Other: Twenty-three Percent of African Americans Live in Poverty

Twenty-three Percent of African Americans Live in Poverty

Written by Drachir Semaj

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Commerce Department. The report, "The Black Population in repparttar 125488

United States: 2002", was released by repparttar 125489

Commerce Department in repparttar 125490

Spring of 2003 and was repparttar 125491

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US since

2000 census.

Of repparttar 125496 estimated 32.9 million people living in poverty in repparttar 125497 US, 8.1 million were African Americans and African American children, under repparttar 125498 age of six-teen, were three times more likely to live in poverty than white children. African American seniors were also three times more likely to live in poverty than white seniors.

Interview skills - Going for a Job

Written by Jo Ellen Grzyb

Hints and tips on CVs, interview skills and jobhunting.

Going for a New Job?

Jo Ellen has been offering some form of Careers advice for repparttar past 15 years. She used to run career development workshops, and now does one-to-one sessions called Career Action. A couple of years ago Jo Ellen had a Careers Advice column in Cosmopolitan Magazine. Lots of repparttar 125486 queries she got were on Interview Techniques and how to get repparttar 125487 perfect job. Here are some of her thoughts after years of helping people get where they want to go:

Interview rules

You hear all sorts of rules about job interviews: people decide about you in repparttar 125488 first 10 seconds; you have to make a good first impression; always ask insightful questions; learn as much as you can about repparttar 125489 company; they'll probably ask questions designed to trip you up, so have some quick answers at repparttar 125490 ready.

Not bad, as far as rules go: some of them make perfect sense. But getting repparttar 125491 job you want isn't about following rules. It's about presenting yourself in repparttar 125492 most authentic way that takes care of you and repparttar 125493 interviewers at repparttar 125494 same time.

So many people chuck their chances away: they don't take enough care and preparation so that repparttar 125495 whole process is enjoyable, stimulating and informative for both parties.

Your first opportunity: getting repparttar 125496 nterview

If you want repparttar 125497 job, chances are so do about a million other eager people, so your application has to stand out from repparttar 125498 crowd. British CVs are usually dull and boring, and people create them as historical documents, rather than as marketing tools. You can boost your chances of getting an interview by making your CV look and 'sound' special.

Use good paper, design a personal logo, fiddle with repparttar 125499 layout to make it easy on repparttar 125500 eyes. Edit it ruthlessly. People always put in too much detail. Highlight repparttar 125501 bits that relate to repparttar 125502 job you're going for. They don't need to know you went to St Mary's School when you were 12! Put 'who you are now' at repparttar 125503 beginning of your CV, and leave education and qualifications for repparttar 125504 end.

If you don't have what you think are repparttar 125505 right educational qualifications, don't worry. Just leave them off. If you include enough interesting and intriguing material about who you are now, what you didn't do is far less important.

I recommend a short paragraph at repparttar 125506 beginning that says something about your personal qualities and your business skills. A short statement about what you're seeking can also go down a treat.

As we know, a job for life is so rare nowadays, that eclectic, unusual and even inconsistent CVs are OK as long as they're presented well.

Even if you think your current job stinks, look at repparttar 125507 good points as though you were looking at it from repparttar 125508 outside in. Most jobs appear much better from repparttar 125509 outside than they do from repparttar 125510 inside (only you know repparttar 125511 real truth); so pump up repparttar 125512 goodies and soft-pedal repparttar 125513 baddies!

So that worked. You've got repparttar 125514 Interview; now what?

Here's repparttar 125515 key and repparttar 125516 most important thing to remember before you go through repparttar 125517 door. Unless they are simply going through repparttar 125518 motions because they've already appointed someone, they want it to be you.

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