The Best Cover Letter I Ever Received Harvard Business Review – David Silverman - 1:18 PM Monday June 15, 2009 In my last post I talked about how to make your résumé more likely to catch the attention of a hiring manager. As a follow up, I'd like to discuss cover letters. Here's my basic philosophy on them: don't bother. That's because the cover letters I see usually fall into one of three categories: The recap: The résumé in prose form. It's redundant, harder to read than the résumé, and provides
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floor in the middle of the hall. Those are definitely not the best places to sleep and they don’t look comfortable at all. Sometimes you just want to walk around and enjoy how beautiful the campus is, but it’s hard to take in the beauty when there are so many sleeping students occupying space all over campus. It’s a safe bet that most of the students you see sleeping on campus probably live far away. So why don’t we just have a designated sleeping area on campus? It would be really be easy to establish
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2015: Week Two DFS Welcome back! I assume if you are reading this you are either a) shocked that there is actually a second article this week b) pleasantly surprised at how my picks last week performed (I know I am) or c) both a and b. While sadly I didn’t take down the big prize in last week’s Milly Maker Tournament on Draft Kings I hope maybe one of you out there did. If no one won I hope you at least placed and made some money anyways because in the end as long as your turning a profit that’s
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because this is the day signing of the Armistice, which ended the World War 1 hostilities between the allied nations and germany in 1918. We also have Memorial Day on the last monday in May to honor the dead, many volunteers place an american flag on graves at cemeteries. Some people are against and cruel to our veterans and don’t respect them for their
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Time Check July 21, 2014. It was another Monday and it was a school day. I woke up early and drove to Ateneo de Manila University where I took up chemistry with materials science engineering. It was my first year in college and the semester just started a month ago, so I was only beginning to get to know the people in my course. On that Monday, my first class was chemistry and good thing that it was only a 50-minute class. I cannot take in all the formulas that Dr. Valera just discussed
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2015 Billy Jealousy Beard Wash Pogonophilia according to the Urban Dictionary “is the admiration or promotion of people, usually males, who wear a facial beard.” Now that you know what a pogonophilia is; I am formally requesting approval for capital resources for Billy Jealousy Beard Wash. I understand that you might receive emails all day concerning approvals for new products; as you read my email you’re probably wondering why you should consider Billy Jealousy Beard Wash and what sets this product
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Correct the mistakes in the following sentences. Say O.K. if there isn’t any. 1 Jane is an painter. 2 I have got an uniform. 3 Helen isn’t at the home. 4 There is a elephant in the garden. 5 There are wolfs in the forest 6 Steve goes fishing tomorrow. 7 Rebecca wash her hair every day. 8 I am visiting my grandparents every week. 9 Tim doesn’t wants to do his homework. 10 We looking for a new flat. Fill in: a, an, the or (-) where necessary. 11 Peter wants to be _____ astronaut. 12 “Where
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this paragraph I will be telling you about a very important lesson that I learned in life. All through my life I grew up with my grandma. She was the most important person in my life. I was closer to her than I was my parents. I could tell her anything and everything. We would go out for ice cream, and she would get me something every time we went anywhere. I would go see her almost every day. But in February of 2009 she was diagnosed with lung cancer. It was the second hardest thing I had to ever dealt
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“William, give me some good news,” Sage said. “I only have good news to share,” William said. “Passed with flying colors - 98th percentile.” “As if there was any doubt. Congratulations, welcome to the club, Attorney Blake.” “Thank you, Sage. I couldn’t have done it without you.” “Nonsense. It was all you. The ink isn’t even dry on your law license and already you’ve been handed one of the most important cases in Virginia. You better get ready; the progressives you’re up against are pit bulls
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person for a while. We did normal things like got pizza, watched SpongeBob, and Youtube. I'm talking to this senior named Tyler who we all go to school with. Tyler and Kiana text about me to each other because Tyler doesn't know what to say sometimes or needs advice. I told Kiana and Ashley I was going to the bathroom but I decided not to and they didn't realize. The couch they were on was in front of where I was standing. Kiana and him were texting and I could see right over her shoulder to the
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