Talking Points
Tired of giving the same old presentations? Use these nuggets of information to spruce them up.
Reported by PLANADVISER Staff
- You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it! —Margaret Thatcher
- Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
- Human resource professionals and business leaders in a recent poll apparently are not very keen on the professionalism shown by new college graduates applying for jobs. A news release from York College of Pennsylvania said personal professionalism matters to hiring managers most when deciding whether to extend a job offer. Nearly 60% of the hiring decision for new college graduates is based on an assessment of the applicant’s professionalism, according to the poll of 520 human resources professionals and business leaders.
- Looking for a happy workforce? Portfolio.com claims you can find that if you take a look at metros that have the most self-employed workers and the highest concentration of management and professional jobs. Raleigh, North Carolina, edged out two metropolitan areas that are substantially larger for the top ranking in a study that compared the performances of America’s 67 biggest metropolitan areas in 20 statistical categories. The highest scores went to well-rounded markets with healthy economies, moderate costs of living, light traffic, impressive housing stocks, and high-powered educational systems.
- It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human being of blood.