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NYC Bar Program – Resume and Cover Letter Writing: Telling Your Story, Selling Yourself Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
The New York City Bar Association presents:Resume and Cover Letter Writing: Telling Your Story, Selling YourselfMonday, November 16, 2009, at 8:30 a.m.at the House of the Association, 42 West 44th Street, NYCfeaturing our own Margarett Williams, Director of Employer Relations.In this competitive job market, your resume must be flawless. If you are looking to switch practice areas, or transition
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NYC Bar Program – Resume and Cover Letter Writing: Telling Your Story, Selling Yourself
The announcement by the government that children as young as seven are to receive careers education will have sent shudders down the back of all responsible careers professionals. We are already plagued by an educational system that encourages them, often via their parents, to make long term career decisions years before they are ready. We now seem destined to raise children who are expected to know what they want to do forty years hence even though they have not even lived a quarter of that time! Don’t get me wrong.
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Careers Education For Children
One of the indirect benefits of my work helping people find careers that light them up is a positive ripple effect into clients’ non-work lives. Over the years, numerous clients have shared that family or friends have told them, “You’re so much more enjoyable to be around now” as a result of the work we’ve done. read more
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The M.A.P. Maker: Engaged employees have better moods & more satisfaction at home
Contributed by Caroline Ceniza-Levine of SixFigureStart When creating a profile specifically for a company’s hiring site, what is the best, most effective “generic” cover letter for different positions within various divisions? read more
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The Glass Hammer: Ask-A-Career-Coach: How Do I Create A Cover Letter Template?
That’s the report by the Justice Department’s Office of Responsibility, the one “which, it has long been reported, concluded that the DOJ lawyers who authored the torture memos (at least John Yoo and Jay Bybee) violated their ethical … Over a long career with the Justice Department, Durham has cultivated a reputation as a successful, hard-working, publicity shy, non-partisan outsider, and has been working on a case involving the destruction of CIA videotapes for almost …
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Holder Names Prosecutor: Progress or Whitewash? – The Opinionator …
Your e-mail address is a must on your resume, but what if the e-mail name you’ve chosen (especially if you use a free, Web-based service like Hotmail or Yahoo) doesn’t sound too professional — something like SexyMama@domainname.com? Most experts agree you should change your e-mail handle to something more professional for your resume.
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Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters Tips: Use Professional-sounding E-Mail Address on Your Resume
This is one of the most entrepreneurial generations in history. Some chose to start their own businesses for lifestyle reasons and some were forced into it because they were unable to find an organization willing and able to hire them. But all new businesspeople need help and as someone who started his business while in college, I feel well qualified to pass along some tips that I don’t see in many of these lists: read more
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College Recruiter Blog: 7 Tips for Starting Your Own Business While in College
BT’s announcement that it is to discontinue its graduate training scheme is the latest blow to what is becoming known as the ‘lost generation’. The number of young people (18-24 year olds) not in work or education is now 835,000, one hundred thousand more than even a year ago. There are inherent flaws in graduate training schemes, from the point of view of both the employer and the graduate
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A New Model For Graduate Training Schemes
Steve writes: I just started a new job and I have quickly gotten the impression that the position will go nowhere, so I want to keep looking for another job but I want to stay where I’m at until something else comes up. Is there any etiquette I should be aware of, and will it look poorly in the future when I apply to another position and have only spent a short time in my current position? The Career Doctor responds: read more
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The Career Doctor Blog: Etiquette for Job-hunting Shortly After Starting a Job?
This final book by Garet Garrett, The American Story , is one we took a very long time to put into print, mainly because a book of this significance–it is a complete biography of a country in 400 pages–needs time to settle in among those who prepare it and write the summaries and things. His section on the Civil War was initially a stopper for me (his view favors union but opposes Reconstruction, the classic perspective of an old-style American liberal circa. 1900) but the remainder of the content soars above all conventions.
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The American Story, by Garet Garrett
Here’s yet another way that marketing skills and online marketing link to your job search. Most successful online marketers, webmasters, and internet marketing professionals use some sort of analytical tools to measure their web traffic, including where it comes from, how long visitors stay, and a number of other key performance indicators useful to tracking and improving site traffic and conversion rates. Google Analytics is one, and it’s free, though there are many other free and paid tools
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The Job Search Strategist: Job Search Tips: How to Find Out if Hiring Managers Are Checking You Out
In 1918, the Soviet Union became the first country to promise universal “cradle-to-grave” healthcare coverage, to be accomplished through the complete socialization of medicine. The “right to health” became a “constitutional right” of Soviet citizens. The proclaimed advantages of this system were that it would “reduce costs” and eliminate the “waste” that stemmed from “unnecessary duplication and parallelism” — i.e., competition.
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What Soviet Medicine Teaches Us
News item (thanks Reddit ): Hundreds of auto dealers in the New York area have withdrawn from the government’s Cash for Clunkers program, citing delays in getting reimbursed by the government, a dealership group said Wednesday. The Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association, which represents dealerships in the New York metro area, said about half its 425 members have left the program because they cannot afford to offer more rebates. They’re also worried about getting repaid….
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Did you really believe the government would just give you money?
Quintessential Careers Press presents The Quintessential Guide to Surefire Resumes for New Graduates and Other Entry-Level Candidates ISBN-10: 1-934689-06-8 ISBN-13: 978-1-934689-06-6 You’re graduating from college soon — or you’ve already graduated. Time to perfect your resume and cover letter and ensure they are as powerful as they can be.
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Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters Tips: Free E-Book Offers Resume Guidance to New Grads
I recently wrote a blog post titled “ The evolution of a Blogger’s Ego ” on my Jason Alba blog . I wrote about a change I’ve seen in the last three years since I’ve been a blogger and having participated in other social media (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.). I think it’s an intriguing history… you can read it there, but one issue I bring up is this: read more
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JibberJobber Blog: Please Do Not Comment On My Facebook Posts – Comment On The Blog
I wanted to contact a fellow Chief Executive yesterday, someone I had never met but to whom I wanted to suggest an idea. I had to decide whether to ring, e-mail, write or try to find him on a social networking site. As I thought about the best way of making contact I realised that I was going through exactly the same process that job hunters go through when deciding how to initiate a speculative approach to a company they want to work for
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To Write, Ring Or Email?
Resume-writing colleague Arnie Bolt shared findings from a recent ExecuNet meeting he hosted, in which a panel of executive recruiters was asked how they work, how they evaluate candidates, and what they look for in resumes and other communications. Universally, the recruiters wanted to see an entire work history on the resume, even if it went back to the year “dot” and included irrelevant information.
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Best Impression: Give Recruiters What They Want… But Maybe Not Right Away
Samuel Adams once expressed opposition to the redistribution of wealth stating: “The utopian schemes of leveling, and a community of goods are as visionary and impracticable as those which vest all property in the Crown, are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government, unconstitutional.” U.S. President Grover Cleveland once vetoed an expenditure that would have provided $10,000 of federal aid to drought-stricken Texas farmers. He explained to congress why such an appropriation of taxpayer money was inappropriate: “I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution; and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit
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Keynes and Penn Spread Teller’s Wealth Around!
While some argue that it is inappropriate to prosecute lawyers for giving good faith legal advice , the abysmal quality of the advice these lawyers provided and the circumstances under which it was given warrant investigation into whether they were acting as lawyers in good … While there is new political leadership at the Department, many career employees who may have worked on these issues remain, and the residual institutional interest in self-protection is strong. …
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Nan Aron: Holding Holder's Feet to the Fire
but the numbers keep getting in the way: “Retail sales disappointed in July and the number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly last week…. While autos, helped by the start of the Cash for Clunkers program, showed a 2.4 percent jump — the biggest in six months — there was widespread weakness elsewhere. Gasoline stations, department stores, electronics outlets and furniture stores all.” Maybe the government should just pay everyone to buy everything, printing the money if necessary
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I really want to believe in Obamism..
Writing in The State and Revolution in 1917, Vladimir Lenin summed up the economic aim of socialism as follows: “To organize the whole economy on the lines of the postal service….” Incredible, isn’t it? After centuries of treatises and miles of paper and tubs of ink, this is the great historical turning point: government employees carrying sacks of paper mail from house to house — and operating at an economic loss
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Obama and the Post Office
The tragedy of one in six young people being unemployd is compounded by the inadequate official response. The knee jerk reaction from all agencies involved is to offer them some sort of training, in the hope that this will qualify them for whatever job they stumble across in the future. There is rarely any discussion about what training, and in any event the skills they will learn through conventional training are far less important than the skills they will fail to pick up by not being in work.
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Radical Solutions For Youth Unemployment
Someone asked me the proper way to view deposit contracts, in the context of a discussion about fractional-reserve banking (FRB). He noted that in my A Libertarian Theory of Contract I state that contractual obligations can either be “to do” or “to give”; and that “to do” contracts are generally not enforceable due to specific performance, but can only result in damages if non performance actually occurs.
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Fractional-Reserve Banking, Contracts of Deposit, and the Title-Transfer Theory of Contract
Contributed by Caroline Ceniza-Levine of SixFigureStart What do prospective employers really think when they see a gap in your résumé? It depends on the length of the gap, the industry and function you are targeting, and how the gap compares to everything else in your marketing campaign. read more
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The Glass Hammer: Ask-A-Career-Coach: How Do You Explain A Gap In Your Résumé?
Albert Jay Nock believed Gresham’s Law operated in ideas as surely as in economics, with error displacing reason from men’s minds as inexorably as bad money drives good money from men’s markets. Nock’s theory seems fast on the way to proof a posteriori, especially in our colleges and universities and particularly in the teaching and textbooks of the “new economics.” The “new economics” — as propounded by Professors Samuelson, Tarshis, Bowman and Bach in these textbooks used in hundreds of America’s best-known colleges and universities — is nothing more than Keynesianism, which, in turn, has many points of similarity to Marxism and the theories of that hyperinflationist, John Law.
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Economics of Oblivion
Police summoned Zheng Enchong, who has advised residents claiming to have been forcibly evicted, on Wednesday as part of an “economic investigation”, the Hong Kong-based China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group said. … Select Category, Breaking News (5), Business (75), Career advice (9), China (185), Disaster (5), Economy (4), Education (2), Environment (7), Government (20), International Relations (3), Investment (14), IP (23), Law (100), Litigation (32) …
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China Esquire » human rights attorneys in china compilation
Reading the financial press this weekend left me somewhat confused. The sharp rise in share and commodity prices over the past month seems to have all commentators in agreement that the recession is entering a new phase. But they are split down the middle on whether we are at the beginning of an economic revival, or whether the recent rises are a ‘bear market rally’, meaning a temporary respite before another steep fall
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The Importance of Good Research