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noreimerreason a reading, writing, and photo blog. oh and animals. and their rights. there ain't never been any reimer reason, and i'm not gonna start now Occupy Your Parent's Basement Posted 3 days ago MJ: At the beginning of the project, you hired several career coaches to help you design your resume and guide you in your search. What are your overall thoughts about job coaching? BE: A lot of what was going on with my coaches was a complete and utter waste of time. First, they all want to do a personality test. My first thought was, “I already told you I’m a P.R. person, that’s what I do. So what if I have the personality of an embalmer?” In 1993, 89 of the Fortune top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests is that they don’t want you to be in the wrong kind of job. The tests have been completely exposed as nonsense. People take the test in the morning and then take it again in the afternoon and have a new personality. There’s a wonderful recent book, Cult of Personality by Annie Murphy Paul, who just goes through how it’s ridiculous. Bait and Switch: An Interview with Barbara Ehrenreich \| Mother Jones Posted 1 week ago Copyright (Taken with Instagram at Kozmik Zoo) Posted 1 week ago Absorption (Taken with Instagram at Kozmik Zoo) Posted 1 week ago This place (Taken with instagram) Posted 1 week ago True love (Taken with instagram) Posted 1 week ago Mac lounge (Taken with instagram) Posted 1 week ago Trampoline Hall (Taken with Instagram at Performance Works Theatre) Posted 1 week ago Memory! (Taken with Instagram at Performance Works Theatre) Posted 1 week ago Synaptic plasticity (Taken with Instagram at Performance Works Theatre) Posted 1 week ago Next »

Showing Tag: "elsewhere" (Show all posts) Some recent online writing Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, August 9, 2010, In : poetry & poetics I haven't been cross-posting pieces I've written elsewhere to this blog, which is perhaps a mistake, as I have ownership over this site (archival purposes) and also I have no idea who (if anyone) is reading this. Nevertheless, I've recently posted the following online: On Lemon Hound, a cheeky read of the movie Bright Star: A Few Things I Learned About Life as a Poet from Watching Bright Star I approached this movie ready to be snarky and suspicious. No romantic frippery for this lady, in either ... Continue reading ... « Back to posts		Blog Archive May 2010 June 2010 July 2010 August 2010 September 2010 October 2010 November 2010 December 2010 January 2011 February 2011 March 2011 April 2011 September 2011 October 2011 Subscribe to this blog This blog by Nikki Reimer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.