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Archive for October, 2011

* Selecting who to use – recruitment consultants are an essential part of your job search. Ask for referrals from others in your network as a first step. If you’ve been responsible for recruiting staff who have you used? Might they be able to help or recommend you on to others? Check out the website of recruiters – are they advertising the type of role you are interested in? Be patient – you only need a small number of recruiters out there working on your behalf but it may take you some time to identify these in the market.
* First impressions are key – treat the interview or first meeting with the Consultant as you would a potential employer. Impressing them, above the hundreds of applicants they are dealing with will ensure their confidence in putting you forward to any suitable vacancies. Ask yourself why they should put you forward ahead of others and aim to convey this to them. Professional dress and a well presented CV which clearly demonstrates your achievements and skills relevant to the types of role you are applying for are essential; being positive and energetic, being confident and in control with prepared questions to ask them are also important. Can they actually help you? What are their views on the market and the challenges you may face?
* Build relationships and manage expectations – do try to meet your consultant, it’s worth working really hard on building a relationship with them. And do agree levels of contact – how often will you contact each other? If they submit your CV to a vacancy or you attend an interview on their behalf do ensure you agree how they’ll give you feedback. Remember that in a tough job market, their priority is usually their client – the employer, so you may not always receive the service from them you’d like. Once you’ve found a good recruiter keep them in your professional network – to support your job search and career development at any time in the future.

The cost of education is on the rise. States are spending less on higher education, forcing colleges and universities to pass the extra costs onto students. Tuition and fees have nearly doubled at some institutions, and there’s no relief in sight. That’s the bad news. The good news is that there are several ways to help allay the rising cost of college. Here they are, in no particular order.

Accelerate Your Degree
Essentially, accelerating your degree means cramming a semester’s worth of material into a six-or eight week session. Many schools are now offering these accelerated sessions, and while classes can be intense, the benefits are that they allow you to take classes more quickly and thereby move up your graduation date. By accelerating your degree, you spend less time in college and can start your career sooner, which saves you time and money. In addition to these accelerated sessions, you should also consider summer school or evening classes, which are often cheaper than regular classes and which also speed up the learning process.

Become a Transfer Student
One of the best kept secrets in higher education is that of transferring. The idea here is to earn as many credits as possible at a low-cost community college before transferring to a pricy, elite school prior to graduation. This way you can still get a diploma from a prestigious university but at a fraction of the price. Furthermore, because community colleges are less competitive, you will be a better candidate for scholarships and other financial aid. What’s more, by attending your local community college, you can also reduce room-and-board costs by bunking at your parents’ house.

Go Where You’re Wanted
Conventional wisdom says you should go to school you want. But if you’re trying to cut costs, maybe you should consider going to the schools that wants you. In other words, find the college or university that is dying to have you as a student, fire off an application, and then watch the discounts roll in. Star students get discounts on tuition as well as housing and other fees. The trick is to find the school that thinks you’re a star. Start by checking out the smaller, regional colleges in your area. Chances are you may be exactly the kind of student they’re looking for.
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Over the course of the past year, I closely assisted a colleague in writing a series of ten articles covering diverse aspects of my ancient astronaut theory. All ten of those articles circulated widely around the globe and view counters on many sites indicated plentiful readership, but feedback to me, or to her, from anywhere, was non-existent. There was neither criticism nor acclaim from anyone. Just silence. I was starting to think that perhaps no one in world wants to take ancient astronauts seriously.

In an attempt to make some progress, I decided to pay sixty dollars for a review of my ancient astronaut website. Of course, this was to be a review by skeptics; a review by New Age believers would be worthless. Their blog’s description was “critical reviews of paranormal claims on the Internet.” The intermediary granted them five days to perform their review but that has long since come and gone, and not a word from them. My website presents a vast amount of evidence and, in truth, I could not expect anyone to produce a good critical review in just five days. No one, including myself, would want to see quickly prepared and frivolous arguments, else I would make them look ridiculous in my counter arguments. Moreover, some of my evidence comes from Spanish-language sources and, to start, they would need time to verify that none of it is a hoax. They are welcome to all the time they need.
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Did you know that “pattern interrupts” are a hypnotist’s secret weapon to getting direct access to someone’s unconscious mind?

In fact they’re so powerful that many years ago a man, who was eventually caught and sent to jail, was using them to STEAL from tons
of restaurants.

More on that in a bit…

Pattern interrupts are so powerful because they work like this…

You break someone’s expectation of how a normal, everyday event should proceed by doing something highly unusual instead.

This creates momentary confusion of their conscious mind and opens a brief doorway to their unconscious mind.

At that precise moment you can then give instructions to their unconscious mind.

And it can be DEVASTATINGLY effective.

Take the man who was banged up in jail for using them. Turns out this dude was easily scamming restaurants left, right and centre. He’d go into expensive restaurants and begin to give an order to a waiter. Halfway through he’d do a pattern interrupt on the unsuspecting waiter. During the moment of confusion he’d give an instruction to ‘forget the bill’, then continue with the order as normal. 9 times out of 10, he’d simply walk out of the restaurant after eating all their nice chow and drinking their fine wine. And without paying a dime!

Of course when you use this kind of hypnosis power criminally, you’ll eventually end up getting busted.
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