Grammar rules for your CV: top tips Sloppy spelling and grammar on your CV could cost you a job. Here are eight top tips for perfecting your writing. Sloppy grammar can ruin a message. Photograph: Mick Sinclair/Alamy 1. Don’t rely on spellcheckers A CV shows your employer what effect you will have on their
An internal battle rages inside many high performers who advance from positions where they thrived as individual contributors to positions that require them to depend on others. On the one hand, they pride themselves on knowing more than anyone else about their area and like feeling confident in their abilities to deliver exceptional work. On
The legal world governs everything that we do as an industry, yet even seasoned legal professionals fall foul of elemental mistakes in contract knowledge. In this piece, we list six contracting terms of which everyone working in the oil and gas sector should have at least a partial understanding. Penalty Clauses In Anglo-Saxon law, the
One of the things that can befuddle managers, even experienced ones, is how to make small talk with the big boss. When you are talking about someone who has authority over you, be it your boss’s boss or the CEO, the word “small” becomes relative. Anything involving a boss can have a big impact. Conversation
European Purchases of Industrial Pumps will Exceed $9 Billion by 2015 European industrial pump purchases will grow moderately in the next two years and surpass $9 billion in 2015. This is the conclusion reached by McIlvaine in Pumps World Markets. Centrifugal pump purchases will exceed the combined total of the other pump types. Europe will
Xylem Inc. has launched its Goulds Water Technology brand e-HM series stainless-steel, horizontal multistage pump, a water pump for commercial and industrial applications that is up to 30 percent more efficient than most similar pumps available today. Pumping water in production-oriented applications such as washing, cleaning, food and beverage processing, and large-scale refrigeration, is energy
NOV Mono Industrial has announced the appointment of Dave Johnson as the new Managing Director for Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Pacific Islands, South Africa, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The appointment marks the start of a new era in the long history of the world’s leading manufacturer of progressing cavity pumps and
Kristina walked into my office and took a seat. “So, tell me,” I said, “what excites you about this role?” “I feel I’m very qualified for this job,” she said. “I majored in communications in college with a focus on conflict resolution. I did an internship at Search for Common Ground and spent two years
If you haven’t noticed there has recently been an onslaught of articles from various publications on how to be more productive, and all of them point to the same message: How you choose to spend your time is the difference between being a good leader and a remarkable one. And if efficiency is about
The decline in manufacturing in Australia has been the most fundamental change affecting the pump industry in the past generation, and one of the most fundamental changes across the entire economy. Recent news of plant closures for Ford and Glaxo Smith Kline, among others, further confirms the difficulties faced by this sector. The pump industry
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