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(99) Brian Collins - Messages. 44 Resume Writing Tips. By Daniel Scocco Having a solid and effective resume can greatly improve your chances of landing that dream job. That is beyond discussion. How does one make sure that his resume is top notch and bullet proof, however? There are several websites with tips around the web, but most bring just a handful of them. We wanted to put them all together in a single place, and that is what you will find below: 44 resume writing tips. 1. Some people write a resume as if the purpose of the document was to land a job. 2. Instead of creating a long (and boring) list with all your qualities (e.g., disciplined, creative, problem solver) try to connect them with real life and work experiences. 3.
Most companies (even smaller ones) are already using digital databases to search for candidates. These keywords will usually be nouns. 4. Like it or not, employers will usually make a judgment about your resume in 5 seconds. Bad title: AccountingGood title: Management of A/R and A/P and Recordkeeping 5. 6. 7. 8. _m22l792hRR1qhw4wvo1_500.jpg (JPEG Image, 500 × 375 pixels)
Bluetarp - potatotrap. Notes about building for Burning Man and other Projects, by Bob StahlAlso see: Rebar & Rigging FAQ | Field Manuals | DPW About This Document Desert camping is the art of applying simple concepts to achieve elaborate results. These pages were written to give users, notably campers and artists trekking to the Black Rock Desert, and the Burning Man art festival, a few hints on how to build shelters and structures for the extreme heat, severe windstorms, and sudden rains of northwestern Nevada. It is not intented to give specific structural or safety advice, just an overview of typical methods. If you are uncertain how to proceed, please consult a carpenter, rigger, architect, or engineer. This document is free for public/personal use, but copyrights apply. About Burning Man Burning Man (www.burningman.com) is a temporary art community, created in the Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada. The notice printed on recent event tickets says a lot about the event: Desert Storms Basics Geodesics Kites.
Glenna Gordon. Working With Victims and Survivors. Journalists, researchers and mental health professionals offer advice on how to deal with people caught up in tragic events. Whether you're new to reporting traumatic news or simply feel you’ve more to learn about such assignments, these tips, drawn from journalists, journalism researchers and health professionals in Australia and around the world, can help you. People who have experienced deep trauma or who have lost someone close in sudden, violent circumstances have a right to decline being interviewed, photographed or filmed and news media, and their newsrooms, need to respect that right.
Exercise the principle of doing no further harm.Above all, be accurate and do not feign compassion. It can’t be faked. Offer sincere condolences early and in considerate, supportive terms. Use a supportive phrase like “I’m sorry this happened to you” rather than the more abrupt “How do you feel?” Graduate school & the development industry « Rachel Strohm. (Update, 8 January: Hi MR readers!
Thanks for stopping by; I’d welcome your thoughts. I should add that this post isn’t meant exclusively as a critique of SAIS, but as a representative experience of many of the schools that offer MAs in development.) Greetings from the other side of A) the new year and B) grad school! With the help of several supportive professors and a hell of a lot of late nights in the library, I pulled off a six-course load this term and graduated a semester early.
In my not-so-copious free time over the last month, I’ve thought a fair amount about this blog post and its trenchant criticism of the MA in international development at SIPA, much of which I share. A bit of background here. That said, my geography courses did tend to pass over the types of structural questions addressed by political science and economics, and when I was applying for graduate school, I chose SAIS in hopes of remedying this deficiency in my education. Like this: Like Loading... Devaluing the Think Tank. One of the most peculiar, and least understood, features of the Washington policy process is the extraordinary dependence of policymakers on the work of think tanks. Most Americans — even most of those who follow politics closely — would probably struggle to name a think tank or to explain precisely what a think tank does. Yet over the past half-century, think tanks have come to play a central role in policy development — and even in the surrounding political combat.
Over that period, however, the balance between those two functions — policy development and political combat — has been steadily shifting. And with that shift, the work of Washington think tanks has undergone a transformation. Today, while most think tanks continue to serve as homes for some academic-style scholarship regarding public policy, many have also come to play more active (if informal) roles in politics. Some new think tanks have even been created as direct responses to particular, narrow political exigencies. Notes from the field: the usefulness of early workshops. One of the things I learned from other folks at the Bank I work with is the usefulness of doing a workshop early in the early design of an impact evaluation to bring the project and the impact evaluation team together to hammer out design. With one of my colleagues, I did one of these during my recent trip to Ethiopia and a bunch of things stuck out.
First, though, it’s useful to discuss how these are structured. What I like to do is spend about half a day on three initial presentations. The first one covers the basics of impact evaluation – and in my experience this has to be pitched in a way that any reasonably smart person can understand it. (Education level is probably a bad variable to use to target this: during one of these workshops, the lead contact on the implementation side approached me and told me that a lot of the group was shop stewards – as in metal working and coffin making.
So who should be at the workshop? The other key parameter is when to do this. What can we learn from medicine: Three mistakes to avoid when designing a trial registry – Guest Post by Ole Dahl Rasmussen. If you are like most people working with quantitative data in development, getting too many statistically significant results is probably not your most pressing problem. On the contrary, if you are lucky enough to find a star, whether it's of the 1%, 5% or 10% type, there are plenty of star-killers to choose from. In what is perhaps the only contribution to the rare genre of 'econometrics haiku', Keisuke Hirano reflects on one of them: T-stat looks too good // Try clustered standard errors - // Significance gone (in Angrist and Pischke's MHE). Nevertheless, here is another star-killer: A trial registry. A trial registry is a publicly available database where researchers and evaluators can register a research design prior to initiating a study.
Outcome measures and subgroups are crucial aspects to register and importantly, any future changes made to the registration will be visible to everyone. Fortunately, we have heard that a trial registry is currently under way. The Particular Believer. A conversation with Nawal El Saadawi, activist, feminist, writer, doctor. She is the author of forty-seven books, including Women and Sex, Memoirs From the Women’s Prison, and God Dies by the Nile. Seventy-nine years old, she is one of the most outspoken agitators for women’s rights in Egypt. Nawal El Saadawi I am very angry today. Look at this silly magazine: they have misquoted me. It reads, “I am bigger than the president.” Who am I to say I am bigger than the president? Though, I admit, I do think that novelists are more important than politicians. Bidoun The doorman asked me about you when i came up.
What did he want to know? He wanted to know why i was going up to see you. They like to say Nawal El Saadawi loves absolute freedom. Why are they so sensitive to you, do you think? I think Suzanne Mubarak in particular tried to bury my name in history. You know, there is no difference between Sadat, Mubarak, Bin Laden, and the Muslim Brotherhood. I am going mad. Many things. The Soft Side of Imperialism. Reasons abound to be turned off by the New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof. He is too pleased with himself and demonstrates no capacity for self-reflection. He is too earnest. He claims to be in the vanguard of journalism because he tweets.
He is said to be Doing Something about human suffering while the rest of us don’t care; he is smarmy. He doesn’t write particularly well. But most important, he is an apologist for a soft form of imperialism. He poses for photos with the wretched of the earth and Hollywood celebrities in the same breath, and they are a perfect fit. In interviews, he refers to the need to protect his humanitarian image, and he got one Pulitzer Prize because he “gave voice to the voiceless”.
Keen to imply that he’s down with youth and hep to the jive, he lamely told one interviewer that “All of us in the news business are wondering what the future is going to be.” (because there’s actual money involved), schools and refugee camps get funds if you play well. Seven Deadly Sins of Impact Evaluation. Seven obstacles to making good decisions about impact evaluations and how to avoid them.
Impact evaluations—typically, third-party studies that seek to prove a program model’s effectiveness—seem to be all the rage in social sector circles these days. Maybe in part that’s because the process seems so straightforward: Just commission one when the time is right, and, when all goes well, proudly show off your “stamp of approval.” You’ll soon receive the resources you need to grow your organization and to influence all the other nonprofits in your field.
The problem is that it’s rarely that simple in practice. Consider one youth-serving organization we know, which undertook an impact evaluation—at great expense and with high visibility to its funders—only to have the process cut short when the evaluators discovered that the organization’s numerous sites were implementing its program model in wildly different ways. Did that nonprofit have growth potential? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Who is Dr. Kurtz? It's been a while this "electronic newsletter" going - so long that I have lost count of all the interns that passed through and learned the ropes under my visionary leadership. I have also had my share of constructive feedback, which I duly "actionized" using the appropuiate tool-kit, in order to become a better person: And obviously, this improvement of the person process has also not gone unnoticed: But most importantly, during all this this time I have never allowed myself to step out of character, and have generally tried to remain dignified in my bubbly existence.
Like you, at times I have been accused of being "that guy who writes that blog", and like you I have duly denied it. The fact that it may have been me is obviously irrelevant because you knows it: all of yous is just a little bit Dr. Kurtz, just a little bit Hand Relief. So then, in order to allow Dr. Who is Dr. And if you don't believe me, go to blogger.com and check it out: And Guys?
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Social Change - Anonymous. Alumni-network. TEDTalks. Crafty. FUN… By Design. Organizational Development. ICT4D. Constraintstorming. Recently, I lead a project that included “designing the future of X”. Any time you have these kinds of projects, the sky can be the limit. But, without limits, the chances of success are often low.
Our first step was to conduct a brainstorming session. The goal was to get all the ideas out of our heads and onto the wall. No judgements, just sketch and write as many ideas that came to us. After an hour, this lead to a large quantity of ideas – some were great, others were insane. The next task was to start narrowing down the ideas into a few concepts to begin exploring. So, building on the momentum of brainstorming, I suggested we constraintstorm. I asked the team to list all the things that would affect the project, both internally and externally. We have a finite time to work on the projectThey have a finite time to complete the projectAnd, even if we ignored time, there are some feasibility issues I then asked them to list more constraints on the board.
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Home. Social Research Methods. IDPM publications. IDPM Research (School of environment and Development - The University of Manchester) Research is central to IDPM's mission to raise the capabilities of individuals and organisations in developing countries. In the Research Assessment Exercise 2008, a periodic government review of the quality of research in UK universities, 65% of IDPM’s research was assessed as ‘world-class’, and in significant areas was viewed as ‘world-leading’. This means that not only is IDPM contributing at a global level to debates about poverty and development, but in some areas is setting the pace.
Our research focuses on major issues of development policy and practice including poverty analysis and poverty reduction policies, macro-economic and trade policy, development finance, human resource and organisational development, development informatics, public sector reform, institutional change, economic and social development, sustainable livelihoods and sustainable development, social protection, post-conflict reconstruction, and resource and environmental management. DEPP Working Paper No 21 - A Gendered Analysis of ‘Time Poverty’: The Importance of Infrastructure. This Working Paper is part of the Development Economics and Public Policy series David Lawson Abstract This paper uses a combination of nationally representative individual level time use data combined with household and community data to further our understanding of time use, and how infrastructure impacts on gender disaggregated time poverty.
With a common, and growing, perception in the empirical literature being that Sub Saharan African females are typically disadvantaged in market based activities because of the large time burden of having to undertake both formal work and domestic duties, it is important to understand some of these key processes and issues that underpin, and link with, poverty reduction.
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