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Marketing your resume

Recently I was pushed to a situation by my employer which forced me to start fresh round of intensive job hunt. Even though the reasons for this situation is invalid for this post I would like to share my experiences in job market. This might be usefull for all those people who have good experience but are unable to find a job. Analyzing the situation I have been working in IT industry since 1998 in various roles and capacities. But  when I entered job market afresh. I could see no one is any more interested in my resume I am no more getting calls as earlier. Which left me thinking if the job market saturated,  is economy playing a havoc. Well the answer is no you still have your place. The market is flooded with unrealistic resumes created mainly by resume writers and hr consulting firms. Well i just mean to say a minority of bad guys making things complicated for all, basically all are good people. The loosers are  your company and client, filthy managers are clear winners as th

India needs a law limiting the ownership of gold

Gold and economy  India doesnt manufacture gold as it do not have gold mines all gold that is available in the market is either personal posessions or imported gold. India spend 52 billion dollars for import of gold alone of this almost all gold is sold in domestic market. That means there is no much exports of gold ornaments and artifacts taking place. There are thousands of jwelleries or gold sooks in india employing lakhs of people.goverment earns from these activities in form of various taxes and duties.once the gold reaches the consumer it becomes an unproductive comodity, it just stays in coffers and lockers.  Gold and culture Gold has a cultural value too. Traditionally gold is used to show of a family's financial status. It is shown of in get-togethers and family functions, well gold remains one of the status symbols of indian households. In marriage gold is given as dowry, more the gold higher the status.  Gold and religion  Gold is favourite for gods too