Eugene Meyer, Nelson Lund
This is a manifesto — a Tea Party manifesto — calling for a restoration of the judiciary to its original and proper place in our constitutional system.
When I started this blog it was out of frustration. Frustration that I was a smart, well-educated, independent person whose career had come to a crossroads. Not because I needed to update my skills, not because I didn’t do my assigned tasks well, but instead because I also chose to care about my family and be sure they were also taken care of as needed. I found the corporate world of work too rigid and quite frankly too discriminatory.
I wanted to change that world…especially for my little girl. I didn’t want her to have the kind of workplace experiences I had. And of course I was not alone in my frustration or my desire. And I’m h
8, No, 10, No, MANY Resume Words to Avoid
There are eight words no resume should include because they’re “fluffy,” says Tina Brasher, a certified professional resume writer.
Actually, there are 10 resume words to avoid, according to recent research from LinkedIn Analytics.
Really, there are hundreds of words and phrases to avoid. Brasher culled her list of “phrases and words that ‘resume readers have seen 10 million times’ and that will lose their attention.” LinkedIn’s analysis isn’t exactly words to avoid, but words overused – the 10 phrases that occur most often in it’s vast database of resumes and user profiles. In reality, your resum
The American presidential system, with its separation of powers, plausibly imposes enormous costs on the economy without compensating gains, as seen in the current gridlock over the debt crisis. Modern parliamentary systems of government, such as those in Britain and Canada, seem to handle such problems more efficiently. Regretfully, however, the principle of separationism has been extended in Supreme Court decisions and in the Senate filibuster, in part because of the mistaken idea that this is what the Founders intended. A close examination of the preferences of the delegates to the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 tells a very different story. Had they voted on our present regime of presidential elections, they almost certainly would have rejected it.
I miss my old office job. There I said it. Yes, I know. I work from home and for myself. I set my own hours and have total flexibility. What could be better?
Well….
By now most job seekers know that sending a follow-up letter after a job interview is vital and could mean the difference between getting hired or not.
“Thank-you letters continue to be an important component of a successful job search campaign. But the focus has shifted from a simple courtesy and show of appreciation to a targeted self-marketing tool,” says Barbara Safani, owner of Career Solvers, in Career Advice article 5 Reasons to Send Thank-You Letters.
