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What to leave out of your resume

bukid — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:51:58 +0000

By MensXP.com

There’s a lot one is supposed to put on their resume, but have you remembered to pay attention to what should be removed?DetailIf you have experience, your resume should show it. After all, your resume is the professional you – your life, experiences – everything that makes you a better candidates. And that doesn’t mean you scrimp on the print cost and use a small font-size and abbreviated descriptions so that it all fits into one page. If you’ve lived large, your resume should be large.

Just a Degree?

Everybody being interviewed has a degree. What do you have (i.e. work experience) that sets you apart. And not only do you need to mention work experience, but your accomplishments – they further set you apart.

Bad Paper

The paper your resume is printed on shouldn’t be of an inferior quality. While most cyber cafes stock high quality paper, this is still worth paying attention to. A discerning HR at a premium company might be turned off by faded yellowing paper. And only A4!

Useless Hobbies

A hobby is a activity you do in your leisure time. There’s nothing wrong with watching TV as a hobby, but the HR interviewing you views your hobbies as an extension of your productivity, and will ask you questions about it.

Fancy Fonts

Times New Roman, Helvetica and Arial are your friends. Comic Sans is not. That said, be safe with only one font for all headings, subheadings and descriptions.

Typos, Bad Grammar

Not allowed. Use short sentences, small, words. If you’re still unsure, have it checked out by someone who knows the language better than you.

Lies

If you’re caught, not only will you be banned from the company, but you also might be blacklisted from a lot of allied companies.

Embarrassing Email Address

This one is optional, but it is still advisable to change your email username from something irritating (e.g. handsomehunk@mail.net to something simple. The easiest? your name@email.

Honorific Titles and Flowery Language

An HR will laugh at “May I bring to your esteemed attention…”in your covering letter, or any attempts at projecting a grandiose image of yourself. The real you will be sitting right in front of the interviewer in a few days, not the resume. (Work Life, MensXP.com)

Air-dried versus Sun-dried corn

bukid — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:04:16 +0000

By ZAC B. SARIAN

One simple technique that could add more weight to our corn harvest is to air-dry the husked ears rather than drying the kernels in the sun.

This is what Virginia de Guzman has found in her own experiment. De Guzman is the provincial agriculturist of Salvador town in Lanao del Norte. At the recent agri-fair in conjunction with the 50th anniversary celebration of Lanao del Norte, she showcased her technology.

In her experiment, she has found that grains of air-dried husked corn ears are heavier by three percent than the kernels dried in the sun to about 14 percent moisture content. Besides being heavier, she said that the air-dried corn grains have a longer storage life.

What gave her the idea to conduct the experiment on drying corn? Well, although she has been the municipal agriculturist of Salvador for 17 years, her college training is actually as a marine biologist.

In fact, she was responsible for starting and developing the seaweed industry in the town of Kolambugan, also in Lanao del Norte. Today Kolambugan is a major producer of seaweeds. She said that they had long found that when the seaweeds are air-dried, they are heavier than those sun-dried. So she thought of finding out if that would also work in drying corn. And she found that the technique does work.

A three-percent increase in weight may not look much when small quantities are involved, but when it comes to thousands of tons, the increase in weight would be substantial. De Guzman said that the town of Salvador is a major corn producer. No less than 6,000 hectares are devoted to corn which are planted three times a year. The wet season crop is planted late May to June, the “palagad” from late September to October, and the dry season crop planted in February.

The farmers plant mostly hybrid corn seeds so that the average yield per hectare is 6 to 7 tons. The corn harvests are bought by traders from Cebu, Negros, Cagayan de Oro and others. The current buying price is R11.50 per kilo ex-farm, according to De Guzman. The farmers also plant white corn which fetches R13 per kilo with 14 percent moisture content. The problem is that there are no big feedmills in Lanao del Norte that is why most of the grains are sold to traders outside of the province.

Many of the corn farmers have small landholdings. But there is one fellow who is planting corn on 2,000 hectares of mostly rented farms. He is Sultan Johny Tawan-tawan.

Aside from corn, Salvador farmers also produce rice on 2,605 hectares, most of which are planted two times a year. Most of the rice farms yield about 100 cavans per hectare.

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