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Would You Lie On Your Resume?
  Posted by: Team CampusConnect 4 days, 22 hours ago Add Comments
  How many times have you heard someone say, "Just put it on your resume. There's no way they're going to find out"?

It is tempting to put little white lies on your resume. These might include overstating your knowledge of required software ("If they call me, I'll teach myself over the weekend"), a certification ("They'll never go through all that trouble to find out") or extending dates at a former employer ("They can't find out. The company went out of business").

So what's the big deal? It's not like you're claiming to be a medical doctor, right? Who are you hurting anyway? You're just stretching the truth a little to get your foot in the door -- or so you tell yourself. If these are familiar thoughts, you might want to re-think them. Why? Because the risk of getting caught is real. The odds of getting away with listing false information on your resume are probably, well . . who really knows? Do you really want to find out the hard way?

There are many reasons that could prompt a human resources manager to conduct an employment background check. Maybe you are not performing your job as well as expected. Maybe a co-worker has the same credential and became suspicious when your facts did not add up during a conversation. Some companies have never experienced a dishonest employee who lied on his/her resume, and does not routinely verify work histories and the validity of credentials. In short, they have a false sense of security. Just the same, many hiring managers are keenly aware that lying on a resume is becoming a costly problem for many companies, and thoroughly check all facts even after they hire a candidate.

Sadly, it is quite common these days to learn of employee terminations because background checks revealed dishonesty. Depending on the level of the position or the severity of the falsification, this could sometimes lead to legal actions. So, before you decide to make yourself look better on paper, think again. It is not worth getting the job if you are not going to be able to live up to it or hold on to it.

The moral of this story? Don't risk your future by lying about your past! Honesty is always the best policy!

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Don't Settle for Good, Be Great
  Posted by: Team Campus-Connect 1 week, 2 days ago Add Comments
  Did you know that home-run king Babe Ruth was once a pitcher? At one point he made the deliberate decision to stop pitching so he could focus on batting. He took a lot of heat for his decision, because he was a good pitcher. He stuck with his decision, though, because he knew he had the motivation to be a great batter.

Often the difference between being good and being great is making adjustments that allow you to spend more of your time developing your greatest strengths.

Ever had an annual performance review where the first part was about the wonderful things you did that year, but then the focus quickly shifted to a discussion about shoring up your weaknesses? It's an all-too-common scenario. And it's probably a waste of time.

The "fix your weaknesses" school believes that with enough discipline, determination, and training, anyone can do anything. Unfortunately, it confuses weaknesses and limitations. Weaknesses reflect a lack of skill (how to do something) or knowledge (what you know). Weaknesses can be overcome by education, training, experience, and practice. On the other hand, limitations reflect a lack of motivation (what you do well naturally). These really can't be overcome, because new motivations can't be acquired. In fact, if a person has low motivation in a particular area -- spelling, for example -- there is very little likelihood that he or she will ever be a great speller. The best they will be is adequate. Who wants to be adequate?

It's a much better idea to build on your strengths.
 
If you want to move up from being good to being great, know what your talents and motivations are and build on them. Why? Because you will develop what you do best and enjoy most. These are your strengths, and they are yours for life. You can build on them, and they won't let you down. Think about it: what would your life be like if you got paid to do what you do best and truly enjoy? Awesome, I bet.

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Tips To Be Inspired
  Posted by: Admin 2 weeks, 3 days ago Add Comments
  Life is always inspiring to me, the scenery around us, the situations we find ourselves in and the people we meet can all contribute to some great moments of inspiration.

But how can we focus on specific inspiration for whatever we want to achieve in life? How can we accomplish our goals?

Simple answer is, just get on with it!

The more we think instead of doing, we lose time on what needs to be done and lost time is negative energy for us, valued time is positive energy, so we need to be concentrating all of our available effort into taking action or putting in place the exact steps to take that action.

For example if you suddenly decided to be an expert tennis player, but then thought, I’ll think about it in more detail tomorrow, this is the negative energy in play, instead you’d think it’s impossible to become an overnight expert but start to read about it and learn the basics, this is positive energy at it’s best as you are taking some form of action that will get you on the path to your ultimate goal.

Inspiration can hit us when we are not paying any attention at all, we seem so oblivious to the ways of normal life and the way we are expected to live according to todays society, we miss 75% of the things that surround us.

Instead we should take note of everything, take note of the things that we enjoy and embrace what ever it is that makes us want to get out of bed in the morning, this for me is the first step in getting inspired, waking up and realising that things must be done in order for things to get done.

People who impart wisdom can be inspirational to you, these types of people are to be recognised for the experts that they are and you should try and listen to these gurus anytime you can, as learning is part of our fabric of life, and we can all learn something from one another.

Books, films, music and tv to name a few have etched on the minds of inspired persons the many images of ones own inspirational ideas and thoughts that probably went on to create other similar media that had a knock on effect and influenced more inspirational achievements for future generations.

Getting inspired is only part of the equation you need to become motivated but this can be because you became inspired so here is my top five list of getting inspired:

1. Think of the best thing in your life that you love to do and do it, learn everything about it and enjoy doing it, then share it to others who might enjoy the same thing, join a community of like minded individuals and just discuss your topics in depth.

2. Find someone who is more of an expert in your subject area than even you are and learn from them, trust me you’ll have a few boosts of inspirational confidence here and who knows you may think of new ideas that you may not have thought of before.

3. A notebook for brilliant ideas is useful for all occasions, jot down any random ideas you have during the day, you’ll often be surprised at the ideas you can use later on for whatever purpose, I often find excellent ideas sat on the toilet, but hey that’s me, probably not the first.

4. A social life can do wonders, take time out and see the world or town or whatever you want, this sort of activity can work in some crafty inspiration from nowhere as conversation and talking with your friends can ignite some creative thought processes.

5. This is the most important one of all….just get on with it, realise what you want to achieve out of life and work towards it, a step at a time at first, then just do it, so many times have most people lived and regretted not doing stuff and before they know it, they are past caring about ambition and die not doing anything with their life except eating, sleeping and living their life paying the bills…yawn!

Wayne Tully An affiliate marketer who lives and breaths internet marketing online and practices many methods of earning profits online, as well as keeping in touch with his creativity and inspiration frequently.

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Career Launchpads
  Posted by: Team CampusConnect 2 weeks, 4 days ago Add Comments
  How can you get an employer to hire you when you have no relevant experience? Answer: Seek a launchpad job. These are entry-level positions that--if you're good--are launchpads to more professional jobs.

Examples:

    * In customer service and technical support, you learn about the company's products and their warts. That can lead to sales and marketing positions.

    * Assistant to the person whose job you crave. Working at a pro's elbow is worth it, even if you have to make the coffee.

    * Temp jobs can lead to permanent gigs--if you exude competence and enthusiasm, and explain that you'd do cartwheels if you could work there permanently.

    * A substantive volunteer position; for example, serve on a non-profit board. Or tell your dream employer that you'll volunteer to work on a short-term project. Even if that doesn't lead to their hiring you, your resume can then trumpet that you just completed a project for a respected employer.


Of course, not every entry-level job is a career launchpad. Envelope lickers rarely move up.
 

Top Jobs # 46
  Posted by: Team Campus Connect 2 weeks, 5 days ago Add Comments
   Fresh Openings in  EA,  Aztecsoft & SupportSoft India


QA Testers, Electronic Arts(EA)

Software Engineer, SupportSoft India Pvt. Ltd

System tester, Aztecsoft


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Just A Dime
  Posted by: Team Campus Connect 2 weeks, 6 days ago 2 Comments
  Can one dime make a difference? Here is a woman who turned a dime into millions of dollars.

Her name was Martha Berry. This clever woman founded the Berry School in Rome, Georgia. She scraped together funds from every source possible. One day she approached Henry Ford, of Ford automobile fame, and asked for a contribution. Patronizingly, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a dime.

Rather than be insulted or discouraged by the "gift," Miss Berry bought a package of seed peanuts with it. The seeds were planted and tended, and they eventually yielded a large crop, which she later sold.

Again she called on Mr. Ford. "Here's the dime you gave me last year," she said, handing him a coin. Then she told him of the return she had realized from his token investment.

Ford was so impressed that, in the years to come, he gave millions of dollars to the school.

Can one dime make a difference? Yes, if we invest it well.

How about one hour of your time? Can it make a difference? Or how about the life of one person? Can a life like yours or mine really make a difference? The answer to each of these questions is the same: Yes, if we invest it well.

Now...how are your investments doing?


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A New India Emerges
  Posted by: Admin 3 weeks, 4 days ago Add Comments
  Article published in India Today dated August 18 1997

Standing on the crossroads of a millennial opportunity, will India be able to make a leap -- let alone a great leap -- into the next century? Here is the big picture.

The future is founded on the present which is not altogether exhilarating. With its stupendous problems of population, poverty, illiteracy, corruption, criminalisation and communalisation of politics, India 50 years from now will still be a nation, a civil society and a constitutional polity in the making. But the political mobilisation -- the sheer magnitude of elections -- and empowerment of deprived groups achieved so far, on a scale unprecedented in human history, is nothing compared to what will follow.

The state will steadily withdraw from less essential fields. Governance from Delhi will become less compelling even as a facilitator and infrastructure-provider. Many service activities performed by the state and necessitating bloated bureaucracies and palm-greasing will have been privatised and localised. Utilities, infrastructure, housing, broadcasting, and even certain aspects of security will have passed on to private or community enterprise. Even people's day to day problems will be handled more at local or district levels.

Gigantic states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh will break up. Yielding to various pressures and needs of development and better governability, a total of 50 or more states will come into being, with maybe 1,000 districts and 15,000 to 20,000 development blocks and tehsils.

The present Constitution will see many more amendments but its basic structure will survive. The polity will become more genuinely federal and multi-tier down to the grass roots. Elections may become more indirect, with direct elections possibly being confined to local bodies. The President will continue to be elected by an Electoral College, greatly enlarged by the inclusion of elected members of lower tiers of governance.

With near-universal education and a far higher threshold of poverty, caste and communal divides will have outlived their utility in the body politic. Wide access to information at all levels, and a growing practice of public hearings will ensure greater accountability.

There are likely to be no more than two or three major national parties with coalition, federal -- or similar -- characteristics, much like now. Similarly, there are likely to be two or three parties in each state with their local formations enjoying considerable autonomy and primacy in matters of policies and programmes.

Security factors and the reach of multinationals will possibly have a more potent role in aspects of governance, not necessarily directly, but through lobbies. Until reservations start fading some decades hence, the best professional talent may tend to move to reservation-free, multinational pastures. Lateral entry into government on short-term or contractual assignments will, however, ensure that there is no absolute flight of talent from government.

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