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Scary interview

In Career Advice on April 29, 2009 at 8:37 am

I found a site over the web called Scary Interview from InterviewStream.
It is all flash site that offers interview tips and guidelines – in a partly scary manner.

The content really made sense its just not the typical way of letting the people know about it.

Here is the site that may help you in your future interviews!

http://www.scaryinterview.com/
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Associated Press: Swine Flu Treatment

In 1 on April 28, 2009 at 2:41 pm

A clinic assistant displays boxes of the antiviral drug, Tamiflu, which is effective in combating swine flu if the treatment is given early enough, Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at a local clinic in Singapore. Swiss drug company Roche Holding AG said on Monday it has 3 million packages of anti-flu treatment Tamiflu ready to deliver to any country in the world threatened by a pandemic virus. Roche said it can deliver Tamiflu anywhere within 24 hours when called on by the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

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Swine flu keeps investors, businesses on edge

In Latest in HR on April 28, 2009 at 2:34 pm

PARIS (AP) — The threat of a swine flu pandemic kept global businesses and investors on edge Tuesday, disrupting travel plans and sending stock markets down on fears the outbreak could worsen and cause more economic misery.

Days after news of the deadly virus outbreak in Mexico, stocks of companies in the travel and tourism industry were being hammered on fears that worried travelers would stay home.

Across Asia, tour groups abandoned more holiday jaunts to the country amid a series of government warnings. Airports from Indonesia to Australia tightened their screening of travelers.

In Moscow, the U.S. Embassy issued a statement saying there was “no basis” for Russia’s decision to bar pork imports from three U.S. states, saying the disease was not spread through meat products, and hoping that normal trade would soon resume.

Much of the fallout hit financial markets jittery about the future, as opposed to the real economy. Shares in Europe’s largest airline Air France-KLM continued the sharp drop begun Monday, falling an additional 2.85 percent to euro8.16 on Tuesday. Shares in European hotel giant Accor SA, which operates 9 Sofitel and nearly 1,000 Motel 6 hotels in the United States, slid 4.35 percent to euro30.10.

Shares in Euro Disney, which earlier Tuesday said its net loss nearly doubled to euro85.4 million in the fiscal first half, were meanwhile down 9.8 percent at euro3.60.

The disease, while still largely corralled in North America, has spread rapidly in recent days with the World Health Organization raising its global alert level and moving closer to declaring a flu pandemic as infections cropped up in Europe. Asia’s first cases were confirmed in New Zealand; another case emerged in Israel. The virus is suspected in about 150 deaths, all in Mexico.

With the world economy already seen shrinking 1.3 percent this year by the International Monetary Fund, swine flu could add more stress by further eroding trade, consumer spending and investment — snuffing out what many say are the glimmers of a recovery.

“This certainly could exacerbate the recession,” said Sherman Chan, an economist with Moody’s in Australia. “The next couple weeks will be crucial. If this persist it could become a more serious concern and really cripple the economy.”

For the U.S. economy, any turnaround could be delayed well into 2010 as gross domestic product contracts more than expected. In a worst-case scenario, the U.S. economy would shrink by an extra 0.3 percent this year, on top of a predicted 3.5 percent decline, says Brian Bethune, economist at IHS Global Insight. That amounts to a roughly $50 billion loss of economic activity, he said. The IMF already has projected the U.S. economy will shrink 2.8 percent this year.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said it’s a “little too early to determine the economic impact” but the Treasury Department and agencies are “monitoring the situation and looking into it.”

Still, most experts don’t think a swine-flu outbreak by itself would eliminate many U.S. jobs or severely worsen the economy.

Simon Johnson, former IMF chief economist and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management, envisions only a “small hit” to economic activity in the United States — just a few tenths of 1 percentage point.

Still, markets were down sharply overall, with Japan’s benchmark off 2.7 percent and South Korea’s shedding 3 percent. London’s FTSE and Germany’s DAX both slumped 2 percent or more.

The unease extended to companies and tour groups from China to South Korea, where Samsung Electronics Co. told its employees not to travel to Mexico on business.

In Hong Kong, among the cities hardest hit by the SARS epidemic six years ago, one travel agency scrapped trips to Los Angeles because of the city’s proximity to Mexico. A second said it was canceling an 18-day excursion to Mexico, Cuba and Venezuela as a result of swine flu.

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S&P Ratings: The Swine Flu Impact on Airlines

In Latest in HR on April 28, 2009 at 2:27 pm

The recent outbreak of swine flu, which is affecting Mexico City most severely, but has reached other areas around the globe, raises the risk, in the view of Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, that airlines could suffer a steep drop in international traffic, as occurred for some in 2003 following the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Fears about SARS triggered brief but substantial declines in passenger traffic and caused financial damage to certain Asian carriers, such as Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. (not rated), and had lesser but noticeable effects on some airlines in other regions.

“Though swine flu has not yet caused health problems on a similar scale, we believe airlines are at risk of suffering reduced traffic because of government-imposed quarantines and travelers’ fears,” says Standard & Poor’s credit analyst Philip Baggaley.

Already, some governments are urging travelers to avoid certain countries with swine flu cases. According to media reports, the European Union’s health commissioner urged Europeans to avoid unnecessary travel to Mexico and the U.S., where most of the cases have been so far.

Localized Disease, Global Impact

With Mexico currently at the center of the outbreak, airlines there (none of which we rate) are at greatest immediate risk. Among U.S. airlines, Continental Airlines (CAL) (S&P credit rating, B) has the greatest potential exposure, although it’s not a large one, in our view: Its Latin American operations as a whole accounted for 14% of total revenues in 2008, with flying to Mexico only part of that. We see no rating impact on Continental at this time….

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Govt to create a local peace corps for jobs

In Latest in HR on April 26, 2009 at 2:05 pm

By Joyce Pangco Pañares

THE government is creating a domestic peace corps to get unemployed but educated youth working on educational and community service programs in the midst of a global economic crisis.

The National Service Corps, to be created by the Education and Social Welfare Departments, will focus on skilled youth or college graduates aged between 18 and 24, President Arroyo said.

A separate Youth Conservation Corps, to be organized by the National Police, will employ unskilled and less educated youth to work on environmental and infrastructure projects, the President added.

Mrs. Arroyo said the current program for hiring street sweepers, the Out of School Youth Serving Toward Economic Resiliency, would be absorbed into the Youth Conservation Corps.

Both job-generating programs will hire qualified youth for two years and will be financed from the expected P7 billion in government savings and from the Road User’s Tax.

The President earlier ordered all government agencies to save 1.5 percent of their operating budget and use the savings to finance emergency employment programs.

Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said some 180,000 jobs were expected to be financed by those savings.

The beneficiaries of the program will include workers who have been displaced by the global financial meltdown as well as their dependents.

Available jobs include so-called Green Collar jobs such as coastal clean-up and reforestation projects, and the Nurses Assigned to Rural Areas project.

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Job Opportunities at Winsource Soulutions

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In Job Fairs, Job Postings, Latest in HR on April 24, 2009 at 1:07 am

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Recruitment Camp

In Job Fairs on April 24, 2009 at 12:41 am

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Job Events at Mega Trade Hall

In Job Fairs on April 18, 2009 at 2:50 pm

VGCom Job Fair
April 17, 2009 – April 18, 2009      
Hall 3

Job Quest Employment Fair
May 22, 2009 – May 23, 2009
Hall 1

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Career Fairs and Expo this April

In Job Fairs on April 18, 2009 at 2:31 pm

First Shoppers Choice Expo 2009

Philippine Trade Training Center

Netmark International, Inc.

April 17-19, 2009

2nd National Career Fair

Glorietta Activity Center AdExhibit

April 29-30, 2009

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