Expert urges December job hunt despite holidays
James E. Challenger of Challenger, Gray & Christmas says December is the best time to secure a job, since January hires surge. He offers guidelines: network early, ask for introductions as gifts, approach employers who are available, know your value, start with holiday warmth, read business news, time your calls, list target companies, avoid letters, reach specific managers, and present yourself as a valuable Christmas gift to the company.
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James E. Challenger
Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc
How Is It in Fargo Personal Computers as CB Radios
Fargo residents embrace home computers as a leisure-time addiction sharing life views with strangers online. Users like Karyn Zoldan and Loren D. Jones describe friendships, dates, and social shifts, while bulletin boards link thousands of owners by telephone lines to exchange ideas and personalities.
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Karyn Zoldan
Fargo
N.D
Loren D. Jones
United States
OS Angeles
Zoldan
Hollywood
Europe
World's Worst Decisions Revealed In Frost Book Excerpt
Editor notes Frost and Deakin compile notable missteps from auto industry gaffes to public failures. Key cases include DeLorean's gull wing car backed by UK funds, the Edsel flop after two years, and GM's Chevy Nova in Mexico misreading the market as "no go."
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David Frost
Frost
Michael Deakin
England
Tv-A.m
John Zachary DeLorean
DeLorean
Volkswagen
Germany
Ernest Breech
The
For Motor Co
Literary prizes and publishing misjudgments across history
A compact timeline recounts Nobel Prize selections and famous rejections. It notes Ibsen James Zola and Conrad alive in 1901, Prudhomme’s win, Heyse in 1910, Tolstoy’s death, Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit path, and notorious publisher rejections of M A S H Lorna Doone Jonathan Livingston Seagull and more, ending with Forsyth’s 1970 submission to W H Allen.
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Henry James
Emile Zola
Joseph Conrad
Rene Lully Prudhomme
Paul von Heyse
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Beatrix Potter
London
Peter Rabbit
Potter
Frederick Warne
Warne
Lorna Doone
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Peter Principle
Frederick Forsyth
BBC News Department
W.H., Allen
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