Google shows job postings

Google shows job postings

They do say that Dr. Google knows it all, and now it even helps you find a new job. The search giant has launched a new feature that allows users to search relevant job postings and lists them in results. As you soon as you search for a job in the U.S. version of Google, you'll see such results immediately. you just need to search for jobs near me or something similar.

Users in the U.S. can search for a term like teaching jobs or jobs in the area, and Google will display listings from sites like Monster, LinkedIn, WayUp, DirectEmployers, Career Builder, Glassdoor and Facebook. The company provides a variety of filters to narrow down results by title, category, date posted and type.

After filtering down jobs by a number of different criteria, there will be reviews and ratings of the employer from trusted sites next to a description of the role. If job seekers are logged into their Google account, Google will also show you how long your commute would be from home, and allow searchers to turn on alerts to receive email notifications when new jobs become available.

Before creating this job list, Google has to remove all the duplicate listings that employers post to all these job sites. Google will link you to the one with the most complete job posting. Then, its machine learning-trained algorithms sift through and categorize them. The search results use a form of artificial intelligence that categorizes and lists the job postings from all the different sites. Once jobs match your profile and you choose one, Google will direct you to the job site to start the actual application process. We hope this will act as an incentive for sites to share all the pertinent details in their listings for job seekers, said a Google spokesperson.

As to the job application process, Google doesn't involve itself in the process itself. The application process is handled by the website Google directed you to.

With this new experience, we aim to connect Americans to job opportunities across the U.S., so no matter who you are or what kind of job you're looking for, you can find job postings that match your needs, said Nick Zakrasek, product manager at Google.

This new capability places Google in competition with Indeed.com, which is a popular search engine - with over 200 million unique visitors each month - that compiles job postings from different websites. Whether it poses a threat to Indeed.com, it is obvious it doesn't threaten other websites that match the job postings with the searcher's experience. LinkedIn and WayUp, for instance, suggest positions that matches the user's profile.

Rather than a competitor, this project is about collaboration. LinkedIn, Monster, WayUp, DirectEmployers, CareerBuilder, Glassdoor and Facebook are some of the partners Google is working on for this project. The search giant has helped websites by instructing them on how to make sure that their job posts come up in Google.

This new search results are part of the Google for Jobs initiative at the company, aimed at matching job seekers with employers. Although they do provide a service to job seekers, the search giant is not trying to compete with websites like Monster or LinkedIn as it has no intention of letting employers directly post job openings on its search engine, according to an interview Nick Zakrasek - Google's product manager for this product - gave to TechCrunch. We (Google) want to do what we do best: search. We want the players in the ecosystem to be more successful, said Zakrasek. Anything beyond that is not within Google's scope of action, he added.

In the interview, Zakrasek said: Finding a job is like dating. Each person has a unique set of preferences and it only takes one person to fill this job.

Google's statements were backed up by Monster.com's CTO Conal Thompson, when asked how this cooperation with Google will change the competitive landscape for job sites. Google's new job search product aligns with our core strategy and will allow candidates to explore jobs from across the web and refine search criteria to meet their unique needs, he wrote. Yes, as with anything, there will be some challenges and adjustments to existing job posting sites; the biggest perhaps being for those that are currently driven by SEO.

Career Advice for Millennials

Career Advice for Millennials

Recent research from Bloomberg predicts that Gen Z-ers will account for 2.47 billion people of the 7.7 billion inhabitants of planet Earth this 2019 - that is 32%, and surpasses the 2.43 billion figure for Millennials for the first time.

From the world of arts to politics, social habits, careers, and food, the generation of millennials has heavily impacted every aspect of society. Technology and internet have played key roles in the evolution of this culture, represented by people born from the mid 80s until the early 2000s. Now that this generation is at their prime, they are changing the rules of the game in society.

Studies show that millennials are more likely to own a mobile phone and a laptop, which increases the interconnectedness of this demography despite geography, culture and religion. According to the Huffington Post, the millennials, With their unprecedented access to data and education, will be a driving force toward either cultural integrity and globalization which means that this culture has to be taken into account as they are the future, they are the ones who hold the leader roles and they represent the work force.

In their careers, millennials focus on a work-life balance, social consciousness, production of meaningful work, finding a creative outlet and immediate feedback to encourage productivity and purpose.

Millennials, however, need guidance in their careers. Although they might want to revolutionize the workplace, they are still some cards on the table they need to play. Here are some tips for millennials in their careers:

First of all, think of your career as a series of experiences. Millennials are always eager to get immediate compensation. They are used to posting something on social media and getting feedback right away. They are used to shopping online with a few taps on their phone. They are used to immediacy and thus they want to get recognition as soon as they enter the workforce. This is not the way careers work, however, and it takes time. The way to think of your career is a collection experiences whether you stayed with one employer or worked for 10, or you had a bachelor's degree or a master's degree or diversified your expertise. The gist of it all is that you need to view your career as a learning path and you have to be a lifelong learner. This is a way to get compensation out every job you had or course you took because you focus on how this has enlightened you. This experiences expand your knowledge and expertise.

In the past, people were willing to work for a boss; today they want to work for a mentor, said Mike Maughan, head of brand growth at global insights at Qualtrics. It goes back to the idea that they're looking for career trajectory.

Never settle for a job that doesn't motivate you!

They might accuse millennials of being self-entitled and of having job-hopping reputations, but the thing with millennials is that they need gratification that goes beyond covering their monetary needs. They need to be passionate about what they are doing to feel content. Therefore, don't settle for a job that gives you any less; otherwise, you'll never be happy.

When you graduate, you are going to feel a lot of pressure to get any job to pay the bills and that won't last long if you do, according to research. Besides, companies are not interested in having someone that is only there to make money when they could hire someone else that is actually passionate about what they are doing and they are going to give it all they've got.

Motivation can do great things. When you are passionate about your job, you are not in the office just to see the hours pass, but you actually try to do your very best and it comes naturally because you enjoy it. That is the best way to propel your career forward.

Once you get the job you want, focus on making a big impact right away. This will get the company to pay attention to you and give you their support. As you are more involved in the company, you'll get more projects, more responsibilities and you'll start mastering your job, landing better projects and proving yourself. This, in turn, will increase your pay, title and you'll get the best gigs.

Whether you succeed or fail, if you take risks, you'll learn and this is a good way to move forward. If you do manage the situation, you will improve your confidence and improve your reputation. These days being an entrepreneur is the way forward and taking risks will make you look better in the workplace and will allow to become successful. No entrepreneur has ever said they've never taken a risk in their life. 

Career Advice by Experts

Career Advice by Experts

You might have heard tons of career advice such as do what you love, always be the first one and the last to leave, or go the extra mile. That sounds great in an idyllic world but they are forgetting something: nobody cares about your career more than you do. While you might think that giving it all you've got will automatically propel your career forward, this is not usually the case. You cannot wait for others to recognize and reward your brilliance. That is why you must keep looking to improve your possibilities and that will make you valuable to anyone around you. Here are some pieces of advice that will get you moving to start Jan 2019 in the right way to build a solid career:

If your boss is not a good leader, try to find a mentor, someone who are good at their job and get them to lead you. Try and learn as much as you can from them, ask for advice and watch how they work, so you take what you can from it and make some progress.

When you want to learn some skill, look around for someone who is already good at it. Then just watch what they do, and copy it. Find what works for you, and modify it to your own abilities and style. - John Caprani.

In a new job, accept those first few invitations to lunch or happy hour. If you decline them, for whatever reason, they will stop, and you may find yourself an inadvertent outsider. - Laura Cooke, marketing communications director.

Try to make the next person's job down the line easier. For example, if you are working on a project that goes through different hands, see what kinds of things you can do on your end that will make the process flow easier for the next person who performs the next step. - Richard Gary Butler, artist and writer.

Richard Gary Butler also quoted Stephen Covey‘s best seller The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People. Learn the art of sharpening the saw or the axe, before you begin the job at hand. In all our jobs, there are various tools that we use through the process. Proper maintenance to all these tools, including the tool of oneself, will make the job flow easier and you will be more productive. Trying to do work with inadequate tools or ones that require maintenance, will make the job harder and less productive.

Don't look too busy. I've seen smart and dedicated employees fail to get promoted, because they have taken on too much, working too hard, and appeared too frazzled. If you appear stressed, people will think you aren't prepared to take on more, and you'll miss opportunities for new and innovative projects. - Mira Zaslove, product manager at Cisco.

Always take the high road and avoid hallway conversations about your boss and how ineffective he is.

Never, ever cook fish in the office microwave. - Ryan Harvey, institutional investment consultant.

As you move up, your future success depends on doing unassigned work and responsibilities. Anyone who made it past the hiring process can do the assigned job at the company, but it takes a lot more to deliver value to the company that wasn't assigned or even thought of. - Victor Wong, CEO of PaperG.

Understand when people see you check your phone at every call, then don't answer when they call, they then know you put them on a low priority. - Mike Leary, psychotherapist in private practice.

Help others even if there is no direct benefit to yourself. It takes so little energy to answer questions, provide referrals, open doors, etc., for people who need your help, even if doing so offers you nothing immediate in return. Your efforts will be rewarded in the future in wholly unexpected ways. - Scott Wainner, entrepreneur, founder at Fareness.

Entitlement is a career killer. Focus on staying grateful and working hard rather than feeling that things are owed to you. If you do this you will look for opportunities without falling into the entitlement mindset that many people fall into. This will help you build the habits necessary to succeed. - Scott Miker, author, speaker and small business advisor.

The network of people you know who leave your current company are often times more valuable to you than those with your company. - James Schek, published writer.

The weaknesses that you're unaware of will hurt you the most. This is your blind spot. You must determine your hidden weaknesses and work to overcome them, and you're going to need the help from others to do this. - David Osborne, published writer.

Ask your boss what his biggest problem is, and make it go away. - Victoria Backaitis, published writer.

Don't just look up - look laterally as well, because people with diverse experience usually progress faster than people with more experience. - Vikrant Vaidya, technical lead (consulting) at Jaguar.

Richard Gary Butler also gives traditional advice like making yourself visible to your managers: To increase your value and make yourself more visible, do more than what is expected of you, go the extra mile, and do this with enthusiasm. If you only do what is expected of you and nothing more, you are just another employee. But if you go beyond expectations, you bring value not only to yourself, but to your company. Your manager will also enjoy having you on the team.

But then he gives more interesting advice: Learn and apply the value of proper interpersonal skills. In all of life, especially on the job, we are in contact with people. How we treat those we meet every day, or even intermittently, will determine your true success.

7 Apps for Start-Ups

7 Apps for Start-Ups

From media consultant to marketing manager, customer service and specialist, small business owners need to be able to manage many different fields to maximize the business's productivity. As it can get confusing managing all these aspects, it's good to have apps that help you become a better entrepreneur. While some of these apps are free, some require a monthly fee but it's worth it.

Evernote

Evernote will help you get organized. You can collect pieces of information from the web, tag them so you can find them easily, and then embed pictures, tables, audio and video. With this app, you can access all of your business content with a few taps on your phone wherever you are and on all your devices.

Evernote helps you get organized as the app helps you sort out your company information into separate notebooks; for instance, business docs, coupons, flyers, insurance info, receipts and expenses. Once you've had them organized, you can even share them with your business partners or staff. In the folder of expenses you can save bills and receipts you have previously scanned with the app.

Wave

This app is an accounting software created for small businesses with fewer than 10 employees. Wave will turn you into a financial expert and accountant in not time. If you have problems sorting out your finances, this is the app for you. It tracks sales and expenses, manages invoices, pays employees, scan receipts and generates reports. It's like having an accountant but without having to pay for one and being able to directly manage everything yourself.

This app allows you to customize your expense/income categories, and then you can see them in a graph. You can also take a picture of your receipts and turn them into complete accounting transactions. The app also generates accounting reports and invite the people you trust, like business partners, assistants and accounting professionals, to help you manage books.

Toggle

This app is a time tracker. This app helps you see how you spend your time so you can maximize your productivity. It allows you track projects, view graphs, export time sheets and sync your output with several other project management apps.

As you log your hours, you see how you spend your time and you get an overview of the hours spent on different tasks and projects. The project Dashboards allow you to keep track of which tasks take the most time and how profitable your projects and clients are. The dashboards also allow you to find out who are your most productive team members.

One reviewer said that Toggle is easy to get team started tracking their time. Toggle has a browser extension, desktop app and mobile app to make sure there's no excuse to not track what you're doing. I also like how ‘real time' all the apps are. When I start a timer, it is started across all the apps and I can interact with the timer wherever is easiest at the time whether it is the mobile, browser or desktop app. The design is also great and easy on the eyes. The pricing is amazing for startups too, it's free for pretty much anything.

When asked what business problems they are solving with the product, the reviewer said: A new team doing new things and we're trying to understand where our time is going. Using Toggle has begun to help us get a handle on our time allocation for customers and projects. It's great for transparency! It's great for transparency! It's great for transparency!

Upwork

This is a great app for small business with small teams. With a database boasting professionals in all fields that can work as freelancers, Upwork allows small business to hire freelancers per project. All they have to do is post a job on their platform and then you'll be automatically matched with the right freelancer for the job. Hiring freelancers allows businesses access to sharply-honed skills that simply aren't available elsewhere, said Upwork CEO, Stephane Kasriel.

This app allows you to browse freelancer profiles, reviews and proposals, interview them and then hire them immediately. The platform allows you to chat, share files and collaborate with just a few taps on your phone. You can even make payments with it. This app allows you to browse freelancer profiles, reviews and proposals, interview them and then hire them immediately. The platform allows you to chat, share files and collaborate with just a few taps on your phone. You can even make payments with it.