Friday, April 29, 2005
Revolutionary Praxis #1
We are days away from striking at the nerve-centres of the existing order. Our revolutionaries have infiltrated many major organisations, corporations, and governments! And some charities. We have done so by following the advice given on career-tips websites. This was the most useful article we found:
"We've all seen those lists of words and phrases which we are recommended to use in a CV - words like 'achieve' and 'responsibility'. What is less common is to find a list of words and phrases that should be avoided. After years of experience and reflection, I present a list of seemingly everyday words which can give a prospective employer negative feelings about a candidate. It would only take a few moments to check your CV and remove these common offenders.
binge or binging, ordeal, inbred or inbreeding, ligature, hobbit, righteous, uncontrollable, abyss, mother-fixated, implacable, horrifying, alienated, restraining order, syphilitic, eradicate, jobbie, cannibal or cannibalism, anger-management, arterial, speedball, miasma, Venusian, Zappa, self-harm, penal, vengeance, necrotic, frenzied, insectivorous, money shot, parole, morbid, mucilage, arbitrary, Area 51, sacrificial, auto-erotic, hell-fire or brimstone, web-footed, laceration or spallation, Tolkien, compulsion, decomposed, drive-by, Aryan, sickly, conspiracy, poodle, redemption, gyrating, death wish, class consciousness, capricious, exit wound, Alpha Centauri, despairing, desensitise, sporadic, toxicity, salivate, millenarian, cathartic, Bilderberg, intransigent, connective tissue, propaganda by deed, rendition, meaningless, statute of limitation, deprogramming, Prince Albert, honour code, mutation, thetan, ketamine, heresy or heretic, membrane, exploiter, contaminant, futile, insatiable, Armageddon, coercive psychology, Klingon, visceral, bloodline, safeword, random, atavism, mortification, and atrophy."
(For the benefit of our hordes of sleepers in every part of North America - what you call a 'resumé' we call a 'CV' in Britain, short for curriculum vitae. Which is Latin).
"We've all seen those lists of words and phrases which we are recommended to use in a CV - words like 'achieve' and 'responsibility'. What is less common is to find a list of words and phrases that should be avoided. After years of experience and reflection, I present a list of seemingly everyday words which can give a prospective employer negative feelings about a candidate. It would only take a few moments to check your CV and remove these common offenders.
binge or binging, ordeal, inbred or inbreeding, ligature, hobbit, righteous, uncontrollable, abyss, mother-fixated, implacable, horrifying, alienated, restraining order, syphilitic, eradicate, jobbie, cannibal or cannibalism, anger-management, arterial, speedball, miasma, Venusian, Zappa, self-harm, penal, vengeance, necrotic, frenzied, insectivorous, money shot, parole, morbid, mucilage, arbitrary, Area 51, sacrificial, auto-erotic, hell-fire or brimstone, web-footed, laceration or spallation, Tolkien, compulsion, decomposed, drive-by, Aryan, sickly, conspiracy, poodle, redemption, gyrating, death wish, class consciousness, capricious, exit wound, Alpha Centauri, despairing, desensitise, sporadic, toxicity, salivate, millenarian, cathartic, Bilderberg, intransigent, connective tissue, propaganda by deed, rendition, meaningless, statute of limitation, deprogramming, Prince Albert, honour code, mutation, thetan, ketamine, heresy or heretic, membrane, exploiter, contaminant, futile, insatiable, Armageddon, coercive psychology, Klingon, visceral, bloodline, safeword, random, atavism, mortification, and atrophy."
(For the benefit of our hordes of sleepers in every part of North America - what you call a 'resumé' we call a 'CV' in Britain, short for curriculum vitae. Which is Latin).
