3 Tech Companies Visualising the Future of Work

3 Tech Companies Visualising the Future of Work Its 2017. The year when cars started to drive by themselves, hamburgers can be made in a factory and Alexa is ruling your home environment. This might sound like a science fiction movie to you but we are at the cusp of something bigger than we have ever imagined. We’re going to dive into the future, visualized by the worlds leading tech companies. How do they see the world in the future what effects do these changes have on the way that we work? Let’s find out! Microsoft or Macrosoft? We believe the future of work will be centered around people. Microsoft Bringing people together in better ways, both in-person and remotely is the main focus. Microsoft wants to create a smart multi-user space that allows team members to work together on projects. Video live streams in high quality with real-time translation and annotations, which will have educational purposes as well as business purposes. Team members can join and share information with each other, whilst not even being in the room together. I hear you: we can already do that with video calling, Whatsapp, Skype or what not. Agreed. But, combining all of the above in a smoothly operating mixed reality is the very next step! Living smarter, that’s what we all want, right? We’ll even be more flexible while still being a productive as ever. Your personal professional life become one, as you make up your own daily calendar. Shared workspaces and real-time data will make jobs easier accessible you’re able to quickly match an expert with the right criteria. The content you make can automatically be composed into a document, full of live data and interactive content. The intelligence will adapt to you, instead of the other way around. Naturally switching between platforms, like 3D holograms, seem to be really futuristic. However, these things exist or operate on their own already. The ‘organic’ part comes in when all of these are connected with each other. vitality and the real world come together if data information are automatically organised in your actual world. Basically, we get a smart-ass assistant, who doesn’t need to be paid. Win-win! Conversations and environments are going to shift according to Microsoft. ‘The office’ is no longer an actual office. You’re able to switch from a phone conversation in earpieces to video chats and even holographic visuals. As soon as you enter a space, you’re connected to your own projects, so you can resume where you left off. Transferring files is going with ease because everything is connected with each other. Flexible devices also give you multiple ways to showcase content and interact with it. Endless possibilities! Intel(ligence) Intel is taking a different route in their future vision. They’re comparing the current work environment with the future work environment. Intel is bringing more to the table than just a vision about the future. We can actually see the difference since they’re literally shown alongside each other. Both ‘Nates’ are competing with each other, but the future Nate is clearly winning when it comes to time, professionalism and accessibility. Intel is showing us the following tech specs: Secured facial login Voice assistant Wireless docking charging Wireless data transfer Cloud-based Services Real Sense Technology You basically have all of these separately, except for the last one. Real Sense Technology is standing out from the crowd. That’s the one you’re actually quite curious for: what does it even mean? They also made this ad with Sheldon, from the show the Big Bang Theory, which is quite funny to watch! An Apple a day Of course, we should be talking about the elephant in the room, Apple, a brand that has really opened our eyes to the possibilities of technology. But to be honest, Apple has never released a video of the future of work like Microsoft and Intel, however, they turned it around with the following one: APPOCALYPSE  App. Apocalypse, see what they did there? Even though this might be an ‘old’ one, it’s still pretty funny, so give it a watch! Blurred lines To conclude; our ratio is going to change or probably already changing. There’s no longer a straight line between work life and personal life. When we adopt new technologies. we become more dependent on them. This can be a good thing; working from home may be the standard and virtual office meetings definitely decrease your daily commute. Yet we have to wonder: would technology be worth it? Could there be a downside on any of this, or is it all well and wonders? Privacy, advertising data usage are a few of these topics where we should definitely keep an eye on. NOT a digital eye.

Why Career Filter Bubbles are Damaging your Diversity Recruitment

Why Career Filter Bubbles are Damaging your Diversity Recruitment Charlie is a smart, creative, value-driven young person who is typical of many her age. She has no idea what she wants to do. Careers testing at school told her that gardening or being an entrepreneur could be the answer, and although these ideas were slightly appealing it was hard for her to see a pathway into those roles and expectations for her future were high. Instead, she decided to go into advertising â€" an idea informed and facilitated by her parents who were in the industry â€" and so after she graduated she worked in an agency for six months, but she felt no connection nor sense of purpose. She has since changed her career path completely and is still going through the process of figuring out what it is that she really wants to do. Career filter bubbles trap young people in roles that may not suit them It’s young people like Charlie that Lucy Griffiths, CEO of Sortyourfuture.com, says have been unwittingly trapped in a career filter bubble, where they fall into and sometimes stick with a role they or their family have knowledge of or access to, whether it suits them or not. This can result in high levels of anxiety, stress, and in some cases outright misery. Recent research by sociologist Sam Friedman on access to so-called ‘elite’ professions showed that if a child has a parent who is a doctor, they are 24 times more likely to take steps to become a doctor too, and although medicine showed the highest level of correlation this trend played out across multiple other professions. This raises questions about access to opportunity, insider knowledge, and whether following in the footsteps of those around you is a matter of nature or nurture. The OECD’s recent report, ‘Drawing the Future’ asked 7-11-year-olds to draw what they wanted to be; it showed that children’s perceptions about future roles can be formed very early on and that they can be heavily influenced by gender stereotyping socio-economic background, and culture. High attrition rates amongst young professionals signal a mismatch between career expectations and reality The problem doesn’t just impact individuals’ wellbeing and access to opportunity, it seriously impacts employers too. Poor productivity and engagement, high attrition, as well as repeated recruitment and training costs are all potential outcomes of this situation. These issues create an even greater potential problem for recruiters and employers for whom diversity is an increasingly high priority. High levels of attrition amongst young people are a major concern in some industries. In medicine, for example, 57.4% of Foundation Year 2 doctors did not enter higher-training posts and 9000 doctors quit the NHS entirely in 20174. On a wider scale, a recent report from Deloitte showed that 49% of millennials wanted to quit their current roles in the next two years a significant increase on the 2017 figure of 38%. These figures raise questions about whether our systems are funneling young people into roles for which they’re not well suited based on their background and connections rather than what’s best for them. Improving access starts at the front end of the recruitment process To help resolve this Lucy says employers may be missing a fundamental part of the diversity and inclusion puzzle. “Many are improving their recruitment and selection processes to ensure they don’t exclude diverse candidates at the selection phase, but we aren’t seeing the same level of focus on opening up access to information and opportunity in the pre-search research phase. “This is the fuzzy front end of career decision-making which can be heavily influenced by the social, cultural, and economic capital candidates have access to. This is complex for anyone recruiting, especially if potential candidates don’t know your organization or role exists. It can be incredibly difficult to engage and connect to a diverse range of talented young people, but it is hugely important that organizations take steps to do so as it’s in their interests to recruit those who are genuinely best suited to the roles they offer, rather than those who just have the easiest route into them.” She has this advice for organizations: Think like a marketer. Start with understanding a wide range of potential candidates before designing an employee brand and value proposition that will attract diverse groups, rather than those who may just drift into a particular role because they have access to it. Listen to your audience, where they are, what they do, what they’re interested in and the barriers they face â€" small and large. At its heart, it’s about engagement, and to engage you need to understand. Unless you have this early engagement, investing in improving access to the next steps in the recruitment and selection process may not have the expected effects. Map out the candidate journey. What are the stages a potential candidate goes through even before they apply? A useful model to use is ‘AIDA’ you need to develop strategies to achieve Awareness, Interest, Desire (to apply), and Action (completing an application). Think just as carefully about how you communicate at the early stages of the recruitment process as you do at the selection stage the language you use, the channels you use to promote your opportunities, and the way in which you express what you’re looking for can make the difference between a candidate feeling that this opportunity is ‘for them’ or not. It’s so easy to lose potential candidates before they even get to the application stage. About the author: Lucy Griffiths is Founder and Co-CEO of SortYourFuture.com. Lucy is a regular invited speaker and presenter at business and education conferences and workshops. Her 2016 TEDx talk “How Designers can Transform Education’ in which she describes how a poorly designed education system affected her mental health and her vision for a new approach to education design was described by Sir Ken Robinson as ‘moving’.  She is also a Board Trustee at the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the RSA’s Fellowship Council, with a remit to focus on Creative Learning and Development and, with Chris Thomas, is co-founder of WeAreLucky.org which publishes the Island Friends series of stories that they co-authored and the primary education system developed by the pair.

While In-Transition You Still Have a Brand - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

While In-Transition You Still Have a Brand - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career More than ever, when you are in transition you should have a brand. Why? you ask. Because that is how you differentiate yourself and stand out from the proverbial crowd. Branding is not about what you like but about what employers like. Your branding statementâ€"whether in writing, on the Internet, or spoken via your elevator pitch should have the triple purposes of gaining credibility, arousing curiosity, and increasing your likability factor. And your work toward those goals will not be in vain, because 90 + percent of employers check out candidates prior to making initial searches via, say, LinkedIn, Spokeo, or ZoomInfo. Nowadays, employers use Google when searching for prospects. Research shows that 29% of people use two words when searching, 28% use three words, 17% use four words, and only 11% use one word. This means that your résumé or any other information about you should be rich with nouns and phrases. This advice is different from what we were told in the past: that résumés should have lots of action verbs. In fact, a combination of both is best. Yes, certainly computers are looking for keywords, but when people actually read about you, they want to see both action and accomplishments. A recent study found that 90% of people search on the first three pages of search engine results and that 62% search only on the first page. Good branding work rewards candidates by resulting in a high ranking on Google searches. To find out what’s out there in cyberspace, here are the most common social media search engines: www.socialmention.com www.twittersearch.com www.whostalkin.com Setting it up is a bit time-consuming, but you might be surprised at the information available about you and that you didn’t have a clue about. One of the best ways to find out what people are saying about you is to monitor your reputation via www.google.com/alerts. It’s very important to communicate properly, for this is how people judge you. And there are certain words and phrases you should avoid because they’re overused and most often meaningless. Here are a few examples: Extensive experience Motivated Dynamic Team player Problem solver Innovative Results oriented Proven track record Fast paced Entrepreneurial These days 90% of recruiters check LinkedIn. Therefore it makes good sense for you to improve as best as possible the information on your LinkedIn page. Here are a few simple ideas: Increase the number of recommendations. Ask questions and provide answers. Update your status periodically. Inform your connections about projects you’re working on. Connect with your Twitter account. Share links to articles of interest. Import e-mail addresses from Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, and Outlook. Connect with ex-colleagues: people on LinkedIn from companies you worked with before. Connect with people you met in person via networking events and whose business cards you collected. As you can see, branding yourself is of utmost importance. Otherwise, you stay hidden from those you really want to see you.

Forensic Scientist Job Description Sample - Algrim.co

Forensic Scientist Job Description Sample - Algrim.co Forensic Scientist Job Description Template Download our job description template in Word or PDF format. Instant download. No email required. Download Template Using Your Template Follow these instructions to use your new job description template Step one: Fill out all details in your job description template using the provided sample on this page. Step two: Customize your requirements or duties to anything special to your workplace. Be sure to speak with team members and managers to gauge what's required of the position. Step three: When the census of the team has agreed on the description of the work, add in a Equal Employment Opportunity statement to the bottom of your job description. Step four: Check with your legal department, management team, and other team members to ensure the job description looks correct before creating a job advertisement. Choose a job board that's specific to your needs.

Further Your Career How You Can Be More Employable

Further Your Career How You Can Be More Employable Photo Credit â€" Flickr.comAt the moment, the unemployment rates are decreasing steadily, which is great news. Unfortunately, though, there aren’t as many jobs available for the number of people looking for work. So the recruiters and employers can afford to be quite picky when it comes to choosing who they employ. You need to be a top notch candidate to make the grade.If you think that your resume is slightly lacking, then don’t worry; there are things that you can do. Here are a few things that you can do, to make yourself more employable.1. Don’t Just Send Off The Same Old ResumesWhen you are applying for a job, you need to make sure that you are making your applications specific to the job. Don’t be tempted to just send off your generic resume and hope for the best.evalYou might have the relevant experience and skills for the job you are applying for. But it becomes obvious to many people when you are just sending off a basic resume. It needs to highlight the specific thi ngs that are relevant to the role.Include a cover letter too. The more personal you can make the application, the more chance you have of getting an interview. It will take time to send off applications. But you need to take that time to be able to further your career and progress.2. Further Your EducationIf you are a bit stalled in your career, then more education could be the key. If you have more skills and education, you are more likely to land the role that you want. You might be thinking of changing career, and you will need some new qualifications for that.There may be courses at a community college that you could attend, as well as course and workshops online. If you want to further a career in IT, then a course like Mindmajix Docker training might be the course for you.If you are a freelancer, a course in budgeting and tax accounts might be a good idea for you. Think about what you are lacking at the moment and there will be a course out there for you.3. Improve Your Interv iew SkillsYou don’t want to have sent off an amazing application, got an interview but then fail it miserably. You want to walk in feeling happy and confident in yourself and in your skills. Interviews can be quite rare things for people.If you are lucky, you won’t have too many in your life. So they do need a little practice. Speak to family and friends for tips and see what has worked well for them. The chances are you will know someone who does some kind of recruiting in the job.evalSo ask them for a mock interview. Getting some honest and constructive feedback is a great help. You will learn what not to do and move on. It is better to get a little embarrassed with a friend, rather than during an interview with a potential employer.

How To Run A Successful Business Website

How To Run A Successful Business Website Running a successful business site alongside your business can be an incredibly difficult task if you don’t know the first thing about websites. Whether you’re completely new to the business world or you simply don’t know how to build a site, navigating the digital world definitely isn’t for everyone. Whilst you don’t need a successful site in order to operate, it’s definitely a great way to bring in more paying customers. With that in mind, here are 7 incredible tips and tricks to help you run a successful website: 1) Optimise Your Website For SEO Having a website that is search engine optimised means that when people search for key terms relating to your business, you’ll show up towards the top of the search results. It’s a difficult task optimising your whole site, but definitely worth it in the long run. For a helpful guide on search engine optimisation, you can visit this site here. 2) Create Regular Content Creating regular blog content that is relevant to your industry is the perfect way to get people to your site. Although they may not be interested in buying your products or services at the time they visit, they’ll remember your name for a time where they are interested. 3) Use High-Quality Images Your website can be one of the most well-designed websites in the world but if you have poor quality images people will not take it seriously. Hiring a photographer to take professional images of you and your product is an inexpensive way to take your website to the next level. 4) Make Sure It’s Responsive A responsive website is essential in today’s digital age as it allows people to see your website on whatever device they’re using whether it’s a laptop, PC or mobile phone. Although most designs and layouts automatically come as a responsive, it’s worth double checking it will adapt to the user before you agree to any changes. 5) Stick With A Well Known Host Your website host and CRM are incredibly important when it comes to running a successful site, as you need to know whether or not you can trust them and count on them if you need support. For more information, you can visit WPSP white label support. 6) Insure It’s Secure Now that Google has changed its regulations, websites that are secure are the ones that are more favoured when it comes to search results. Investing in an SSL certificate for your website is inexpensive, so make sure it’s one of the first things you do when you start up. 7) Share It On Social Media Sharing your blog posts and product pages on social media is another great way to get your website noticed. If you have an incredible site and no way of directing traffic to it then you have made a poor investment. Try using just one platform, to begin with, building your way up to others if you find you’re getting a good return on investment. Do you run a successful business website? Let me know if I’ve missed any tips in the comment section below!

Career tip - what makes you special and how will they remember you -

Career tip - what makes you special and how will they remember you - This is part two of my series where I share tips from colleagues I met in October, when I attended the Career Directors International conference in San Diego. Today, a tip from Sherry Mirshahi of Interview Roadmap: I agree that it is a great idea to carry networking cards. Some believe they are out-of-date, because people are using smart phones and apps to exchange information (via bump or another, similar technology). I admit that I am as guilty as the next person of taking a business card and intending to follow up, while the card slips to the black hole that seems to live inside my purse! However, I also often find myself referring to the cards I collected for contact information, a reminder of someones website I wanted to visit or to get connected via LinkedIn or Twitter after an event. I dont always remember all the details that I need to follow up, so business and/or networking cards are great for me. However, be sure your card is professional. Alicia Sanera, founder and CEO of Sanera, The People Development Company, is a distinguished business consultant, coach, corporate facilitator and speaker. She recently wrote a post called, Why Im Shredding Your Business Card. Sounds harsh, but her points are well taken, including: Tiny font (we need to be able to read it) No name (!) No email contact Make sure you hand out cards that represent the image you want to portray. Im a fan of inexpensive services such as VistaPrint, but dont hand out their free card with the ad on the back; it doesnt say anything good about you, especially since the upgrade is only a few dollars. Arent you worth it? Read Susan Kelly-Eastons tip here. photo by medialoog