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		<title>A Resume Sample Will Give You A Clear Idea Of What Will Best Suit Your Needs.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any good sample resume will have the following sections. This section is devoted to giving various ideas for great resume writing. Clearly stat job objectives Highlight qualifications Directly relevant skills and experience. Work history. Relevant education and training. Choosing The Right Resume Format: There are different types of resume formats available.  Choose the best format [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Any good sample resume will have the following sections. This section is devoted to giving various ideas for great resume writing.</p>
<p>Clearly stat job objectives<br />
Highlight qualifications<br />
Directly relevant skills and experience.<br />
Work history.<br />
Relevant education and training.</p>
<p>Choosing The Right Resume Format:<br />
There are different types of resume formats available.  Choose the best format that suits the job you are applying for.<br />
Chronological Format:<br />
The primary organizing principle of this format is your employment record advancing in a particular career direction. Choose this format when you have clear cut qualifications and you are opting for a new job position in the same field.<br />
Functional Format:<br />
This format is suitable for candidates who are starting or changing their career. Your key skills, knowledge and related accomplishments are the primary organizing principle of this format with proof and prediction of your ability to contribute in your future job.  You can also have a combinational format by combining the features of both formats.</p>
<p>In our website you can find some of the most important information that should be included in your resume. These are elements that an employer will look for, regardless of the number of years of experience you have. Advice for Computer Software Engineers, Architects, Sales Executives, Administrator, Pharmacists, Nurses, Teachers, Construction workers etc are given for your benefit. This information will help you to prepare an original and unique resume. Be sure that you are not simply copying a resume format that you happen to find appealing.</p>
<p>Instead of copying, consider your sample resume choice very carefully.  Pick and choose the concepts and information or parts of any of these sample resumes that best fits your unique resume. Select the format that most emphasizes your strengths and achievements and excludes or reduces your weaknesses. Your resume needs to impress the recruiter or hiring manager enough to get you an interview.</p>
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		<title>Fact and Truth</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thought experiments (Gedankenexperimenten) are &#8220;facts&#8221; in the sense that they have a &#8220;real life&#8221; correlate in the form of electrochemical activity in the brain. But it is quite obvious that they do not relate to facts &#8220;out there&#8221;. They are not true statements. But do they lack truth because they do not relate to facts? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thought experiments (Gedankenexperimenten) are &#8220;facts&#8221; in the sense that they have a &#8220;real life&#8221; correlate in the form of electrochemical activity in the brain. But it is quite obvious that they do not relate to facts &#8220;out there&#8221;. They are not true statements.</p>
<p>But do they lack truth because they do not relate to facts? How are Truth and Fact interrelated?</p>
<p>One answer is that Truth pertains to the possibility that an event will occur. If true – it must occur and if false – it cannot occur. This is a binary world of extreme existential conditions. Must all possible events occur? Of course not. If they do not occur would they still be true? Must a statement have a real life correlate to be true?</p>
<p>Instinctively, the answer is yes. We cannot conceive of a thought divorced from brainwaves. A statement which remains a mere potential seems to exist only in the nether land between truth and falsity.  It becomes true only by materializing, by occurring, by matching up with real life. If we could prove that it will never do so, we would have felt justified in classifying it as false. This is the outgrowth of millennia of concrete, Aristotelian logic. Logical statements talk about the world and, therefore, if a statement cannot be shown to relate directly to the world, it is not true.</p>
<p>This approach, however, is the outcome of some underlying assumptions:</p>
<p>First, that the world is finite and also close to its end. To say that something that did not happen cannot be true is to say that it will never happen (i.e., to say that time and space – the world – are finite and are about to end momentarily).</p>
<p>Second, truth and falsity are assumed to be mutually exclusive. Quantum and fuzzy logics have long laid this one to rest. There are real world situations that are both true and not-true. A particle can &#8220;be&#8221; in two places at the same time. This fuzzy logic is incompatible with our daily experiences but if there is anything that we have learnt from physics in the last seven decades it is that the world is incompatible with our daily experiences.</p>
<p>The third assumption is that the psychic realm is but a subset of the material one. We are membranes with a very particular hole-size. We filter through only well defined types of experiences, are equipped with limited (and evolutionarily biased) senses, programmed in a way which tends to sustain us until we die. We are not neutral, objective observers. Actually, the very concept of observer is disputable – as modern physics, on the one hand and Eastern philosophy, on the other hand, have shown.</p>
<p>Imagine that a mad scientist has succeeded to infuse all the water in the world with a strong hallucinogen. At a given moment, all the people in the world see a huge flying saucer. What can we say about this saucer?  Is it true?  Is it &#8220;real&#8221;?</p>
<p>There is little doubt that the saucer does not exist. But who is to say so? If this statement is left unsaid – does it mean that it cannot exist and, therefore, is untrue? In this case (of the illusionary flying saucer), the statement that remains unsaid is a true statement – and the statement that is uttered by millions is patently false.</p>
<p>Still, the argument can be made that the flying saucer did exist – though only in the minds of those who drank the contaminated water. What is this form of existence? In which sense does a hallucination &#8220;exist&#8221;? The psychophysical problem is that no causal relationship can be established between a thought and its real life correlate, the brainwaves that accompany it. Moreover, this leads to infinite regression. If the brainwaves created the thought – who created them, who made them happen? In other words: who is it (perhaps what is it) that thinks?</p>
<p>The subject is so convoluted that to say that the mental is a mere subset of the material is to speculate</p>
<p>It is, therefore, advisable to separate the ontological from the epistemological. But which is which? Facts are determined epistemologically and statistically by conscious and intelligent observers. Their &#8220;existence&#8221; rests on a sound epistemological footing. Yet we assume that in the absence of observers facts will continue their existence, will not lose their &#8220;factuality&#8221;, their real life quality which is observer-independent and invariant.</p>
<p>What about truth? Surely, it rests on solid ontological foundations. Something is or is not true in reality and that is it. But then we saw that truth is determined psychically and, therefore, is vulnerable, for instance, to hallucinations. Moreover, the blurring of the lines in Quantum, non-Aristotelian, logics implies one of two: either that true and false are only &#8220;in our heads&#8221; (epistemological) – or that something is wrong with our interpretation of the world, with our exegetic mechanism (brain). If the latter case is true that the world does contain mutually exclusive true and false values – but the organ which identifies these entities (the brain) has gone awry. The paradox is that the second approach also assumes that at least the perception of true and false values is dependent on the existence of an epistemological detection device.</p>
<p>Can something be true and reality and false in our minds? Of course it can (remember &#8220;Rashomon&#8221;). Could the reverse be true? Yes, it can. This is what we call optical or sensory illusions. Even solidity is an illusion of our senses – there are no such things as solid objects (remember the physicist&#8217;s desk which is 99.99999% vacuum with minute granules of matter floating about).</p>
<p>To reconcile these two concepts, we must let go of the old belief (probably vital to our sanity) that we can know the world. We probably cannot and this is the source of our confusion. The world may be inhabited by &#8220;true&#8221; things and &#8220;false&#8221; things. It may be true that truth is existence and falsity is non-existence. But we will never know because we are incapable of knowing anything about the world as it is.</p>
<p>We are, however, fully equipped to know about the mental events inside our heads. It is there that the representations of the real world form. We are acquainted with these representations (concepts, images, symbols, language in general) – and mistake them for the world itself. Since we have no way of directly knowing the world (without the intervention of our interpretative mechanisms) we are unable to tell when a certain representation corresponds to an event which is observer-independent and invariant and when it corresponds to nothing of the kind. When we see an image – it could be the result of an interaction with light outside us (objectively &#8220;real&#8221;), or the result of a dream, a drug induced illusion, fatigue and any other number of brain events not correlated with the real world. These are observer-dependent phenomena and, subject to an agreement between a sufficient number of observers, they are judged to be true or &#8220;to have happened&#8221; (e.g., religious miracles).</p>
<p>To ask if something is true or not is not a meaningful question unless it relates to our internal world and to our capacity as observers. When we say &#8220;true&#8221; we mean &#8220;exists&#8221;, or &#8220;existed&#8221;, or &#8220;most definitely will exist&#8221; (the sun will rise tomorrow). But existence can only be ascertained in our minds. Truth, therefore, is nothing but a state of mind. Existence is determined by  observing and comparing the two (the outside and the inside, the real and the mental). This yields a picture of the world which may be closely correlated to reality – and, yet again, may not.</p>
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		<title>Administrator Resume Samples Will Give The Edge When Applying For A New Position.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being an administrator, you may have to interact with the CEO one minute and the next minute a floor cleaner. What is expected from an Admin, varies from organization to organization. But overall, an admins role is to be very flexible and friendly, approachable with good inter personnel skills. Also, as an admin you are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Being an administrator, you may have to interact with the CEO one minute and the next minute a floor cleaner. What is expected from an Admin, varies from organization to organization.</p>
<p>But overall, an admins role is to be very flexible and friendly, approachable with good inter personnel skills. Also, as an admin you are expected to learn quickly. Having said that, make sure your resume conveys this message if you posses these skills.</p>
<p>Apart from the basic resume contents like contact information, employment history, qualification etc, following additional tailored information could be helpful to you.</p>
<p>- Mention How flexible you are. This is a plus for any role. But, for an admin, it is a required soft-skill.<br />
- How good you are as a people friendly person?<br />
- How do you handle others&#8217; egos? If you can speak CEO language as well as layman&#8217;s office language, do mention it.<br />
- As an admin, you might have to learn new processes and undergo new training programmes. Mention your quick learning skills.<br />
- Mention how you have reduced costs and saved money in your department or the organization in general by any means.<br />
- Narrate in brief why you should be called for the interview. For example Oracle certified database administrator with 5 years of experience, experienced hospital administrator with relevant skills etc.<br />
- Mention any technical or computer qualifications and personality development, diploma in office administration or hospital administration etc done as a course with its content in brief, the duration, institute and also its results.<br />
- Mention how you improved the efficiency and productivity within your department or the organization in general.<br />
- Highlight any other achievements that have benefited your department and obviously your organization in general.</p>
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		<title>On Being Human</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are we human because of unique traits and attributes not shared with either animal or machine? The definition of &#8220;human&#8221; is circular: we are human by virtue of the properties that make us human (i.e., distinct from animal and machine). It is a definition by negation: that which separates us from animal and machine is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are we human because of unique traits and attributes not shared with either animal or machine? The definition of &#8220;human&#8221; is circular: we are human by virtue of the properties that make us human (i.e., distinct from animal and machine). It is a definition by negation: that which separates us from animal and machine is our &#8220;human-ness&#8221;.</p>
<p>We are human because we are not animal, nor machine. But such thinking has been rendered progressively less tenable by the advent of evolutionary and neo-evolutionary theories which postulate a continuum in nature between animals and Man.</p>
<p>Our uniqueness is partly quantitative and partly qualitative. Many animals are capable of cognitively manipulating symbols and using tools. Few are as adept at it as we are. These are easily quantifiable differences &#8211; two of many.</p>
<p>Qualitative differences are a lot more difficult to substantiate. In the absence of privileged access to the animal mind, we cannot and don&#8217;t know if animals feel guilt, for instance. Do animals love? Do they have a concept of sin? What about object permanence, meaning, reasoning, self-awareness, critical thinking? Individuality? Emotions? Empathy? Is artificial intelligence (AI) an oxymoron? A machine that passes the Turing Test may well be described as &#8220;human&#8221;. But is it really? And if it is not &#8211; why isn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p>Literature is full of stories of monsters &#8211; Frankenstein, the Golem  &#8211; and androids or anthropoids. Their behaviour is more &#8220;humane&#8221; than the humans around them. This, perhaps, is what really sets humans apart: their behavioural unpredictability. It is yielded by the interaction between Mankind&#8217;s underlying immutable genetically-determined nature &#8211; and Man&#8217;s kaleidoscopically changing environments.</p>
<p>The Constructivists even claim that Human Nature is a mere cultural artefact. Sociobiologists, on the other hand, are determinists. They believe that human nature &#8211; being the inevitable and inexorable outcome of our bestial ancestry &#8211; cannot be the subject of moral judgment.</p>
<p>An improved Turing Test would look for baffling and erratic patterns of misbehaviour to identify humans. Pico della Mirandola wrote in &#8220;Oration on the Dignity of Man&#8221; that Man was born without a form and can mould and transform &#8211; actually, create &#8211; himself at will. Existence precedes essence, said the Existentialists centuries later.</p>
<p>The one defining human characteristic may be our awareness of our mortality. The automatically triggered, &#8220;fight or flight&#8221;, battle for survival is common to all living things (and to appropriately programmed machines). Not so the catalytic effects of imminent death. These are uniquely human. The appreciation of the fleeting translates into aesthetics, the uniqueness of our ephemeral life breeds morality, and the scarcity of time gives rise to ambition and creativity.</p>
<p>In an infinite life, everything materializes at one time or another, so the concept of choice is spurious. The realization of our finiteness forces us to choose among alternatives. This act of selection is predicated upon the existence of &#8220;free will&#8221;. Animals and machines are thought to be devoid of choice, slaves to their genetic or human programming.</p>
<p>Yet, all these answers to the question: &#8220;What does it mean to be human&#8221; &#8211; are lacking.</p>
<p>The set of attributes we designate as human is subject to profound alteration. Drugs, neuroscience, introspection, and experience all cause irreversible changes in these traits and characteristics. The accumulation of these changes can lead, in principle, to the emergence of new properties, or to the abolition of old ones.</p>
<p>Animals and machines are not supposed to possess free will or exercise it. What, then, about fusions of machines and humans (bionics)? At which point does a human turn into a machine? And why should we assume that free will ceases to exist at that &#8211; rather arbitrary &#8211; point?</p>
<p>Introspection &#8211; the ability to construct self-referential and recursive models of the world &#8211; is supposed to be a uniquely human quality. What about introspective machines? Surely, say the critics, such machines are PROGRAMMED to introspect, as opposed to humans. To qualify as introspection, it must be WILLED, they continue. Yet, if introspection is willed &#8211; WHO wills it? Self-willed introspection leads to infinite regression and formal logical paradoxes.</p>
<p>Moreover, the notion &#8211; if not the formal concept &#8211; of &#8220;human&#8221; rests on many hidden assumptions and conventions.</p>
<p>Political correctness notwithstanding &#8211; why presume that men and women (or different races) are identically human? Aristotle thought they were not. A lot separates males from females &#8211; genetically (both genotype and phenotype) and environmentally (culturally). What is common to these two sub-species that makes them both &#8220;human&#8221;?</p>
<p>Can we conceive of a human without body (i.e., a Platonian Form, or soul)? Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas think not. A soul has no existence separate from the body. A machine-supported energy field with mental states similar to ours today &#8211; would it be considered human? What about someone in a state of coma &#8211; is he or she (or it) fully human?</p>
<p>Is a new born baby human &#8211; or, at least, fully human &#8211; and, if so, in which sense? What about a future human race &#8211; whose features would be unrecognizable to us? Machine-based intelligence &#8211; would it be thought of as human? If yes, when would it be considered human?</p>
<p>In all these deliberations, we may be confusing &#8220;human&#8221; with &#8220;person&#8221;. The former is a private case of the latter. Locke&#8217;s person is a moral agent, a being responsible for its actions. It is constituted by the continuity of its mental states accessible to introspection.</p>
<p>Locke&#8217;s is a functional definition. It readily accommodates non-human persons (machines, energy matrices) if the functional conditions are satisfied. Thus, an android which meets the prescribed requirements is more human than a brain dead person.</p>
<p>Descartes&#8217; objection that one cannot specify conditions of singularity and identity over time for disembodied souls is right only if we assume that such &#8220;souls&#8221; possess no energy. A bodiless intelligent energy matrix which maintains its form and identity over time is conceivable. Certain AI and genetic software programs already do it.</p>
<p>Strawson is Cartesian and Kantian in his definition of a &#8220;person&#8221; as a &#8220;primitive&#8221;. Both the corporeal predicates and those pertaining to mental states apply equally, simultaneously, and inseparably to all the individuals of that type of entity. Human beings are one such entity. Some, like Wiggins, limit the list of possible persons to animals &#8211; but this is far from rigorously necessary and is unduly restrictive.</p>
<p>The truth is probably in a synthesis:</p>
<p>A person is any type of fundamental and irreducible entity whose typical physical individuals (i.e., members) are capable of continuously experiencing a range of states of consciousness and permanently having a list of psychological attributes.</p>
<p>This definition allows for non-animal persons and recognizes the personhood of a brain damaged human (&#8220;capable of experiencing&#8221;). It also incorporates Locke&#8217;s view of humans as possessing an ontological status similar to &#8220;clubs&#8221; or &#8220;nations&#8221; &#8211; their personal identity consists of a variety of interconnected psychological continuities.</p>
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