For Returning Veterans: 7 Myths and Realities of Organizations

Watch-your-thoughtsAfter 9/11, many men and women volunteered for military duty and as a nation, we are ever so grateful for their service. Now that most are coming home after many months or years of service abroad, combat duty and/or recovering from injuries, transitioning from military life to civilian life is not easy. The cultures are different and many veterans have a hard time getting jobs and keeping them because the military way of doing things doesn’t always apply or function in the civilian work environment.

We at Dynamic Worldwide have partnered with Major General Carl Schneider (Retired) to help returning veterans transition into the civilian work environment. We are offering this course free of charge to any veteran in the Phoenix valley no matter what their situation is. Here is a little tidbit of what the course covers:

 

The 7 Myths and Realities of Organizations:

Myth #1: If you work hard and “keep your nose clean” the company “will take care of you.” By “will take care of you” we mean that you’ll be considered for promotions, special training programs and job assignments that will bring you visibility.

REALITY: A company or organization is an “It” – an entity doesn’t make decisions of policy, procedures, promotions, etc. The people running the entity do. And there are few of those, but many non-management employees. A boss once said:

“Hard work will not guarantee success. Not working hard will likely guarantee failure.”

Myth #2: There is a “perfect” job.

REALITY: There is what appears to be the perfect job. This is akin to “the grass is always greener on the other side.” The problem is, you still have to mow it. What may seem to be the perfect position in another company or department, may not always stay that way. People leave, they get promoted and the situations change, sometimes from one day to another. How can you prepare for the “unexpected”? You can’t. Continue to work hard and control your expectations. Learn all you can about your job, the company and what’s expected of you.

Myth #3: You can be successful without good people skills.

REALITY:

  1. Not easily done. No matter who you are, at one point in your career, you’ll have deal with people to be successful.
  2. People rarely fall for lack of technical skills. Instead, it’s the lack of skill in knowing how to deal effectively with other people where most failures occur. One must be tolerant of differences, control opinions, have empathy, be supportive and respectful.

Myth #4: Understanding corporate and individual unit culture is not important.

REALITY: Accurately reading and understanding the culture of an organization is critical to career success.

Myth #5: To be successful, I don’t need to understand or participate in the organization’s politics.

REALITY: Yes, you do. Politics are a part of all organizations no matter what type they are – both negative and positive politics.

Myth #6: Positive visibility is not important to career success.

REALITY: Positive visibility is a must.

Positive visibility is the ability to behave and complete your work in such a way that sets you apart from others in a positive manner and gets you recognized.

To get positive visibilty, you need to develop key skills and use them properly:

  • Communications skills – speaking, writing and listening
  • Human relations skills
  • Acquire knowledge – about your job, the company, culture, people, problems, competitors, company priorities

Myth #7: Effective communication skills are not required to be successful

REALITY: Yes, they are. See Myth #6. Learning these skills:

  • Sets you apart from those who don’t have them
  • Adds to your skill base
  • Prepares you for opportunities and assignments that require them
  • Builds self-confidence

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5 Things That Will Help Returning Veterans Transition

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There will be 1 million veterans returning to the job market over the next 5 years.  Unemployment rates for these brave men and women sits at 9.2% but is at an astounding rate of 30% for those under age 25 who most likely joined the military to serve fresh out of high school.  The transition process is key and here is how we can help:

1. Understand the challenges they face. Veterans often feel stuck inside their Military Occupational Specialty (MOS).  They spend more time relating to their military skill sets than to corporate world job skills.

2. Prepare them to deal with the civilian job market. Less than half of the veterans surveyed (43%) actually feel prepared to make the transition.

3. Build on the skills they already have as they translate to the current job market. This means training and retraining.  There is definitely a skills gap in filling all the positions open in the world of IT and many technology companies and schools are stepping up to partner with the public sector to train and retrain.

4. Help build the confidence that they will find a job that suits them. Only 22% of returning veterans surveyed say that they are confident that this will happen for them.

5. Teach veterans how to tell their story and sell themselves to an employer.

 

Understand, prepare, enhance, build, and teach.  These lay the foundation for a successful transition from the life our deserving veterans chose to the life they secured through their service to our country.

If you are a Post 9/11 Veteran, call us at: 480-907-3071 or toll-free: 866-399-8287

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Dynamic Worldwide Training Consultants to Offer a 
Social Media Marketing Training

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Dynamic Worldwide partners with AZ Social Media Wiz

Phoenix East Valley technical training leader, Dynamic Worldwide Training Consultants, announces that they will now include an intensive, 10-day, social media marketing course for job seekers and businesses starting May 13, 2013, in addition to offering high-end technical training.

Social Media has matured and transitioned from a casual method of conversations to becoming a powerful, critical marketing tool for businesses to engage and build relationships with current and potential customers. Dynamic Worldwide is convinced of the importance and the need for businesses of every kind to have employees with the proper training to be able to leverage the power of digital media marketing when the requests for training grew more frequent.

The boot camp will be taught by social media marketing strategist, Giselle Aguiar, owner of AZ Social Media Wiz (Giselle@AZSocialMediaWiz.com). “Only 27% of companies have staff members who are properly trained in social media marketing,” says Aguiar, “this boot camp is geared to both jobseekers and businesses. Learning social media will open new doors for the job seeker and for the business owner, it will provide the necessary training for themselves or a staff member to elevate their marketing to the next level. For details visit: http://www.dwwtc.com/outline/business-skills/social-media

Dynamic Worldwide offers REAL-ILT virtual training where students can participate in the classes in real time from the comfort of their homes or offices.

The course is approved by the AZ Post Secondary Board and is awaiting for approval by Arizona Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and the Post 9/11 GI Bill for job seekers. Funding for training for employers is available through the Arizona Commerce Authority’s Job Training Fund.

About DYNAMIC WORLDWIDE TRAINING CONSULTANTS

Since 2002, Dynamic Worldwide Training Consultants has been in the Phoenix Valley providing technical training at their state-of-the-art facilities. They were awarded the Juniper Networks Authorized Educational Partner of the year for 8 years running. Founded by Dave Warren in his garage, in 2009, DWWTC expanded to include Microsoft training and developed a continuing educational program with approval from the Arizona Post Secondary Board. In addition to its corporate headquarters in Tempe, AZ, Dynamic opened a new center in Cary, NC in November 2012. For more information please visit http://dwwtc.com or contact:

Mary Pendleton
VP of Corporate Growth
4500 S. Lakeshore Dr. Suite 695
Tempe, AZ 85282
Office: 602/386-2046
Mobile: 480/621-1853
mary.pendleton@dwwtc.com

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Get Certified from Anywhere

At Dynamic Worldwide Training consultants you can take any of our IT and business career training courses from the comfort of your home or office in “real time’ via REAL-ILT. (Instructor Led Training).

 

Take a look at this video:

SMART Board Class

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We send the student a camera and headset so they can easily take part in the class even though they’re miles away – at no additional charge!

It uses SMARTBoard interactive whiteboard technology so students can watch and interact with the instructor virtually in real time.

We are located in Phoenix, AZ (MST) so keep the time zones in mind.

 

Get Certified from Anywhere!

These are some of the courses and certifications we offer: Microsoft Networks & Office, Juniper Networks, CompTIA, Cisco, EC-Council cyber security, Dell Force10, Citrix, PMI, VMWare, business skills like social media marketing and business change agent.

Click on Courses to see a list of the IT certifications and other business courses that we offer.

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10 Reasons to get Certified – Career Infographic

If you’re among the unemployed or if you’d like to advance in your career, here are 10 reasons why you should get certified:

10 Reasons to get certified

  1. FULFILLMENT: You feel personal satisfaction about your educational accomplishment. A series of positive events accumulate and provide a sense of satisfaction. Effort put into learning and expanding personal growth through solid education enhances professional accomplishments. It is said that the two accomplishments that we point to with pride are jobs and education.
  2. VALIDATION: Certification validates and affirms your work ethic and pursuit of success. IT leaders today are struggling to find qualified, certified people, according to a survey done by IDG Research. Further research shows that 8 out of 10 HR professionals believe IT certifications will grow in usefulness and importance over the next few years.
  3. PREPARATION: Certification is an inexpensive way to show employers that your skills are up to date. There can be many barriers to continuing your education but money shouldn’t be one of them. The certification process is relatively inexpensive in comparison to community college or university choices and it improves the chances that an employer will pick YOU. The right certification will not hurt you and will certainly help.
  4. VALUE: Certification increases your marketability and value to prospective employers. According to research, in a survey of 1,700 Human Resources and IT executives, most hiring managers rate IT certifications as having extremely high value in validating skills and expertise.
  5. RECRUITABILITY: Certification influences search firms to prioritize and select you as a job candidate. A recent survey by the IT Job Board revealed that 75 percent of recruiters believe that IT candidates with additional qualifications stand a better chance of securing a job. Two of the top technology recruiting companies (Dice and Indeed), listed out the number of jobs listings that mention certifications as such:
  6. FINANCIAL: An individual’s earning potential is enhanced with certification.  For example, in comparison, a PMP certification gives you an average of a 19% pay rate advantage. A+ and Net+ certifications by themselves do not necessarily give a financial advantage but open the doors to other technologies that do for those willing to take the journey beyond the basics. Security+ from CompTIA, for example, is the foundation for other security certifications and security is definitely a hot job area.
  7. EMPLOYABLE: Certification can give you a hiring advantage over non-certified candidates.  Microsoft certifications are hot certifications to have in the marketplace and are proving to maintain their value to employers. If predictions about “virtualization” technology is correct then VMware and the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certification will be well worth considering to make yourself employable.
  8. RETAINABLE: Companies tend to retain certified, skilled, and knowledgeable employees. During difficult times, when employment is harder to come by and keep and the competition is fierce, holding additional IT certifications could be vital to sustaining your present position.
  9. PROMOTABLE: Certification opens the door to new careers, job improvement, and advancement.  Certifications are one way IT professionals can keep up with current trends in IT technology, build their IT resume and open new doors of opportunity. Look at your career plan as a roadmap with a certification as one stop on the way to your destination.  Growth through more certifications add more stops to a better destination. 84 percent of IT professionals consider that holding industry certifications will improve their employment opportunities. In your current position, show that you are seeking to improve yourself in areas that are important to the company. Choose specialized training or certifications in the area you are interested in. Problem solving skills and leadership skills are of great value in IT. The more current your skill sets and comprehensive your certifications, the more likely you will be able advance you career and move up the ladder.
  10. PROFESSIONAL: Certification helps you gain unique access to professional group resources. Groups via LinkedIn are open to varying levels of professions and how you are linked to those professions. If you have the knowledge and interest, then there are all kinds of forums for sharing.

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Arizona PMI Week

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DWWTC is proud to support our Arizona Project Managers during Project Management week which runs from October 31st through November 3rd. There is a list of seminars, workshops, and events in town this week, most of which can be found on the Arizona PMI chapter’s website at http://www.phx-pmi.org. There is still time to register for events for those that are interested as well as exclusive media.

So if you are a PMI member who hasn’t checked the site in a while or just interested in project management you are sure to take something away from all of the fun things happening this week. For further information and PMI training visit the PMI section of our website or the AZ-PMI link above.

What is Force10 Networks?

Force 10 Training

How many people have heard about Force10 Networks? Been in a Force 10 Gail? Seen Force10 from Naverone? Well, Force10 Networks makes high performance core and top of rack switches for high performance, high end data centers, high density data centers, high reliability data centers, all over the world. You probably already use their products. 25% of all internet traffic worldwide and 85% of internet searches in the USA go through Force10 switches and routers.

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Recurring Appointment Tips in Microsoft Outlook

Outlook Tips

How often do you have a recurring weekly meeting appointment, and you go to plug it into Microsoft Outlook and enter it in over and over again? I think we all have at one time but there’s an easier way to do it and save yourself some trouble, so here are some recurring appointment tips in Microsoft Outlook.

Here’s how you do it: First start off by entering in the basic appointment content, and double click to open the form entering in the date and time. Next, click on the Recurrence Button, (for Outlook 2007 go to the Appointment tab and click on the Recurrence button in the Options) Then in the Recurrence Pattern section choose whether it’s weekly or monthly. You then will be able to choose weekly, bi-weekly, or even greater spans, leading to monthly. You can then choose a termination date, say for a school class, or it can run forever. Then click OK, and your set. Now look at your calendar and give yourself a pat on the back!

For more information on Microsoft Outlook 2007 Training or Microsoft Outlook 2010 Training “ visit: www.dwwtc.com.