The Reality of Cover Letters

I agreed with most of the advice of the article. I think that cover letters are read second if at all especially if their are a larger pool of applicants. It makes sense for the employer to focus on the resume becuase it tells them exactly what they are looking for. Where you have worked, your education and the like. What I did not agree withis the advice that the cover letter should be about the company. You could argue that the employer wants to hire people that share their vision and by explaining this vision you can gain an edge with the company. However, if you do not have the skills that they need knowing the vision will not help. You can teach someone with little education the direction you want to take a company, but it doesnt mean that they will be able to help.

Privatize Profits Socialize Losses

What the 700 Billion economic bailout has taught us is that the strictly conservative free market philosphy is a farce to make people vote their wallets. We are told that government should stay away when times are good, but once times are bad we are called upon in a hurry to bail out the exact same people that w anted us to stay away. Bill Clinton once said "The Era of big government is over" that was 16 years ago and today we are on the brink of handing the fate of the world economy into the hands of the most unreliable administration we've seen in a while; Karl Marx would be proud.

Article Review

I read the articles about telling stories as an interview strategy and the article about asking the interviewer questions. I liked these two becuase it helps win no only the interview but what to do after the interview ends. Telling stories helps you to sound natural and authentic. Companies are looking for more than skill, they also want someone with good character and persona. Telling stories helps you to portray this better. The second article talked about post interview question which are as impoartant as the interview intself. You can share more about what you know by asking questions that were not explicitly covered in the interview. Keep in mind that you as a potential employee have leverage and you obviously want to find a company that will hire you, but you also want to be selective and find a place that is right for you.

Ten Years is a Lifetime

Since I'm in college and my mind thinks in chunks of fall in spring, it is hard for me to imagine where I will be in 10 years. I know I want to atleast earn my masters in Economics that takes me two years into the future. From that point I'm not sure if I want to go for my PhD and become a professor or go for an MBA and go into the business world. In either case I think I would like the flexibility to jump into the other option. I think I want to have children or a child before I'm thirty, and at some point before then start to play chess seriously like when I was younger. I want to go overseas to Europe or somewhere not because I particularly like foreign coountries or cultures but I need and excuse to have a passport. :-)