Bad Times Spur a Flight to Jobs Viewed as Safe – NYTimes.com
Fearing layoffs, investment bankers at a Merrill Lynch or a Morgan Stanley are joining small Wall Street firms for less pay but with signed employment guarantees. Academics are migrating to community colleges, which are adding teachers as enrollment rises. And in Eastern Wisconsin, workers furloughed from a paper mill they fear will not reopen are training as truck drivers and welders.“Looking online and in newspapers and talking to my instructors, I’ve decided that trucking and welding stand out as jobs that are available and will continue to be available, and a lot of my friends agree,” said Dan Geneen, who has picked up a truck-driving certificate and is learning welding since he was let go by the paper mill last fall.
50+ New Tools for Torrenting
Torrent sites are most often associated with illegal downloads of software, music, and movies. But there are plenty of legitimate uses for torrent and P2P networks, including distribution of media files by their creators.We did a post back in 2007 covering more than 50 torrenting tools with legitimate uses. Here’s an updated list with another 50+ resources.
Have a torrenting site that you’d recommend? Tell us about it in the comments.
The 35 Greatest Speeches in History | The Art of Manliness
If a man wishes to become a great orator, he must first become a student of the great orators who have come before him. He must immerse himself in their texts, listening for the turns of phrases and textual symmetries, the pauses and crescendos, the metaphors and melodies that have enabled the greatest speeches to stand the test of time.There was not currently a resource on the web to my liking that offered the man who wished to study the greatest orations of all time-from ancient to modern-not only a list of the speeches but a link to the text and a paragraph outlining the context in which the speech was given. So we decided to create one ourselves. The Art of Manliness thus proudly presents the “35 Greatest Speeches in World History,” the finest library of speeches available on the web.
FT.com / Weekend columnists / Tim Harford – Why charity begins – and stays – at home
To some extent that’s cheap talk – we’re talking about spending each other’s money, after all. Yet even if we wouldn’t spend $1m of our own money, we would all be willing to make financial sacrifices to save a specific baby. Imagine that you had been passing the back yard at the moment baby Jessica had slipped down the well, had rushed over and peered down to see her just within reach, snagged by a fraying babygro. If you lunged down and grabbed her you could save her life at no risk to your own, but would ruin your new suit – price tag, £300. Would you do it? Unthinkingly and without regret.Here is the difficulty: faced not with a specific baby right in front of us, but some unnamed baby far away, £300 suddenly seems like a steep price tag. That £300 is a plausible estimate for the cost of enough mosquito nets or health education to save a child’s life in sub-Saharan Africa. Few Britons donate that much to charity each year.
10 Financial Commandments for Your 30s – Kiplinger.com
Welcome to your thirties. The past decade was all about life’s changes and getting to know yourself — and your finances (see 10 Financial Commandments for Your 20s). You know the basics for managing your money. Now it’s time to build on that foundation and secure your financial future.Here are ten principles that should be carved in stone for every thirtysomething:
Recession should inspire new entrepreneurs | Personal Dividends
If past history is any guide, recessions have a tendency to provide a burst in entrepreneurial activity. This is one of the reasons why the economy tends to run in cycles, the upsurge in new business creation provides fodder for future economic growth.
69 Free or Open Source Tools For Students | Online College
Many Open Source software projects were either started in colleges or started by recent college graduates. Whether it’s a coincidence or not, a lot of the available open source software is ideal for college students.
IBM Social Networking Research.pdf (application/pdf Object)
In 2007, we launched an internal social network site for IBM employees designed to blur the boundaries of work and home, professional and personal, and business and fun. The website is called Beehive and is hosted by IBM Research as an experimental platform for studying and understanding the issues around adoption, usage, motivations, and impact of social networking in the workplace.
squawkfox » Series: How to Write a Resume (that gets job interviews)
This article is the introduction to a multiple part series on How to Write a Resume (that gets job interviews).If you’re anything like my best friends, your resume probably sucks. Yes, I’m sure your skills, experiences, and qualifications don’t suck. But to be honest, very few job searchers know how to write a professional resume that consistently lands them a job interview.
I’ve been on both ends of the resume game. I’ve reviewed hundreds of resumes as part of a hiring team. I’ve also applied to numerous jobs in various fields using countless resume types, formats, samples, templates, presentations, and content. Over the years, I’ve discovered why few resumes stand out and why most end up lining kitty litter trays.
10 things to learn on January 25th
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10 things to learn from the almighty WWW today:
Fearing layoffs, investment bankers at a Merrill Lynch or a Morgan Stanley are joining small Wall Street firms for less pay but with signed employment guarantees. Academics are migrating to community colleges, which are adding teachers as enrollment rises. And in Eastern Wisconsin, workers furloughed from a paper mill they fear will not reopen are training as truck drivers and welders.“Looking online and in newspapers and talking to my instructors, I’ve decided that trucking and welding stand out as jobs that are available and will continue to be available, and a lot of my friends agree,” said Dan Geneen, who has picked up a truck-driving certificate and is learning welding since he was let go by the paper mill last fall.
Torrent sites are most often associated with illegal downloads of software, music, and movies. But there are plenty of legitimate uses for torrent and P2P networks, including distribution of media files by their creators.We did a post back in 2007 covering more than 50 torrenting tools with legitimate uses. Here’s an updated list with another 50+ resources.
Have a torrenting site that you’d recommend? Tell us about it in the comments.
If a man wishes to become a great orator, he must first become a student of the great orators who have come before him. He must immerse himself in their texts, listening for the turns of phrases and textual symmetries, the pauses and crescendos, the metaphors and melodies that have enabled the greatest speeches to stand the test of time.There was not currently a resource on the web to my liking that offered the man who wished to study the greatest orations of all time-from ancient to modern-not only a list of the speeches but a link to the text and a paragraph outlining the context in which the speech was given. So we decided to create one ourselves. The Art of Manliness thus proudly presents the “35 Greatest Speeches in World History,” the finest library of speeches available on the web.
To some extent that’s cheap talk – we’re talking about spending each other’s money, after all. Yet even if we wouldn’t spend $1m of our own money, we would all be willing to make financial sacrifices to save a specific baby. Imagine that you had been passing the back yard at the moment baby Jessica had slipped down the well, had rushed over and peered down to see her just within reach, snagged by a fraying babygro. If you lunged down and grabbed her you could save her life at no risk to your own, but would ruin your new suit – price tag, £300. Would you do it? Unthinkingly and without regret.Here is the difficulty: faced not with a specific baby right in front of us, but some unnamed baby far away, £300 suddenly seems like a steep price tag. That £300 is a plausible estimate for the cost of enough mosquito nets or health education to save a child’s life in sub-Saharan Africa. Few Britons donate that much to charity each year.
Welcome to your thirties. The past decade was all about life’s changes and getting to know yourself — and your finances (see 10 Financial Commandments for Your 20s). You know the basics for managing your money. Now it’s time to build on that foundation and secure your financial future.Here are ten principles that should be carved in stone for every thirtysomething:
If past history is any guide, recessions have a tendency to provide a burst in entrepreneurial activity. This is one of the reasons why the economy tends to run in cycles, the upsurge in new business creation provides fodder for future economic growth.
Many Open Source software projects were either started in colleges or started by recent college graduates. Whether it’s a coincidence or not, a lot of the available open source software is ideal for college students.
In 2007, we launched an internal social network site for IBM employees designed to blur the boundaries of work and home, professional and personal, and business and fun. The website is called Beehive and is hosted by IBM Research as an experimental platform for studying and understanding the issues around adoption, usage, motivations, and impact of social networking in the workplace.
This article is the introduction to a multiple part series on How to Write a Resume (that gets job interviews).If you’re anything like my best friends, your resume probably sucks. Yes, I’m sure your skills, experiences, and qualifications don’t suck. But to be honest, very few job searchers know how to write a professional resume that consistently lands them a job interview.
I’ve been on both ends of the resume game. I’ve reviewed hundreds of resumes as part of a hiring team. I’ve also applied to numerous jobs in various fields using countless resume types, formats, samples, templates, presentations, and content. Over the years, I’ve discovered why few resumes stand out and why most end up lining kitty litter trays.
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