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The Psychometric Testing Myth Monday, April 12th, 2010
A client recently told me of a psychometric test that he had been asked to take by a company where he was applying for a job. I don’t know which test it was, but it left me wondering what questions it could possibly have asked him. Because the test’s conclusion was that he should have been either a fisherman or an antiques dealer! It did not explain why, and apart from the fact that both recommendations seem to be over-specific (why an antiques dealer and not, for example a trader in second hand stamps?), there seems to be no logical connection between the two
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The Psychometric Testing Myth
The New York Times recently ran an interesting article by Philip B. Corbett on grammar which talked about the word “that.” For those students and lawyers who wish to polish their writing skills, it’s a great article. My colleague Ken Paul notes that we often stumble in deciding whether to use or omit the conjunction “that” after a verb like “said.”Here’s the relevant entry in The Times’s
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The Grammar Police: "A Bit About ‘That’"
It has always been difficult to earn a living in music, whether as a musician, manager or composer, unless you are extraordinarily talented or extremely lucky. In the past financial stability depended on getting gigs or a recording contract.
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A Jobs And Funding Crisis In The Music Industry
A cross-party group of MPs are recommending that the banking industry should ensure that more women occupy senior positions. The report notes that only 9% of board members of FTSE 100 banks are women, compared with an average of 12.2% for the FTSE 100 as a whole. This in itself would be a good enough reason for a higher representation of women on the boards of leading banks (an indeed the other FTSE companies), but interestingly the MPs highlighted another factor that they considered equally important
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Women In Banking
The Daily Telegraph is today publishing a letter written by twenty three bosses of some of Britain’s biggest companies, supporting Conservative proposals for a cut in National Insurance contributions. It is not the first time in this pre-election campaign that a group of eminent people have written to the papers in support of one party’s policies or another- two groups of economists did so a few weeks ago, one in support of Labour and one in support of the Tories
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A Return To Class Division?
A report on today’s Radio Four programme Farming Today drew attention to the large number of vacancies in farming and agriculture. According to the Sector Skills Council 31% of agricultural vacancies are due to a shortage of skilled workers, compared to an average of 21% in other industries. From a career professionals perspective this is a surprising statistic
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Career Opportunities On the Land
Future generations will see it as a lost opportunity, unfortunately policy makers today don’t even know what the opportunity was. I am talking about the minimal help given in the budget to job seekers. Not because it was minimal- we all want the budget to concentrate on our personal pet issues, and we are invariably disappointed
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Another Missed Opportunity
A law firm is a business entity formed by one or more lawyers to engage in the practice of law. A law firm normally provides advice to clients, whether individuals or corporations, about their legal rights and responsibilities, and then represent them … Good communication must be relevant, focused and timely.
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The health care legislation passed by Congress today is a disgusting socialist and fascist bill, and a monstrous assault on human liberty and sound and truthful economic/financial analysis. Particularly disgusting is the underhanded procedural method used to pass the legislation, especially given the apparent significant, actually majority public opposition to the bill.
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Healthcare Legislation and a Potential Ron Paul Presidential Run in 2012
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Yucca Valley Business Lawyer?s Top Ten Changes Sarah Palin Would …
The OPR itself, which is comprised of career civil servants charged with monitoring ethics violations by department lawyers and is not known for being eager to discipline its own, decided before President Obama took office that Yoo and Jay Bybee, … After considering responses from Yoo and Bybee, the OPR reaffirmed that Yoo had “put his desire to accommodate the client above his obligation to provide thorough, objective, and candid legal advice , and…therefore committed …
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Reading about American torturers is a bummer. Let's close our eyes …
Alan Greenspan, reborn as a financial pundit, says that the central bank had nothing to do with causing the economic boom. Instead, the boom was caused by a mysterious onset of “euphoria” – Keynes’s “animal spirits” – that led to a widespread confusion over risk.
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The Central Bank and My Policies are Completely Innocent
If you personally know a practicing lawyer, set up a time with them to do an “informational interview” to ask them about their career . Talk to many attorneys . Better yet, spend an entire day with one of them
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Why am I seeing job postings where some paralegals are making more …
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Twentynine Palms Business Lawyer?s Top Ten Changes Sarah Palin …
From Stefan Molyneux’s post on the Mises forum: The Freedomain Radio Book Club had a great discussion with Stephan about intellectual property which I thought you might enjoy… FDR1616 Stephan Kinsella on Intellectual Property from Freedomain Radio Play Now We did this yesterday, Mar. 20, 2010
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Kinsella Intellectual Property discussion on Freedomain Radio Book Club
CaregiverJobs.org is a resource for applicants seeking to help others as nannies , home health aides , and live-in caretakers. PLANTATION, FL– March 21, 2010 – CaregiverJobs.org is a free career resource launched by JustJobs.com for jobseekers in the
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Secrets of the Job Hunt: Fantastic job resource for Caregiving Professionals
As a professional résumé writer and an individual who believes that no one gets to where they want to be in terms of their career without help, I am going to share with you the Top 10 Typical… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! read more
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Employment Digest: The Top 10 Typical Mistakes That Make Hiring Managers Cringe!
When I lived as a student in London 1991-92, one day I decided to visit the Bank of England to see what they would do if I presented a 5-pound note for redemption of the promise to pay the bearer “five pounds” on demand. The tale was told in a guest reflection in Liberty in 1994. The guest reflection: Funny money — There’s some funny language on the money in England
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The Bank of England and Me
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My son recently got a DUI (state of Va) and his lawyer has …
Sometimes our actions appear as reflexes from our past. And we find ourselves repeating, without thought, memories from long ago. When I find a tube of toothpaste with a bulge of paste at the tail end, I growl to everyone and no one in particular, “You have to squeeze the tube from the bottom.” My wife will look at me inquisitively and ask, “Why is that such an issue?” The only reply I can muster is, “Well, it just is.” Last night, while brushing my teeth and considering the pending vote of doom, I looked at the tube of toothpaste and drifted back to my youth.
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Spilling out the tail end
On his blog, IdleWords.com, Polish-born Maciej Ceglowski (“as American as gooseberry pie,” but now living in northeastern Romania) tells the fascinating story of how the cure for scurvy was won and lost in a culture confident in scientific progress, and why Robert Falcon Scott’s 1911 expedition to the South Pole struggled with a disease that had supposedly been cured in the 18th century: I had been taught in school that scurvy had been conquered in 1747, when the Scottish physician James Lind proved in one of the first controlled medical experiments that citrus fruits were an effective cure for the disease.… Somehow a highly-trained group of scientists at the start of the 20th century knew less about scurvy than the average sea captain in Napoleonic times.… [I]n the second half of the nineteenth century, the cure for scurvy was lost. The story of how this happened is a striking demonstration of the problem of induction, and how progress in one field of study can lead to unintended steps backward in another
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Scientific Regress: The Case of Scurvy
It is never a good idea to represent yourself in a trial, the judge will hold you to the same standards as attorneys and that makes for a long, tedious and annoying proceeding. Having an attorney will allow for all avenues of …
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Will hiring a lawyer REALLY help at a DUI trial or are the laws …
McGraw-Hill Construction economist Cliff Brewis says , “It is difficult to foresee a long-term recovery (of the economy) without single-family (homes) doing very well. It is a bellwether of how the marketplace will do because if you are building homes, you are going to build schools; if you are building homes, you are going to build retail; and if you are building homes, you will build roads
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Does the entire economy depend on building?
In my post today on Krugman-in-Wonderland , I take on Paul Krugman’s rosy predictions about the new “healthcare” bill that Congress is about to foist upon us. Once upon a time, we had at least some expectations that Nobel Prize winners in economics would not turn into outright political shills
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Taking on Krugman in Medical Care
With similarly fortunate timing Trilegal has promoted its second female partner this week, proving that flexible working policies can help in combining career and family. Women lawyers may be faring better in Indian law firms than in the West but … An argument for the use of ‘truth serum’ drugs in criminal cases and ensuing reader discussions; LegalPoet doles out advice on how to get a coveted pre-placement offer by being a legal beagle; a new blogger expresses his …
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This is a woman's world / Issue 39 | Newsletters | Legally India …
So says Big Copyright , which adopted the term for copyright infringers because of “its suggestions of theft, destruction, and violence.” But now, the “pirates”have “co-opted the term, adopting it with gusto and hoisting the Jolly Roger across the Internet (The Pirate Bay being the most famous example).” I agree. Copyright infringers should not be called pirates.
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Don’t Call Them “Pirates”
A paralegal is not licensed to practice law; thus, he or she can’t provide legal advice , present a case in court or charge any legal fees. Paralegals must make it clear they are not permitted to accept cases when meeting clients.
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The Job of a Paralegal: Legal Assistants Help Lawyers with Their Work