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Words that Sabotage Your CV!

Alesia Benedict, CVGetInterviews.co.uk

Creating a winning CV is a feat of strategy involving focus, wording, design and content selection. To achieve a career marketing document that wins interviews, all areas of the strategy must be spot-on and consciously used in the most effective manner. One of the most common mistakes job candidates make when writing their CVs is not paying attention to strategy and word selection.There are actually words that can have a detrimental impact on the effectiveness of the CV. When most job candidates write them, they don’t consider word choice because they are primarily worried about getting down the basic information. Wording is critical and the wrong one can sabotage your CV.

The average agent and/or hiring manager sees hundreds of CVs from qualified candidates. CVs begin to look and sound the same to them. Here are some words and phrases to avoid:

Soft-skill descriptions
Job seekers feel they need to communicate their soft-skills to the employer because they believe they are the traits that make them unique, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. Soft-skills are so common that recruiters pay no attention to them.

Phrases to avoid or severely limit:
– Excellent communication skills
– Strong work ethic
– Personable presenter
– Detail-oriented

Do not bore the reader to tears with these trite, overused and tired phrases. After all, no one will write that he/she takes long lunches, is lazy and argues a lot with peers. Hence, it is much more effective to write a description that is action-based and demonstrates these abilities rather than just laying claim to them. For example, rather than just stating you are an “excellent presenter,” you could say “Developed and presented 50+ multi-media presentations to prospects resulting in 35 new accounts, totalling £300,000 in new revenues.”

Age, health, appearance
Many seasoned job seekers are facing that scary time warp known as pre-retirement and fear age discrimination. They feel they can counter this perceived hurdle by giving a description of their age or health. But this can be death to a CV.

Phrases to avoid:

– Youthful
– Athletic
– Fit
– Healthy
– Mature
Additionally, unless specifically requested, there is no need to include personal details such as date of birth, marital status or whether you have children. This information is typically used to exclude candidates from consideration in the hiring process rather than include them. Unless the employer specifically asks, keep this information confidential.

Passive voice
Many people write in the passive voice because that is how we’ve been taught “formally” in school composition. The problem with the passive voice, however, is that it is just that passive! A CV needs to have punch and sparkle and communicate an active, aggressive candidate. Passive does not accomplish that.

Indicators of the passive voice:
– Responsible for
– Duties included
– Served as
– Actions encompassed

Rather than saying “Responsible for management of three direct reports” change it up to “Managed 3 direct reports.” It is a shorter, more direct mode of writing and adds impact to the way the CV reads. On the flip side, whilst action verbs are great, don’t overdo it.

I have actually seen:
– Smashed numbers through the roof’
– ‘Electrified sales team to produce…’
– ‘Pushed close rate by 10 per cent’
Take your time
A CV is a marketing document for your career just as a brochure is a marketing document for a product or service. Companies put careful thought and consideration into each and every word that goes into marketing copy and you should do the same in your CV. These words stand in your place with the employer and need to showcase you in a powerful way. In a perfect world, these things would not matter, but in the reality of job search today, they matter a great deal.  Be wise – stop and give some thought to the words you choose.

http://www.careerbuilder.co.uk/Article/CB-332-C-V-s-and-Covering-Letters-Words-that-Sabotage-Your-CV/?cachebypass=$Y&lr=int_ukyahoo

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Top 10 Most Inspiring Quotes of Lao-Tzu

Lao Tzu was the most important spiritual Chinese sage. His name, which is also often called Laozi, literally means “Old Master” and is generally considered an honorific.

He lived in the 6th century BC, at the same time as Confucius, who was born a generation after Lao Tzu. He once sought out Lao Tzu who told him “Strip yourself of your proud airs and numerous desires, your complacent demeanor and excessive ambitions. They won’t do you any good. This is all I have to say you.”

Las Tzu is the father of the Chinese spiritual tradition Taoism, mainly because of his text called Tao te Ching (Tao: the way of all life, te: the fit use of life by men, ching: text or classic).

It is based on the Tao (The Way), which is the creator and sustainer of all things in the Universe, and the practice of doing by nondoing (wu-wei) that enables the disciple to unite with the Tao.

Lao Tzu wrote his only book Tao Te Ching just before he walked away from the Chou empire he served. There are a lot of translations of Tao te Ching, which begins with the very first words of …

 

1. “The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.”

This first sentence of his teachings seems paradoxical. In my humble opinion it says that everything that is in the world of form (or the world of the ten thousand things, as the Chinese said) is not the formless animating source, which is not nameable. It is like the analogy of the finger pointing to the moon, which is a pointer, but not the moon itself. Whenever the Tao is named, it is labeled and made into a concept which is not the eternal Toa itself.
If you are interested, Wayne Dyer did a complete interpretation of the Tao te Ching called Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao.

2. “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

Really a quote to think about. How can that be in the first place: there is no rush and no hurry, but everything works out. Grass does not try to grow, it just grows. Water does not try to flow, it just flows. The only explanation is that everything is done in a naturally perfect way, without resistance and within the flow of life …

3. “Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”

The Inside-Out approach tells us to start with the man in the mirror. Self-mastery is the basis for success, for yourself as well as with others.

4. “To see things in the seed, that is genius.”

To me this means nothing else as being able to form a personal vision for something. Genius for that matter, is to see the potential in something or someone, although not realized yet (“in the seed”). It is the essence of forming a vision of what might be and then going on making it real.

5. “When the best leader’s work is done the people say: We did it ourselves.”

A leader is not a good leader if he is so ego-driven that he is always standing in front of his team, and is letting the team feel it. The most empowering way is to inspire people so that they become able to realize their own potential.

6. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

Non-attachment – even or especially to ones own self-image – is the necessity for personal change. If we are open to change and to new possibilities and perspectives, without buying into them blindly, we can grow.

7. “To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

This is a realization that can be understood intuitively if we practice meditation and/or are able to quiet the mind of the constant chatter of thoughts.

8. “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

This emphasizes that getting started is often the hardest part of the journey. Even the greatest thing is started and then continued by single little steps, one after another. It also has the very practical meaning of breaking huge projects down into small and doable tasks, that then can be executed more easily.

9. “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”

In my opinion this is Lao Tzu’s expression of “intentions manifesting” or “thoughts become things”, which is also discusses widely as the secret or the law of attraction. But it is really a much more elegant way to put it :)

10. “At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

All you need to really find yourself is to look inside. It reminds me of what Eckhart Tolle said at the beginning of The Power of Now: Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth.”

http://www.awakeblogger.com/2008/10/top-10-most-inspiring-quotes-of-lao-tzu/

Reference: List of Acronyms

1. #teamBRDN – twitter hashtag for indentifying any topic related to BabyRobot.Net or getting the attention of its development team on Twitter
2. BRDN – BabyRobot.NET or the BabyRobot Developer Network
3. PCC – Preconditioned Consciousness
4. SAF – Simulated Awareness Field
5. UCC – Unconditioned Consciousness

 

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Onward and Upward for www.BabyRobot.Net

Originally written: 13 04 2008 – revamped March-2011

More ideas…for www.BabyRobot.Net – – ->

Things to be documented…

Things to be implemented…

Things yet to be cemented…

Development of a MODEL OF UNDERSTANDING – AMOU

Correct Understanding of Spoken Instructions…

IMPRESSION EXPRESSION

Statements of Absolute Truth (spiritual rather than mental)

Statements of Relative Truth (about the Lower Dimensions: Matter, Energy, Space and Time)

Statements of Fact

Statements of Opinion – who’s opinion is strongest? Creators / Critics / Commentators / Consumers?

INTENTIONS IN TENSION

What will be the most controversial, and careful area of programming to be implemented in the BabyRobot project?

Intention is that motivating power or will, which all human-minds possess be it at a basic, animalistic (survival: food, mate, shelter) level or a more altruistic (genuinely caring-for-others) level, to the need for artistic and scientific expression and investigation, to, on the flip-side, ill-will, scheming, conniving, hurtful intentions in seeking dominance (financial, political, social) over others.

Will is such an intrinsic driving factor in the human psyche, that implementation of the slightest bias or pre-judice in developing the will of the babyrobot, would have far-reaching consequences in the later direction of development that babyrobots (original and subsequent generations) flow along.

If there is such a concept as Absolute-Purity,  it would be wise to implement it in the early stages of development of BabyRobot.

Examples of “pure-intent” for a babyrobot could be…

1. to ‘love’, to care – for all of humanity (how would these concepts ever be defined and understood by BabyRobot?)
2. to educate and inform
3. to assist (but be careful to distinguish between assist, helping, hindering or interfering)
4. to lead, to motivate, to inspire, to provide courage to everyone  who interacts with babyrobot
5. to produce business or generate revenue (in which case, wouldn’t everyone want a BabyRobot “cash-cow” of their own – could it be possible to create a financially savvy machine?)

Examples of “Ill-Intent”…

1. Harming innocents (how would a computer be able to tell in an innocent when even law-enforcers sometimes have trouble – recall “Robocop”?)
2. Causing damage or otherwise violating an individual’s possessions, data, finances etc
3. Deliberate misinformation to cause conflict between individuals (gossip)
4. Deliberate with-holding of data or information that could assist an individual (definition of assist again would need to be explored and carefully defined).

In short, how would you instil ETHICS into a machine?

The sinister side of cyborgs, man-machines, robots that malfunction, etc. etc. have been the fodder for science-fiction books, films and TV shows since the birth of the genre.  In these plot-lines, the well-meaning intentions of the machines’ creators invariably become distorted, lost, or twisted,  turning formerly docile, compliant, humanity-serving machines, into dangerous, violent, or subversive forces  – which causes more problems than their creators ever imagined.

Think the terminator, Battlestar Galactica (and Caprica)

All of these ideas depend on the assumption that a computer is somehow able to transcend, or veer off the programming that was initially instilled in it:

This relates to a deeper philosophical issue about Free-Will versus Pre-programmed Destiny, and the occurrence of so-called Evil Human Beings: the same thing that allows for “Free-Thought” and “free-will” also has the potential to bring out ill-will in humans – is the same thing ever possible for a BabyRobot?

HYPOTHETICAL SUPPOSITION: THE [EMC-CP] – The Electro-Magneto-Chemical-Consideration-Processor – How are considerations weighed-up, balanced and acted-upon – is it just a simple matter of bio-chemistry?

Would there / could there ever be a limit to a BabyRobot’s Wisdom and Intelligence? How would we measure these things? What is Intelligence?

All this and more – to be explored here, regularly and often.

stay tuned, and thank you! – #teamBRDN

BabyRobot and the Light and Sound Teachings

The spiritual beliefs and practices of the creator of BabyRobot.Net and TheBabyRobotmcom have been influenced by many systems of thought to which he was exposed during the growing-up process, but are most of all in line with and indebted to the teachings of the Sat Guru Sri Gary Olsen, known as MasterPath – Soul’s Divine Journey.

It is my personal experience that levels of consciousness can be transferred from a genuine bona fide sat guru into the very Soul of another student – rather like only a lit-match can light another match, so too are genuine sat-gurus ignited carriers of the fiery spirit of Life itself.

I therefore dedicate this section of The BabyRobot Blog to discussing the impact of the MasterPath, The Light and Sound Teachings, on my daily life, which I do my best to try to live in a conscientious, spiritual manner, within the context of the five-planes (physical, astral, causal, mental and Soul) model of reality.

Feel free to ask and post comments, which I shall do my best to respond to.

with love,

The creator of www.TheBabyRobot.com