Deutsche Bahns Talent Acquisition Strategy

Deutsche Bahns Talent Acquisition Strategy This week we’re speaking to a global mobility company that does so much more than just operating trains. With hundreds of thousands of employees globally, Deutsche Bahn has recently launched a very honest employer brand campaign. We chat with Kerstin Wagner, Head of Talent Acquisition at Deutsche Bahn. She is responsible for employer branding and recruiting on both the strategic and operational level. She’s working with a lot of nationalities, which results in both a diverse and fun role! Have a listen to the interview below, keep reading for a summary and be sure to subscribe to the  Employer Branding Podcast. Listen on  iTunes,  Stitcher Radio,  Google Play  or  SoundCloud. In this episode youll learn about: The talent challenges and struggles at Deutsche Bahn Deutsche Bahns employee value proposition Deutsche Bahns 360-degree approach to activating their employer brand What Deutsche Bahns best source of hire is Kerstins top tips for all employer brand managers out there How Deutsche Bahn measure their employer brand success Whats next for Deutsche Bahns employer brand. Connect with Kerstin on  LinkedIn.

Writing a HR Resume - Follow These Guidelines and Get Your Dream Job!

Writing a HR Resume - Follow These Guidelines and Get Your Dream Job!Writing a HR resume is not that difficult and can be done in less than a day. However, there are a few things you should consider when preparing this. Once you get to the HR resume part, the real challenge starts.When writing a HR resume, you have to be concise. Your target audience will be coming across your resume for the first time and are not likely to be very polite if they find your resume too long or with many irrelevant details. Avoid this situation by not going beyond five pages. Use bullet points and list your experiences at the end of your resume, so your audience can skim through it easily.The next point to note when writing a HR resume is the spelling and grammar. Make sure that the grammar is correct and avoid using lots of words to make the resume look more interesting. Some words might be a hard to pronounce while others might be the wrong word. This is the type of information you need to be aware of when creating your resume.You should also consider when to use the past tense when describing your experiences. For example, if you were promoted to vice president, you should use the past tense. Use of the present tense may be appropriate as well, but only when it directly relates to the position. Do not use the past tense to describe a job that you had previously. Also, try to avoid using 'was'was doing' when describing a job experience, unless the jobs are listed.When writing a HR resume, do not include your boss' name in the very top of the resume. You may be thinking that the boss knows who you are and they are not going to notice this mistake. However, if you do this, you will be considered unprofessional and you will not get the job, even if you are really qualified.One of the most important points to remember when writing a resume is to ensure that the resume reflects your skills and capabilities. The format of the resume is also a good way to make sure that you avoid any o missions and mistakes while writing it. You should also ensure that all the necessary details are included about your education, work experience, and any other relevant details about your professional life.If you are writing a HR resume, ensure that the font size is at least one-inch smaller than the title on the cover page. It is important that your resume, especially when it is an introductory resume, includes your educational background, work experience, and any other relevant skills and capabilities, since these are very important while being interviewed for the job.Writing a HR resume can be a little daunting, but if you can follow some of the guidelines mentioned above, you will be able to write a great resume, one that will help you land the job you want. Remember to take care of all the important points mentioned above so that you can succeed in writing a great HR resume.

What Type Of Personal Brand Are You - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

What Type Of Personal Brand Are You - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career One of the best things about creating your personal brand is it helps you market unique qualities about yourself. The more time you invest in developing your brand and networking with people in your industry, you’ll discover how some professionals possess a similar one to yours. Once you have established your personal brand and you have been engaging with the people in your networks, you’ll notice how you are drawn to following certain types of people. Let’s say you are very active on Twitter. Chances are, you are interacting with people in your industry with similar interests to yours. As you look beyond those particular traits, you’ll notice different personalities shine through. These personalities serve as a way to categorize different types of personal brands. Are you obsessed with staying up-to-date with current events and pop culture? Do you find yourself providing industry advice for your colleagues? If you can answer “yes” to questions like these that define you as a personal brand, chances are you’ll run across other personal brands with a similar purpose to yours. If you’re wondering what your personal brand is saying about you, check out these five different types of personal brand personalities: 1. The news and politics junkie. Do you find yourself tweeting the latest news updates and blogging about your opinions of current events? If you happen to define your brand with current events and the latest trends, your audience may view you as a the “news junkie.” They will most likely turn to you in order to stay up-to-date in current events. This is great for your brand because you’re viewed as an influencer in your industry and adds credibility to who you are as a professional. 2. The opinionated connoisseur. If you find yourself falling into this category, youre probably someone who is the first to tell your audience about your opinion about the latest Apple product or the Oscars. Additionally, you’re able to combine your opinions about products and events with latest trends in your industry. By doing this, you are creating a personal brand where your colleagues and followers will most likely turn to your personal brand when they need to weigh their personal opinions. 3. The self-promoter. The self-promoter is someone who generates a lot of content and promotes it throughout their networks. This personal brand shares their accomplishments and makes it a goal to inform people about their professional life. Do you find yourself consistently producing content and inviting your colleagues to check it out? Then your personal brand could fall into this category. 4. The helping hand. This type of personal brand belongs to people who are usually the first to offer advice or be willing to lend expertise to the people in their networks. Whether its looking over a colleagues resume or answering a question, youre always available to help the people within your network. By helping others, your personal brand can gain a great amount of trust and people can depend on you as a reliable source of support. 5. The super networker. The super networker is someone who not only builds their network, but also helps the people in their network meet new people. Whenever you meet a new person as a super networker, you probably find yourself thinking: I have the perfect person for you to meet because they will provide some great advice for you! Although this personal brand may appear similar to the “helping hand,” as a super networker you’re more focused on connecting your new connections with your colleagues and opening the door to opportunity for them. These different categories of personal brands can help you think about the type of brand you want to be. Do you want to influence your network? Do you want to be a source of advice? By figuring out the purpose for your personal brand, you can have a stronger mission of marketing yourself as a professional. Once you understand the type of image you want to portray in your brand, you will be able to increase your connections and build credibility as a professional. Do you fall into one of these categories? What do you think your personal brand is saying about you? Author: Heather R. Huhman  is a career expert, experienced hiring manager, and founder president of  Come Recommended, a content marketing and digital PR consultancy for job search and human resources technologies. She is also the instructor of  Find Me A Job: How To Score A Job Before Your Friends, author of  Lies, Damned Lies Internships  (2011) and  #ENTRYLEVELtweet: Taking Your Career from Classroom to Cubicle  (2010), and writes career and recruiting advice for  numerous outlets.

Steps to Becoming a Mortgage Loan Officer

Steps to Becoming a Mortgage Loan Officer When it comes to finding a side hustle or part time gig, there are plenty of options out there for you. One in particular that has the potential to generate a respectable income is a mortgage loan officer (MLO). The role of a loan officer is to help interested home buyers  obtain a mortgage to purchase their new home.    If you know anything about real estate, or like the idea of jumping into that industry, this could be a good fit. Job Description The job description of a mortgage loan officer varies greatly.  Mostly, it depends on the company you end up working for. There are financial institutions, such as Eagle Home Mortgage as well as banks  and housing agencies, that advertise a need for MLO’s. In general, there are two types of mortgage loan officers,   residential and commercial.  In principle, both loan officers carry out the same responsibilities for different types of properties. A residential loan officer helps with acquiring  and/or refinancing home mortgages.  A commercial loan officer, on the other hand, helps businesses purchase commercial real estate.     This might include shopping malls, office buildings, and warehouses. The location you work in will also vary by the company you end up working for. There are some companies that prefer their MLOs to report to the office daily.   Other companies manage a remote workforce as their MLOs spend a bulk of their day marketing and advertising their services to customers. In a nutshell, the responsibilities could include the following:  Market, advertise, and network to find potential borrowers  Assist borrowers with selecting the right loan option for their financial circumstances.  Collecting loan applications along with pertinent data necessary  Communicating with real estate brokers, loan underwriters, escrow officers, attorneys, appraisers, and more. Minimum Requirements to Become a Mortgage Loan Officer There are several minimum requirements you’ll need to meet in order to be hired as a mortgage loan officer. In compliance with the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 (SAFE Act), the government requires all Mortgage Loan Officers to be licensed and registered. Below is a list of what is required.  Criminal Background check â€" You’ll have to be fingerprinted and have this information sent to the NMLS for a criminal background check. Essentially you’ll be dealing with a lot of personal and confidential information and it’s important to ensure that the borrower’s information is in safe hands.  Education â€" While you don’t have to have a college degree, you will need to complete the pre-licensing education courses in your state.  Testing â€" After taking a few courses for licensing, you will need to take and pass the National and State, SAFE Mortgage Loan Officer Test.  Credit rating â€" Your credit history will be obtained and run through NMLS. Obviously, they’ll want to ensure that you can provide customers with the best advice as it pertains to credit and handling mortgages so having a decent credit history is ideal. Once you’ve accomplished all of the above, the next step will be to find a company that suits your interests and supports your desire to succeed. From there, making  huge commission checks comes down to being able to adequately advertise, connect with clients, and assist them in purchasing a home. It’s a great side hustle that can lead to even bigger career opportunities down the road. Images: Main:  debomb1

Manchester Made Me From undergraduate to PhD student University of Manchester Careers Blog

Manchester Made Me From undergraduate to PhD student University of Manchester Careers Blog If someone had asked me at the start of my final year of my undergraduate degree, ‘do you fancy doing a PhD when you finish uni?’ my answer would have been an outright NO! Yet, here I am, now in my second year of my PhD in  the role of exercise on cardiovascular disease risk in psoriasis.  .   So what changed my mind? Well, it was only when I entered my final year of my undergraduate degree that I actually started to seriously consider my career options. My undergraduate degree was in Biomedical Sciences and I wanted to find out what I could do with my degree (aside from the obvious career pathways like Biomedical Scientist or scientific research). So, after hours of trawling the internet, numerous career appointments and countless chats with my academic tutors I had a much clearer idea of what was out there. However, despite all this time and effort I invested into researching potential future careers I still wasn’t 100% sure. Although, I particularly liked the idea of becoming a medical writer because writing is something I like doing and something that I enjoy. Also I had a lot of time for my subject area as I found it interesting and enjoyed learning about various aspects of science. Another thing which interested me was intellectual property, which was first brought to my attention in one of my pharmacology lectures. I soon learned that I could become a patent attorney. The more I read about this area of work, the more it appealed to me. This career path is an opportunity to merge law and science. Naturally, because I don’t have a background in law (like the vast majority of patent attorneys according to my research) this career requires you to undertake training and sit examinations. This is something which doesn’t really bother me too much (after all I’ve already spent years doing it and a couple more won’t hurt!). Anyway, after reading up on what’s required for this type of career I found that a PhD is ‘preferable.’ Now I know this doesn’t mean a PhD is essential, however, I thought whether I decide to go into medical writing or become a patent attorney, either way a PhD will stand me in good stead. So that’s when I took the plunge and began searching for a PhD. I had a specific criterion already in mind in terms of what I wanted from a PhD. The things I knew for sure was: a) I wanted to stay at the University of Manchester, b) I wanted a PhD with a studentship so I didn’t have to worry about funds for the next 3 or 4 years and c) I didn’t want a PhD that was solely lab-based (I didn’t mind a bit of lab work but I hated being in the lab for hours on end!). So with all this in mind I started looking at what was on offer and began to pick out projects which captured my interest. Eventually, I decided to apply for two PhD projects. I realise this doesn’t sound like a lot but the way I saw it was a PhD is a huge commitment and I wanted to be sure that my chosen project was something I was interested in and something I wanted to dedicate my time and effort to. And so for this reason I was very selective in terms of my applications for PhD projects. Something else which really helped me decide on which projects I wanted to submit applications to was going and actually talking to the supervisors about the project and what exactly I would be doing as a PhD student on their project. So… out of the two applications I submitted I was invited for interview for one of the projects along with two other candidates. The supervisor requested that each candidate put together a presentation covering various topics including: why did we want to do a PhD, why did we want to do a PhD in Manchester and why did we want this specific project. Each candidate was also sent a copy of the research proposal which we were asked to read and comment on in our presentations. We had to say how we would structure our approach/time to the work outlined in the proposal and also comment on how we would perhaps improve the proposal and what other ideas we had. The interview itself was, as you can imagine, nerve-wracking and very stressful! However, it was a valuable experience. There were five interviewers on the panel, three of which were my potential supervisors. Personally, I found the interview particularly stressful as I was up against two other candidates who both had a masters degree along with other research experience, whereas I had just come to the end of my undergraduate degree and was expected to achieve a 2.1. Anyway, after the stress of my final exams and the PhD interview I found out (just a few days after the interview) that I had been awarded the position on the PhD programme. Naturally, I was over the moon and accepted the place on the programme! Now here I am in my second year of my PhD and I am thoroughly enjoying the experience so far. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ If you would like to write for the Careers Service Blog, get in touch. We would love to hear your story and share it with students at the University of Manchester. Have a read of our  blog post  or send an email to careers.blog@manchester.ac.uk for more information. 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What do Americans Working Abroad Miss About Home

What do Americans Working Abroad Miss About Home One of the reasons why US expats choose to move abroad is for the work opportunities, which is made clear by the growing number of American’s leaving the country to pursue careers overseas. According to data compiled byLinkedIn, even though the United States were among the top 20 countries where professionals are moving for work, the US experienced a net loss With a much lower cost of living, expats from Western countries with high living standards may find that they are able to save money and live very well in countries like Vietnam.While this all sounds great for business-minded expats, it can be difficult to tear yourself â€" and your family â€" away from everything you know. From friends and family, to national holidays and air conditioning, to creature comforts like Hershey’s chocolate and Cheetos, this infographic created byAetna Internationalreveals what US expats miss the most about home.Infographic Credit â€" Aetnainternational.com

Ask the CHO Should you work for a year in a job that sucks - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Ask the CHO Should you work for a year in a job that sucks - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog In a previous post I argued against some commonly used phrases at work, including the idea that you can take a bad job just for a year to make some money. Dirceu asked this question in a comment on the post: About the ?It?s not my dream job, but it?s only for a year???? phrase: a person can work on a not-so-good job for one year just to save enough money to do what he/she want, just for security. Me, for example: I?m renting an apartment and paying a graduation course on a local university. If I want to change my focus from computers to, say, museums I really need to have money for security reasons. I know about the advantages of low-rent living, but with zero money, no living. :-( Please, talk more about this. And go on with the blog: it?s being, as always, very helpful. Great question Dirceu! Many, many people seem to think that sometimes youve just got to knuckle down and take that sucky job because you need the money. You can be a student paying your tuition, a new graduate paying off your student loans, a new home owner struggling to make the mortgage or any number of other situations that mean you depend on a steady income. But does that really mean that you must accept being unhappy at work? There is one question you must ask yourself: Leaving a bad job may cost you some money. Sure. But what will keeping that job cost you? Being unhappy at work steadily saps your energy, will power, self esteem and motivation. The longer you stay in that situation, the harder it gets to see any positive alternatives and to take action and move on. And it doesnt just affect you at work, it also affects you outside of work. When work is something that gives you no pleasure, has no meaning for you, gives you no victories or appreciation and is simply no fun, your life outside of work is likely to suffer too. The worst thing about this is that it sneaks up on you gradually. Your energy dissipates slowly. Youll hardly notice it from one day to the next but before you know it, the life has gone out of you. You become cynical, tired, uncreative, negative maybe even depressed, stressed and sick. The thing is, the cost of leaving a bad job is very clear to us because the effect is immediate. The cost of keeping a bad job can be much higher, but it sneaks up on us slowly, and therefore we often forget to take that into account. What is your experience? Have you tried staying in a bad job for the money and the security? How was it? Write a comment, Id really like to know! Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related

Our Top Four Picks for the Best New Years Resolutions for Executive Job Hunters

Our Top Four Picks for the Best New Year’s Resolutions for Executive Job Hunters Did you know that more than 100 million people in America make New Year’s resolutions each year? If one of your top resolutions is to find a job that fits your skills and abilities, then you need to take steps to improve your chances of being hired. Finding a job is no small feat, especially in the executive sector where the process to get hired is more cutthroat than ever before. While your initial thought may be to hire the best executive resume writing services, there are a few other tips that can help along the way, as well. 1. Clearly define the job you want It isn’t good enough to just state you want a new job. The more specific you get, the better results you are going to see. If you know what company you want to work for, write that down, too. Make sure you are realistic. Not everyone can move into the top executive position at a Fortune 500 company straight from the job market. The more specific and realistic you are, the better chance you have of achieving your resolution. 2. Create actionable steps There are many reasons why resolutions fail. A common theme, however, is you don’t take the necessary actions to accomplish the goals you have set. You have to make it happen. Do you want a position as a Vice President of Sales at a large retail chain? If so, outline the steps you can take to achieve this goal. For example: List the business options you are interested in. Use LinkedIn to post your resume after using executive resume services. Attend networking events where these companies are present. Learn who the decision makers are at the organizations. Tailor your actionable skills to meet your specific job hunt goals. 3. Revamp your resume A resume is the first impression an HR manager receives of a candidate. If yours isn’t up to the company’s standards, then it may be time to revamp it. If you don’t have the time or ability to do this yourself, consider using the services of the best executive resume writing services. Not only can these services help you update your resume, but they provide other services, as well. For example, many resume companies also offer a cover letter writing service. 4. Consider using a recruiter Being noticed in a saturated job market is getting more and more difficult. Regardless of your degree, experience and ability, there is always someone else out there who may be a bit more impressive. With the help of a recruiter, you can find the jobs suiting the goals you outlined as part of your New Year’s resolution. Getting a job isn’t hard. Landing the job you really want, especially at the executive level, can be a challenge. With the tips here, you are on your way to getting a job that challenges you, while letting you show off your abilities and skills. If you would like more information about resume writing services, or getting the job you want this year,  contact us today.