8 Sheep and Goat Internship Programs

8 Sheep and Goat Internship Programs8 Sheep and Goat Internship ProgramsThere are many internship options that may be of interest to aspiring sheep farmers, animal scientists, veterinarians, livestock auctioneers, livestock educators, and others interested in the sheep and goat industries. Among the opportunities below, youre sure to find something that appeals to you. Appleton Creamery Appleton Creamery (in Maine) offers an internship program in its goat dairy operation. Interns gain experience in many areas including cheese making, goat husbandry, milking, kidding, and farmers market product sales. The dairy also purchases sheep and cow milk (when available) for making products such as yogurt and butter. Housing and DSL internet are provided as well as basic groceries and a grocery allowance stipend. Bonnieview Sheep Dairy Bonnieview Sheep Dairy (in Vermont) offers a seasonal sheep dairy internship program from April to October. Interns are allowed to work between two to six mo nths during that period. Duties include general care, lambing of 200 ewes, milking, cheese making, and moving fences for rotational grazing. Interns are compensated with a small stipend and free housing. Fuzzy Udder Creamery Fuzzy Udder Creamery (in Maine) offers an apprenticeship program for its sheep and goat dairy operation. Apprentice duties offer a variety of tasks including milking sheep and goats, making cheese, absatzwirtschaft, kidding and lambing, animal care, and rotational grazing. Year-round and short-term (May-October) apprentice positions are available. Apprentices are compensated at a rate of approximately $8 per hour and housing is available at additional cost. Laughing Goat Fiber Laughing Goat Fiber (in New York) offers internships related to goat care and fiber work. Interns become involved in general goat care and husbandry, fiber work (including washing, spinning, and weaving), various farm chores, and assisting with shows and festivals. Internships are unpa id but room and board are free. Course credit is guaranteed for University of Vermont students through a pre-existing arrangement and may be available for students from other institutions. Mint Creek Farm Mint Creek Farm (in central Illinois) offers an internship program at its certified organic grass-fed sheep farm. The farm has a flock of over 700 sheep and sells meat at farmers markets and restaurants in the Chicago area. Interns are chiefly involved with livestock care, moving portable fencing, taking meat inventory, and farmers market preparation. Interns must commit to a minimum three-month stay and work at least 30 hours per week. Room and board are provided in the owners home and compensation is possible for interns staying longer than four months. Mountain Lodge Farm Mountain Lodge Farm (in Washington) offers internship opportunities at its goat and sheep dairy. The farm also has a flock of meat sheep, guard llamas, and livestock guardian dogs. Internships last from thr ee to six months (at 30 hours per week) and can be tailored to the students specific areas of interest. Intern duties include milking, general care and husbandry, kid/lamb care, marketing, rotational grazing, births, and general farm duties. Housing and a weekly food stipend are provided. Surfing Goat Dairy Surfing Goat Dairy (in Maui, Hawaii) offers internship/apprenticeship opportunities at its goat dairy facility. Interns duties include cheese making, milking, husbandry, catering, tours, sales, deliveries, and marketing. Housing (including basic furnishings and wireless DSL internet), most meals, and a shared car are provided. Interns receive a stipend of approximately $200 per week and a 20 percent employee discount on any products they purchase. Valley Shepherd Creamery Valley Shepherd Creamery (in New Jersey) offers an internship program in sheep dairy production. Interns are exposed to a variety of activities including cheese production, affinage work, retail sales duty, giving facility tours, and promoting products at marketing events. Internships run from five to seven months and begin in late spring or early summer. Net compensation is $300 per week and free shared housing is provided.

ASME to Convene Visualize MED Modeling the Future of Medicine in October

ASME to Convene Visualize MED Modeling the Future of Medicine in October ASME to Convene Visualize MED Modeling the Future of Medicine in October ASME to Convene Visualize MED Modeling the Future of Medicine in OctoberThis October, ASME will present Visualize MED Modeling the Future of Medicine, a daylong event that will explore how biomedical companies can leverage modeling and simulation to increase patient safety and positive outcomes, reduce preclinical and clinical testing, improve manufacturing and medical device performance, and decrease development costs. The conference will take place Oct. 22 at the jahrtausend Hotel in Minneapolis, Minn.Modeling and simulation has been used for decades in such industries as automotive and aerospace, and increasingly is being used in the medical device and dental industries. Combined with strategic experiments, this approach has demonstrated increased patient safety, boosted innovation, shortened the time required for approval by the FDA, an d reduced the time and cost of clinical trials.At Visualize MED, attendees will explore the far-reaching opportunities that modeling and simulation offer. Last years event brought together engineers, modelers, executives and technology decision makers from government, universities and more than 35 companies including Medtronic, Stryker, JJ, Zimmer Biomet, Boston Scientific, WL Gore and Associates, Siemens PLM, ANSYS, Dassault Systmes and Synopsis Simpleware. This years conference is expected to draw representatives from even more companies from the medical device and dental industries who are interested in networking, meeting with modeling and simulation experts, and seeing how their businesses can leverage modeling and simulation in the product development and regulatory submission processes.Visualize MED will include live hands-on demonstrations as well as case studies and presentations that will show attendees how industry leaders are using modeling and simulation to make medical devices safer and more reliable while reducing product development timelines and informing, supporting, and in some cases replacing clinical trials.This years program will sto off with an interactive session, Transforming Medical Device Design Product Development, featuring Arlen Ward, modeling and simulation principal at System Insight Engineering Kerim Genc, business development manager at Synopsys Inc. and Ali Kiapour, senior principal RD engineer at 4Web Medical Inc. The session will be followed by a panel discussion, Industry Standards and Safeguards, with Windi Hary, senior vice president, Global Clinical, Quality and Regulatory Affairs at HeartFlow Inc. Marc Horner, principal engineer, Healthcare Applications at ANSYS Inc. Chris Mullin, director of product development strategy at NAMSA and Markus Reiterer, senior principal scientist at Medtronic.The afternoon program will feature a deep-dive breakout session, Digital Technologies A Step Forward in Dentistry. Moderated by Or lando Lopez, program director at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, the session will feature speakers Eric Bright, vice president, Atlantis Global Development RD, Dentsply Sirona Implants Alex Fok, director of the Minnesota Dental Research Center for Biomaterials and Biomechanics at the University of Minnesota Maria J. Troulis, chief of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and James Xia, director of the Surgical Planning Laboratory and professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Houston Methodist Research Institute.The final panel of the day, which will be moderated by Shaye Mandle, president CEO of the Medical Alley Association, will focus on the emerging opportunities digital technologies provide for unprecedented patient-centric care. During the session, Marc Horner from ANSYS will address clinical applications of modeling David Odde, professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Minnesota will discuss the topic Modeling of Cell Migration and Division in Cancer and Windi Hary of HeartFlow Inc. will address the subject Software as a Medical Device.Registration for ASME members is $249 $50 off the nonmember price. For more information on Visualize MED Modeling the Future of Medicine or to register, visit go.asme.org/VisualizeMED.

Rural Americans want a job, while urbanites want a raise Report

Rural Americans want a job, while urbanites want a raise ReportRural Americans want a job, while urbanites want a raise ReportIts a tale of two cities.Americans living in rural towns are being left behind by the current jobs boom, while their counterparts in urban areas are seeing employment gains so robust that theyre thinking of ways to negotiate a raise, according to a new analysis.The number of people filing new jobless claims dropped to 222,000 last week - the lowest figure since 1973, according to Labor Department stats cited by MarketWatch. And the number of people collecting ongoing unemployment benefits dropped by 16,000 to 1.89 million - a 44-year low, according to MarketWatch.Yet, according to an analysis by Jessica Rabe of DataTrek Research using Google Trends to track users searches across the nation, people in rural regions like Mississippi, North Dakota, and Iowa are predominantly searching for job openings while those in urban areas like California and New York are searching ask for a raise,MarketWatch reports.Our takeaway workers in large urban areas (who are statistically more likely to have a college degree) are asking for raises, while people in more rural areas are still searching for jobs, Rabe wrote in DataTrek Researchs daily morning report email. Urban areas see tight labor conditions and wage inflation rural areas lag on both counts.Rabe added that the divide representsa two-speed job market - since the number of job openings has outpaced the number of hires by nearly a half million jobs for nearly two straight years, according to the most recently available data from August 2017.Yet rural residents continue to live in higher-than-average poverty rates.Approximately 17.2% of rural residents lived below the poverty line in 2012 - higher than the 14.9% nationwide poverty rate, according to the nonprofit advocacy groupHousing Assistance Council.In addition, rural unemployment rates have long been an issue. Unemployment rates in rural areas doubled between 2000 and2010 - according to an HAC 2012 report,Taking Stock Rural People, Poverty and Housing in the 21st Century.More Americans are in poverty in 2012 than at any time since the Census Bureau began measuring its occurrence in the early 1960s, HAC wrote, estimating that 10 million rural residents lived below the poverty line.(CreditHousing Assistance Council)Household incomes in rural areas and small towns continue to lagbehind those in suburban and urban areas, HAC added, blaming the high proportion of low-skill and low-paying jobs in rural areas, combined with lowereducational attainment levels.

Resumes aren#8217;t Dead. But they will be.

Resumes aren8217t Dead. But they will be. Resumes arent Dead. But they will be. But, does this signify a new wave of recruiting without resumes? Are resumes becoming redundant? Are they dead? Well clearly bedrngnis, as not everyone is hiring the IGN way, but it would not surprise me if other technology firms are not already using this approach or may do so in the future off of the back of this success. It is likely that we will see a decline in the significance of resumes in the technology sector over the coming years if companies continue to find that they can find high performing candidates this way.Even though we are seeing this move toward resume-less recruiting in technology companies, companies in are in general not recruiting without resumes.However, the idea that companies are just recruiting based on the contents of 2 A4 sized pieces of paper is no longer true in my opinion. Most recruiters will be reviewing the Linked-In profile, Facebook Profile, Online Resumes, Twitter, Blog Commentary (for certain roles), and mentions in the media, meaning that the recruitment decision will be based on their wider social media profile.Resume is no longer the universal passport to interviewSo, in this respect I believe that the traditional Resume is not dead but is losing its sovereign status as the universal passport into interviews and employment.While fruchtwein employers still ask for a resume, (and applicants should still adhere to these requests) it has become one important document amongst many, and a reference point or hub which should link to the candidates wider social media profile so that it can be considered in that context. In fact, I have heard reports that innovative job applicants are beginning to include QR Codes in their Resumes, which points to their social media profile, which suggests to me that folks are beginning to realize that a Resume is no longer a complete application in itself.Cover Letters Still Have a Part to PlayI believe that Resu mes have a very much diminished role to play in many of the mora entrepreneurial, marketing, sales, PR, managerial areas. I think now they are meant to serve (along with the cover letter), more as an individual statement of intent and commitment to that the role they are applying for, above that which is shown by a candidate whose application consists of a mere link to a social media profile.The sad thing is I dont think that the resume necessarily shows that specific interest either, as it is easily duplicated for each application, but a well worded, and undeniably employer specific cover letter (containing multiple references to role requirements, the employers, business, products and services), shows that specific interest much better, so I think cover letters still have a part to play.Social Media Profiles More Reliable Than Resumes?Also, since Linked-In profiles, (in particular), Twitter and Facebook are subject to much more public scrutiny, it makes it harder to embellish info rmation in social media profiles than in a Resume, so I believe that social media profiles have more credibility. In plus-rechnen to this, as we all know Linked-In has an inbuilt system of publicly scrutinized recommendations which provide more credibility which resumes simply cannot do.Social Media Profiles are a Richer Information Source, potentiallyAs well as this the social media profile is a far richer information source than the resume enabling the recruiter to observe blog articles, contribution to discussions, what they like to read etc The main drawback of Linked-In over Resumes is that Linked-In users (me included) have been a little slack in fleshing out and updating their Resumes, but this is changing as Linked-in have brought in measures to try and improve the quality of profiles and these days, I find it to be a very reliable source.So, in conclusion, whats my position? I think that resumes as an information source are dead in many industries as you can and soon will b e able to get much broader and deeper information about skills, behaviour and recent activity on the social media profile. It will be a much more real version of the candidate than a piece of paper. However, I think that at least for the moment, a well worded, employer specific cover letter serves a purpose as they show the employer at commitment to that job in particular. Who knows that in time that cover letter may be replaced by an employer tailored video presentationFor me, the ideal job application no longer includes a resume it includes a detailed cover letter and a QR code linking to a fully completed and comprehensive social media profile. So, yes I think the traditional resume is living on borrowed time, if not completely dead yet.Master the art of closing deals and making placements. Take our Recruiter Certification Program today. Were SHRM certified. 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Four ASME Fellows to Receive the Societys Highest Accolades a...

Four ASME Fellows to Receive the Societys Highest Accolades a... Four ASME Fellows to Receive the Societys Highest Accolades a... Four ASME Fellows to Receive the Societys Highest Accolades at the Honors Assembly Next MonthOct. 6, 2017 Zdenek P. BaantThe accomplishments and contributions of eight of the engineering professions leading innovators will be celebrated next month at the annual ASME Honors Assembly, to be held during the ASME 2017 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE 2017) in Tampa, Fla. Four of these honorees Zdenek P. Baant, Ph.D., P.E., Ramesh K. Agarwal, Ph.D., John W. Cipolla, Ph.D., and Michael F. Modest, Ph.D. have been selected to receive the Societys most prestigious awards at this years ceremony, which will take place Monday, Nov. 6 from 630 p.m. to 730 p.m. at the Tampa Convention Center.Dr. Baant, the McCormick Institute prof and W.P. Murphy professor of civil and mechanical engineering, and materials science at Northwestern Un iversity, will receive the Societys highest award, the ASME Medal, during the assembly. Established in 1920, the ASME Medal is awarded for eminently distinguished engineering achievement.Baant, an ASME Fellow, is being recognized for developing a statistical theory of the strength and lifetime of quasibrittle structures of random material properties, verifying it with experimental evidence, and demonstrating its relevance to structural safety and for formulating a kinetic energy release theory for material comminution into particles of random sizes under extreme strain rates.An internationally acknowledged expert in the mechanics of materials and structures, Baant joined the Northwestern University faculty in 1969. His work in the area of the mechanics of quasibrittle fracture, damage and creep, size effects and scaling, structural stability, finite strain and failure probability has resulted in the development of computational models used to gauge the safety of bridges, dams, build ings, aircraft, cars, ships, nuclear containments and other structures. The author of seven books and many journal articles, Baant received the Societys Worcester Reed Warner Medal in 1997, the Nadai Medal in 2008, the Timoshenko Medal in 2009 and Honorary Membership in 2012. Ramesh K. AgarwalDr. Agarwal, Dr. Cipolla and Dr. Modest will each receive ASME Honorary Membership the highest level of Society membership at the ceremony. First awarded in 1880, the founding year of the Society, ASME Honorary Membership is conferred upon a person who has made distinctive contributions to engineering, science, industry, research, public service, or other pursuits allied with and beneficial to the engineering profession.Agarwal, the William Palm prof of Engineering in the department of mechanical engineering and materials science and the director of the Aerospace Research and Education Center at Washington University in St. Louis, is being honored for pioneering high-impact research contribu tions to computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer for innovative contributions to mechanical engineering education and for meritorious service to the mechanical engineering profession.During his 40-year career, Agarwal has conducted research in computational fluid dynamics, computational acoustics and electromagnetics, computational materials science and nanotechnology, and multidisciplinary design and optimization. He has authored or co-authored mora than 600 publications and has presented numerous plenary, keynote and invited lectures at conferences in more than 60 countries.Agarwal, an ASME Fellow, has served on the Fluid Engineering Divisions Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee since 1988 and the divisions Computational Fluids Dynamics Technical Committee since 1996. He has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Societys Fluids Engineering Award in 2001, the Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award in 2006, and the Edwin F. Church Medal in 2011. The Fluid Engin eering Division also awarded him its 90th Anniversary Medal in 2016. John W. CipollaCipolla, a distinguished professor emeritus at Northeastern Universitys College of Engineering, is being recognized for distinguished contributions to the mechanical engineering profession, particularly for expanding the scientific knowledge of thermofluids, emphasizing mathematics-based education, and enhancing the value of ASME through dedicated service to the Center for Education.Cipolla, who has conducted research in the areas of the kinetic theory of gases and plasmas, radiative transfer and aerosol mechanics, was named chair of Northeastern Universitys department of mechanical engineering in 1991. He merged the department with the universitys industrial engineering department in 1995 and then served as chair of the combined department until 2003, when he was named vice provost for graduate education. Cipolla, who returned to teaching mechanical engineering in 2004, retired in December 2016.Cip olla, who is a Fellow of ASME, has been an active volunteer with the Society for more than 50 years, beginning as a student member at Drexel and later a faculty advisor to the student section at Northeastern. He has held positions on a number of ASME committees, including chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department Heads Committee, the Committee on Engineering Accreditation, the General Awards Committee and the Committee on Honors. He received the ASME Dedicated tafelgeschirr Award in 2011 and the Edwin F. Church Medal in 2014. Michael F. ModestModest, a distinguished professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Merced, is being named Honorary Member in recognition of his pioneering and impactful scholarly contributions in the fields of radiative heat transfer and laser machining of ceramics for excellence in educating and training future generations of engineers and scientists and for dedicated service to the profession.During his career in acad emia, which included 24 years as a mechanical engineering professor at Pennsylvania State University and eight years as the Keith and Elinor Shaffer and Betty Lou George Professor of Engineering at UC Merced, Modest made pioneering and influential contributions to the fields of radiative heat transfer and laser processing of materials. He is particularly known for his work on thermal radiation in combustion systems. Modest is the author of Radiative Heat Transfer, the most widely used textbook in the field, and has authored or co-authored more than 350 refereed publications including 10 book chapters and many keynote and invited papers.Modest, who is an ASME Fellow, has served the Heat Transfer Division in various capacities for more than 40 years. He was the recipient of ASMEs Heat Transfer Memorial Award in 2005 and the Heat Transfer Divisions 75th Anniversary Award in 2013.For more information on the Honors Assembly and the special events scheduled to take place at IMECE 2017, vi sit go.asme.org/IMECE.

What You Can Do About Online Resumes Starting in the Next 8 Minutes

What You Can Do About Online Resumes Starting in the Next 8 Minutes The Key to Successful Online Resumes A great deal of that happens on social networking. There are quite a lot of advantages of creating an zugreifbar resume. Its important to get a professional resume that isnt hard to read and successfully highlights your abilities and experience, but when saving a resume file for uploading, additionally, it is vital to make certain it is readily accessible for potential employers. Based on your industry and the kind of job youre interested, an erreichbar resume can be a fantastic way to highlight your abilities and experience in a way that is more visually appealing and engaging than a traditional resume. The Dos and Donts of Online Resumes Job seekers deserve to discover decent content quickly. They can decide whether to send the full document or just the first two pages to a potential employer, based on the job opportunity requirements. 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Online Resumes and Online Resumes - The Perfect Combination If you dont create a resume utilizing an on-line sites resume builder but still wish to post it to the website, you might have to upload it. A personal website is among the best assets you can have. There are several of them available online and theyre intended for different purposes. Remember though, not all website templates are made equal.

Accountemps Survey Workplace Etiquette Affects Prospects until Reaching the Top

Accountemps Survey Workplace Etiquette Affects Prospects until Reaching the Top According to a new Accountemps survey, more than eight in 10 (85 percent) survey respondents said being courteous to coworkers has an impact on a persons career prospects. However, 70 percent of workers think people become less courteous as they climb the corporate ladder. Among the rank and file, open office spaces also may give rise to bad manners. When employees were asked to name the biggest breach of workplace etiquette in this type of office environment, using a speakerphone or talking loudly on the phone topped the list (36 percent) loitering or talking around a colleagues desk ranked second (23 percent).When asked, In your opinion, to what extent does being courteous to coworkers positively impact a persons career prospects? 44 percent responded that it can greatly accelerate advancement. Another 41 percent sai d courteousness if someone important but skills play a larger role and 14 percent said it has no impact at all. Only 21 percent of respondents said that people become more courteous as they climb the corporate ladder.Workplace etiquette is about being aware of how your actions affect those around you, Max Messmer, chairman of. Accountemps, said. Time constraints and external pressures arent excuses for bad behavior. While it takes more than just good manners to rise through the ranks, displaying professional courtesy will only help your career.Open office spaces foster better collaboration, but employees should make sure their actions arent keeping others from doing their jobs, Messmer added.

How to Go From Good to Great - The Muse

How to Go From Good to Great - The MuseHow to Go From Good to Great Were in the second quarter of 2015, and for many people, this means that the years first batch of performance reviews are coming soon. Ironically, the experience you want most from your review is often the hardest to prepare for Positive feedback. Just like the grade school days of gold star and A+ stickers, its so good to hear Youre doing great No issues Keep it up on the job. But you absolutely cannot let your good work stop there.My boss at MTV Networks had an approach to reviews that has been tattooed on my brain for the last nine years. He was one of those 40 Under 40 types who had performed well at every stage in his career, including having been one of the youngest-ever partners at a major consulting firm. One day, I asked him how he stayed motivated to get better and he said, I want a win every quarter. I took that to mean that he wanted to look at his work every three months and make a strong case for the va lue he had contributed to his company. He must have been hearing good job along his path, yet he committed himself to turning that good into great.If its worked for him, it can work for all of us. Here are three easy steps you can take to make the most of positive feedback- at your review or anytime.Document ItAs you receive positive feedback from your managers, gruppe members, and clients, be koranvers to keep track of it on an ongoing basis. Make a brag folder to file accolades in your inbox (more on that here). If you got the feedback in conversation, jot down what the person said and email it to yourself.The benefit of documenting good feedback is that over time, youll start to notice what your specific strengths are. You can use them to make the case for raises and promotions, but more importantly youll see where to invest more energy to become great. For example, you may have a knack for writing. Push yourself to become a master by taking a course in copywriting, grant writing , or something else related to your field.Connect ItWhen youre filing your brags, keep an eye on how your company is performing overall so that you can align your performance to corporate progress. For example, if your company set goals around efficiency and accuracy, make sure youre the one whos consistently finishing your projects on time. It shows that youre not just interested in doing good work, youre interested in doing the right work- work that will impact the companys bottom line.Better yet, ask your manager about longer-term goals that may not have been shared with your whole team yet, then aim your performance at those metrics. Like hockey great Wayne Gretzky said, skate to where the puck is going to be. Beat ItOnce you get good feedback, ask yourself WWJD- or, what would (Michael) Jordan do? The best basketball player in history could have stopped after his first championship, or his first three. But he pushed himself and his team to six championships, the most wins in a season, and 10 individual scoring records. What would it take for you to do your tasks faster, better, or with bigger impact?As a personal notenzeichen At Bureau Blank, my team is responsible for writing the project briefs that that we use to understand the challenges our clients face. When I first started writing them five years ago, it would take me up to two days to complete one and feel good about it. I was getting good responses from my team and my clients, yet I knew briefs shouldnt always take that long to do. I challenged myself to find ways to make the writing process shorter. One improvement was to develop templates. Now, for me or any member of my team, a strong brief can get wrapped in about two hours.In an era when companies needs are evolving so rapidly, its important to be your own motivator. If you use positive feedback to push yourself to peak performance, not only will you beat complacency, youll always be prepared to answer What have you done for me lately? and cr ush it.Photo of gold stars courtesy of Shutterstock.

Rescuing Your Résumé From a Hiring Black Hole

Rescuing Your Rsum From a Hiring Black HoleRescuing Your Rsum From a Hiring Black HoleYouve applied to a super-looking job online and dont hear anything back, or the recruiter who was in hot pursuit last week has dropped off the face of the planet. Or what about the interviewer last month that was supposed to get back to you immediately? Whats going on?These are some of the reasons applicants fall into a hiring black hole. But mora importantly, here are also tips on how to get outThe application pit. The average job posting receives 50 to 100 applications, according to Sources of Hire 2013 Perception is Reality, a recent CareerXroads survey. It isnt unusual for some jobs with some employers to receive more. Companies do have applicant tracking systems and many will send an automated message to indicate your application was received. But for some recruiters, the sheer number of applications and rsums to review has made it increasingly difficult to respond to each applicant. Other reas ons you arent hearing anything include that the job has been put on hold, the time frame for hiring has slipped, there are other burning issues in the department or company that need to be addressed first, or maybe the employer was just fishing to see what type of talent was available. These varying and difficult messages seldom get passed along to applicants and as a result, you hear nothing. Rude, but true.The best way to fix the void is by taking matters into your own hands. Dont expect a response. Instead, you could call the menschenwrdig resources department and ask where they are in the review process (that is, as long as the posting didnt say, no calls please). Also ask when you can follow up to see if you are being considered and always verify your materials were received. Another option is to find someone you know inside the company and ask what he or she knows about the position. Be koranvers to let your contact know that you have applied and ask if he or she would be will ing to forward your rsum along to the correct person.The M.I.A. recruiter. A third-party recruiters job is to screen and present qualified candidates to the contracted employer. Remember, the recruiter is paid only if they fill the position, therefore, it is in the recruiters financial best interest to only speak with people who are truly qualified and meet the posted requirements. If the recruiter drops you like a hot potato, it could be due to several reasons, similar to those mentioned above the job has been put on hold, the requirements of the position changed, the company promoted someone internally or the company isnt responding to the recruiter. A lack of contact doesnt necessarily mean you are out of the running. Consistently following up with the recruiter, perhaps even varying your contact between phone and email, is the only way youll know for sure what is going on.The indifferent interview. You would think if a company dedicated time and resources to call you in for an i nterview, they would at least have the courtesy to let you know the outcome. Sometimes things slip through the cracks. Or, more likely, the job was put on hold. Dont give up and dont assume anything. Persistently and politely follow up with your contact at the company and inquire about the status of the job.Dont Take It PersonallyAs much as you may take personal offense to an employers lack of communication or perceived lack of common courtesy, never let it show. In the majority of cases, the representative from the company or recruiter is not against you personally, even though it may feel this way. This is business and at the end of the day, people take their marching orders from the leaders. Often, these commands do not take human factors into consideration as much as they should. Companies operate to make money, not fill open job requisitions. And this is the very reason HR and internal recruiters have such a difficult time meeting conflicting interests. They would love to respo nd to you, but there are usually extenuating circumstances that make that unrealistic. Give them a break and take accountability for finding out the status, by circumventing the process and being persistent.Hannah Morgan is a speaker and author providing no-nonsense career advice she guides job seekers and helps them navigate todays treacherous job search terrain. Hannah shares information about the latest trends, such as reputation management, social networking strategies, and other effective search techniques on her blog, Career Sherpa.

Entry Level Construction Equipment Operators Resume Template 2018s Top Format

Entry Level Construction Equipment Operators Resume Template 2018s Top FormatEntry Level Construction Equipment Operators Resume Template - 2018s Top FormatConstruction equipment operators are always in demand in busy urban areas and cities with growing populations. A gold-standard resume is the foundation for gaining this type of secure and potentially lucrative employment. Follow our tips to ensure yours hits the mark.Concentrate on demonstrating all of your construction-related skills on your resume, drawing special attention to machinery and equipment that youre already qualified to operate. If you dont have this certification yet, convey your enthusiasm to expand your construction career by learning to operate specialized machinery and equipment. Former employment involving manual labor such as warehouse or loading bay gigs is also beneficial to have on your resume.Our entry-level construction equipment operators resume template serves as an excellent guide to building your ow n great resume. Create ResumeBella Farmer100 Main Street, Cityplace, CA, 91019 C(555)322-7337 example-emailexample.comObjectiveSeeking a long term, full time location where I can utilize my skills and experience. I am interested in growing with a company and am willing to take on new challenges to meet the companies long term goals.HighlightsRough CarpentryMetal Stud FramingDrywallLabor ForemanMaterial ReceivingRoofingPaintingLandscapeLabor Pick upGeneral ConstructionExperience06/2012 to 09/2013Rough Terrain abspaltung Lift Operator Labor Foreman Palm Dessert Custom Drywall Littleton, ColoradoOperated fork lift to lift and move materials and large objects.Loaded proper materials while abiding by all safety and legal standards.Monitored vehicles as they entered, unloaded and exited the job site to maintain a safe, efficient work area.Directed and supervised building clean upManaged labor forceMaintained materials yard04/2008 to 06/2012Laborer R. B. Taylor Construction Elk Grove, Ca liforniaGeneral labor pick upLandscape sprinklers, sod, planting, removalInterior Exterior paintingLight plumbingLight electricalTrim CarpentryMold remediationGeneral repairsForeclosure turnoversDemolitionAccomplishmentsPromoted to Labor Foreman after 6 months of employment. Completed jobs from start to finish on time and under budget. Appointed by supervisors for special tasks and large scale projects. I have an excellent safety record.SummaryHard working and dedicated Rough Terrain Fork Lift operator with 3 years in heavy equipment operation. Certified in scissor lift and boom lift operation. Highly motivated to produce quality work on tight deadlines and with safety in mind. I have a wide range of construction experience spanning many trades.ReferencesReferences available upon requestCustomize ResumeMore Construction Resume Templates