You have been handling a project for a long time, which means you have already established rapport with some important people who are directly involved with the project. Somewhere along the way, one of your key counterparts resigned from their post. As a result, that person’s tasks get handed over to another individual, including communication. …
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The Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) is a training program which educates and certifies trainees in the proper care and documentation of personal information during research. Many research programs will require all key personnel to be certified in order to obtain IRB approval for the project. How can you present this certification on a resume? …
With the rise of the internet and the increasing ease of telecommunications, you might assume that one thing that has been standardized throughout the world is phone numbers. Your assumptions would be wrong! The structure of phone numbers throughout the world varies a great deal. Within a single country, even the length of phone numbers …
Rising against the outright challenges of the pandemic, curious non-native and native English language users have learned to seek help from the internet to make sense of a wide range of expressions. In fact, people nowadays search for the meaning of even the most run-of-the-mill English phrases, such as the salutation “To Whom It May …
Hackathons are collaborative timed projects which explore software and app development under specific topics or themes, such as using a certain OS or programming language. Hackathons are intensive and require the ability to work under pressure, as well as fundamental skills in programming. How can you best include hackathon experience on a resume? How …
How can you tell whether any correspondence or discussion is about to go downhill? Well, that ain’t rocket science. One way to know that the information you are about to receive wouldn’t be in your favor is when you start reading or hearing the classic expression “I regret to inform you that.” But, when exactly …
Technology and computers have become an inevitable part of our lives both at home and at work. Because of this, many jobs have the reasonable expectation that an employee can use a computer keyboard with some amount of proficiency. There are even tests that can measure how many words a person can type per minute! …
According to science, the human brain is genetically designed to seek order or pattern and loathe chaos. This is one of the reasons why we tend to find ourselves indulging in linguistic inquiries, searching for a deeper meaning of even the most mundane English phrases on earth. To make sense of the obscure, we’ll look …
How do you get a job with no experience? The first step is to look for entry-level jobs. These aren’t unskilled jobs, but they are the types of jobs that you can move into without having worked them before and learn the necessary skills on the job. Unfortunately, even these types of jobs tend to …