Monthly Archives: February 2012

Your Facebook Profile Can Predict Your Job Performance – Time Moneyland

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It can take as little as 10 minutes for someone to go through your Facebook profile and predict how you’ll perform in the workplace.

In a new study to be published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, researchers asked a university professor and two students to spend 10 minutes looking through the Facebook profiles of employed college students. They were then asked a series of personality-related questions about those students, like whether they thought the students were dependable or emotionally stable.

Six months later, the researchers obtained performance reviews of those students and compared those reviews with the earlier Facebook evaluations. The result: a high correlation between the perceptions drawn from Facebook profiles and their performance at work. In fact, the Facebook evaluations proved to be more accurate than traditional personality tests companies often use to gauge prospective employees.

2012 Spouse Employment Training Program – FREE

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The Ellsworth A&FRC, in conjunction with the Air Force Aid Society, is pleased to announce the approval of our 2012 Spouse Employment Training Program for Customer Service and Microsoft Office Skills.

We are in need of the following:
-Active duty AF spouses who can commit to attending a FREE program; must attend all 5 sessions to receive Certificate of completion
-Attend 5 Saturday classes from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm at Western Dakota Technical Institute, Rapid City, SD

Dates & Topic:

June 2nd and 9th- Microsoft Word Basic 2010
June 16th- Soft Skills Training (Got Energy?); Top-Class Service; and Professionalism: It’s More Than You Think
June 23rd and 30th- Microsoft Excel Basic 2010 -Upon successful completion, participants will receive a Certificate of Training from the Corporate Education Center. Upon request, non-credit training transcripts are also available.

- The A&FRC will offer one-on-one resume assistance and help searching for employment.
-Space is limited!

From now through the end of March 2012 we are collecting names & contact info of those interested and will follow up at the end of April with a panel interview to place individuals in the training program.

Please contact Laurie Adkins at the A&FRC with any questions and to indicate your interest in this program.
Phone: 605-385-5599 OR email: laurie.adkins@ellsworth.af.mil

DOD Works to Ease Troop Transition to Credentialed Jobs

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By Elaine Sanchez
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2012 – The Defense Department is working to break down credentialing barriers for service members and veterans preparing to enter the civilian workforce, a DOD official said today.

“The goal … is to help our veterans, and especially our transitioning veterans, … get employed,” Ed Kringer, director of state liaison and educational opportunity for the Pentagon’s office of military community and policy, told an audience gathered for the National Credentialing Summit at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce here.

Speaking on a panel, Kringer described the interagency effort under way to ensure credentialing agencies recognize service members’ extensive training, education and experience.

Many occupations require state licensure, he noted, which affects both service members and their spouses. However, many troops run up against challenges with this, he added, as licensing and credentialing requirements vary from state to state and many credentialing boards are unaware of how military training and education equate to civilian training.

Read the full press release at http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=67290.

Valentine’s Day and the Human Heart

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It’s Valentine’s Day and I wanted to share some [edited] thoughts from Chuck Lorre…

“I thought it might be nice to write about the human heart – the organ from whence love comes. While cardiologists might see it as just a simple pumping mechanism, common wisdom knows better. The brain does not love. The lungs do not love. In the end, we all know the truth. We’ve all experienced the truth. That swelling feeling in the chest is the universal sensation we have when the heart is expressing love. Conversely, that sinking feeling in the chest is the universal sensation we have when our love is not reciprocated. It is then that the heart is “broken.” We are literally “heartsick” until we learn that our former paramour was inexplicably taken hostage by Somali pirates while dining at a neighborhood pizzeria. News we find “heartening.”

- Chuck Lorre Productions (Vanity Card #377, February 9, 2012)

Spouses, What Is Your Air Force IQ?

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Most people have heard the sayings, “nothing new under the sun” and “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” These saying definitely apply to being an Air Force Spouse.

Whilst perusing Family Service’s, now known as the Airmen & Family Readiness Center, photo albums and scrap books from 1959 to 1987, I came across a news commentary from the Black Hills Sentinel from 1963 that supports those sayings.

In 48 years, only minor changes would need to be made to update this article to reflect the current day. No longer would the headline start with the word ladies since the Air Force has many men that are spouses who support their wives/sponsors. Instead of Family Services Dependents’ Orientation, Ellsworth’s Airman and Family Readiness Center holds Heartlink Spouse’s Orientation as well as Happy Landings for individuals new to Ellsworth AFB.

As an Air Force spouse and Air Force BRAT, I thought I was a little bit of an Air Force know-it-all, but I decided to attend Heartlink anyway. I learned some new things and received a lot of great information on Ellsworth and the surrounding area.

Sponsors please encourage your spouses to attend and spouses, even though you are referred to as a dependent, please be independent and come to learn about your Air Force resources and family through Heartlink and Happy Landings.