Highlight Intangibles in Your Job Interview Based on the Position's Listed Duties

When you're at a job interview, it's important to meet all the listed requirements, but US News & World Report notes that it's just as critical to emphasize the "intangibles" needed to succeed.

Arnie Fertig at US News & World Report suggests making educated guesses at what these intangibles are based on the job's official duties.

If you take the time to closely read a job description, you can discern the competencies that are associated with a position's requirements. For example, one random job posted recently calls for someone to be a "liaison for?", "gain approval for?", "track success?", "contribute to?", "execute marketing activities?" and "ensure budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements."

Ask yourself what is required to attain success for each of these bullet points. To be a liaison and gain approval for things, one must have solid oral and written communication skills. To track success, you must be detail oriented, and likely have the ability to negotiate spreadsheets. To contribute, someone most likely requires a collegial, team-based approach to work. To keep budgets on track likely requires someone with a head for numbers.

I think this tip is perhaps best-suited for interviews where you don't have prior experience with certain job duties, and need to convey that you could learn them. Maybe you've never telecommuted before, but you could emphasize your written communication skills and ability to work independently if a job requires some remote work. If the position involves creating web traffic reports, but you never did that at your old job, you could highlight your quantitative reasoning skills and analytical mind.

Once you've identified the competencies you want to highlight, think up some good anecdotes from your previous work that demonstrate them. Depending on how subtle these qualities are, they might not explicitly come up during the interview, but you can work in references to them during your other answers. Check out the source link for some more job interview tips.

The Two Things Savvy Interviewers Are Looking For | US News & World Report

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2 dead at day care shooting in Quebec, all children unharmed

On Friday, a man armed with a shotgun shot and killed an employee at a day care center in Quebec and then killed himself. All the children at the day care were evacuated safely.

By Associated Press / April 6, 2013

Police carry children from a safehouse to waiting parents and guardians after a shooting at a day care in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada on Friday. Police evacuated children from a day care center just outside Canada's capital after an adult was killed by gunfire.

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A man shot dead another man at a day care center in Quebec then killed himself, and the 53 children present were evacuated unharmed. Police said some may have watched the killings.

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For a moment, Canada feared its own version of last year's deadly school shooting in the US, where 20 young children were killed.

Police on Friday received a call about an armed man with a shotgun threatening people,?Gatineau?Police Chief Mario Harel said. They arrived to find one man dead with a shotgun beside him and a second man, an unidentified employee of the day care, also dead.

Harel said the shooting seemed to be related to a recent separation between a couple but didn't elaborate.

The Racines De Vie Montessori daycare is located in two homes, and Sergeant Jean-Paul LeMay said police found a body in each one. LeMay said the children were safe at a nearby house.

Police were investigating the link between the men and the possibility of domestic violence, LeMay said. He wouldn't say if either was linked to a child at the day care.

Police speculated that some children likely witnessed the killings.

"It's a small area, it's a close space," said Harel. "For sure, they should have been witness (to) the event."

Parents sobbed and hugged while they waited for investigators to bring them to their children.

Omar Eltalawi rushed to the scene from his nearby home as soon as he heard about the shooting, fearful for his 3-year-old daughter, Zain.

"It was horrible," Eltalawi said as he described the fear of not knowing what was going on inside the day care. "You see these things on the news and you don't expect it to happen to you."

Gatineau?city is just across the river from Ottawa, the capital.

Associated Press Writer Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report.

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Jerusalem mayor shelves plan to name street after Yeshayahu Leibowitz

Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat put the brakes on a motion to name a street in the city after controversial philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz on Thursday, following dissent by council members from right wing and religious parties.

The proposal to honor the outspoken intellectual, first raised a decade ago, had successfully passed two municipal naming committees and was supposed to receive final approval in the Thursday city council meeting, but then Likud councilman Elisha Peleg began reading out quotes by Leibowitz attacking Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, raising the ire of the religious council members, and leading Barkat to remove the vote from the agenda.

Leibowitz, who managed to spark endless controversy during his years in the media spotlight ? regularly issuing provocative statements on the topics of ethics, religion, and politics ? carried on his legacy from the grave. Peleg said that the deceased Hebrew University professor and Israel Prize selectee ?must take responsibility for his irresponsible statements ? The man does not deserve to be memorialized in Jerusalem.?

While left-wing council members defended the decision to name a street after Leibowitz, one saying it was more of an honor for the city than the man, and another suggesting that if Leibowitz doesn?t deserve a street named after him than neither do the prophets Jeremiah and Isiah, who also suffered criticism and anger for their words, Barkat decided to postpone the vote until more council members were present and chances of the motion passing were increased.

Barkat?s office said the mayor was sure the motion would pass later this month.?If passed, the city will name one of the streets in the Givat Ram neighborhood, which is home to Israel?s Supreme Court, the Knesset, government ministries, the Israel Museum, and Hebrew University, after Leibowitz.

Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-mayor-shelves-plan-to-name-street-after-yeshayahu-leibowitz/

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Bitcoin: The Internet's secret currency makes its first public appearances

Devin Coldewey , NBC News ? ? ? 19 hrs.

Financial brinksmanship in the Eastern Mediterranean seems an unlikely way for an obscure yet infamous virtual currency to become a household word, but that's what happened with the bitcoin. Over the last few weeks, bank turmoil in Cyprus and a frenzy of attention from the media have propelled the "crypto-currency" from the darkest corners of the Internet to the front page. But is this phenomenon a blip or a revolutionary new financial instrument?

Existing only as numbers on the Internet, bitcoins are not tied to any retailer or company or bank. They have no real-world value other than what people agree to. And yet, at the time of this writing, each of the 11 million or so bitcoins in the world could be exchanged for just over $130 in real money ? for a total value for the "currency" topping a billion dollars.

One way to look at it is like vintage baseball cards or comic books. There's a finite number of them out there, so as interest in owning them rises, the amount someone would pay for them goes up. And because there's a perceived value (an exchange rate), if someone is in the right market, that card or comic ? or bitcoin ? can be used to "buy" goods.

Bitcoin is accepted online for IT services and Web hosting, and a fair amount of tangible goods can be had for it, too. But just as you don't try using Action Comics #1 to pay for groceries, you can't use it just anywhere. This stuff isn't quite legal tender for all debts, public and private.

For years, bitcoin existed as nothing more than a meme among hackers and cryptologists, but the recent spotlight has caused it to be reevaluated.

"People are starting to realize they can now put their money in the cloud and access it anywhere, from any computer," Tony Gallippi, CEO of Bitpay, a company that facilitates bitcoin transactions with retailers, told NBC News.

Just two short months ago, one bitcoin hovered in the $10 to 15 range, and a $30 peak was considered ludicrously high. The surging valuation is indicative that, at the very least, people see it as more than just a nerdy hobby. Bitpay logged over $5 million worth of transactions in March alone, as people traded bitcoins for tangible items, mostly high-end electronics and precious metals.

But will you ever use bitcoin to pay for your pizza, or a new book on Amazon? Right now bitcoin is too volatile to be used for much other than highly geeky purposes. A few sites, deliberately courting the bleeding edge of Internet tech, accept bitcoin for services or products. But that isn't easy to do when a bitcoin may be worth $15 one month and $100 the next.

"The volatility that we are all witnessing stems from a lack of liquidity and market depth," Bitcoin Foundation secretary Jon Matonis told NBC News.

How (and why) bitcoin works
Bitcoin was created in 2009 by "Satoshi Nakamoto" ? almost certainly a false name ? in order to be anonymous currency, easy to use, self-regulating and free from any central authority.

Instead of relying on a government or bank issuer, the bitcoin system is entirely powered by users, transferred via unique, anonymous IDs. Whenever someone transfers bitcoins (or fractional bitcoins ? they can be divided almost infinitely) from one "wallet" to another, that transaction is broadcast throughout the network, where it is confirmed by "nodes" that store the entire history of every bitcoin generated.

"Imagine if you've got a ledger somewhere that says who owns how much of some random commodity," explains Reuben Grinberg, finance lawyer who published a paper on legal issues surrounding bitcoin in 2011. "Instead of having the ledger held by some financial institution, it's maintained by this global network of computers. It's protected against the malfeasance of a single bad player."

But instead of the ledger containing names, it's just a list of accounts ? pure numbers.

It's this anonymity that has led bitcoins to be associated with the purchase of illegal goods. The notorious "Silk Road" online shop ? accessible only through the mysterious, encrypted worldwide "Tor" network ? sells everything from marijuana to handguns. This gave many the impression that the bitcoin system was nothing but a handy way to break the law. (Of course, cash and a dark alley offer many of the same benefits.)

Bitcoin comes into its own
Anonymous currency available to anyone with an Internet connection would be useful in all manner of situations, but it was the events of the last few weeks that really began pulling Bitcoin's reputation out of the gutter.

First, the U.S. government acknowledged "decentralized virtual currencies" like the bitcoin by way of a branch of the treasury concerned with financial crimes. It's neither a positive or negative assessment, but it clarifies that bitcoin and its users are subject to existing laws regarding currency transmission and manipulation.

Second, a number of news sources reported a rush to buy bitcoins, made by panicked Cypriots looking to relocate their money from a failing bank system.

Regardless of the cause (and neither event seems to have been critical), the attention is real and has sparked debate about how one should consider bitcoin: Is it a commodity like gold? Is it more like a volatile stock? Is it like cash?

It's something new, says Grinberg. "It's sort of a hybrid of a couple different concepts. I can't hold it in my hand, it's not backed by the government, I can't pay my taxes with it." He thinks that it has some sort of future. ? but the currency must settle down before the typical online shopper has anything to do with it. Grinberg says that could happen ... "far in the future, but not in the near term."

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

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Ben Carson Is Sorry for Saying Horrible Things

Ben Carson, the Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon and newly minted conservative celebrity who inspired a hundred op-eds, has apologized for?comparing gay couples seeking legal recognition of their relationships to NAMBLA?and those who practice bestiality. In an email delivered on Friday afternoon to students, staff and faculty at Johns Hopkins University, where he has worked for 36 years, Carson explained that he had not selected the most effective words to express his belief that marriage should remain limited to heterosexual relationships. "My poorly chosen words caused pain for some members of our community and for that I offer a most sincere and heartfelt apology," he wrote. "Hurting others is diametrically opposed to who I am and what I believe. There are many lessons to be learned when venturing into the political world and this is one I will not forget."

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Arriving along with Carson's apology,?according to New York magazine,?was another email, sent moments later, from dean of JHU's medical school which explained, "Dr. Carson?s comments are inconsistent with the culture of our institution." The emails provide a two-fold reversal: here, in private, was Carson's full, sincere apology for his very public remarks, plus the official admonition of Johns Hopkins University, which up until now has declined to take a stance on Carson's commentary. Read together, they seem to indicate that Carson is just now realizing the stature he's achieved as a public face of the Republican Party.

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The realization does seem a little late coming. Carson willingly entered the political spotlight when he delivered a long speech at the National Prayer Breakfast in February, concerning his distaste for political correctness and the need for lower tax rates. Amidst the fallout of his speech, he began appearing on Fox News Channel to defend himself, and later became a semi-regular guest on?Hannity, an evening talk show hosted by Sean Hannity, to weigh in on various political stories. Otherwise known for successfully separating conjoined twins, Carson's concord with the Republican Party's platform earned him a speaking slot at CPAC, in mid-March, but didn't become that much of a problem until March 26, when he made the aforementioned comment about gay couples.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ben-carson-sorry-saying-horrible-things-203758929.html

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What's the Jankiest Gadget You Love Despite All Its Flaws?

No piece of tech runs perfectly, but some run less perfectly than others. It' doesn't mean they're totally worthless; it just means they're harder to use. Sometimes the jank comes hand in hand with utter awesomeness. What's the glitchiest, jankiest, freeziest, aghhhhhhhhhh-iest device that you loved through and through, even when it was making you scream? More »

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