CV–the Vital First Step

正When enjoying the excitement of coming to China to ind a job,does it ever occur to you that 100of the CVs you’ve sent out don’t even get a glimpse from the Chinese HR?! To keen overseas job seekers who want to work in China:While anticipating the excitement of coming to China to find a job,does it ever occur to you that maybe100 of the CVs you’ve sent out won’t even get a glimpse from the Chinese company HR?Does that shock you?If you expect to get a good job because of your years of work experience and career     

Cheque Fraud: How Serious a Problem?

Cheque fraud or the passing of bad cheques are considered normal events in business life. For some they are also considered a serious problem, but is this view commonly held? An attempt is made to review these beliefs with reference to the Australian experience and also to identify the extent of official statistics on the subject and the actual victims of valueless cheques.     

Intraregional Migration,Direct Action Land Reform,and New Land Settlements in the Brazilian Amazon

This article analyses migration histories of residents in rural settlements of the Brazilian Amazon that resulted from direct action land reform (DALR), which involves organised land occupations. Our analysis evaluates two hypotheses. The ‘urban migration’ expectation asserts that urban experience is important for DALR participation, which links rural and urban areas via migration for land occupations. The ‘DALR efficacy’ hypothesis argues that migration and DALR are complementary livelihood strategies, such that participation in DALR obviates the need for further migration. Our findings support both hypotheses and bear implications for regional development and environmental change in the Amazon.     

Making Europe Work

Because they have failed to address the fundamental economic imbalances within Europe obscured by the single currency, each effort by European leaders so far to resolve the euro crisis has only deepened it. Without a decisive move toward fiscal and political union, accompanied by policies that push productivity and competitiveness toward convergence while closing the democratic deficit, the Eurozone will disintegrate. To discuss the way forward, the Nicolas Berggruen Institute's Council on the Future of Europe met in Rome on May 28 with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti. In this section we publish the contributions from that meeting by the former European leaders, scholars and Nobel laureates who are members of the Council.     

Can You Talk between the Lines？

EVERY Chinese is proud of their country＇s 5,000 years of cultural his tory. However, if people from the Western world were to interpret this culture in the wrong way, it would be quite difficult to communicate. Bearing in mind the cultural differences, many expats will have encountered conversational awkwardness with Chinese employees or colleagues.