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Do You Believe In Natural Talent
"Paul, VERY thought-provoking article! You got me thinking harder than I've thought in ages, and quite frankly harder than I like to think! I guess it means you've done your job. I'm still out on the subject. I want to agree with you; you've presented too many compelling reasons for me to disagree outright. I've just seen too much natural talent: A neighbor when I was young and my mother had bought me a piano. I sucked, even after taking lessons for years. Our neighbor, John, sat down for 10 minutes and with no experience, just his ear, he began playing beautiful tunes. Our computer technician is 16 years old. No formal education. No books. he just started ripping computers apart at the age of eight and figured things out on his own. Education is one thing, but even with immense expenditures on learning in the form of time and effort, I can't do most forms of math.Even simple math. And there are those naturals who just, naturally, learn things and do them well. GREAT article! Yoni"The Lowest Common Denominator: How to Go Beyond Good Enough
"Thursday (I love that name, it's so cool!), Fresh out of college at WVU (aside from only needing a 700 SAT for entrance, in many ways it resembled a college :)), I started working in my field (my previous, ancient field) of Psychology at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Md. I started writing up patient reports. I did them as comprehensively as possible, not skipping any details. I wanted as much useful info as posssible in order to benefit those in my care. My reports were often 2-3 pages. After about a week, my co-workers called me for a sit-down. They told me my reports were too long. "Too long," I asked. They said that I was making them look bad. I asked to see their reports. Some were a few lines long, some, a few paragraphs. Making them look bad meant letting others see the shortcomings in their work and their real fear was that they would be forced to work harder. Actually to do their jobs according to requirement. It was my first taste of "good enough vs done correctly." Yoni"Obama Updates Resume – New Skill: Terrorist Hunter
"As opposed to Jimmy Carter's ill-fated, rescue-fiasco in the Iranian Desert: "Operation Eagle-Claw" (1979). Two choppers crash, another suffers mechanical problems and the corpses of American GIs are strewn across the desert. Carter's resume-update? "I'm a one-term President!" Resumes are indeed forums to stress success and leave out failure, though I do hope Obama will be a one-termer! Yoni"Obama Updates Resume – New Skill: Terrorist Hunter
"BTW, No attempt at sarcasm or wit in the "Eagle-Claw" comment. I was in the 6th or 7th grade in America still when the principal (remember -pal on the end, for the principle is your pal) got on the loud-speaker and announced the news. It was a national trauma, and one, which most commentators agree, handed the presidency to Ronald Reagan. Yoni"5 Questions to Keep Your Visitors From Bouncing
"Cindy, How is Dennis? Great article too, though what if you work as a "bouncer" in a bar? (bad joke!) The obvious link to core-content would seem "obvious" enough, but I'm still amazed at how many people make this info so hard to find. I still get to the bottom of so many blogs and there are no links to testimonials, about, or anything. Then I think, "Oh...you want me to scroll all the way back to the top of the page, do you???" Sorry, I'm too lazy for that and will spend my limited effort instead on clicking over to tmz.com to see what Lady Gaga thinks about the rain-forest. "Benefits is another biggee." I see so many blogs without any sales-pitch. It's the perfect time to turn a reader into a customer. But many miss the boat on this one. Very nice article and many good points. Yoni"Subscribe
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Employment Screening: The Most Common Lies Found On A Resume
"As a writer who gets most of his business in the form of resumes and corporate bios, I find a lot of no-no's and encourage the resume owner to be straight. Here are some others I find: 1) Trying to cover up lengthy periods of times of unemployment by lying. Just tell them you were looking for a job! There's no shame in that. 2) BLATANT embeleshment. If you swept floors and watered the plants in the offices you cleaned, you were not an environmental consultant. 3)Fake, old companies to pad a resume. Example: In 1978, I worked for Company XYZ as a supervisor. They've since gone out of business and there's no way to contact them. Duncan is 100% correct. In this information age there are too many checks and balances. A lie will be caught. And getting caught will get you fired. Yoni"