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5 Reasons Why Your Online Presence Will Replace Your Resume in 10 years

5 Reasons Why Your Online Presence Will Replace Your Resume in 10 years By  mpier187 More and more employers are starting to search for a potential employee’s web presence when considering the candidate for a job.  Employers want to see a candidate’s resume but before or after they meet with the candidate they may also want to search the candidate’s web presence.  According to the writer, your online presence should consist of your own website and should contain at a minimum your Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter URLs.  By creating your own web presence you will also be more in control of how you will be perceived online to other people that search for you. The writer lists five reasons why your online presence will eventually replace your resume: 1. Social networking use is skyrocketing while email is plummeting: According to a recent survey, 90% of American Internet users visit a social networking site each month.  Also the 35+ demograp...

Malala Yousafza- full text UN speech

Malala Yousafza- full text UN speech Honourable UN Secretary General Mr Ban  Ki-moon, respected president of the General Assembly  Vuk Jeremic,  honourable UN envoy for global education  Mr Gordon Brown, respected elders and my dear brothers and sisters: Assalamu alaikum. Today is it an honour for me to  be speaking again after a long time. Being here with such honourable people is a great moment in my life and it is an honour for me that today I am wearing a shawl of the late Benazir Bhutto. I don’t know where to begin my speech. I don’t know what people would be expecting me to say, but first of all thank you to God for whom we all are equal and thank you to every person who has prayed for my fast recovery and new life. I cannot believe how much love people have shown me. I have received thousands of good-wish cards and gifts from all over the world. Thank you to all of them. Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me. Thank you to my...

Malala’s 14 most inspiring quotes from her UN speech

Malala’s  14 most inspiring quotes from her UN speech By Osarome Ogbebor “I am wearing a shawl of the late Benazir Bhutto” “They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed. And out of that silence came thousands of voices” “The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born” “I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all the terrorists and extremists. I do not even hate the Talib who shot me” “This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone” “We realize the importance of light when we see darkness” “We realise the importance of our voice when we are silenced. “The pen is mightier than the sword” “The extremists are afraid of books and pens. The power of education frightens them” “Why are the Taliban against education?”He answered very simply by pointing to his book, he...