Archive for March, 2007
Creative job applications
2 Comments Published by Jackie March 17th, 2007 in Funny and Weird, Job huntingMy daughter came across this on the web and sent it on to me. It made me hoot with laughter. Enjoy!
McDONALDS APPLICATION
This is an actual job application a 17-year-old boy submitted at a McDonald’s fast-food establishment in Florida – and they hired him because he was so honest and funny!
NAME: Greg Bulmash
SEX: Not yet. Still […]
What ‘getting a degree’ doesn’t teach you
0 Comments Published by Jackie March 14th, 2007 in Academic v VocationalCame across a really good article on the web the other day entitled 13 things I wish I learned in college, college meaning university as it is an American article. It very succinctly highlights the disparity between skills learnt at university and skills needed in the graduate workplace. For example:
Long essays versus short reports
information loaded […]
I see the teenage brain is in the news again. According to an article in the Guardian yesterday, when teenagers are being sulky and petulant they just can’t help it.
Their petulant behaviour is all down to an unexpected chemical reaction in their developing brains. Scientists have found that the mechanism normally used by the brain […]
