Tell us a bit about yourself:I am a former journalist, motivational speaker, a writer and columnist/ contributor. My passion remains largely in the field of media management, employee communications and crisis communication management. I have a deep embedded love for words, be they written or spoken. Im infatuated with the power inherent in words, like the ability to move people emotionally or using words to inspire teams to attain performance levels never thought possible.
A married father of two, I have worked at senior level for a number of blue chip organizations responsible for the formulation and implementation of communication strategy. I have vast experience in media management, which is my core passion and have featured widely on myriad mass communication platforms in my capacity as a former corporate spokesperson and recently as part of the judging panel of the regional communications and PR regional industry body , the Public Relations Institute of Southern Africa (PRISA).
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Meet Paul Arnold, IT manager at 454 Life Science. We asked him about a job he currently has open in his team in Branford, US. Paul is looking for a Senior System Administrator.
Roche stays committed to sustainable development. Roche is proactively seeking to employ new, more sustainable technologies and processes to minimise its impact on the environment. As a Global Informatics organisation, we need to develop Green IT strategies that contribute in a significant way to our corporate environmental initiatives.
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It may not be the first name mentioned when discussing famous American cities, but Indianapolis or Indy as the locals affectionately call it should be top of mind when you are looking for a broad array of sporting, cultural, historical, recreational, artistic and musical attractions.
Wonderfully sweet is how Thomas Willis, a 17th century physician and founding member of the The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, described the urine of patients with diabetes. It was Willis who added the term mellitus (Latin for honeyed) to diabetes mellitus. Of course, Willis was not the first physician to link sweet urine with diabetes. The great 6th century BC Indian physician Sushruta diagnosed the disease (called Madhumeha) by observing whether ants were attracted to a patients urine.
For all the plethora of resumes that land on a recruiters desk every day, the covering letter is perhaps one of the few real ways of differentiating yourself from the crowd. A good covering letter accomplishes two key objectives. First, it makes a concise and structured case for your candidacy. But critically, it does so in a way that is both engaging and rhetorically pleasing. Admittedly, blending these two attributes effectively can be challenging. It is however perhaps the surest way of improving your application and securing that all important position. Here are five of the more obvious ways of achieving this: