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- Paul Graham (founder YCombinator)


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It is obvious that its only the man that died. Dolby will live on forever here on earth, just like the Ferraris, Chanels, Mercedes etc.
This is where Africans are so different from whites. While we kill ourselves to have biological children whose existence only lasts a century or two, the whites use their brain to give birth to ideas that will live on for generations.

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Job seekers and recruiters may have a love/hate relationship but if it’s handled right, it can be fruitful for both sides.


Entry level job candidates may not find using a recruiter that successful, but for more senior level people it can mean the difference between landing a dream job and an OK one. That’s not to say every great job is the result of a recruiter, but career experts say it can be a useful way to land your next gig as long as you don’t get black listed in the process.

Employees_with_ipad “Great recruiters have long-term relationships with hiring managers that involve a high degree of trust,” says Kathy Harris, managing director of recruiting firm Harris Allied. “They can help you to get an interview for a great job, prepare you to interview successfully, and negotiate your offer package.”

While many people looking for work know a recruiter can be a helpful resource, often they make the mistake of not honing in on the right recruiter. According to Paul Slezak, co-founder of RecruitLoop.com, the recruitment website, job candidates have to find a specialist recruiter that works in the industry or field they want to be in instead of going with a generalist.

One way to find the right person, says Slezak, is to do an Internet search for the type of job you are looking for and see what recruiter’s name keeps coming up for the roles on your level and the ones above you. “Don’t just apply online – or your inquiry will just end up in the vortex” when you find one, says Slezak. “Call the agency, ask to speak to that recruiter personally and make an appointment to meet with them. Offer to take the recruiter out for a coffee just to ‘pick their brains’ and to find out more about the state of the market. You have to be top of mind and not just a name on a database.”

In addition to relying on the Internet to find a recruiter, career experts say to tap your network. Ask colleagues and networking connections from similar fields if they have any recruiters they can recommend, says Amanda Augustine, the job search expert for job website TheLadders, noting the Internet can yield a lot of names of recruiting firms and their contact information. “Don’t underestimate the power of a Google search,” says Augustine. “For instance, you can get a good list of results by searching for ‘financial services recruiters nyc.’”

Finding a recruiter to work with is one thing, but making sure the relationship stays positive can be a delicate balancing act. Relationships between job seekers and recruiters often sour simply because the candidate wrongly assumes he or she is the customer and the recruiter is there to serve them. The recruiter gets paid by the employer, so his or her job is to find the best candidate for the company not find the ideal role for the job seeker. Job seekers who don’t get that can quickly get annoyed if the recruiter isn’t at their beck and call or doesn’t give them updates every day.

“At the end of the day, the recruiter’s loyalty is to the person signing their paychecks – their employer or their agency’s client,” says Augustine. “If you can accept this reality, then you can learn how to make this relationship work for your search, rather than against it.”

According to Slezak, a surefire way to get black listed by a recruiter is to be irritable, refuse to share feedback with the recruiter or turn down an offer at the last minute. Harassing the recruiter with daily phone calls and/or email is another quick way to become persona non grata, he says.

“One thing recruiters hate is the ‘stalking’ job seeker who calls (often literally) every day to ‘see if anything’s come up,” says Slezak. “Job seekers should realize it’s the recruiter’s role to find an opportunity, so if they haven’t called, it’s probably because there isn’t anything suitable.” To prevent yourself from becoming a stalker, career experts say to set the ground rules with the recruiter during the first meeting. For instance ask them how they would like to be contacted and how often you can check in. If the recruiter says “don’t call me I’ll call you” then don’t. Trust that recruiter will contact you immediately if he or she finds a match. On the flip side if you do go on an interview, make sure to get in touch with the recruiter that same day to provide feedback on how you think things went.

“Looking for a job is a full time job in itself. If you can be represented by a specialist recruiter who can speak to dozens of potential employers about you, surely that’s easier than attempting to connect with so many prospective employers yourself,” says Slezak. “But the only way the process works is if both parties treat each other with the level of respect they both deserve.”




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Billionaire Sound Pioneer Ray Dolby Dies, Age 80


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Ray Dolby died Thursday in San Francisco, age 80. He suffered from Alzheimer’s Disease and acute leukemia.

A pioneer in the field of sound, Dolby will be remembered as the man who took the hiss out of sound recordings. With a fortune of $2.4 billion at his death, Dolby truly did make silence golden.

He founded his namesake Dolby Laboratories in 1965. His work revolutionizing the immersive experience of movie theater sound started with Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange in 1971 and matured with Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977.

Over the years Dolby earned 50 patents, two Oscars, multiple Emmys and a Grammy.

He first entered the billionaire ranks in 2005 when Dolby Laboratories went public. The company’s revenues last year were in excess of $900 million. Last year it issued a special dividend to shareholders. Dolby, with more than 56 million shares got $200 million.

With his death, Dagmar, Dolby’s wife of 47 years, assumes his fortune and place on the Forbes 400 list. They have two sons Tom and David. (Of no relation is the musician Thomas Dolby, who recorded the hit “She Blinded Me With Science.”)



Dolby was born in Portland, Ore. He first became fascinated with sound when studying the vibrations of his clarinet reeds as a child. At 16 he started work at Ampex, a videotape recording company. After studying electrical engineering at Stanford he earned a PhD in physics from Cambridge in 1961 and even consulted to the U.K.’s Atomic Energy Authority. After two years as a United Nations advisor in India he founded Dolby Laboratories in London, later moving to San Francisco.

Though Dolby retired several years ago, his company has continued to make innovations, with the new Dolby Atmos system using 64 speakers — with some sounds programmed to come out of just one speaker. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was one of the first to use the new system.

At a ceremony honoring Dolby last year film editor Walter Murch said, “you could divide film sound in half: there is BD, Before Dolby, and there is AD, After Dolby.”


Dolby had donated more than $35 million to fund stem cell research at the University of California. He is the second billionaire sound engineer to die this year. Loudspeaker innovator Amar Bose died in July; Fritz Sennheiser passed in 2010.

The Dolby Laboratories website posted a tribute to its founder yesterday, including these quotes from Dolby summing up the passion of inventing and the meaning of success.


On Inventing:

“I’ve often thought that I would have made a great 19th century engineer, because I love machinery. I would have liked to have been in a position to make a better steam engine, or to invent the first internal combustion engine; to work on the first car. All my life, I’ve loved everything that goes; I mean bicycles, motorcycles, cars, jeeps, boats, sail or power, airplanes, helicopters. I love all of these things, and I just regret that I was born in a time when most of those mechanical problems had already been solved and what remained were electronic problems.”

“Remember that most of my life was that of an adventurer, not of somebody who is trying to invent something all the time. I wanted the experience of traveling to many parts of the world. Inventions were part of my life, but they didn’t overtake everything that I was doing.”

“To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.”

On Success:

“I was never a gold-digger, or an Oscar-digger, or anything like that. I just had an instinct about the right sort of things that should be done in my business. So all these things just fell into place.”

“I think I was both lucky and I was also straightforward with people, and I think they liked that attitude.”

“There is no major next step. It’s a matter of constantly being aware of one’s environment, of keeping track of what’s happening in the various industries that we’re operating in and just sort of sensing what’s possible and what’s not possible, what’s needed, what’s not needed-just having all your antennae going, sensitized to all the signals that are out there.”



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Do you ever wake up in the morning and ask yourself: “Am I in the right job?” “At the right company?” “On the right career path?” “Doing what I am supposed to be doing with my life?” If so, you are not alone.

After almost a decade of research, Tempe, Ariz, based “purpose” firm Ignite reports that more than 95% of workers in the U.S. are in the wrong roles. In another study by the company, 1,916 randomly selected employees between the ages of 23 and 28 were asked if they were interested in changing jobs, and 1,571 said yes. A recent Gallup study concluded that 71% of American workers are not engaged at their jobs. And Deloitte’s Shift Index survey indicates that 80% of workers don’t like their jobs.

Considering that the average American works 8.8 hours every day, not many people are jumping out of bed these days.

So why can’t people find jobs they love?



Hard Work

“Work hard, my boy, and you will be successful” was my grandfather’s childhood advice to me. Even though he has been dead for over a decade, I can still hear his words ringing in my head. You may have heard the same from your grandparents or parents. However, they were all only partially right.

While long hours may be required, successful people spend their time on the right things and in the right roles. When all these factors are aligned, most of these people can’t even tell you how hard or long they “work.” For them it is not a question of how many hours they put in during a week or work/life balance, but about doing what they love as much as possible.

In Larry Smith’s video Why you will fail to have a great career he mocks the idea that hard work is a noble goal in itself: “You want to work really, really, really hard? You know what? You will succeed…the world will give you the opportunity to work really, really, really hard.”




Bad Marriages

When searching for a life partner, people often create fantasies around someone they are attracted to. This is all part of a human tendency to romanticize the world – something that usually ends badly when each sees the other for who they really are. A consultant I worked with for many years would say, “When couples break-up arguing that their partner does not understand them, the exact opposite is true: They understand them – they simply do not like them.” And the same human tendency towards fantasy partners that helps explain the 50% divorce rate for first marriages in the U.S. also goes a long way toward telling us why American workers have an almost total lack of job happiness.

When people are looking for jobs, they scan the web for “attractive” companies that grab their immediate attention. They look at a company’s career page for openings, read the job descriptions posted, and then redraft their resume and pitch to fit the role they think they want. They recreate themselves to another’s specifications. From the outside, we can easily see how this could end badly. The company is pitching its most attractive side – whether real or perceived – and the candidate is tailoring who he or she is to meet the needs of the company. Six months down the road both sides are unhappy. Some of the relationships limp along for years producing minimal value; others end abruptly, causing disruption and financial strain for both parties.




Mere Passion

Most people will tell you that the secret to career happiness and success is finding what you are passionate about and doing it. However, the Founder and Chief Ignite Officer of Ignite, Tom McDermott believes that this thinking is flawed. He asserts that passion is only part of the equation. For example, like many American Idol contestants you maybe passionate about music but not a gifted singer. Or a talented teacher but not teaching something you are passionate about.

Tom believes the real game-changer is our natural child-like curiosity – without which a person will not find true alignment, happiness, and success in life. He argues that most people never go far enough in exploring and questioning what they are profoundly curious about. For Tom, finding a job that you love requires doing something you are “passionately curious” about and born to do.

To illustrate this principle, you may be passionate about sprinting but not have the natural ability to be a gold medalist in the 100-meter dash. You may really be curious about how humans can move faster and be better placed as a sports science researcher, coach, or perhaps an aerodynamics engineer. Without asking the right questions, your passion may drive you to sprint in the wrong direction in life – investing in a running coach, the best shoes, and having hopes to achieve a world record when your natural strengths and curiosity don’t align with that goal/passion. According to Tom, you need to ask why you enjoy sprinting. What about it? If your talent, strengths, passion, and curiosity are in sync, you may find yourself setting records in the 100-meter – or inventing the Hyperloop train that carries people at speeds up to 800 miles an hour.

A child fascinated with glasses may not be destined to be the next great eyewear designer but may be curious about how people can see further. She could become the inventor of the world’s most powerful telescope, discovering unknown planets. Without asking the right questions, a life can easily be wasted on a wrong path and deprive the world of important advances and innovations…or a world record in the 100-metre dash!



Money


Money hasn’t been around that long in the scheme of human existence, but it has quickly become the ultimate distraction. In fact, the first question most job seekers ask is “How much does the position pay?” The answer usually determines if things move forward.

When I first met Tom McDermott of Ignite he asked me: “If money were not an issue, what would you do in life?” This is a great theoretical question to probe your desires. On the other hand, most of us can’t eliminate money from the question of where and why we work.

Dr. Paula Caligiuri provides one answer to this quandary in her book Get a Life, Not a Job: Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work For You. Caligiuri suggests that you actively seek multiple streams of income to achieve the freedom to follow what you love and not be financially beholden to a job you don’t want. This can be in the form of a home-based business, speaking on your topics of expertise, teaching others about something you love, or perhaps investing.


The Right Match

In 2000 the online dating site eHarmony was launched with the tag line “Beat the odds, Bet on Love with eHarmony.” It pioneered a new scientific approach to matching couples that relied on pre-assessments to gain a deep understanding of its clients and compatibilities before any pictures or profiles were shared. It was a concept that changed relationship matching forever and improved chances of successful dating, marriage, and fulfilled long-term partnerships.

In such a process there is no gaming the system – no imagined personas – because neither side knows of the other until a personal match is made. This same concept will ultimately revolutionize job search and placement for the next generation workforce that is looking for purpose over “work.”

Arizona based Y Scouts is the only recruitment firm I am aware of that operates a model similar to eHarmony’s, but they currently only handle executive searches. However, the dating site is contemplating offering a non-executive job search option soon. Until then, job seekers will need to be proactive and create their own process. To do this, you should have the answers to the following questions prior to starting your search and stay true to them when you are looking to apply to jobs. If you are working with a recruitment agency, share your questions and answers with them before they introduce roles to you. Ask them to only connect you to organizations and jobs that are a clear fit.

—What job would I be excited to share with others?

—What would an organization do that would make me excited to share with others?

—What gets me out of bed in the morning?

—If money weren’t an issue, what would I do?

—What do I do best?

—What am I most passionate about?

—What am I most curious about?

—What have I most enjoyed doing throughout my life and why?

If you are having problems answering any of these questions, below are a few resources to help.

Dr. Paula Caligiuri’s book Get a Life, Not a Job: Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work For You has excellent personal discovery exercises throughout.

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This might seem ridiculous as Lady Gaga has never "really" searched for a traditional job before but from her lifestyle and ways, here are some hidden insightful ways of hers that can actually help you and is not "devilish" to emulate.


Whether you heard her song on the radio, saw an outrageous costume of hers in a magazine, or can’t remember where you first heard her mentioned, you know about Lady Gaga.

Like her music or not, Lady Gaga is arguably one of the most famous people in the world right now. A consummate performer, Gaga entertains millions of people every day.

While she might be entertaining, interesting, or vexing, Lady Gaga has a lot to teach about the job search. Her skyrocket to fame offers several lessons to any job seeker.

Check out these four job search lessons learned from Lady Gaga:


1. Social media is your friend

Did you know that, in September 2011, Lady Gaga broke the world record for most Twitter followers? With just over 13 million followers, she can rest assured that her words are getting out.

While you don’t need millions of Twitter followers, a strong social media presence is incredibly beneficial to any job seeker. Large social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are super helpful to job seekers looking to build or enhance their professional network. Want to take it a step further? There are tons of “niche” social networking platforms for like-minded professionals to learn, share, and discuss e.g. being "Good" on Nairaland has landed many people their dream jobs.



2. Find your network

If you know anything about Lady Gaga, you probably have heard about her “little monsters”. This affectionate name is reserved for her millions of fans. In this, Lady Gaga recognizes the importance of her little monsters in her career.

Lady Gaga’s networking strategy works incredibly well for her, as it would for any job seeker. Appreciate the people who are in your professional network by participating in conversations, helping others in their job searches, and making introductions. The more you put into your network, the more your network will put into you.



3. Be unique

Let’s be frank. Lady Gaga isn’t your average celebrity, which is a good thing. If not for her signature attitude, strange music videos and even stranger fashion choices, it’s debatable about whether she’d be even as remotely famous.

As a job seeker, it’s easy to sink into what everyone else is doing. We model our resumes, interview outfits, and social media profiles after ones we’ve seen. Break the mold and seek a unique image. As an employer, it’s a whole lot easier to nix ten of the same worker than it is to reject a one-of-a-kind candidate.


4. Keep going

What do Lady Gaga, Steve Jobs, Barack Obama, and just about any other successful person have in common? They were incredibly persistent about what they wanted. Lady Gaga knew what she wanted to do when she was a teenager and stuck with it. While her support system started to falter, she held on until her big break.

While we might not all want to be a wildly famous pop singer, everyone has an idea about what they want in life and a career. Stick to your guns and you’ll get the job offer you wanted. Be realistic about what you want and make a plan of attack.



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Its weekend. a nice time to reflect before the new week. So for all of you on Nairaland, here goes:


As I turn 35 and think of my life so far and what’s to come, I realize how much I’m shaped by the questions I ask. I’ve always been insatiably curious. These are the 35 questions that have made the biggest impact on my life.

“ Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” – Voltaire

“We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.” – Carl Sagan

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand





Self-Awareness


What are you pretending not to know? This was perhaps the most powerful question I was ever asked (by my best friend @bengleib). All possibilities open up when we stop deceiving ourselves.

Why don’t you do the things you know you should be doing? Life isn’t about figuring out what to do. The real challenge is (not so) simply doing the things we know we should be doing.

What are your values and are you being true to them? Write down the 3 most important aspects of each of these areas: family, romantic relationships, friends, work, health, sex and spirituality. These are your values. When we don’t act congruently with what we value, symptoms of discomfort arise.

In what ways are you being perceived, that you’re not aware of? ­Perception is reality. Make sure, for better or worse, you know what people really think of you. (TIP: Watch “How to Persuade People”)

What don’t you know, that you don’t know? It’s always the obstacles that we don’t even see coming that are the biggest challenges in life. Get in the habit of asking people that have been there and done it before for guidance.






Happiness / Peace of Mind

Are your “shoulds” getting in the way of your happiness? The desires of our ego are often in conflict with the emotions of our heart. You’ll always have what you want, if you want what you have.

If you achieved all of your life’s goals how would you feel? How can you feel that along the way? The discipline of delayed gratification is one of the most powerful habits of successful individuals. But most actions we take are meant to elicit an emotion in the now. We’re happier striving for our goals when we let ourselves feel that which we want to feel when our outcome is achieved.

What did I learn today? Who did I love? What made me laugh? I try and ask myself these 3 questions at the end of each day. Regardless of anything else that happens, if you learned something new, loved a good person and got to laugh heartily, it was a day worth having and remembering.



Perspective

If you weren’t scared what would you do? Use the rocking chair test. What would your 90-year-old self, looking back on your own life, advise you to do in the moment?

If you were dying, would you worry about this? We so easily lose perspective on what takes up our energy and focus. We’re all dying. Sometimes we need to remind ourselves of this to enjoy living. (TIP: Read “The Last Lecture” and “Tuesdays with Morrie”)

Should you be focused on today or tomorrow? Savor the present but don’t forget your future. Life is a balance of knowing when to enjoy the moment vs. when to plant seeds for tomorrow’s harvest.



Influence / Achievement

Why not? What would happen if…? Don’t accept that things just are the way they are. Question why something can’t be done. And when you get pushback to these questions, reframe the negative answers with possibilities. (TIP: Watch “Steve Job’s Vision of the World”)

What/Who did you make better today? The way to measure your worth may just be to give more than you take. Asking what/who you made better each day is a simple litmus test we can all measure ourselves by.

What do you want your life to be in 5 years? If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll never get there – Lewis Carroll. Write down 5-year goals. They’re close enough to grasp for, yet far off enough to achieve almost anything.

What can you do today to improve? Consistent, incremental improvement is the secret to achieving the greatest of feats.



Business / Entrepreneurship

What’s your WHY? If you have a big enough WHY you’ll always figure out the What and the How. If you don’t have a BIG WHY, you’ll always use the What and the How as an excuse for not doing that thing you said you were going to do. (Watch “What’s Your Why”)

What’s the one most important thing to get done today/ this week/month? Write this down on a Post-it note at the beginning of each day/week, and hold yourself accountable for completing this above all other Stuff To Do.

What questions must you consider before starting a business? See my list by watching “The 10 Questions” or reading the document.

What’s the potential upside? What’s the effort involved? What’s the likelihood of success? What’s the strategic value? This is the framework I came up with 3 years ago on “How to Make the Right Business Decisions”. Whenever there is an opportunity cost, I have my team go through this exercise.

What are we talking about? What problem are we solving? I try to start off every meeting by putting this on the whiteboard. In group settings we too often we find ourselves having completely different conversations. Sometimes when answers are difficult to come by, it’s helpful to question if we’re solving for the right problem.

Can you get it done now? If something is important or urgent and you can get it done now, do it. (TIP: Read “Getting Things Done” from the productivity guru David Allen)

What do you need to make it happen? [/b]This is one of my favorite questions to ask as a manager. It creates ownership to make sure the goals will be achieved. And it creates a shared responsibility to provide the resources required (time, money, talent, etc.) to achieve those goals.

[b]If we could wave a magic wand and do anything together, what would that look like? I use this question all the time with potential business partners. By removing the perceived constraints that bind us and focusing on mutually desired outcomes, we often discover new pathways of possibility.


How would your role models act and carry themselves? Act as if. Act as if you have the experience, wisdom and swagger of your role model, and you’ll often find even the most unchartered of situations more navigable.


When can we meet? We’re often this one question away from engaging with someone who can open up limitless avenues of possibility. The most important aspect of business is still to always get it done in person. (TIP: Read “Business Development Advice”)

Will you be my mentor? It’s one question that, when asked in earnest, almost nobody will turn down. Reach out to a person in a position and industry you admire, and ask them if you can take them to coffee and hear about how they got there.

What will I only know about you after we’ve worked together for a year? This interview question comes from the awesome Wendy Lea (CEO, GetSatisfaction). This may be the best interview question I’ve ever heard. (Watch “Fireside Chat with Wendy Lea” and check out my previous 8 Awesome Interview Questions)


What would get you interested in our product/service? Selling is the art of asking good questions, listening, and matching your value to people’s needs. Sales is very easy when others explain what they want and need from you. (Watch “The 5 Step Sales Process”)




Catch-All

What else? Such a simple but powerful question with so may applications.

Now share yours. What are the questions that made the biggest difference in your life? Comments encouraged.

Swiftlee: This is very strong..eleyi gidi gan! Whether top ten or bottom ten. God say you go make am, end time no fit stop am!

true talk

lordZOUGA: Your app doesn't have to be based on IM to have a chat feature. It could be a business consultation platform where the consultants can chat with their clients.

In what place could this work, Nigeria? As a rule we love shinny foreign objects so only social networks can ever work in Africa. #SpeakingFromExperience. This is just the painful truth. The web will never have upto a quater of the value it has in Developed nations. So for now, lets all develop social networks and hope our grandmas visit.

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Career Building

Laziness
Carelessness
Lying
Stealing
Arrogance
Cynicism
Self-pity

There’s more of course, but that list is a really good start.
Here’s the thing. You never intended for those sins to show up in your personal brand, but those exact things may be popping up before our eyes.

How? We see you!

On laziness and carelessness
We see what you are doing and what you are not doing. Believe me, on behalf of your boss and clients: we know how many hours are in a day. We know if more could be accomplished. And if what’s been accomplished could be done better.
For example, my organization has a mantra: First draft, best draft.

That’s right. Intend on writing only one draft –and make it a really good one. Not something that shows you took a stab at it. Not something that says: “I know I promised to get something out by today so I got to it, didn’t I?”
If you deliver the best draft possible, someone else can polish it – and we are golden! If instead, you throw up whatever you’ve got, we are in receipt of your carelessness and laziness. And all those excuses that get thrown in? Throw them out. All we learn is that we can’t rely on you.
You can’t be a great personal brand when your work betrays you.


On lying and stealing
That happens every day you take more than you give. Like when you are sent to a trade show and don’t get on the floor first thing. Or you get paid tuition and rather than do the work to earn an A, you don’t study but hope you’ll get a passing grade.
This everyday kind of lying and stealing is much less sensational than pulling a Houdini. But these small crimes of opportunity are much more likely to kill your reputation.


On arrogance and cynicism
When you say, “I don’t see the point in that.” Or, “that isn’t what I would do.” Well, that’s useful if you have the education, experience and insight to provide that business acumen.
But, if you have that kind of acumen, you probably aren’t saying anything like that.


On self-pity
When the weight of your decisions or the actions of others trips you up: don’t spend much time feeling sorry for yourself. Charge your batteries before they run out. Check the fuel gauge and traffic before either makes youl ate for an interview . Take responsibility for what you could have done better and journal the rest in a chapter titled: Life Isn’t Fair. Don’t read it aloud; we know it by heart.


On hope and change
Consider there’s a whole lot of people who never have a chance – even the smallest chance, to make something of themselves.



Consider what you must do to start a new path. Confess your sins – even if it’s just to yourself. Cleanse your soul. Heal yourself. Because there’s only two good times for you to be the best representative of your personal brand:

1) any day before today,
and
2) today.



Drafted from:http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/destroy-career/



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Still unsure which career field to pursue? According to Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D., career expert and author of numerous career guides, these are the top 10 best jobs for 21 st century, ranked by the best combination of pay, growth and openings:

1. Software Developers, Applications
Annual earnings: $87,790
Percent growth: 34
Annual openings: 21,840


2. Physicians and Surgeons
Annual earnings: $165,279
Percent growth: 21.8
Annual openings: 26,050


3. Software Developers, Systems Software
Annual earnings: $94,180
Percent growth: 30.4
Annual openings: 15,340


4. Management Analysts
Annual earnings: $78,160
Percent growth: 23.9
Annual openings: 30,650


5. Computer Systems Analysts
Annual earnings: $77,740
Percent growth: 20.3
Annual openings: 22,280


6. Registered Nurses
Annual earnings: $64,690
Percent growth: 22.2
Annual openings: 103,900


7. Civil Engineers
Annual earnings: $77,560
Percent growth: 24.3
Annual openings: 11,460


8. Medical Scientists (except Epidemiologists)
Annual earnings: $76,700
Percent growth: 40.4
Annual openings: 6,620


9. Physical Therapists
Annual earnings: $76,310
Percent growth: 30.3
Annual openings: 7,860


10. Dental Hygienists
Annual earnings: $68,250
Percent growth: 36.1
Annual openings: 9,840


These jobs are the top 10 of a 400-job list, “Best Jobs Overall,” which appears in Shatkin’s new book, Best Jobs for the 21st Century. If none of the 10 above fit your skills or interests, the book includes 68 other lists of jobs lists divided by demographic, experience, salary and more.
This article is seen as authoritative because it was culled from Glassdoor.com, which is seen in all quarters as the no. 1 career resource website in the world.


http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/jobs-21st-century/

naija_swag: (burst into pigdin sporadically) Me too I be programmer.

Basically, you will ask yourself, what is 2go? It's a mobile app. Fundamentally, you need knowledge of mobile apps programming in language of your choice with chosen platforms. Secondly, its a chat application. These two foundations will solve the riddle for you. Try doing a simple chat app that works on a mobile phone and you will now begin to appreciate 2go and others like whatsapp, kik, imo and bbm.

You should know better than this. Chat apps are so easy to make (like with the Emergence of open-source, app builders and other PaaS companies). Thats the primary reason why the market is saturated becus the barriers to entry has been virtually killed off. Also, 2go's UI is so poor and reminiscent of web 1.0 which sites like Craiglist belongs to. If you are a designer, you will never use 2go out of vexation.