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Career Corner is a program produced by the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, part of State Services for the Blind, and it is recorded for people are blind or have reading disabilities. You can listen to the stream of the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network at www.mnssb.org/rtb, and the password is RTB. Your host, for Career Corner is Anne Obst. Music 5 biggest career mistakes college graduates make June 25, 2016 — 2:00pm While some of the estimated 3.8 million students earning college degrees this year will continue their studies, others will start their careers right away. Here is a rundown of five of the biggest college graduate career mistakes, along with tips to avoid them: Believing first jobs have to be dream jobs. Your first job out of college is just that — your first job and a steppingstone to something better. "It's fine to have an end goal in mind," said James Rice, the head of digital marketing at WikiJob. "But the reality is that you're unlikely to walk into that role str

Radio Talking book Network provides audio versions of the written word. News, articles, publishings and up to date breaking daily news. Check it out at www.MNSSB.org/RTB and the password is RTB You can follow the Blind Abilities Teen Cast Channel on the Audioboom app by searching for BATeenCast Channel. We are also at BlindAbilities.com on the web. You can find out more about RadioTalkingBook and State Services for the blind on the web at www.MNSSB.org

Career Corner is a program produced by the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, part of State Services for the Blind, and it is recorded for people are blind or have reading disabilities. You can listen to the stream of the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network at www.mnssb.org/rtb, and the password is RTB. I’m Stuart Holland. (music) From: AFB Access World Magazines Learning to Use VoiceOver on the Mac and iOS with Audio Tutorials from Mac for the Blind Jamie Pauls If you are a technology enthusiast, chances are good that you have placed a new Mac, iPhone, or iPad on your Christmas list. As the size of Apple devices continues to shrink, many of them will fit in a decent-sized stocking. Assuming that you are fortunate enough to receive a new Mac or iOS device for Christmas, you now have the thrill of learning to use your new gadget. After all, VoiceOver, Apple's built-in screen reader, is a part of any new product you receive. But is it really that easy? Might there, in fact, be a bit of learning curve

Career Corner is a program produced by the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, part of State Services for the Blind, and it is recorded for people are blind or have reading disabilities. You can listen to the stream of the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network at www.mnssb.org/rtb, and the password is RTB. I’m Stuart Holland. (music) From: AppleVis – www.applevis.com/blog The AppleVis Community Names the Apps and Developer that were its Golden Apples of 2015 Submitted by AppleVis on 28 December, 2015 - 05:44 We are pleased to announce the results of the fourth annual AppleVis Golden Apple Awards. Since their launch in 2012, the AppleVis Golden Apple Awards have afforded blind and low vision users an opportunity to recognize and acknowledge the hard work and dedication which developers have put into making great and accessible iOS and OS X applications during the given year. To be shortlisted for this year's Golden Apple Awards, apps must: • Be fully accessible to blind and low vision users. • Hav

Career Corner is a program produced by the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, part of State Services for the Blind and it is recorded for people who are blind or have reading disabilities. You can find complete programming of the Radio Talking Book at www.mnssb.org/rtb and the password is rtb. Your host for Career Corner is Anne Obst. (music) We turn now to the Ask Matt column in the Star Tribune, from August 16: Why do employers ask about weaknesses? Dear Matt: In every interview, employers always ask: What is your greatest weakness? What is the answer they want to hear? Matt says: Recruiters ask this question primarily to gauge your personal character and communication skills, says Ben Foster, President and Executive Recruiter of 4Sight Search, a boutique digital marketing recruiting consultancy serving Minnesota and Colorado. “How you answer this difficult question tells interviewers about your honesty, business acumen, and ability to handle tough communications situations,” says Foster. One answe

Career Corner is a program produced by the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, part of State Services for the Blind and it is recorded for people who are blind or have reading disabilities. You can find complete programming of the Radio Talking Book at www.mnssb.org/rtb and the password is rtb. Your host for Career Corner is Anne Obst. (music) We turn to the August 9 Working Strategies column from the St. Paul Pioneer Press, by Amy Lindgren: Welcome the tough interview questions, and learn to control them Wouldn't it be great if you could go to an interview and talk only about your good points? No more awkward interludes where you try to spin your last period of unemployment or put a happy face on not grasping technology very well. Just a smooth-flowing discussion about what you could contribute to a new employer. Yeah, well ... that's probably not going to happen. You won't likely escape an interview without answering some difficult questions, nor should you want to. An interviewer who doesn't delve d

Career Corner is a program produced by the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, part of State Services for the Blind and it is recorded for people who are blind or have reading disabilities. You can find complete programming of the Radio Talking Book at www.mnssb.org/rtb and the password is rtb. Your host for Career Corner is Anne Obst. (music) We turn now to the Working Strategies column of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, by Amy Lindgren, from May 17. It’s entitled Graduates: Time to hone your definition of ‘professional.’ Graduation time always puts me in mind of new workers, headed off to summer jobs or career-path positions. For many, this is the transition point from student to professional -- a leap of enough magnitude that it's worth pausing to consider what that actually means. So here's a question for you: What comes to mind when you hear the word "professional"? Perhaps you think of someone who seems to embody a professional ethos. Or maybe a code of conduct springs to mind, with specific standa

Career Corner is a program produced by the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, part of State Services for the Blind and it is recorded for people who are blind or have reading disabilities. You can find complete programming of the Radio Talking Book at www.mnssb.org/rtb and the password is rtb. Your host for Career Corner is Anne Obst. (music) We turn now to an article from the New York Times, Rising to Your Level of Misery at Work, from SEPT. 5, written by Arthur C. Brooks EVERYONE has heard of the Peter Principle: Managers rise to the level of their incompetence. Today, however, a whole class of hyper-competent Americans will never find their level of incompetence. Instead, they will suffer a similar principle in which they rise to their level of misery. Here’s how it works: Ambitious, hard-working, well-trained professionals are lifted by superiors to levels of increasing prestige and responsibility. This is fun and exciting — until it isn’t. People generally have a “bliss zone,” a window of creativ

Career Corner is a program produced by the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, part of State Services for the Blind and it is recorded for people who are blind or have reading disabilities. You can find complete programming of the Radio Talking Book at www.mnssb.org/rtb and the password is rtb. Your host for Career Corner is Anne Obst. (music) We begin with an article from the New York Times, July 28, Pressing Reset on a Career, by Steve Lohr. After Paul Minton graduated from college, he worked as a waiter, but always felt he should do more. So Mr. Minton, a 26-year-old math major, took a three-month course in computer programming and data analysis. As a waiter, he made $20,000 a year. His starting salary last year as a data scientist at a web start-up here was more than $100,000. “Six figures, right off the bat,” Mr. Minton said. “To me, it was astonishing.” Stories like his are increasingly familiar these days as people across a spectrum of jobs — poker players, bookkeepers, baristas — are shedding

Career Corner is a program produced by the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, part of State Services for the Blind and it is recorded for people who are blind or have reading disabilities. You can find complete programming of the Radio Talking Book at www.mnssb.org/rtb and the password is rtb. Your host for Career Corner is Anne Obst. (music) We turn to an article from the St. Paul Pioneer Press from September 20, The Right Words: How to Ask for More Money, by Margaret Steen Whether you're asking a potential employer for more money or your current boss for a raise, talking about money is awkward, especially when you are searching for the best way to phrase your request. "Money is very tightly tied to our self-esteem," says Meryl Runion, author of Power Phrases. Asking for more money means saying you think you're worth more -- and risking hearing that someone else disagrees. "If somebody tells you, 'No, I don't think you are worth that much,' it's almost like saying you're not that valuable as a perso

Career Corner is a program produced by the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, part of State Services for the Blind and it is recorded for people who are blind or have reading disabilities. You can find complete programming of the Radio Talking Book at www.mnssb.org/rtb and the password is rtb. Your host for Career Corner is Anne Obst. (music) The next article is entitled, “Haggle Over Salary? It’s Not Allowed Startups say they make take-it-or-leave-it job offers to foster transparency, fairness” by Rachel Feintzeig and Rachel Emma Silverman, from the May 27 issue of The Wall Street Journal Some startup companies are making take it-or-leave it salary offers to prospective employees to foster transparency and fairness. The social-news site Reddit.com has a tip for new hires expecting to negotiate their pay: Don’t even try it. The San Francisco-based Web company, which has about 169 million unique monthly visitors and is known as the launchpad for viral Web phenomena, has a take-it-or-leave-it policy fo

Career Corner is a program produced by the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, part of State Services for the Blind and it is recorded for people who are blind or have reading disabilities. You can find complete programming of the Radio Talking Book at www.mnssb.org/rtb and the password is rtb. Your host for Career Corner is Anne Obst. (music) We turn now to the Working Strategies column in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, from August 30, written by Amy Lindren: Breaking the grief circle of job loss resentment I appreciate my readers and clients as the source of so many of my column ideas. Not long ago, I connected with a young woman who had received a layoff notice two weeks earlier, and was negotiating a severance package when we spoke. By all external standards, this process has gone as smoothly as could be expected, with no hard feelings on either side. As she reported, "The day after I left, I honestly felt as if I had moved through the grief cycle pretty well. I really felt ready to move forwa

Career Corner is a program produced by the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, part of State Services for the Blind and it is recorded for people who are blind or have reading disabilities. You can find complete programming of the Radio Talking Book at www.mnssb.org/rtb and the password is rtb. Your host for Career Corner is Anne Obst. (music) We turn now to an article from the New York Times, July 4, by Marilyn Katzman, Baffled by Office Buzzwords When my new supervisor passed by my desk and said, “I’ll have to schedule your ‘bilateral,’ ” I nodded and assumed a look that suggested I knew what he was talking about. It took some time before I was able to deduce that this would be a one-on-one meeting with my boss. Why didn’t he just say that? Wait, do we still say “boss?” In my new position, I was soon to realize that a knowing look, when cryptic corporate speak was heard, would be needed more often. It wouldn’t be the last time I would feel the need for translation assistance in a series of temporary

Career Corner is a program produced by the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, part of State Services for the Blind and it is recorded for people who are blind or have reading disabilities. You can find complete programming of the Radio Talking Book at www.mnssb.org/rtb and the password is rtb. Your host for Career Corner is Anne Obst. (music) We turn now to the Working Strategies column in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, by Amy Lindgren, from August 16: Acknowledge the 'elephant in the room,' before it crowds you out I frequently hear from job seekers that they fear they were -- or will be -- turned down because of something that couldn't easily be discussed, such as being too old or too young compared with others on the team, or being very large in stature, or for having a personality that was notable in some way (very outgoing or taciturn, for example). These job seekers know going in they're different from the candidate the employer was anticipating. And yet they made it to the interview, so something

Career Corner is a program produced by the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, part of State Services for the Blind, and it is recorded for people are blind or have reading disabilities. You can listen to the stream of the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network at www.mnssb.org/rtb, and the password is RTB. Your host, for Career Corner is Anne Obst. Music How to Rebuild Your Credibility After Messing Up at Work Keep your head up, and follow these seven steps of damage control. Rather than shutting down after making a major mistake, communicate with your boss, work hard and figure out how to prevent the error in the future. By Alison Green June 1, 2015 | When you really mess up at work, you can harm your reputation and relationships with managers and co-workers. We're not taking about small mistakes here. You're human, and hopefully you have a fairly reasonable manager who understands that. We're talking about major screwups – the ones that affect your manager's trust in you, impact your salary and

Career Corner is a program produced by the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, part of State Services for the Blind, and it is recorded for people are blind or have reading disabilities. You can listen to the stream of the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network at www.mnssb.org/rtb, and the password is RTB. Your host, for Career Corner is Anne Obst. Music From These 5 Résumé Mistakes Are Hurting Your Job Search You'll stand out from the pack if you avoid these common errors. Including a long list of core competencies on your résumé is sure to make employers' eyes glaze over. By Alison Green June 15, 2015 As a former hiring manager who now helps clients with their own hiring, I look at a lot of résumés. Day after day, I see job candidates severely harming their own chances by submitting résumés that do a terrible job of highlighting their qualifications and making it easy for employers to spot why they might be the right person for the job. Frustratingly, most people are making the same small num

Working Strategies: No degree? How to use skills to get that job By Amy Lindgren
 05/03/2015 
 For career-changers, new graduates without job experience and any individual with limited resources, the pathway to good jobs can seem impossible to traverse. College has been frequently touted as the key to rewarding employment, but even that solution is coming under fire: It's been one of the more publicized disappointments of the recent recession that degrees don't protect against joblessness. So what does? In a word, skills. Skills are the building blocks of every job, and they're the currency of search, from both sides of the desk. The employer requests certain skills but will compromise the wish list to get the ones that matter. Meanwhile, the worker finds that skills are his or her main bargaining chip, more than specific training or education. Except for licensed positions, the academic credential is not the make-or-break criteria so many have come to believe. It's simply the most convenient way f

Career Corner is a program produced by the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, part of State Services for the Blind, and it is recorded for people are blind or have reading disabilities. You can listen to the stream of the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network at www.mnssb.org/rtb, and the password is RTB. Your host, for Career Corner is Anne Obst. Music From The Star Tribune Job Tip: Take the lead in that interview By Mark Jaffe Start Tribune, 16 March 2015 We have a pretty terrific system in America: Careers are open to talent. I’m not saying it’s a pure meritocracy but compared with other countries and cultures, we completely rock. Who your parents were, how you grew up, even where you went to school (unless it was Yale, of course)… these factors are secondary to whether or not you can deliver the goods. Getting through the interview, though, is another story. At last count, there were just over 4 million books published on the subject of interviewing for jobs. They tell you how to dress for su

Career Corner is a program produced by the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, part of State Services for the Blind, and it is recorded for people are blind or have reading disabilities. You can listen to the stream of the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network at www.mnssb.org/rtb, and the password is RTB. Your host, for Career Corner is Anne Obst. Music From Pioneer Press, March 12, 2015 Top 5 Mistakes People Make When Looking for a New Job By Catherine Conlan There are many ways to give yourself the best odds when you’re looking for a job -- and just as many ways to ruin them. Here are five common mistakes that people make that keep them from getting the job of their dreams. 

Apply Without a Plan
If you don’t have a job now, you might feel like applying to every possible job can help maximize your chances of finding something that can work for you. In fact, this doesn’t help at all and can distract you from going hard after the jobs you really have a chance with. “People who say ‘I need to consider

Career Corner is a program produced by the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, part of State Services for the Blind, and it is recorded for people are blind or have reading disabilities. You can listen to the stream of the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network at www.mnssb.org/rtb, and the password is RTB. Your host, for Career Corner is Anne Obst. Music From the New York Times The Power of Starting With ‘Yes’ APRIL 17, 2015 Life@Work By TONY SCHWARTZ I once served on a committee led by a powerful woman. She had strong views, but what I remember most is that whenever I spoke, she nodded her head vigorously and affirmatively. Over time, I learned that her nodding didn’t mean she necessarily agreed with me. Even so, I always sensed that she was listening closely and carefully considering what I had to say. Today I make my living in part by speaking to large groups. Instinctively, I find myself scanning the audience for beacons of affirmation — people whose positive body language makes me feel value