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...cover letters, they're shrinking along with the job market. While some career counselors still advocate a traditional four-paragraph letter, many now favor a pithy one-paragraph e-mail...
Network digitally. For help in landing a job, the unemployed are digging ever deeper into their address books, not to mention their favor banks. And they're not just dialing up old friends and recruiters. They're also digitizing their Rolodexes. LinkedIn, a professional-networking site whose members' average household income is $110,000, has 32 million members. A new member signs up every second; a million join every two weeks. The site, which has new job-search functions in the works, already lets employment seekers figure out what connections they have to people who work at companies that...
...into tax avoidance. Surely, the practice of some of the biggest U.S. banks of selling junk papers to unsuspecting clients, many of whom are pensioners, is far more despicable. The U.S. authorities must be aware that European investors who have been cheated in this fashion might just return the favor by starting class-action suits against these banks. Then what? Peter Roost, BUERON, SWITZERLAND...
...founding director of the Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program, also said the Kennedy legacy could be a tremendous asset.“I can imagine that there is such enormous respect for the Kennedy family that she certainly has that working in her favor,” Hunt said.But Kellerman, who is teaching a course this spring on women and leadership, said fame is not a qualification in itself. “The prerequisite is someone who can do the job and who can do it well,” she said, adding that Kennedy?...
...untangling those lights, and make use of your restless pre-vacation energy. Clearly, any scrooge is just jealous that he still has to finish his thesis chapters. The trick is to prioritize: I personally made the (in retrospect, probably poor) decision to skip my MCB 52 exam review in favor of decking the Quincy dhall for three hours. I may not completely understand exonucleases, but the tree looks pretty spiffy. Christmas season is my favorite time of year. Every time Jingle Bell Rock comes over the radio in the dhall, I do a little dance inside (and sometimes...