Nobody will give you a tremendous amount of money to finance your study and travel with no string attached but luckily the European Commission does. Of course, there is a limit to the quantity of scholarships and they receive more applications each year that they cannot possible accept every single potential candidate no matter how […]
Graduate Job Applications – Identify Your Transferable Skills
Getting into the labour market after school or college is a daunting prospect and that’s without the minefield of jargon, overnight advances in technology and discriminatory attitudes. OK – Let’s bust a bit of that jargon! What exactly are transferable skills? Quite simply, they are things you can do in one area of your life […]
Human Resource Information System – HRIS
Human Resource Information Systems The purpose of this paper is to identify other companies who have faced similar human resources issues in regards to information technology. Through benchmarking different companies we can learn how other companies have handled certain human resources issues related to information technology, information systems, new technology, and data security. An overall […]
Long Island’s Commercial Aviation Heritage: Airports and Airlines
Although Floyd Bennett Field and JFK International and La Guardia airports can be geographically classified as “Long Island” venues, there were some half-dozen Nassau and Suffolk County facilities that offered varying degrees of scheduled and charter, passenger-carrying airline service in traditional-land, amphibious flying boat, and rotary-wing helicopter forms. Roosevelt Field: Progressively forgotten with the advance […]
115 Ways to Be Your Own Boss
(1) HAND DECORATING of ordinary objects pays well. Their value is often quadrupled. Prepared stencils and designs are available from hobby shops. You can work in attic or basement and need invest very little in supplies. Saleable items are initialled tumblers, stools, trays, jugs, boxes, waste-baskets, greeting cards, toys. Sell your work to gift shops […]
Understanding Marketing: Basics of Fronting Your Business
I have over the years in my marketing career industrialized on my experience, but it feels like I have just begun the journey. Recently pursuing a shift in my career and dwelling into the depths of search marketing, it has opened my eyes to the possibilities and opportunities online marketing has to offer for any […]
The Credit Crunch – It’s True Causes and a Call to Action
[This analysis relates mostly to the United States and the United Kingdom, which is where I live, but it is also important to people living in other Western countries.] 1. I’m not going to give you any BS. Reading this may give you nightmares but I can’t help that. The important thing for you is […]
Ten Important Lessons From the History of Mergers & Acquisitions
The history of mergers and acquisitions in the United States is comprised of a series of five distinct waves of activity. Each wave occurred at a different time, and each exhibited some unique characteristics related to the nature of the activity, the sources of funding for the activity, and to some extent, differing levels of success […]
Sourcing Superstars – Alok Aggarwal & Marc Vollenweider, Evalueserve
Q: Tell us how Evalueserve got started: how did you meet and how did you start to do business together? Alok Aggarwal: I basically came to the US in 1980, did my PhD in computer science in Hopkins in 1984, joined IBM’s Research division in 1984 and then was there for 16 years; I started […]
A Brief History of Wireless Networking
The first true Wireless Network was the ALOHAnet, developed within Hawaii University in the early 1970s. This led to the development of wireless networks that are in common use today, such as the 802.11 WLAN standards and 802.15 Bluetooth PAN standards. ALOHA used a random access method for packet data over UHF frequencies and this […]