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College Recruiter Blog: Workplace Impact of Emerging Adults: Are Today’s Employers Ready to Develop Emerging Adults Monday, July 20th, 2009
Are Today’s Employers Ready to Develop the Emerging Adults Joining Them Now Into the Executive Managers of Tomorrow? Advising employers challenged by a new generation of employees who they cannot relate to, can’t retain and who drive up costs related to staffing and productivity, Judy Anderson and Terese Corey Blanck are experts in an emerging, specialty field: they have researched and understand how the millennial generation of 18-28 year olds think, self-motivate and develop while transitioning into adulthood. read more
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College Recruiter Blog: Workplace Impact of Emerging Adults: Are Today’s Employers Ready to Develop Emerging Adults
ABC news provides a helpful round up of the latest national poll on national politics, in PDF with plenty of detail, that shows a continued fall in approval ratings for the Obama administration, in nearly every area of domestic policy. These polls could make it more difficult for Obama and Congress to impose health-care socialism, so that’s something to celebrate; it is also striking that opposition to another stimulus package has grown to two thirds. After three failed stimulus attempts, could it be that people are figuring out the scam here?
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New Poll Shows Reality Dawning
This posting is a guest entry from the Career Doctor, Randall S. Hansen, PhD: Shreena writes: I am applying for a summer undergraduate work placement in a large company of opticians. One of the questions of the application forms is as follows: “Provide details of key achievements in your current role including facts and figures and performance targets to indicate the business outcome that resulted.” Do I need to write about my role as a student at university
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Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters Tips: Try to Quantify Accomplishments on Your Resume — Even If You’re a Student
Figure out your alternative career field for yourself: this is “about: transitioning to your own business, one with low overhead and a predictable monthly income, all while ‘doing something you love.’” … I hope he’s describing his own passion, and not his advice to lawyers , as there’s an incredible amount of money to be made in traditional businesses. But whatever he’s arguing, I would be interested in learning more about Berman’s websites and their profitability.
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This isn’t exactly shocking, but it’s still amusing that a major beltway “ideological” group managed to get caught red-handed trying to prostitute itself: The American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a check for $2 million to $3 million in return for the group’s endorsement in a bitter legislative dispute, then flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx refused to pay. For the $2 million plus, ACU offered a range of services that included: “Producing op-eds and articles written by ACU’s Chairman David Keene and/or other members of the ACU’s board of directors.
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"Mr. Smith, Tear Down This Website"
I have been one of the very few opponents of this entrenched stagnation throughout my political career ; an opposition which has become both very serious and very difficult during the last two years – given my attempts to uncover and expose the …. It is also to be hoped at least one or two Jersey lawyers may join our experiment – who will then be able to point out to us any incompatibilities between the suggestions of readers from other jurisdictions, and Jersey law
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Senator Stuart Syvret Blog: LEGAL ADVICE FROM THE WEB: # 1
John Law may have died in disgrace after his Mississippi System failed in 1720, but government and its cheerleaders in the economics profession continue to embrace his ideas, believing that the printing of money can lift an economy from the doldrums. They believe enlightened central bankers know just how much money an economy requires, or just how high or low interest rates must be to ensure prosperity. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth
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John Law and the Invention of Modern Finance
Paul Krugman, who tells us that assets and capital are homogeneous when it comes to economic policy, suddenly claims that there were malinvestments during the boom! (Actually, he does not use the M-word, as he would not know what it means, but I digress.) The Great One writes: Financial firms, we now know, directed vast quantities of capital into the construction of unsellable houses and empty shopping malls. They increased risk rather than reducing it, and concentrated risk rather than spreading it.
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Krugman Touts Austrian Theory! (Sort of)
Any conservative political appointee who relies on memoranda, information, or advice developed by career employees without double-checking the facts and scrutinizing the analysis is making a serious mistake. … This was aptly described with respect to the Department of Justice in a redistricting case arising out of Georgia in the 1990s, where a federal district court criticized the Department’s lawyers for behaving like the in-house counsel of the ACLU (and then having …
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Last week on my twitter account ( click here to follow me ), I hinted at this mysterious project in London that I couldn’t talk more about. Well now I finally can and it’s a really cool one 
) CA (formerly Computer Associates) commissioned a study (called The CA 2009 Webstress Index ) to look at webstress, a term they came up with to describe the frustration and unhappiness you experience when a crucial web application is not working properly. read more
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The Chief Happiness Officer: CA looks at webstress
Today, I spoke to Jeremy Shoemaker , who has successfully branded himself as “Shoemoney” across the web. He is an internet entrepreneur by trade, as well as a speaker and top blogger. In this interview, Jeremy talks to use about how he’s branded himself, some of the tricks he’s used to stand out, why he’s succeeded blogging and the benefits he’s received. read more
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Personal Branding Blog: Personal Branding Interview: Jeremy Schoemaker
JibberJobber will never be a fully-loaded CRM, with all the bells and whistles and processes and such. But it is a terrific relationship management tool … no doubt about that. You may think of it as a job hunt organizer , but I’ve used it for three years as my entrepreneur CRM . So I was very pleased to get feedback from another entrepreneur who has seen value in JibberJobber in just a short period of time (yeah, three days!). This is from
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JibberJobber Blog: JibberJobber: An Entrepreneur’s CRM?
Today, I spoke to Pete Mortensen , who is the communications lead for Jump Associates and author of Wired to Care . In this interview, Pete talks to us about how important empathy is, especially in a time of economic crisis and uncertainty. He also mentions the benefits of empathy at a company, how companies can brand themselves as empathetic, and how you yourself can use empathy as a read more
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Personal Branding Blog: Personal Branding Interview: Peter Mortensen
Law schools, law firms and the state bar all need to cooperate in order to ensure that there are no gaps in the preparation that new lawyers receive as they start their careers . … The role of outside legal counsel is not just to provide the advice necessary to implement the client’s business plan, but also to guide the client (sometimes gently and sometimes more forcefully) away from tactics that stray too far into the “grey areas” of prohibited conduct under securities …
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The Apprentice : Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog
On occasion you get some defender of patents who is upset when we use the m-word to describe these artificial state-granted monopoly rights. For example here one Dale Halling, a patent attorney (surprise!) posts about “The Myth that Patents are a Monopoly” and writes, ” People who suggest a patent is a monopoly are not being intellectually honest and perpetuating a myth to advance a political agenda.” Well, let’s see. First, see my post Epstein and Patents , noting that the pro-patent Epstein writes: Patented goods are subject to a lawful monopoly created by the state in order to induce their creation.
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Are Patents "Monopolies"?
This posting is a guest entry from the Career Doctor, Randall S. Hansen, PhD: Tamala writes: I’m e-mailing you to find out if going to a professional resume writer is worth the time and money. Right now I really don’t have the funds, but I am desperate to find a job that I will be happy doing and making at least $35-40K a year.
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Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters Tips: Should She Hire a Professional Resume Writer?
It’s time for another one of my roundups of storytelling news and views that have been experiencing considerable buzz in the Twitterverse. My usual buzz test is that an item continues to be re-tweeted by multiple people (not that all re-tweeted items are buzz-worthy, in my opinion). If these much-re-tweeted items align with what I like to cover in A Storied Career, I list them here every month or so
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A Storied Career: Much Re-Tweeted Storytelling Items Demonstrate Buzz
In an organization, nothing starts a mad fit of eyerolling and quizzical looks among employees quite like management decrees. It’s not unlike the images we have of royal decrees being issues in olden times. From atop his tower, the king stands before his subjects and issues proclamations that often have little positive bearing on their lives (e.g., your taxes will be increased because I want to fight a war in a land you’ve never heard of – or – this is your new queen, now bow down and worship her).
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Bailey WorkPlay: I Am Your Manager Now Listen To Me
This posting is a guest entry from the Career Doctor, Randall S. Hansen, PhD: SEH writes: How do you build a ‘“good resume” if you have LOTS of gaps in your job history? I know that in order to get in to explain to someone face to face, you need a way to get your foot in the door, and trust me, with my resume, I’m not going anywhere! The Career Doctor responds: read more
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Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters Tips: An Effective Resume Despite Job Gaps?
Any conservative political appointee who relies on memoranda, information, or advice developed by career employees without double-checking the facts and scrutinizing the analysis is making a serious mistake. … This was aptly described with respect to the Department of Justice in a redistricting case arising out of Georgia in the 1990s, where a federal district court criticized the Department’s lawyers for behaving like the in-house counsel of the ACLU (and then having …
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NALP, the Association for Legal Career Professionals, recently issued a press release concerning its analysis of employment figures for the country’s law school graduates for the class of 2008. A portion of NALP’s press release is reproduced below:”Although most Class of 2008 law school graduates — 89.9% of those for whom employment status was known — were employed as of February 15, 2009, this
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"Market for Class of 2008 Law Graduates Shrinks — Employment Rate Registers First Decline Since 2003"
That is the title of a new paper in the latest issue of Critical Review, by Colander, Goldberg, Haas, Juselius, Kirman, Lux, and Sloth. The article is not yet online, but the abstract is here : Economists not only failed to anticipate the financial crisis; they may have contributed to it–with risk and derivatives models that, through spurious precision and untested theoretical assumptions, encouraged policy makers and market participants to see more stability and risk sharing than was actually present. Moreover, once the crisis occurred, it was met with incomprehension by most economists because of models that, on the one hand, downplay the possibility that economic actors may exhibit highly interactive behavior; and, on the other, assume that any homogeneity will involve economic actors sharing the economist’s own putatively correct model of the economy, so that error can stem only from an exogenous shock.
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"The Financial Crisis and the Systemic Failure of the Economics Profession"
Career Point is your Free Kenyan Job website for up-to-date career information, advice and current jobs in Kenya.Advertise your job here for free.Send us details @ Careerpointkenya@gmail.com …. (g) teaming-up with any other lawyers or group of lawyers which COMESA may engage; and (h) settling cases out of court if in the best interest of COMESA. (4) Assisting in reviewing Treaty provisions and in preparing and harrnonizing Common Market legislations …
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Career Point Kenya -Latest Jobs In Kenya: JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN …
Filed Under advice on age discrimination, age bias, Age Discrimination, age discrimination law, career advice for older workers, legal advice for older workers, resume advice for older workers, supreme court ruling on age discrimination … In discrimination lawsuits involving what lawyers call “mixed motive” cases, a worker previously might have had a valid claim of discrimination if age or another prohibited factor, such as race, was one of the motivations behind a …
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SCOTUS Age-Bias Ruling: Will It Hurt Older Workers? | career-line.com
The Department for Work and Pensions have been testing employers’ adherence to the discrimination laws by sending out bogus job applications from fictitious people with foreign names. They have found that employers ”still discriminate against people solely on the basis of having an ethnic minority name.” Employers are up in arms about the DWP’s tactics but the DWP says it will use the research to help judge levels of discrimination in the jobs market. The problem of course is that the law is an ineffective weapon against discrimination
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Entrapment and Discrimination
A report published by the CBI and recruitment consultants Harvey Nash shows that employers and staff are working together to protect jobs by increasing flexible working and by freezing pay and recruitment. The CBI hails this saying that one of the recession’s “most positive and striking aspects has been the commitment of many businesses and their staff to work together to try to trim costs and save jobs”. It is indeed a welcome trend, although unfortunately there are many companies and staff, who have a diametrically opposed position
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The Benefits of Cooperation
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