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An employer sits down to inspect a stack of resumes on her desk. She looks at the names; Paul, Emily, Lamar. According to Marianna Bertrand, an associate professor at the University of Chicago, the employer is more likely to pick a more white sounding name. Researchers created identical resumes, some with white names, some with black names, and sent them into employers. The white sounding names received up to 50 percent…

Journal Five: Law and Disorder When it comes the relationship between criminal justice and the people that are caught up in it, lead to undesired consequences. In the book, Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, the idea of testilying is seen as a serious problem and that couldn’t be more right. Although, to beg the question, why isn’t something done about it? Well, no one wishes to interfere with others that may falsely accuse them as well. Even with this in mind…

and students as well as the teachers can resume their schedules with renewed vigor, a fresher mind and great zeal.” (Year-Round School Advantages and Disadvantages). Regular school breaks stimulates a person to remain focused. Luke Towler claims that the extended time off allows both the teachers and students to not feel drained from school. Furthermore, extended time off keeps students occupied in their learning and prepared to attend school when it resumes again. To remain focused in school,…

mistakes I saw my older cousins and sister make when they applied to college. The decisions I made during this year and the effects they had on me, changed me as a person forever. I was joining random clubs I wasn’t interested in just to build up my resume. I was spending almost all of…

Also, during this time one should think wisely of the next step to rising to a point even higher than they were before. She then talked about a solution for this fall. That is a good resume, which includes your story, what you want to be, why do you want to accomplish certain goals and what is your purpose. Such resume is what is going to get you out of the hole stronger. Oprah discovered this in an interview with little girl who collected her pocket change and collected thousands of dollars to…

recent growth of Information Technology and Systems in the modern world has completely changed the job hiring process. In particular, social media has been a huge influence in the transformation. The job hiring process used to be fairy simple, a good resume and face-to-face interview and you had the job. Today, recruiters are not only using traditional hiring methods but also using social media as a personal background check. There are numerous positive and negative aspects of this controversial…

declining major because students don’t want to put in the work that goes into all the classes in order to receive their degree. From 1998 the percentage of students that are graduating with this degree has fallen 14.9% (Hunt, 2008). The number of resumes that have been submitted to the program has fallen from 180 to 96 but the number of schools that want accounting students has grown from 110 to 222 (Hunt, 2008). These statistics are showing us that it isn’t the lack of schools that want…

Could Harvard become an easy college to get into? In the Article Profile of Perfect College Applicant Gets Remake the author, Kansas City Star, believes it, as well as many other colleges can. The author believes that colleges should start focusing on a student's attributes such as, passion and character. This is in contrast to looking at grades, test scores, and previous classes a student may have taken, which is many college’s primary way of selecting students. The purpose of the article is to…

curriculum that was targeted for kids 20 years ago. Teachers in American high schools are not focusing on the skills that students needs to make it in the real world. Students are not taught the basic skills such as writing a check to creating a resume. These are the simple things that every graduated high school student should know. According to Malcolm London " Oceans of adolescents come ... to receive lessons, but never learn to swim" (London). This vividly explains that students are not…

matching businesses and companies with the employees they need. We work with all the prospective employees directly, assisting them in finding the job that best suits their qualifications and needs. We can even assist with ensuring that you have a resume, which will make you excel. Our services to employers We choose every job applicant through a systematic and severe screening process that includes ability testing, and detail, personal interviews before submitting any job applicant to our…