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Building your Career Portfolio

You do your best in order to find a job so that you can earn money. You work hard and do your best to improve your chances to earn more. You feel that you have achieved something because you have a job and your salary is good. Then you find out later that the economic turndown or the political events has affected the company where you are working. A cut in personnel services takes place. You are one of the many victims.

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Considering Graduate School

In my mind, there are mainly two groups of people who are considering a graduate school degree – those who have just finished an undergraduate degree and those who already have jobs. Both seek career enhancement. Such a decision should really be considered seriously. Pursuing a graduate school degree means one has to invest a lot of work and money. But not only that. There are other considerations which perhaps which are also worth taking into account .Is there really a need? When is the right time to do it?

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Temporary to Permanent Position: Know the Ropes

When you’re working as a temp, chances are you’ll be coming in there and work only for a few months. The people around you will know very little about you and the boss might not even notice you until you contract ends. The pay is tolerable but it will never cover almost anything that you dream of. The bad part is that position will stay the same if you don’t do anything. Sure you can use that as a reference as an experience but you’re letting a good chance pass on you. Read the rest..

Don’t Avoid Employment Cold Calling Calls

Cold calling is often associated with telemarketing. It’s the art of calling people who you do not know and offering them products and services. It has been bread and butter for some people while it is constantly being loathed by people receiving the phone call since they are just too pesky and intrusive.

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Why You Should Write Thank You Letter after the Interview

Highlight your interview

You are not the only one who is considered for the position. You’re vying for a position that everyone else wants. If you go with the flow, you’ll just hope that they will call you back. But if you wanted to remind the interviewer about your job interview, better make a letter and fast. A simple note would suffice to trigger their memory about you.

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New Interactive Features Update at GeekInterview.com

Dear All,  As you must have all noticed, we have updated questions listing and questions detail pages, which are now packed with more interactive features. Question Reporting, Answer Reporting and Answer Rating are three such new features made available on questions detail page. Let us now see how you can make of these interactive features.

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GeekInterview Weekly Digest May 05, 2008

This week we provided training sessions SMS and Symbian under Wireless, Relational Databases, SQL Keys and SQL Table Commands under Database sections. Read the rest..

SQL Server 2005 Tutorials

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 provides the database developer the opportunity to locate programming code in native formats or create server-driven complex systems. The .NET framework, in combination with the SQL Server 2005, delivers the functionality of the powerful class library in combination with modern programming languages. Common Language Runtime (CLR) is used to code procedures, triggers and functions within the chosen language in the .NET framework. Using object-oriented constructs such as structured exception handling, namespaces, classes and arrays assist the programmer in effectively handling procedural issues when programming with SQL Server 2005.

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Take Care of the Privacy of your Resume

Our resume tells a lot about ourselves. From the basic information that are related to work such as skills and experience to the more personal information such as date of birth and age, everything will be known by the employer with a single glance of our resume. Most of the time our resume ends up with a legitimate company who will evaluate us for the available jobs but there are possibilities that your resume will end up with thieves – identity thieves to be specific.

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PHP Oracle Development Training

PHP Oracle Web Development - Data processing, Security, Caching, XML, Web Services, and Ajax The book is written by Yuli Vaseliev, a well known author of different web development and programming books. PHP Oracle Web Development: Data processing, Security, Caching, XML, Web Services, and Ajax is a good starting book for any web development professionals and enthusiasts. It covers the basics of web development using PHP and database management of Oracle including an installation guide for Oracle and PHP.

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