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How to create a professional Curriculum Vitae (C.V.
It goes without saying that a C.V. must look and be professional in presentation. This is no less important than for a dissertation or a paper for publication. There are many different types of professional careers but the basics of C.V. writing are the same for each. The most important rule is that a C.V. is a marketing document, and you are the marketable item. To this end, you need your C.V. to be concise, precise, relevant and factual. Common dilemmas are usually: · Where to start? · What to put in? · What to leave out? · How to say it? Where to Start: Start with a plan, as you would for any project. Presumably, you have a position or goal in mind. Be specific to that position or goal. What is it? What does it require of me? What have I done, achieved, experienced so far that fulfils the needs of this position or goal? If you are planning for a goal, also ask yourself what it is you need to acquire, learn or qualify in order to achieve the goal. Once these criteria are established,...
Assessing Your Job Abilities To Get A Promotion
Learning how to access your abilities may not be something that is easy for you to do. You may find it difficult to get what you want with what you know. There are a few things that you will need to do in order to get what you want and have the career that makes you happy and gives you the satisfaction that you are looking for. The first thing that you need to do is to do your job well. You must take your responsibility to heart and use it to your best interest. If you cannot perform your present job tasks, how are you ever going to be able to get a promotion and move on to bigger and better opportunities in your life? You need to do a good job no matter what you are doing and give it a hundred percent. You need to let others know that you are doing your job well and that you are proud of your work. Let your supervisors know how well you are doing. If you are good at your job you should not keep it a secret. Let them know when you are doing things right so that they know that they hire...
Working women in Pakistan Book review of Taboo and Between Chaddor and the Market
Friday, July 17, 2009 Working women in Pakistan Book review of Taboo and Between Chaddor and the Market by Danish Iqbal Significant debates have occurred detailing the profession(s) that women chose (or not) and the effects that such choice have on the larger Pakistani society, both in terms of gender roles as well as economic market studies. Oxford University Press seems to have made considerable strides in providing venues for such literature in the last few years. The two books reviewed here are amongst such works published by OUP Karachi. Both books are about women’s professional careers: Fouzia Saeed’s book Taboo (translated into Urdu as 'Klunk' ), analyzes “the phenomenon of prostitution (not just as a sex worker but as a cultural professional) ...through it have looked at Pakistani society and its gender roles” (xix: 2001), while Mirza’s work engages with data “engendering the embeddedness of market in society, by analyzing the interfaces which emerge into women’s life w...
Education in Afghanistan
Education in the Afghanistan was significantly improved under the rule of King Zahir Shah (from 1933 to 1973),[1] making primary schools available to about half the population who were younger than 12 years of age, and expanding the secondary school system and the national university at Kabul.[citation needed] Despite those improvements, large percent of the population remained illiterate.[1] Beginning with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, successive wars virtually destroyed the education system.[1] Most teachers fled the country during the wars.[1] By the middle of the 1990s, only about 650 schools were functioning.[1] In 1996 the Taliban regime banned education for females, and the madrassa (mosque school) became the main source of primary and secondary education.[1] After the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001, the interim government received substantial international aid to restore the education system.[1] In 2003 some 7,000 schools were operating in 20 of the 34 provinces...
