CrossRoads - 8 Questions to ask Yourself Before You Apply -Part 1 8 Questions to ask Yourself Before You Apply -Part 1 How do you measure success in your job search? Obviously a successful job search results in a great new job, but along the way you’re probably focused on the number of applications submitted, or interviews landed. OpenSimon - The Simon Initiative The vision behind OpenSimon is a more integrated and easier-to-use toolkit, used and expanded by a larger community of educators to drive deliberate, iterative improvements in education. This approach supports educators as citizen scientists, and helps people who support them — at universities and companies that make educational products — provide help that is grounded in the science of learning. Elements of the toolkit provide support across all phases of the Learning Engineering Lifecycle: Design, Develop, Deliver, and Discover. The Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT), is a tool suite that enables you to add learning by doing (i.e., active learning) to online courses.
CrossRoads - 5 Reasons You Didn't Land the Job 5 Reasons You Didn't Land the Job In this competitive job market, it is rare to land an interview for your dream position. So when you do secure that interview, it's a crucial moment! But if you don't land the job, it's important to evaluate what might have gone wrong. Sometimes there are circumstances beyond your control, but a rejection will force you to consider why you are not the ideal candidate.
The Top 8 Free/Open Source LMSs Update 10/26/16: Back by popular demand! We saw your comments and decided to incorporate the free LMSs you told us about. We’ve also upgraded our honorable mentions into full entries in order to give you better information about each one. I have a friend who once wrapped his entire body, head to toe, in tin foil. He also wrote “steak + guacamole” on himself in permanent marker, and then sauntered (in public, on public sidewalks with normal people all around) to his local burrito joint.
CrossRoads - Be Prepared for the Unexpected in a Job Interview Be Prepared for the Unexpected in a Job Interview Turning negatives into positives is an important skill to learn. When you are asked a “bad” or negative question, take a minute to turn the answer around refocusing the answer to include some positive qualities. What do you do when the interviewer asks a negative question? You deal with it in a positive manner. One of the biggest mistakes people make in relating their stories is trying to think of a time that was “over-the-top,” and as a result can’t come up with an example.
How to handle the dreaded cover letter Let's be honest, cover letters are horrible. They're right up there (or more aptly, down there) with Mondays, visiting the dentist and breaking up via text (OK, maybe not quite that bad, but you get the idea). And then there's that whole confusion over email versus cover letter (does one replace the other, how formal should you be, do people even read these things?!). To clear up some of the confusion, we talked with Latin School of Chicago Senior Network Administrator Kevin Harig. The first question we had was whether or not tech professionals should still bother with the cover letter.
5 Ways to Optimize Your Resume to Beat... Before human eyes ever view your qualifications for a job, a computerized applicant tracking system examines your resume. The software analyzes the content of your document, compares it to the resumes submitted by other candidates and ranks you in a list up against other potential employees. Applicant trackers make hiring more efficient for large corporations, and they give job seekers the opportunity to optimize their resumes so these programs move the best candidates to the top of the heap. Can a Personal Website Help Your Job Search? What 6 Hiring Managers Really Think The hiring manager flipped her Mac around and slid it toward me, asking for my thoughts on an analytics dashboard she had pulled up. I nodded and started looking at the stats—but then I noticed my personal website was open in another tab. “I recognize that URL,” I said with a smile. She smiled back and responded, “Honestly, your site blew me away!
Your Step-by-Step Guide to Building Your Personal Website in a Week Now that you’ve read about the job-landing benefits of having a personal website, I bet you’re raring to get one up on the web—today! Hold your horses: I’m here to tell you that that’s not the best idea. While, yes, it’s possible to whip up a site in a day, do you really want your site—the thing that represents you most fully on the web and that hiring managers are almost definitely going to look at—to be pulled together quite so hastily? A much better idea is to spend a little more time getting each piece of your site perfected. To help you out, we’ve created a seven-day plan to getting your personal website done.
How to Tell People What You Do—and Be Remembered People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." ―Maya Angelou Maya is right on the money. When you’re introducing yourself to new colleagues or potential employers, either in writing or face-to-face, people rarely remember the microscopic details of what, exactly, you do. But they will always remember how you made them feel.
Need to write a bio? Use this. I grow weary of hearing people talk about how haaaaaaaaaard it is to write a bio. Weary, I say! Let’s settle this once and for all.