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Guardian Unlimited: Work - Entertaining news, features and advice about issues at and about work. Resources include Dr Work, How To, Wage Slaves and quizzes.
Redundancy Help - Advice and information for those that have been made redundant, from employee rights and money to jobseeking.
Salary Search - Online pay and salary database.
Tiger - A guide to employment law, including the national minimum wage, maternity rights and employee relations. Constructed by the Department of Trade and Industry.
UK Recruiter - Information for the recruiter and recruitment researcher. CV database, recruitment agency listings, employment and jobs sites.
WorkSmart - Offers help and advice on employment law, keeping well at work, and a union finder.
Silver Links - Resource for older IT professionals to overcome ageist barriers to employment, includes advice and links .
The Independent: Careers Advice - News and recent articles on careers from the national newspaper.
I-resign.com - Features advice on resigning, careers advice, CV articles, a discussion board and a job search provided by totaljobs.
SHL Direct - Offers guidance on applying for jobs, example personality questionnaires and aptitude tests with feedback.
FiftyOn - Targetting the over 50s, with a focus on promoting career opportunities.
Working Futures - Provides on-line advice together with a job search database.
The People Team - Services include Professional CV Writing, coaching and interview techniques.
Workthing - Employment network offering job searches in many different sectors and advice on recruitment issues.
Directgov - Employment - Official government site offers job search, career information, advice on job applications and interviews, training opportunities, New Deal schemes and workers' rights.
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And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- Lyster "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Resources "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill Resources Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Resources It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Resources The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie Resources We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Resources [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel Resources Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Resources Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the Resources Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically! -- Steven Wright If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Resources A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow Resources If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous Resources I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol Resources Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Resources "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy Resources The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. -- Lewis Grizzard Resources In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Resources We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels. -- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Resources Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Resources The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Resources I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill Resources
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