by Angela Copeland | Jul 9, 2014 | Job Posting
The University of Memphis is seeking a Coordinator of Athletic Business Operations in Memphis, TN.
The Coordinator processes invoices and reimbursements with University Accounting. Assist with the processing of travel claims, advances and reimbursements. Assist with reconciliation of daily deposits and processing of accounts receivables. Serves as liaison for all purchasing and accounts payable inquiries for the Athletic Department.
Initiates requisitions, purchase orders and journal entries using Banner Financial systems. Responsible for creation of vendors and individual contractors in financial systems.
Review practices and procedures between Athletics, Procurement and Accounting. Recommend changes to existing Athletics Business Office policies and procedures accordingly. Assist with training of coaching and staff of proper procurement procedures.
To learn more, or to apply online, visit the University of Memphis posting here.
by Angela Copeland | Jul 8, 2014 | Advice, Podcast
Episode 7 of the Copeland Coaching Podcast is live!
This week we talk with Kristi King, Business Development Manager at recruiting firm Experis – a division of Manpower Group.
Kristi works to place top talent in positions and gives her advice on job searching, interviewing, and working with a recruiter.
Listen and learn more!
by Angela Copeland | Jul 8, 2014 | Job Posting
Southwest Tennessee Community College is seeking a Provost / Executive Vice President in Memphis, TN.
The Provost/Executive Vice President is the chief academic officer directly responsible to the President for leading the development, coordination and implementation of curricula and instruction at the College. He/she serves as advisor to the President on all academic affairs. The Provost/Executive Vice President serves as a spokesperson for the faculty, departmental chairpersons, and academic deans with regard to matters concerning the instructional programs, budget proposals and academic personnel policies. The following staff and areas report to the Provost/Executive Vice President: Associate Vice President, Dean of the College; Executive Directors of Extended Programs; Library Services; Special Academic Programs; Retention and Graduation.
To learn more, or to apply online, visit the Southwest Tennessee Community College posting here.
by Angela Copeland | Jul 8, 2014 | Job Posting
Glassdoor.com is seeking a Marketing & Web Analytics Manager in Sausalito, CA.
As the business owner for Google Analytics, campaign tracking and our other marketing analytics tools, you’ll be responsible for developing the overall analytics strategy for the marketing team. You’ll have a keenly analytical mind and the intellectual curiosity to identify opportunities to improve the performance of our website, mobile applications and our marketing campaigns and then you’ll be able to work across teams and use your influence to drive rapid improvements in key user metrics.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the business owner of our Google Analytics platform, setting guidelines as to how the site should be tagged, identifying areas for improvements and acting as an evangelist for the usage of web analytics and other data within the business.
- Analyze business/marketing data to identify key drivers, mechanics and associated dependencies for driving customer adoption, retention and monetization
- Develop and own key marketing and web metrics KPIs and drive their adoption through the business, providing the business case supporting KPI metrics and demonstrating effect
- Proactively work with key stakeholders (product managers and marketers) to help them identify opportunities to improve conversion of key funnels
- Analyze areas with improvement opportunities and make recommendations to stakeholders as changes to test to drive funnel improvements.
- Consult with product and marketing teams regarding business opportunities. Identify questions, determine and get agreement on analytical approach; synthesize analysis into clear takeaways and insight; deliver actionable insights that we can use to grow the business
- Create dashboards and automated reports for marketing teams and other teams, as needed. Provide analysis as part of reporting cadence and develop recommendations based on findings.
To learn more, or to apply online, visit the Glassdoor.com website here.
by Angela Copeland | Jul 7, 2014 | Advice, Newsletter
I hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend. Being back in the office today may remind you of how much you’d still like to be on vacation. Or at another job. Or anywhere else for that matter.
Unfortunately, we sometimes wait a little too long to decide to make a career change. We wait until things feel unbearable before we begin our search. And suddenly, it can feel like time has already run out.
Our patience is low. Anxiety is high. We’d do anything to just not have to go to that job one more day.
When you get into this frame of mind, you may start to search for jobs you wouldn’t normally look for. You know, jobs you could have done 10 years ago. Positions that require few skills and little of your true talents. They may even pay much less.
You know you can land one of these jobs quickly, and it will buy you time. You’ll be able to work there for a few months while you keep searching for your next real gig.
But, I bet when you interview for that easy, temporary job – you don’t tell them your plans. You can’t. They’d never hire you if they knew you weren’t planning to stick around.
If you take that temporary job, it will take a weight off your shoulders and give you time to start looking for your real dream job. But, what will you tell your next employer when you interview? Will you say that you’re only been working at your job for a month, but are looking for something new?
You could tell them how awful your last manager was and how you ran from the building when it was practically burning down. They’d understand, right? Wrong.
This entire plan has three flaws that I want you to consider before running from your job:
- It doesn’t look good to stay at a job for just a few months. It makes it harder for you to be considered for another job and it creates a story on your resume that you’ll be forced to explain time and time again in the future. And, if you decide to stay at your temporary job for a year, you’ve delayed your real job search by a year. That’s also not helpful.
- It puts you in a position to talk negatively about your previous and current employers. You’ll want to explain why your last job was so bad. Then, you’ll want to explain why this so-so job is temporary. This is never good. You don’t want to spend your time in an interview explaining what was wrong at your last (or current) job. Even if your reasoning is completely sound, it creates a poor reflection on you. This is something you want to avoid.
- It takes away your negotiating power. You want to make more money in your next job. But, if your dream job knows you’re in a helpless, dead end situation right now, they’re not going to offer you the same competitive salary. They don’t have to. They know you don’t have a lot of options. They realize you ran away from your last job, and you need them more than they need you.
I know it can be hard, but if you can, try to devote your energy to finding your dream job now rather than searching for a temporary solution. Even though a temporary job seems like a solution, it can often delay you arriving at your dream job for months or years longer than necessary.
Finding a good job is a job in itself. Set aside time each day to work on your job search. In just a few months, you could be in a better situation. You’ll find something you really enjoy more. It will use your skills, and might even pay more. In this sense, your patience will truly pay off.
I hope these tips have helped you. Visit CopelandCoaching.com to find more tips to improve your job search.
Happy hunting!
Angela Copeland
@CopelandCoach
by Angela Copeland | Jul 7, 2014 | Job Posting
Girl Scouts Heart of the South is seeking a Director of Fund Development in Memphis, TN.
This person creates long range development strategies to meet the organization’s fiduciary goals and objectives. They advise and consult with the CEO and provides professional expertise and direction to the Board of Directors and Fund Development Committee Chair. They demonstrate a strong passion for the Girl Scouts Heart of the South mission of girl leadership and development.
Candidates must have a Bachelors degree and a minimum of 5 years of experience in development and fundraising, preferably in a non-profit environment. The candidate should possess demonstrated success in receiving annual results and must possess proven management skills with a direct reporting relationship from development staff. The candidate must also possess demonstrated leadership, marketing and donor cultivation skills as well as proven multi-year success raising funds through Boards of Directors and Community Advisory Boards. Familiarity with Raiser’s Edge is also required.
To learn more, or to apply online, visit the Girl Scouts posting here.
by Angela Copeland | Jul 7, 2014 | Job Posting
Reddit Gifts is searching for a Head of Marketing in Salt Lake City, UT.
redditgifts is hiring for a full-time Head of Marketing who is self-motivated, entrepreneurial, and a proven leader. The position requires a minimum of four years of online marketing experience preferably in e-commerce marketing. This person will be responsible for building a globally recognized e-commerce brand in addition to developing end-to-end marketing solutions for customer acquisition, the marketplace shopping experience, merchant best practices, and order fulfillment.
Head of Marketing is responsible for the planning and execution of marketing and sales goals for redditgifts’ US and global e-commerce business. This key leader will bring creativity to the marketing arm as well as an ability to establish proven best practices, process, measurement, and forecasting systems. This leader will be well versed in all aspects of customer acquisition including SEM, SEO, PLA’s, and Affiliate as well as retention, loyalty, and reactivation.
We seek applicants with a track record of both establishing and growing these programs. This person will possess strong vendor relations, project management, communication, and analytical skills, as well as experience working for a data-driven, multichannel, direct-to-consumer e-commerce retailer.
Top applicants will have utilized lifetime value to drive customer acquisition, developed sophisticated multi-contact attribution models, leveraged social media to drive not only customer engagement but acquisition and sales and have a proven track record of leading a team in accomplishing meaningful and sustained sales growth.
Head of Marketing needs to be a big thinker. This is a creative role, and spreading happiness is our number one priority at redditgifts. Applicants should be excited to develop brand strategies and marketing campaigns that both inspire the world and bring happiness to others.
To learn more, or to apply online, visit the Reddit Gifts posting here.
by Angela Copeland | Jul 6, 2014 | Job Posting
Wikipedia is seeking a VP of Engineering in San Francisco, CA.
The Vice President of Engineering (VPE) will lead, grow and oversee a technology organization of 80+. This includes responsibility for keeping Wikimedia’s sites and services running responsively, and inspiring transformative changes that benefit readers, contributors and developers.
The VPE will be committed to empowering teams and enabling continuous improvement along all dimensions that make engineering organizations successful: the infrastructure changes needed to support continuous delivery, effective processes and tools for self-organizing teams, continued attention to team dynamics and chemistry, efficient and inventive hiring processes, recognition and celebration of accomplishments, and – more specific to our case – support of a global, open-source community of volunteers.
The VPE will work with a rock-solid, creative, independent-minded and mission-driven engineering team that is partially distributed around the world. He/she will also oversee engineering community management and developer outreach in order to engage the global community of volunteer and third-party developers that contribute to the core platform, extensions, operations, JavaScript gadgets, templates, bots, tools and apps.
The VPE will collaborate on technology vision and will be a key participant in the development of the product and technology roadmap. He/she will be responsible for fostering organizational and personal excellence to achieve precise, rapid and quality execution of engineering, product development and operations.
The VPE will be a key member of the executive leadership team and will be expected to be an empowering, accessible and collaborative leader. The ideal candidate is a proven leader and a passionate technology executive, who is well known for disciplined execution at scale, inspiring and fair leadership of large, dispersed teams and quality strategic thinking on both technology and business/organizational questions.
He/she will feel deeply inspired by Wikimedia’s mission to bring free knowledge to every person on the planet, and by the opportunity to do so through the development of open-source technology that augments humanity’s ability to solve complex problems.
This position will be created as the result of organizing the current Engineering/Product group into two departments.
To learn more, or to apply online, visit the Wikipedia posting here.
by Angela Copeland | Jul 6, 2014 | Job Posting
Experis is searching for a Controls Engineer in Memphis, TN. The person should have a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, or a similar field.
Applicable skills and knowledge include but are not limited to:
• Highly self-motivated and takes initiative
• PC literate with the ability to handle multiple projects
• Microsoft Office suite products
• Strong written and oral communication
• NEC Electrical Code, NFPA guidelines, and OSHA Press safety, Safety PLC Standards (Class I Div III)
• Fundamental troubleshooting skills in fast paced environment
• Electrical design, and systems analysis
• Allen-Bradley Micrologix, SLC 50x, & ControLogix PLC’s
• Allen-Bradley/Rockwell Programming Suite (RSLogix 5/500/5000, RSLinx, RSView, RSNetworx) AB Drives Executive
• Rexroth Indradrives and Indradrives FC
• Indramat Visual Motion 11
• Mistubishi Melsoft GX Developer
• Siemens Step 7, Step 7 Version 10, PDM, Simotion, S7 Distributed safety, Drives ES/Simotion, S7 SCL
• WiCC Flexible2008
• Pilz Ethernet Module PNOZ mc8p, PNOZ multi Configurator, and PNOZ MXP series
• Wago Ethernet I/O and Wago-IO-PRO 32
• Distributed control communications (DeviceNET, ControlNET, Data Highway, Profibus and Profinet)
• Computer networking (TCP/IP)
• Computer operating systems (Windows XP, Windows 7)
• AutoCAD
• Power transmission design and specification
• Technical Writing
• Statistical Analysis
• Mistake Proofing
• Engineering Economics
• Systems Integration/Automation
• Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma knowledge a plus
• Familiarity with Nordson I-Control is a plus
• Burner/Boiler controls experience a plus
To learn more, or to apply online, visit the Experis posting here.
by Angela Copeland | Jul 4, 2014 | Advice, Media
Happy 4th of July!
My latest Memphis Daily News column is out, “Giving Your Child Independence .” In it, I discuss the challenges parents face when they want to help their children find career independence.
Parents of newly minted graduates have all heard about it: the “Boomerang Generation.” According to Pew Research Center, It’s estimated that some 45 percent of college graduates between the ages of 18 and 24 are living at home with family. If you are a parent, you may be wondering what you can do to give your children the gift of independence on this Fourth of July.
In the past, it was assumed that a college degree alone would lead to a great job. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case anymore. In our current competitive market, job seekers must be more proactive and aggressive than in generations before.
Today, some parents are working hard to help their children get the upper hand. They’d do anything to help their son or daughter get ahead. The child learns they can really count on mom or dad to help them figure things out.
If you’re struggling to help your child find their path to Independence this 4th of July, get tips on what you can do by visiting the Memphis Daily News site here.
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