Employaid is thinking Career Placement!   We’re committed to being a resource to upcoming college grads who are entering the workforce.

In September, we’re shooting videos about the whole college to work scene. Whether you or someone you know is  in career entry mode, or you can remember that time and wish you knew more back when it was your turn, your ideas are valuable to us.

Please post your ideas for videos to help college seniors and grad students get ready to enter the workforce.   From researching companies, networking, and everything in between, these are tough times.  For now, lives conducted through IM’s and texts must be converted to real conversation!

As with all of our videos, we’re delivering McBytes of information that can be viewed in about three minutes. Thanks in advance - help college grads hit the ground running. They need every paycheck they can get Scripting starts next week - get your idea on film and receive credit for it on Employaid.com by responding ASAP.

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Times are tough in today’s job economy.  And in corporate America, the landscape is just as rough.  How often does it happen that employees in companies that are experiencing layoffs and restructurings are called out for faulty reports, hours irregularitiess, or any infractions too many to list here?  The fact is that as jobs become more precious, people become more intense in their desire for self preservation.  Whether it is a “document irregularity”, or a symbolic wallet on the street, savvy employees learn the art of being participant observers in the movie called work.  They are as much in the movie as they are observing it, giving themselves strategic advantage over those who will intentionally trip them up for their own gain.  The moral of the story:  Push back if the message you receive is a faulty one, and whatever you do, run from a wallet on the sidewalk like it has the plague.

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OK.  You’re in the dress, feeling pretty undignified, and you climb up on the table and wait.  After awhile the doc walks in, and all of a sudden, you become a deaf mute. Can’t remember what you wanted to ask, can’t understand what’s being explained, and in 10 minutes - wham, bam, you’re done and back in your clothes.  And the dress, with its’ magical powers is stuffed in the bin, not looking at all magical.

We’ve started the Employaid Exchange this week.  It’s a place where you can go on www.employaid.com to ask a question or get some advice from one of our Exchange Experts.  We’re having a great time answering the questions.  What does this have to do with the paper dress?  Well, a lot, or so it seems.  For many employees, going into work means putting on a paper dress when they hit the office.  What is it about work that can turn competent people into employees who feel, whether they’re dealing with tyrannical bosses or twisted co-workers, that they can’t speak up for themselves?  It all goes back to the paper dress.   They’re never stylish, and most of us certainly don’t wear them well.

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What happens when you let your work define how others perceive you, and in fact, how you perceive yourself? It’s a double edged sword. When people are highly successful, they often lose themselves in the role of, for example, a lawyer, stock trader, banker, or internet guru. Some would say that they get so wrapped up in their role, that it becomes their reality. That may be troubling, but it pays the mortgage.

What happens when, on the dull edge of the sword, people find themselves in a position of working to live? The relentless pressure to make ends meet can slowly begin to lower peoples’ expectations for their present and future. That’s the paradox examined by Oprah Winfrey this month. Early in life, she worked in demeaning jobs that paid far less than her worth, until she started in the $100.00 a week broadcasting job that changed everything. Although her lifestyle has improved a thousand fold, Oprah knows for sure that throughout her life, in good times and those devastating early years. “I let money serve its purpose. But I don’t live to serve money.”

When you are in a job that you don’t love, or when you find that you are working to pay the bills, you are the only force that can change the situation you’re in. Change comes slowly sometimes, but it comes to those who can paint a different portrait than the one they’ve created for themselves. How will you climb to the top of your career expectations – with a step stool or an extension ladder?

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Rodger’s  Blog is an outlet (who doesn’t need one?) for the more frustrating side of his life as CEO of the Eisen Management Group, a real deal, no fluff PR Firm  for small business owners.  They have a cavalcade of successes under their belt.  Small business owners seek out Rodger and his incredible staff when they are looking not just to spend down their precious budgets, but instead to develop true business partners.  As one who spent far too many a year in Consultant World, I know one truth.  Rodger is the real deal.

Even if you are not a small business owner, log on to Rodger’s Blog to see just where your your next poorly conceived e-mail may wind up….as a headline on the Corporate Rockstar.

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One of my big goals when I started Employaid was giving people a place where they could communicate.  I found that in too many companies communication isn’t encouraged but rather stifled.  So I wanted to create a place where workers from every type of career could come and learn.  A place that would serve as an open communication platform for you to ask questions, give advice, share your experiences and get a lot of value in return.

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