The recruiter's crystal ball!

Would it not be great if we all were to know what most of the recruiters are looking for in the applicants and if we could get our dirty,grimy hands on a crystal ball that did just that. It seems that we, job aspirants have finally managed to do just that. The following is what the recruiters are looking for in the new applicants and I have listed them all below.

1.Skill improvement:
To shape up what ever skills that you may have and to hone it further.

2.Stick with your values:
It is always a good thing to stand up for your values and not to change them.

3.Do not burn bridges:
This is one advice that every job aspirant needs to look into. It is always better to build bridges than burn them.

4.Present like a Pro:
To be able to present oneself and to do it effectively so that a really good first impression is formed.

5.Align with your strengths:
To know what your strengths are and to concentrate on them.

6.Speak up:
This is one thing that almost every new applicant has problems with, so this is one area that they would most definitely have to work on.

The Calculator that one must have!

From the title one may think that this is a calculator for calculating math problems and you would be partly right. it is not about math, but rather a poker calculator that one utilises for calculating the odds in a hand of poker.
This is a must have for all the serious poker players out there, I am one of them and I know that halfway through a hand,I often get confused with calculating the odds and this often led me to make some really dumb mistakes that I normally would not have.
This site is great in the way that it is designed and all, it is very easy to use and its calculator is really fantastic. With the help of this calculator, one can calculate all the poker odds that one needs to know in order to win a hand of Poker.
So if you are one of those serious poker players out there and would really love to get an edge over the other players, then you do most definitely need the holdem calculator.

Oil jumps again , this time because of Turkey!

The oil prices seem more and more exposed to the world politics than it is to the basic economics. These days, anytime there is a strike in any of the middle eastern countries, the immediate perception is that there is going to be a oil supply problem and that the 'Black gold' is going to get more rarer.
All of this is rubbish, of course. It is the case of the man who has too much, he only has too much as long as the rest of the humans want it, so consistent problems on the supply front will cause the demand to drop in the long rum and may also result in the demand disappearing altogether. Of course, this need not be the same in the Oil front, but it is high time that OPEC realises that they should make the necessary corrections to compensate for any such strikes that may take place on any of the middle eastern countries. If they want to consider themselves as a professional organisation, then it is high time that they start acting like it!

The engagement rings that one would desire!

When one get to the stage of purchasing engagement rings, one would naturally want the best possible ones that ones money can buy. I have to say that when I went surfing online for rings, I never thought that I would find a site that is do comprehensive as far as rings go. I never thought that one would need to consider tension settings as well, when one is thinking of purchasing rings.
This site is literally like a walk-in-shop with all of your queries answered very quickly. I was looking for just an ordinary ring but I have to say that I am very impressed by the way that this site has listed its products.
The diamonds are beautiful in their setting in the ring and being a diamond ring, I thought that the pricing would be astronomical, but was I pleasantly surprised.
So, yes, if it is rings that you are after, even wedding rings, then this is the place to come to. By the way, the categories here are just endless and there are also certain collections on display, so if you want to purchase collections like the M.Geller collection, here is where you would have to come to!

Recession knockin' on the door of Lady Liberty!

The Government is falling over itself with trying to do its best to prevent any financial crisis, but it is too late to shut the doors after all the horses have bolted.

The beginning of the sub prime crisis should have put the government on notice, but now, it is just too late to prevent anything from taking place. What has been put into motion cannot be stopped now, all one can do is to go with the flow. Both Martin Feldstein and former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan are urging the government to do more to prevent any further escalation. Lets not forget that this is the same Greenspan who said that the sub prime crisis would 'blow away'.

Anyway, this is not the time to point fingers, but the time to do a reassessment and see what can be done to prevent anything like this from happening again.
No government is going to hand out money from the treasury to the citizens, but instead what the president can do is to waive the taxes for the affected people and that is just a small step in the right direction. Lets all hope that we do not get into any other war, any time soon, our economy cannot take any more pressure!

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The phone card shopping mall!

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These days it makes much more sense to purchase call cards or phone cards before we travel anywhere. These cards, besides allowing us to make the calls from anywhere to any other place in the universe, come with various offers, that your international calls end up becoming dirt cheap.
These guys are what one can possibly term as the 'shopping mall' for all phone card, call cards of any size and shape. You can get the very latest cards with huge offers from these guys. They also have the very latest in call cards, the ones with the ANI recognition, that totally makes 'dialing the pin' totally obsolete. These guys carry about 459 different cards from a variety of vendors, it is like walking into a shopping mall, with so many cards, naturally, these guys are the best in the business and definitely the people to go to if you are in need of a card. Just click on the link above and check out their shop, you will know what I mean.

The News takes a backseat to the Entertainment!

As the winter is on us, one would think that movies like 'The Grinch' would have some impact on both the big studios and the networks. But they are not listening to the common man on the street and what is more, by prolonging the Writers strike, they are only emphasising that they are in this only for themselves.
The sad part of all this is that as a result of this strike, one can say good bye to the Xmas programmes. The winter is blowing hard and cold, the blizzards are on us and the hearts of all the production houses, the networks and the writers has all become solid chunks of ice!

It is the turn of the common man to get affected now as we would soon stop seeing our favorite programmes. The funny part is that the networks are all covering up the upcoming gaps with entertainment shows which they had not telecast earlier and have all given the 'bye,bye' to the news programmes. One would think that this would be the time for the networks to come out with more programmes like Panorama and stuff like that, instead we are going to get stuck with pussycat dolls and the likes of such! It is indeed one bleary Christmas!

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Want to talk?

The new way of meeting new Friends or dates seems to be the chatting on the phone. This site is great in the sense that we can use the chat lines that are available here and talk to anyone and everyone that we feel like 'chatting up' with. The great part is that we do not have to give any of our personal details to who ever we chat up with. Before sites like this, if we had to phone chat, we had to call up the other person on the phone and by this neither our number or the number of the person we would call would be private.
But with this company, that detail is kept private and if you express the desire to chat with, say, person x, all you have to do was to request a chat line with that person and this company would put you in touch with that person. This way, neither of us would have to give out any of our personal details. The best part of all this is that here there is the option of free chat as long as the person we talk to is local. All in all, this does make up for one interesting experience!

The Hollywood strike explores the Gandhi movement!

The writers strike has taken a new turn with the Guild representing the writers pretty much throwing in the towel after the organisation representing the producers have walked out on them. This certainly represents the writers with a dilemma, as to whether they are prepared to cave in and go back to status quo as the producers and the studios would have them do so or to stand up and fight for their rights!

All this strike has managed to do so far is to almost cripple the Hollywood industry as we know it, most of the television shows are fast running out of scripts and soon they would either have to telecast only reruns or cancel the show altogether. At least the serials can telecast reruns whereas the reality shows may even have to be taken off the air altogether. Which is why when the Guild announced to the writers that they would be approaching the production houses with the aim of ending this strike, one way or the other, thereby bypassing the association representing the studios and the producers, the writers and the David Letterman show welcomed the decision whole heartily.

David Letterman, although a member of the association that had been talking with the writers unsuccessfully with regard to ending the strike, has welcomed the decision of the writers Guild whole heartily as this would entail that each and every production house would come to an individual agreement with the Guild. I guess, it all depends on how badly you want a new script altogether. Here is where the saying 'united we stand, divided we fall' comes to my mind. This way of striking by not working or co-operating is not new to us, I guess it all started with Mahatma Gandhi and his non cooperation movement to get the British raj to leave the Indian sub continent and I have to say that it was hugely successful then and it still is successful now. Any such movement with no violence and total non cooperation is bound to get results in the plenty. Personally I believe that the writers do deserve their just rewards and are entitled to what they are fighting for now. I hope that they do get it and that the show goes on!

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The gamers station on online backgammon!

These days games are being played increasingly online and the game of backgammon is not an exception to this. These days all sorts of games are being played online for fun and for real. By that I do mean that these are also games where one can play for real money and lots of people do this on a day to day basis. Online games and online backgammon are attracting a lot of customers not just because they are another source by which one can make easy money but surprisingly because playing backgammon online helps to relieve one's stress.

This site is devoted primarily to this game and I have to say that when compared to a lot of other similar sites, this one is by far the best that I have come across, so far. The design aside, the customer service is very good here, with all of your queries being answered right away. Did I say that one can play this game here for real money, well, one can do so if one wants to or one can play it for free!
The backgammon online is one interesting experience that I am sure that all of you would want to go through so just go to the links above and play this game for free!

Light Crude goes up by 1.90$ !

The common economics states that as the inventory falls, more pressure is exerted on the supply as the demand for that product is constant and ever increasing. What am I talking about? I am talking about the price of Oil and the price tango that it seems to go into each and every time the Energy department announces to the world that the Inventories have either fallen or risen.
The rise in inventory would make the oil prices to swing the other way about and this time around, the inventory stocks in the United states has fallen by at least 700,000 barrels last week, according to the energy dept. Naturally this has started exerting more pressure on the crude supplies and the factors that can effect the supply of Oil to the United states. Naturally as this news broke out, the immediate effect today is the rise in the price for Light Crude for January delivery which has risen by 1.90$ to 91.92$ a barrel on the NY Mercantile Exchange.

The Oil market is tight as it is with the OPEC not really into making more deliverables than the current content. And at times like this if there is any news of a skirmish in the middle east or another Palestine - Israel conflict, that will have a very resounding impact on the Oil prices or if Bush were to get more hawkish on Iran or the entire Middle east, that will most definitely make the Oil reach for fresh pastures beyond the 105$ range.

What one should remember is that inventories rise and inventories fall, but it is when the inventories fall that one should take into account the other factors like the geo political factors. It is at times like this that the price of the Light Crude as well as the entire Oil market is most vulnerable and with the way that the U.S economy is under right now, we most certainly do not need a 'bullish' Oil market as that would only extend undue influence on the already falling Dollar and may even push it into the Nether world!

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The DOW zooms up by 250 points!

Finally the FED has managed to unify its plan with the other central banks and thereby alleviate the current credit crisis. The credit crunch is so bad that getting a car loan is in fact even more difficult than buying a car from the dealer on a standby basis. The markets reacted favorably to the news that all the central banks have managed to get moving on a common plan to alleviate the Credit crunch that is so evident in the markets today.
The DOW which had sagged unfavorably after the recent FED rate cut, seems to have finally shaken off the Bear claws and has started moving in the right direction,up. But of course, as soon as the sub prime disaster had hit the markets, this is what all the banks should have done. It has taken them this long to do what should have been done a long time back, but the investors and that includes me as well are all happy that they have finally show some backbone and have acted. One can only hope and pray that this momentum in the markets will continue on!

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Arizona Big brother jumps on the Immigration bandwagon!

Arizona often touted as the IIEC[illegal immigration employment capital] of the United states may well soon lost that title altogether to Florida. With the recent law and the corresponding lawsuit filed against it, it has brought the issue of the Illegal immigration back into focus.

Of course, the question as to whether it is legal to hire an Illegal immigrant knowing that he/she is one, is currently illegal in Arizona the ex IIEC of the United states. But the recent suit against that very law that declares this to be illegal, seems to be far from over. The judge did not throw out the case because he considered it to be frivolous, but rather that it was filed against the wrong people and since it is a state law, it should be the state authorities in the dock and not the federal authorities, well as far as I could make out, that seems to be the reason.

All indications are that this law is already running into some problems and they are just bound to get a whole lot worse in the next couple of weeks. The question of whether it is right to hire illegal immigrants is one that has been bought in sharp focus by all this. There are those who will say that this law is the right one and that once the Illegal immigrants see that Arizona no longer has jobs for them, they will stop coming into Arizona. Then again, there are those who will argue that since the immigrants are already here, this law will deprive them of livelihood and so it is against human decency to do so. The employers will be on the side of the illegal immigrants since they will be losing a very valuable workforce. All in all, it is one dilemma that the state authorities would have to address very soon in a court of law!

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No go for the Hollywood writers!

Today more and more of those writers are turning to blogs and websites to earn a few dollars here and there as there seems to be no end to the Writer's strike. The Impasse continues with neither side willing to concede anything and as usual hard words are often exchanged through the very media that has been a bone of contention between the two of them. The writers want a bigger piece of the action as they often see their works being advertised on the WWW as well as the DVD releases.

I am not here to say who is right and who is wrong, but the fact of the matter is that if this Impasse continues any longer, there are many, many freelance writers who are more than willing to take on the contracts. It is high time that both these sides realise that they cannot do without one another, one one had the current writers provide a uniqueness to all the current Hollywood shows and television series that no freelance writer can bring to the table. And the writers should realise that sooner or later all patience is going to go right out of the window and soon, they are going to find themselves out of a lucrative job which may well go to the freelance writers of this world!

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Speak in Spanish? Book your hotels in Spanish!

Whenever we travel the language barrier is one of our biggest problems in the sense that you would not even be able to convey the most simple of requests across to the other person. It does make one wonder how the early travellers had all communicated like the case of Marco polo and the Chinese, the only answer I have for that is that he must have spent some time learning the Chinese language. Well, when we travel we do not have that much time that we can spend on learning a foreign language and as such, we often have to make do with lousy hand signals. But thanks to descuento en hoteles, now that need not be the case any longer!
Here all the Spanish speaking people can go up and speak in Spanish and make all the bookings and reservations that they want. Yes, you heard me right, it seems that the days of not being able to convey your decisions across are over, especially for the Spanish speaking people residing in the United states. And the best part is that here, you have round the clock service , where they go out of their way to make sure that you as their customer are best cared for and that you have found the hotel room that is the best one for you!

The man purse!

It seems that I am still on the issue of 'Purses and Wallets', the fact of the matter is that we are all so focused on the way that we look that we can devote an entire day just looking at things which are supposed to carry our cash and then spend tons of our hard earned cash on it so that we can tot an nearly empty purse/wallet to our friends and all. It really does not make any sense in any way you care to think about it.
Now days even the Men are getting to be as equally finicky about what they want to carry their cash in. Gone are the days when a Man would just dump his money into his pocket and crumple the notes in the process. Now days, we have the purse for the Man himself and we tend to call it the Man purse. It really has come a long way since the times when only a woman was associated with the purse, these days any ad that you look at for purses and wallets will carry both the Men and the Women in it as the link above will show you clearly. The wallets are getting smaller and so are the purses and want to take a guess as to what is getting bigger all the time, you guessed it right, it is the price and today it is reaching astronomical levels!

The wallets are getting smaller!

Whether it has anything to do with the way that the economies all over the world are performing or not, of late the new wallets in the market are not only slimmer but they are a whole lot smaller. I fail to understand what is the need for smaller wallets, as such the wallets that we all use are of the right size, but it seems that they want to turn this into a version of the micro versus the macro thing in the wallet market. Soon, we many run out of space to keep our cash and cards in, then why on earth would we need a wallet at all?

The credit cards that are great!

To finally have a credit card search engine is just fantastic, because with it,now we can actually search and find the cards that suit us the best. There are so many credit cards that are available in today's market that one rarely knows which one to pick and choose from. But with this we ca compare all the Fair Credit Credit Cards and compare all the offers they are offering for their clients and customers.
Normally the credit cards often offer varying rates of interest and this can be one of the factors by which we can sort through the whole lot and pick the one that suits us the best.The credit cards also offer various rewards and compensation packages, some of the cards that are listed here include the leading U.S Credit Card issuers such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank and leading brands Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover Card. So to choose one that fits you well, click on the link above!