BACK TO THE INDEX PAGE First published in AWIS Magazine Volume 30, issue 3 (Summer 2001) I was in the checkout line of my local grocery store the other day, and a magazine in the news rack caught my eye. The magazine was titled Real Simple. The title caught me by surprise--I thought, "Has life gotten so complex that there is actually a need for this kind of magazine?" I picked up the magazine and...
AWIS INDEX This column is the first in a two-part discussion about resumé "holes." Part II will appear in the Winter 2001 issue of AWIS Magazine and will also be reposted on Science's Next Wave. Usually, a resumé will show a chronology of a professional career that is almost continuous. But what if the unexpected happens, and you are left with a "resumé hole"? A resumé hole is a large period of u...
AWIS INDEX In Part One of this article (reposted on Next Wave from the Fall 2000 issue of AWIS Magazine), we defined resume holes and discussed the fact that some resume holes can be skirted altogether, while others cannot. We also discussed the importance of determining what kind of "filler" you can use for a resume hole--that is, your career direction. Once you have determined your career direc...
AWIS INDEX First published in AWIS Magazine Volume 30, issue 2 (Spring 2001) The American Heritage dictionary defines Hobson's choice as "an apparently free choice that offers no real alternative." 1 Thomas Hobson (1544?-1630), an Englishman who kept a livery stable, had a leasing policy that allowed his customers to take either the horse nearest the stable door or none at all. If Mr. Hobson were...
