Q: No matter how good the contractor looks on paper, you will need to keep your eyes out for certain flaws. Look out for serial job leavers/hoppers. Despite the fact that the candidate may possess great experience and excellent interviewing skills, look for regular job hopping. Try to find gaps in employment, valid reasons and any employment history that they are not listing on their resume. Always look out for location and salary problems. No matter how good a candidate seems, a job with a big commute or in another city is unlikely to work out well. Listen thoroughly when you ask a candidate where they are looking to work and the salary range they will accept. It is very hard to place a candidate when these elements are not met. Find out all the reasons a contractor left previous jobs. Try to encourage them to be honest about any bad blood or failures in their past. You should know if your contractor fails to work well with team members, or if it was simply a bad fit. Keep an eye out for a good fit with company culture. Ask your candidates about their interests, hobbies, family and favorite sports. While keeping the conversation professional, you should be able to analyze how well they will work with a company's team. Include necessary skills, qualifications, experience, career path and education, as well as concrete details like location, salary range, opening and closing dates and interview specifications. An artfully written and honest job description will set you apart from other recruiters. Good relationships with other consultants will put you in good stead. If you find yourself low on contractors, ask your fellow consultant to look at a "trade," where they are able to fill a position for you and you can do the same for them.
A: Hone an excellent contractor vetting process. Learn to produce exceptional job descriptions. Learn to work with others.

Q: Many animals who sleep with their eyes open experience a state in between wake and sleep. This method does not work for humans. However, there are other ways to achieve a sense of awareness and consciousness while sleeping: this is known as lucid dreaming. A lucid dream is when a dreamer becomes suddenly aware that he or she is dreaming. The dreamer can then gain control of the dream world and be fully conscious during sleep. " Scientists don't know why, but simply reading about the phenomenon of lucid dreaming can cause people to experience a lucid dream. Enhancing your awareness of the phenomenon, for some people, is sufficient to experience the phenomenon. Visit your local library to research the topic, or read about it online. Expose yourself to as many articles and stories as you can in order to "plant the seed" of lucid dreaming in your mind. Perhaps you will get lucky and experience a lucid dream on your own. The most important step to gaining control over your dreams is to get enough sleep each night. This will maximize the amount of time that you experience REM sleep, which is when most dreaming takes place. Maintain a dream journal and update it religiously. This will train your brain to recognize common themes and emotions of your own dreams. This will help your brain realize when you are dreaming in the middle of a dream state. Be sure to keep a journal close to your bed so that you can write your dreams down immediately upon waking. If you get distracted after a dream, you are more likely to forget what happened during your dream. Immediately before bed, tell yourself that you want to experience a lucid dream. Prepare your brain to be aware during the dream state. Focus on this desire intently each night. There are phone applications that are designed to help cue your brain to realize when you are dreaming. Download one of these apps and use it while you sleep. It will help monitor when you are dreaming and will play an audio cue to try to make you recognize your own dream state without fully waking up.
A: Consider alternative states between wake and sleep. Read about lucid dreaming to "plant the seed. Get a good night's sleep. Keep a dream journal. Tell yourself you want to dream lucidly. Download a lucid dreaming application.

Q: If the email does not require a response, not sending one could be the best option. Consider not responding if you receive emails that are off topic and don't require your attention. For example, coworkers may sometimes make assumptions about your work habits. Don't respond to an email that says, "It must be nice to get to take extra long lunches," or "Everyone knows that your meetings don't last all afternoon." As long as your manager knows the truth, you're better off staying out of office drama. If a response is needed, the tone should be professional, even if the sender was not professional. Read your email out loud before sending it to make sure that it sounds professional rather than rude or emotional. Avoid being blunt in your response, as that can sound rude. Your response needs to be calm and professional, so don't write it in a rush. Most emails are not time-sensitive, so you can take all day to respond if you need to. After you write your response, set it aside for about an hour. If you know that you're writing out of emotion, switch to a different task until you calm back down. Add the email address last to avoid accidentally sending it early. Don't try to respond to everything, and don't provide a long personal defense. If you want to squash the rude behavior, you need to keep your email focused on work topics. Choose one work-related topic to focus on. One way to ensure that your email is professional is to only discuss facts. Facts include specific things like what work has been assigned and completed, due dates, timelines, data, and related topics. For example, if the rude email asked about the status of a report, say, "Thanks for checking in. I received the new data this morning, so I'm updating my report. The new report will be available this afternoon." This keeps the focus of the response on the work you were assigned and the progress of your project, not on your reaction to your rude coworker. It's tempting to get defensive or rude in response to an offensive email, but it will only worsen the situation. Instead, take the professional high road. Don't accuse them of being rude. Keep your feelings out of the email. Before you hit send, ask yourself if any part of the email is a defense of yourself.
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Avoid responding if no response is required. Stay professional. Take your time writing your response. Keep your message short and simple. Stick to the facts and don't elaborate. Leave the emotion out of your response.