2008-06-02
25 Ways You Might Be Sabotaging Your Own Job Search
Written by Anthony Balderrama
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When you’re job hunting, you can go mad if you think about the amount of factors beyond your control that affect your chances of getting hired.
The economy, your location, industry trends — even the hiring manager’s mood — can influence whether or not you get a job.
Still, as nice as it would be to blame your lack of offers on external factors, you can’t forget that common denominator in your job hunt — from the résumé to the interview — is you.
Here are 25 ways you might be unknowingly sabotaging your own job search:
The first steps
1. Not keeping track of your accomplishments
When you’re happy with your job, it’s easy to forget about possible future job hunts. You never know when you’ll end up looking for new work, and if you don’t keep a running list of awards, promotions and accomplishments, you might not remember them when it’s time to update your résumé.
2. Leaving on a bad note
As much fun as it is to fantasize about telling off a bad boss, don’t actually do it. Leaving a trail of angry bosses or co-workers will come back to haunt you when you need references.
3. Not networking
If you’re silent about your job search, your friends, family and colleagues won’t think of you when they hear about job opportunities.
art.job.search.pd.jpg
When you’re job hunting, you can go mad if you think about the amount of factors beyond your control that affect your chances of getting hired.
The economy, your location, industry trends — even the hiring manager’s mood — can influence whether or not you get a job.
Still, as nice as it would be to blame your lack of offers on external factors, you can’t forget that common denominator in your job hunt — from the résumé to the interview — is you.
Here are 25 ways you might be unknowingly sabotaging your own job search:
The first steps
1. Not keeping track of your accomplishments
When you’re happy with your job, it’s easy to forget about possible future job hunts. You never know when you’ll end up looking for new work, and if you don’t keep a running list of awards, promotions and accomplishments, you might not remember them when it’s time to update your résumé.
2. Leaving on a bad note
As much fun as it is to fantasize about telling off a bad boss, don’t actually do it. Leaving a trail of angry bosses or co-workers will come back to haunt you when you need references.
3. Not networking
If you’re silent about your job search, your friends, family and colleagues won’t think of you when they hear about job opportunities.
150 Funniest Resume Mistakes, Bloopers and Blunders Ever
Written by Jacob Share
People write the strangest things on their resumes, sometimes downright hysterical. Why should only recruiting managers get to laugh at these? The Top 10 are at the bottom. Enjoy!
From Resume Hell:
1. “Career break in 1999 to renovate my horse”
2. “1990 - 1997: Stewardess - Royal Air Force”
3. Hobbies: “enjoy cooking Chinese and Italians”
4. “Service for old man to check they are still alive or not.”
5. Cleaning skills: “bleaching, pot washing, window cleaning, mopping, e.t.c”
6. “Job involved…counselling clientele on accidental insurance policies available”
7. “2001 summer Voluntary work for taking care of the elderly and vegetable people”
8. “I’m intrested to here more about that. I’m working today in a furniture factory as a drawer”
9. “I am about to enrol on a Business and Finance Degree with the Open University. I feel that this qualification will prove detrimental to me for future success.”
10. “Time is very valuable and it should be always used to achieve optimum results and I believe it should not be played around with”
11. “I belive that weakness is the first level of strength, given the right attitude and driving force. My school advised me to fix my punctuality…”...
People write the strangest things on their resumes, sometimes downright hysterical. Why should only recruiting managers get to laugh at these? The Top 10 are at the bottom. Enjoy!
From Resume Hell:
1. “Career break in 1999 to renovate my horse”
2. “1990 - 1997: Stewardess - Royal Air Force”
3. Hobbies: “enjoy cooking Chinese and Italians”
4. “Service for old man to check they are still alive or not.”
5. Cleaning skills: “bleaching, pot washing, window cleaning, mopping, e.t.c”
6. “Job involved…counselling clientele on accidental insurance policies available”
7. “2001 summer Voluntary work for taking care of the elderly and vegetable people”
8. “I’m intrested to here more about that. I’m working today in a furniture factory as a drawer”
9. “I am about to enrol on a Business and Finance Degree with the Open University. I feel that this qualification will prove detrimental to me for future success.”
10. “Time is very valuable and it should be always used to achieve optimum results and I believe it should not be played around with”
11. “I belive that weakness is the first level of strength, given the right attitude and driving force. My school advised me to fix my punctuality…”...
2008-05-29
Is That Still the Default Setting for Girls?
Stressed guy: But what are you going to do with no hair?!
Stressed girl: I don't know... Have a baby?
Stressed girl: I don't know... Have a baby?
And I Don't Think That Accurately Describes Blinking
Girl #1: He really said that, "making gravy"?
Girl #2: Yeah! About a bodily function!
Girl #2: Yeah! About a bodily function!
2008-03-23
Congress Holds Rare, Secret Spying Session Thursday
By Ryan Singel EmailMarch 13, 2008 |
The House of Representatives will shutter C-Span's cameras Thursday afternoon and evict citizens and reporters from the chambers to hold an extremely rare, one-hour secret session where Republicans say they will present information about the current spying debate that cannot be publicly discussed.
The secret session, only the sixth in the House's history and the first since 1983, comes just hours ahead of a planned vote pushes until Friday a vote on a new proposal from House Democrats who oppose giving amnesty to telecoms that helped President Bush's warrantless, domestic wiretapping program.
House Democrats also want more court oversight over how the NSA operates wiretaps placed inside the United States. Such taps have been largely illegal for the past 30 years, but both the House and Senate were persuaded to give the NSA the power to install wiretaps in phone and internet switches, as well as on the servers of email providers like Microsoft and Google.
Those taps are not supposed to be used to target Americans, but can collect their communications if an American communicates with someone suspected to be a foreigner.
According to a 2004 Congressional Research report (.pdf), members and staff may not divulge information from secret sessions, and the staff must sign secrecy oaths. Secrecy violators can be punished with fines, loss of seniority and even expulsion.
Unless the House votes otherwise, a transcript won't be available for thirty years.
House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Missouri) requested the session, which House Majority leader Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) agreed to so that "the Members may hear this information," according to a Hoyer press release.
Rep. Rush Holt (D-New Jersey), a critic of immunity and a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, warned that the Republicans better have something important to share.
Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan) is skeptical this is more than a delaying tactic. He helms the House Judiciary committee and has seen many of the classified documents.
Republicans and Democrats will each control 30 minutes of the one-hour debate, after which the secret session will be dissolved and the web streams will resume.
See Also:
* Senate Approves Telco Amnesty, Legalizes Bush's Secret Spy Program
* NSA Must Examine All Internet Traffic to Prevent Cyber Nine-Eleven ...
* Secret Spy Ruling Contaminates Debate
* FBI Recorded 27 Million FISA 'Sessions' in 2006
* Can the NSA Wiretap in Iraq Without A Warrant?
The House of Representatives will shutter C-Span's cameras Thursday afternoon and evict citizens and reporters from the chambers to hold an extremely rare, one-hour secret session where Republicans say they will present information about the current spying debate that cannot be publicly discussed.
The secret session, only the sixth in the House's history and the first since 1983, comes just hours ahead of a planned vote pushes until Friday a vote on a new proposal from House Democrats who oppose giving amnesty to telecoms that helped President Bush's warrantless, domestic wiretapping program.
House Democrats also want more court oversight over how the NSA operates wiretaps placed inside the United States. Such taps have been largely illegal for the past 30 years, but both the House and Senate were persuaded to give the NSA the power to install wiretaps in phone and internet switches, as well as on the servers of email providers like Microsoft and Google.
Those taps are not supposed to be used to target Americans, but can collect their communications if an American communicates with someone suspected to be a foreigner.
According to a 2004 Congressional Research report (.pdf), members and staff may not divulge information from secret sessions, and the staff must sign secrecy oaths. Secrecy violators can be punished with fines, loss of seniority and even expulsion.
Unless the House votes otherwise, a transcript won't be available for thirty years.
House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Missouri) requested the session, which House Majority leader Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) agreed to so that "the Members may hear this information," according to a Hoyer press release.
Rep. Rush Holt (D-New Jersey), a critic of immunity and a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, warned that the Republicans better have something important to share.
"I believe in the use of secret sessions in the House when they are intended to truly educate members on the issues and provide them with valuable classified information," Holt said. "Secret sessions should not be used as a cynical, delaying tactic to block the House from voting on critical legislation that would strengthen our intelligence collection efforts and protect the American people from warrantless surveillance."
"I will be interested to see if Mr. Boehner truly has new classified information on this program to share with members of the House, and I will seek the opportunity to inform my colleagues of what I have learned about this program and the President’s actions in this matter."
Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan) is skeptical this is more than a delaying tactic. He helms the House Judiciary committee and has seen many of the classified documents.
"There must be a very high bar to urge the House into a secret session for the first time in 25 years," Conyers said in a press release. "I eagerly await their presentation to see if it clears this threshold. As someone who has seen and heard an enormous amount of information already, I have my doubts."
Republicans and Democrats will each control 30 minutes of the one-hour debate, after which the secret session will be dissolved and the web streams will resume.
See Also:
* Senate Approves Telco Amnesty, Legalizes Bush's Secret Spy Program
* NSA Must Examine All Internet Traffic to Prevent Cyber Nine-Eleven ...
* Secret Spy Ruling Contaminates Debate
* FBI Recorded 27 Million FISA 'Sessions' in 2006
* Can the NSA Wiretap in Iraq Without A Warrant?
2008-02-27
2008-02-22
2008-02-21
Track of "Second Cold War" in Belarus forest
In November 1982 American ten-year-old Samantha Smith wrote a letter to the Soviet leader Yuri Andropov expressing her fear of nuclear war, and pleading with him to work toward peace. Andropov himself replied, and gave her a personal invitation to visit the country. Smith's visit was one of few prominent attempts to improve relations between the superpowers during Andropov's brief leadership from 1982-1984 at a dangerously low point in US-Soviet relations.
In November 1982 American ten-year-old Samantha Smith wrote a letter to the Soviet leader Yuri Andropov expressing her fear of nuclear war, and pleading with him to work toward peace. Andropov himself replied, and gave her a personal invitation to visit the country. Smith's visit was one of few prominent attempts to improve relations between the superpowers during Andropov's brief leadership from 1982-1984 at a dangerously low point in US-Soviet relations.
The term "second Cold War" has been used by some historians to refer to the period of intensive reawakening of Cold War tensions in the early 1980s. In 1980 Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter, vowing to increase military spending and confront the Soviets everywhere.Both Reagan and Britain's new prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, denounced the Soviet Union in ideological terms that rivaled that of the worst days of the Cold War in the late 1940s.
Reagan spent $2.2 trillion for the military over eight years. Military spending, combined with the legacy of the economic structural problems of the 1970s, transformed the US from the world's leading creditor in 1981 to the world's leading debtor. Tensions intensified in the early 1980s when Reagan installed US cruise missiles in Europe and announced his experimental "Strategic Defense Initiative," nicknamed "Star Wars," to shoot down missiles in mid-flight. Reagan also imposed economic sanctions to protest the suppression of the opposition Solidarity movement in Poland.
US domestic public concerns about intervening in foreign conflicts persisted from the end of the Vietnam War. But Reagan did not encounter major public opposition to his foreign policies. The Reagan administration emphasized the use of quick, low cost counterinsurgency tactics to intervene in foreign conflicts. In 1983, the Reagan administration intervened in the multisided Lebanese Civil War (see 1983 Beirut barracks bombing), invaded Grenada (see Invasion of Grenada), bombed Libya (see United States bombing of Libya), and backed the Central American Contras—right-wing paramilitaries seeking overthrow the Soviet-aligned Sandinista government in Nicaragua. While Reagan's interventions against Grenada and Libya were popular in the US, his backing of the Contra rebels was mired in controversy. In 1985, the president authorized the sale of arms to Iran; later, administration subordinates illegally diverted the proceeds to the Contras. (see Iran-Contra)
Meanwhile, the Soviets incurred high costs for their own foreign interventions. Although Brezhnev was convinced in 1979 that the Soviet war in Afghanistan would be brief, Muslim guerrillas waged a surprisingly fierce resistance against the invasion. The Kremlin sent nearly 100,000 troops to support its puppet regime in Afghanistan, leading many outside observers to call the war the Soviets' Vietnam. However, Moscow's quagmire in Afghanistan was far more disastrous for the Soviets than Vietnam had been for the Americans because the conflict coincided with a period of internal decay and domestic crisis in the Soviet system. A high US State Department official predicted such an outcome as early as 1980, positing that the invasion resulted in part from a "domestic crisis within the Soviet system....It may be that the thermodynamic law of entropy has...caught up with the Soviet system, which now seems to expend more energy on simply maintaining its equilibrium than on improving itself. We could," he construed, "be seeing a period of foreign movement at a time of internal decay."
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