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Characteristics of penny auctions

If you would want to make a very good profile in such penny auction websites the first thing that you need to do is to boost your self-confidence with the help of getting a very good auctions of gift cards. These are the things that come in extremely handy to you, as it can help you to decrease the amount of money that would need to pay for the procurement of a certain product. Contrary to popular understanding, it is important for you to focus on your bidding activities on small-scale codes when you happen to be an amateur, and continue to increase the value of the goods as you progress. This can actually give you a foolproof plan on which you can go about bidding, and websites like Deal Dash shall always provide you with the required amount of help that you need. You always need to inculcate your sense into such a manner that you need not worry about any sort of focus getting shifted from the procurement of such kind of items.

Get yourself a particular strategy, and work according to it, as it can actually help you to get the less costly merchandise, and make things gear for you. Always try and go for learning yourself first, and get to know about your weakness before you try and take the help of such penny auction websites. This is never been the case with Deal Dash, and will never be so. They have a very good model that not only ensures that the newcomers would be limited from the total number of bids on a particular auction, but also ensures that even though the other sites may allow unlimited bidding, such kind of bidding is actually done so that people do not find an unjust manner of bidding on a particular high-priced item.

This can sometimes lead to the auction being cancelled, but it is something that needs to be taken care of at the earliest. More often than not, you’re going to get people that would like to spend a trunk load of money in order to get a particular product, but a suitable amount of chance must also be given to the other people so that they can profit from this organization. You need to keep a very good balance in check between the bid spend of the customer, as well as the value of the item that is on offer.

Hiring a new employee is a big investment of time and money for an employer.  If the person selected does not work out, it is a waste of both. This makes the selection process very important to an employer and is why resume review and the interview process can seem so grueling.  So what is an employer looking for?

Job specific skills. Read the job description carefully and make sure you are selling yourself as the best person to fill the job. Your resume should be tailored with “key words” in the job description to make it easy for the employer to want to interview you. During the interview you should emphasize your qualifications that are a fit for the job description as well.

Soft skills.  This is an area that many employers find to be very lacking in candidates. These are skills such as:

• Strong work ethic
• Initiative
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Teamwork
• Interpersonal skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Flexibility and adaptability

Be sure to give examples of your soft skills during an interview. This can go a long way towards convincing an employer that you are a good fit.

by Josh Harsant (@JoshHarsant)

A young person’s education is the fundamental stepping stone to the rest of their lives. Being at school is more than getting ‘good grades’, but about developing the skills needed to be responsive, adaptive and dynamic in the changing landscape of employment.

We learnt this week of the radical proposals by our apparently pro-school autonomy Education Secretary, Michael Gove, to interfere with our education system at central Government level, again. For a Secretary of State who claimed he wanted less central control and more school autonomy, it’s safe to say, it’s not going well at all.

Gove is developing a reputation for forcing change in our education system. First it was by cornering schools into covering to academies (as was the case of Downhills Primary School in Haringey), then it was through pressure to deliver particular subjects through the English Baccalaureate and now, we learn, it’ll be through changing the entire examination system.

The leaked proposals for an exam shake-up, according to the Daily Mail, call for the abolishment of GCSEs, the national curriculum in secondary schools and the requirement to obtain five ‘good’ GCSE grades.

Whilst I agree the exam system needs to be revolutionised to equip students with the skills to apply themselves in a continually changing world, creating a divisive two-tier exam system is not the way to do it.

Looking longer term and hypothetically taking his proposals as gospel, Gove risks creating huge disparity of value, in so far as routes to employment and the skill set required to be successful, between those young people achieving GCSEs today and those achieving these new O-levels in the future; essentially creating a culture in which GCSEs become the inferior qualification; the very culture he wanted to eradicate with BTec qualifications.

Moreover, there is a danger that the attainment gap between those from working well families to those from more disadvantaged circumstances will increase – as the educational offer to young people becomes increasingly academia-focused.

With the participation age (the age at which young people must participate in learning, be that school, college, an apprenticeship etc) being raised to 18, it also seems entirely pointless having exams at age 16. I would go as far to argue the case of removing exams at age 16 entirely; like Eton head Tony Little has done so previously.

Exams at 16 were a key determiner in a young person’s life story, contributing to the decision about ‘what next?’ Some chose sixth form, others college and some moving directly into employment.

But, now there’s a statutory requirement to stay in learning until 18. the chose at 16 is no longer so important – because you are guaranteed a place.

Therefore, everyone will progress to learning and potentially acquiring qualifications beyond level 2 – GCSE level. After which, any level 2 qualification you possess immediately becomes inferior.

Before moving away from GCSEs or introducing O-levels, we need to develop an alternative framework that enables us to measure the achievements and success of our young people in what is now a very different environment to that of previous years.

This framework needs to both apply to those young people we would deem ‘more academic’ and equally those who we would deem ‘more vocational’ – establishing an assessment framework that rules out educational imbalance and exclusion.

A framework, too, of this nature would enable us to account for the wide breadth of learning a young person experiences outside the classroom and identify skill development rather than merely knowledge accumulation, which we know Gove has actively advocated.

Josh Harsant is a Reading Young Labour member and former Member of the Youth Parliament for Reading. He blogs at http://www.joshharsant.wordpress.com