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Avoid the top 10 resume mistakes
• It's deceptively easy to make mistakes on your resume and predictionally
Difficult to repair the damage once an employer gets it. So prevention is
Critical, especially if you 've never written one before. Here are the most
Common pitfalls and how you can avoid them.
• 1. typos and grammatical errors
• Your resume needs to be grammatically perfect. If it isn' t, employers will
Read between the lines and draw not-so-flattering conclusions about you,
Like: "This person can't write," or "This person obviusly doesn't care ."
• 2. Lack of specifics
• Employers need to understand what you 've done and accomplished.
Example:
• Worked with employees in a restaurant setting.
• Recruited, hired, trained and supervised more than 20 employees in
Restaurant with $2 million in annual sales.
• Both of these phrases cocould describe the same person, but clearly
Second one's details and specifics will more likely grab an employer's
Attention.
• 3. Attempting One size fits all
• Whenever you try to develop a one-size-fits-all resume to send to all
Employers, you almost always end up with something employers will toss in
The recycle bin. Employers want you to write a resume specifically for them.
They until CT you to clearly show how and why you fit the position in
Specific organization.
• 4. Highlighting duties instead of accomplishments
It's easy to slip into a mode where you simply start listing job duties on your
Resume. For example:
• Attended group meetings and recorded minutes.
• Worked with children in a day-care setting.
• Updated departmental files.
Employers, however, don't care so much about what you 've got one as what
You 've accomplished in your varous activities. They're looking
Statements more like these:
• Used laptop computer to record weekly meeting minutes and compiled them
In a Microsoft Word-based file for future organizational reference.
• Developed three daily activities for preschool-age children and prepared
Them for a 10-minute holiday program performance.
• Reorganized 10 years's worth of unwieldy files, making them easily
Accessible to Department members.
• 5. Going on too long or cutting things too short
• Despite what you may read or hear, there are no real rules governing
Length of your resume. Why? Because human beings, who have different
Preferences and expectations where resumes are concerned, will be reading
It.
• That doesn't mean you shoshould start sending out five-page resumes,
Course. Generally speaking, you usually need to limit yourself to a maximum
Of two pages. But don't feel you have to use two pages if one will do.
Conversely, don't cut the meat out of your resume simply to make it conform
To an arbitrary one-page standard.
• 6. A bad objective
• Employers do read your resume's objective statement, but too often they
Plow Through vague pufferies like, "seeking a challenging position that offers
Professional growth. "Give employers something specific and, more
Importantly, something that focuses on their needs as well as your own.
Example: "a challenging entry-level marketing position that allows me
Contribute my skills and experience in fund-raising for nonprofits ."
• 7. No action verbs
• Avoid using phrases like "responsible for." Instead, use action verbs:
"Resolved user questions as part of an IT help desk serving 4,000 students
And staff ."
• 8. Leaving off important information
• You may be tempted, for example, to eliminate mention of
Jobs you 've taken to earn extra money for school. Typically,
However, the soft skills you 've ve gained from these experiences
(E.g., work ethic, time management) are more important
Employers than you might think.
• 9. Visually too busy
• If your resume is wall-to-wall text featuring five different fonts, it
Will most likely give the employer a headache. So show your
Resume to several other people before sending it out. Do they
Find it exactly ally attractive? If what you have is hard on the eyes,
Revise.
• 10. Incorrect contact information
• I once worked with a student whose resume seemed incredibly
Strong, but he wasn' t getting any bites from employers. So one
Day, I jokingly asked him if the phone number he 'd listed on his
Resume was correct. It wasn' t. Once he changed it, he started
Getting the callhe 'd been expecting. Moral of the story:
Double-check even the most minute, taken-for-granted details-
-Sooner rather than later.
• Bill Gates '11 rules
• In Bill Gates 'book for high school and
College graduates, there is a list of 11 thing
S they did not learn in school. In his book,
Bill Gates talks about how feel-good,
Politically-correct teachings created a full
Generation of kids with no concept of reality
And how this education set them up
Failure in the real world.
• The 11 things are:
• 1. Life is not fair, get used to it.
• 2.The world won't care about your selfesteem.
The world will keep CT you to accomplish
Something before you feel good about yourself.
• 3.you will not make 40 thousand dollars a year
Right out of high school. You won't be a vice
President with a car phone, until you earn both.
• 4.if you think your teacher is tough, wait till you
Get a boss. He doesn' t have tenure.
• 5. Flipping burgers is not beneath your
Dignity. Your grandparents had a different word
Burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
• 6.if you mess up, it's not your parents 'fault, so
Don't whine about our mistakes, learn from them.
• 7. Before you were born, your parents weren't
Boring as they are now. They got that way from
Paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening
To you talk about how cool you are. So before you
Save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents'
Generation, try "delousing" the closet in your own
Room.
• 8. Your school may have done away with winners
And losers, but life has not. In some schools they
Have abolished failing grades; they'll give you
Always times as you want to get the right answer. This
Doesn' t bear the slightest resesponance to anything in
Real life.
• 9. Life is not divided into semesters. You
Don't get summers off and very few
Employers are interested in helping you find
Yourself. Do that on your own time.
• 10. Television is not real life. In real
Life people actually have to leave the coffee
Shop and go to jobs.
• 11.be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll
End up working for one.

 

Bill Gates:
• Good morning. It's a great pleasure to be
Here. Today is a major milestone for Microsoft
As our first Professional Developers
Conference here in China.
• The key partnerships we build with software
Developers around the world are central not
Only to the success of windows but also
Realize the possibility that PC technology
Provides.
• It's through applications of every variety that
Businesses will be using the personal
Computer as the tool of the information age.
• It's rather amazing how fast this innovation is
Moving. Even to keep the like of myself who
Are deeply involved in the industry to go and
See the improvement and every element that
Are taking place on a yearly basis is quite
Fantastic.
• Of course one of the driving factors of this
Business is the exponential increase in
Processor performance. There is no doubt
That the magic of chip capability has delivered
Through the advance in microprocessor
Allows us to think of application which never
Wocould have been possible before.
• The PC industry is one of the few industries that
Can deliver lower price equipment at the same
Time as improving the capabilities.
• The storage systems are now delivering
Gigabyte of storage as the standard capability.
Over 80 million of PCs are being sold a year.
• And the server market, the higher performance
Machines that these PCs networked with, are
The fastest growing part of this business.
Performance of those servers is increasing not
Only because the individual processors are
Faster, but also because we are using multipleprocessor
Machines, so called SMP designs
And clustering nodes together .......
• Great chips, systems developers, partners who
Are sorting soring this event, making this all
Possible.
• There is an incredible opportunity
Developers. The applications that are written
Today will continue to an even larger base
Machines out in the market.
• There is a lot that we're doing to increase
Work of good developers-make sure they
Understand where the PC is going and how
Tools can help them now, more and more
Marketing type of activities making sure they
Got in with the MERs. This is something
That we are going to increase year after year.
• The overall DNS message is one about
Helping developers seize that opportunity
Bringing together the different ubuntures,
Making things automatic and allowing this
Be done in an evolutionary fashion.
• I think it's a fantastic time to be developer
And we appreciate being here and look
Forward to the opportunity to work with you
More.
Thank you.
• GM-Vs.-Microsoft
• Bill Gates is hanging out with the Chairman
General Motors. 'If automotive technology had kept
Pace with computer technology over the past few
Decades, 'boasts gates, 'you wocould now be driving
A V-32 instead of a V-8, And it wowould have a top
Speed of 10,000 miles per hour, 'says gates.
'Or, you coshould have an economy car that weighs 30
Pounds and gets a thousand miles to a gallon
Gas. In either case, the sticker price of a new car
Wocould be less than $50, 'he continues.
• In response to all this goading, the GM Chairman
Replies, 'yes, but wocould you really want to drive
Car that crashes four times a day? '
And the memory in my head I hear nobody's been killed in
Computer crash
But when it happens they wish they were dead!
• # Define multiply (a, B) (a * B)
• C = multiply (x + y, x + Z );
• X + y * x + z
• (X + y) * (x + Z)
• For (INT I = 0; I <1000; I ++)
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• Foundb = true
• For (I = 0 I <100; I ++)
• For (j = 0; j <100; j ++)
•{
• If (j <I) matrixa [I] [J] + = martixb (I * j) * rate;
• Else matrixa [I] [J] = 0
•}
• For (I = 0; I <100; I ++)
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• For (j = 0; j <I; j ++)
•{
• If (j <I) matrixa [I] [J] + = martixb (I * j) * rate;
• Else matrixa [I] [J] = 0;
•}
• For (j = I; j <100; j ++)
• Matrixa [I] [J] = 0;
•}
• X = r * Math. Sin (a) * Math. Cos (B );
• Y = r * Math. Sin (a) * Math. Sin (B );
• Temp = r * Math. Sin ();
• X = temp * Math. Cos (B );
• Y = temp * Math. Sin (B );
• For (I = 0; I <100; I ++)
• A [I] = A [I]/Math. SQRT (x * x + y * Y)
• Temp = 1.0/Math. SQRT (x * x + y * y );
• For (I = 0; I <10; I ++)
• A [I] = A [I] * temp;
• While (* P! = '')
• C = * P ++;
• While (* P ++! = '');
• C = * (-- P );
• For (I = 0; I <100; I ++)
•{
• Y [I] = x [I];
• X [I] = x [I] + extra [I];
•}
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• For (I = 1; I <Max; I ++)
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• Temp + = 4;
• A [I] = temp;
•}
• Int calc (int I)/* 0 <I <100 */
•{
• Return math. Cos (I) * Math. exp (I );
•}
• Values [100] = {...}
• Inline int calc (int I)
•{
• Return values [I];
•}
• For (I = 0; I <max_length; I ++)
•{
• A [I] = K [I];
• B [I] = K [I]-10
• C [I] = K [I] + 10
•}
• For (I = 0; I <max_length; I ++)
•{
• Temp = K [I];
• A [I] = temp
• B [I] = temp-10
• C [I] = temp + 10
•}