Bad parenting and womens luxuries - is that what you call it now

Bad parenting and womens luxuries - is that what you call it now Last week I took my six month old baby to a seminar. I took a photo of her there and posted it on LinkedIn. And the armchair warriors of the world accused me of child abuse, bad parenting, unacceptable risk taking, vanity and indulging in womens luxuries. Wow. Like many of you, I have a family and I have a career. The two are integral to my self-identity and I have learned lessons as a parent that no amount of time in the office could possibly have taught me. I am currently on maternity leave from my part time role as an Executive Director in the Queensland Public Service, to care for my second child. As many of you know, being on maternity leave is a tough mental gig. Youd never change that time for anything in the world but it does come with a certain erosion of your self-identity. For me, part of managing the psychological side of maternity leave has been to read articles relevant to my work and start posting on LinkedIn as way to engage with these ideas. Taking my fully breastfed baby to a seminar at my old work was not a big deal, and was simply me trying to keep my baby and my brain fed at the same time. So why ever on earth did posting a picture of my very content baby lying on a rug on the floor at the back of a conference room spark such outrage? Sure, the internet is full of trolls, but this was LinkedIn, where people are meant to put forward their professional brand. I mean, people were really passionate about what a horrible mother and exploitative worker I must be! The truth is, in many parts of the professional world, people who seek flexible work arrangements (by and large, women) are considered to not take their careers seriously. I know because Im guilty of thinking that once myself. In my previous role as a lawyer at Minter Ellison I was privileged to have an exceptionally talented female boss. Many years ago there was an opening for a new partner and I remember discussing with some colleagues who we thought it might be. We discounted this woman because she was part timeand we were wrong! Her skills spoke more loudly than her part time status and she was made partner. My own experience continues to teach me not to discount flexible work arrangements. I did not expect to be appointed to an executive director role because I wanted to work part time: I assumed the two were mutually exclusive. However, there were people at the department who saw in me skills and potential that â€" like my old boss â€" spoke more loudly than my part time status. That’s not to say working part time is easy. In some ways, its harder than working full time. For me, working part time is a choice: I want to spend time with my obnoxious and smelly children. The trade off is lots of juggling priorities, regular moments of self-doubt and a disproportionate amount of overtime. No one has figured it out but it makes a lot more sense to support each other in this journey than condemning someone who does it differently. So, here are a few things Ive learnt since becoming a mum that I hold onto when the going gets tough: Forget your limits â€" just because you think working part time or flexibly excludes you from a certain job or promotion, doesnt mean it does. How can we challenge the worlds notions of what is possible if we remain restricted by our own, self-imposed limits? Stop apologising â€" if you have flexible work arrangements in place theres no need to apologise. Obviously, manners dictate you should apologise if you must leave a meeting early to pick up the kids. Im talking more of that completely self-deprecating thing mothers have a tendency to do. You have no more reason to be ashamed of leaving for family than someone else has in order to get to the dentist. Theres no such thing as work/life balance â€" that implies the two are separate and can be placed on either side of a set of scales. I think of it more as work/life integration if you have to take your kids into the office to make it to a really important meeting on your day off, thats what you do. Likewise, if its your day off, stop checking your emails every five seconds! Be clear about expectations, but also learn to give and take. Get a mentor â€" or ten. Preferably someone who really believes in you but who will be honest with you when you need it. You cant have too many mentors: everyone has a story you can learn from. Be grateful. I read an article recently saying we should stop feeling grateful for part time work. While the author made some great points I disagree on that one. We should all be grateful for our jobs, our colleagues, our children and â€" those of us who have them â€" our life partners. When you stop being grateful you open the door to bitterness. Just stop apologising. Despite the extremely negative comments, my photo on LinkedIn has received thousands of likes and a huge number of both public and private messages of affirmation. That confirms to me that my decision to take my baby to a seminar really isnt that bad a thing after all! About Karen Karen Walters  is the mother of a precocious little boy and a sweet baby girl, and wife to a majestically bearded gentleman. At the time of writing this article, Karen was Executive Director in the Queensland Public Service, she is now Corporate Counsel at global engineering firm and huge flexible working advocates AECOM.

Career Change Modify your Resume for Different Industries

Vocation Change Modify your Resume for Different Industries Vocation Change Modify your Resume for Different Industries We see a greater amount of this traverse in the activity showcase today, particularly as individuals return to class to promote their instruction and end up in a field that they never figured they would be in. We've seen aeronautical specialists go after showing positions and Wall Street brokers searching for regulatory positions. Study after investigation continues revealing that huge numbers of todays laborers, particularly ongoing graduates, are underemployed. What these activity searchers probably won't understand is that their resume needs to change when their industry does. You can't present similar accreditations for a senior official situation in protection as you would for an aircraft. So what do you have to change, particularly if your solitary experience is 30 years in the aircraft business and now you're applying to be a bank employee? To begin with, you will need to make a rundown of the aptitudes in your essential calling that will help you in your new profession. For instance, on the off chance that you used to be a car sales rep, your mystique and character will work well for you managing the overall population, particularly in case you're going after an advertising job. A decent dependable guideline when youre new to all the abilities in a specific field is to find them. You might be astounded to find that you as of now have a couple. Additionally, cautiously perusing the expected set of responsibilities to incorporate the recorded abilities that you as of now have created is significant. Some all inclusive aptitudes that help in practically all fields incorporate the capacity to be sorted out, adaptable, persevering, have incredible relational abilities and an inspirational demeanor. Obviously, you would prefer only not to compose that you have those abilities, however you need to portray how you utilized them in the work environment. Depict an occurrence where you exhibited your inspirational demeanor in a difficult activity condition. Clarify your achievements that reflect how youre a diligent employee. Investigate the Internet for industry-explicit resumes on the off chance that you are uncertain about where to begin. You will see that the sciences are more specific than deals are and that each should be customized to look a specific way. Going after a job as an educator will be more required than if you are searching for low maintenance work at a bistro. However, you despite everything need to guarantee you tailor the resume to that particular position as well as field. Over all you should be certain that your resume is elegantly composed. Indeed, even the most business explicit resume is as yet bound to disappointment in the event that it is covered with words that have no spot in an expert settings (slang) or syntactic and spelling botches. The conveyance of your words ought to be clear and stream pleasantly and, obviously, bode well. In all cases, you should be certain that your resume isn't just both an impression of you and your exceptionally appealing range of abilities and experience however that it will address the issues of your planned manager as well. Truthfully, regardless of how incredible or elegantly composed your resume is, it will miss the mark in the event that it neglects to persuade the selection representative of what makes you the up-and-comer who has the stuff to take care of business.

You are more than your degree, step outside the box. University of Manchester Careers Blog

You are more than your degree, step fresh. College of Manchester Careers Blog A few degrees are professional, some are not, yet whatever you concentrate there are in every case a bigger number of choices after Uni than just truly utilizing your degree. You might be a researcher however you dont need to work in a lab! Let's be honest a degree is a bit of paper that says you read a subject for x years to a necessary norm. It doesn't consider your individual advantages, character, extracurricular experience and conditions. So why use it as the main premise to design your future. Your real degree will give you some authority information, a few abilities and potentially the alternative to accomplish work experience like a position or work on an undertaking for an organization. In the event that you need to be strict about what your degree gives you check these out. You can choose to what degree you have these abilities or attributes. Watch History understudy Muneera discussing her degree. While you are going through 3+ years contemplating you ideally will get out and do some stuff, join a general public, play sport, volunteer, find a new line of work, tutor different understudies, do a year abroad, converse with individuals and structure opinions. All these things help you to create abilities. You are advancing, your third year self would presumably giggle at a portion of your first year selfs desires, that is fine we as a whole learn by understanding, you will continue learning and developing when you leave college and route past! See the master plan On the off chance that you state you are a geology understudy and dont realize what to do (I was) we may inquire as to whether there is anything identified with your subject you are keen on just to check, however we dont have any anticipate that you should have a disclosure on the spot. Do some pondering (alright we call it reflecting) consider what your identity is and what you deeply desire. What is extremely critical to you? Achievement, cash, liking what you do, area, long stretches of work, stress, different responsibilities? It doesnt must be everlastingly what do you need at the present time? (its ideal to have a drawn out arrangement, however most people groups change) Can you precisely assess your own abilities strengths? Do you comprehend what you are acceptable at and what you appreciate (these may not be very similar things!) When you know somewhat about yourself you could begin taking a gander at occupations and assessing whether they meet your objectives Prospects Planner can be helpful now it will propose some activity jobs that meet your inclinations dependent on a short survey. You could run some in or out, and afterward go and look at some live opening to perceive what the employments truly resemble, or converse with businesses at fairs organizing occasions. Consider the possibility that I secure the position I truly need and Im doing an inappropriate degree. I wouldnt alarm a lot there are a colossal measure of employments that take any degree and often its progressively significant what aptitudes you have created. Of all shapes and sizes organizations can likewise vary in their necessities so search around. For certain employments you can do a Postgraduate change course for example IT, law, social work, instructing medicine. Most dire outcome imaginable for example In the event that you need to turn into a designer and you have done English that will be dubious BUT there can be different choices so dont surrender converse with us and keep a receptive outlook. Dont stress a lot over what others are doing. While it tends to be fascinating to discover what individuals from your degree do straightaway, it doesnt mention to you what they did after that which could be totally unique. Regularly understudies reveal to every one of us my companions are doing this. They might be correct, they might not be right or it might be perfect for them. You have to assess what YOU need to do and afterward make a move as needs be. By doing whatever every other person is doing you could essentially be burning through your time or totally worrying yourself! Converse with us about choices with or without your degree! All Careers exhortation I don't have the foggiest idea what to do Undergraduate-featured profession vocation arranging Getting started

Making Electric Motorcycles Great Again

Making Electric Motorcycles Great Again Making Electric Motorcycles Great Again Making Electric Motorcycles Great What does a lady do with certain instruments and a 3D printer in the carport, a science qualification, and a fantasy to manufacture things that have never been fabricated? She fabricates the universes quickest electric cruiser. A pleased tree-hugger and speed addict with energy for everything building, 35-year old Eva Hakansson, is formally the universes quickest female cruiser rider with a double crucial life: To show that battery-controlled electric vehicles are quick and fun and that designing is an extraordinary vocation decision for ladies. Designing is expressions and artworks for adults. You simply snatch further developed materials and devices. I dont see a lot of contrast in building a doll house or cruiser. You have the vision and thought in your mind, you plan how to emerge it, says Hakansson, who as of late finished her doctorate in mechanical building from the University of Denver, Colorado. Indeed, designing is in her blood. Sweden-conceived Hakanssons guardians are mechanical specialists. Both her siblings are electrical designers. Additionally, she is hitched to a mechanical designer. At the point when I converse with young ladies pondering designing, I reveal to them that advanced building isn't about muscle power and lifting stuff. Its progressively about intellectual prowess, taking care of complex undertakings, tackling issues, and task the executives. Ladies are generally acceptable at that, she says. Eva Hakansson. Picture: EvaHakanssonRacing.com Living Her Dream Her energy for all-things-mechanics drove her to structure and assemble KillaJoule, a streamliner electric bike. It took right around three years to get to 200 mph and now it has been six years, says Hakansson, who races each year in August at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. With her present land speed record of 248.700 mph (400.2 km/h), she is likewise the universes quickest female bike rider. Hakansson alludes to her dashing as a hereditary issue. Her father constructed and hustled cruisers in nights and ends of the week. He had a full machine shop in the cellar. It wasnt until numerous years after the fact I understood how surprising, and helpful, it was to realize how to machine, weld, and to have other machine shop abilities, she says. Coincidently, she likewise shares her fixation for everything quick with her significant other Bill Dube. At the point when she and her significant other initially dashed a racing bike, the Killacycle, which went from 0-60 mph in under a second, they battled with imparting to the open how quick it is. We understood individuals who are keen on electric vehicles must be overwhelmed by execution. Quickening is acceptable however they need to see top speed, she says. They chose to in this way fabricate a cruiser that would be so madly quick that no one could disregard it and would cause to notice reasonable innovations, in the two-vehicle carport of their home in Colorado. It took Eva and her significant other five years to fabricate KillaJoule in their carport. Picture: Paul Blundell Eco-Activism in Disguise The 19-ft long, 400 HP, smooth bike involves an engine, a battery, a choke, and wheels. The KillaJoule may look muddled, yet things being what they are, it is only a mammoth cordless drill with wheels, says Hakansson. It is controlled by the A123Systems NanoPhosphate battery, which is revived utilizing sunlight based force at home, or by a cross breed bio-diesel fueled generator on the track. Hakansson calls KillaJoule eco-activism in mask. Speed, she accepts, is an incredible method of demonstrating the capacities of battery power and by means of her electric bike she plans to make individuals that in any case wouldnt be keen on low-discharge vehicles know about their latent capacity. As per her, the primary test in building the vehicle has been financial plan and time. The battery pack and engine are supported however everything else is from cash on hand. It has been an over the top expensive leisure activity, she concedes, with absolute expenses adding up to 150K. We would have taken care of our home quite a while in the past on the off chance that it wasnt for the Killajoule, she snickers. To spare expense and time this year, she 3D printed a portion of the parts utilizing the LulzBot 3D printer. 3D printing is an incredible method to make complex shapes. The parts we have right presently are custom fenced in areas for gadgets and streamlined airfoils and shapes. Parts that are very tedious to shape by hand. Do Your Math Homework The significant expenses havent discouraged her from moving in the direction of her definitive objective of arriving at a speed of 300 mph. She is now arranging her next cruiser with an objective of going 400 mph. I plan to have it out one year from now for first test, she says. Everybody is given chances however what sets Hakansson separated is that she took them all. I sought after an equal way alongside my training, she features. At the point when you become weary of doing your math schoolwork, you go to the carport and work a little and in the event that you do that for a long time you can be the best on the planet. That is truly what got me to where I am. So whats her guidance for little youngsters with an enthusiasm for building who should follow her way? Do your math schoolwork and dont be reluctant to be hands-on and fixing things. There is nothing more fulfilling and engaging than to see your thought appear through work finished with your own hands. Designing is expressions and specialties for adults. You simply snatch further developed materials and apparatuses. I don't see a lot of contrast in building a doll house or motorcycle.Eva Hakansson