7 Golden Rules for a Job Hunt

DailyWorth is hiring—and the experience has gotten us thinking about lessons we’ve learned from hundreds of job applications we’ve vetted over the last two years. From us to you, our seven top tips for a successful job hunt:

Prove that you can use Google. Research the company and the position you’re applying (and don’t address the hiring manager as Mr. if she’s a Ms.). Trust us, the more savvy you seem, the more you’ll stand out.

You are the answer. Don’t blather on about your job skills in the cover letter; use that precious space to explain why you and your experience, specifically, are a great fit for the company and position in question.

Keep it clean. Unless it’s requested, don’t attach your cover letter in your email or online application—it’s cumbersome. Write a short, pithy note in the body of the email, and attach your resume only.

Check yourself. You know that bad grammar is a no-no. But avoid other obvious faux pas, like poor vocabulary or mixing up which position you’re apply for. This guide will help.

Get verb-happy. You’ve heard it before: using verbs makes your applications stronger. But for pete’s sake use the right verbs!

Go for quality, not quantity. Sending a blizzard of identical job apps WON’T LAND YOU A JOB. Take the time to craft the letter and application for each position.

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I found a new job, after months and months of searching, But I know and understand and respect the fact that I got blessed in finding a new job. There are still many-many-many people in U.S. and around the world who are either still looking or know someone who is or both. I hope and pray that by passing this on I can either be a Blessing to someone or at least be part of someone's Blessing. After all, to paraphrase that old saying about fishes/ fishing--> Give to charity (which is good and fine) you feed someone's family for a day; help that person get a job and they feed their own family for life.

Bring a Little Sunshine to Your Morning

YOUR DAILY FIT TIP

By Jorge Cruise

 

 

Many experts will tell you to keep your bedroom as dark as possible so you can sleep better. But I say you should let Mother Nature be your alarm clock. Sunlight governs our natural sleep-wake cycles. Artificial lighting, however, tends to throw off this cycle, making us feel alert at night when the world’s natural darkness would otherwise signal our brains to feel sleepy. Artificially darkened rooms also throw off this cycle, making us feel tired in the morning when natural sunlight would wake us up.

Let the sun wake you up! Stop pulling your shades down when you go to bed at night. That way, your room will become gradually lighter as the sun rises, slowly arousing your body and mind out of sleep. Follow this advice, and you’ll already be awake and alert long before your alarm clock sounds – no more waking up to that annoying buzzer!

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Sounds nice for the people who get to sleep in, or maybe work 9 to 5 and near enough to home, except what do people like me do? I wake up and get to work while it is still dark. Or people like my younger son, David, do; he works third shift. When the sun come up is his time to go to bed. No wonder he needs extra blankets to cover up the light that comes in through the windows.  Or the people who work second shift, like my late husband, I remember it took him and average of an hour  or so, of being home to relax enough to go to sleep.

Giving Means More than Money

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I’ve never heard of this option. 

I’ve only done it for a crisis, like the Kobe earthquake.

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Ok, I confess, my vote was--> I've only done it for a crisis, in my case it was the Haiti Earthquake relief, since I am not that good with texting new addresses. Those whom I have on speed dial, like my sons, I can do fairly well with, but otherwise, not so good. 

 

Giving Means More than Money

By DailyWorth Team Sent: Monday November 28, 2011

If you’re thinking about giving now to a cause you care about, you’re not alone. The average person makes 24% of her annual donations between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, according to research from the Center on Philanthropy.

But between regular expenses and crazy holiday costs, what if you can’t spare much? Thanks to the power of the Internet, there are two ways you can add oomph to every buck:

• Go viral. Promote your cause on Facebook and Twitter, and include a link to the organization’s donation form. “You’d be amazed at how many of your friends will click through and give,” says Alice Hendricks, founder of nonprofit consulting firm Jackson River.


• Go auto. Many charities now let you set up regular contributions that are automatically charged to a card. The monthly gifts are typically just $5–$15, but over the year they add up to more than the average one-time donation, says Ben Smith, director of online fundraising and promotion for nonprofit public television stations in New York, including Thirteen. (Bonus: this paperless method is eco-friendly.)

 This is excellent, superb!! But only when giving to a mature adult or families where both parents are working at good paying jobs,  who already has everything they want or need in the 'materialistic' sense. 
In my case, I am thinking about this for my mother-in-law and aunt.
 After all, I can also see how giving a gift like this could also be given, simply to make the giver feel good; like when it is given to a working poor family with small children. In that case, I would hope more people buy toys and clothes and more toys.

Capital News: Jobs, economic growth would salve the memory of Ohio Senate Bill 5

Columbus -- I told you a couple of months back that Gov. John Kasich has a lot riding on the future success of Ohio's energy industry, particularly the emerging horizontal hydraulic fracturing method of extracting oil and gas from shale formations located deep under the eastern part of the state.
That's probably even more true following the stomping Issue 2 took at the ballot box earlier this month, when more than 61 percent of voters said they didn't want the controversial collective bargaining reform outlined in Senate Bill 5 to become the law of the land.
But it's way too early in Kasich's four-year term to think that Senate Bill 5 will have the kind of lasting impact on his re-election chances that some Democrats have suggested.
That's where fracking comes into the picture. Because three years from now, all will be forgiven and forgotten if Ohioans are able to find stable, good-paying jobs -- the types of positions that have been nonexistent for a few years in the state.
In speeches before a variety of audiences, Kasich touts the potential economic impact of horizontal hydraulic fracturing.
"If in fact we find what we hope we will find, which is dry gas in the east, wet gas in the middle and liquids or petroleum oil in the western part, we've got a bonanza," he said one day last week.
The governor also points out the billions of dollars that have already been invested in the state, via land leases by companies hoping to tap into the Ohio's energy potential. Those funds will ripple through the state's economy, with more expected as steel tube, compressor and related products and services are produced to accommodate the industry.
"... Beauty salons and barber shops and restaurants and hotels -- it's fantastic that there are people now starting to get some money," he said. "Outsiders are investing in our state."
State officials have said repeatedly that they are working with drillers to ensure that facturing activities are done within the confines of Ohio's laws and regulations, but there's another aspect of this emerging industry that will gain increased attention in coming months and years -- job training.
Kasich has hinted for months that his administration has been working with colleges and universities on ways to better prepare students for future careers at companies with job openings in the state.

During a speech in Columbus last week, he said efforts are under way to recruit a company to help train students for oil and gas drilling work. And he said he wants more interaction between schools and businesses to help Ohio's youngsters identify their passions earlier in life, then work toward careers that fit those interests, whether the latter takes them to four-year universities for bachelor's degrees or to two-year colleges or other technical programs where they can learn a trade.
"I want to have more kids out there into the workplace where they can learn and get excited about things," he said, adding, "We ultimately need to have an education system that taps into our children's'or our grandchildren's passions. We need to find out at an early age what they're interested in ... We then need to build our education system around their passions and not build their passions around somebody else's idea of what education ought to be."
If successful, such a system would provide a ready, willing and able work force for companies that want to expand in Ohio, including those involved in horizontal hydraulic fracturing.
Kasich has a lot riding on quick and positive results of such efforts.
Marc Kovac is the Dix Capital Bureau Chief. Email him at mkovac@dixcom.com or on Twitter at OhioCapitalBlog.

The big question is not how many jobs will be created with 'fracking', but what will we sacrifice by 'fracking'? Yes, I do understand and respect the fact that Ohio; like the rest of the nation, like the rest of the world needs jobs, but we also need fresh water even more. After all, many Ohioans, like my sister and her husband rely on well water, which is already very hard and already quite poluted, it needs cleaning up, not more polution. In addition to that, there are other job sources, many green jobs, such as installing solar panels and wind mills and the like.
After all, many Ohioans still work the 'Family Farm' who need to water their crops. In addition to that, there is the growing number of Ohio vineyards, which is why if we need and must do anything, clean up our ground water, not make it even worse than it already is

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The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy

The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class's venality

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• • Naomi Wolf
  • guardian.co.uk, Friday 25 November 2011 12.25 EST
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Occupy Wall Street protester Brandon Watts lies injured on the ground after clashes with police over the eviction of OWS from Zuccotti Park. Photograph: Allison Joyce/Getty Images

US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed by phalanxes of riot police went viral online; images proliferated of young women – targeted seemingly for their gender – screaming, dragged by the hair by police in riot gear; and the pictures of a young man, stunned and bleeding profusely from the head, emerged in the record of the middle-of-the-night clearing of Zuccotti Park.
But just when Americans thought we had the picture – was this crazy police and mayoral overkill, on a municipal level, in many different cities? – the picture darkened. The National Union of Journalists and the Committee to Protect Journalists issued a Freedom of Information Act request to investigate possible federal involvement with law enforcement practices that appeared to target journalists. The New York Times reported that "New York cops have arrested, punched, whacked, shoved to the ground and tossed a barrier at reporters and photographers" covering protests. Reporters were asked by NYPD to raise their hands to prove they had credentials: when many dutifully did so, they were taken, upon threat of arrest, away from the story they were covering, and penned far from the site in which the news was unfolding. Other reporters wearing press passes were arrested and roughed up by cops, after being – falsely – informed by police that "It is illegal to take pictures on the sidewalk."
In New York, a state supreme court justice and a New York City council member were beaten up; in Berkeley, California, one of our greatest national poets, Robert Hass, was beaten with batons. The picture darkened still further when Wonkette and Washingtonsblog.com reported that the Mayor of Oakland acknowledged that the Department of Homeland Security had participated in an 18-city mayor conference call advising mayors on "how to suppress" Occupy protests.
To Europeans, the enormity of this breach may not be obvious at first. Our system of government prohibits the creation of a federalised police force, and forbids federal or militarised involvement in municipal peacekeeping.
I noticed that rightwing pundits and politicians on the TV shows on which I was appearing were all on-message against OWS. Journalist Chris Hayes reported on a leaked memo that revealed lobbyists vying for an $850,000 contract to smear Occupy. Message coordination of this kind is impossible without a full-court press at the top. This was clearly not simply a case of a freaked-out mayors', city-by-city municipal overreaction against mess in the parks and cranky campers. As the puzzle pieces fit together, they began to show coordination against OWS at the highest national levels.
Why this massive mobilisation against these not-yet-fully-articulated, unarmed, inchoate people? After all, protesters against the war in Iraq, Tea Party rallies and others have all proceeded without this coordinated crackdown. Is it really the camping? As I write, two hundred young people, with sleeping bags, suitcases and even folding chairs, are still camping out all night and day outside of NBC on public sidewalks – under the benevolent eye of an NYPD cop – awaiting Saturday Night Live tickets, so surely the camping is not the issue. I was still deeply puzzled as to why OWS, this hapless, hopeful band, would call out a violent federal response.
That is, until I found out what it was that OWS actually wanted.
The mainstream media was declaring continually "OWS has no message". Frustrated, I simply asked them. I began soliciting online "What is it you want?" answers from Occupy. In the first 15 minutes, I received 100 answers. These were truly eye-opening.
The No 1 agenda item: get the money out of politics. Most often cited was legislation to blunt the effect of the Citizens United ruling, which lets boundless sums enter the campaign process. No 2: reform the banking system to prevent fraud and manipulation, with the most frequent item being to restore the Glass-Steagall Act – the Depression-era law, done away with by President Clinton, that separates investment banks from commercial banks. This law would correct the conditions for the recent crisis, as investment banks could not take risks for profit that create kale derivatives out of thin air, and wipe out the commercial and savings banks.
No 3 was the most clarifying: draft laws against the little-known loophole that currently allows members of Congress to pass legislation affecting Delaware-based corporations in which they themselves are investors.
When I saw this list – and especially the last agenda item – the scales fell from my eyes. Of course, these unarmed people would be having the shit kicked out of them.
For the terrible insight to take away from news that the Department of Homeland Security coordinated a violent crackdown is that the DHS does not freelance. The DHS cannot say, on its own initiative, "we are going after these scruffy hippies". Rather, DHS is answerable up a chain of command: first, to New York Representative Peter King, head of the House homeland security subcommittee, who naturally is influenced by his fellow congressmen and women's wishes and interests. And the DHS answers directly, above King, to the president (who was conveniently in Australia at the time).
In other words, for the DHS to be on a call with mayors, the logic of its chain of command and accountability implies that congressional overseers, with the blessing of the White House, told the DHS to authorise mayors to order their police forces – pumped up with millions of dollars of hardware and training from the DHS – to make war on peaceful citizens.
But wait: why on earth would Congress advise violent militarised reactions against its own peaceful constituents? The answer is straightforward: in recent years, members of Congress have started entering the system as members of the middle class (or upper middle class) – but they are leaving DC privy to vast personal wealth, as we see from the "scandal" of presidential contender Newt Gingrich's having been paid $1.8m for a few hours' "consulting" to special interests. The inflated fees to lawmakers who turn lobbyists are common knowledge, but the notion that congressmen and women are legislating their own companies' profitsis less widely known – and if the books were to be opened, they would surely reveal corruption on a Wall Street spectrum. Indeed, we do already know that congresspeople are massively profiting from trading on non-public information they have on companies about which they are legislating – a form of insider trading that sent Martha Stewart to jail.
Since Occupy is heavily surveilled and infiltrated, it is likely that the DHS and police informers are aware, before Occupy itself is, what its emerging agenda is going to look like. If legislating away lobbyists' privileges to earn boundless fees once they are close to the legislative process, reforming the banks so they can't suck money out of fake derivatives products, and, most critically, opening the books on a system that allowed members of Congress to profit personally – and immensely – from their own legislation, are two beats away from the grasp of an electorally organised Occupy movement … well, you will call out the troops on stopping that advance.
So, when you connect the dots, properly understood, what happened this week is the first battle in a civil war; a civil war in which, for now, only one side is choosing violence. It is a battle in which members of Congress, with the collusion of the American president, sent violent, organised suppression against the people they are supposed to represent. Occupy has touched the third rail: personal congressional profits streams. Even though they are, as yet, unaware of what the implications of their movement are, those threatened by the stirrings of their dreams of reform are not.
Sadly, Americans this week have come one step closer to being true brothers and sisters of the protesters in Tahrir Square. Like them, our own national leaders, who likely see their own personal wealth under threat from transparency and reform, are now making war upon us.

 This and the non-stop political ads attacking Ohio's Freshmen Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown and attacking our Democratic President Obama by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has left me-not only wondering who are the U.S, Chamber of Commerce, but also very angry that they have this much money to spend on politics for a campaign that people will not be voting on until November of 2012, especially with all the news reports of how many people are in need of food and shelter and how few can afford to donate; and most especially with unemployment still very high at 9%. How can politics take the front stage? This is especially true for the Right Wing,Social Conservatives, who proclaim up and down, left and right that they 'are the True Christians', yet some how seem to have forgotten that it was Jesus Himself that told Peter 3 times that If he loved him to feed His Sheep (people). They run around quoting the Holy Bible day and night, yet act as if it does not really apply to them and then wonder why Christians get mocked or worse proclaim 'it the work of Witches or Warlocks or Demons' when the truth is that they themselves are the inspiration.
This is enough to wonder, every time that one of these political ad runs, does it really represent one person who was not hired, one head of house hold who can not feed his/her family, one house hold instead of donating to various charities is in need of their services, instead.

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Maybe it is me, but now that I am 50 years old, I find myself thinking more and more about what kind of legacy I am leaving behind. I remember as a child arguing with my older sister about which one of us would be the 'first woman president' obviously that did not happen, real life took over instead of childhood dreams.
But more and more, I hope and pray I can honestly say that I left behind a legacy of Truth, Fairness, Mercy and above all, Love and Compassion, especially Love of Family. Despite all this non-sense about business being the so called back bone of society, it is really The Family. After all, it is the parent of small children who is most likely to work all the extra hours needed to afford what they need, more than the 'greediest' single person without family responsibilities. A true loving Mother/Father would do anything/everything for their children, which is why The Family really does matter. After all, it is our True Legacy, because the world we leave behind is the world that they will raise our Grandchildren in.

Megyn Kelly’s pepper spray comments spark baclsh

                            By Mike Krumboltz/ The Upshot

Pepper spray, its effects, and its appropriateness continue to be top of mind in the media.
Following the protests at UC Davis, during which Occupy protesters were sprayed with pepper spray by a campus police officer, Fox News commentator Megyn Kelly went on the Bill O'Reilly show.
Kelly appeared to downplay the physical effects of pepper spray. Kelly said pepper spray is "like a derivative of real pepper. It's a food product essentially."

Maybr so, but her comments have sparked a spicy backlash. A petition is circulating on the Internet that suggests Kelly should put her eyeballs where her mouth is by getting sprayed with the substance on live television. Currently, more than 16,000 people have signed the pledge. Kelly herself notes in the interview that the spray is  "obviously invasive and obtrusive and several [people] went to the hospital."
Over the past 24 hours, Web searches for "megyn kelly" and "megyn kelly pepper spray" soared more than 1,000%. Additionally, related lookups for "what is pepper spray" and "pepper spray ingredients" also spiked into breakout status.
Numerous blogs have popped up to explain exactly what is in pepper spray. According to a recent entry from KQED, "high doses of some of the chemicals in pepper spray can produce respiratory, cardiac and neurologic problems, and even death."
HowStuffWorks explains that "the active ingredient in pepper spray is oleoresin capsicum (OC), a natural oil found in many types of hot peppers including cayenne peppers and other chili pepper." One milligram of capisicum can cause blisters on the skin.
As the Washington Post points out, this isn't the first time someone has sluffed off the effects of a unpleasant (to say the least) physical experience. In the past, a number of people, including Stephen Colbert and Jesse Ventura, called on Vice President Dick Cheney to try being waterboarded. Cheney was an adamant supporter of waterboarding and the results he contends the process delivered.
The investigation into the attack on the Davis protestors is ongoing. The police officer who used the pepper spray is currently on leave and has been the subject of an Internet meme, placing him (and his can of spray) in various historical locations. Look, there he is with the founding fathers.

I have written this before and I will write this again--The question is--Why pepper spray only Ms. Kelly; pepper spray all the 'News anchors/commentators' at Fox. After all they all need lessons in sensitivity. Or rather something like that, I never get the wording exactly right, even when I am trying to quote myself.

And according to wikipedia-->

Then-presidential candidate George W. Bush's cousin, John Prescott Ellis, was Fox News' projection team manager during the general election of 2000. After speaking numerous times on election night with his cousins George and Jeb,^[26] Ellis, at 2:16 AM, reversed Fox News' call for Florida as a state won by Al Gore. Critics allege this was a premature decision, given the impossibly razor-thin margin (officially 537 of 5.9 million votes^[27]), which created the "lasting impression that Bush 'won' the White House – and all the legal wrangling down in Florida is just a case of Democratic 'snippiness'."^[28] Others, such as researcher John Lott, have responded that, by this reasoning, Fox News and the other networks were even more premature in initially calling the state for Gore, a call made while polls were still open, and which may have depressed voter turnout for Bush.^[29]