Pearson Announces New English Language Test

Pearson Announces New English Language TestPearson Announces New English Language TestWorking with GMAC, Pearson has just announced the release of a new English language test to rival ETS TOEFL. The new testPTE Academicwill be available for students on October 26th and 780 business schools have already expressed interest in accepting it in addition to the TOEFL. PTE Academic includes new features, such as increased security and a spoken word portion, to give admissions officers a sense of how the student speaksa service that the TOEFL lacks. The new test will also be less expensive than the TOEFL in some countries, and since it is a computer-based, student scores will be sent to their schools almost immediately once they finish the test.Although PTE Academic has received positive attention from BusinessWeek and Clear Admit, it leise has a long way to go before it successfully rivals the TOEFL, as one of the TOEFLs main attractions is its ubiquity. Having one standard test makes it ea sy for admissions officers to compare applicants. Seven thousand schools accept the TOEFL, and in 2008, almost one million students took the test. Pearson hopes that with GMACs help and PTE Academics new features and computer format will quickly make it a strong competitor.

Minimum Legal Working Age in California

Minimum Legal Working Age in CaliforniaMinimum Legal Working Age in CaliforniaFederal child labor laws state that the minimum age to work is 14 (with some exceptions). However, child labor laws in each state can vary slightly. Whenever there is a conflict between federal and state laws, the mora restrictive law will apply. Californias minimum age to work is also 14 in most cases. According to the states Department of Industrial Relations, the specific rule in California requires children under the age of 18, who are considered minors, to have a permit to work for any job. Usually the minor will get a Department of Education work permit from his school once hes been offered a job. This is known by the cumbersome title Statement of Intent to Employ Minor and Request for Work Permit. The minors parents or legal guardian must sign the form, which is to be filled out by the minor and the potential employer. Once the signed form is returned to the school, the permit to employ and work is i ssued by school officials. Employers have to have a permit to employ from the Division of Labor Standards. Any minor work permit issued during a school year expires five days after the start of the next school year and have to be renewed even if hes working for the same employer. So for example, if a ninth grader gets a job in April and starts tenth grade on neunter monat des jahres 5, the work permit he received in April expires on September 15 unless he renews it. Rules for Entertainment Industry Theres an another requirement in California for some child workers, however, since the entertainment industry is a large employer in the state. California has specific rules regarding minors working in that sector, which apply not only to children appearing on television shows or in the movies but also to minors making recordings, and anyone under 18 working as a model for advertising or other media. The rules state that kids from age 15 days (as in two weeks old) to 18 years working in the entertainment industry must have anEntertainment Work Permit. These are good for six months, and are issued by the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. Theres also a temporary Entertainment Work Permit available for minors in California, good for ten days. Even if the work the child actor or model is performing is non-commercial in nature, a work permit is required. How to Get an Entertainment Work Permit When applying for an entertainment work permit in California for the first time, if the child is of kindergarten age or younger than school age, documentation is required, which can include a passport, birth certificate or baptismal certificate. If the child is younger than one month old, a letter from a pediatrician certifying that the child is healthy enough for the employment activity is required along with the other documentation. And for school-age children between grades 1 and 12, a letter from school officials certifying attendance, health and school records i s also required. Besides the Entertainment Work Permit, most of Californias regulations for working minors are fairly typical with what other states require.

When to Bring Up Salary in an Interview

When to Bring Up Salary in an InterviewWhen to Bring Up Salary in an InterviewDont ruin your perfect first date with a potential employer by talking compensation too quickly.Job interviews, like dating, have a lot to do with timing. In my many years as a recruiter, Ive heard the following story countless times from my associates They had sent the perfect person (excellent skill set, right presentation) to an employer for an interview. The candidate could feel it was going well. The job was nearly his. Then the candidate got a bit too confident and blew the deal by popping the big question What will you be paying me? or What kind of raises can I expect in this job?While these questions are important and clearly must be broached before a job is accepted, the timing was off. And timing is everything.Needless to say, one inappropriate question about salary can ruin your chances. Sadly, it is usually impossible to turn that around. The salary discussion has a time and place. Just like in the case of that good-night kiss, its generally at the end of the date. In job-search terms, this discussion is best saved for the end of the interview process.You would never meet someone for the first time and immediately lean in for a kiss.In the same way, the salary discussion is much more appropriate once the company has fallen in love with you.In other words, a conversation about salary is notlage suitable until there is a sense of commitment on the employer side. In fact, once the employer has decided you are the one, the salary discussion works to your benefit. This generally doesnt happen at the first meeting. Maybe not the second. There is inevitably an end to the interview process. That is the moment.Deflect in the early stagesDuring the first interview, the employer is getting to know you. She is deciding if you have the skills will fit into the culture and (usually) whether you will make her look good. The first meeting is all about you selling your skills in relation t o the job listings. No matter how well you are getting along, dont lean in for the kiss this is still not the time to discuss money, regardless of how well youre getting along.Believe me, even in this first meeting, the money question will come up.When it does - deflect.Of course the offer is important to you, but your answer should initially let the employer know that you are seeking a position that includes X, Y and Z. You trust they will make a fair offer. If pressed, you might have to tell the hiring authority what your current compensation is (its probably on the application anyway), but do some fancy verbal footwork to indicate that you are looking for the right position with the right kind of company. Do not actually answer the salary question right now. Again, just let them know that your priority is finding the right job. There will be plenty of time to discuss dollars down the road.Even if the manager tries to get you to commit to a number, you are playing a guessing game at this point. Whatever you say can be wrong - either too high or (perhaps even worse) too low.One of the benefits of working with a recruiter is that he does all the dirty work in this area. Most likely, he would not have sent you in for a job where it didnt look like the salary could be worked out. I normally advise my candidates to refer the employer to me (the recruiter) to move this discussion forward. I can be the bad guy, even asking for more money than the employer had intended to pay because, for example, they will need to match another offer. This way, the candidate gets to keep her hands clean and can spend all the time selling why they are right for the job. I can make aya all sides are happy in the end.Now that youve gotten the timing down, how to negotiate is always tricky. It is the companys place to put an offer on the table. So, when you are asked what you are looking for, I recommend throwing the question back What do you have in mind?Present your caseHopefully t his will give you a good starting point. If the number sounds good, then go from there. If the number is low, then its time to present your case. This is when you bring in other offers, what your current situation is (pending raise, possible promotion, great vacation plan). Since youve waited till the company has mentally committed to wanting you, there is a strong possibility they will take your information under consideration and up the offer.You might have to meet them halfway, but you will be considering the whole package, the potential and the company. If it still doesnt feel right, there is often something else that can be added to sweeten the pot. This might be a sign-on bonus, extra vacation, a work- from-home day or a review at six months instead of a year. Remember, theres a fine line between being too demanding and feeling like you are walking into a good situation.All in all, the interview process has two distinct partes the one where you display your talents and the fin al part where you talk money. You are looking for a great position, then a solid offer. Approaching the parts of the interview out of turn could be the kiss of death.

Watching the Crops Grow

Watching the Crops Grow Watching the Crops Grow Watching the Crops GrowAddie Thompson is breeding better varieties of hirsebut shes going about it the hard way. This spring, Thompson, a postdoctoral researcher at Purdue University, helped plant a 10-acre field of different genetic lines of sorghum in 144 large plots. Then she geared up to harvest data.When the weather was still cool and plants were elend yet knee high, a colleague marked three plants in each plot with small plastic tags. Then, at least once a week, Thompson and a dozen other researchers planned to spend an afternoon in the field revisiting each tagged plant. Theyll measure stem diameter with a caliper, height with a piece of PVC pipe marked off in inches. Theyll count the leaves, mark the level of the highest leaf with a Sharpie, and use a handheld fluorometer to gauge the plants greenness. Each month, as the Indiana sun beats down and the plants grow taller, they will take detailed measurements, weighing stalks, l eaves and seed heads, which contain grain. Theyll drive mulchers with threatening five-foot spinning blades to harvest samples of each crop line. Back in the lab, the researchers will dry and weigh the samples for yield and perform one biochemical analyses after another to learn more about them. Its a lot of work to convince people to do the work. Its not fun to do. Its hot, sweaty, buggy, and not very safe, Thompson said. If the research succeeds, Thompson and her colleagues will help breed new sorghum varieties that could grow tall and thrive despite poor soil, heat, and drought. These new varieties could produce more biofuel per acre than any sorghum ever grown, while slashing climate-disrupting carbon dioxide emissions compared with gasoline and todays most popular biofuel, corn-derived ethanol. And the technology the team develops could spark a revolution in crop breeding. But before any of that happens, Addie Thompson is breeding sorghum the hard way. Thats because, for now at least, its the only way. Addie Thompson examines sorghum plants that are being grown in a greenhouse to produce seed. Image Purdue University A Need for Speed Less than a century ago, the average farmer produced enough food to feed between 10 and 12 people. Then came the Green Revolution. Through the middle of the 20th century, crop breeders developed new lines of staple grains, agronomists mechanized soil management and crop production methods, and scientists developed better fertilizer, herbicides, and pesticides. Now the average farmer feeds 120 people. But providing food and clean fuels to Earths nine billion people in 2050 will require farmers to ersatzdarsteller crop production per acre, said Joe Cornelius, a plant physiologist who directs the Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture (TERRA) program at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). And theyll need to do it while using much less water and protecting whats left for people to drink. Before landing at ARPAE, Cornelius worked for a quarter century at the agricultural biotech giant Monsanto, where he led efforts to breed new lines of crops to make more nutritious foods, vegetable oils, biodegradable motor oil, and biofuels. There he witnessed researchers use traditional crop breeding strategies and modern genetic engineering tools to develop better crop varieties. Yet time after time, they ran into dead ends. Part of the problem was that crop plants take months to grow, so breeders can grow only a few generations each year. That limits how often they can pick winning varieties from each generation and discard the losers. Whats more, even though a plant varietys genetic characteristics are relatively easy to determine, scientists cannot predict how it will do in the field until they test it. This makes breeding crops as slow as watching plants grow. As climate changes and global food and energy demand grows, well need to find or create crops that yield m ore, even in the face of drought, heat and other weather extremesand to do so well need to breed them more quickly than ever before, Cornelius said. The nationalstaat needs new bioenergy crops in particular to meet congressional mandates designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. By 2022, refiners must mix 21 billion gallons of renewable biofuels into gasoline and diesel. These fuels can be made from cellulose extracted and converted from plant material, including corn stubble, corncobs, wood chips, strawand sorghum. This ancient cereal crop grows like a weed. Even in poor soil with very little fertilizer, it reaches 20 feet tall. Originally from the Horn of Africa, it withstands hot, dry conditions that would wilt even a tough corn plant. Indeed, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has projected that it could replace fading crops like tobacco, cotton, peanut, rice, and citrus in a belt of land from eastern Texas to the southern Atlantic Coastbut only if crop breeders can develop better sorghum lines that are customized for biofuel production. When Cornelius joined ARPA-E, he saw an opportunity to advance bioenergy sorghum, and also advance crop breeding more broadly. By finding a faster way to grow and select sorghum varieties, he realized he could lay the groundwork for technologies that would usher in the next generation of super-plants. The research would be risky, bringing together new technologies and costing more than the private sector would pay. To make that happen, in June 2015 ARPA-E launched TERRA. Their goal was to speed the breeding of bioenergy sorghum varieties, and they allocated more than $3 million to each of six interdisciplinary research groups, including the Purdue team. custompagebreak LemnaTecs field analyzer moves its module like a line abtaster to assess crops growing beneath it. Image LemnaTec Breeder Bots To get the most biofuel from the least land, farmers must maximize the yield of raw plant material per acre per yea r, while using a minimum of fertilizer and chemicals. To rapidly develop crops that do that, sorghum breeders and other scientists want to identify the traits, or phenotypes, that predict which plants will be biggest and have the most biomass to convert into fuel. Such phenotypes may include early season growth rates, the number of leaves on a plant, how well it uses soil nutrients, and many more. Right now no one knows exactly which of these many traits best predict biomass yield. To find out, TERRA-funded teams plan to monitor a diverse array of genes and traits in thousands of individual sorghum plants from the ground and the air. Theyre using robots, UAVs, sensing technologies, and big data to make that happen. None of these technologies are entirely new to the farm. For the past decade, farmers have been using UAVs to determine where they need to apply water and farm chemicals, thereby increasing productivity and profit while reducing farm pollution. Other farmers have begun using bots for labor-intensive tasks. In California, for example, self-propelled bots prune and monitor grape vines and smart, rolling lettuce bots thin out budding lettuce plants. Until now, few have tried to adapt these technologies for crop breeding. For millennia, crop breeders who wanted better varieties walked their fields and tracked their plants to note which plants grew taller, for example, or withstood insects or yielded more grain or vegetables. Thompson and her supervisor, plant geneticist Mitch Tuinstra, and their colleagues augment these traditional methods by using low-tech devices and some modern lab equipment to laboriously screen for phenotypes. To monitor crops from the ground, both the Purdue team and Clemson Universitys ARPA-E BOOST team are developing self-driving, instrument-equipped bots or vehicles that steer themselves through a breeding plot without trampling plants. At Purdue, Tuinstra, crop physiologist Chris Boomsma and engineering professors Ed De lp and Ayman Habib are modifying a commercial sprayer to give it onboard data storage and autonomous steering capabilities. By combining data generated from all these sensors, they plan to create a 3-D view of plants that reveals structure, including stem size, and the number, locations, dimensions, and angle of leaves. And by integrating these data, they hope to uncover clues about the plants future growth. The BOOST team, in contrast, is building a low-riding three-foot-long robot with a scaled-down version of the LIDAR laser scanner used in autonomous cars. The robot will roll by rows of crops, using cameras and a line scanner (a type of LIDAR) to create a 3-D, high-resolution model of the plants, said George Kantor of Carnegie Mellon University, the lead roboticist on the project. A manipulator arm on the rolling robot will be able to reach out and touch a plant, performing tasks for which a crop breeder like Thompson would use a handheld instrument. From my perspective as a robotics researcher, this is one of the most exciting parts, Kantor said. For example, the arm will attach a clothespin-like sensor to leaves to measure the plants chlorophyll levels, the gases it exchanges with air, and the leafs response to light. The Purdue team will also monitor crops from the air using a fixed-wing UAV. It will carry a laser scanner and standard RGB camerasordinary digital cameras that capture the same red, green, and blue light as the human eyeto provide an overhead view of the crop. It will also carry a hyperspectral camera, which detects hundreds of colors, including some the eye cant see, and a thermal camera, which detects infrared light. Together, these will determine crop canopy temperature, which indicates crop stress. The scientists will use high-end GPS and inertial measurement units (GPS/IMUs) to pinpoint the locations of the phenomobile and UAVs. This will enable them to integrate image and sensor data from the different vehicles. Between the UAVs and the ground-based platforms, its going to be extremely precisedown to the centimeter level, which is crazy, Boomsma enthused. The BOOST team also uses a rotary-wing UAV being developed at Near Earth Autonomy, a spinoff from Carnegie Mellon University. There, engineer Paul Bartlett and his team are mounting a 5.5-foot, 35-pound helicopter UAV with LIDAR and high-resolution RGB cameras to detect plant shape and structure, and hyperspectral cameras that sense red and infrared light. Again, the goal is to take a spectrometric hashwert of plants that reveals greenness, nitrogen content, dying leaves, and other biological phenotypes. In 15 minutes, we can get a snapshot of the whole field, Bartlett said. Another ambitious TERRA-funded project comes from Lemnatec, a German company that has built the largest field-scanning robot in the world a giant 30-ton steel gantry that sits near Maricopa, Arizona. Its instrument modulethe size of a Volkswagen busmoves down two 200-meter tracks and can scan the field one 1.5-meter band at a time. The module carries two metric tons of instruments, far more than a UAV or ground robot, and Lemnatec is loading it with sensors to see which ones generate the most useful data. We can image the plants from emergence to harvest and all the stages in between, with a variety of sensors throughout the season, said Todd Mockler, a plant biologist at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis whos working with Lemnatec on the project. This will be uncharted territory. custompagebreak Processing aerial camera and sensor data can correct for topography (top) and measure plant height (heat map, middle). Image Purdue University Farming Data Once the data from the various sensors is downloaded, researchers will process and analyze it. This task requires a combination of data analysis and machine learning. This is Big Data, said Melba Crawford, a Purdue professor of agronomy and civil and electrical and computer engineering whos coordinating the groups machine-learning efforts. First, the engineering team will develop new image-processing algorithms to sift through processed sensor data to discern a variety of phenotypes, such as height, leaf number, lokalitt and angle, chlorophyll, water content, and other indicators of plant health. Once scientists have information on various traits, theyll need to mine it for correlations that predict the biomass yield for a given sorghum variety, says Artur Dubrawski, a computer scientist and mechanical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University whos doing similar work on the BOOST project. Understanding these correlations will enable researchers to scrutinize plants the way medical devices monitor human patients in the intensive care unit. This forecasting ability should help us make those decisions in advance of crops completing their whole growth cycle, Dubrawski said. To make even better decisions, both the scientists are also tapping existing knowledge of sorg hum genetics, using advanced statistics and machine learning to relate genetic variations, or genotypes, to the plants phenotypes. The computations are challenging because multiple genes can influence each trait, just as multiple genes influence human height or build. Whats more, a single gene can influence multiple traits. TERRA-funded scientists are also using advanced statistics and machine learning to build models that predict plant traits of interest. Ultimately, such computations would help identify key genes that help plants grow faster, tolerate drought, or thrive with less nutrients. This could lead to high-end computational tools that combine artificial intelligence, superhuman recall, and the latest advances in biology. Such a system could game potentially winning phenotypes before theyre even planted, much the way computational fluid dynamics helps engineers choose designs. Its almost like IBM Watson for breeding, Mockler said. Like all ARPA-E programs, TERRA aims to s pin off commercial technologies. These could range from powerful sensors and improved field robots, UAVs to better computational methods. Whats more, a lot of the engineering will translate into field-scanning technology that any crop breeder can ultimately use. Were bringing together genomics, engineering, breeding, and computational analytics, Cornelius said. We have this complete suite of technologies that are working together, and now we can pluck out the needle from the haystack. Dan Ferber is a senior editor at Mechanical Engineering magazine.For the past decade, farmers have been using UAVs to determine where they need to apply water and farm chemicals, thereby increasing productivity and profit while reducing farm pollution.

Purchase and Sale of Business FAQ - United States

Purchase and Sale of Business FAQ - United StatesPurchase and Sale of Business FAQ - United StatesSale of Business(Assets) vs Sale of Business(Shares)What is the difference between a Sale of Business(Assets) and a Sale of Business(Shares)?In a Sale of Business (Shares) a geschftlicher umgang that is incorporated can be sold by selling all issued shares of the Company. In this case the corporation and all its assets, rights and obligations would transfer from the seller to the purchaser.In a Sale of Business (Assets) the geschftliches miteinander satzinhalt eines datenbanksegmentes (corporation, partnership, etc.) remains with the sellers and only the assets of the geschftlicher umgang (equipment, buildings, client lists, etc) will be transferred to the purchaser.Sale of Business AssetsWhat is a sale of geschftsleben assets document?In a Sale of Business (Assets) the business entity (corporation, partnership, etc.) remains with the sellers and only the assets of the business (equipmen t, buildings, client lists, etc) will be transferred to the purchaser.Will this agreement work where only the assets of a business are to be transferred?Yes. The agreement can be structured as a sale of the shares of the business or as a sale of the assets of the business. In a sale of the assets the original business structure and ownership would remain intact however title to assets such as equipment, inventory, goodwill, and business contracts would transfer to the new purchaser.Why does asset price need to be allocated? The assets to be included in the purchase of a business should be specified to ensure that there are no misunderstandings regarding what is to be included or not included in the sale. In addition, by allocating a portion of the selling price to each asset, the fairness of the total asset price is more easily determined.What does the Equipment asset include?The equipment assets would include fixed and moveable machinery such as cars, trucks, lathes, computers and other similar pieces of equipment required for the business to continue to function normally after the closing date.What does the Inventory asset include?The inventory assets would include raw materials, work in progress and finished product available for sale. In some cases, a purchaser may wish to exclude obsolete inventory no longer suitable for sale or for use in production. Obsolete inventory of this nature should be identified explicitly under the Excluded Assets section.What does the Sales Orders Confirmed but Not Shipped asset include?Sales orders confirmed but not shipped prior to the closing date would require goods and inventory from the post-closing inventory. As a result revenues from these schlussverkauf would typically go to the purchaser and should not be included in the accounts receivable of the seller.What does the Business Contracts asset include?Business contracts such as schlussverkauf contracts related to the core activity of the business would typically trans fer to the purchaser after closing. Business contracts such as partnerships in related ventures may or may not be included in the sale of business. Those partnership or venture contracts may prohibit the transfer of a partners interest to an outside party.What does the Books, Records, and Files asset include?Books, records and files of the business will include all the information required for a smooth transition in ownership and for the business to continue normal operations after the closing date. This includes all accounting files of the business and also includes marketing information such as client lists and market research information and all files related to product research and development as well as production and maintenance history. Note that a copy of accounts receivable up to the closing date may be retained by the seller to facilitate collection of outstanding accounts.What does the Trademarks asset include?The trademarks asset would include all ownership rights to exi sting copyrights, trade-personennames and trademarks as well as all rights to all current research not yet trademarked. This will allow the purchaser to carry on normal business operations after the closing date. Alternatively, the seller may grant only a license for use of existing trademarks. This should be agreed to by all parties and explicitly stated in the additional clauses.Sale of Business SharesWhat is a sale of business shares document?You can sell a business that is incorporated by selling all issued shares of the Company. In this case the corporation and all its assets, rights and obligations would transfer from the seller to the purchaser. Any rights or liabilities are attached to the corporation and would transfer with the corporation.What is the difference between a Purchase and Sale of Business(Shares) document and a Share Purchase AgreementA Purchase and Sale of Business(Shares) is where all shareholders agree to sell all issued shares of the Company to the purchase r. A Share Purchase Agreement is the sale of some (not all) issued shares of a corporation from a current shareholder to a purchaser. In a Share Purchase Agreement the purchaser could be another shareholder or a third party.DefinitionsWhat is meant by the Goodwill and Business Name asset?The business name or goodwill of a successful business has value in the form of repeat customers and reputation in the business community. The business name may have considerable impact on the continued success of the business after the transfer of ownership at least in the short term. An accurate dollar value representing the goodwill in the company is difficult to determine. If the seller wishes to include goodwill as part of the sale price then a qualified accountant should be used to find a fair value for goodwill.What is meant by a Non-Competition clause?A non-competition clause prevents the seller from starting or working for a company that will directly compete with the purchaser after the cl osing date. The seller may have many business contacts in the industry as well as inside knowledge of the business and would have considerable advantage if they started a similar business in competition to the purchaser after closing. The restriction from competition can be for a period of time into the future and for a specific geographical location.What is meant by a Non-Solicitation Agreement?A non-solicitation clause prevents the seller from recruiting any of the employees away from the purchaser after the closing date. This restriction prevents the seller from doing harm to the business by luring away the experienced staff now and in the future.What is meant by a material agreement?A material agreement would be one that has a specific impact on the business either because of cost or because of a relatively direct impact on revenue. A contract with a customer for future sales or a contract with a supplier for mandatory purchase of goods in the future would be examples of materia l agreements. Partnerships in ventures related to the core activity of the business would also be considered a material agreement and should be explicitly included or excluded in the sales agreement.What is meant by representations and warranties?Representations and warranties are disclosures that one party makes to the other party concerning issues related to the business. This usually involves providing a promise or guarantee of satisfaction to the other party concerning the issue. An example of a representation and warranty would be where the seller guarantees to the purchaser that all equipment related to the business has been maintained in good running condition in accordance with standard industry practice. What is meant by conditions precedent?A condition precedent refers to a term of the agreement that must be met prior to the closing date. If the conditions precedent are not met then the agreement would usually be void. An example of a condition precedent would be that the seller must obtain permission from a landlord to assign a commercial lease over to the purchaser prior to the closing date. What is meant by confirming representations and warranties with an Officers Certificate?In order for negotiations to proceed smoothly and to ensure there are no surprises on the closing date, each party should provide the other with a written assurance that all representations and warranties have been addressed and are valid. Each party would provide an individual or officer to make the assurances to the other party. This task may be assigned to an officer of the partys corporation. For a non-corporate business entity this task could be assigned to a member of the management team.What is meant by confirming representations and warranties with a legal opinion?In order for negotiations to proceed smoothly and to ensure there are no surprises on the closing date each party should provide the other with a written assurance that all representations and warranties ha ve been addressed and are valid. Each party would provide an individual to make the assurances to the other party. In the interest of full disclosure and transparency, an impartial third party such as an attorney may be used to provide this assurance.

What Everybody Is Saying About Examples of Resumes and What You Should Do

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Obscure Business Cards

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electrical engineering resume example

electrical engineering resume exampleYoure one quick scrollResume SummaryRIGHTDetailedResume SummaryWRONGExperienced (over 10 years) MEP electrical engineer. Have designed, developed, installed, and tested electrical and mechanical equipment for clients in diverse industries. Have worked with both business and individual clients.Do you think you could be any mora generic?Clients in diverse industries? What industries exactly?The biggest problem with this summary is that it fails to achieve its main purposeintroduce the candidate to the employer in a brief but comprehensive way.Pro Tip In every resume objective or summary for electrical engineering positions, address the company by name and indicate the position youre targeting. Yupthat means you cannot send an identical resume for every application. And thats the point. Personalize every resume you sendWhen making a resume in our builder, drag drop bullet points, skills, and autoEducation SectionBSc Electrical Engineering 2014Toledo University, Toledo, OHThese are the basics.Things get a bit mora tricky if youre writing a fresher electrical engineering resume, an undergraduate EE resume, or any other entrys5Need an Electrical Engineering Internship Resume with no Experience to List?The rules for writing an electrical engineering internship resume or an electrical engineering student resume are slightly different from general resume writing principles.The first thing you should do is to put your education section above the work experience section.If youre an electrical engineering student, your education is probably your best asset. Lead with it and put it right under your resume objective.As explained in the section above, provide additional info about your academic experience.Have a look at this example.Sample Electrical Engineering Student ResumeEducation SectionVirginia TechBS in Electrical EngineeringExpected to graduate in 2019Deans List 2015, 2017Current GPA 3.94Followed my passion in Product Design and Digital Signal Processing courseworkExcelled in Solid State Electronics and Linear SystemsPursued an independent study program in Machine Layout DesignWhat about your experience section? Should you omit it altogether?Not at all.You might not have fulls of What Skills to Put on a Resume (Proven Tips)7How to Add Other Sections for an Effective EE Resume?So far so goodYouve got your career objective or a professional summary at the top of your electrical engineering resume, youve described your experience, education, and skills.Thats a really decent resume youve got there.Want to take it from decent to the best electrical engineering resume on the recruiters desk?Add an extra section that not only shows but proves your value. Mention your verifiable achievements.Such as?Have a lookExamples of Electrical Engineering Resume Extra SectionsIndustry awardsProfessional certificationsConference participationTrainings attendedIndustry blogDont have any of the above? Dont fret. A junior electri cal engineer resume can leise greatly benefit from an extra section. Here are some ideasExamples of an Entry-Level Electrical Engineering Resume Extra SectionsHobbies and InterestsVolunteer experienceSide projectsExtracurricular activitiesNot sure what to include in that additional section of your professional electrical engg resume? See this handy guide What to Put on a Resume to Make It Perfect8How About an Electrical Engineering Cover Letter?Yes, you do need a titelseite letter in 2018.Why?Because almost half of the recruiters wont even bother to cast a glance at your resume if theres no electrical engineer cover letter attached.Yup. You read that right.Plus, a well-written cover letter can be used to your massive advantage.Think about writing an electrical engineering internship resume or a student resume for electrical engineering jobs. Daunting, right?Here comes your savior the cover letter.In it, you can showcase your creativity and explain why youre interested in electrical engineering career.Your cover letter can prove to the recruiters that youre motivated and really mean business.But its not only freshers who should include a cover letter in their application.It doesnt matter if youve got 1 year experience, if youre a mid level electrical engineer, or a seasoned professional in marine electrical engineering.Attaching a cover letter doubles your chances of getting hired. Theres no arguing with hard numbers, is there?Pro Tip Once you send your electrical engineer resume and a cover letterfollow up. A nudge by phone, email, or in person can prove your follow-through abilityPlus, a great cover letter that matches your resume will give you an advantage over other candidates. You can write it in our cover letter builder here.Heres what it may look likeSee more cover letter templates and start writing.Want to learn the art of writing an amazing cover letter? Read this guide and become a cover letter writing pro in less than 10 minutes How to Write a Cover Letter in 8 Simple StepsKey TakeawayTo have the best electrical engineering resume possible, follow the key steps we coveredOpen your electrical engineer resume with a resume career objective or a resume summary. Say what makes you a great candidate and make an offer.In the work experience section, focus on your achievements, not just responsibilities. Use action verbs and quantify whenever possible.Match your skills list with the skills required in the job ad.Include additional sections that prove your value as a candidate.Personalize every resume you send. Use the name of the company youre applying to and tailor the contents of your resume to the requirements in the job description.All check? 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Heres the least expensive town for homeowners in every US state

Heres the least expensive town for homeowners in every US stateHeres the least expensive town for homeowners in every US stateHow much it costs to own a house varies widely across the United States.Follow Ladders on FlipboardFollow Ladders magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and moreTheAmerican Community Surveyis an annual survey run by the Census Bureau to allow the government, corporate and academic researchers, and anyone who is curious about demographics to better understand the US population.Among many other subjects, the ACS includes questions about how much people who own their homes and have a mortgage pay for housing costs each month.Using the ACS estimates from 2013 to 2017 forplaceswith at least 500 owner-occupied housing units with a mortgage, geschftlicher umgang Insider made a map showing the town in each state with the lowest medianselected monthly owner costs, including mortgage payments, insurance, utilities, prope rty taxes, and other fees.Heres a table showing each of the towns, along with their median monthly housing costs for homeowners with a mortgageThis article first appeared in Business Insider.You might also enjoyNew neuroscience reveals 4 rituals that will make you happyStrangers know your social class in the first seven words you say, study finds10 lessons from Benjamin Franklins daily schedule that will double your productivityThe worst mistakes you can make in an interview, according to 12 CEOs10 habits of mentally strong people

Pennsylvania Retail Company HQ and Manager Jobs

Pennsylvania Retail Company HQ and Manager JobsPennsylvania Retail Company HQ and Manager JobsPittsburgh, Philadelphia, York, Scranton, and other cities throughout the state of Pennsylvania are the headquarters locations of some of thelargest retailersandrestaurant chainsin the United States. This isgood news for job hunters looking for home office management level jobs in the land of the Liberty Bell, the Pocono Mountains, Scrapple, the Amish, and the worlds most famous groundhog.American Eagle, Dicks Sporting Goods, Pep Boys, and Rite Aidare just some of the manyretail industry companies headquartered in the state of Pennsylvania. The state is also home to some of the most successful regional chains in theU.S. restaurant industry.unbeweglich Restaurants, Primanti Bros., and the national pretzel chain Auntie Annes all have their corporate headquarters and management level employees based here. Convenience store retailing, a sometimes forgotten niche in the retail industry, is promin ent in Pennsylvania as well. Some of the most well-known convenience store chains like Wawa, Sunoco, and Sheetz have their home officeretail management and merchandising employees working in their Pennsylvania headquarters. Knowing which retailing and restaurant companies are located in Pennsylvania can help any job hunter who seeks a professional level job in this area, as well as retail industryemployees looking to further their careers with a Pennsylvania-based company. This list of Pennsylvania retail store and restaurant company headquarters is arranged alphabetically and is current as of 2017. You can click some of the links for more job-hunting research resources for some of these Pennsylvania-based retail chains. Pennsylvania Headquarters for U.S. Retailing and Restaurant Companies 84 Lumber Headquarters - Eighty Four, PennsylvaniaAcme Markets Headquarters - Malvern, PennsylvaniaAmerican Eagle Outfitters Headquarters - Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaAuntie Annes Headquarters - Lancaster,PennsylvaniaBig Burrito Restaurant Group - Pittsburgh,PennsylvaniaBon-TonHeadquarters - York,PennsylvaniaBoscovs Headquarters - Reading,PennsylvaniaBrusters Ice Cream Headquarters - Pittsburgh,PennsylvaniaCDNow Headquarters - Ambler,PennsylvaniaCoopers Seafood House Headquarters - Scranton,Pennsylvania Country Junction Headquarters - Leighton,PennsylvaniaDavids Bridal Headquarters - Conshohocken,PennsylvaniaDicks Sporting GoodsHeadquarters - Coraopolis,PennsylvaniaDVDEmpire.com Headquarters - Warrendale,PennsylvaniaEatn Park Headquarters - Homestead,PennsylvaniaFamous Smoke Shop Headquarters - Easton,PennsylvaniaFoxs Pizza Den Headquarters - Murrysville,PennsylvaniaGeneral Nutrition Centers (GNC) Headquarters - Pittsburgh,PennsylvaniaGerritys Supermarket Headquarters - Scranton,Pennsylvania Giant Eagle Headquarters - Pittsburgh,PennsylvaniaHarriet Carter Gifts Headquarters - North Wales,PennsylvaniaHershey Headquarters - Derry Township,PennsylvaniaHosss Family Steak Sea H eadquarters - Duncansville,PennsylvaniaJW Petter Headquarters - Paoli,PennsylvaniaKarns Quality Foods / Karns Prime Fancy Food Headquarters - Mechanicsburg,PennsylvaniaKings Family Restaurants Headquarters - North Versailles,PennsylvaniaKranichs Jewelers Headquarters - Altoona,PennsylvaniaKuhns Quality Foods Markets Headquarters - Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania Pep Boys Headquarters - Philadelphia,PennsylvaniaPfaltzgraff Headquarters - York,PennsylvaniaPizza Brain Headquarters - Philadelphia,PennsylvaniaPrimanti Bros. Headquarters - Pittsburgh,PennsylvaniaQuaker Steak and Lube - Sharon,PennsylvaniaQVC Headquarters - West Chester,PennsylvaniaRedners Warehouse Markets Headquarters - Reading,PennsylvaniaRite Aid Headquarters- Camp Hill,PennsylvaniaRutters Farm Stores Headquarters - York,Pennsylvaniarue 21 Headquarters - Warrendale,Pennsylvania Sheetz Headquarters - Altoona,PennsylvaniaSpringfield Restaurant Group - Mercer,PennsylvaniaStarr Restaurants Headquarters - Philadelphia,Pennsylvania Sunoco Headquarters - Philadelphia,PennsylvaniaToms Convenience Store Headquarters - York,PennsylvaniaUnique Pizza and Subs - Monroeville,PennsylvaniaUrban Outfitters Headquarters - Philadelphia,PennsylvaniaValley Dairy Restaurant Headquarters - Latrobe,PennsylvaniaWawa Headquarters - Media,PennsylvaniaWeis Markets Headquarters - Sunbury,Pennsylvania