The government reports that more than 600,000 people lost their jobs last month. There were that many or more the month before. There are more than 8% of the population unemployed and those are the ones that are reported, that have applied for unemployment. There are probably that many more that are unemployed and have either depleted their unemployment or didn't work for an organization that was a part of that system. (A friend of mine worked for a ministry. He has been unemployed for nine months with no unemployment because the ministry didn't participate in that system.)
Companies receive more resumes than they can read for an opening. There was a school in Ohio that ran an ad for a janitor position and had more than 700 resumes in response. There were people with degrees and who had experience at a management level that applied.
The competition for jobs is greater than ever and there are fewer jobs to fight for. Companies are laying off and cutting back. Everyone is aware of the condition of our economy.
So, is the strategy of placing your resume on Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com or other job boards a smart strategy in times like these? The answer is, It doesn't matter. The people who get jobs from that strategy are few and far between. If you think the 700:1 odds in that Ohio janitor position were bad you should hear about the competition for the real jobs, the ones you want on those job boards. It's astronomical.
It's a waste of time to put your resume on Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com and the other job boards. It's an exercise in futility. But, if it makes you feel better go ahead and place it there. If you need to feel that you have done something then go for it. But, don't sit back and hold your breath waiting for the phone to ring or your email inbox to fill up with offers. Your inbox will fill up but with junk mail and offers of selling insurance and the like. But, the real jobs, the ones you want are not going to come running after you.
The job boards such as the ones we have mentioned are still used by Human Resources in many companies because it shows they are doing something. These people are most often process oriented people who feel like they have accomplished something because they have listed the position and are getting massive amounts of responses to the position listing. Results are measured by the volume of response not the length of time it takes to get someone hired. And, you get caught in the middle.
There are many other strategies for finding just the right job. You can go to my website, and to my blog there for steps to take to find your next job. It includes valuable information that will help you to find and land your next job and it will be the right one.
Mental health can be seen as a continuum, where an individual's mental health may have many different possible values. Mental wellness is generally viewed as a positive attribute, such that a person can reach enhanced levels of mental health, even if they do not have any diagnosable mental health condition. This definition of mental health highlights emotional well-being, the capacity to live a full and creative life, and the flexibility to deal with life's inevitable challenges. Many therapeutic systems and self-help books offer methods and philosophies espousing strategies and techniques vaunted as effective for further improving the mental wellness of otherwise healthy people. Positive psychology is increasingly prominent in mental health.
A holistic model of mental health generally includes concepts based upon anthropological, educational, psychological, religious and sociological perspectives, as well as theoretical perspectives from personality, social, clinical, health and developmental psychology.
An example of a wellness model includes one developed by Myers, Sweeny and Witmer. It includes five life tasks — essence or spirituality, work and leisure, friendship, love and self-direction—and twelve sub tasks—sense of worth, sense of control, realistic beliefs, emotional awareness and coping, problem solving and creativity, sense of humor, nutrition, exercise, self care, stress management, gender identity, and cultural identity—are identified as characteristics of healthy functioning and a major component of wellness. The components provide a means of responding to the circumstances of life in a manner that promotes healthy functioning. Most of the US Population is not educated on Mental Health.
The Lemonade Diet is the portion of the Master Cleanse where you drink only the Lemonade made from Lemon, Maple Syrup, Cayenne Pepper and Water. It is great for detox and weight loss and has a large following of people who have tried it with great success.
An occupational disease is any chronic ailment that occurs as a result of work or occupational activity. An occupational disease is typically identified when it is shown that it is more prevalent in a given body of workers than in the general population, or in other worker populations. Occupational hazards that are of a traumatic nature (such as falls by roofers) are not considered to be occupational diseases. Under the law of workers' compensation in many jurisdictions, there is a presumption that specific disease are caused by the worker being in the work environment and the burden is on the employer or insurer to show that the disease came about from another cause.
Some well-known occupational diseases include:
* Asbestosis among asbestos miners and those who work with friable asbestos insulation.
* Black lung (Coalworker's pneumoconiosis) among coal miners
* Carpal tunnel syndrome among persons who work in the poultry industry and who do data entry.
* Radiation sickness among persons who work in the nuclear industry.
* Phossy jaw among the London matchgirls
* Radium jaw among the Radium Girls
* Squamous cell carcinoma of the skin of the scrotum among chimney sweeps. The link was discovered by Percivall Pott in 1775.
* Byssinosis among workers in parts of the cotton textile industry
