Existentialism

How To Conquer Aptitude Tests 181 days ago   by   Arowolo Anuoluwapo   www.jobberman.com With thousands of applicants waiting to get employed, recruiters now utilise aptitude tests to shortlist candidates. This does not only save them time, but also provides a cost-effective means of selecting the right candidates for the right jobs. With today’s technology, applicants do not have to converge at a place; you can write an aptitude test right within the confines of your home. Aptitude tests are designed to assess your thinking performance, and your result will be compared to those of the control group so that the examiner can judge your abilities. As a candidate, this is the time to display your professional skills and make a good impression, as this will determine your movement to the interview stage. Aptitude tests come in different formats – numerical, verbal, abstract, spatial, mechanical, personality etc. and are usually timed, so the faster (and more corre...

Advice from Top Bloggers in Human Resources 2 days ago   by   Adejoke Adekunle   www.jobberman.com Image source: My Seo Guidance         This is something you should  read with your mind doors and windows open, it’ll help you. These words once got me doing a rethink, not just about my job search, but about my life. And I’m hoping they’d do the same for you. Read it, share it but mostly, act it. Successful people have mentors. The best thing you can do for your career is to get a strong set of mentors. Studies from the University of California- Santa Cruz found that almost every fortune 500 CEO can name a roster of mentors who helped them along the way.   Penelope Trunk Always communicate your value to employers. At every point in the job seeking process, understand, communicate and market yourself based on the value you will bring to the companies you want to work for. Understanding how you can bring ...

Ewen MacAskill   in Washington guardian.co.uk ,   Wednesday 12 September 2012 23.49 BST Barack Obama   has stepped into the political row over Republican presidential candidate   Mitt Romney 's ill-judged response to the Benghazi consulate attack. Romney faced heavy criticism from across the political spectrum for statements issued on Tuesday evening and repeated at a press conference on Wednesday morning in which he accused the Obama administration of being too ready to apologise for American values. Former diplomats, foreign policy analysts and many   Republicans distanced themselves from Romney's remarks, accusing him of being premature in trying to make political capital out of a fatal attack on US diplomats. To add to his problems, the statements were quickly shown to be factually inaccurate. On Wednesday morning, Obama had remained above the fray, focusing a statement in the White House rose garden on paying tribute to US ambassador Chris Stev...

How China's Approach Beats the West's in Africa by Stephan Richter I September 3, 2012 Harvard Business Review     U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent 10-day   tour across Africa   represented a strategic caving-in of sorts. In many of the places she visited, the Chinese had gotten there first. In fact, China is everywhere in Africa these days, both exploiting the continent's vast natural riches and pursuing infrastructure projects long promised but never quite delivered by the West.   Building railroads from inland areas to the coast, with the eventual prospect of a network that spans sub-Saharan Africa? Putting in highways at affordable prices across the continent? Constructing state-of-the-art office complexes, within budgets that African nations can afford?   These are all goals that African leaders have pursued for a long time. In the past, a toxic combination of corruption, murky ties between ex-colonizing countries (and th...

By Global Information Network (GIN) Wage Hike Demands Roil The Continent: Sep. 4 (GIN) – Demands for living wages are spreading around the continent, most notably in South Africa where mines have been shutting down in solidarity with a wildcat strike last month that left 34 miners dead and 76 wounded. Thousands had turned out at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana when shooting by police began. A subsequent order to return to work was suppressed and government hurriedly called for a day of mourning. A week later, workers at the Gold One Int’l called a strike and faced rubber bullets and teargas fired by police. This week, an open letter signed by over a dozen civil rights organizations, read: “We believe that the indifference of mine executives and investors to the impoverished conditions in and around the workplace ought to have consequences. For too long corporate abuse has gone unpunished…” An investigation into the shooting has been ordered by Pres. Jacob Zuma. Mea...

By Nasrin Pourhamrang Chinua Achebe Recently, the classic African novel “Things Fall Apart” by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe was translated into Persian by Ali Hodavand and released in Iran. Nasrin Pourhamrang, Editor-in-Chief of Hatef Weekly Magazine interviewed the author on a wide range of topics from Art, culture and literature;politics, cultural and linguistic preservation;to the legacy of colonialism and his forthcoming book there was a Country-A personal history of Biafra. Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. He was raised in the large village of Ogidi, one of the first centers of Anglican missionary work in Eastern Nigeria, and is a graduate of University College, Ibadan. His early career in radio ended abruptly in 1966, when he left his post as Director of External Broadcasting in Nigeria during the national upheaval that led to the Biafran War. Achebe joined the Biafran Ministry of Information and represented Biafra on various diplomatic and fund-raising mis...

By Global Information Network (GIN) Wage Hike Demands Roil The Continent: Sep. 4 (GIN) – Demands for living wages are spreading around the continent, most notably in South Africa where mines have been shutting down in solidarity with a wildcat strike last month that left 34 miners dead and 76 wounded. Thousands had turned out at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana when shooting by police began. A subsequent order to return to work was suppressed and government hurriedly called for a day of mourning. A week later, workers at the Gold One Int’l called a strike and faced rubber bullets and teargas fired by police. This week, an open letter signed by over a dozen civil rights organizations, read: “We believe that the indifference of mine executives and investors to the impoverished conditions in and around the workplace ought to have consequences. For too long corporate abuse has gone unpunished…” An investigation into the shooting has been ordered by Pres. Jacob Zuma. Me...