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A Credibility Meltdown for the World’s Leading Climate Scientists Saturday, November 21st, 2009
NewLiberty on the LvMI Forum shares a bevy of links covering the recent climate scandal that seems likely to become even bigger than the Yamal Controversy … http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/hadley_hacked/ http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/20/climate-sceptics-hackers-leaked-emails http://www.examiner.com/x-28973-Essex-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m11d19-Hadley-CRU-hacked-with-release-of-hundreds-of-docs-and-emails http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091120/full/news.2009.1101.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8370282.stm http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576009,00.html “So the 1079 emails and 72 documents seem indeed evidence of a scandal involving most of the
Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters Tips: The T-Formation or 2-column Cover Letter Saturday, November 21st, 2009A particularly effective way to deploy the specifics of an ad or job posting to your advantage is to use a two-column format (also known as a “T-formation” letter) in which you quote in the left-hand column specific qualifications that come right from the employer’s want ad and in the right-hand column, your attributes that meet those qualifications. The two-column format is extremely effective when you possess all the qualifications for a job, but it can even sell you when you lack one or more qualification.
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Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters Tips: The T-Formation or 2-column Cover Letter
“I don’t know if that will catch on but I think it’s probably a good idea if it does,” said Alan Haynes, director of the Career & Professional Development Center at the University of Minnesota Law School. “I think that might be workable for people.” … The expectations of today’s new lawyers are different than in the past, particularly in terms of mentoring, advice , involvement and being engaged with their firm Standke said
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Will the apprenticeship model come to Minnesota? – Minnesota Lawyer
“Word bullets” are a way to make your cover letter stand out. Word bullets (which can be used with regular bullets), also break up the text and are excellent for spotlighting words or phrases from the ad or job posting you’re responding to. By pulling these words out of the ad, you can focus your letter sharply on how you meet the requirements that relate to those words
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Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters Tips: Consider "Word Bullets" for Your Cover Letter
Welcome to a special Inside Recruiting Channel edition of Total Picture Radio, with Peter Clayton reporting. When George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut set out to write Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time (affiliate link to Amazon.com), they invited a select group of experts to share their knowledge in the onboarding process. In this special series here on Total Picture Radio, we’ll be interviewing, in depth, the individuals chosen by the authors to contribute their experience, expertise, and perspective
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Total Picture Radio: Onboarding Experts Series #8 David Lee On the Emotional Side
If he hadn’t pulled out all the stops campaigning for the president, raising money at lavish celebrity events, and offering his strategic and legal advice —and if Eric Holder had an “R” by his name instead of a “D”—he might have served as the perfect poster boy for Mrs. O’s caustic …. He surely knew that dozens of lawyers from his firm were among the 500-plus civilian lawyers representing the 244 or so remaining detainees (on top of military-court-appointed defenders).
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Michelle Malkin » Culture of corruption: Holder, terrorists …
The late, great Dr. Petr Beckmann was editor of the great journal Access to Energy , founder of the dissident physics journal Galilean Electrodynamics (brochures and further Beckmann info here ; further dissident physics links ), author of The Health Hazards of NOT Going Nuclear ( Amazon ) and the pamphlets The Non-Problem of Nuclear Waste and Why “Soft” Technology Will Not Be America’s Energy Salvation . (See also my post Access to Energy , and this post .) I just came across another favorite piece of his and have scanned it in: Economics as if Some People Mattered (review of Small is Beautiful by E.F.
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Barack Obama named his first two appointees to the Federal Trade Commission today. Befitting a body that has the unrestricted power to regulate every U.S. company without regard to the Constitution or the laws of economics, Obama named two career lawyers in good standing with the antitrust establishment: President Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals today: Julie Brill, Nominee for Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission Julie Brill became the Senior Deputy Attorney General and Chief of Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the North Carolina Department of Justice in February 2009.
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A Mathematician, A Different Kind of Mathematician & A Statistician
Tomorrow at 4ET (1PT) I’m doing a webinar for Netshare called Facebook Essentials for Executives . I’m jazzed about this webinar and have been preparing for it quite a bit. Facebook has power in numbers – and I’m amazed at the connections I’ve made because of Facebook that I didn’t make in LinkedIn. I’m also amazed at the conversation that happens in Facebook that isn’t happening elsewhere
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JibberJobber Blog: Facebook for Executives (and professionals) Webinar
Part of the legacy of that trial was the disclosure of information to the lawyers for the defendants that wound up promptly in the hands of al-Qaeda members who eventually would plan and execute the next attacks on the World Trade Center … I have no doubt that Mr. Holder is an honorable man who took this decision seriously, worried about it, and weighed carefully the advice of his legal team and others in (and perhaps out of) the administration regarding the risks and …
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RealClearPolitics – Memo to Holder: Who's Accountable Now?
A 2009 study conducted by Rutgers University’s Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, ” The Anguish of Unemployment “, was a comprehensive survey of 1,200 Americans nationwide who, over the past year, have been unemployed. In today’s climate for unemployment, it may not surprise you that the study found nearly 80% have not yet found work. read more
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Paula Caligiuri: Most of the recently unemployed lost their jobs without any warning. Surprised? Read this.
There are a range of employment discrimination issues that come up during the course of any normal legal career – especially for personal injury lawyers in Florida – ranging from an on-the-job discrimination suit, to an illegal firing, to sexual harassment in the workplace, … Looking to find the best deal on Personal Injury Attorneys in Florid, then visit www.personalinjurylawyer.net to find the best advice on Personal Injury Lawyer Miami, Florida for you.
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5 Things Personal Injury Lawyers in Florida Are Involved In …
I recently received a call from a good friend who wanted to know if I still loved my job with the same passion that I had for it when I first started work. I was all fired up three years ago; I told all and sundry and everyone else who would listen how I loved what I did and how lucky I was to be paid to do something that made me feel so good about myself; and I could hardly wait to go in to work and start a new day at the office. My friend was worried that she had lost all the passion for her job and that it was now just a routine and mundane affair.
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Career Rocketeer: How to Sustain Passion for Your Job
Work with the Finance/Administration Director in establishing and maintaining all personnel policies to ensure compliance with DRC labor law, tax law, and USAID regulations, requiring, as necessary, consultations with local labor and tax lawyers . … Advice Technical Advisors and Deputy Chief of Party of viable small grants formats in relation to recipient grant management abilities • With Technical Advisors and Deputy Chief of Party, prepare task order scopes of work and …
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A radical change in careers information, advice and guidance (IAG) has been unveiled recently at a launch attended by Children, Schools and Families Secretary Ed Balls, Sir Alex Ferguson, manager of Manchester United Football Club and Schools Mini… … But that’s not just true for football – if parents want their children to be doctors or lawyers then they should make sure their children get to see something of those careers as well.” Manchester United player Ryan Giggs …
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New careers education strategy fit for the 21st Century …
In addition to careers in what Canadians could consider traditional “land combat” trades, the CF offers over 100 rewarding careers with the navy, army and air force in such diverse areas as electronic technicians, doctors, lawyers , engineers, carpenters, mechanics, … The Canadian Forces will continue with its information sessions and strive to provide students with the same advice given by their guidance counsellors, as well as provide career choices upon graduation . …
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Daniel MacKeigan: Educating Canadians about military careers …
I remember when I finally understood I was supposed to followup with people on a regular basis… networking is about nurturing relationships , right? What about the person you haven’t communicated with for years? What do you followup with them about? You might sound to pushy, with an agenda ( “btw, please help me find a job!” ) or you might sound to empty ( “just writing to say hi, even though it’s been five years. Okay, bye now!” ). read more
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JibberJobber Blog: Birthday Networking
People representing from all stages of careers have said to me – “I don’t know what I want to do” or “I don’t really have an ideal or dream career.” This is often followed with “I am certain that it is NOT what I am doing now.” Does this sound familiar? Many people have an easier time articulating what they don’t like, compared to what they do when it comes to work-related activities. I can respect this
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Paula Caligiuri: 7 Questions to Ask Yourself to Uncover Your Ideal Career
Until recently, Jonathan Bernstein, a baby boomer and small-business owner in the Los Angeles area, had plans to “semi-retire.” On turning 60 in 2011, Bernstein had hoped to cut his workload in half, and he and his wife were contemplating purchasing a home in a state with a lower cost of living than California. But those plans have been scuttled now that the couple has seen values dwindle on both their home and Bernstein’s self-employed pension plan
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My Global Career: So Much for Those Early Retirement Plans
October 16th, 2009 Lawyers for Obama poster artist say he misled themNEW YORK — Attorneys for poster artist Shepard Fairey, who designed the famous Obama “HOPE” image, say he based it on a photograph taken by The Associated Press and …. @ 1ai1a will give legal advice should you get sued. GulfstarFishing On November 6th, the Fishing Rights Alliance sued NMFS over the sudden and unannounced Gulf recreational AJ..
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The Associated Press asks judge to deny request by HOPE poster …
There are a range of employment discrimination issues that come up during the course of any normal legal career – especially for personal injury lawyers in Florida – ranging from an on-the-job discrimination suit, to an illegal firing, to sexual harassment in the workplace, … Looking to find the best deal on Personal Injury Attorneys in Florid, then visit www.personalinjurylawyer.net to find the best advice on Personal Injury Lawyer Miami, Florida for you. …
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5 Sorts of Cases You'd See Personal Injury Lawyers in Florida …
Jacob Share’s Job Mob blog is one of the few I subscribe to via email – always something interesting there. Last week he wrote The Funniest Article Ever About Job Interviewing Tips, which includes an exclusive interview with a guy who created a fake office and did fake interviews, taping them and then compiling information on how to nail the interview. Check out Jacob Share’s interview with Steinar Skipness here . read more
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JibberJobber Blog: Job Interviews: How To Nail (or Fail) Them
From Guest Blogger Dr. Rick Jacobs : Industrial psychologists have a technique, job analysis, that helps to drive a variety of human resources programs from selection of new employees, to efficient training strategies to performance management initiatives. Basically job analysis is pretty much what you would think; we analyze jobs to better understand what the job requires in terms of specific tasks and underlying skills and abilities.
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Paula Caligiuri: If You Want to Explore a New Career, Ask These Questions– Guest Blog Post by Dr. Rick Jacobs
I’ll be periodically posting about interesting topics and discussions going on in the Ludwig von Mises Institute Forum . I encourage anyone interested in the scholarship of liberty in the Austrian tradition to join and partake of the bounty of intellectual stimulation on offer there. One of the best things about the LvMI forum is the passion for lifelong learning that is in the air; the place is chock full of autodidacts who pursue their independent Austrian studies with more dedication than you’re likely to find in any university study hall.
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Lifelong Learning in the LvMI Forum
Last year, many employers at the NYU Public Service Job Fair were inundated with resumes, with several employers receiving close to 2,000 applications for interviews. This year, a cap of 500 resumes will be enforced for those employers who request it. Accordingly, for capped employers, applications will be accepted from only the first 500 students who apply to the employer
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Be Aware: Some NYU Job Fair employers capping number of resumes they receive
From a post on Jurist : Nokia’s infringement suit against Apple illustrates need to scrap US patent system Stephan Kinsella [General Counsel for Applied Optoelectronics and Editor of Libertarian Papers ]: “A recent lawsuit filed by Nokia against Apple alleges that the iPhone infringes 10 of Nokia’s patents. Nokia is probably “seeking between $200 and $400 million in damages from Apple,” which JURIST characterizes as “a relatively low amount to seek from a company that expects revenues…of over $11 billion this year.” It doesn’t seem trivial to me, given that $400 million is a good chunk – say, 5 to 10% or so – of Apple’s profits. And Nokia’s is not the only lawsuit Apple faces.
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Careers in the News: A recent U.S. study has revealed that women who bear historically male names are typically more successful as lawyers and judges than women with standard female names, making more money on average and enjoying more … Career Advice , career assessment, Career Bootcamp, Career Camp, career center, career centers, Career Change, Career Changes, Career Coach, Career Coaching, career counseling, Career Counselor, career counselors, Career Destinies …
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Women with male names enjoy more successful legal careers …