California

Simple majority to amend the Constitution.

2/3rds to pass a budget.

Oh, California. Rejecting gay marriage/human rights *and* budgets, left and right.

For when you care enough to hit send.

This is relevant.

Rejection Rehab

Apparently rejection is bad for your self-esteem.

In The Red And Depressed

Check out this interactive map of jobs across the country vanishing!

Salt in the Higher Education Wound

Some jackass at the University of California, San Diego, accidentally sent an email inviting students who had already been rejected to an orientation at UCSD.

Nice.

Obviously they don't use Gmail or they could have used that unsend feature.

Fixing up your resume, according to the LAT

Is this going to be a recession trend piece? How to craft a resume so you can get hired, aka not rejected?

The most important thing to take away from the article: nobody cares if you're good at Microsoft Word. Everyone can use it.

Access, however, is still magic voodoo and you should probably mention your competency at it, all the time, forever.

Try Again

Thank you for applying for the Account Executive, ********** job with the *** ******* *****. We wanted to inform you that ************ and its subsidiaries will launch a new career website starting March 27, 2009. If you still wish to be considered for the Account Executive, ********** position, please create a new profile at [our website] on or after March 27th and apply for the job on the new ************* career website. Any information or resume submitted by you prior to March 27th will not be forwarded to the new website so it extremely important that you create a new profile. We are an equal opportunity employer.

Thank you,
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