human contact, it may be possible that person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes, “but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.”

Scholars writing on the role that the environment may play in the spread of the novel coronavirus report that to their knowledge there are “no specific studies of the role of humidity for coronaviruses or other respiratory viruses besides flu” and so far, there is no information on the survival and transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19 in the environment. (According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the time of survival and the conditions affecting the virus’ viability in the environment are currently unknown.)

With so much unknown, environmental health professionals are working rapidly to understand environmental factors involved in the spread of coronavirus.

“It’s vital that we understand patterns of population movement, both within China and globally, in order to assess how this new virus might spread – domestically and internationally,” said Andrew Tatem, director of WorldPop and professor within Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton, as reported in Science Daily. “By mapping these trends and identifying high-risk areas, we can help inform public health interventions, such as screenings and healthcare preparedness.”

The BLS projects that employment of environmental scientists and specialists will grow 8% from 2018 to 2028, faster than the average for all occupations. The median annual wage was $71,130 in May 2018.

6. BIOSTATISTICIANS

Fighting the coronavirus outbreak will require a range of scientific tools, from genetic sequencing to mathematical modeling, and for all of that, researchers need data. Biostatisticians conduct statistical analyses for a wide range of biology-related topics. They can work alone or with a team. When working with a scientific team on studies’ statistical design, they can help determine the team’s needs and appropriate methods. They also can conduct data analyses, help with grant applications and help interpret results.

Biostatisticians typically work full time in a hospital, research lab or office. A master’s degree or doctoral degree in biostatistics or another relevant field generally is required. The average biostatistician salary is $76,767, according to PayScale. Biostatisticians are in demand, as they’re a subset of statisticians, whose employment is projected to grow 31% from 2018 to 2028, according to the BLS. The study of biostatistics once was primarily focused on data analysis but has experienced tremendous growth with the increasing importance of computational methods to facilitate data acquisition, modeling and prediction.

One biostatistician in the news for his prediction of the coronavirus outbreak is Ira Longini, an adviser to the World Health Organization (WHO). He predicted that two-thirds of the global population may eventually contract COVID-19. He based his modeling on data showing that each infected person normally transmits the disease to two to three other people.

When asked by IEEE Spectrum what it’s like to be a computational disease modeler during a deadly epidemic, Alessandro Vespignani, a biostatistician at Northeastern University in Boston, said the ever-changing landscape with limited data makes it hectic.

“In our field there are two different kinds of work: peace time research when there are no health emergencies or threats, and then there is what we call war time,” Vespignani told the magazine. “And that’s what we’re in now.”

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