Positive Support for Mental Illness

You can live productively, and work well with bipolar disorder.

Definition: Summary and Presentation.

• Symptoms
• What is Bipolar Disorder
• Types of Healthcare Providers who treat Bipolar Disorder
• Recognizing Triggers
• Going to Work with Bipolar Disorder
• Convincing others to seek treatment
• Collaborative Model
• Mayo Clinic for Manic Depressive Information
• Self Quiz
• Mental Health Resources
• Depression at a Glance
• Bipolar Disorder Ideas About Work

For Employers: Managing Employees With Bipolar Disorder

• Bipolar Disorders at Work
• Discussing Bipolar conditions with employer
• Coping with Work issues and Bipolar Disorder
• Bipolar Employees and the ADA
• Employment Tribunal
• Scott Reaves “Bipolar Disorder in the Workforce”.
• Many Celebrities managing Depression
• Managing an Employee Suffering a possible Bipolar Disorder
• Psych Education

Career Inspirations…

Career Inspirations is a collection of uncommon successes in their industry who have a particular inspiration in their passion for focus and refusing to accept limitation. What you hold as an opportunity, others hold as a limitation… Let us not judge ourselves so harshly that we lose creative possibility!

SOME THAT I KNOW:

1. NEVER TOO OLD for first professional job or that big life dream. Carol Eacret Simmons, assistant Professor of Art and Gallery Director at Dickinson State in North Dakota. Her series “Full Circle” is on display now in North Carolina.
2. JibberJobber is a rich collection of career tools, resources, and documented professional ‘learnings’. Imagine being able to take the worst news of your professional life and allowing it to produce your next possibilities? THEN using that learning to inspire others on the road.. that IS Jason Alba. His latest has been a few social networking books on how to apply what he has learned — “I’m on LinkedIn, Now What” was the first…
3. An Idol from a Web Designer? Trinh Lam was a brilliant web designer at Sun Microsystems… but he had a different song in his heart… and the audience picked a winner!

SOME THAT I RECENTLY FOUND INTERESTING AND HOPE YOU DO TOO!

1. My dear friend Judith introduced me to the refreshing and inspirational story of Kathy Buckley an amazing five time American Comedy Award nominee, empowered actress, humanitarian, motivational speaker, and comedienne. “Every time we go for what we want, we miss the opportunity for what we need.”
   
2. “Transformed personal hobbies into a self-sustaining business- doing what I love, and loving what I do.” Keng Lee hosts an interesting blog on success defined “Optimum Performance Technologies“
   
3. Linda Formichelli is a talented writer, speaker, and life artist. Linda’s website is www.lindaformichelli.com.
4. Mark McClure inspires a sort of career agility. A fun read on the values of flexibility, adventure and the pursuit of professional best. His blog is http://markmccluretoday.com

LinkedIn Groups: Business Network | Jobs Network | Recruiting Professionals |
Plaxo Groups: Business Network | LI2 Recruiting Professionals |
Socials: Ryze | MySpace | Ning | Hi5 | MerchantCircle | Plaxo |
Yahoo Groups: Jobs | HR | Telecommuters | LI HFCN | TheSecret | Careers |

Who Inspired You? What’s the Story?

Send Your Resume now, before our Super Saturdays!

The “hidden jobs market” is not a situation of companies choosing to be difficult. They have a need for talent and a clear benefit for leveraging a network. Who can serve them better than the friends, family and colleagues that know them, know their business, and care about their success?

Startups and Fortune 500 companies looking to deploy exciting projects will engage executive recruiters and contingency recruiters to prescreen for any number of great business reasons– massive projects, efficiencies of viewing only the best to their needs, etc.. Networking makes a difference, and your recruiting service should be able to extend that network for your benefit as well!

ExtraCare Super Saturdays are running through from now to June. Our network is your ticket into the insider’s job market to the number of job opportunities that are listed through confidential sources. Every week, we will pick our best of the best top 1000 Extra Care resume requests for extra care marketing.. If your business case is that you have either to find a job quickly, have limited time, but maximum desire to find that right next job, etc. ExtraCare is a competitive advantage that far exceeds waiting for the phone to ring..

Refreshing Opportunities come to those who ask! Not about beverages and snacks, this is about refreshing your career options and maintaining resume, social networking profiles to help opportunity to find you. (Click for more information).

Who qualifies for extra care? You can send this announcement to anyone who needs help. We created the program as an “express lane” to jobseekers who are willing and ready, and would like the extra help. It costs nothing to get a job through this program, but it’s benefit is that of thousands of resumes we receive a month, we know your request is coming from a place of specific need..

How to qualify.

• Email your resume with a summary of your career situation and why you would like extra care to extra@helpingfriendscareernetwork.com IF you were referred by someone, let us know who we can thank. This will flag us that you are requesting active opportunity.
  
• Complete or update your Candidate “My Profile” so we know from the database what geographic areas, salary requirements, and work environment features appeal to you. You will also be able to bid on jobs that appeal to you from our network of posted opportunities.
• Each request will be queued and evaluated by our recruiters, who each have capacity for several thousand candidates in their areas of specialty. You will be contacted by your recruiter when they have accepted you into the program. The Helping Friends Recruiter Team will deliver our personal best to market your talents to employers looking for your skills. We work with you towards your success until your goal is accomplished, because we are only successful when we help you, and our clients to be successful, and for us, it is as much a passion, as the right opportunity is for you!
  

LinkedIn Groups: Business Network | Jobs Network | Recruiting Professionals |
Plaxo Groups: Business Network | LI2 Recruiting Professionals |
Socials: Ryze | MySpace | Ning | Hi5 | MerchantCircle | Plaxo |
Yahoo Networking Links Libraries: Jobs | HR | Telecommuters | LI HFCN | TheSecret | Careers |

Business – Law of Attraction Networking

Shake up Law of Attraction with Business Networking and you get …

Perspective * Possibilities * Optimism * Realism * Success * Creativity * Results * Focus * Hope * Probability *

Great Happens when you expect it, and take the steps to make a fortunate welcome of your desired outcome.

1. Treasure opportunity and watch coincidences flow. The idea that (customers, recruiters, contractors, hiring managers) are annoying KEEPS you stuck.
2. Integrity of Output/Integrity of Input: GIGO applies to good and bad with thoughts and Twitters. (Corporate Recruiter call you? Chances are good they use social networking too– likely very well.)
3. Putting more time into what you “want” to accomplish rather than what annoys you, helps. Going negative entertains, it sells ad space, but it’s negative affect has a ripple quality to it.
4. Building a list of well connected experts who can support your interests and goals is priceless!
5. Regularly expressive emotions (embarrassed, angry, frustrated or fearful ) sometimes obscures the goal.
6. Tell people about your intentions, your joy, and your goals. Communicating what you offer, and what you would like people to do, helps them to meet your needs, and them to identify you as an attractive choice to their business needs.

LinkedIn Groups: Business Network | Jobs Network | Recruiting Professionals |
Plaxo Groups: Business Network | LI2 Recruiting Professionals |
Socials: Ryze | MySpace | Ning | Hi5 | MerchantCircle | Plaxo |
Yahoo Networking Links Libraries: Jobs | HR | Telecommuters | LI HFCN | TheSecret | Careers |

Time 2 Refresh!

A career service question:

Shouldn’t your Career Toolkit work as hard as you do?

• Update your Resume,
  
• Check in with Your References,
  
• Refresh Business Networking Profile.

Big hopes and profound dreams are given clarity and then reality through fine tuning. The clearer you can communicate your strengths and values, the more easily your professional skills will create opportunity for you.

What has your career portfolio done for YOU lately?

• Include key words that specify areas of expertise or experience.
• Quantify your value by adding results statements that underscore your value.
• Are your Contacts on Social Networking able to reach you?
• Are your references still current or reachable?
• Refining your cover letter to introduce, highlight, and demonstrate your brand.
• Send thank you notes to express appreciation for those who make a difference.

Been a while? Helping Friends offers a community of opportunity not just jobs. Let us know whats new and how we can help. We can provide resources that help you to bring your best self to the job search– because resumes are not any fun, if they don’t get results. Because social networking is fun, but resources to benefit everyone is even more inspired.

http://hfcareernetwork.com/findajob.htm

Buzz: Career Inspiration

We’ll be exploring through this Career Networking, a blog series of community based career support resources. This is where our friends can ask questions to get help on their particular career path, or share their inspiring experience, strength, hope, and favorite resources to benefit others.

Career Inspiration Strategies Offered Here! There are a few requests from our friendly network of late.

Got advice or input? Here is the segment where your experience or your career challenges, turned over, can help many others. What’s helpful to you? What questions are you asking of the universe? What career results can we celebrate?

Best of the Best Career Resources:

• 100 Companies with the Best Benefits (healthcare, childcare, work life balance, telecommuting, paid sabbaticals, unusual perks).
• AARP Best Employers for Job Seekers over 50.
• Art of Job Search Networking, by Liz Ryan- expert in opportunity and networking!
• Assisted Mentoring of People with Felony Convictions, and a desire to return to productive living.
• Best Companies to Work for (nice Jobstar.org reference)
• CareerExposure.com
  
• Challenging Interviews– Techniques.
• Financial Strategies for Today’s Widow
• Find A Job with the Helping Friends Career Network
• JobSearch 101 Tutorial (Quintessential Careers)
• MSNBC Smart Financial Strategies for Suddenly Single Parents
• Showing Compassion to a JobSeeker (JibberJobber Career Toolset)
• Stories of Breast Cancer Survival
• Telecommuting
• Work Life After Cancer

Requests: Got experience, ideas or resources?

1. What strategies can a cancer survivor take to secure gainfully employment, despite the obvious recovery path, and projected fear of prospective employers?
2. What are some ideas for spouses who recently lost their life partners, and must return to the workforce to care for their family and home?
3. What coaching strategies can help to mentor a positive youth who made some negative decisions, to put her past behind her, despite a felony conviction?

Well Connected, LinkedIn: Business | Jobs | Recruiting Professionals |

Don’t Lose that Number Plaxo: Business | Recruiting Professionals |

Yahoo- Groups! Job Leads Group Message Board | Job Links Library |

Telecommuting Buzz: Cut Wasted Space before Talent!!

Cheers for companies who are claiming the social and environmental responsibilities and advantages of adopting telecommuting programs:

You heard right.. We’re Tweeting about Jobs n Careers!

RECENT HEADLINES:

• Metlife closes Indy Office as a cost saving measure. No layoffs, 89 offered telecommuting.
• Wachovia– telecommuting over travel is a competitive advantage.
• Arizona — cost of gas doubled the carpoolers in the last year. Telecommuting’s up 13%.
• GSA Proposes 50% Telecommuting staff in next 2 years.
• United Healthcare planned 2k telecommuting jobs last year.
• LaunchPad is creating office space concepts for independent telecommuting workers.

TELECOMMUTING SUPPORT:

• TechRepublic Article: “Are your staff members ready for telecommuting?
• TelecommutingJobs nice Telecommuter Hire Savings Calculator.
• Employee Perspective: CNN Money.com “5 Tips to sell the value of your telecommuting“.
• Inc.com Telecommuting Policy.
• IT Business Edge: Telecommuting Perspective.
• Telecommuting in the Federal Workforce.
• Telecommuting can reduce greenhouse gases and oil dependence by 24-48%.
• SustainableIT: Tracking Trends towards Green IT.
• Employee Perspective: How NOT to become a telecommuting workaholic.
  
• Telecommuting Techniques from the Helping Friends.
• Work@Home Job Resource Community on Ning
  

RESOURCES: American Telecommuting Association | HFCN Jobs | Telecommuting Yahoo Group | Telework Coalition | Telework Advisory Group |

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ExtraCare Services

Helping Friends Network is your Human Resources Advantage whether your goals are to find that great job, or identify the talent for your companies needs, we have a growing base of experienced professionals and quality jobs with Fortune 500 companies, startups, and companies of all sizes, nationwide.

Helping Friends Now offers Jobseeking Candidate ExtraCare, which networks qualifying candidate resumes and client jobs more effectively for unique win win opportunity for all partners and jobseekers of Helping Friends Career Networks!

WHAT IS EXTRA CARE? A program designed to provide timely support
for jobseekers with excellent skills, requesting extra care in achieving their career
goals. This program is suitable for individuals who are looking to find
their next job soon, looking to create every advantage that
supports their professional objectives.

WHAT’s It Cost:

• JOB SEEKERS: Our premium career services networking costs nothing to you. Our career services are included as a service benefit. Our employment partners engage us to help them in confidential hiring and talent identification. The primary condition for for your current career goals. Send this to extra@helpingfriendscareernetwork.com, and if you are excepted into this program, you will be matched with our recruiting team to receive marketing like this RSS Feed for confidential marketing, Applicant Tracking System Marketing, and Peer Recruiter Networking. We have capacity, so take advantage of this option if you need to get to work and are looking for help! membership for jobseekers to be accepted into our ExtraCare program is a complete profile on HFCN, and an email summarizing what your selling points are, why you would like the help, how urgent it is, and when or what success looks like
• I AM REGISTERED AS A CANDIDATE ON HFCN, CAN I SIGN
  UP NOW? Yes, email extra@helpingfriendscareernetwork.com with
  your highlights of why you want extra care, and what makes you shine,
  and we will be happy to help! With YOUR completed Candidate Profile,
  Resume, and a highlight email, you can help us to help you even
  better, and we have capacity for quite a few more resumes!
• FOR EMPLOYERS OR CONTINGENCY PARTNERS: Our Excellent Candidates Feeds are available for confidential viewing of some of our candidates. Note that we offer the RSS feed services for Active and Passive Candidates who are seeking a confidential search for the right opportunity, so don’t assume a resume posted here is not active.. Our Jobs Networking and Jobs Listing/Marketing Services are included as a free part of our recruiting services. Our rates for direct or contingency placement are industry standard, so feel free to send us your list of jobs to be marketed, or contact us for candidates you are seeking, and lets get to work.
  
• CAN YOU LIST JOBS FOR US NOW? Yes, email opportunity@helpingfriendscareernetwork.com with your job orders, and include your standard requested terms either by job (splits, flat fees, direct %, etc) or by project (fixed splits, flat fees, direct%, etc)!
  

NEWs!

• Applicant tracking system and recruiting technology investments have expanded our network for marketing jobs and resumes with our colleagues nationwide–allows us to give you greater visibility to jobs and talent outside of our applicant and jobs tracking databases!
• Tweet? Sharing career resources- development and job leads on Twitter- @jobs4friends
• LinkedIn Jobs Network
• What are YOUR favorite HR Resource News, Groups, Tools or Tips? Add comments or contribute to our free Recruiting Resources Links Library (Yahoo Recruiting Group)!
• Advanced Recruiter Networking has created demand for the Helping Friends Recruiting Network interested in applying Web 3.0 recruiting methods.
  LinkedIn Groups: Business Network | | Recruiting Professionals |
  Plaxo Groups: Business Network | LI2 Recruiting Professionals |
  
  

Tweeting Opportunities: Supply and Demand..

Wouldn’t it be great if we could be better citizens of our business through social networking?

The universe of possibilities are out there, vast, and limited only by our ability to employ them.
This is true in business and in life, that sometimes it is the circles we communicate in that can invigorate us or limit our belief systems. What are you doing to embrace your best personal self? If you want to embrace or energize an interest, start communicating to yourself and others about that which you are wishing to create.

SUPPLYING OPPORTUNITIES:

I have really grown to appreciate his industry and business savvy through twitter.. In fact there are a few people I have worked with for decades, but never came to appreciate until social networking. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Plaxo have unique ways of bringing business people together to relate MORE to one another.

I have been giving much thought to the notion of Twitter’s Evolving Business Potential, that I realize my friend Micheal had done some great thinking in that area too as inspired by his question of the LinkedIn, I just happened to miss it. Michael VanDervort has an interesting knack for asking questions that get me thinking– he’s fun, friendly, and I would have missed a treat, were it not for the tweets..

DEMANDING OPPORTUNITIES:

Coming soon are some Human Resources and Professional Development social networking tips for remembering the better we are able to articulate a need, the better the resources can be engaged to provide resolution.

In business we have metrics to measure the customer experience, time to resolve, time to close, time to deliver, time lost, time gained, etc… What I am talking about is way bigger than that and sometimes we get so hypnotized by the routine, we forget what other potentials exist by perfecting our relationship to that routine.

I hear it from all sides– lets create some ideas and best practices for social networking for business results! From the recruiting house, how people lie on resumes, are unclear on their objectives, and they have to go through alot of bad to get to the good. From the jobseeking house, how recruiters are clueless to their needs, don’t understand the work they do, and they have to go through alot of volume and spam to get to compete for the few good opportunities.

Now CLEARLY if you are looking for talent, your ability to ask from a pool of people who are interested and benefit their friends by helping you is a win. Clearly if you are looking for a job, you are going to benefit from being able to work with a person who wants to understand you more than just a resume.

So why if GOOD and BAD opportunities exist, would we romance and energize our relationship to that which keeps us feeling stuck? Inspiration happens when you think and behave, and challenge your traditional rut, and find that it becomes a summit for your next journey!

The universe is full of plenty, and tweeting opportunities are on the air every day.. Let us explore the supply and how we go about enjoying the journey that is our life, and the demands we meet along the way. We will blog from your feedback and experiences how to improve the “asking” for help, to “get” the results you desire. That is one of those fascinating life arts that never ceases to amaze!

RESOURCES:
Job Seekers: Claim Advantage | Personal Branding | Jibber Jobber | Twitter:Jobs4friends

Recruiters Buzz | Business Network | Jobs Network | Recruiting Professionals |

Visit The Recruiting Network

Reputation Aggregators: Projecting a Professional Image: Web 2.0

We KNOW that our resumes don’t get jobs, that people get jobs. We KNOW that most business opportunity is created through networking… and we KNOW that networking is the art of balancing what is represented about us, to compliment who we actually are.

The gift and delight of becoming open to opportunity is discovering that the business professionals that you would like to connect with, can, and would, also like to connect with you. In a “Web 2.0″ world, how can we compose our best online profile to represent our inline image?

Your objective, should you choose to accept it, is to Bring the Best of You to the Top of the Search Stack. It starts with “keeping” up, make sure to be managing your established connections and your new identity. In business, with people and possibilities in the dynamic, keeping current is time well spent, and time to tune your image. Keep your Profile, Contacts, and Connections Current.

Technology creates an extension of your character when managed, or a bunch of noise, unmanaged.

I. Keep Friends that Influence People and Inspire You:
Establishes you with those that value the tool, then introduce your badge or link to your signature.. Use creates Influence!

• Plaxo
• LinkedIn– Guy Kawasaki’s How to Change the World – 10 ways to used LinkedIn.

II. Reputation Aggregators:

• Naymz – U.S. News and World Report “8 Ways to Buff your Professional Image Online”.
• ProfileOMat
• Lijit