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Couldn’t afford buying a Self-Driving Car, Do you want to buy a Self-Driving Bike Instead?

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Google just launched their Self-Driving Bikes only available on April 1st, 2016 ^________^

If you’re a tech savvy or one of the most busiest people on earth, you might be wondering to buy a self driving car. But, wait a second, although the prototype car is already available for instance, one of the earliest Google driving car, there are so many regulation bottleneck behind that. Fully autonomous cars are further divided into user-operated and driver-less vehicles. Because of regulatory and insurance questions, user-operated fully autonomous cars will come to market within the next five years, while driver-less cars will remain a long ways off. However, the good news is that the self-driving cars are no longer a futuristic idea. Companies like Mercedes, BMW, and Tesla have already released, their self-driving features that give the car some ability to drive itself.

Based on Business Insider, it is estimated that the self driving car will be launched and released for global market and would be available at least 10 millions cars on the road by 2020.

If you think globally, the self driving car feature will help to make roads safer and people’s lives easier. In the UK, KPMG estimates that self-driving cars will lead to 2,500 fewer deaths between 2014 and 2030. Regardless of the significant benefit, the self-driving cars costs need to come down and regulations need to be clarified around certain self-driving car features before the vehicles fully take off among mainstream consumers.

On the other hand, if you couldn’t afford to buy a self-driving car, do you want to buy Self-Driving Bike Instead?

Google just released their brand new self driving bike on March 31st, 2016. Unfortunately, it is only available on April 1st, 2016.

If you watch the video carefully, the idea of self-driving bike is not bad at all. Although, Google still hasn’t announced their price tag on their Google self driving bike so far, a lot of excitements and real needs among middle and lower income classes who cannot afford to buy self-driving car. This idea could change people’s life and the way people commute in the future.

Therefore, you might also want to watch the behind the scene video of this self-driving bike to gain more insight.

Although, you just watched an April Fool video made by Google on April 1st, 2016, you might like the idea of having at least one for your family. All in all, it seems too good to be true, but well, it is the 21st century when the impossible is possible. Everything is possible in this world as long as you do believe on it, just like the quotes below by Paulo Coelho.

Three Reasons Why Facebook Will Be Your CV!

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Although you already have had an awesome portfolio website, LinkedIn profile, etc., Facebook still would be your MAIN CV.

Currently, the vast majority of people seem to be using all parts of social media gadgets on their daily life, including looking for jobs, booking tickets, sharing photos, scheduling events, etc. There are absolutely huge numbers of social media platforms nowadays with crazy potential in terms of sales, connecting people, etc. This fact literally has changed the way we interact with each others. More social media online contact than ever before for the entire human history.

If you look at deeply into several major social media platforms nowadays, only a few of them has enormous growth over the past decades. Some have left the business, such as Myspace and Friendster. However, one of them has a significant impact on our day to day life. Yes, it is Facebook. Regardless of the story behind Facebook itself, the company now worth $100 billion of the company stocks value based on the report from Deloitte. Facebook keeps on adding a lot of new features that have been adopted from their competitors and most of them have been acquired. Names a few of them such Oculus VR (Virtual reality technology), WhatsApp (Mobile instant messaging), Jibbigo (Speech translation app), Branch (Web conversation platform), Spool ( Mobile bookmarking and sharing content), Lightbox.com, Instagram (Photo sharing platform), and many more. At least based on wikipedia, Facebook alone has been acquiring at least 57 companies since 2005. Since the company itself has a very young yet powerful CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook has a huge potential in the future. That’s why back in 2007, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg rejected Steve Ballmer’s offers from Microsoft to buy the social network for $15 billion.

Nowadays, everyone turns their head down and come back to Facebook. It does look like everything has been brought back to Facebook no matter what. This attracts a lot of people to use social media for sales, marketing campaign, and most importantly hiring people. Some people might not aware that most of the hiring managers nowadays also use social media to track, attract, and select their potential employees.

Believe it or not, the first thing that many people do if they want to get to know somebody, just google it. Thanks to internet. By using google search, you can find out a lot of things and get to know a complete stranger within seconds. The first result on google might re-direct you to Facebook. Since Facebook is the most common and highest traffic platform, it appears to be the first thing that would be listed on google search result too. Therefore, be aware of anything that you put on your Facebook profile. Facebook nowadays is completely different than back in the early 2005. Once you aware of this, if you’re looking for a job or in the selection process of getting a job, be sure that you put appropriate stuffs on your Facebook profile. If you look at it from different prescriptive, you might be able to turn lemon into lemonade. Having said that you can turn your Facebook as your main platform for selling yourself and getting hired by turning your Facebook into your CV.

Here are three major reasons why Facebook would be your main CV:

  1. Most people use their social media as the way / platform to express their true self, not only the good side but also the dark side as well. Many people only put their achievement and all of the best part on their CV including the most popular social media for applying jobs, LinkedIn. This true value/fact about you would be very attractive for the employers to study the honest side of the prospective employee.
  2. Facebook contains the most attractive and richest source of information and data about someone. Some experts say that if you want to know somebody, just come and visit their Facebook profile. It holds true in many ways. In the nutshell, Facebook could give a big impact on someone’s life whether or not he/she will get a job.
  3. Since Facebook offers a unique users experience for everyone, Facebook is also very attractive for the employers to search more detail about somebody like you. What is your most share feeds on your Facebook ? What is your daily status updates? How do you react to posts on Facebook group? All of these questions pretty much define your personality, EQ and IQ without having to do the 2 hours cognitive tests and most importantly the results comes with almost 98% of accuracy.

After knowing these facts, Would you still be interested in turning your Facebook profile into a very nice CV and turn lemon into lemonade?

Today Is The Best Time in The Human History To Find Jobs ONLINE!

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It’s never been easier than before finding jobs NOW!

Many people may think that finding jobs would rather difficult and full of very complicated and hierarchical process within recruitment process. The answer is somewhere in between. It is difficult but not impossible. But, it would rather easier than several decades ago.

I remembered the story of my parents in the early days that they had to wake up in the morning and printed their CV on the paper based. Yes, it is not in the USB or something on your smartphone. It is on the piece of paper. They had to sometimes print it more and bring some extra in their bags, just for a backup plan. To be honest, it also happened to me in my early days of my job searching period. But as soon as the 21st century hit, everything goes paperless and online.

There are limitless ways that you can gain the opportunity of the online world. The power lies in your creativity, efforts, and persistence. How long will you stay until you decide it to give up? How far will you go the extra miles to conquer your dream jobs? The idea of hiring global talents in this online era is also open widely. More and more companies, not only in The USA, but also Europe, Asia, China, Australia, etc. which are looking for talents around the world, especially startups. The hiring tools these days is never even better than before, including online linkedin platform and any other job board websites are widely accessible and free of charge.

Here are some examples of tips and ways for getting notice by the prospective employers:

  1. Create your own Video Resume online and post it on youtube and facebook. Use your creativity and imagination for making the best video resume possible to make you stand out in front of your prospective employers.
  2. Create your website or blogs. Publish your work/research/experince/CV and most importantly your Video Resume on your own blogs and website. Promote it by posting it on youtube, facebook, twitter, instagram, etc. The possibility is limitless. Use your creativity and imagination for making the best video resume possible to make you stand out in front of your prospective employers.
  3. Post your resume online so recruiters can find you — even when you’re not actively searching for work.
  4. Join an online networking community and connect with fellow alumni, colleagues and recruiters.
  5. Search the names of old friends and coworkers to reach out and expand your network via linkedin, facebook, twitter, or any other networking platforms.
  6. Research major employers, various news/financial Web sites or search engines.
  7. Tap the power of industry blogs to find folks who are doing what you’d like to do for a living and ask for advice. You’d be surprised at how many people are willing to share their wisdom.
  8. Streamline your efforts by saving job searches and signing up for email job alerts so you’ll know about new postings immediately.
  9. Start an online job-search support group and open it up to members of your network who are looking for work and share encouragement and insights as you seek out new opportunities.
  10. Visit company Web sites for additional job postings and to learn about each organization’s corporate culture. This will help you determine if you’d be a good fit and provide you with insights for any interviews.
  11. Browse trade associations and professional groups online for insights and new connections.
  12. Patrol job message boards and discussion groups to connect with like-minded and in-the-know professionals. Many times job openings are not posted immediately and these people may have hot inside leads on new opportunities.

 

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