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I just stumbled across a site by a man I don’t know in the Philippines. What struck me is how he overcome his disability.
The man wasn’t born blind however, here’s a snippet:
Total Blindness at the Age of 23
From a man to a cowering little boy. While I was buying fried rice at a small neighborhood food stall late evening Nov. 6 2003, an unidentified man gunned me down. The first bullet went through my chest. After a blink of a second, a bullet went through my head from a gun …

Companies spend millions of dollars a year branding their company and their products. They do this, because it works. A good branding strategy can shape the way people relate to the product. During your job search, you are the product. If well-planned, you can shape the way the industry and potential employers see you.
Regardless of your political position, you can see the success of self branding in Barrack Obama’s Presidential Election. In 2008, Obama was an inexperienced, Junior Senator from the Mid-West. In his three short years in politics, he …

The Pareto Principal says that 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts. This holds true in hunting for a job, just as it does almost everywhere else in the business world. If you are searching for a job full time, this principal says that four days each week are virtually wasted. That means that only one day worth of your efforts each week has a chance of leading to your next job.
To make your job search more successful, it is important to evaluate your efforts. Then focus …

Sometimes a standard resume is not the best tool to get the attention of a potential employer. In many situations a resume is unwarranted or even inappropriate. However, there are a few unique tools designed to reach employers that can sometime work better than a traditional resume. To better equip you for these cases, you may want to prepare a Targeted Resume, Mini-Resume, Networking Resume, or even a Business Card Resume. In some even rarer cases you may want to have a Gimmick Resume ready.
Targeted Resumes are a perfect choice …

When writing your resume, there are several resume formats or types of resumes that can be used. Each of the three major resume formats has their own unique advantages and disadvantages. It is important that you choose the format that best fits your experience. The three major types of resumes are Functional, Chronological, and Mixed.
A functional resume describes your skills and experiences instead of your work history. This narrative resume describes you and why you would be a good fit for the type of position you are targeting. This format …