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Taking a course in an effort to improve your Business English can result in a tremendous return on your investment.

The Presidents of two countries recently had a very terse moment that is, in hindsight, being chalked up to language difficulties. That may be spin, but it’s interesting to think about how different the exchange would have been if both men had been able to effectively communicate in English.

Executive Language Training offers courses that are designed to suit the individual needs of business professionals. I am trained in teaching English as a foreign language. All my practical training was with young students who were ostensibly there to learn English, but they were in vacation mode to varying degrees. I wish I had been given the chance to teach some businessmen the finer points of this difficult language.

I can imagine that some business men wish to broaden their language skills while others might want to refine them. I was acquainted with a business man during the weeks that I took my teaching course. He had heavily accented English and he used some unnecessary verb forms, but I overheard him on his mobile phone dictating a business letter and his skill in composing a written correspondence rivaled mine. A customized course from Executive Language Training would not waste his time teaching him stuff that he already knows. I actually remember a great deal of emphasis being placed on assessing student ’s knowledge when I was taking my course. It’s obviously inefficient to review skills and information that a student already has down pat.

I just used a phrase that many EFL students would be unfamiliar with; down pat and other idioms need to be explained to students of language, they are not things that can be intuitively understood. Businessmen for whom English is a first language may habitually interject idioms that come from sports or other interests and a non native speaker is placed at a disadvantage if he has not been taught any of these phrases…

Let’s hit it out of the park, baby!!!, Whoo!!!

Healthcare is very labor intensive. There will never be a self serve hospital.

Healthcare jobs can be very specialized and the job market fluctuates and changes with relation to what specialties are in demand. GuideToHealthcareSchools.com appears to be a great resource both for people who hope to enter the workforce and for people who are already in healthcare and want to adapt to change or increase their earning power. A healthcare management degree seems like a great step for people with skills and experience in healthcare.

GuideToHealthcareSchools.com is a well designed and very searchable site that has links to some well respected schools. The emphasis is on degree programs in medicine and dentistry. I like the fact that when you search based on specialty and state, you get the in state, on site schools first followed by any available online courses.

Most of us don’t have a clinical diagnosis of seasonal affective disorder, but I think full spectrum lighting can benefit the health of most office dwellers.

Having the full spectrum of light from a lamp entering your retinas affects your brain chemistry the same as sitting out in the natural sunlight. A full spectrum desk lamp could make you more productive and happier, especially in the winter. I remember having a work shift in Canada where I was going to and from work in the dark at missing out on the whole 9 hours of sunlight.

ShopPremier.com is a huge online store that features the best quality in lighting solutions inside and outside.

Leaving a used item at a drop-off box that has the word recycling written on it is technically not recycling. I was shocked to find out just how much of the electronic waste generated by developed countries ends up being shipped to a poorer country where the components are dealt with in an irresponsible way by underpaid workers who toil in an unsafe environment.

This issue is not addressed in the press release that I have read today. I can only assume that Sony is no more responsible than most other large corporations with regard to this practice. If anybody can point me to some source stating where and how these Sony products are going to be recycled, I would be happy to comment on it.

My little experiment of changing my header everyday for a week is almost over. The colors today are kinda like what Walmart uses.

I was researching something almost unrelated to Walmart yesterday and I ended up on one of the many websites that exist solely for the purpose of exposing ethical problems with that particular company. I have talked to a lot of different people about the issues surrounding this monolithic retailing success. I met a very libertarian entrepreneur once whose face shone as he talked about documentary footage that he had seen of a giant warehouse that Walmart has that has almost no workers. It operates using robotics. The system reads universal product code information supplied by the truck drivers and retrieves the load faster and more accurately than humans could ever hope to. They probably wish they could run retail without humans, but they have to compromise by just not treating their employees like humans.

The company that operates FinancialConsultantRecuiters.com has their phone number placed very strategically in several places, so I think it’s safe to assume that they would appreciate having it posted here as well.

(310) 373-7400

Willis Consulting, Inc. works with brokerage firms, wire houses and other financial institutions to help them find the best people for prestigious financial jobs.

The information in their website is well refined. You can tell that they have taken great care to write for both job hunting financial professional and employers in the financial sector. Even when a topic is clearly of more interest to one group, the language is still accessible and instructive to both groups. When you think about it, recruiting is basically helping people see each other clearly. I like how they start the section on resumes by letting their clients know that they know that they know how to write a resume. After they get that out of the way they explain how their process of interviewing and resume refinement can create a more accurate picture of your professional attributes.

I was making a joke about the new Simpsons movie over on my entertainment blog and I made a Google query to see whther my viewpoint was unique. My viewpoint was unique, but I also found a really cool analogy that was created to put affirmative action in a positive light.

It’s a very convincing argument. You should go read the entire Jelly Donut Model of Diversity, but I will sum it up for you. The admissions office compared to a guy at a business meetiing who is asked to go out into the hallway to get everyone some donuts. When he goes there, the table is almost completely filled with plain white sugar donuts. There is an almost insignificant number of other kinds of donuts on the table as well. I think we can all empathize with this guy. I know I would get maybe a half dozen plain donuts and then fill the rest of the plate with a selection of the other kinds.

I find this short video interesting, mostly because I have identified with all three of the different kinds of people that he describes. Maybe that’s because I spent an entire decade working at a job from which I couldn’t really take any of these three rewards.

The things that we look for in our jobs are Passion, Purpose and Profit. Now that I think about it a bit more, it was the money that kept me going. It was a soul sucking job.

I didn’t have to perform the following job, very much, but I worked at an almost identical facility for ten years. I am not sure whether it is Passion, Purpose or Profit that brings this guy in on Monday:

The field of medical transcription is an interesting job market. There is a huge demand for qualified people. There is a huge supply of qualified people. The catch is that not everyone who takes a course and gets a certificate has the skills and aptitude to become an accomplished transcriber. Additionally, there are many health care professionals who want to make a lateral move into medical transcription jobs for personal reasons.

MedicalTranscriptionJobs.org is a blog that features legitimate employment opportunities and job hunting advice for people who are looking for works at home medical transcription opportunities.