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Often, the thing we should do for our career is something we would only do if we were getting a reward. If you tell yourself that your job has to be something you'd do even if you didn't get paid, you'll be looking for a long time. Maybe forever. So why set that standard? The reward for doing a job is contributing to something larger than you are, participating in society, and being valued in the form of money. The pressure we feel to find a perfect career is insane. And, given that people are trying to find it before they are thirty, in order to avoid both a quarter life crisis and a biological-clock crisis, the pressure is enough to push people over the edge. Which is why one of the highest risk times for depression in life is in one's early twenties when people realize how totally impossible it is to simply "do what you love." Here's some practical advice: Do not do what you love; do what you are. It's how I chose my career. I bought the book with that title - maybe my favorite career book of all time - and I took the quickie version of the Myers-Briggs test. The book gave me a list of my strengths, and a list of jobs where I would likely succeed based on those strengths. Relationships make your life great, not jobs.  But a job can ruin your life - make you feel out of control in terms of your time or your ability to accomplish goals -  but no job will make your life complete. It's a myth mostly propagated by people who tell you to do what you love. Doing what you love will make you feel fulfilled. But you don't need to get paid for it. A job can save your life, though. If you are lost, and lonely, and wondering how you'll ever find your way in this world, take a job. Any job. Because structure, and regular contact with regular people, and a method of contributing to a larger group are all things that help us recalibrate ourselves.

I suggest that we must not be hopeful that governments can find the solution (or afford it if they found one) and that we must look for the solution from within the daily circumstances of people who are suffering from the present worsening situation. Many people are trying to adjust in individual ways, even though welfare payments from governments are declining and impoverishment grows. Others (a minority) are trying, as already mentioned, to form new forms of communities in which they can improve their efforts by mutual exchange of services. If there is to be hope in both cases, I would suggest that they will need many more skills than they have at present. However, as government expenditure retrenches, education is going to become increasingly expensive. For cultural and financial reasons, an increasing number of people are going to be denied any chance of acquiring skills for paid-jobs (as they become increasingly specialised) and for more ordinary daily circumstances (eg carpentry, growing vegetables, saving energy, equipment maintenance, medical care, etc, etc). However, in the Internet we have the potential for a new instructional and informational technology that can offer almost any skill. Considering that the performance/price ratio of the PCs, modems, etc, has increased at least a million-fold in the last 15 years, then, in 15 years' time, the potential for a versatile and sophisticated instructional technology must be phenomenal - even to the poorest among us.

This free eBook, eLearning Trends in 2019, the fourth one in this series, has been designed to be your guide to enhance, measure, and maximize the impact and returns on your learning strategies in 2019.

AbstractsAmong statements about educational goals found in the engineering literature, two - the CDIO Syllabus and the Taxonomy of Engineering Competencies - stand out in regard to range and level of detail.  The two statements have been formulated independently and each presents a different perspective on the goals of engineering education.  This paper takes advantage of the unique opportunity afforded by having two well-worked but different perspectives on the goals of engineering education.  A comparison of the two statements reveals their respective strengths and weaknesses, provides mutual endorsement of their comprehensiveness and quality, and gives deeper insight into the dynamics and difficulties associated with the formulation of statements about the goals of engineering education.  In addition, it develops a rationale for the formulation of a universal document on the goals of engineering education, discusses the merits and limitations of such a document and makes some recommendations about how it might be compiled

What I suggest :: 1.  Get to know everyone in the company, and let them get to know you. What are their career goals? Where did they come from? How long have they been with 'said' company?  What other companies have they worked for? 2.  Work your tail off and show how committed you are.  You don't have to be committed to a company necessarily ..but you do have to be committed to doing a great job on the assignment - to the end. 3.  Show interest for more. Get involved in networking events. This may take a bit of your free time but it will pay off.  Everyone knows someone who knows someone.  Get out there and meet those 2nd and 3rd connections. 4.  Finally, connect to all of your temporary co-workers on LinkedIn.  Request recommendations from them. Keep in touch with them long after your assignment.  As your career develops, so will theirs.  Those contacts may pay off big in 5 years. Bottom line?  Take advantage of every opportunity that you are given.  Nothing is minimal unless you insist it to be.  The opportunities are out there and the time is yours.  Do as I did/do…. OWN IT!!! … I'm Shannon, your personal LinkedIn Advisor, Staffing Consultant & Online Marketing Strategist! Over the last few years, I have been working diligently on establishing my own 

While the usage of videos in eLearning is not a new concept, the wider adoption of mobile learning and microlearning has accelerated its use for learning. In this article, I outline 6 video-based learning strategies that you must adopt in 2019.

At this time of the year, you look out for trends that can enhance your training delivery. In this article, I share the eLearning Trends in 2019 you can use to enhance, measure, and maximize the impact and returns on your learning strategies.

This paper details how a team at MIT identified and codified a set of goals for engineering education, which can serve as the basis for curricular improvement and outcome based assessment. The result of two years of scholarship, these goals are embodied in The CDIO Syllabus, A Statement of Goals for Undergraduate Engineering Education. The specific CDIO (Conceive - Design - Implement - Operate) Syllabus objective is to create rational, complete, universal and generalizable goals for undergraduate engineering education. The Syllabus focuses on personal, interpersonal and system building skills, and leaves a placeholder for the disciplinary fundamentals appropriate for any specific field of engineering. It complements and significantly expands on ABET's criteria. The process of adapting the Syllabus to a degree program includes a survey step to determine the desired level of proficiency in the designated skills that is, by consensus, expected of program's graduates. With rationale, detail and broad applicability, the CDIO Syllabus' principal value is that it can be generalized to serve as a model from which any university's engineering programs may derive specific learning outcomes. Written for presentation to the ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 06-09 November 2002. Available here through the courtesy of the American Society of Engineering Education.

As microlearning-based training moves to center stage, I outline what is driving its rapid adoption. In this article, I also share microlearning trends in 2019, and how you can leverage them to boost employee performance.

This article will assist learning leaders in understanding the many benefits of investing in an LCMS. First, we will explore the component functionality of a robust LCMS in today's marketplace. Then, more importantly, we will provide a clear overview of how the different technical features help.

Let's start with a simple definition: eLearning Authoring tools are used to create eLearning lessons. These tools have been around much longer than most people know. When asked, many guess that they started coming on the market recently or perhaps back in the 1990s. The truth is the National Science Foundation funded the first authoring tool, called PLATO, way back in 1960, and then another in 1967, called TICCIT. Both spawned many other authoring tools over the years.

What does an "open badge ecosystem look like -- and how can it benefit you? Any BADGE ISSUER (for example, an after-school programs, free online course, or vocational institute) can award certified BADGES to learners like you. Learns can then collect and manage their badges in a BADGE BACKPACK. This makes it easy to display your skills and achievements across a range of different DISPLAY SITES -- from your personal resume or web site, to social networking profiles, to employment sites. The result? Jobs, new learning opportunities and unlocked privileges.

Compliance training is mandatory and crucial for organizations. However, although it is essential and cannot be avoided, no employee loves it. In this article, I showcase how you can use microlearning to make your compliance training engaging.

Microlearning in corporate training is not "eLearning-lite". So, just splicing the existing 30 minutes eLearning course into 5 nuggets does not create Microlearning nuggets.

Once you are clear about your personal brand, here are three steps to enhance your online reputation: Step 1. Understand your digital brand. You can use tools like Google, Truveo and Addictomatic, and online ID Calculator, to understand how you measure up in the four dimensions of online branding. Step 2. Determine which of the four measures - volume, relevance, diversity or purity - needs the greatest attention (you may have a couple that could use some work). Step 3. Depending on which areas need the most attention, apply the tips below: Volume enhancers: If you need more results that are about you, set up social networking profiles on many sites by editing your current branded bio and establishing accounts at naymz, ziki, ziggs and other sites. Relevance enhancers: To enhance relevance, where possible, remove content that is unflattering or inconsistent with how you want to be known, write an article about your area of expertise and post it to an appropriate online portal. Find blogs related to your area of thought-leadership, subscribe and comment when you have something valuable to contribute. Review books related to your area of expertise at amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. Publish relevant white papers to SCRIBD.com. To learn how to turn one real-world communications activity into a year's worth of online content. Purity enhancers: Sign up for an account at Vizibility. The service allows you to identify the Google results that are about you and create a "Search Me" button that you can include in your e-mail signature, your LinkedIn profile, on your blog, etc. Diversity enhancers: Sign up for a Flickr account and post relevant images. If you don't already have one, set up your Google profile. Soon, you should be on your way to the volume, relevance, purity and diversity that will improve your ability to get a job.

site.  Here are 10 of the most common LinkedIn networking mistakes: Lots of us are open networkers, meeting new folks and connecting with them for mutual networking purposes but if you have never met someone or have had little interaction with them it virtually insults their endorsement. Sorry folks. A recruiter is someone who finds candidates to fill jobs, not someone who finds jobs to employ candidates. This is a very key mistake that many people make. Always do your research before contacting someone so you are aware of their position at the company they work for.  Make sure that you visit a company's career page and if possible apply online before asking questions regarding jobs.  Doing a little bit of homework beforehand will speed up the process and put less of a burden on the person you're asking for help. If folks wanted their email address to be public knowledge, they'd put it right on their profile (and many of them do, so please check there first!). Instead of wasting someone's time and having them search their contacts, run a search yourself. You can easily find out the answer and then send an introduction request to the person (or perhaps someone else in your network) who can introduce you to the perfect target contact. After all, only you know the reason why you want to reach out and who the best contact person at that company might be. Great! But please note that I have not worked for "Acme" Company in seven years, so an interview with me won't get you very far… Oops! Please read my profile carefully before reaching out for help. Resume writing is a very time-intensive process that requires two-way discussion, extensive editing and re-writing, etc. Professional Resume Writers charge big bucks for their services because it's no easy task. Often times, these requests are intentionally vague, asking for time on my busy calendar, yet not disclosing the reason for the meeting. It would be much more professional and fort

Performance Support Series: Featuring Prezi animations in our Learning framework to supplement online training. In this article, I will share a case study on how we have used Prezi (a presentation tool) to create an innovative learning aid. Shortly, this will be a part of our upcoming Performance Support Solutions.

Compliance trainings have been a significant part of corporate trainings for a long time now, they have been in the online format for the last 25 years. There have been a lot of changes since then in the way learning strategies are structured. And, compliance trainings have not yet used any new strategies to enhance the experiences of the learner.

The last few years have seen a significant increase in the use of social learning for employee training. In this article, I share the benefits of social learning and show you how you can use microlearning videos as an effective social learning tool.