Monday, 23 September 2013
Monday, 16 September 2013
#100Women: Join the BBC's new conversation
Women around the world have achieved extraordinary things during the
past century. But despite major steps forward in securing political,
cultural and social rights, women everywhere face steep challenges
compared to their male counterparts.
How to Stop Wasting Time
It’s time to get real about how you waste time. These tips and tools can help you add more hours to your day.
Time is an entrepreneur’s most valuable asset. So how can you get
more time in your day? You can’t buy, sell or trade it; you have to
reclaim it.
In order to do that you need to identify how and when you’re wasting
time. Let’s be real about this: everyone wastes some time during the
day—we’re only human after all. The trick is to honestly evaluate your
work habits. Only then can you use your time more efficiently.
The monotonous world of overused CV words
A survey suggests that
the terms "hard-working", "team player" and "motivated" are so
ubiquitous in CVs that they have become utterly meaningless. But what
might you write instead, asks Finlo Rohrer.
It's not easy to write the covering letter that goes with
CVs. You know it's going into a massive pile that will leave some poor
recruiter dead-eyed in a supremely bored fugue. The sentiments you want
to express are not just samey, they can even be counterproductive. Simply stating you're "creative" does seem rather to show the opposite.
Perhaps you should adopt the old journalistic adage of "show
me, don't tell me". As an old journalism professor once said: "Don't
start a sentence with 'interestingly…'. Let the reader be the judge of
that." If having described a feat you have to say it is "spectacular"
either a) you're not very good at describing feats or b) the feat really
wasn't that spectacular.
Blobfish Voted Ugliest Animal
And you can see why
http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/09/12/blobfish-voted-ugliest-animal/