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A Storied Career: Storytelling for Self-Knowledge that Leads to Career Advancement Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
“MFK” describes herself as a “thirtysomething gal with a good old-fashioned writing degree and a bloated, shiny, sexy MBA.” She works for a Fortune 50 Company and blogs at Open-Source Career Back in the spring, she wrote a guest blog entry for Blog@Work, a blog that unfortunately seems to be “suspended,” so I can’t provide the link to it.
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A Storied Career: Storytelling for Self-Knowledge that Leads to Career Advancement
“In those days,” we are told in Judges 17:6, “there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” To be able to do that which is right in one’s own eyes is to be free, and freedom was the way of life among the Israelites before the coming of the kings. Yet, they were not without government; they were not lacking in those social controls that are the essence of government. The economy of the tribesmen demanded of the individual that he adjust himself to cooperative and regularized procedures; a man who indulged his caprice when the tribe was on the march in search of grazing land would be courting disaster; it was a case of hold together or die.
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What Samuel Said about Solomon
Not being an authentic geek (I just play one at the office), I still have a front-row seat to the exciting process of web development in real time. The most recent series of events was a wild ride from top to bottom, with seemingly endless learning along the way, something the user of Mises.org doesn’t see directly but which makes an enormous difference in the overall experience of the site and its capacity for further development to keep up with the resources and technology. It all began with the search engine (can we formulate a rule that it always begins with the search engine?)
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No Such Thing as a Free Search
An interesting topic has been under discussion on the NRWA’s professional resume writers forum this week: Is it advisable to list or to exclude your street address on a resume, particularly one that is going to be posted to the Web on job or recruiter sites?With the increasing incidence of identity theft nowadays, omitting at least part of your contact information would seem to be a wise move.
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Executive Resumes: Should You List Your Street Address on Your Executive Resume?
In a Mises Daily Article entitled ” How to Use Methodological Individualism ,” Guido Huelsmann makes a provocative claim regarding this fundamental principle of social analysis. According to Huelsmann, “while methodological individualism is properly applied in history, it is not a method that we use in [economic] theory.” His argument is that methodological individualism, although indispensable for explaining the contingent and complex events of history, e.g., the causes and consequences of the Iraq War or of the bailout of the U.S. financial system, is unable to aid us in demonstrating the time-invariant and necessary propositions that constitute economic theory.
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How to Use Methodological Individualism: A Dissent
Every once in a while I get emails from users that really make my day month year. Here’s one I got a couple of weeks ago – I am sharing this in its entirety because there is a lot of good stuff in here. This comes from John Greegan , who first reached out to me to tell me we had a typo somewhere. He starts off answering my question “ how did you come across JibberJobber? ” read more
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JibberJobber Blog: Organize Your Job Search with JibberJobber: Testimonial
The salutation in your cover letter should always avoid sexist greetings – and try to avoid stilted greetings, such as “Dear Madam or Sir.” If you don’t know the name of your intended recipient (and you should always at least TRY to find out): address the cover letter to “Dear Hiring Manager for “XYZ” Position (where XYZ is replaced with the name of the position); address the cover letter to “Dear Friends” – though some find that too informal; don’t include a salutation; instead simply put “Re: Job XYZ” (where read more
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Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters Tips: Cover Letter Salutations
For these young people, planning a future while pursuing college and high-level careers is a continuing struggle. Unable to receive financial aid or apply for jobs legally, they are pinning their hopes on the Development, Relief, and Education … Several had come legally and applied for residency, but said they were either defrauded by people posing as immigration lawyers or received bad legal advice
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Dreamers: Undocumented young adults face uncertainty « Shift: The …
Here’s the other half of the Tools I Use post. Friday was about the software I use, today is about the hardware. Again, in no particular order: Split Keyboard: I type so much that I need something ergonomic. I tried a split keyboard when I worked for the FBI doing a lot of typing and it became a must-have. I never have pain in my wrists from typing unless I am on my laptop a lot, or have to use someone else’s keyboard. read more
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JibberJobber Blog: Tools I Use (part II of II): Hardware
The “boomerang letter” is a great way to answer a help-wanted ad or Internet job posting, according to author Jeffrey Fox. Fox explains the concept of the “boomerang letter” in the Q&A interview he did with Quintessential Careers: “Companies spend lots of money and time creating employment ads and running them in the media. Most importantly, one or more persons in the hiring company wrote or approved the ad copy.
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Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters Tips: Try a Boomerang Letter
It’s been the calm before the storm for several days at the Mises Institute. In a few hours, Mises University attendees start registering, then comes dinner, and then the first lecture, followed by a full week of morning-to-night seminars, lectures, panels, and sessions of many varieties, all designed to provide the richest possible intellectual experience in systematic education within the Austrian School tradition. This year, we decided to push the limits of our facilities and permit an attendance of 215, which exceeds any previous year.
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Mises University Starts Today
Time once again for one of my favorite pastimes, looking at ways to apply material about storytelling to the job search. Today’s target is a posting about Donnie Claudino, TechSoup Canada’s marketing manager , who spoke at a conference about teaching charities about using online technology to improve their fundraising and marketing about how to use storytelling in online media. The post was written by “Andrew” on TechSoup.org.
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A Storied Career: Applying Online Storytelling Techniques to the Job Search
One of the many myths today receiving retrospective support from today’s servants of power is that adherence to the gold standard caused the economy in countries that did so in the 1930s to recover more slowly from the Depression. Probably the leading proponent of this apology is Barry Eichengreen, author of the very-successful “Golden Fetters.” As this article in the Economist reports, he has now produced a paper showing that, with one enormous exception, countries “clinging” to the gold standard too long adopted protectionist policies more than did countries that did not. Duh..
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How That Nasty Gold Caused the Depression
Your cover letter is a marketing document in which your goal is to spark the interest of the potential employer. We are amazed at how many cover letter “experts” advise people to waste their first paragraphs — which are the most important part of your cover letter. In this first paragraph, aim to attract the interest of the prospective employer, not simply state that you are applying for a job.
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Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters Tips: Make Cover’s Opening Paragraph a Grabber
It is the UK’s largest franchise event and a must for anyone looking for their next career challenge. Offering the most diverse range of proven franchises, the exhibition provides an opportunity for aspiring business owners and existing entrepreneurs to learn everything they need to know about … Professionals including marketing advisers, accountants, lawyers and small business support services will advise visitors on all aspects of developing a successful business
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National Franchise Exhibition Franchise UK – Showcasing the …
United Airlines recently released a statement in response to the YouTube video sensation by a disgruntled flyer who had his guitars broken on a recent flight. However, it was too little, too late, as more than 3 million people had already watched the video. If you’re the owner of a small business or if part of your job is to look after your organization’s reputation, you need to know what to read more
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Water Cooler Wisdom: 5 Ways to Fix a Tarnished Online Reputation
Best career advice I ever got Be positive and focused at work since you will never really win the lotto. Favorite Job task I ever had to do Two very different stream of regular tasks readily come to mind (i) Coach, mentor new hires or trainees (ii) Negotiate with auditors, bankers, lawyers . Most dreaded job task I ever had to do Once when I was asked to represent my ex-employer at a ministerial conference; the meeting was in Arabic while my Arabic vocabulary at that time …
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Career Uncovered: Asher Noor, CFO of Morgan Stanley, Saudi Arabia …
Anyone who has taken an introductory economics course is familiar with the idea that a minimum wage leads to a reduction in the demand for labor and an increase in the supply of labor in the relevant market — usually, the market for low-skill workers. The minimum wage removes the ability of some workers to compete by accepting lower wages and shuts them out of the labor force. As a result, it reduces job opportunities for these workers.
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The Hidden Costs of a Minimum Wage
Returning from the eduWEB 2009 Conference in Chicago, I recorded on my Flip Video some thoughts about what college hiring looks like for the fall. Many clients of CollegeRecruiter.com are planning to ramp up their hiring of students for internships and recent graduates for entry-level jobs but the healthcare reform being pushed by Barack Obama’s administration and Congress could kill those hiring plans. read more
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College Recruiter Blog: How Healthcare Reform May Kill Fall 2009 College Hiring
Now here we are at an economic zero hour for the American empire, and perhaps for modern civilization itself, and many in the global urban elite think that Paul Krugman, this establishment triathlete with his Princeton professorship, his New York Times column, and his Nobel Prize, has the equation for salvation. So what is Krugman’s formula? What commandments does the magus have scrawled on his blackboard for us, his plebian flock?
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The Second Coming of Keynes
Who could possibly claim that buying up drivable used cars at prices far in excess of their market value, for the express purpose of destroying them, will be beneficial for the economy or the planet? You guessed it: a combination of economy-saving politicians and earth-saving green activists are peddling the wonders of a new government program popularly known as “Cash for Clunkers.” The Consumer Assistance Recycle and Save Act of 2009 has the two ostensible goals of jump-starting the stalled automobile industry and combating global warming (or climate change, or whatever they’re calling it these days) by replacing old, gas-guzzling smog machines with new, more fuel-efficient, cleaner cars
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Green Baptists Preach Salvation by Breaking Car Windows
Contributed by Caroline Ceniza-Levine of SixFigureStart A lot of the job search is waiting: drop your résumé and wait for the interview; attend the interview and wait for the decision; attend the second interview and wait for more interviews or the offer. Many jobseekers ask how long to wait before checking in and how otherwise to maximize the waiting time. read more
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The Glass Hammer: Ask-a-Career-Coach: What Do You Do While You’re Waiting?
Excerpt from Yahoo! Hot Jobs Press Release issued at the SHRM Conference: In a significant shift for the recruitment industry, Yahoo! Inc. today announced Yahoo! HotJobs Pay Per Candidate, the first performance-based online recruitment product that allows recruiters the option to pay for candidates instead of just paying per listing. This will help recruiters tie their dollars directly to results, allocating their budgets to only the most relevant candidates while speeding up the recruitment cycle.
TheFatBigot Opines: The only way to social mobility Tuesday, July 21st, 2009The fee-paying schools will always provide this and for that reason they will turn out plenty of would-be doctors, accountants and lawyers . There is no point pretending that children educated in the State sector can gain access to these jobs unless they are provided with the same opportunities … I don’t know this as a fact, my view is based wholly on things I have been told by people who did make it and related their experiences of ” career advice ” at their State school.
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TheFatBigot Opines: The only way to social mobility
From the guy in the lobby at your work to the gal scanning luggage at the airport, security officers surround us – even more than we know. Beside the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) folks in bright blue shirts at the airport, there are thousands of plainclothes security folks, like air marshals, secret service agents and security technology specialists, working to keep us safe. read more
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The Salary Reporter – Kristina Conwan: Job Security: Earn a TSA Screener’s Salary
I recently received in the mail the 2008 Annual Report of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. The title of the report is “The Current Economic Crisis: What Should We Learn from the Great Depressions of the 20th Century?” After reading the report, it is clear to me that either the Fed has learned almost nothing about 20th-century depressions or it is lying through its teeth in order to shift the blame for causing the current depression (or both). FULL ARTICLE
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The Shameless, Blame-Shifting, Minneapolis Fed
The Glass Hammer Managing Editor Pamela Weinsaft recently spoke with attorney Kit Chaskin about Chaskin’s path from acting to the legal profession, her thoughts on tackling barriers to the advancement for women in law, and the importance of having a long-term vision for one’s career. read more
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The Glass Hammer: VOE: Kit Chaskin, Partner and Firm-wide Chair of the Women’s Initiative Network of Reed Smith