Oxford Dictionaries has named ‘selfie’ ‘Word of the Year’ for 2013

OXFORD, WE NEED TO HAVE A WORD ABOUT ‘SELFIE’... The ‘Word of the Year’ reflects a contemporary crisis of judgement. .spiked-online.com

Extract: The announcement that Oxford Dictionaries has named ‘selfie’ ‘Word of the Year’ for 2013, has been met with an inevitable outpouring of outrage and snarkiness.

For those who are either allergic to the internet or merely have better things to do than prowl Instagram all day, ‘selfie’ refers to taking a photo of yourself – usually on a smartphone – which is then, customarily, uploaded to a social-media site. It’s believed to have been coined by an Australian student in 2002. He snapped a photo of the busted lip he suffered due to a sozzled fall, and uploaded it online with the caption ‘…sorry about the focus, it was a selfie’. In the last year, the term has really caught on – even the pope’s been at it – and Oxford Dictionaries calculates its usage across the internet has increased a whopping 17,000 per cent. .spiked-online.com

Library has resources to help you find a job: keyword searching for a job, career, resume

Your question is how to find, or what keywords or search terms are relevant for your need, right?

Here is a sample of how libraries try to help you:

Strathcona County Library

Browse for Materials:

Find Books:

Use the following words to search the

Library catalogue by Subject or Keyword.

• Applications for positions
• Job hunting
• Resumes
• Networking
• Career changes
• Employment
• Interviewing 
• Vocational guidance

Browse the following general areas in the Career Centre, Adult Non-Fiction and Reference collections (arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification)

Example:  650.14 TAH 2010, Taher, Mohamed, Job search the Canadian way: what works, what doesn’t

Bow Valley College Library

What is a Keyword or Search Term? 

A keyword is a word used to search an electronic resource in order to locate results that match that word in a specified part or in any part of the item, such as the title or in the full text.
When searching in digital environments, such as a library database or on the Internet, it is most effective to use single words (keywords) or phrases (terms).
Never type in a long sentence, such as a question or a thesis statement.
Instead, enter in a single keyword or term in the search box. Or, click "Advanced Search" for more search boxes then type in additional keywords and terms

Research Help

This introduction to library research explains how to choose a topic, develop a research question and search for resources online, in the LLC and in the library database collection.

• How to Begin your Research
  Use this section for help on developing a research topic, finding keywords to search for resources, and understanding library and research-related terms

Career Services and Resources
by Kelley Wadson - Last Updated Sep 13, 2013
Find information about career services available at Bow Valley College and links to helpful books, websites, articles and e-books for career planning, job searching, interviewing and professional development

Search tips: The default search is AND, i.e. it will search for all the words entered. To perform OR search use | character, e.g. hello | world. To exclude words use !, e.g. hello ! world will search for matches where there is the word hello but not world. To search for a phrase enter it in quotes, e.g. "hello world". 

More help: The words you use to search for information are very important.
To begin, underline the main topics in your research topic or question and think of related terms and concepts. For example:

Main topics and key concepts	Related terms and concepts
Aboriginal peoples in Canada	First Nations indigenous peoples the Metis the Inuit the Objibway

Remember to include:

• alternate spellings
• abbreviations
• plurals
• synonyms

Top 10 Things You Shouldn't Include on Your Resume: Silicon India

PS. Most of these are common mistakes, new Canadian immigrants need to AVOID!!!

23 August 2012
Extract:
10. Using too many objectives
9. About Your Short-term jobs
8. Strange Hobbies
7. Revealing private matters
6. Writing the resume in extra pages
5. Writing the resume in the third person
4. Including references
3. Mentioning current company’s phone number or mail-id
2. Bad usage of English grammar
1. Attaching Photographs

Continue reading @ SiliconIndia
Info courtesy, Tripathi Online Educare

It’s a paradox: high unemployment with serious labour shortages

Doug Saunders | Globe and Mail, Feb. 19, 2011

The above news headline offers a moment for reflection for all concerned about the real picture of Canadian job market. Is there then, a job saturation? If yes, does the labor market spell the sectors? If not, how does one justify the following:

"Looming shortage of ICT workers: study"

'Unqualified' interpreters working in courts‎

CTV Toronto - New jobs created, but unemployment edges up

Nursing Shortage. What is it? How severe is it? How will it impact ...‎:

Hoping for a fulltime teaching job? Think again
Oversupply of education graduates fueling teaching job shortage in Ontario

Canadian surgeons face flat-lining job market‎

Who will heal the nursing crisis?‎

Changing standards for training schools have created a flood of dental hygienists

In another sense the paradox is multidimensional, there is resume flood, there is an endless preaching about trimming the resume, customizing, etc., etc., as in the following instances,

as depicted in this news story @ IT Business Edge: Companies Must Find Solution to Resume Overload.

there is a constant effort to trim the resume, as in these two news stories: LinkedIn’s top buzzwords list can help job hunters By Rafael Ruffolo, 14 Dec 2010 in ComputerWorld Canada; and
10 Tips for Integrating Social Media and LinkedIn in to Your Job Search in 2011, in Windmills Marketing.

More on the same shelf:

When the Marketing Reach of Social Media Backfires

Ottawa tech firm joins RIM in tablet computer war

Alberta a 'job-creation machine' while rest of country lags behind‎

New Canadians may help Ottawa labour crunch‎

Same old won't help young Canadians‎

Staff shortage forces overtime‎

For job-hunting PhDs, the degree was the easy part, [read as: finding a job is the v.v.v. difficult part]