Actually, most job-hunting advice is the exact reverse. You will have a much higher interview:resume ratio if you spend more time on each resume and send out fewer.
Every job you apply for should get a unique cover letter written specifically for that position and you should spend at least an hour learning about the company and their products, usually just surfing their website will provide lots of useful info. Sound enthusiastic about every job you apply for. Don't expect to get the perfect job the first time, but try to find jobs where there is some aspect you could sound passionate about in an interview.
Apply for stuff where you don't have all the requirements, but don't apply for stuff where you have less than half the requirements, you're wasting yours and the employers time. If you flood the market with your resume, you risk getting known as desperate. People DO talk about the stupid resumes they get. If you appear desperate, people will think there must be some good reason you haven't been hired by someone else.
Remove all personal information (other than name/contact) from your resume, it is way too informal (especially pictures!). Hobbies are of NO interest to employers unless they have some bearing on the type of job you are applying for. Especially the stuff about guns. That is likely to be extremely detrimental to the impression you create on employers.
Some of the colours on the webpage are too close. A black and white, printable version would be much more professional. Google for resume writing tips. You will find lots of sites with good advice on what employers want to see and what they absolutely don't.
The main thing I notice is that you've listed the sections in exactly the reverse order from what employers want to know. Technical skills first, then work experience, then education. The only time to list education sooner is if you are looking for an academic position or have no "real" job experience.
I think a wishy-washy objective serves no purpose. Either make it specific if you're only looking for one type of job, or don't have an objective if you don't want to be excluded based on it. The best solution is to tailor your objective to the specific job you're applying for and leave it off the web version.
Our office was designed with some of Joel's points in mind.
Out my window I can see trees and an old church.
I share an office (with a door) with 2 others.
We leave the flourescent and pot lights off, and have desk lamps we use instead.
Our blinds remain open, but we could close them if we wanted.
Our walls are blue and green (not beige or grey)
Lots of people have a poster or picture above their desk.
We have LOTS of plants. The building's plant guy has a catalogue and you just pick out what you want, he does all the watering and everything.
We have a foosball table for when your brain just needs a break to do something else.
We have a kitchen, with free juice/pop/tea/coffee/filtered water and corporate fruit and occasionally corporate beer.
We have a lounge area for discussions/naps/movies.
Every developer has headphones so you can listen to whatever you want without interfering with anyone else's work environment.
Our R&D office, where all the developers are, is about 4hrs by train away from QA/Marketing. That seperation is really REALLY good. It means a real buffer from their demands. They can't decide to walk past our desks 5 times a day bugging us.
A union gives an individual the power of a group. If you're being treated unfairly, you don't have to individually complain and be discriminated against later. Your union can complain instead. This helps protect people who are afraid of being fired if they complain to their supervisor about something. A union means that you at your job with your problems are not alone. You don't have to put up with crappy pay or hours just because "it's better than being fired".
Your salary will also likely depend on where you are looking for a job. The cost of living will usually have some effect on salaries in that area. In Canada, 40-50K is pretty reasonable for a good student from a good university. Smaller cities may be a bit lower, bigger cities a bit higher.
Another thing to find out is how many weeks paid vacation you get with a salary. And will you be allowed to take unpaid leave if you want more time off.
Also, how in demand are the jobs you are looking for? I have a friend working for Electronic Arts and he gets paid peanuts and works insane hours. The reason is that there are WAY more applicants interested in working in the game industry than positions available. Good old supply and demand will have an effect on salary.
So why is everyone posting about how stupid this is and how they used various WMs with this feature ? Why aren't they busy writing up about these WMs and when they used them and submitting it to the patent office ?
This page has pdf's of patent office forms, including one about prior art. The USPTO website also seems to
suggest that prior art is something that has been patented in this example.
If people really care about this and aren't just into recreational bitching, then write the patent office a letter with the appropriate details so that the clerks at least have the opportunity of being made aware of this stuff.
The question you need to ask is: If you never apply/use this clause, then why does it need to be in the contract ?
Remember, you are the only one who is going to be concerned with defending your interests. Don't give that power away and assume someone else will do it for you. Your employer may be nice and not out to get you, but they likely won't be actively motivated to protect you. That's your job.
As a geek girl in an ldr with a geek guy, I have to say that this idea has merits as PART of maintaining your relationship. My bf and I are starting to find irc and phone not enough: you tend to focus on news, or external stuff and miss out on the sense of shared experiences.
In addition to other modes of communication, playing a game together would really help create that shared experience, but do not think that you can REPLACE the phone conversations. I would suggest that if she is not a gamer, you should find a long list of different types of games to suggest. There are sites for board games to be played online too if she's not keen on FPS or RPG styles.
As well there's comfort issues. It might look great but if it's really tight somewhere I don't want it. And what about things like sitting, leaning over, etc to see how something gaps and shifts. If I'm going to own it and wear it, at least I can try wearing it before shelling out the $$.
When I was 16, my parents gave me a Pentax K-1000 which is a classic student camera. Everything is manual, so you can have complete control. Yes, this offers more room for bad pictures, but that's part of the learning curve. It has a split-focus which is really great and makes moving to manual focus a pretty straightforward change.
If you're concerned about how much you will spend on film, buy a bulkloader. It's not to hard to use and way cheaper than buying individual rolls.
Pentax has a variety of different lenses that are usually interchangeable between different models but beware that older cameras are screw mount and newer models are snap mount. It might be harder to find lots of screw mount lenses on the used market since they are no longer made. I would recommend gettng a snap mount body.
No...because that's not what the researchers would do. They'd dress like teachers, and probably help out with activities occasionally... this is grade 1 afterall. And little kids are much better at just getting on with things and not being self-conscious. They would get accustomed to having extra people in the classroom.
If you've ever seen any documentaries done in classrooms with young children, you will see that they do not behave any differently or appear to even notice the camerapeople who are surely there, they just get used to having them around. Now if this study was being done at a high school, then I could see a difference in behaviour occurring.
What is the point of this very expensive project when a researcher (or five) is cheaper, more resilient and can process the information better ?!
How long do you think all these sensors will last with these little kids? How are you going to make sure they are wearing their caps instead of tossing them around, stomping on them, losing them, etc ?!
All these microphones, sensors, cameras, etc are going to gather a ridiculously huge amount of data, which will be extremely difficult to process meaningfully.
Not only is a human researcher cheaper, and able to withstand kids playing with them, they also can process data faster and more intelligently. For example, it is really easy for a human to notice and understand why/when multilingual children use their different languages.
I don't see what fundamental advantage is gained through monitoring the children electronically. Since they are not unsupervised (teachers, helpers, etc), adding researchers to the classroom is not really changing the environment in a way that will affect children's behaviour.
And as for evaluating students performance, that's what the teacher does everyday when they see them working! At grade one level, not many tests are being administered anyways.
I have experienced the same problems, and over my university career (I'm just finishing my last term) I have slowly gotten better. I'm not too bad on homework because it is easier to see an end to a specific assignment, but I still have trouble studying. Don't take medication, there is nothing wrong with you. It's difficult to make yourself work on stuff and almost everyone encounters this.
I concur with the recommendations about exercise and breaking things into small goals. However, it's important not to be too focused on the breaks. If you can focus on something for longer, work on it longer. What motivates me more is if I plan something fun to do that I have to X amount done before. Even if it's just watching a movie on my computer or eating supper out somewhere cheap.
I also find making schedules and lists really helps. It gives you something to cross off, so you feel like you've accomplished something and it helps me focus if I've got what I need to do written down. Break it down into as fine detail as you need. If you need to schedule every hour, do so, for me, usually setting aside which day to work on something is sufficient.
Always follow the WORK FIRST, FUN AFTER rule. It never, ever, works in the other direction, there's no motivation to stop fun and work until the last minute.
If it helps you, write down the mark you'd like to get in the course and work backwards for how well you need to do on each assignment, leaving a little lee-way for mistakes. Although, ideally one is motivated by learning, getting decent marks is important too.
I find that working on campus, if I can avoid friends, can also be beneficial because there are fewer distractiions than at home.
I often find myself overwhelmed with stuff and not feeling like working on the thing that is highest priority. This is a dangerous situation because I used to end up working on nothing. Now, I make a deal with myself, I can ignore the highest priority thing as long as I'm doing some other schoolwork. That way, you're still making some progress. I would also suggest that while in school, never give yourself an entire day off. Make sure you do some reading or studying or a question or two for some course each day. The more this becomes habit, the less you'll have to do a crazy all-night cram because you've been ignoring stuff all week.
So in summary:
1. Exercise and small goals are good
2. make fun plans that are rewards for accomplishing tasks
3. write a list of tasks and a schedule (a big wall calendar with due dates helps)
4. work first, fun after
5. remind yourself of the marks/learning that each task represents
6. find a work environment with the minimum of distractions
7. Always work on something even if it's not the highest priority.
8. Work on something everyday
Something that has never worked for me, but does for some people is to set strict bed time and wake-up times so that you always get enough sleep and are forced to use sane hours for work.
The article stated that the most common reason for IVF treatment was for women with blocked or absent fallopian tubes. I don't know about blocked, but the absence of fallopian tubes suggests they were born that way.
you have no choice if you get sick, you do have a choice about getting fertilised unnaturally. I say, once you're alive, do whatever you can to have a good life, my comments were restricted to the issue the article was about. Just because I state an opinion on one issue, doesn't mean that same opinion applies to other issues.
Don't reduce my comment to the point of obsurdity. Once you're born and living, do all you can to have the most productive life you can. However, before that point, I think prospective parents should consider carefully. You can't help having bad eye sight or asthma, but you can choose not to have a baby through unnatural means.
I support the idea of people testing amniotic fluid to test for birth defects and aborting before the pregnancy comes to term. Why have a child you know will suffer? Or what about parents who have had one child with a serious genetic disease choosing not to have another because they know the risk is higher. I'm NOT suggesting invitro babies will suffer or are necessarily sickly, this is just an analogous situation of choise, that's all. If you can't have a baby naturally, then maybe choose to adopt
instead.
What else is the point of evolution but to propagate the best, healthiest genes. I agree, it would really suck to want a child and not be able to have one.
However, there are many positive ways to deal with that situation. Adopting within N.America is a long and difficult process, partly because we don't have orphanages full of adoptable children. China, Russia, and some S.American countries do. If you have the means to get invitro fertalization done, then you probably have the means to do international adoption.
It may not be a popular point of view, but there is no rule out there that says everyone has to or should be able to have a baby if they want to, even though they can't naturally. I think it is unwise to go through all sorts of unnatural steps to have your own child, ignoring what Mother Nature decreed. This is just the point of view of an environmentalist, applied to humans. I think we need to be responsible in our environment.
I have nothing against people who have been born due to fertility treatments of one sort or anther, but I would be interested in studies tracking those people and seeing if they had higher rates of cancer and other health problems than the general population. And is a child born to an infertile couple more likely to be infertile themselves?
The article states that researchers don't know why test tube babies are more likely to be premature or have birth defects.
My guess is that people shouldn't be ignoring nature. If you were born without fallopian tubes or something else that prevents creating a baby naturally, maybe that's nature's way of saying you shouldn't be perpetuating your genes.
The article makes the very erroneous comparison to the advances of the airplane over the same time period. What he completely fails to acknowledge is that there were 2 world wars during that period. Wars have long been acknowledged as contributing to speedy technological advances.
The airplane was a vastly useful machine for these wars, so of course a great deal of research effort was in that direction. I think his predictions about the prevalance of humanoid robots are only conceivable if there is at least one major war that makes extensive use of such robots in the intervening time.
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Every job you apply for should get a unique cover letter written specifically for that position and you should spend at least an hour learning about the company and their products, usually just surfing their website will provide lots of useful info. Sound enthusiastic about every job you apply for. Don't expect to get the perfect job the first time, but try to find jobs where there is some aspect you could sound passionate about in an interview.
Apply for stuff where you don't have all the requirements, but don't apply for stuff where you have less than half the requirements, you're wasting yours and the employers time. If you flood the market with your resume, you risk getting known as desperate. People DO talk about the stupid resumes they get. If you appear desperate, people will think there must be some good reason you haven't been hired by someone else.
Some of the colours on the webpage are too close. A black and white, printable version would be much more professional. Google for resume writing tips. You will find lots of sites with good advice on what employers want to see and what they absolutely don't.
I think a wishy-washy objective serves no purpose. Either make it specific if you're only looking for one type of job, or don't have an objective if you don't want to be excluded based on it. The best solution is to tailor your objective to the specific job you're applying for and leave it off the web version.
Yes. http://open.nit.ca Canada.
Our R&D office, where all the developers are, is about 4hrs by train away from QA/Marketing. That seperation is really REALLY good. It means a real buffer from their demands. They can't decide to walk past our desks 5 times a day bugging us.
A union gives an individual the power of a group. If you're being treated unfairly, you don't have to individually complain and be discriminated against later. Your union can complain instead. This helps protect people who are afraid of being fired if they complain to their supervisor about something. A union means that you at your job with your problems are not alone. You don't have to put up with crappy pay or hours just because "it's better than being fired".
Another thing to find out is how many weeks paid vacation you get with a salary. And will you be allowed to take unpaid leave if you want more time off.
Also, how in demand are the jobs you are looking for? I have a friend working for Electronic Arts and he gets paid peanuts and works insane hours. The reason is that there are WAY more applicants interested in working in the game industry than positions available. Good old supply and demand will have an effect on salary.
This page has pdf's of patent office forms, including one about prior art. The USPTO website also seems to suggest that prior art is something that has been patented in this example.
If people really care about this and aren't just into recreational bitching, then write the patent office a letter with the appropriate details so that the clerks at least have the opportunity of being made aware of this stuff.
The question you need to ask is: If you never apply/use this clause, then why does it need to be in the contract ? Remember, you are the only one who is going to be concerned with defending your interests. Don't give that power away and assume someone else will do it for you. Your employer may be nice and not out to get you, but they likely won't be actively motivated to protect you. That's your job.
In addition to other modes of communication, playing a game together would really help create that shared experience, but do not think that you can REPLACE the phone conversations. I would suggest that if she is not a gamer, you should find a long list of different types of games to suggest. There are sites for board games to be played online too if she's not keen on FPS or RPG styles.
As well there's comfort issues. It might look great but if it's really tight somewhere I don't want it. And what about things like sitting, leaning over, etc to see how something gaps and shifts. If I'm going to own it and wear it, at least I can try wearing it before shelling out the $$.
If you're concerned about how much you will spend on film, buy a bulkloader. It's not to hard to use and way cheaper than buying individual rolls.
Pentax has a variety of different lenses that are usually interchangeable between different models but beware that older cameras are screw mount and newer models are snap mount. It might be harder to find lots of screw mount lenses on the used market since they are no longer made. I would recommend gettng a snap mount body.
If you've ever seen any documentaries done in classrooms with young children, you will see that they do not behave any differently or appear to even notice the camerapeople who are surely there, they just get used to having them around. Now if this study was being done at a high school, then I could see a difference in behaviour occurring.
How long do you think all these sensors will last with these little kids? How are you going to make sure they are wearing their caps instead of tossing them around, stomping on them, losing them, etc ?!
All these microphones, sensors, cameras, etc are going to gather a ridiculously huge amount of data, which will be extremely difficult to process meaningfully.
Not only is a human researcher cheaper, and able to withstand kids playing with them, they also can process data faster and more intelligently. For example, it is really easy for a human to notice and understand why/when multilingual children use their different languages.
I don't see what fundamental advantage is gained through monitoring the children electronically. Since they are not unsupervised (teachers, helpers, etc), adding researchers to the classroom is not really changing the environment in a way that will affect children's behaviour.
And as for evaluating students performance, that's what the teacher does everyday when they see them working! At grade one level, not many tests are being administered anyways.
I concur with the recommendations about exercise and breaking things into small goals. However, it's important not to be too focused on the breaks. If you can focus on something for longer, work on it longer. What motivates me more is if I plan something fun to do that I have to X amount done before. Even if it's just watching a movie on my computer or eating supper out somewhere cheap.
I also find making schedules and lists really helps. It gives you something to cross off, so you feel like you've accomplished something and it helps me focus if I've got what I need to do written down. Break it down into as fine detail as you need. If you need to schedule every hour, do so, for me, usually setting aside which day to work on something is sufficient.
Always follow the WORK FIRST, FUN AFTER rule. It never, ever, works in the other direction, there's no motivation to stop fun and work until the last minute.
If it helps you, write down the mark you'd like to get in the course and work backwards for how well you need to do on each assignment, leaving a little lee-way for mistakes. Although, ideally one is motivated by learning, getting decent marks is important too.
I find that working on campus, if I can avoid friends, can also be beneficial because there are fewer distractiions than at home.
I often find myself overwhelmed with stuff and not feeling like working on the thing that is highest priority. This is a dangerous situation because I used to end up working on nothing. Now, I make a deal with myself, I can ignore the highest priority thing as long as I'm doing some other schoolwork. That way, you're still making some progress. I would also suggest that while in school, never give yourself an entire day off. Make sure you do some reading or studying or a question or two for some course each day. The more this becomes habit, the less you'll have to do a crazy all-night cram because you've been ignoring stuff all week.
So in summary:
1. Exercise and small goals are good
2. make fun plans that are rewards for accomplishing tasks
3. write a list of tasks and a schedule (a big wall calendar with due dates helps)
4. work first, fun after
5. remind yourself of the marks/learning that each task represents
6. find a work environment with the minimum of distractions
7. Always work on something even if it's not the highest priority.
8. Work on something everyday
Something that has never worked for me, but does for some people is to set strict bed time and wake-up times so that you always get enough sleep and are forced to use sane hours for work.
Read the response I made to someone else with your inability to restrict their interpretation of my comments to the issue they were about.
The article stated that the most common reason for IVF treatment was for women with blocked or absent fallopian tubes. I don't know about blocked, but the absence of fallopian tubes suggests they were born that way.
For the price of IVF, they can probably afford adoption too. Another post quoted one cylce of IVF treatment as costing more than $12,000
you have no choice if you get sick, you do have a choice about getting fertilised unnaturally. I say, once you're alive, do whatever you can to have a good life, my comments were restricted to the issue the article was about. Just because I state an opinion on one issue, doesn't mean that same opinion applies to other issues.
I support the idea of people testing amniotic fluid to test for birth defects and aborting before the pregnancy comes to term. Why have a child you know will suffer? Or what about parents who have had one child with a serious genetic disease choosing not to have another because they know the risk is higher. I'm NOT suggesting invitro babies will suffer or are necessarily sickly, this is just an analogous situation of choise, that's all. If you can't have a baby naturally, then maybe choose to adopt instead.
However, there are many positive ways to deal with that situation. Adopting within N.America is a long and difficult process, partly because we don't have orphanages full of adoptable children. China, Russia, and some S.American countries do. If you have the means to get invitro fertalization done, then you probably have the means to do international adoption.
It may not be a popular point of view, but there is no rule out there that says everyone has to or should be able to have a baby if they want to, even though they can't naturally. I think it is unwise to go through all sorts of unnatural steps to have your own child, ignoring what Mother Nature decreed. This is just the point of view of an environmentalist, applied to humans. I think we need to be responsible in our environment.
I have nothing against people who have been born due to fertility treatments of one sort or anther, but I would be interested in studies tracking those people and seeing if they had higher rates of cancer and other health problems than the general population. And is a child born to an infertile couple more likely to be infertile themselves?
My guess is that people shouldn't be ignoring nature. If you were born without fallopian tubes or something else that prevents creating a baby naturally, maybe that's nature's way of saying you shouldn't be perpetuating your genes.
The airplane was a vastly useful machine for these wars, so of course a great deal of research effort was in that direction. I think his predictions about the prevalance of humanoid robots are only conceivable if there is at least one major war that makes extensive use of such robots in the intervening time.
nope, that would be Mount Logan. (Remember the todo recently when some idiot suggested renaming it?)
If you notice, the top 3 are the same, and they all appear to have improved.