Looking For Good Job With Newest Technology

You have a need to stay up to date on the influx of new technologies that affect your job performance and daily duties.

Whether you work in the office or out in the field; the last few years have brought about a wealth of new technologies that make you more efficient, productive and most importantly to employers a profitable employee.

In today's marketplace employers expect existing and new employees to have a strong understanding of smart phones, web-based platforms / productivity applications, and social media. These applications are the basis of many day to day activities that all employees need to interface with to be a productive employee (MS Office Suites, Email Platforms, Facebook, Twitter,etc..).

Beyond these basic applications are industry specific applications for engineering, construction, marketing, business development, etc. That are all necessary talents an employee needs to have to function daily and advance within an organization.

Efficiency is the name of the game today for employers. "How do we make our employees more productive, by utilizing technology efficiently.." Employers see the need for efficiency and technology allows them to reduce costs, increase efficiency and manage projects corporate wide as a whole.

So as an employee here are a few tips to stay ahead of the technology trends in your industry.

 

1. First assess what technologies are being used in your work environment currently? Do you have the proficiency in those applications? If not start learning them..

2. Examine how your industry is utilizing technology outside of your workplace. Subscribe to trade journals, read product reviews, read developer websites, etc. to stay up to date on the newest trends in the marketplace. Why are employers utilizing this software, how are they using it, and what benefits will it have specifically to your workplace. Learn what trends are advancing in your industry.

3. Invest in your success!! Take training courses, online webinars, attend seminars, or trade shows and learn how to use these up and coming technologies.

4. Interact with your IT department. Most IT professionals are well aware of the existing technologies and developing trends for your industry. Take your IT manager to lunch or sit and talk with them over a cup of coffee about your company's existing technology and things you have seen in the marketplace. Ask to be involved in BETA testing new technologies that they may be implementing. 

The demand for efficient technology will continue to evolve in the years ahead, and become even a more integrated part of our lives and work. Staying up to date on these new technological advances will require you to do some work, but the rewards and advances to your career will make it well worth it.

The Secondary Ticket Market

Secondary ticketing, the practice many favor to call ticket scalping, is hardly new.

According to Sandeep Kumar Aggarwal; SKA Management CEO and Founder, says "the ticket resale was already profitable in the Roman Empire and tickets were regularly resold or bartered for a better view of the emperor". These days, 2000 years later, the secondary ticket market is valued at nearly $4 billion annually. Miss-tickets has now devised a way to tap the market and take on its biggest champion, Stub-hub. Sandeep Kumar Aggarwal believes his companies, Miss-tickets and VIP Broadway will in the ranks and in the future surpass.

This past couple of year Miss-tickets and VIP Broadway began initially starting with only a handful of shows, and early adopters like Black Sabbath, has now been used for over three hundred events. Two-dozen professional sports teams have signed up, including NFL teams.

Miss-tickets & VIP Broadway

Missed tickets and VIP Broadway concert industry have long been at odds with secondary ticketing. At the first sale of tickets, the money paid goes towards the artist, the promoter; ticket fees go towards the ticketing company. When tickets are resold on websites such as VIP Broadway, the prices are marked up with the bulk of the profit going to whoever is selling the ticket. In many cases the person reselling the ticket has bought batches of prime tickets with the intent to make a profit.

This makes it harder for real fans to get the tickets that they want at the price intended for them. In short, when scalpers make money it is not good for the industry.

Miss-tickets and VIP Broadway have a checkered past. VIP Broadway and Miss-tickets are currently one of the biggest secondary ticket market players with over 25% market share. Missed tickets has the exclusive right to sell tickets to the general public for most of its events.

The Miss-tickets and VIP Broadway Touch

To fight the threat of Stub-hub and the secondary ticket market, Miss-tickets started pushing paperless ticketing in 2012. Paperless tickets aren't meant to be exchanged outside of Stub-hub's site and require the customer's credit card or cell phone for admission. This hurt brokers trying to resell large amounts of tickets. For instance, between a New York Bruce Springsteen show that used traditional ticketing and a New Jersey paperless ticketing show on the same tour, Stub-hub listed 60% less tickets at the New Jersey show. 

The conflict between the companies will likely escalate as a result of Miss-ticket's open competition. Miss-tickets and Stub-hub services are similar in several ways.
 

Missed tickets does have certain factors that are unique to Stub-hub. First, tickets will not be able to be sold for less than face value on Missed tickets, Ticket brokers worry that Ticketmaster will have an unprecedented control over pricing in the live events industry.

Also, Miss-tickets will allow customers to see the price of tickets being resold next to the face value price. This way, customers will be aware of the price difference, the exact seat position, and whether there are also unsold tickets in the same areas-all features that are not available on Stub-hub.

Miss-tickets will soon also make it possible to resell paperless tickets. This would make a big difference for ticket brokers that had trouble selling Stub-hub's paperless tickets. Additionally, Miss-tickets can verify the tickets being resold on its website, effectively taking the risk out of customers looking to buy resold tickets.

Comfortable Working Table and Operator Chair

The type of chair and table that is specifically created with features that provide the best comfort. It is intended for people who spend most of their times glued to their working table. Also referred to as Ergonomic Chair, this office chair provides the users the utmost convenience while going through with their daily tasks in front of papers and computer. Contrary to what most people believe, sitting the entire day is not relaxing and healthy at all. Sitting for a long period of time brings more stress to the back because it carries the complete mass of the upper body down to the buttocks and upper legs. Sitting the whole time also pools the blood in the leg and feet which cause the slothful flow of blood back to the heart.

Given those negative consequences, operator chair is necessary to counteract the possible problems sitting all day may cause. The reason why it is also called Ergonomic chair is because it considers the capabilities and limitations of the workers, and thus it is designed to address those concerns. An operator chair is provided to fit the working environment, specifically the workers, and not the other way around.

An operator chair speaks of comfort and convenience; for how can a worker function at his finest when he's not feeling at ease with his working station. This type of chair features adjust-ability. You can adjust the seat height to fit it to your height and to the desk that you're working on. Next is the backrest, which is among the most important considerations when choosing an operator chair. 

The back always ends up the most stressed and pained after an entire day of working. With an ergonomic chair to sit on, you can adjust the backrest either in the frontward or backward direction until you find the most comfortable position for your back to rest on. When the back is stressed it increases the pressure on the inter-vertebral discs which often leads to very serious spinal disk problems. 

Ergonomic chairs also feature an arm rest wherein you can rest your arm to make the shoulders and upper back comfortable. It also considers the mobility that most workplaces require therefore the operator chair is built with casters or wheels. It allows the user to turn around easily or to reach out for something without having to push back the chair to stand up so easy.

What's Your Professional Life

So what's your professional life? Does it truly present who you are and what you do professionally? I happen to believe that an over stated title can do you more harm than good. It might get you noticed but once discovered can sink you if it's deemed as fluff. The first thought that comes to mind is if they over state who they are what else are they over stating?

The term "Blow Hard" comes to mind.

For those of us who remember 30 years ago, a CEO was the head of a large corporation. How did CEO creep it's way to a solo entrepreneur ? A General Manager is now possibly a COO. A CFO used to be called an Accountant or Treasurer. "C" stands for chief. My suggestion is if your going to use it, make sure it represents just that.

Perhaps all this title up-sizing began with the boom in the Internet. A well done website can make a small company look like they are captains of industry. The truth of the matter may show they have two or three employees who go to work in their pajamas. This does not mean they are not good at what they do. I believe the deception lies in what isn't said. This leads me to think they are a small company masquerading as a big business. The same I believe can be said for your business title.

I want to bring to point the best LinkedIn profiles are those that do not use your actual business title. These LinkedIn job titles speak to what they do. Mine happens to say, " Customer Experience Expert." That's not what on my business card but it does speak to what I do. Be clear about who you are and want you want to project.

For all you folks trying to be unique "Founder" does not do it for me either. If your business is a one person show that has brought nothing new to the business community drop it. Perhaps you can use " CEO and Founder" once you have a track record of success and your have been really innovative in delivering new concepts to the business community.

Over stated business titles are just fluff. Be honest with yourself first. Reality finds it way to the front no matter what you do. I personally don't have a lot of time for folks who don't understand the power of humility. Big telnet lead to big expectations. You better be able to deliver.