You still not into it? Take a look at this.......
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Here's how you can spice up your sex life!
You think you have read enough on this topic? Check this out......
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Women who are cleaning up America's mess-Jeff Bailey, Forbes
Are the professional women in India reading this?
click to read.......
The difference between a resume, CV and bio-data
Read and put to use...........
People use the words Resume, C.V., and Bio-data interchangeably for the document highlighting skills, education, and experience that a candidate submits when applying for a job. On the surface level, all the three mean the same. However, there are intricate differences.
"Resume" is a French word meaning "summary", and true to the word meaning, signifies a summary of one's employment, education, and other skills, used in applying for a new position. A resume seldom exceeds one side of an A4 sheet, and at the most two sides. They do not list out all the education and qualifications, but only highlight specific skills customized to target the job profile in question.
A resume is usually broken into bullets and written in the third person to appear objective and formal. A good resume starts with a brief Summary of Qualifications, followed by Areas of Strength or Industry Expertise in keywords, followed by Professional Experience in reverse chronological order. Focus is on the most recent experiences, and prior experiences summarized. The content aims at providing the reader a balance of responsibilities and accomplishments for each position. After Work experience come Professional Affiliations, Computer Skills, and Education
"Curriculum vitae" is a Latin word meaning "course of life". Curriculum Vitae (C.V.) is therefore a regular or particular course of study pertaining to education and life. A C.V. is more detailed than a resume, usually 2 to 3 pages, but can run even longer as per the requirement. A C.V. generally lists out every skills, jobs, degrees, and professional affiliations the applicant has acquired, usually in chronological order. A C.V. displays general talent rather than specific skills for any specific positions.
Bio-Data, the short form for Biographical Data, is the old-fashioned terminology for Resume or C.V. The emphasis in a bio data is on personal particulars like date of birth, religion, sex, race, nationality, residence, martial status, and the like. Next comes a chronological listing of education and experience. The things normally found in a resume, that is specific skills for the job in question comes last, and are seldom included. Bio-data also includes applications made in specified formats as required by the company.
A resume is ideally suited when applying for middle and senior level positions, where experience and specific skills rather than education is important. A C.V., on the other hand is the preferred option for fresh graduates, people looking for a career change, and those applying for academic positions. The term bio-data is mostly used in India while applying to government jobs, or when applying for research grants and other situations where one has to submit descriptive essays.
Resumes present a summary of highlights and allow the prospective employer to scan through the document visually or electronically, to see if your skills match their available positions. A good resume can do that very effectively, while a C.V. cannot. A bio-data could still perform this role, especially if the format happens to be the one recommended by the employer.
Personal information such as age, sex, religion and others, and hobbies are never mentioned in a resume. Many people include such particulars in the C.V. However, this is neither required nor considered in the US market. A Bio-data, on the other hand always include such personal particulars.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Hobbies !!
Listed in few CVs --'Thinking', sleeping(lady candidate),
You may call these weird but each of these candidates had a detailed explanation as to why they listed these as their hobbies....
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Dedicated to my friends in publishing
NOVEL IDEA
Making A Best-seller
Narendra Nair
A friend is going through post-partum distress. He published a novel, now he is anxious about its future. The first print run was 500 copies. According to the publisher, that was 450 copies too many. Twenty were distributed among friends and relatives, another 20 were “donated” to a big chain of book stores and some libraries. Ten suckers were cajoled into buying them. Getting it published had been a feat in itself. The first publisher sent it back without comment. Publisher No. 2 wrote back to say that he was full up till the year 2030; if, after that, the author still wished, he could send it to them again. Publisher No. 3 told him that times were hard and he had a bypass on his father-in-law coming up; if the author could put up the money for it, he would see what he could do. One after the other, they turned it down, some with haughty reserve refraining from commenting on his temerity in sending it to them and some unburdened by any such reserve. Some of the comments were so scathing that despite being fairly dark, he blushes when recalling them. Eventually, one publisher — naive, young, reckless and impecunious — agreed to bring out the thing on the condition that they halved the costs. If at all they sold anything, royalties would be no more than 5 per cent on each sale. Advertising would be a no-no but he promised energetic word-of-mouth and instructed his staff of three to plug the book to everyone they met. It was printed on recycled paper. My friend, an atheist, prays 10 hours a day now at temples, churches, synagogues and mosques. He has prayed at Tirupati (all he got was a lightning-flash of the idol from the aam-janata line) and at Guruvayoor. He has sent anonymous copies to Pramod Muthalik and Ashok Gehlot (his book cover has a couple holding hands), half a dozen Shiv Sainiks, an Archbishop, two orthodox Muslims and some television journalists, drawing their attention to this literary outrage that criticises Hindus, Muslims, Christians, all major political parties and television news. Nothing happened. He then printed 100 sheets on his computer with the message, “Ban ‘Pub-Crawl’” and put six exclamation marks after it. He placed them on seats in local trains one night and now sits with bated breath, surrounded by holy books awaiting denunciation and the call for a ban. Ah-ha!
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