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How Different are Nonprofit Job Interviews from other Types of Interviews? Are the interview questions different for people who apply for nonprofit jobs? It’s likely candidates hear pretty similar questions from employers whether for profit or nonprofit, but others might be different. For instance, while mission statements do exist for businesses, they are likely to be taken much more seriously by nonprofits. The mission is everything for a charity. If you don’t know what that mission is, you’re likely to be written off by nonprofit interviewers....

Welcome to our Golf Almanac section. Think of this as a compendium of lists - lists of award winners, statistical leaders and so on for the major tours. Plus links to similar information around About.com Golf, as well as to our Golf Timeline. Tour Top Performers PGA TourCareer Wins | Career Majors | Yearly Win Leaders | Yearly Money LeadersScoring average: Vardon Trophy | Byron Nelson AwardPlayers of the Year | Rookies of the Year | PGA Tour Records...

01 of 14 A Gorgeous, Simple Hairstyle for Straight, Long Hair Emily Blunt. Jason Merritt // Getty Images What I love about this cut is how healthy Emily Blunt’s hair looks here. It’s thick, shiny and sleek. Thick hair is a sign of health, so don’t let your stylist thin out hair too much with a razor. Ask your stylist to cut the bottom of your hair blunt. This way the ends will look thicker and the layers will look longer....

It’s hard out there for a hip-hop artist at the Oscars. For starters, Academy Award voters haven’t always recognized rap’s contribution to movies. One commonly cited reason for this is the issue of sampling. To be eligible for nomination, songs must be completely original, which automatically eliminates sample-based rap songs. Despite these obstacles, hip-hop has managed to score a few wins at the Oscars. Here’s a look at some of hip-hop’s big wins at the Oscars....

With stand-up having become a popular and legitimate art form in the 1970s, the 1980s became the decade when it exploded. The handful of comedy clubs that opened in the ’70s had flourished on both coasts. In the ’80s, clubs went national; between 1978 and 1988, over 300 comedy clubs sprung up across the U.S. Stand-up comedy was everywhere. The ubiquity of stand-up comedy during the decade meant that a large number of comedians became popular in the ’80s....

It’s important to know when it’s time to replace your rear brake pads. If you have disc brakes in the rear you can do damage to the discs if you wait too long. That being said, you don’t need to replace your rear disc brake pads very often at all. Most of your braking is done with the front wheels, so the rears see very little action comparatively. A visual inspection will tell you whether or not it’s time....

Choosing a name is among the most important things you’ll do for your company. The name should tell potential customers who you are and what your company does and convey a strong image of your business. In addition, you want to make sure your company’s name informs marketing efforts. In other words, the name should help you market your company to potential customers. Bear in mind also that conventional wisdom suggests a business name have 11 or fewer letters and four syllables maximum....

When you are playing ping pong, or table tennis, in your home, you can make up your own rules and keep score any way you like. But when you play in a competition that follows the International Table Tennis Federation rules and regulations, you need to know the rules for keeping score correctly. It is not uncommon for matches in local competitions to have no umpires, and the players must umpire and keep the score themselves....

The United States Air Force has mastered the art of in-flight refueling. These men and women, from pilot to crew, perform in-flight refueling aircrew functions and activities according to flight manuals, checklists, and United States Air Force publications. Consider the logistics involved in meeting another plane in the sky at 20,000 ft traveling 300+ miles per hour. The rendezvous point alone is tiny, now do it at night. What do in-flight refueling specialist / crewmen do?...

Giacomo Puccini’s famous opera, La Boheme is packed full of fantastic arias, like “Che gelida manina.” When Rodolfo reveals to Mimi that he has fallen in love with her, he wants to know all about her. He asks her to tell him something about her and her life. Mimi’s reply begins by telling him she is called Mimi, but her true name is Lucia. Here are the lyrics and an English translation....

“Mind your manners” is what Mom always said, right? But now that you’re the mom what’s considered good manners has changed a lot, thanks to technology and the fast pace of life. When you work from home, the phone is a particularly important part of your professional life. Proper Phone Etiquette Guidelines Learn the appropriate phone etiquette for these various situations: At Work or Working From Home Good phone manners are essential in any business setting–whether you work at home or in an office....

If you drive in an urban area, you probably realize you’re continually stopping and starting on the road. It’s a big waste of time, but you might not also realize that it’s a huge waste of energy. Making a car move forward requires needs a large input of power, and every time you step on the brakes, all the energy you built up dissipates. According to the rules of physics, energy cannot be destroyed....

Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is a business model where the buyer of a product provides information to a vendor of that product and the vendor takes full responsibility for maintaining an agreed inventory of the material, usually at the buyer’s consumption location. A third party logistics provider can also be involved to make sure that the buyer have the required level of inventory by adjusting the demand and supply gaps. VMI makes it less likely that a business will unintentionally become out of stock of a good and reduces inventory in the supply chain....

One of the hardest lessons for new salespeople to learn is the importance of closing every sale. The close doesn’t have to be as difficult as it seems. If you did a good job of presenting the product and responded to the prospect’s objections, the close follows naturally. However, if things didn’t go quite so smoothly, you may need to give the prospect a bit of a nudge to successfully close the sale....

01 of 11 The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Samuel Goldwyn Company The Best! The Best Years of Our Lives is a special film. In 1946, deep in the “Patriotic Era” of war films, immediately after the Second World War had concluded, while most war movies were playing up the heroic exploits of the war, this film was the first ever to focus on the damage done to veterans. (This is all the more special considering that post-traumatic stress disorder isn’t really something that was acknowledged in public until the Vietnam war....

William Rosenberg, the founder of the international coffee and donut chain Dunkin’ Donuts, was born in Massachusetts in 1916 and raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. Rosenberg left middle school in eighth grade to help support his family, which had lost their family business during the great depression. A natural entrepreneur as a boy, Rosenberg purportedly transported a block of ice to a New Hampshire racetrack and sold ice chips for 10 cents each, earning himself $171....

01 of 08 Monster-in-Law (2005) The love life of Charlotte, played by Jennifer Lopez, has been an endless string of bad dates, until she meets the perfect man, Kevin. Unfortunately, his merciless mother, played by Jane Fonda, will do anything to destroy their relationship. 02 of 08 My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) Nia Vardalos stars as a girl who creates an uproar within her traditional Greek family by falling for a guy with one flaw–he’s not Greek!...

Any restaurant that serves alcohol should make sure its staff is trained in and has received the TIPS Certification. This program teaches waitstaff and bar employees how to recognize when a patron has had too much to drink. It guides them in how to deal with intoxicated customers, and it helps protect restaurant owners from potential lawsuits that might stem from alcohol-related accidents and incidents. Some states, such as Utah, require that all employees who serve alcoholic beverages must undergo some type of alcohol service safety training....

A career in sports is considered a dream job for a lot of people, and there are numerous pathways into the field. When people think about sports, they often think about the athletes, but there are many other jobs that exist to support those athletes or to promote them or the teams or leagues they represent. Even though there are many different types of jobs, it is a competitive field. Those who will have the most success getting a foot in the door and advancing often are those who begin laying the groundwork for their careers in college....

Taking the ASVAB unprepared can jeopardize your initial goals of getting into or obtaining your dream job in the military - take it seriously. It is important to understand the test’s formats, and the type of questions asked in each of the subtests. Currently, there two ways to take the ASVAB: a shorter, computerized version, and a common paper test version. The ASVAB contains nine separately timed subtests. Here are examples of questions found in each of the ASVAB subtest areas....