Job-Search Checklist

Job-Search ChecklistJob-Search ChecklistA daily, weekly and monthly Job-Search Checklist.DailyCreate an activity log and note everything youve done today, this week and this month. Note opportunities, contacts and organizations you need to follow up with and schedule when you should do it.Check job ads on Ladders.com local job-ad sites and the job boards of any professional organizations, alumni organizations social networks, or other clubs, referral networks or affinity groups to which you belong.Make and return calls.Make at least one call to a new networking contact return a call to a networking colleague who has called you.Phone a former colleague to get an update on the market, gossip about the old crowd or just shoot the breeze. Talking to people who are still in the geschftliches miteinander keeps you mentally connected to the environment and reminds former colleagues you and your skills are still available.WeeklyFollow up on resumes youve sent or screening calls youve gotten. Dont stalk recruiters or hiring managers, but do make sure youre up-to-date on all your main prospects.Make a list of all your potential networking contacts and areas you might not have explored yet.MonthlyEvaluate your job-hunting strategy identify areas that are most and least productive and those you havent exploited far enough.Evaluate your collateral material - talking points for the interview, tag line for the resume and introductions, elevator pitch for the resume and openingconversations.

Companies are letting night owls and early birds work at optimized times

Companies are letting night owls and early birds work at optimized timesCompanies are letting night owls and early birds work at optimized timesExpected to be in the office at 9 a.m., when your natural falling-asleep time has always been 2 a.m.? Or do 8 a.m. meetings work just fine for you? The circadian rhythms governing your natural sleep-wake time is called your chronotlageype, and with an eye on productivity, more and more companies are making an effort to cater towards their workers natural sleep cycles, reports the New York Times.A full 80 percent of people have work schedules that clash with their internal clocks, said Celine Vetter, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and director of the universitys circadian and sleep epidemiology lab, to the Times.That results in tiredness, reduced performance at work, and errors, not to mention health problems like heart disease, obesity, anxiety, and depression. (A 2015 Harvard Medical School study found that f or night owns, working during the day increases diabetes risk, according to the Times.)But what if you could work when you were the most comfortable, meaning youd gone to bed when you felt like it and risen naturally, without an alarm clock?Southwest Airlines and the United States Navy are two employers who are paying attention to their employees internal clocks when assigning shifts. At other companies mainly in the software, financial, and pharmaceutical industries employees are expected to come into the office for core hours during the middle of the day, but manage their own work hours otherwise which leaves room for sleeping later or getting up earlier and finishing early, whatever is preferred.In pharmaceutical company AbbVies Denmark offices, employees take a course that helps them create schedules that play on their strengths when it comes to their sleep-wake cycle and everything in-between alertness, down periods, etc. Complicated work can be done in periods when theyre most alert, and menial tasks can be completed during periods when theyre more fatigued.The program is extremely popular Employee satisfaction with work-life balance has risen 39 percent from 10 years ago, when the program launched, to nearly 100 percent today, according to company surveys.Of course, there are easy, cheap, and relatively non-disruptive ways to cater to chronotypes, like by offering flexible hours, although many corporate managers have it hard-wired in them to prefer the early bird. Yet most office workers dont need their days completely rearranged, but simply delayed an hour or two, Camilla Kring, a sleep cycle consultant at companies like AbbVie and Medtronic, tells the Times,An extra hour or so of sleep sounds delicious to this night owl.

Special Journal Issue to Highlight Healthcare Technologies for...

Special Journal Issue to Highlight Healthcare Technologies for... Special Journal Issue to Highlight Healthcare Technologies for... Special Journal Issue to Highlight Healthcare Technologies for Disadvantaged People and PopulationsThe ASME Journal of Medical Devices is currently accepting manuscripts for a special issue focusing on healthcare technologies for socioeconomically disadvantaged people and populations. The deadline for authors to submit a paper for the issue, which will be published in March 2020, is Aug. 15, 2019.Although many agencies and foundations are trying to address problems related to poor quality health services in underserved communities, there is an abundance of anecdotal evidence of well-intentioned, but failed attempts to do so. For example, in the aftermath of a major earthquake in one developing country, a new ultrasound device was delivered to the earthquake site but there was no one who could operate it. In another developing community, electrical device s for diagnostics were delivered to a rural clinic that had no electricity to power them. Sporadic attempts have been made by scientists around the world to develop new medical technologies for the socioeconomically disadvantaged people and populations throughout the world, but clearly more work needs to be done.The special issue of the ASME Journal of Medical Devices is intended to bring together in one volume a broad sortiment of novel medical device technologies that recognize the specific needs of the medically underserved populations of the world. Topics to be addressed in the special issue, which will also feature relevant public policy analysis, will include medical imaging medical diagnostics medical device public policy analysis cellular phone and wireless-based medical technology large data medical repository and analysis surgical instrumentation MEMS and nano-medical device technology orthopedics and pharmaceuticals and drug delivery. The editor for the special issue is B oris Rubinsky, Ph.D., professor of mechanical engineering, University of California, Berkeley (USA) brubinskygmail.com or rubinskyberkeley.edu www.me.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/boris-rubinsky.Papers should be submitted to the ASME Journal of Medical Devices by Aug. 15, 2019, through ASME Journals Connect. Authors who already have an account should log in as an author and select Submit Paper at the bottom of the page. Authors who dont have an account should select Submit Paper and follow the step-by-step instructions. Authors should then choose Journal of Medical Devices when they reach the Paper Submittal page and select Healthcare Technologies for Socioeconomically Disadvantaged People and Populations from the dropdown menu. Papers received after the deadline or those not selected for inclusion in the special issue may be accepted for publication in a regular issue.For more information on the ASME Journal of Medical Devices, visit https//journaltool.asme.org/home/JournalDescriptio ns.cfm?JournalID=22Journal=MED. To learn more about the ASME Journal Program, visit www.asme.org/shop/journals/journals.