New Updates to The Ultimate RSS Feed Collection for the Israeli Job Seeker

New Updates to The Ultimate RSS Feed Collection for the Israeli Job Seeker 2 Time for another update of this useful resource. If you don't know what RSS feeds are, or how they can help your job search, read RSS: The Best Job Search Tool You’re Not Using Enough and then come back to this article. Removed feeds Israemploy Hot Jobs â€" this feed was taken down when Israemploy announced plans to upgrade their site. Hopefully it will return when the new Israemploy is launched. Job Central Israel â€" Job Central no longer carries jobs outside of the United States. Pocket.co.il Communities â€" unfortunately, their jobs-oriented forum was closed at some point during the past few months. Danel, Working with a Smile â€" the First Jobs Blog for Students in Israel, this blog has now ended. New Feeds Jerusalem Post Jobs â€" mostly hitech and there's a lot of repetition. Jobs in Israel â€" a new blog begun by Brad Bernstein that is simply a list of job openings. Aliyah Job Center â€" the Hot Jobs feed from this Jewish Agency-sponsored site. Hebrew University in Jerusalem â€" job openings for students and staff. Tobefedup.co.il â€" a site dedicated to helping any Israeli who's had enough of waiting for replies to their cover letter emails (you did read the Open Letter to the Recruiters of the World From Job Seekers Everywhere, right?). The feed has some job listings and site members can also post what they're looking for. Career Center â€" feed from an Israeli job site (Hebrew). For the full guide, head on over to The Ultimate RSS Feed Collection for the Israeli Job Seeker. Subscribe via RSS or email for alerts about updates to this and other ultimate job guides here on JobMob.eval

How Conservative Companies Can Use Social for Storytelling

How Conservative Companies Can Use Social for Storytelling Social media is  ingrained into modern, every day  life. Its a virtual network mirroring very real populations, so its  important for businesses to be visible on there too.  Even  companies which operate  in highly-regulated environments, like the insurance industry, can use  social to their advantage. Conservative organisations neednt label it a no no they just have to work around red tape and regulation, set out a clear strategy and monitor the exposure. The secret is to carefully cultivate  the right storytelling culture online, which will help build a safe social brand that not only sells  products, but paints  the company as a desirable employer. To get some details, I speak to Keith Lewis of Zurich Insurance in the UK to learn how they use  LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube to tell stories to their target audiences of consumers, brokers and employees. Listen to the interview on SoundCloud, iTunes or keep reading for a summary of our conversation. And make sure  you subscribe to the Employer Branding Podcast. Tell us about Zurich Insurance and what you do there? Were a global insurance company with 60,000 people across the world, 120 odd countries, and I look after social media here in the UK. We look after both our life insurance business, so pensions, protections and investment, but primarily the stuff were doing across social are general insurance. So we ensure everything from your car, my home, individual property, all the way up to global companies. We also do have a whole arm of risk engineering. So generally speaking if you can see a lift or an escalator in the UK, its likely that a Zurich engineer has given it a seal of approval. We do all sorts of things to make sure people are protected in their day-to-day lives. What are some of the challenges you face with social media? Were a highly regulated industry and different regulations apply to different parts of the business that we operate. We always have to be very acutely aware of that when were operating in the space. But its mainly around the actual selling of insurance. So in my mind, I divvy what we do into two brackets. Were obviously there to sell products around all the different things that we already talked about. But were also here to talk about Zurich as a company in the UK. Weve got 22 locations here, weve got 5,500 people who work across all those different things that I talked about earlier. So we use social a lot to tell the Zurich story, or start to tell the Zurich story about how we operate in our local environments. Because of course as a big company, weve got all the usual things you might expect us to do.  But people dont necessarily associate insurance with things like that. So weve got a big community trust, all our employees do two or three days of charity work at least a year. We do our local engagement around our different sites. We do lots of different things, thats all part of telling the Zurich story, really. What are your social media objectives? Of course weve got to drive business value from it, and so I take sort of Andrew Grills definition from IBM of social business, and of social media. So creating networks and building collaborations to tell the stories, but it has to drive a value. So into telling the story, weve got to make sure that people see us as perhaps an employer of choice or someone they want to work with, or actually recognising that we do all the things that Ive talked about. But also weve got to try and make sure that people are aware that your average consumer or business owner or executive is aware of the importance that insurance has. Insurance, god its dull isnt it? Frankly it is, its not the sort of glamorous product that youd naturally associated with social media. We dont actually have a product that people have in their properties. We used to have an insurance certificate, nowadays thats just electronic. People very rarely get excited about their renewal premiums coming in. So we have to find ways, interesting ways of explaining what we do and the value that we offer to whatever it is that the customer wants. How do you go about generating a story telling culture inside the business? Its a part of the thing weve not really done very well at in the past and were now recognising that, perhaps that Ive come into the role helps do that. To kind of free people up. Were very much, were very conservative organisation and the structure and culture of the organisation has been like that for years, as youd expect perhaps from a complex regulated world. That were inherently nervous about allowing people to speak out loud. But now with social, the world has changed. Social has absolutely shifted that. Now were reversing that, all those decades of culture that weve had and changed, trying to change that. So part of my role is to get out across all our UK offices, to give people permission really. They thought  for a number of years  they werent  allowed to talk about Zurich and talk about all the good stuff that we do. Or even the real small stuff that we take for granted in sharing some of that content. But weve now got it written into our, what we call Zurich Basics, which is our global sort of behavioural framework. Zurich Basics tells, makes it explicitly clear that all our employees can operate in a social media environment about work related matters. If they chose not to, thats fine. Huge ?????? to our amazing @ZurichInsUK #vlm2016 dream team £raised will make an amazing difference thank you! pic.twitter.com/f0OSGdypAI ZurichCommunityTrust (@ZCTrust) April 24, 2016 Im on a journey now to try and give people permission to start sharing, to start engaging. To build those networks of their own, in their own lives, whether it is a professional network or a personal network, and to start to explain what they do. I think weve got to recognise that not everyone in our organisation, across any organisation is going to naturally be a social media expert. They might be quite happy to do what they do and perhaps have Facebook as a purely personal thing, like most of us do. Having the ability and the permission to expand their networks. Were all far busier and were less able to get out and perhaps do those face-to-face networking that perhaps people did 10, 15, 20 years ago. A lot of that networking now happens in an online space. Were kind of having to give people permission to operate and to get back out there. Its good to see people around our organisation starting to make those inroads. What social platforms  deliver the best results for Zurich? LinkedIn is one thats working mainly for us at the moment. Weve used Twitter as a broadcast tool really over the years. Part of what were trying to do now is to change that from broadcast to engagement. But weve got to remember that lots of people are engaging our brokers as B2B, not necessarily B2C. So were using more LinkedIn and thats why I hop back to the employee advocacy pieces, that people have their own networks. So we need to equip our employees with a content that they can then share with their own networks, which starts to bring the brand, and LinkedIn is a great tool to allow people to do that. It also feels, when youre taking people on a journey, that LinkedIn is a safe place to do it. Its just clearly a professional environment and youre there professionally.  So youve automatically got those built in limits perhaps in your mind, as to what sort of things youre going to talk about. So thats a good comfort blanket. Im on Twitter a lot, because I come to this from a media perspective, media relations is my background. So thats where journalist sell, thats where news breaks. So using that more and trying to pick out the key people around our organisation, to work their networks that are all on Twitter. But for me the message I take to people is Im not bothered what platform you choose, as long as you understand what youre trying to achieve by being on there and where youre audience is. So for us, perhaps some of our more, lets call them less exciting areas so our underwriter community are actuaries. Where do actuaries hang out online? It might be that theyre in a chat forum thats attached to a trade magazine for actuaries. If thats where the community is and thats where they go, thats where I want them to play. So its understanding that audience piece, where they want and where you can create that business value that I hark back to. Whats next for social media in the  insurance world? I think its how we talk to customers. People dont realise that complaints are regulated in the financial services  world, and we have to report on them. So we are sometimes criticised for taking complaints off-line and dealing with them. Thats kind of because we have to, because we have to report those. How we make that a smoother process is certainly something we could improve on. Weve put in some software to our operation that allows social to be part of the normal interaction.  So a call handler might have a phone call coming in. The next on the list might be a tweet to deal with it, it might be a Facebook message to deal with. So we need to get smarter about doing that. The big thing for us is how we tell our stories. Inherently, most people thinking of insurance start on a negative. Because they remember their renewal premium coming in, it may have gone up. Theyve not had a claim, the market is changing for a bit. Were a business after all, so we have to make money. Weve had some big losses in the last 12 months in the UK and globally. So we need to factor all that and somehow we need to take customers with us on the journey. Theyre legally obliged to have car insurance and we have to tell our story better about how we help, how were a part of helping them to keep going, keep driving their cars in the way that they want to. The Internet of things changes a load of things for us as insurance companies. Think about the way driverless cars is going, as an insurance company that solves our problem. Or does it? It perhaps changes the insurance debate into a liability debate. Because now or in the not too distant future, you wont be driving your car when it crashes. Your software will be driving it. So who looks after the software? Whos responsible when that software goes wrong and how do we as insurers build for the future and get ready for that debate? So theres lots of really exciting things going on there, in the insurance space that were working towards and trying to find the way we can help customers in the future. Follow Keith on Twitter @KeithLewisComms  and subscribe to the Employer Branding Podcast.

Tell the Truth With the Weakness Interview Question - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Tell the Truth With the Weakness Interview Question - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Im surprised at the bad advice given when it comes to the weakness interview question â€" whats your biggest weakness? â€" from career experts. Turn it into a strength, they say. Use examples like I have to triple check everything before I send it out, or I insist on being early for every meeting.' Thats bullshit. Thats the worst kind of bullshit, because its been perpetuated ever since I can remember, when I first joined the job market over 20 years ago. For one thing, interviewers can see right through it. They read the same articles that tell you to give that answer, so theyre expecting it. For another, nobody, and I mean nobody is so perfect in every way that even their weaknesses make them awesome. If that were true, they wouldnt be looking for a job. Instead, they would be giving awesome lessons to the Most Interesting Man in the World. And yet, we keep hearing that answers like Im a perfectionist or I work too hard will impress the interviewers so much, theyll leap to their feet, shout Eureka! and hire you on the spot. Bullshit. Now, that doesnt mean you tell your most damning weaknesses during the interview. Like your ever-changing loyalties that has you changing jobs every six months. Or your overdeveloped need to create office drama. Or your sexual attraction to office equipment. Being honest doesnt mean being so stupidly honest you interview yourself right out of a job. Pick a real weakness, but not a glaring one, and do one of two things: 1) Find a bright side to the weakness, or a way that you work around it. For example, I am absolutely afraid of public speaking, but communicate very well in a one-on-one situation. So I always try to sell only to one or two people, and bring in someone to assist if there is a need for a sales presentation. Ive been able to keep a high close rate with this approach. That shows you know its a problem, and have a solution already in mind. 2) Tell the interviewer youre working on the problem. Ive always been afraid of public speaking, and thats hurt some sales opportunities in the past. So Ive been going to Toastmasters to improve my speaking skills. That tells them youre trying to fix the problem. In either case, youre not making a weakness a strength. Youre identifying a real problem that many people have, and demonstrating your self-awareness and commitment to working around it. Everyone has weaknesses. Everyone. People who dont are liars or are susceptible to bad advice, which are weaknesses of their own. When youre asked the weakness question â€" and you will be â€"   make sure you work out your answer in advance, practice it a few times, and deliver it with conviction. Your interviewer is more likely to be impressed by a real answer, and youll stand out from the crowd in a positive way. Not because you were the third workaholic perfectionist to cross their path that day.  Author: Erik Deckers is the owner of Professional Blog Service, and the co-author of Branding Yourself: How to Use Social Media to Invent or Reinvent Yourself. His new book, No Bullshit Social Media: The All-Business, No-Hype Guide to Social Media Marketing, which he wrote with Jason Falls, is in bookstores and on Amazon now.

Why Your Business Should Support a Charity - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Why Your Business Should Support a Charity - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Unfortunately many businesses are only profit driven and they often neglect the problems of the world. However, you can get many benefits while helping the world become a better place to live. You can build a stronger brand image, attract and retain the best talent and separate your company from your competitors by creating a positive image. Keep reading below to find out other advantages of supporting a charity for your business. Importance of Giving Back to the Community: Supporting a charity helps your company to give back to the community and do some good. Customers appreciate companies which have a social mission or which are socially conscious. They prefer shopping from these types of companies or using their services. Also, they are willing to pay a little extra to support a cause. When you give back, you also help raise awareness. Therefore, others can follow your lead and raise funds or create special programs for more support. Increased Employee Satisfaction: Supporting a charity increases the morale of your employees and they feel more fulfilled and satisfied from their jobs. Everybody wants to make a difference in the world and so, more qualified candidates prefer companies which try to make a difference in the world. Employees feel more attached to their employers because of the positive feelings they receive from their jobs and another benefit is that it is great for bonding with coworkers because everyone works for the same cause. Great for Company Brand and Reputation: When you make a big donation or sponsor a charity event, your brand name is written everywhere from event brochures to flyers. Therefore, these kinds of donations help you put your name out there and show everyone that you care about social problems. When you care about the world, others respect your company and brand because you create a positive and stronger image. Also, be careful about supporting charities that fit within your brand or mission. For example; if you are a company that makes pens, you can support a charity that works for a better education system or helps underprivileged children go to school. Tax Deduction: Not only you help your community but also you immediately see its return financially. Businesses receive tax deductions from donations or sponsoring charity events but make sure that your accounting department follows all of the procedures and comply with the rules. Obviously, making a donation just for the tax deduction is not a very good idea but IRS rewards companies that give back to the community in terms of taxation.

How to Deal with A Clash of Staff Personalities

How to Deal with A Clash of Staff Personalities Photo Credit â€" publicdomainpictures.netSometimes people who work together do not get along and it’s hard to form relationships with people who ‘just don’t get you’. However personality clashes cause a bad atmosphere at work and impact on motivation and productivity.These clashes can also lead to the breakdown of working relations within a team or department.When two people don’t get on at work, the atmosphere can quickly sour and productivity will plunge.evalHostility is usually hidden but it can show itself in passive aggressive behavior such as avoiding, ignoring or procrastinating.For managers and business owners, problems between their employees are one of the most unpleasant and difficult things you have to deal with. However conflict at work is incredibly common and a lot of businesses don’t know how to deal with it.Personality clashesYou need to make sure that it is not a serious issue, such as bullying or discrimination. Normally it’s due to personality clashe s that causes most of problem.Employees that feel angry or upset usually find it hard to disguise their feelings. This will make an impact on their motivation and productivity in their work as it can be hard for them to concentrate. The conflict can even affect others in the team, as the working dynamic can change.In a small firm, the impact can be even more noticeable. This is because the office or work place maybe smaller so it is harder to get away from conflict.However, small businesses tend to handle these problems better than bigger firms. A small business owner is likely to want to clear the air straight away and talk to those involved, as they are more of a close knit team.Problems often get sorted more rapidly and more easily. It is more difficult in a bigger office because it is more of a corporate environment, where staff may build working relationships in their department rather than all of company.Why is there conflict between staff?evalNormally it is because the indivi duals are very similar. The arguments are usually around miscommunications, misunderstanding and different styles of communicating or working.People can also have misguided assumptions about their colleagues’ intentions.Email doesn’t help situations too. Sometimes things can be read differently to how people portray their words. People often use email more when things are going wrong. You need to invest time in face-to-face conversations.Change is another problem for conflict. People are often unhappy when there has been a change in line management; perhaps someone who was previously a peer has become a new manager. Employees are often used to a particular situation and find it hard to adjust to change.evalYou should try to get people to talk to each other one on one, so they can better understand each other and eventually restore the relationship. Normally problems are resolved when people actually talk to each other in a safe and comfortable environment.Who should deal with th is?Dealing with conflict â€" and avoiding it in the first place â€" normally comes down to the line manager. The worst thing a manager can do is to ignore a toxic relationship within the business. This is why the role of the line manager is absolutely key.Some managers do not feel confident or don’t want to intrude or get too involved. If you see that someone is upset then you should always check in with them and ask if they need help with the situation.Ask them what have they tried to do about it and give them a bit of coaching. They may even say they want an opportunity to try and resolve the problem themselves then let them but check back to see how they have done.If you are the line manager and are unsure how to deal with this, training can help spot problems and develop a better understanding of how to interfere to resolve the conflict.But if things carry on, then you should become more involved. Speak to the individuals first and then very quickly set up a dialogue.Conflict managementIf you need to resolve it, it will take time. As management you cannot rush through a solution because you can sometimes make it worse. If employees don’t have enough time to feel listened to and understood and then you should make sure they both see each other’s point of view.What’s important is not what two people are arguing about; because that will just be whatever tipped them over the edge. What is important is what is underneath, whether it is recognition or saving face.Managers need two core skills to be able to get a resolution. One of the most important skills is empathetic listening, the ability to truly listen without jumping in. This way the staff member will feel as you are understanding their view and actually care about what they are saying.evalThe other is the ability to reflect things back to people using positive reframing. You will often hear a negative statement like ‘He never listens to anything I say!’ The reframing might be ‘It is importa nt to you that he understands what you are saying’. So you have acknowledged the problem, but given it a positive emphasis. It helps both parties to hear messages in a different way.How can you avoid conflict in the first place?There needs to be room for healthy challenge in the workplace for things get aired. If staff are not comfortable or even fearful about raising issues, then problems get bottled up. This doesn’t help your situation.Everyone should feel relaxed to air out their views, thoughts and opinions in a safe environment â€" even if people disagree with them. Management style is also crucial. The more old-fashioned command and control style of management can cause clashes. It’s much healthier to empower and motivate people by setting objectives and then letting people do things their own way.evalListening to your staff is important not just for improving your business but for their working environment. If they are happy then they work harder and bring in more busin ess for you.

Work with Your Boss to Control Workplace Stress

Work with Your Boss to Control Workplace Stress What Americans Would Give Up  for  a  Stress-Free Job If you’ve ever confided in a friend about how stressful your job can be, you’ve likely been told,  â€œYou  just need to find a new job.” What if I told you it isn’t always about  what  your job is but more about  how  you are asked to do your job.   Workplace Stress: What’s  the Current Situation?   I  spoke  with Marc Lewis,  Executive  Editor of  Remedy Review, about a recent survey they conducted with 1,000 U.S. workers  where they  found that 50  percent  of employees say workspace stress negatively impacts their health. The  study  revealed that what really matters when it comes to work-life balance and happiness at the office is whether or not the  person-environment relationship  is a good fit.   When 25-32  percent  of employees say their work-life balance is the top stressor in their lives, before money and bosses, it is time for companies and employers to take advantage of  new perspectives of work environments  to provide  better outcomes  for their employees and their businesses.     What Impacted Employees Are Suggesting?   It is no secret that different generations have different opinions about the American dream and what it  means to be hardworking. Older generations tend to link their identities to their careers, while younger workers value flexibility and time outside of the office.     Some older employees argue that the younger workforce expects  too much and should adapt to traditional workplace trends,  but according to  Forbes, America will have a much younger workforce by 2025 with younger employees taking up 75  percent  of the working class.  That  means the importance of developing better work-environments through autonomy, flexibility, and engagement will become more significant in the coming years.     What Will Happen If Work Stress Balance Doesn’t Get Better?   High stress is not only bad for workers health, it can also be very bad news for business, according to the  Harvard Business Review. It is estimated that employee stress and  burnout  cost an estimated $125  billion  to $190 billion in health care spending each year.     Researchers have reported 30  percent  of employees have turned to prescription drugs to manage stress, and more and more employees are turning to  alcohol  or other drugs. Although these types of self- and prescription-medications can alleviate tension after a long day, continued use of these drugs can  take a significant toll on employee’s mental and physical health.     What Can Companies  and Employers Do  to Help?   As stated earlier, finding the right job isn’t always what matters. It’s more about reducing stress companies and employers need to play their part too by creating the right environments.     Companies must start to focus more on creating better  and  more  supportive  work environments, literally and figuratively, in order to keep their employees happy so they don’t start looking elsewhere for better workplaces more suited to their personalities. By working with employees to cultivate more conducive working environments, companies will be one step closer to controlling workplace stress factors. Join Dana  Manciagli’s  Job Search Master Class  now  and get the most comprehensive job search system available! #JSMC #careeradvice  #stressfreeworkplace  #workplacestress  #worklifebalance

What Do You Need to Know About Best Online Resume Writing Services in Dubai?

What Do You Need to Know About Best Online Resume Writing Services in Dubai?If you are looking for the best online resume writing services Dubai then I will tell you that there are a lot of them. When I say best, I am not talking about the most efficient service in the world but more so the one that will be able to help you find the best job opportunities available for you in Dubai.I am sure that you have already gone through the basics before hiring any professional or service and you did get all the basic requirements fulfilled by them. Now it is time to take a look at the different services that are available. So let us do that.There are many online resume writing services Dubai that will help you and guide you through the entire process of resume writing. They will help you prepare a standard resume in easy to read format and then create a cover letter for you to use. At this point you may ask, who would like to hire a professional to do the job for them?To answer this question, I will first state that some people find it a bit overwhelming to go through the process of preparing a professional resume and writing a cover letter. In fact, if you had prepared such a thing yourself then you would surely find it to be a pain! So, if you are one of these people, then I will advice you to ask an expert to do it for you.This is a good way for you to eliminate the whole burden of the whole process of preparing the cover letter, because the expert will help you and guide you with the proper way to use the available resume templates and develop a professional resume. This way you do not have to spend a penny on hiring a professional to do the job.But if you want the best online resume writing services Dubai then you can go directly to them. Just make sure that you get to know who the person is that will be handling your resume and cover letter. Look for their accreditation, credibility and experience as well.Most of the times, the more experienced they are in the fiel d, the better the resume writing services are and they are able to deliver quality work. The one thing that you should do is to make sure that you are not paying for it once you get the job.When you go to a website where you can find these services, make sure that you check out the credentials of the service. It is also a good idea to verify the authenticity of the company. After you have done all these, go and check out what kind of job opportunities are available for you in Dubai.