When people hear how I quit my job as a lawyer after six years of corporate work‚ they assume I burned out and fled the nine-to-five (or‚ more accurately‚ the nine-to-midnight)‚ leaving contracts‚ negotiations and lawsuits behind. In reality‚ I long had aspired to travel the world for a year‚ inspired by a documentary I saw in high school about trans-Siberian trains. Staring at the screen‚ watching birch trees and snow and a railroad track running for thousands of kilometres‚ I resolved to take
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How Facebook profiles predict job success If you think just keeping your Facebook page free of drunken photos will help you land a job‚ think again. A recent study has shown that Facebook posts give clues to how people will perform at work. Employers screened their Facebook profiles and came up with a “Facebook personality score” based on the “Big 5” personality traits. Conscientiousness: This is someone who appears to be well organized and hard-working‚ and that’s reflected in the way they
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The book of Job comes from the Old Testament in the Bible and serves the purpose of teaching one to steadfastly serve God even in the toughest of times. Although God promises to watch over his people at all times‚ he never promises that life will always be easy. Job lives a prosperous life‚ which suddenly takes a turn for the worst when the devil intervenes in an attempt to weaken Job’s faith in God. Though many important themes are apparent in the book of Job‚ a major theme that is blatantly present
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1. “India is not an easy market to understand and operate in.” Why is the Indian market untenable for Multinational Companies‚ yet at the same time attractive to global businesses? Discuss. It is true that India is not an easy market to understand and operate in. MNCs have realized this the hard way as their expectations have remained unfulfilled‚ and many have either suffered reverses or have had to wrap up their operations. Unable to figure out the reason for their failure‚ they have chosen
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Harvey Harbuck English 1010 Online Mrs. D. Goodson 27 January 2013 How to Do Well on a Job Interview When going to an interview‚ it is important to have the right state of mind and to focus on what is important. The thing that is the most important when attending an interview is not how they answer questions. It is the impression that they leave behind. That being said‚ answering questions "correctly" will of course impact on that impression. The word "correctly" was
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MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL‚ GLOBAL HUMAN RESOURCES Important Information for Marriott International Job Seekers Welcome We are pleased that you are interested in employment with Marriott International and our family of brands. To ensure that your search and application experiences go as smoothly as possible‚ we encourage you to review the information below. If you have any questions or concerns‚ please directly contact the Human Resources team at the location(s) where you are interested in employment
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Job Interview Success Are you looking for a job in this tough economic time? Have you applied at any companies lately? If so‚ you may be getting a call for an interview any day. If this happens‚ you need to know how to be successful in the interview from the start. Knowing that you have applied to a company‚ and realizing that you may be getting a call for an interview‚ you initially need to get all of your references and letters of recommendation. Think of about three to six co-workers or
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African Journal of Business Management Vol.6 (3)‚ pp. 1095-1099‚25 January‚ 2012 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/AJBM DOI: 10.5897/AJBM11.2266 ISSN 1993-8233 ©2012 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper Operating leverage and systematic risk Kheder Alaghi Armenian State Agrarian University‚ Armenia. E-mail: khederalaghi@gmail.com. Accepted 25 October‚ 2011 The aim of this paper is to study the effect of operating leverage in the systematic risk of listed companies
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strengths and weaknesses. Despite this‚ some other researchers argued that well structured-personality tests do not predict job performance under certain conditions. They suggested social analytical effects (Blickle‚ et al.‚ 2009)‚ frame-of-reference effects (Bowling & Burns‚ 2010)‚ cultural variation (Borkenau‚ et al.‚ 2013)‚ gender variation (Costa et al.‚ 2001) and the effect of the job description (O’Neill et al.‚ 2009) may have an impact on the validity of personality measures in real-world settings
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As I deal with a multi team of individuals including service users I support‚ I recognise that communication with each individual has to be personalised to their needs. I stay aware of how I communicate with any individual and make sure each person has the correct method to feed information back to myself whilst staying proactive at all times‚ i.e. sourcing information for my own knowledge. When dealing with service users I ensure I remain a part of the team and that each person sees me on a regular
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