Cover Letter of an Overzealous NYU Undergrad to Wall Street Firm Goes Viral

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In today’s corporate world, it is important to emphasize one’s own strengths while knowing the weaknesses.  And this should be done when crafting your resume.  But sometimes people get too carried away in a competitive situation.  Given how things are in the job world in the US – specially in the banking and finance sector [...]

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What can I do for next 40 years?

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A friend recently lost his job. The times are bad so its no surprise that someone would eventually.

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For Long Life, Love your Colleagues!

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Do you have a great relationship with your colleagues at work? If not, the chances of you dying earlier than those who have good relationships is lower by 250%!

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Is Seducing boss the best way to the top?

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In these times of distressed economy, it seems affairs still work.

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Lack of Friendships and Longer Working Hours

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These days we work a lot of hours in office. Sometimes and in some cases these hours are as high as 20 in a day! For many people, there is hardly any life outside office.

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Career Discussions: Creating a Personal Board of Directors

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One of the things that most personal development Gurus talk about these days is to treat yourself as a “Brand”.

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Protecting Your Online Reputation: Smart Digital Self-Defense and Insurance against Damage

In the physical world, most people lock their doors, buy car insurance, and take other precautions to protect themselves from harm.

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StaffCentrix – vet out the “work from home” deals

A lot of people are losing jobs. And as more people are losing jobs, there are others who are lining up to take advantage of these people by scamming them while offering “work from home” deals. All sorts of things are promised! From stuffing envelopes to mystery shopping etc. And these things are made to look exotic. Well, most of all this is just scam.

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Important Points About COBRA Subsidy Plan under American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Wanted to share some important and salient points about COBRA Subsidy plan.

  • Valid for people who were involuntarily terminated between September 1, 2008 and December 31, 2009
  • To be eligible annual income cannot exceed $125,000 for a single person and $250,000 for a couples
  • 65% of existing COBRA premiums will be subsidized by the U.S. Treasury Department
  • Subsidies will be available for up to 9 months
  • If you declined COBRA coverage after September 1, 2008 you will have the option to re-enroll into COBRA with the above subsides
  • Notices of the COBRA subsidies and re-enrollment information will be sent from the COBRA administrator (usually your previous employer)
  • Subsidies will be paid, via a refundable tax credit, directly to the COBRA administrators
  • Subsidies will terminate if the enrollee acquires a new health insurance plan through another employer or is eligible for Medicare
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3 Innovative Undergrad and Graduate Life Sciences Courses in India

Economy is really bad right now globally. However, even in this economy students can do certain courses that can help them get into useful and paying careers down the road. Here are a few courses that I found would be very useful to students in India who are looking for alternative career paths.

1. Post Graduation in Clinical Research and Clinical Data Management: Clinical Research Education and Management Academy (CREMA) offers three post graduate courses: Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Research (PGDCR), Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Data Management (PGDCDM), Post Graduate Diploma in Pharmacovigilance (PGDPhV). In an economy which is contracting but diseases are not, more and more pharma companies from US and Europe will outsource the Clinical Research and testing to countries like India. So, such a course will prepare the students for a good and paying career by the time they graduate.

Contact: 1800 209 3731 or email to mumenquiry@cremaindia.org
Eligibility: Graduate or postgraduate in Life Sceiences/ Microbiology/ Biotechnology/ Pharmacy/ Medicine/ Nursing/ Physiotherapy/ Dentistry/ Homeopathy/ Ayurvedic and Veterinary Science.

2. B.Tech. Bioinformatics: This is another interesting program that will equip the students with knowledge and career of the future. The program helps teach the students Computational methods to study, organise, analyse and interpret biological information at molecular, genetic and genomics levels. Genetic research and work specially with respect to its interface with IT and computation is going to be hot going forward. This course from VIT University, Vellore, India helps prepare the kids for that. Btw, the last date for issue and submission of application forms is February 28, 2009.

The University has some very interesting programmes other than this one in the broad area of Biotechnology:

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