Below are some examples of power phrases I have used to demonstrate my achievements:

"Managed business downsizing and redundancy program eventually leading to business closure for a large automotive components manufacturer and successfully negotiated redundancy conditions with union."

"Formulated and implemented comprehensive strategic competency based training model for a division of a large blue chip Australian company." Managed a department of up to 5 diverse human resource professionals and several key contract and facilities providers."

"Contributed to financial year budget cost-down process by reducing HR budget by up to 10%." "Lodged successful tenders for $50,000 in training funding to deliver a broad range of industry specific competency based programs at workplace." Achieved approximately $200,000 productivity savings by negotiating and implementing 3 key productivity items resulting from enterprise bargaining negotiations."

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The Tropical Prediction Center in Miami, FL keeps a constant watch on oceanic storm-breeding grounds. Once a system with counterclockwise circulation and wind speeds of 39 mph or greater is identified, Center gives storm a name from list for current year. The letters Q, U, X, Y, and Z are not included because of scarcity of names beginning with those letters. Names associated with storms that have caused significant death and/or damage are usually retired from list.

For a list of allocated hurricane names visit http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml.

One final note on origin of word hurricane itself. The native Caribs lived in Yucatan region and worshipped their God of storms which was named Hurican. The Mayans of Guatemala also worshiped Hurican, for them he was God of sky and creator of storms. When region was invaded by Spanish, violent storms started to be named huracans. Since this type of storm does not occur in Europe, it is after contact with this region that English finally adopted hurricane word in their vocabulary.