November Employment Numbers Show Women Regaining Lost Jobs

November Employment Numbers Show Women Regaining Lost Jobs November Employment Numbers Show Women Regaining Lost Jobs Overall, women have regained 54 percent of jobs lost since December 2007 and men have regained about 52 percent of lost jobs. Over the year, 45 percent of vacant positions were filled by females, equating to 853,000 jobs. The difference between employment of men and women has narrowed significantly, falling to 1.75 mio fewer jobs for women in November 2012 compared to 3.4 million fewer jobs in December 2007.Unemployment dropped to 7.7 percent in November for working adults as adult women saw a drop in unemployment from 7.7 to 7.6 percent over the month and men saw a drop from 8 percent to 7.9 percent. As of November, 12 million workers remain unemployed.

This is the best way to talk about being fired in a job interview

This is the best way to talk about being fired in a job interviewThis is the best way to talk about being fired in a job interviewWhy did you leave your last job?Its a question thats already hard enough to answer, but is especially uncomfortable and stressful for people who have been fired. Explaining to an interviewer that you were fired from your last job - or even the one before that - is definitely a challenge. Still, its leid an insurmountable one.Heres how to do it right, so that you can be honest about your past without letting it hold you backReckon with yourselfThis is step one coming to a place of acceptance. Getting fired is one of the most emotional, traumatic events that can happen in your career. You cant answer an interviewers questions about it until you know how to answer to yourself. Was there anything you could have done differently? Are you mad at your employer? Are you mad at yourself?All of these emotions need to be processed before you can talk to a future emp loyer about it. To deal with these emotions, career expert J.T. ODonnell suggests writing out what happened in a journal and then taking out any subjective details in your retelling. That way, you train yourself to tell your story with facts, not opinions.This is all so you can walk into an interview with a clear head and speak about your experience clearly, not with lingering bitterness and resentment.Keep it honest but keep it briefYou need to disclose but not overshare. You dont want to lie about your termination, because with a reference check or some deeper digging, your lie can easily be found out and it will diminish you in the eyes of your new employer.But you also dont need to put yourself at a disadvantage and go deep into unflattering details about what happened. A job interview is not a court of law, and you could talk yourself into a hole very easily when you think youre vindicating yourself.Youll need to tailor your response to your specific circumstance, but your answ er should explain what you learned from the experience and how its made you a better employee. By doing this, youre reframing the narrative of a negative experience into a positive one.Explaining what you learned and how youve improved shows that you can take personal responsibility for your actions and it can even showcase new skills that youve learned since your firing.Dont badmouth your employerThis is the most important rule of all. It may be tempting to clear your name by burning bridges and airing an employers dirty laundry, but this approach will backfire.Lets repeat that Talking badly about your previous employer will backfire on you. Every. Single. Time.Justification will sound like an excuse. Take the example of John Thain who could not stop himself from getting into a he said/he said war with Bank of America after he welches fired from his position as CEO of Merrill Lynch. The story became about his firing, not his accomplishments and tenure at the bank. Getting fired is a hit to your ego, but if you rail against your former employer, you will lose the industry respect needed to get a new job.By badmouthing your past employer, you are sending a message to your potential employer that you could one day speak ill of them too. Dont do this.Move onOur pasts dont have to determine our futures. Next time, youre asked the dreaded were you fired? questions, come in prepared with what youre going to say. Carry yourself with dignity. Dont talk smack about your past employers misdeeds in the belief that it will make you look better. The truth is, every employer knows that how you talk about your past employers is how you will talk about them.Be honest and brief about how your previous role ended, so that you can move on to the most important thing in an interview persuading your interviewer that youre the best candidate for the job.

Engineer Profile Caitlin Katie Correll

Engineer Profile Caitlin Katie Correll Engineer Profile Caitlin Katie Correll Engineer Profile (Caitlin) Katie-CorrellKatie finishing a marionette design at the ONeill National Puppetry Conference.Katie Correll is an up-and-coming mechanical engineer with a passion for puppets and robotics. So when she learned from herbei berater that the ASME student section at her institution, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, welches engaging in a project for children that involved dancing fish and talking flowers, she couldnt be more excited to be involved.Supported by two ASME Diversity Action Grants (DAG), Cooper Union students designed and installed the Interactive Light Studio, an educational play space located at the American Sign Language and English Lower School (Public School 347) in Manhattan. The unique student population of the school is composed of deaf, hearing impaired, and children of deaf adults, as well as hearing students.The Studio involves ma ny elements crafted to encourage youngsters to discover science and engineering, as well as ways for both deaf and hearing kids to explore light and indirectly experience sound, describes Melody Baglione, Cooper Union professor of ME and ASMEs faculty advisor. The studio includes a digital projection system and giant interactive screen. Images are projected on the screen, such as fish, and flowers that are synchronized with music and other sounds. As the kids move in the studio, the visual and sound elements respond, serving as the fundament for various learning exercises.Correll, who chaired ASMEs Cooper Union Student Section for two years, became involved in the project for her senior design class. I wanted to teach the children about music, because music helps kick-start an interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), she recalls. The project had already been up and running for a year, but she immediately saw ways of improving it.In particular, she noticed that the majority of the time the kids were utilizing the space for free-time play. But realizing there was much more potential to expand upon what her teammates had already produced, she got to work designing a curriculum that could easily be incorporated into the Studio, with an aim of engaging the children even more. We wanted structured learning, she notes. I saw this need and I wanted to help fill it.With a background in toy design, Correll and the ASME Student Section designed and implemented a STEM-based curriculum that expanded on the projects original theme of exploration of sound and light. The central feature pursued was how shadows are cast. The lesson allowed the kids to suggest an object, guess the shape and morphology of its shadow, and explore how the shadow would change as the object is reoriented or if the light source location was adjusted.Fellow classmates, at Cooper Union, Dale Short and David Tan, added ways for children to explore sound and music visually. On e program they designed allows the kids to visualize sounds they create with their voices or musical instruments. Another program enables them to use movement to manipulate sound by triggering different portions of a song, such as vocals, percussion, or keyboards.The technical aspects were particularly fascinating, notes Correll. The project installation used an Xbox Kinect and microphone as sensors, and graphics were generated by OpenFrameworks, a C$-based toolkit that allows for rapid development of computer graphics. The Cooper Union students had not used these systems before so they especially appreciated the chance to enhance their programming skills and sensor array expertise. But they also gained crucial leadership and teambuilding expertise, as well as knowledge about how to design and implement a customized system for a client.The outcome of the project was extremely encouraging. The curriculum resonated with the kids who gained an appreciation for the connections between m ath and engineering and sound and light. Elementary school is where kids make a choice about STEM, says Correll. Were giving them a chance to learn about it and get inspired and find it really fun. In recognition for her efforts to promote engineering fundamentals, she received the 2012 Gold Medal of the ASME Charles T. Main Award.Correll is now on to a new phase in her career. She recently graduated and is pursuing a Masters in entertainment technology at Carnegie Mellon while interning for The Jim Henson Company. But she clarifies that the ASME project solidified her passion for STEM. It reinforced in me that going into a career in engineering doesnt have to be a traditional engineering career with HVACS, she says. I can do something really creative and innovative like designing these systems.And she couldnt be happier that the ASME DAG program helped to support her teams vision and goals. If we hadnt been able to access the funds from DAG, we wouldnt have been able to create such a robust system thats going to help these kids for years and years to come, says Correll. ur program is going to touch lots and lots of students, and that means a lot to me.Diversity Action Grant Applications may be submitted from the Beginning of the Fall Semester until the Deadline of November 1st.