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whitepaper By using templates that are designed just for one's job search - including resumes, cover letters, and letters of acceptance - one can avoid the overwhelming task of starting with a blank page. Looking for a new job can be challenging, but...
[02 May 2008]
Round-Up Samuel Johnson, the man who sat down one day quill in hand and battled gamely through aardvarks and aardwolves before stumbling onto nobler, loftier subjects such as 'love' and 'wine', famously told another man of letters that "when a man is tired...
[25 Apr 2008]
whitepaper One uses word processing programs to accomplish nearly every task one performs on a computer, from letters and memos to longer documents, such as legal publications and research papers. For many, Microsoft Office Word is the air that one breathes.
[11 Apr 2008]
Comment It was a source of pride that we spoke using letters or words that meant nothing outside the IT community. It is very difficult for us to put a sentence together that describes the computing environment without using some combination of letters to...
[17 Mar 2008]
News HM Revenue & Customs admitted it was forced to cough up £2.25m to send out letters of apology to the 25 million people whose records it lost on two CDs and the theft of a Ministry of Defence laptop containing 600,000 records prompted a ban on all...
[30 Jan 2008]
News So, when you combine transport, railway acronyms with IT acronyms, you can talk entirely in letters. At the silicon.con CIO Forum, Network Rail information management director Catherine Doran presented some top tips for tech chiefs about to start a...
[22 Oct 2007]
News Xerox has developed a technology that can print fluorescent words and letters without fluorescent ink. Sticking with young people, another piece of research from graduate selection and training company Alumni Ventures has found almost half of...
[12 Jun 2007]
News But perks like these, along with talent contests and even letters to parents, are becoming vital weapons in the HR armoury for Indian tech companies desperate to hold onto their best staff. Thalapalli said the company also runs a talent competition...
[21 Mar 2007]
Leader If we try to make users reset passwords regularly, if we ask them to mix up random text with numbers as well as upper case and lower case letters when setting them, if we insist they do not repeat passwords or change only one or two characters...
[16 May 2006]
News The CSO is charged with gaining a greater understanding of how business and security are complementary, rather than the latter being a restriction on the former, with MBAs a favoured qualification over more technical letters after their name, said...
[05 Dec 2005]
News But we have had some letters from people complaining about British data being processed overseas in places like India and asking us to stop it. The revelation supports the assertion by analyst house Gartner last week that 2004 will see a short-term...
[22 Mar 2004]
News While some readers just wanted to ask "why do they all type in capital letters", others had more serious comments to make, such as highlighting widespread indifference from ISPs and the police. It seems to me there are quite a few bureaucrats whose...
[24 Feb 2003]
Comment The user has to twist these into different positions to identify individual letters. Especially if the job was anything like it is portrayed by Hollywood. Martin Brampton is given a history lesson. A couple of weeks ago, I was musing about the many...
[21 Jan 2003]
Comment Three letters of any description save so much space. CFO - Posh new name for finance directors, same job as it always was They are all over the place, and not just on newly printed business cards. There are conferences, academic papers and writings...
[27 Nov 2002]
News Rules governing the sector demand that formal letters must be despatched to all those affected. A job scheduler would enable such tasks to be carried out in a more orderly fashion, leading ultimately to better service to customers.
[08 Oct 2002]
Comment Some letters and memos were handwritten. Having left IPC Media in January 2000, I have desperately avoided taking on a real job. Good job it wasn't a leadership conference! This presents me with the opportunity to work for short spurts in different...
[13 Jun 2001]
Comment But the Guardian's lofty judges chose this as the best of the bunch: txtin iz messin, mi headn'me englis, try2rite essays, they all come out txtis.gran not plsed w/letters shes getn, swears i wrote better b4 comin2uni.
[11 May 2001]
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