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Competency-Based Resumes: How To Bring Your Resume To The Top Of The Pile (Paperback)

Competency-Based Resumes: How To Bring Your Resume To The Top Of The Pile

Do you want the key to the best jobs with the best employers? It’s time to play offense instead of defense. Competency-Based Resumes shows today’s job candidates a new, more targeted way to write resumes to get them back on the same playing field with the best employers and improve their odds of winning the job they want. The system an employer uses when filling jobs has changed significantly in the past few years, and it is still evolving. Rather than simply looking at an applicant’s past jobs, companies are instead looking at candidate’s experiences in certain key areas-including measurable work habits and the personal skills, known as competencies, used to achieve objectives at work. Competency-Based Resumes offers you a new and effective way to create resumes that emphasizes the knowledge, skills, and abilities that you have and employers need. Many sophisticated U.S. and international organizations are using competency-based systems to recruit, interview, selec (more…)

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Scrabble Slam Deluxe Card Game

Scrabble Slam Deluxe Card Game

From the Manufacturer

Scrabble Slam is a high-speed four-letter word game with a deluxe card organizer and traveling case. Anything can happen as you flick your letter cards to make new words. Race against each other to change the existing word and get rid of all your cards! GAME could become FAME and FAME could become FATE you never know where it’ll go with Scrabble Slam!

Scrabble Slam! Deluxe is wicked fast! Play starts with any word nominated by a player that has four letters in it. The word is then made up from the card-pack and spelled out on the table. After the remaining game cards have been equally distributed among all of the players, one player says “Ready, Set, Slam!” and the furious fun begins! Everybody races to change the word by covering any one of the existing letters with another letter, making a different word of four letters. For example, the word GAME can be changed to GATE, then to FATE, and then FARE, and so on. Blank cards a (more…)

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The Craft of Translation (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) (Paperback)

The Craft of Translation (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

Amazon.com Review

The nine essays collected in The Craft of Translation contain plenty of theoretical speculation about “working in the space between languages.” Fortunately, though, most of the authors avoid getting bogged down in abstraction. Indeed, luminaries like William Weaver and Margaret Sayers Peden stick to a nuts-and-bolts analysis of exactly how one word gets chosen over another. And Gregory Rabassa’s opening salvo (“No Two Snowflakes Are Alike”), which addresses some of the basic dilemmas of literary translation, should fascinate beginners and polished professionals alike.

From Publishers Weekly

Perspicacious essays by nine wordsmiths carefully reconstruct the complex, highly elusive translation process. Stressing that the element of choice “bedevils the translator as he seeks to approach the language he is working from as closely as possible,” Gregory Rabassa ponders personal and cultural nuances, poetry, curses and oaths, (more…)

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