If we look at someone, our brain subconsciously categorizes this person because of his/her appearance. That’s why the first impression we get from someone always plays a decisive role, especially at job applications.
It’s quite a common situation to apply for a job, but thousands of people don’t know how to make a good impression.
First your appearance is decisive for the first impression, which’s why your clothes should fit with the working place you apply for. It won’t make a good impression, for example if you apply for a job at a reception and appear in a track suit. Secondly, the impression you convey of your own person is of particular importance. It’s mostly made up of your cleanliness and your self-confidence.
At the same time self-confidence is what makes it difficult for many people to get a job, because embarassingly they don’t know the difference between being self confident and being arrogant! Which’s maybe the reason of watching tv too often. There they're lying, showing off and being aggressive, which may be quite funny to look at. In real life such behaviours aren’t funny in any way and may even cost your job.
The conclusion is: be informed, prepare yourself for every question they may have and show them that you’re the best person for the job. If you stay as naturally as you can and consider all this, I’m sure you’ll easily get your dreamjob! Well begun is half done.
Monday 30 March 2009
Friday 27 February 2009
Thursday 26 February 2009
Staying informed
Whenever there happens something horrible in society, in the most cases especially newspapers report that society is very uninformed because otherwise ‘this or that’ would not have been possible to happen. I personally think that it’s enormously important to inform our self and I also do inform myself with looking the news, reading the newspaper and using the internet (e.g. BBC) daily. But many people (unfortunately especially in my age) don’t know why it is important to inform our self, which is why I want to talk about some examples in my essay. To answer this question (why we should stay informed), there are a lot of examples which I personally subdivided in three main reasons: for society, for yourself and for democracy!
First of all, it’s very important for our self and our basic knowledge, to be and stay informed all the time. Communication is decisive for a “good society” and for integration, which means that everyone needs a certain knowledge to argue and communicate with others on a certain standard. Additionally being informed is an advantage in many subjects in school and can really help you by building and presenting your own opinion.
Therefore it’s secondly very important for our society and of course also for our social aspect that we inform our self. In the newspaper you can find information about all kinds of services our community has and also where you can find organisations that support e.g. poor people. You can also find some letters to the editor which are also good for society because they’ve something to do with your own conscious or subconscious formation of opinion.
Thirdly, maybe the most important reason to inform our self is politics. I think if our society would know more about our past and if they would be generally better informed, it wouldn’t be possible that still right wing extremists parties earn as many votes as they earned at the last selection. Because if society would only know a bit more about our political past, I’m sure they wouldn’t want to have the same crime as we actually had (not long ago!). Politics is material to all of us and society should be able to react or protest against politics all the time, if they try to do something “wrong”. But if we don’t know what’s going on, we’re unable to do anything, which means that we’re totally government-controlled and powerless, which is very dangerous!
The more our society consists out of uninformed people, the more dangerous it is for all of us! It’s so important for a state and our future to stay informed, because otherwise there consists the danger of manipulation, like Hitler actually is the best example for. He and of course also many other powerful people until today wanted and want that “no one is able to think independent”, which was also a basic idea of the African apartheid - an idea powerful enough to destroy the half world!
Finally as you can hopefully see at my examples, being informed should be a “must have” for everyone. Everyone of us should now what’s going around in the world we all live in, because everyone of us is a part of our society, which automatically means that also everyone of us is jointly responsible for our society and therefore how our future is going to look like.
First of all, it’s very important for our self and our basic knowledge, to be and stay informed all the time. Communication is decisive for a “good society” and for integration, which means that everyone needs a certain knowledge to argue and communicate with others on a certain standard. Additionally being informed is an advantage in many subjects in school and can really help you by building and presenting your own opinion.
Therefore it’s secondly very important for our society and of course also for our social aspect that we inform our self. In the newspaper you can find information about all kinds of services our community has and also where you can find organisations that support e.g. poor people. You can also find some letters to the editor which are also good for society because they’ve something to do with your own conscious or subconscious formation of opinion.
Thirdly, maybe the most important reason to inform our self is politics. I think if our society would know more about our past and if they would be generally better informed, it wouldn’t be possible that still right wing extremists parties earn as many votes as they earned at the last selection. Because if society would only know a bit more about our political past, I’m sure they wouldn’t want to have the same crime as we actually had (not long ago!). Politics is material to all of us and society should be able to react or protest against politics all the time, if they try to do something “wrong”. But if we don’t know what’s going on, we’re unable to do anything, which means that we’re totally government-controlled and powerless, which is very dangerous!
The more our society consists out of uninformed people, the more dangerous it is for all of us! It’s so important for a state and our future to stay informed, because otherwise there consists the danger of manipulation, like Hitler actually is the best example for. He and of course also many other powerful people until today wanted and want that “no one is able to think independent”, which was also a basic idea of the African apartheid - an idea powerful enough to destroy the half world!
Finally as you can hopefully see at my examples, being informed should be a “must have” for everyone. Everyone of us should now what’s going around in the world we all live in, because everyone of us is a part of our society, which automatically means that also everyone of us is jointly responsible for our society and therefore how our future is going to look like.
Monday 23 February 2009
The Aids rate
http://www.intmath.com/Differential-equations/AIDS-chart.gif
It’s quite scary to note that there’s an almost dramatic explosion of the Aids rate after 1985.
Before the year 1985 there Aids honestly wasn’t existing and the rate was quite zero.
From 1989 until today we can notice a permanent and dramatically upward trend of the Aids rate.
Between the years 1997 and 1998 there was a change and the rising of the Aids rate wasn’t as dramatically as it was in the years before!
It’s quite horrible to not that the Aids rate increases since 1980 until today.
It’s quite scary to note that there’s an almost dramatic explosion of the Aids rate after 1985.
Before the year 1985 there Aids honestly wasn’t existing and the rate was quite zero.
From 1989 until today we can notice a permanent and dramatically upward trend of the Aids rate.
Between the years 1997 and 1998 there was a change and the rising of the Aids rate wasn’t as dramatically as it was in the years before!
It’s quite horrible to not that the Aids rate increases since 1980 until today.
Monday 2 February 2009
application
Anja Kern
Blumenstraße 33
7777 Köln
February 1st, 2008
Blumenstraße 33
7777 Köln
Mr. George Derby
XYZ Company
87 Delaware Road
Hatfield, CA 08065
(909) 555-5555
XYZ Company
87 Delaware Road
Hatfield, CA 08065
(909) 555-5555
February 1st, 2008
Dear Mr. Derby,
Application for the conservator position
I'm writing in reply to your advertisement in the New York Times. As request I'm enclosing a completed job application, my certification, my resume and two references. The opportunity presented in this listing is very interesting and I think my abilities meet your claims. It's one of my hobbys to restore old things, from paintings to bildings and until now I've already got a quite worth seeing collection of building plans. After I findished the study of preserve & restore I have been working for two years for a furniture designer, where I completed my practical training period. In addition I made good experiences with joiners work an I'm quite good at drawing, painting and planing. It's the idea of making old things new that fascinates me at being a conservator.
I believe that my strong experience in many areas and my education will make me a very competitive candidate for this position.
Please see me resume for additional infromation on my experience.
I would welcome the opportunity to discuss my application with you.
Sincerely yours,
Anja Kern
Encl.: CV, References, resume
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