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To complete the knowledge survey, please try pasting the following link into your browser:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dDV0UWIxVlJqZS01c0hlVnhZMktmckE6MQ

Click here to read the Malcolm Gladwell article about rank orders.

Click here to read the Slate.Com article about social networks and obesity.

Click here to see the SSU Career Services Assessment link that I mentioned in class.

Click here to read the NY Times article about "faster food" training.

Click here to listen to a report of California bright spots for employment and resume tips from NPR's August 19th episode of the California report.

Click here to read Wall Street Journal summary of research about mean employees earning more money.

Click here to read the journal article that includes a self-report emotional intelligence scale.

Click here to read the New York Times article, Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime, 8/24/2010

Click here to read the New York Times article Attached to Technology and Paying a Price, 6/6/2010

Click here to read the New York Times article about new research on study habits and effective learning.

Click here to hear an interesting story about the Fremont Toyota plant aired on "This American Life".

Click here to access O*net - the occupational titles database desecribed in your textbook.

Click here to access a set of relevant newspaper articles identified by your textbook authors.

Click here to hear a recent NPR story about whether employment selection tests are discriminatory as part of a current U.S. Supreme Court case.

Click here to read Malcolm Gladwell's application of "cognitive heuristics" to the recent banking problems.

Website for Mike Rowe's Dirty Work Discovery Channel Show.

 

 

 

 

 

Heather Smith, Ph.D.
Stevenson 2087
664-2587
smithh@sonoma.edu

Course assignments:
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