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Standing out at a Career Fair can make a difference in your job hunting. Career Fairs are starting to pick up, and Dice is running some nice ones, called Targeted Job Fairs. At a San Jose Area Job Fair in early 2010, 10 companies as showing up, and a major job search company has 82 career faires scheduled for this year across the US.

How do you compete at a Career Fair? The rivalry can be sizeable, but you can help yourself jump out from the herd with early planning. At AA-Careers, we have a simple six-step process to prepare. Plan to go? Here’s how to prepare:

First, research the organizations that are going and pick your objectives. Use the World Wide Web to research the organizations that are there beforehand. Go to their websites and see if they have their job openings posted. Pick a small number to target, and get ready to spend up to an hour researching each one. It’s hard to do more than ten in a day, and four or five is a much more reasonable target. For each hiring organization, you want to know: key product lines, recent news, and executive names. Try to see if you know anyone at the target companies. You will end up with with a page or two of research for each company/job.

Second, if there are job openings on the web, read them to see what the organization is looking for. Create a mapping of your achievements and skills to the prerequisites of the job. Make the terminology match. If the hiring organization calls customers "clients", your resume should do the same thing. The achievements should be written in the style of the hiring organization.

Third, create a ‘brief sales pitch’ for each potential organization/position combination. Write down a 60 second ‘thumbnail’ that you can repeat out loud describing why you are a great candidate for that position. You’ll use this in your resume and when you meet the company at the job stall.

Fourth, modify your resume for each opportunity. The objective on your resume should exactly match the position you’re want. The executive summary should be a written form of your “mini sales pitch” for the job. Then choose the accomplishments and skills that most clearly match the job prerequisites. Especially at a Job Fair, the purpose of your resume is a sales tool for you – to get you on-site job interviews. It should be quick to see that you’re a match based on your resume.

Fifth, rehearse your ‘mini-sales-pitch’. Collect your research and the resume for each opportunity - bring a couple of copies for each – and put each in a understandably tagged folder. Keep them in a light briefcase or folio.

Finally, dress and prepare as if you’re doing on-site interviews. Dress nicely and be well groomed. Avoid strong cologne or perfume…use any cologne or perfume sparingly, if at all.

Remember to smile, and good hunting!

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I learned when I took psychology classes in college that the reason a person forms a ’superego’ is because each child is judged and assessed by their parents, so that they won’t touch the hot stove or they won’t run out into the street. And then the child forms their own inner-parent telling them not to do those things, probably more to protect themselves from the wrath or the punishment of the parent more than being run over by a car, because that’s not usually what happens.

It’s not so much the parent saying to you, “Don’t put your hand on flame or on a hot stove because you’re going to get burned, or don’t run out into the street because you might get hit by a car.” That’s not creating an overbearing ’superego’. What creates an overbearing ’superego’ is that the parent is including in that all of their prejudices and projections. In other words, they’re saying, “Don’t put your hand in dirt, it’s poisonous. Don’t put that in your mouth, it’s poisonous.”

So that what happens is, the parent ends up communicating not just reasonable discernment, but they end up communicating much more than that. And that’s why it should be called ’superego’, because they end up communicating their prejudices, their fears, their emotionality. Which, again, as we’ve observed in all of these series, as we’ve listened and experimented, we realize that we have a circumstance that occurs in front of us, and then we turn around and load every similar happening that’s ever happened to us into that single incident that just happened.

The frustration of fifty years comes to bear on this poor, little, simple circumstance. And that’s the pattern that’s common with the personality; I suppose what we’re saying is that Deity Yoga Practice is a great way, an efficient way, and perhaps even a complete way of changing that.

Yogi Sean is the student of Swami Ramananda and the author of Dancing in the Fire of Transformation, The Everyday Sanyasin, and Experiments in Awareness, a workbook for yogis.

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The old expression, with age comes wiseness, but regrettably for the majority of us, age also comes with hair loss. Alopecia is the scientific name for hair loss, and for years scientists and researchers have been attempting to cipher out why normal, healthy people sometimes lose their hair in specific areas or patterns. Today, a new genetic test has been developed to ascertain the risk of hair loss or thinning in those who have not yet seen the discouraging signs of alopecia. This genetic test is called HairDX, and it’s changing the way men and women handle hair loss.

Currently the only FDA approved treatments for hair loss are successful in clinical trials at persevering existing hair rather than re-growing new hair. Based on your HairDX results, you can easily save your existing hair rather than anticipating for the first signals of hair loss, then hastily trying to re-grow hair at a smaller success rate.

Accessible only at Advanced Hair Studio, HairDX can give at-risk patients for hair loss a head start at preserving their existing hair. The HairDX test is easy and is ideal for men and women at least 18 years of age. A trained professional at Advanced Hair Studio simply collects a genetic information sample from the inside of the patients cheek via a swob. The results are analysed and returned to the doctor in a secure, private manor.

Results from HairDX are invaluable to those who are concerned about losing their hair. Test results indicate whether or not your genes show a specific variation in the androgen receptor gene (AR), which is the cause for alopecia. Test results are clear and easy to understand: Men who test positive for the variant AR gene have an approximately 70% chance of developing Male Pattern Hair Loss (MPHR). Conversely, men who test negative for the variant AR gene have approximately a 70% chance of not developing MPHR. Test results are determined differently for women.

A professional at Advanced Hair Studio will be able to provide you with next step solutions based on your individual test results.

Dont wait for the warning signs of onset MPHR, alopecia, or hair thinning ” Talk to the staff at Advanced Hair Studio about the simple, painless HairDX test. You can save an abundance of time, money, and energy in the future, and give yourself a fighting chance at preserving and keeping your natural hair.

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Overseeing my monthly budget has always been a pain, juggling between frequent monthly bills and unpredicted expenses. My paycheck was already spent as soon as I received it. I get stacks of bills every month and put them off to the last minute, then did them all in a rush. As a result I ended up taking up money from the next pay just to make it through. It’s not that I didn’t make enough money, it’s that I didn’t know how to manage my budget. In the case of any emergency, left me even further in debt.

This situation is not unusual for most of us. We try to control our spending and be careful with our money, but long before month-end, the money is spent. Paying bills is a juggling act that most of us don’t have the time or energy to handle. There’s always one bill that was overlooked or delayed, one more expense we weren’t organized for. With school supplies and fees for the kids, groceries, new tires for the car, and the rising cost of petrol, just making it from paycheck to paycheck is hard enough; saving money is out of the question. Meanwhile, debt is slowly stacking up. How can I get my budget under control?

I was lucky to have found a service which will help me manage my money more wisely and take away the tension of paying monthly bills, letting me focus on the things that really matter to my family. No more distressing over where the money will come from; I can finally relax, knowing that my finances are in good hands.

The financial planning process:
Usually during your initial consultation, your budget specialist will evaluate all of your existing debts and monthly payments and organize a program that works for you. They will oversee your money, setting aside money for savings, emergencies, and long-term investment, ensuring your family’s financial security. If you are planning a major purchase, this will be factored into your budget so that when you are ready to buy, the money will be there for you.

Your paychecks are usually deposited with your financial planner, and a seperate living expenses account is setup for you. Your bills are directly delivered to your budgeting specialist for payment. Some budget services will even negotiate with your creditors to reduce your monthly payments and reduce your outstanding debt. A affordable monthly fee is assessed for all these services.

For me, the most important monthly service my budget specialist provides is peace of mind. No more hassle with bill payment; I know my bills will be paid on time, and that I’ll have money in reserve for life’s little emergencies. My budget is finally under control, thanks to my financial planning service.

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A bunch of folks say I’m Miss Matchmaker, because setting people up is a my natural job. I make a point to recommend joining Great Expectations. Can’t be denied, serendipity happens when you’re not looking. Great singles networks, like this Great Expectations Dating Service in Milwaukee with a long-history of dating expertise, get to know their members personally and have a good rapport with Milwaukee’s singles. Great dating services orchestrate promising introductions among shared friends, it’s that simple, and that’s dating done right. Matchmaking is a talent-driven niche in the dating game, providing powerful payoffs by producing relationships for eternity.

Take for instance Julie and Larry plus their flock of kids. Yours truly introduced them to eachother at Spanky’s Hamubrgers once upon a time, and their result is apparent. Gregory and Lindsay also fell for eachother at first sight after I introduced them at a wedding not long ago. And of course my sister in law Amanda and her life-mate. It’s no secret this adorable pair will be married in Minneapolis the first weekend of November. These two love birds built their love using Great Expectations, on my recommendation.

It appears I stay right on with these arrows, and quite productive as well! Tho I also regret it a little, while I focus on perfecting helping Milwaukee’s singles realize how to find real compatability, I neglected my personal dating happiness. Is this what catastrophy lurks when the dating expert seeks a dating service? I’d want to meet exclusive Greatest Expectations Milwaukee singles, because if one is highly knowledgable with something it’s easy to spot flaws. Perhaps this is the feeling that has kept me from really getting serious about dating. Not unlike other Milwaukee singles, I must understand that it’s tough to exist in life by yourself. So here I am, setting out on a dating adventure by quality singles.

I’ve been giving social networking advice on my blog and for as long as I can remember. What you’ll find here is not old hat. You know all that. Listen to what your date has to say, be diplomatic, don’t be afraid to use charm, be self expressive and (a doozie) steer clear of grading dates in your mind. Laugh and enjoy yourself in the moment! Welcome spontanaity in any situation. If you hadn’t learned from movies, don’t make a mess trying to pass as a person is not you. Suppose the date grows serious, then your partner will be disappointed. My number one dating tip: it doesn’t hurt to use Great Expectations. companionship building is a gift I have practiced, striving for perfection. Couples I matched from friends and family developed my title. My coupled-up friends fill my life.

Wendy Hetrick
Your Matchmaker

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A curriculum vitae introduces the applicant to the future employer. It makes the first impression on the prospective employer on the applicant’s accomplishments, qualification, credentials and work experience. So, a professionally well-written and well-composed CV can often assist in securing an interview with the prospective employer.

While developing a CV, the direction must be on the requirements of the business and your capability to fit in the job at offer. The resume should be composed by mixing the candidate’s skill sets and experience with the demands of the business. It is writing about how you can meet the requirements of the specific position in the corporation.

There are several misconceptions about resume writing that needs to be cleared up. Trying to stand out among other people by making the CV attention-getting will not serve the purpose. The resume should not be something unusual, unique or tricky. However, if the facts are incorporated in a professional way, showcasing details applicable to the role’s necessities, it will definitely impress the recruitment agency to invite the applicant for an initial interview.

The key objective of a curriculum vitae is to introduce the candidate and present the skill sets, qualification, experience and credentials of the individual so that the employment manager is impressed enough to call him for an interview. The CV should only contain information, which is applicable to company’s wants. This may include the experience of the applicant, which is positive for the job position. Avoid composing a long account of your former job experiences.

A thorough, well-designed curriculum vitae is the key to opening the correct doors to the exact chance in the job hunting process.

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Interviews are usually preceded by the evaluation of supplied resumes, selecting a small number of candidates for interviews are considered to be one of the most useful tools for evaluating potential employees, they also demand significant resources from the employer and have been demonstrated to be notoriously unreliable in identifying the optimal person for the job. Multiple rounds of job interviews may be used where there are many candidates or the job is particularly tough or desired; earlier rounds may involve fewer staff from the employers and will typically be much shorter and less in-depth. A common initial interview form is the phone interview, a job interview conducted over the telephone.

This is especially common when the candidates do not live near the employer and has the advantage of keeping costs low for both sides. Once all candidates have had job interviews, the employer typically selects the most desirable prospect and begins the negotiation of a job offer. It is very important to be well prepared for an interview. According to the University of Delaware’s career center, a common reason employers gave for not hiring an applicant, is the inability of the applicant to fully explain the contents of his or her resume.

Therefore it is paramount to be able to talk about in detail every point listed on one’s resume, and if manageable to give examples when appropriate. It is also enlightened to research the company before the interview. To avoid being nervous, practice answering difficult questions.A good source of interview questions can be found by searching the Internet.

The nominee will usually be given a chance to ask any questions at the end of the interview. Questions are strongly encouraged, not only do they allow the interviewee to acquire more information but they also demonstrate the prospect’s strong interest in the position and company. A candidate should follow up the interview with a thank you letter expressing their appreciation for the opportunity of meeting with the company representative. The thank you letter ensures that the nominee will stay fresh in the interviewer’s mind.

This type of interview is based on the notion that a job nominee’s previous behaviors are the best indicators of future performance. In behavioral interviews, the interviewer asks candidate to recall specified instances where they were faced with a set of circumstances, and how they reacted.

There are plenty of great resources on medical interview preparation out there. You should make sure you select your tutor wisely.

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For the last few months I’ve been training to ride what we call
a “century ride” - one hundred miles (yes, in one day!) Rather
than riding my usual 30 or 35 miles each Saturday, I upped it to
60 or 65. I paid attention to my weekly mileage totals. When
ride day came, I expected that I’d finish … slow and staggering,
but finish.

Ride day came, and I finished. At (for me) a fast average speed,
and while my legs were tired, I was fully functional. All in
all, it wasn’t nearly as hard as I expected it to be.

As I rode, I noticed something I hadn’t anticipated. Generally,
when I plan to ride 35 miles, I start feeling ready to stop at
32 or 33. When I know I’ll be going 65, I look forward to
finishing at 60. But when I knew I’d be riding 100, 30 was just
getting warmed up. I didn’t even notice 60.

Even as I saw my odometer reach 75, and 80, and 90 miles, I was
fine. I was focused on that goal of 100. And the closer I got,
the more I knew that I could do it, and do it well. It was
almost easy.

I’ve been thinking about that mental state ever since. When I
focused on a small goal, the small goal took all my effort. When
I focused on a big goal, the small one was almost effortless,
and the big one came true.

I’ve never had such a clear example of the value of setting
goals, ambitious goals, before.

What did it take to manifest this particular success? To meet
this goal?

The first step, certainly, was to set it in the first place.
Isn’t that what Charles Fillmore and other abundance and Law of
Attraction authors are constantly reminding us? To get the
Universe to conspire on our behalf, we have to be clear on what
we want.

You may have heard of a goal-setting technique called SMART - we
need to set SMART goals. My successful experience fits that
mold. Doesn’t it make sense that other goals we’d like to
demonstrate will fit it also?

SMART goals are:

–Specific. My goal wasn’t to “ride farther” - it was to
complete a defined distance. When my defined distance was 65
miles, that felt like all I had. When it was longer, I did more.

–Measurable. This is easy when you’re talking about distance!

–Attractive. This goal meant something to me. Several years ago
I trained for a marathon. I trained up to 18 miles and pulled a
hip abductor. No marathons for me. As I got toward the end of my
century ride, I thought about how I was making up for that
marathon I didn’t get to run and the disappointment I’d always
felt about it.

–Realistic. I could have looked at a much longer ride, or a
much harder one. I chose one that was a stretch, but not
completely out of my reach. I didn’t expect it to be easy, but I
expected to accomplish it.

–Time-framed. That fit this example easily, since the ride was
on a specific date. I couldn’t let my training slip because I
had a deadline to meet. (This one can be tricky; sometimes
things happen in the Universe’s time, not ours, because in
reality we’re just not ready.)

I didn’t know I was using this technique, but sure enough, there
was my success. The intermediate steps weren’t always fun, but
the result was almost magical.

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All of us have met people who just seem to be happy most of the time.
Perhaps you have assumed that these people are just naturally happy,
or that they are the lucky people who have an easy life, or they had
really loving parents. Most of the time, nothing could be farther from the
truth.

Happy people are making specific choices regarding their thinking and
behavior. Happy people CONSCIOUSLY choose to think and behave in
ways that result in happiness. Unhappy people are UNCONSCIOUSLY
thinking and behaving in ways that create unhappiness.

Following are five of the specific choices that happy people make:

OPTIMISM

Happy people see the glass as half full, while unhappy people choose
to be pessimistic - to see the glass as half empty. Optimistic thinking
does not just happen - it is a choice regarding how you see life.
Optimistic people are optimistic because they CHOOSE to be optimistic.
Instead of allowing their ego wounded self to be in charge with all its
doom and gloom, happy people put their loving adult self in charge and
open to the wonderful possibilities that life has to offer. Happy people
realize that their thinking is the beginning of a creative process that
leads to manifestation. By thinking in positive ways, they move
themselves to act in ways that manifest their dreams.

KINDNESS

Happy people choose to be kind and compassionate toward themselves
and others. Happy people have learned that how they treat themselves
and others determines much of how they feel. Happy people do not wait
to be happy before being kind to themselves and others. They realize
that their happiness is the RESULT of their caring behavior, not the
CAUSE of it. They are kind, caring and compassionate whether or not
they feel like it. They have chosen this way of being, and their happiness
is the result.

FORGIVENESS

Happy people do not harbor resentment toward others, even others who
have been mean and hurtful toward them. They realize that resentment
makes them unhappy, so they choose to allow people their humanness
and forgive them their hurtful behavior. Because happy people tend not
to take personally others’ uncaring behavior, they don’t get their feelings
hurt in the same way that people do who take others’ behavior
personally. Happy people recognize that another’s behavior is really
about that other person, so they move into compassion toward
themselves and others rather than into judgment.

ACCEPTANCE

Happy people realize what they can control and what they can’t. They
live by the Serenity Prayer, accepting the things they cannot change and
changing the things they can. Unhappy people are constantly trying to
change people and circumstances and do not accept their lack of
control. As a result, they are constantly frustrated. Happy people realize
they cannot control others and outcomes, so they focus on what they
can control - their own thinking and behavior. Acceptance of what they
can and cannot control leads to happiness and inner peace.

GRATITUDE

Finally, happy people are consistently grateful for what they have, rather
than complaining about what they don’t have. They notice the many gifts
and blessings that come their way and they frequently express gratitude
for the everyday things in their lives - the beauty of nature, the food they
eat, the smile on a friend’s face, their ability to see, hear, walk, talk. Even
many disabled people who may not have the blessings of eyesight,
hearing, speech or legs are often happy people because they focus on
what they do have and what they can do, rather than focusing on what
they are missing out on.

If you want to be happy, then you need to recognize that happiness is
the result of your thinking and behavior, not the cause of it. If you choose
to focus on becoming conscious of what thoughts and behavior make
you feel happy, you can become a happy person - regardless of your
present circumstances. Happiness does not just happen - it takes work!

Margaret Paul, Ph.D. is the best-selling author and co-author of eight
books, including “Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By You?” and
“Healing Your Aloneness.” She is the co-creator of the powerful Inner
Bonding® healing process. Learn Inner Bonding now! Visit her web site
for a FREE Inner Bonding course:
http://www.innerbonding.com or email her
at margaret@innerbonding.com. Phone sessions available.

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Can creative thinking and even spontaneity come from a highly organized approach? Yes! For example, if you watch great comedians closely, you’ll see that they have certain habits of mind. Even the most spontaneous ones get better with practice, because they’re training their brains to find the humor in situations.

In the same way, you can train yourself for more creative thinking. Just start cultivating the right habits in your mind. Why not start training your brain today, with some simple techniques?

Creative Thinking Techniques

Want the mind of a creative inventor? Start redesigning everything you see. Imagine better cars, faster ways to serve food, or better light bulbs. If you do this every day for three weeks, it will become a habit.

Want to be the person who always has something interesting to say? Train yourself to look at things from other perpectives. What would the Buddha say about this? How would a Martian view it? What’s the opposite perspective? The point isn’t to ask others silly questions, but to ask yourself, to see what interesting ideas result. Do this until it is a habit, and you’ll always have something interesting to add to a conversation.

Want systematic creativity in poetry? Put a word on each of 40 cards; 10 nouns, 10 verbs, 10 adjectives, and 10 random words. Shuffle, deal out four cards, and write a 4-line poem using one of the words in each line. My wife has had poems published that were created with this technique. Your mind will find a poetic use for any word if you use this method often.

Solve Problems Creatively

Maybe you’ve heard of problem solving techniques such as “attributes listing,” and “concept combination.” More creative thinking doesn’t come from just knowing these techniques, though. You have to use them until they become a part of your habitual thinking process.

Imagine you want to invent a new bicycle. If you’ve trained your mind in “assumption challenging,” you’ll automatically begin to ask things like, “Are wheels necessary?” “Does it have to go outside?” What if the “bike” was indoors, and pedaling it ran a video screen? You could “steer” through endless different scenes.

You won’t always have great ideas, but you’ll have enough ideas to make it more likely that you’ll find a useful one. This “spontaneous” creativity will be because of your brain training exercise. Why not start developing those habits of creative thinking?

Steve Gillman has been studying brainpower enhancement, creative problem solving, and related topics for years. Subscribe to his free Creative Problem Solving Course, and get a free gift at: http://www.ProblemSolving101.com

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