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Using Social Networking Sites To Find A Job
Using Social Networking Sites To Find A Job
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media was our escape from the prying eyes of parents and teachers. It was a
cyber extension of the playground pecking order – a place to impress, to
embellish and experiment. It was a world based largely on fantasy. You could
find yourself in a three-hour conversation with someone online and then
completely ignore them at school. With careful picture/song selection for your
Facebook page, you could become a completely different and much more
intriguing person overnight. And if you couldn’t be bothered with conversation,
‘poking’ people on Facebook was a legitimate alternative.
However, when it comes to using social media for professional networking, our
very knowledge and experience of sites like Facebook may actually be a
hindrance. Using social media in a professional capacity is a completely
different ball game, but for some twenty-somethings, the division is not clear
cut. We first earned our online presence by being bold and over-confident,
which could explain why some of us still come across like this. Just because a
lot of people ‘liked’ your posts on Facebook, it doesn’t mean you’ll be able to
use Linkedln to show potential employers that you’re someone worth
employing. We need to realise that what we learned about social networking as
teenagers no longer applies, and we must live up to employers’ standards if we
want to get on in the world of work.
One of the most common complaints from employers regarding young
jobseekers on professional networking sites is that they’re over-familiar in their
form of address, and appear arrogant. This serves to perpetuate older
generations’ perceptions of us as an ‘entitled generation’. In fact, we’re very far
from this; in many countries we’re increasingly desperate about finding
employment, which is why many of us are turning to social media in the first
place. This impression of arrogance hurts the employment prospects of young
people who – despite their communication errors – actually possess the skills
and drive to become a valuable part of the workforce.
So what’s the right way to contact someone on a professional networking site?
Firstly, explain clearly who you are, and let the person you’re writing to know
what’s in it for them – maybe you could offer to do a piece of research for them,
or assist in some other way. This approach gives you a much better chance of
getting a useful reply. Refrain from sending impersonal, blanket emails, and
keep the tone humble if you want to avoid leaving a sour taste in the recipient’s
mouth. Remember – social media can be a great way to make useful contacts,
but it needs careful handling if you don’t want the door slammed in your face.
Vocabularies
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1. Indignant:
- He became very indignant when it was suggested he had made a mistake.
- "Your assumption is entirely incorrect," he declared indignantly.
- They reacted with shock and indignation when they were accused of
cheating.
- The boss scolds Jackson crudely, which arouses him indignation.
- A wave of indignation is raised against the monkey killer.
- He gave an indignant reply.
- He might have been overlooked but for the well-meant, indignant
officiousness of his father.
- It was an indignant, nationwide protest.
- Indignant protests followed this proceeding.
- Peter's first serious outburst of indignation was due to the prince's looting
in Poland.
- Everywhere intense indignation was aroused by the cruel tortures and
executions.
- She has not even learned that exhibition on which so many pride
themselves, of 'righteous indignation.'
- "No, he's not a fool!" replied Natasha indignantly and seriously.
- He indignantly rebuked his rival's language and demeanor.
- Clement had formerly indignantly rejected the suggestion of such an
exchange of favours.
2. Vicious:
- He gave her a vicious look.
- I have a vicious headache.
- I don’t believe he is a vicious dog.
- Jimmy slapped the ball down viciously with his bat.
- I don't think he expected the viciousness or nastiness of the book.
- She thinks she is some kind of vicious animal.
- A vicious circle is obviously involved.
- This was not a mangy or vicious creature standing before him, but a
breathtakingly beautiful, gigantic wolf.
- Subsequently this vicious principle was extended still further.
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5. Appalled
She choked it back quickly, appalled she was able to find humor at such a
time.
He was more and more appalled by the memories afflicting his brother,
what he'd gone through since his supposed death.
The earthquake at Lisbon, which appalled other people, gave Voltaire an
excellent opportunity for ridiculing the beliefs of the orthodox, first in
verse (1756) and later in the (from a literary point of view) unsurpassable
tale of Candide (1759).
He was not greatly beloved by his clergy, who felt their intellectual
distance too great, and were alternately frozen by his taciturnity
and appalled by his sarcasm.
I was appalled by what I saw.
The brutality of the crime has appalled the public.
They were appalled by the damage from the fire.
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Ex: Deep in the stomach, enzymes are working together to catalyze reactions.
Ex: Protestors hope that their protests will catalyze change in the community.
Ex: Without a way to catalyze change in the legal system, the judge felt
hopeless and without recourse.
Ex: The suicide note, in short, had catalyzed major changes.
Ex: We've been able to accelerate and catalyze this process.
Ex: The protein is used to cultivate bacteria whose enzymes catalyze
production.
Ex: This should help stop the iron from catalyzing the acid reaction.
Ex: Enzymes that catalyze reactions are also found on the plasma membrane.
2. (noun) Proxy for something:
something that you use to represent something else that you are
trying to measure or calculate
Ex: Using the monthly values of FS as a proxy for solar irradiance, we were
able to reconstruct solar irradiance back to 1868.
Ex: The number of patients on a doctor's list was seen as a good proxy for
assessing how hard they work.
Ex: Thus, ' stress ', is, with some limitations, considered to be a reasonable
proxy for reliability.
Ex: Wall Street typically uses volume growth as a proxy for the underlying
health of a business.
Ex: In addition, this stream can be regarded as a proxy for shipping vessel waste
the authority that you give to somebody to do something for
you, when you cannot do it yourself
Ex: Application to vote by proxy due to physical incapacity.
Ex: People need to give a specific reason to qualify for a proxy vote, such as
being out of London or being physically incapacitated
Ex: Proxy votes are allowed, Each voting fan must sign his own ballot paper
Ex: Proxy sites will allow you to access MySpace at school without
compromising your privacy or the school's computer systems.
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Ex: I put in place all the shelves so you can store your bs
4. (verb) To assess somebody/something: to make a judgement about
the nature or quality of somebody/something
Ex: In addition, it is sometimes included in neuropsychological testing to assess
the brain function of individuals with neurological impairments.
Ex: She tried to assess how many there might be.
Ex: I'll come get you in the morning, so we can assess your skills.
Ex: I am here simply to assess what is in your brain.
Ex: We can send someone to assess what we can do there, too.
Ex: She felt him assess her before he pried her hand free and rested his there,
sealing the wound.
Ex: He took his attention off Jessi for half a second to glance down at Ashley
and assess if she was okay.
Ex: She was trained to assess, protect, repair, and sustain government systems
through any kind of crisis.
Ex: When he continued to assess her, she boldly returned his appraisal.
Ex: You've had time to assess our defenses and capabilities and now, learn the
placement of our strongholds.
Ex: They are yet to assess the amount of damage to the heart.How did she
assess the extent of betrayal already committed by a man she trusted as an
uncle?
Ex: Mike hesitated long enough for Brady to assess the civilian knew where she
was.
Ex: Ever more accurate sensors can track the contents of ocean water or assess
food safety.
Ex: He was peering closely at the people on the screen, as if trying to assess if
there were any survivors.
Ex: It also possessed power to assess under the Parochial Buildings Acts of
1862 and 1866.
5. (noun): Analysis: The detailed study or examination of something in
order to understand more about it, the result of the study
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Hippocrates and later Galen determined there were four basic temperaments:
sanguine, phlegmatic, melancholic and choleric. These descriptions were
developed centuries ago and are still somewhat apt, although you could update
the wording. In today’s world, they translate into the four fairly common
communication styles described below:
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Tile phlegmatic person - cool and persevering - translates into the technical or
systematic communication style. This style of communication is focused on
facts and technical details. Phlegmatic people have an orderly methodical way
of approaching tasks, and their focus is very much on the task, not on the
people, emotions, or concerns that the task may evoke. The focus is also more
on the details necessary to accomplish a task. Sometimes the details overwhelm
the big picture and focus needs to be brought back to the context of the task.
People with this style think the facts should speak for themselves, and they are
not as comfortable with conflict. They need time to adapt to change and need to
understand both the logic of it and the steps involved.
A tile melancholic person who is soft hearted and oriented toward doing things
for others translates into the considerate or sympathetic communication style. A
person with this communication style is focused on people and relationships.
They are good listeners and do things for other people-sometimes to the
detriment of getting things done for themselves. They want to solicit everyone’s
opinion and make sure everyone is comfortable with whatever is required to get
the job done. At times this focus on others can distract from the task at hand.
Because they are so concerned with the needs of others and smoothing over
issues, they do not like conflict. They believe that change threatens the status
quo and tends to make people feel uneasy, so people with this communication
style, like phlegmatic people, need time to consider the changes in order to
adapt to them.
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A well-functioning team should have all of these communication styles for true
effectiveness. All teams need to focus on the task, and they need to take care of
relationships in order to achieve those tasks. They need the big picture
perspective or the context of their work, and they need the details to be
identified and taken care of for success. We all have aspects of each style within
us. Some of us can easily move from one style to another and adapt our style to
the needs of the situation at hand-whether the focus is on tasks or relationships.
For others, a dominant style is very evident, and it is more challenging to see
the situation from the perspective of another style. The work environment can
influence communication styles either by the type of work that is required or by
the predominance of one style reflected in that environment. Some people use
one style at work and another at home.
The good news about communication styles is that we have the ability to
develop flexibility in our styles. The greater the flexibility we have, the more
skilled we usually are at handling possible and actual conflicts. Usually, it has
to be relevant to us to do so, either because we think it is important or because
there are incentives in our environment to encourage it. The key is that we have
to want to become flexible with our communication style. As Henry Ford said,
“Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right!”
• Temperament
1. Interested as he was in soldiering, his eager temperament impelled him
still more to adventure in politics and letters.
2. His wife's prudence was a corrective to his own unpractical temperament,
and his efforts in journalism became fairly profitable.
3. Elizabeth had inherited her father's sensual temperament and, being free
from all control, abandoned herself to her appetites without reserve.
4. She was used to the teenage fits of temperament after spending the
summer with her newly turned twenty-year-old brother.
5. Fox made many mistakes, due in some cases to vehemence of
temperament, and in others only to be ascribed to want of sagacity.
6. To a prince of his temperament the vehement activity of his abnormally
energetic father was very offensive.
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• Invigorating
1. The climate is excellent, invigorating alike for Europeans and natives.
2. In the sunshine the air was warm, and that warmth was particularly
pleasant with the invigorating freshness of the morning frost still in the
air.
3. The south wind is dry, cool and invigorating, and banishes mosquitoes for
a time; the north wind is hot, moist and relaxing.
4. The town is celebrated for its invigorating climate, and its annual regatta
on the Derwent attracts numerous visitors.
5. You'll love the invigorating massage in such a lightweight design.
6. It's an invigorating ride, from the vertical takeoff of the opener to the
unpredictable descent of the complex final track.
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7. It 's an invigorating ride, from the vertical takeoff of the opener to the
unpredictable descent of the complex final track.
8. Then by adjusting the Manual Turbo Controller, forced air is directed
through to the whirlpool jets giving an invigorating turbo massage.
9. Different scents draw out different emotions - some are invigorating,
while others are more relaxing.
10.This invigorating perfume is bright without overpowering, retaining a bit
of softness and femininity.
11.It houses the water park's largest hot tub, which includes a series of
invigorating jets.
12.This combination is meant to boost your mood without giving you the
same sort of energy the invigorating scents give.
13.Doing these types of yoga and poses right before bed may end up
invigorating your body rather than lead to relaxation.
14.The routines are fun, imaginative, and invigorating and relaxing at the
same time.
15.They can be used to introduce the cheerleading squad, the team, or as a
means of invigorating the crowd into cheering their hearts out.
• Solicit
1. She began to solicit contributions from her friends, and saved her
pennies.
2. It wasn't her intent to solicit sympathy from anyone, much less her paying
guests.
3. An act of 1909 made it a misdemeanour to solicit orders for liquor in the
state.
4. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or
solicit personal information.
5. Group should be taught to solicit the opinions of everyone.
6. Public and congressional outcry prompted NASA to solicit alternatives to
a space shuttle mission for servicing Hubble.
7. We also solicit posters describing late-breaking results related to the
theme of the conference.
8. The purpose being to solicit donations to fund other visual arts projects
by the Foundation; to date no contributions have been received.
9. Exact replicas of production models can be used to solicit focus group
feedback on proposed new feature.
10.These days he lives and works in London, where he continues to solicit
by day and play music by night.
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• Intimidating
• This was no longer the intimidating woman of the morning—
instead a child day-tripping to the zoo.
• The formidable opponent was extremely intimidating to the young
basketball team.
• "Stay here, Kyle," she said, looking uncertainly at
the intimidating scene before her.
• It made the clothing unit much less intimidating than Romas's
lecture on matter and antimatter and how to store the two
successfully without blowing up something.
• which created the inner order of "Molly Maguires," with the object,
it appears, of intimidatingthe Welsh, English, and German miners,
and of ridding the region of mine superintendents, bosses and
police who should make themselves in any way objectionable to
members of the order.
• I'd guess he'll think twice now before intimidating Ms. Lydia
Larkin!
• Milo was impeached; his guilt was clear, and his enemies took
every means of intimidatinghis supporters and his judges.
• The treason trial which opened at Zagreb in March 1909 pursued
the parallel aims of intimidating the Serbs of Croatia, of splitting
the new-found unity of Serb and Croat and of proving to the
outside world the existence of a dangerous Pan-Serb movement
organized from Belgrade inside the monarchy and amply justifying
the countermove of annexation.
• Fries, assuming leadership, organized an armed band of about sixty
men, who marched about the country intimidating the assessors
and encouraging the people to resist.
• The name was imported from Ireland, where it had been used to
designate one of the Ribbon societies that devoted its energies
to intimidating and maltreating process servers and the agents of
landlords, and whose greatest activity was between 1835 and 1855.
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• Incentive
• Maybe that's the incentive he needs.
• Martha's pending due date was an incentive to Betsy.
• The reward of title and degree and the consequent rise in the esteem of
his fellows and himself was also a strong incentive; but the Mithraic
faith itself was the greatest factor.
• Horses are used to some extent for riding, but very little for carriage
and draught purposes, consequently there has been no
great incentive for their breeding.
• The route more than doubled the distance, but Dean needed
little incentive for a drive in the country.
• The Cuvaj Dictatorship. - The triumphant vindication of Mr. Supilo
and his colleagues of the Serbo-Croat coalition gave a
fresh incentive to the idea of unity throughout the southern Slav
provinces of Austria-Hungary.
• The old theory was that the general prosperity of the country depends
upon the development of its natural resources - a development which
can best be achieved by private capital, acting under the
natural incentive of financial profits.
• Both men felt the old man had probably killed him, but Westlake's
brief disclosure was insufficient to pursue the matter and as both men
were dead, there was little incentive to do so.
• He was one of the first to use oil-cake and bone-manure, to distinguish
the feeding values of grasses, to appreciate to the full the beneficial
effects of stock on light lands and to realize the value of long leases as
an incentive to good farming.
• Printing, in fact, has supplied a great incentive to the development of
literature, the output has increased enormously, and will doubtless
continue to do so for a long time to come.
• incentive to the Boers to endeavour to capture the town, but his unique
position and influence with the De Beers workmen enabled him to
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render yeoman service, and infused enthusiasm and courage into the
inhabitants.
• The first incentive to his serious study of chemistry was given by
hearing J.
• they serve as a necessary incentive to steady and concentrated work 1
(the reply made to this is that the incentive is a bad one, and that with
efficient teachers it is unnecessary)
• - Though political causes were at work, the main incentive to hostility
between the peoples was commercial rivalry.
• No doubt the problem has been in a measure solved in England by that
useful incentive to industry, the mark system.
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1. Trần Ngọc 9/10
Mỹ
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Social
Networking
Sites to Find a
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2. Trần Minh 1 9/10
Trí
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Article 2: The
impact of
3. Phạm Thị
communication
Thanh Trúc s in the
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economic
growth and
development of
Kenya
4. Nguyễn Thu 2 9/10
Thảo
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Article 3:
5. Đỗ Quân
4501751211 Communicating
Styles and
Conflict
6. Nguyễn Nguyên 3 9/10
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