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Finding a Job During a Pandemic
In a new report, executive search firm 3P Partners breaks down three key factors to take into consideration when seeking a new position: Be mindful of the risks of travel. Pay attention to the employer's response to COVID-19. And look into the possibilities for remote work. It's all here . . . let's take a closer look!
October 30, 2020 – When it comes to hiring and career changes, the COVID-19 pandemic has complicated an already arduous decision-making process. There are now added complexities around interview logistics, safety and cleanliness within the workplace, and adapting to a growing remote workforce.
In a recent report, executive search firm 3P Partners, highlighted three key areas that are affecting candidates' decision-making in job searches. Whether you are considering making a career change or you have started the application process, it is important to keep the following in mind:
1. Traveling for an in-person interview
A new element when considering a career change is the added layer of risk related to travelling to an interview, said 3P Partners. Nestle and Cargill were among the first conglomerates to halt business related travel in March as COVID-19 continued to spread across the globe, according to a report by Bloomberg. A Gartner study, meanwhile, showed that 86 percent of companies transitioned to virtual interviews in April, and 85 percent planned to use online platforms for onboarding.
Although recruiters were utilizing online platforms long before COVID-19, CNBC reported that 84 percent of recruiters are in the process of adapting their hiring processes to facilitate remote exchanges, said the 3P Partners report. There has been a greater investment in social media analytics as more than 58 percent of recruiters are using these platforms as well as artificial intelligence and text messaging to connect with and attract potential hires.
"Despite the rapid adoption of remote hiring processes, not all companies are able to rely solely on virtual tools," said the report. "Companies operating in 'essential' industries, such as food manufacturing or agriculture, require face-to-face interviews and onsite onboarding and training."
Here are a few factors candidates must keep in mind to ensure potential employers are providing a safe interview environment:
Are temperature checks performed upon arrival?
Are candidates/employees required to fill out an exposure form?
Are masks required?
Is social distancing being practiced where possible?
What practices have been adopted to reduce the risk of COVID-19 cases within the office/facility?
2. Employer's response to the pandemic
Salesforce recently announced that the company would be extending its remote work through the summer of next year, a decision following the likes of Google and Facebook. Meanwhile, companies such as Twitter have announced that their employees may work remote indefinitely. "This transition has increased the candidate talent pool and created greater flexibility around the hiring process," said 3P Partners. "For many candidates in essential industries, however, work remote is not an option due to the nature of the work they are performing. An employer's response to the COVID pandemic and dedication to ensuring a safe work environment then becomes a key factor in a candidate's decision-making criteria."
Rachel Quinn founded 3P Partners in 2013 when she relocated to the U.S. from Australia. She has a solid track record of placing C-level food and agribusiness industry executives. Her team is dedicated to providing top level service and building long-term relationships with both candidates and clients. Rachel holds a bachelor's degree in human resource management from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
Faegre Drinker, a global law firm offers a Q&A employer guide entitled "Return to Work in the Time of COVID-19." According to the EEOC, "An employer may screen job applicants for symptoms of COVID-19 after making a conditional job offer, as long as it does so for all entering employees in the same type of job." The agency shared that an employer may delay the start date of a new position if the candidate presents symptoms and is protected by the EEOC to withdraw the job offer.
Talent Acquisition Success Factors in the Age of COVID-19
Talent acquisition has undeniably changed as we all face the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many organizations have slowed or halted their addition of talent while others have reduced their size. "The industries we have primarily been serving in banking and insurance have been impacted significantly with only limited additional hiring for banks in risk management, security and mortgage processing," said Steven Landberg, managing director of Claymore Partners, in a new report.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers comprehensive guides for both employers and employees to ensure a safe and healthy workplace. "Some components for candidates to consider include the risk level of the people in their household, access to childcare, and exposure to others," said the 3P Partners report. "Upon returning to the workplace, the CDC suggests maintaining social distance from those around you, wearing a mask, and washing/sanitizing hands and surfaces regularly." The CDC published a COVID-19 screening tool – a pdf form that employers can use to identify COVID symptoms in the workplace.
3. Relocating for a new position
PwC shared the impact of COVID-19 on global mobility with a survey conducted across 350 companies in 37 different countries. The study found that 40 percent of the companies said that the pandemic had a significant impact on the ability of mobile employees to do business as usual, and two-thirds of companies that had employees on secondment or transfer offered the option to return home. Many postponed future relocation, and 58 percent said they were allowing their employees to start new roles from their home country. The survey also showed that only 12 percent felt the pandemic would trigger a fundamental rethink on mobility, and only 20 percent believed the number of international moves would decrease.
In 3P Partners' recent article, "Coronavirus Unintended Consequences: Added Value Through Remote Workforce," the firm addressed the benefits of the growing remote force for the employer, including access to diverse talent, reduced overhead and untapped growth potential through satellite offices and new markets within various time zones. "Additional benefits to a remote workforce include flexible work schedules as well as new opportunities for women and candidates with disabilities, who would not otherwise have access to these job opportunities," said the search firm. "We acknowledge that while remote work is not applicable to all industries and positions, it is becoming an increasingly popular trend among 2020 job seekers."
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YOUTH CLIMATE SUMMIT USA
Preservation or Destruction: We Can Make a Difference
I hate to admit it, but when our chemistry teacher first began to diverge from her scheduled lesson plan, I wasn't paying much attention- it was Friday, at least I was in class. But when she mentioned that she wanted to start talking about some real world issues, I was suddenly wide awake- there was one real world issue I could think of with strong connections to chemistry. Sure enough, within twenty minutes we'd gotten the rundown on the climate crisis, and it was a lot worse than we'd known. Our teacher ended her lesson with a call to action- you're young, she told us. You're intelligent. You're determined. Tell the world what you know. Make a video, a viral video. You can change the world!
We all left class that day with that unique, powerful feeling only new ideas can provide. Within a few days, I was creating a chat with a group of people in my chemistry class (and some who weren't) who might be interested in doing something before the election to ask people to vote for environmentally friendly candidates. We didn't know what we wanted to do or how we wanted to do it, but we knew we had to be fast. It was October, Election Day was just around the corner. We flew into the research stage, looking up the historical context of climate change as well as the expected future effects, reading whatever we could get our hands on. Before we knew what we were doing, we were drafting a script and planning a day to shoot- this was going to happen, and it was going to happen now.
The Friday of our shoot was hectic, a blur of camera angles and chocolate cupcakes and chasing after scripts lost to the wind. We were a bit worried (we hadn't gotten mics, as we'd intended to), but we managed to coordinate about twenty-five people and film around twenty in two and a half hours. Our group chat didn't quiet down all weekend- Monday couldn't come fast enough. We counted the minutes until we could finally start editing.
However, when we actually sat down to edit, excitement started to turn to anxiety. Turns out the lack of mics was a bigger problem than we'd anticipated; some of our clips were so distorted by highway noise that they were nearly unusable. Nevertheless, we worked with what we had, coming in before school, during lunches, and after school to edit as fast as we could, occasionally talking our film and chemistry teachers into letting us use their class time. Within a week, we had a rough cut of our video, which quickly became a final cut. I remember the pure elation and relief we felt when the export bar finally crept its way to 100%... finally, we were finished. It was done... sort of.
Making a video won't do much unless you get people to watch it. It had been shown at a meeting of our school's Green Club, and 350moco had expressed interest in it, but we knew we needed to get it out to more people, and fast- Election Day was four days away. Within a few hours, everyone involved in the making of it had shared it, and gotten others to share it as well. We texted each other about new developments nearly hourly ("y'all! 1000 views!!!" "Yo we just got our first dislike, that means we're reaching actual people!" "GUYS BILL MCKIBBEN TWEETED OUR VIDEO???"). By the time polls closed nationwide, we had over 2500 views- more than we'd ever expected to get. The product of three weeks of staying up past midnight was more than a video and a couple of inside jokes between our team- it was, we hoped, some awareness, some new understanding, for someone, somewhere, of one of the greatest issues plaguing our world today. Most of all, though, it was a realization among us that being sixteen didn't make us powerless- if anything, it made us all the more powerful.
Climate change is an issue that we did not cause, but one that we are going to have to stop. A recently published IPCC report states that we have twelve years to change our ways- the days of hoping someone else will fix this are going to end, one way or another. This is not something we have to accept. It's not something we can't change. There is a paradigm of people who create change, and young people fit it perfectly.
Some of the greatest demonstrations in America's history, from the Children's Crusade to the March For Our Lives, have been organized by angry, intelligent and determined children and teenagers. These kids saw a problem and, realizing it was too important to wait to grow up before taking action, decided to do something about it. Was our video a national sensation? No. What it was, though, was the beginning of an emotional shift inside of all of us. It made us realize that being young was not a barrier, but an asset. Now is the time for action. Now is the time for change. We will not stop. We will continue to fight for what we know is right until we come of age, legally and figuratively- and we will see to it that the world is ready for us when we do.

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Vippy Group has a long, rich history. Starting with cotton trading and setting up of ginning & pressing facility in1922, the company has grown to become one of the largest soybeans possessing company in India.The foundation of what would grow to become the Vippy Group was laid in 1922. From its earliest beginnings in 1922 Vippy Group was a dynamic enterprise, distinguished by its clear vision and foresight. A program of controlled expansion and sound strategic policies allowed the group to move into a wide range of different fields.
In this series Vippy Solvex (currently known as Vippy Industries Ltd.) was established in 1973 as a Pvt. Ltd. company by Mr.Vimal Chand Mutha & Late Mr Prakash Mutha. The visionary entrepreneurs and committed philanthropists, Mr. Vimal & Mr Prakash Mutha helped pave the path to industrialization in Central India by seeding pioneering business in Soya sector. It was more than a company that was born in 1973, a legacy was born. A modest beginning for a company that was to grow into India's one of the largest Soya processing company. Vippy industries Ltd is the pioneer in soya processing industry in India. The first processing plant was of 60 MT/day capacity and currently the combined crushing capacity is 1800 MT/day. Company went for IPO in 1986 and converted into public Limited Co.
Today Vippy is a rapidly growing business group based in Central India with significant international business. The Vippy name has been respected in India & overseas for more than Four decades because of its rich history and adherence to strong values & business ethics.
Our respected Founder and Managing Director Shri Prakash Ji Mutha was an exceptional human being and an outstanding leader. A man far ahead of his times, he epitomized the dauntless entrepreneurial spirit.
From a modest beginning in 1973 with 60 TPD Extraction Plant, he continuously expanded the capacity & product range to 1375 TPD three solvent plants, 100 TPD Oil Refinery & other down stream products. He had the vision & passion to bring in most advanced technology & latest plant & machinery with focus on reduction in operating costs.
Even when the Company faced a difficult period from 2000 and was referred to BIFR, he encouraged the Vippy Family to struggle hard with confidence, courage and an unrelenting commitment to the goal of retrieving the Company from the hard times by stepping up production.
Despite his immobility, due to the Motor Neuron disease, he never failed to attend office and was always available for guidance & support. He worked till the last day & lived by the Motto – "Work is Worship".
It was him , the first Man in the World to have produced & exported Soyabean Meal with 60% protein & fat in 1975.
He was awarded 'Udyog Patra' by Hon'ble Vice President of India Shri B.D. Jatti in the 1978.
He was also, awarded outstanding young Industrialist of Madhya Pradesh in 1983 by Jaycees.
He was instrumental in establishing Association of Industries Dewas and served as President & Chairman of AID. Many projects of immense value were initiated under his leadership and were successfully completed. Major projects which are witness to his perseverance are The Narmada Water Project, GAIL GAS Pipe Line and the Aside Scheme for infrastructure development of industrial area. He worked with his colleagues at AID to build Dewas as a Leading Industrial Township of India.
He was always available for all social causes through Lions Club International and held various positions in the same. He donated blood over 100 times.
We were fortunate to have him to lead the Company for over 30 years. His obsession for perfection, humanity, prodigious capacity to motivate & trust people, endless patience & courage, concern for his team, strong willpower & fighting spirit, vision, will continue to guide and inspire future generation at Vippy. We are proud & privileged to inherit this invaluable legacy.


It is said that wisdom is knowledge combined with understanding.
Understanding requires discernment, defined as "the act or process of exhibiting keen insight and good judgment." It was important that Jesus teach discernment, spelling out the many facets of living for Him in a hostile world.
Returning to the image of light, Jesus placed tending our personal lamps at the highest priority. If we are to rightly see this world, we need the inner light of His Word and Presence. He spoke not only of His presence then and there but of a distant day when He would return.
At Peter's request, Jesus made it clear that this teaching was for all time. We are the servants and He is the Master of the House. Life should be about doing the Master's will. We should not be put off balance because the Master seems long in returning. Our job is to be ready.
The Lord was distressed by the warnings He had to give to His followers. Before the peace of His Kingdom could come there would be terrible division in families, in worship, in civic life, as people decided one way or the other about following Him.
And it is so. The joy of following Jesus often comes with the pain of seeing those we love choose not to follow Him. Because of our love for them and for Jesus, our hearts are broken. We must deliver these broken hearts to the Secret Place of Prayer, crying out to God with the names of our loved ones who refuse to follow Him. This is the work of the ministry. We do not badger them; we pray for them. We do not complain about this sinful world; we intercede for it. Discerning this need for unity in the church, we must worship as One Family. We must not blindly follow the cultures of division. Where else in this broken world will the truth be heard except in the lives, worship, and witness of the church?
Jesus concluded this teaching by instructing those who followed Him in wise living. There is no doubt we are engaged by adversaries. We all live within a system of laws which we must respect. Beyond being law abiding citizens, we must also be blameless in our dealings with everyone, our fellow citizens in the Kingdom as well as those outside the faith. If we can avoid the "law and order" establishment without compromising our faith, we should. We will not find mercy at the hands of an enemy in power.
As we follow the Lord, living for Him, we find our mercy there. We will also possess the discernment to know what to do and how to do it. Wisdom is knowledge combined with understanding.
Lord, give me the discernment required to see things as they really are today. I know from Your Word that two signs of the end times will happen at the same time: The Great Outpouring of Your Spirit on all flesh and the Great Falling Away, the terrible end time apostasy. Help me see the difference so I can join the Outpouring and shun the Apostasy. Teach me to intercede for those who are refusing You and for a country that spurns Your love. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
The dead in Christ, and we that live, His voice shall hear.
He's coming, hallelujah! To catch His bride away.
The winter's past, the rain is o'er, The figs are green.
Our Lord shall come to claim His own, He's drawing nigh.
4. The saints are looking ever upward While journ'ing on their way.
The saints are looking ever upward While journ'ing on their way.


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New From NAMM—DPA Microphones
January 25, 2010 / Mike Sessler
I'll say this upfront; I'm a big fan of DPA mics. We had a DPA 4088 headband mic when I was at Upper Room. I'll admit being skeptical at first of the cost (about 2x an e6), but it sounded good. Then we had an issue with it the last weekend in our old space. I sent it to DPA, and though they couldn't reproduce the issue, they replaced it for free. While it was in transit, we had to use an e6 on our pastor. When the DPA came back, it took about 3 words before I was convinced that yes, they do sound a lot better.
So when Bruce Meyers tells me he has a new mic coming out that I may be interested in, I listen. I listen hard. In fact, Gary and I listened for a good 30 minutes while Bruce schooled us on the concept of flat phase response microphones. It was a fascinating discussion and it's already changed how I look at mics. But enough about that, let's get to some new mics.
What are the two hardest things to mic in live sound? Show of hands; piano and choirs. Can I get an amen? After our discussion with Bruce, I now have a much greater understanding of why it's so hard. Soon, we may have a good solution.
The silver end is basically a small, end-address shotgun mic.This mic has the potential to solve a lot of problems. First, it hangs on a nice thin cable which connects via a micro-connector at the black end. Let it hang overnight, and you can then flex it any direction you want and it will hold it's shape without any kind of clip. Very slick. Second, as a microphone that has the same frequency response all around it's polar pattern, it will make micing a choir significantly easier. The fact that it's very small and discreet is an added bonus. It's not quite ready for production, but I'm hoping to get my hands on a few to test in the next month or so. I want one for my baptismal and two for audience mics for the in-ear mix.
The next challenge we all face is piano. I honestly can't stand micing pianos. It's pretty rare to actually get good sound that doesn't contain a ton of bleed from everything else on stage. Again, Bruce explained why that's so hard. At some point, once I've fully digested that information, I'll try to write about it. The good news is, DPA has a forthcoming piano mic kit that will likely make our lives a lot easier.
The soon-to-be-released SMK 4098 Stereo Microphone Kit promises to make micing piano (and host of other things) a lot easier. The kit contains two 4098 directional microphones and two mounting options. One mount is a small magnetic base that will affix the mics to the harp of a piano securely, but non-permenently. Because the response on- and off-axis is so similar, the sound is said to be amazing.
I hope to be in possession of a kit in a month or two to demo. Once I can do that, I'll write up more about it, and hopefully include some sample recordings.
DPA is also working on a single ear version of their famed 4088 and 4066 headset mics. Turns out some people (including my pastor) just don't like dual ear designs. Again, once it's closer to ready I hope to have a sample to demo. Having just spent a month with a DaCappo DA12, I'm anxious to hear the new DPA. We'll be buying one of them...
January 25, 2010 / Mike Sessler/
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Strictly's Aljaz Skorjanec opens up about his ongoing health struggle
The star praised his Strictly Come Dancing team for being so supportive
May 20, 2021 - 14:34 BST Georgia Brown In an exclusive interview, Strictly Come Dancing star Aljaz Skorjanec opens up about his secret health battle with psoriasis and how it affected his mental health and wellbeing.
We know and love him for his incredible dance talent and adorable relationship with fellow professional dancer and wife Janette Manrara, but what you may not know about Strictly Come Dancing's Aljaž Škorjanec is that he has been secretly dealing with an ongoing skin condition that has affected his mental health and physical wellbeing.
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In an exclusive interview with HELLO!, Aljaž opened up about his struggle with psoriasis – an inflammatory skin condition thought to be caused by a weakened immune system. The condition had an immense effect on the star's wellbeing as he faced Strictly's stage lights in short-sleeved costumes.
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When Aljaž first noticed his psoriasis flaring up as a teenager, he had just moved to Australia to pursue a professional career in dancing. "I put my mind under stress moving into a different place and living on my own for the first time. It was a lot of hard work on my mind and body. And I feel like through that stress, my psoriasis started appearing."
Stumped at finding a solution, the star revealed as the years went on, he tried "everything" to find a fix. "The only thing that really helped for a long time was steroids", he said.
The star opened up about his struggle with ongoing psoriasis
"It then started appearing on my face. That's when it really started affecting my confidence, my self-esteem and just my general wellbeing as well to be honest. Every time I would get up in the morning to brush my teeth, the first thing I saw was myself and all I could see was the sore redness under my eyes."
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Talking candidly about his struggles, Aljaž said: "It affects you - it obviously does. Especially doing what I do which is so 'out there', everything is about your body, your physique, and the way you look at the end of the day."
"I just hope that me just talking about it will help someone with psoriasis see themselves in a different way. It's something that is manageable, and you can live with it and you can get over it. In your mind."
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The dancer praised his wife Janette for being his ultimate support
31-year-old Aljaž opened up about his lowest point living with the skin condition, describing his worst flare-up as one of the "busiest times" in his life.
"It was a few years ago, it was right before I started Strictly. For whatever reason, I didn't take much of a break that summer. I kind of went straight through work, work, work, and rarely gave myself time off."
"When I then started Strictly professional rehearsals, my skin really flared up. Sweat doesn't help in rehearsals because sweat is acidic. And if you don't cleanse your skin of sweat, it irritates the skin. So if you suffer from something like psoriasis (and in rehearsals I sweat a lot normally), that's when it got really bad and that's when it started really appearing on my face"
The star praised the Strictly makeup and costume team for their understanding
"It was a struggle, I'm going to be honest, but everyone at Strictly was so understanding and so supportive of me". The professional dancer revealed that the dedicated makeup team were always on hand to help him apply an extra layer of cover up.
"The costume department was amazing. I mean, they really were incredible. They were completely fine with me wearing long sleeves for most of the season and made so much effort trying to make me feel as comfortable as I possibly could be."
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Passionate about breaking the taboo of chronic skin conditions and encouraging others to be kind to those suffering, Aljaž said: "Because skin conditions are so visual, they encourage people to pick up on them more easily. And that's why it's so important to talk about it and understand it."
"Psoriasis is not a pleasant thing to have. It takes a lot of time to manage it, both physically and mentally. So I do hope that one day, we get to the point where we find something that cures it. But for now, the best product that I have found is Medovie."
Aljaž was approached by Medovie's Scientific Founder, Nadav Shraibom
The star shared that he was approached by the scientific founder of skincare brand Medovie, who shared a natural approach to treating a chronic skin condition with completely natural elements – and he saw an almost instant result, leaving his skin looking the best it's looked "in a decade without the use of a steroid cream."
Aljaž Škorjanec is using Medovie products, a natural solution for those with chronic skin conditions with a unique 3HX formula that has been clinically proven to provide long-term results. Available at www.medovie.com.
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High Fashion's Fascination with Ugly Footwear: a Secret Masonic Handshake?
"Because your eye isn't used to it," explains J.W. Anderson (a former Prada protege who designs Loewe), "when you find something really new, I always find it's really ugly." Probably because a context or frame of reference has yet to be found and we, as a species, really do love to fit things into category-boxes. Exhibit A: Alexander McQueen's amazing Armadillo footwhatevers (bottom right)...theatrical, towering, uncategorizable.
And more than 5 years after originally walking the Spring 2010 runway, the fact that McQueen's creation still defies neat-categorization is proof that it has met the requirement of that most brutal judge of what's actually cool, the passage of time, as being forward-thinking. How? By the way the bootie distorts familiar proportions to the point of being unrecognizable, yet still remains "wearable."
Exhibit B: the recent spate of fuglies including Birkenstocks with a fur-covered footbed, no less, at Celine for Spring 2013 (right), bizarrely-bejeweled Tevas by Prada for S'14 (below left) and Fabrizio Viti's FrankenFitFlop for Louis Vuitton (Resort '16).
These shoes all "hark back to the footwear of family vacations (the Teva), the school gym (the slider), or your former-hippie relatives (the Birkenstock)," notes an interesting piece in i-D. Hailing "from the wellness world of ugliness, the shoe references sportswear and the medically prescribed," they continue. "It gives us something we at least partly recognize." Which is one key to this ugly-shoe mystery. "It is both familiar and unfamiliar. And because of that, according to Freud, it is uncanny. It both repels and attracts us — which is a psychic situation ripe for obsession."
But, this being fashion, the medium is the message, which is all that really matters.
According to fashion historian Valerie Steele, where your conventionally-attractive heel tells bystanders: "I go to clubs with velvet ropes outside on Saturday nights," the uglyass shoe is more of a subtle fashion in-joke. Which is shared with others similarly in-the-know...typically types who (claim to) understand infamous Rei Kawakubo's "lumps and bumps" collection (below). According to Steele, when the comfort-shoe speaks, it apparently says: I know who "Phoebe Philo is, I read books and I like Georgia O'Keefe...like a secret masonic handshake."
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