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Going to school on the east coast provides you with a lot of options for picking a career to go into. It can be somewhat difficult to choose from all of the career options for you. If you like technology looking into the Long Island computer science field might be an option. Long Island computer repair may not be the perfect occupation for you, but it is important to consider the entire occupational opportunities available. There are a lot of things that can assist you in your search for the perfect career. Using those resources available to you is a good way to make some definite decisions about career.

While in high school, meeting with a career counselor will be helpful. Your counselor may be able to recommend a few tests like the Myers-Briggs to help you consider your skills and your personality traits and what career field they might fit best into. The availability of the job you decide on will be elaborated on by the counselor. You will also be able to discuss the needed training or schooling.

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Businesses have to succeed in an economy that is a ‘complex adaptive system’ rather than a complicated system that can be decomposed into building blocks. Adam Smith’s invisible hand at work. A system of independently acting agents is not complicated but complex and is considered a complex adaptive environment that resists decomposition, see Anderson, Arrow, Pines (1988). From a planning perspective it seems ideal if businesses would not consist of independent acting agents, but would act coherently, hence BPM to the rescue. I propose that such perfect businesses would be so foreign in a dynamic free market economy that they would fail. Thus also large companies are complex adaptive systems,  in which (like in most natural systems) successful structures emerge, adapt and evolve rather than being artificially created (think about in-house politics for a moment!). In such systems, functions cannot be created by a methodology of analysis and design, mostly because for the lack of realistic abstraction. That does not mean that there is no process perspective but it is much less detailed than a step-by-step flowchart model. Models are only necessary to define the real-world entities for process handoff between process owners.

Before jumping into the technology aspect of complex adaptive process I need to discuss the business element of my approach. I agree that there are businesses with different management styles regarding customers service and HR. I propose that even businesses with a more ‘employee control’ approach would possibly benefit more from less process analysis and more frequent process adaptation through process owners, because of the huge amount of control structure.

I arrived at my above perspective not from an expansion of BPM to dynamic process management or from the needs of case file collaboration, but from – non manufacturing – business and human resource management for service processes. I am opposed to the idea that a business can be improved by analyzing and designing rigid processes, except for an irrelevant small percentage (as an addition to ERP). I fail to find the proof that flowchart-designed processes and the related change management bureaucracy do make a business more agile. People are (if at all) agile but never analyzed and designed processes. Frequent process changes will simply destroy whatever initiative employees might have left. I have yet to see a business that does actually automate more than 20% of its processes and currently assume that this is the maximum that can be achieved. Rather than the 80% often proposed. The more processes are controlled, the more bypass and add-on activities exist. I fail to see the sense in creating rigid processes and then define everything that does not map into it as an exception. The process spectrum is rather from straight through processing to social networking with case management in between.

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TRAUMATIZED

In a rather swift and disarming moment, you have just been advised that your company is downsizing and that regrettably, you are impacted. In a storm of stressful emotions that run the spectrum from anxiety, to chaos, to desperation, and anger - you are traumatized by a life altering event.

The stress and trauma associated with corporate downsizing invokes a myriad of overwhelming emotions. These emotions impair one's judgment and ability to think in a rationale manner. The potential onset of panic disorder can render the job seeker in a virtual anxiety riddled state of chaos - dazed and confused. Fueling your panic are thoughts about finances, healthcare, mortgage payments, high unemployment, age, skills, and most importantly, your family.

After returning home despondent and stressed - family, friends, and peers provide consolation and optimistic support under difficult circumstances. At some point during this chaotic state, sobering reality and a compelling need for 'self-preservation' dictates that one must find a new job rather quickly given your current status and challenging economic times.

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In today’s competitive job market, where qualifications and work experience of a candidate are often on par, it is achievements that make a candidate stand out from the rest. The importance of packaging your resume right, so as to project yourself as a result oriented candidate, cannot therefore be underestimated. Here are three quick ways to turn your resume around - from that of a normal candidate to one who is achievement oriented.

Convert work responsibilities to achievements:
One of the smartest ways to do this is to make use of power verbs, even when you talk about work responsibilities, thus converting them into achievements. What I mean by power words and how these make a difference is demonstrated below:

Before : Responsible for sales in North region.

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