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THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, WE’D SEE A RETURN TO RACIAL THEORIES OF INTELLECTUAL INFERIORITY. And they were right!

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Ezra Klein: From ‘Journolist’ To Liberal Activist.

EMPLOYMENT: Over on Facebook, some friends have been talking about yesterday’s jobs post, and a couple comment on how with so many resumes coming in, they’ll toss any that contain typos. One comments: “I used to screen for my law firm. We would receive piles and piles of resumes, and that was during the boom years. I found myself tossing the majority of them for typos and the like. I also was surprised by how many applicants had inappropriate e-mail addresses (e.g., partygirl88@____.com).”

The Insta-Daughter has a job where, as low person on the totem pole, she’s in charge of sorting the resumes, and she’s been amazed by how many (1) don’t indicate the job sought (sometimes they’re hiring multiple positions, and it’s not always obvious from the resume which one the person is applying for); (2) are several pages long, but don’t have page numbers and the person’s name at the top of each page (which makes them hard to reconstruct if they’re mixed up, as happens); and (3) refer the reader to a website for crucial information. Then there are the typos and grammatical errors, which are distressingly common even though these are mostly people with fancy educational backgrounds, and often with industry experience.

So here’s some advice: As you put your resume together, imagine that you’re an intern or other junior employee faced with a stack of 500 resumes to sort, because that’s who’ll probably be the first person to see it. Make yours easy to sort, easy to keep together, and easy to follow. And remember that people faced with big stacks of resumes are basically looking for reasons to weed yours out, to reduce things to a manageable number, so don’t give them those reasons. Proofread, proofread, proofread — then have a friend proofread for you. It’s okay to have samples of your work on a website, but make sure that all the stuff people need to decide whether they want to look at you that closely is right there on the resume in convenient form.

And do think about the email address. I see that kind of thing surprisingly often among my law students. (My favorite was a student — a big Democrat — whose email was “lickBush@___.com”; I suggested a change to something less political, or otherwise subject to misinterpretation). And in general, although people often spend a lot of time fussing over their resumes — because that’s the only part of the process where you’re in complete control — it’s a mistake to view your resume from your own perspective. You need to try to look at it from the perspective of the people who’ll be reading it at the other end.

Books like Live For Success or What Color Is Your Parachute? are easy to make fun of, but these kinds of simple points are important, and anyone who spends any time doing hiring soon learns that there are a lot of people applying for jobs who haven’t mastered the basics yet. Don’t be one of them.

UPDATE: Reader Michael Becker emails:

In addition to the excellent information about resumes – all stuff I’ve been hammering people about for years – add in the ring back tones used on their phones and their voice mail messages. An utterly vile, hip-hop ring tone or a message like “You know what to do…” or “Leave a message, if it’s important I might call you…” (all stuff I encounter with frightening frequency) are good for a message to the effect “I was going to invite you for an interview until I was exposed to your complete unprofessional ring tone/voicemail message”.

Also remember that your tweets, Facebook postings, blog, etc. are likely to be viewed by potential employers.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Ben Dolfin writes:

If you’re looking for a job in the trades go meet people and introduce yourself, who you are and what you’re looking for. I do a lot of IT stuff for small companies and they’re not the kind of place that puts a help wanted ad on Monster or hires professional HR staff. They’re the company that hires their friends nephew or the guy they know from the baseball team or the IT guy from church so get out there and meet people. Almost everyone I know started with crappy jobs like hauling shingles up a ladder, but if you’re not willing to do the crap work chances are you won’t make it that far. There are lots of jobs advertised but there are lots more that aren’t.

Yes, and even the advertised jobs are more likely to be filled by someone who found out via word-of-mouth.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Reader Mike Miller emails: “Here’s a new State sponsored university started in Indiana. Online 4 year BS degree $23,120, 2 years Masters cost is $13,000. The end is near for old school universities.” Yeah, the Western Governors’ University model is going to pose a real cost challenge.

SHOCKING RELATIONSHIP ADVICE: Stop Nagging and Treat Husbands with Respect. An idea so crazy, it just might work!

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Dinner Table Talk For Lesbians & Their Possible Sperm Donors.

WIRED: 3 Smart Things About Gun Silencers.

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES: At the Boston Herald, 25 years of Barney Frank stories.

Perhaps a useful remedy for the media airbrushing at NPR and elsewhere.

THE TRUTH ABOUT the Chevy Volt battery fire.

IS THE GAO ON A WITCH HUNT AGAINST FOR-PROFIT SCHOOLS? “Guess who else admits students with fake credentials? Harvard.”

Related: “There is plenty of educational fraud going on in the non-profit sector, too.”

WE ONLY WANT THE APPEARANCE OF BANNING INSIDER TRADING: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s Bizarre and Toothless Version of the STOCK Act.

Somebody should write a book on this sort of scam.

OBAMA APPROVAL now worse than Jimmy Carter’s. Well, he’s a worse President than Jimmy Carter, which took some doing.

Related: The Fervor Behind Dumping Obama.

AUSTAN GOOLSBEE: Keystone Pipeline Opponents Are Idiots. He actually says “naive,” but he’s just being polite. . . .

MARY DUDZIAK WORRIES ABOUT a growing civilian-military gap, and its consequences. I’ve worried about that too. Perhaps restoring ROTC to the Ivies will help a little. And I notice that more of the high schools in my area have Junior ROTC, and it seems to be well-respected among the students. Perhaps that should be encouraged — particularly in blue-state areas where support for the military is less visible.

STUDY: Adolescent boys more prone to delinquency without a father. The sense of security generated by the presence of a male role model in a youth’s life has protective effects for a child, regardless of the degree of interaction between the child and father.”

UPDATE: Reader Ronald Fox writes: “For this they needed a study? I’ve been a Boy Scout leader for 20 years, and I figured this out in my first 4 Troop meetings.”

SO IN LIGHT OF ALL THE TALK THAT LAW SCHOOLS DON’T TEACH STUDENTS TO BE LAWYERS, it’s worth noting that, though a fair criticism in general, that doesn’t always obtain. Here at the University of Tennessee College Of Law, for example, we have loads of clinical programs. I was just in a faculty meeting about the Business Clinic, where students work with startups and entrepreneurs and do all sorts of work ranging from transactional (incorporation, asset sales, LLC formation, etc.) to litigation and commercial. A lawyer from an M&A firm who hired one of our students last year said that she was “light years ahead” of the other first-year associates as a result. (She could certainly have answered the questions posed at the opening of the linked article above. And done all the documents.) We have the usual criminal and civil clinics, too, and a large percentage of our students do one or another. There’s even a special Wills clinic. And while clinics are an untenured ghetto at some schools, our clinic faculty are all on the tenure track just like other faculty.

Of course, another criticism of legal education is that it’s expensive, and clinics don’t address that. The appeal of the Kingsfield model popularized in The Paper Chase — where one professor declaims to a classroom of 200 students — is that it’s cheap. The hands-on stuff is more time-consuming, and hence more expensive.

ON YESTERDAY’S STOLEN SPERM POST, reader Donald G. Porter emails: “Something you didn’t mention. The linked story fails to identify the mother by name, sticking to the ‘ex-girlfriend’ label throughout. Why? What possible convention of journalism compels them to leave out this basic fact? Everyone else, the father, the attorneys, the clinic staff are named.” Excellent point.

SMARTPHONE APP WARNS PEDESTRIANS OF ONCOMING CARS: “The app relies on machine-learning and image-recognition algorithms to identify the fronts and backs of vehicles, and takes into account varying light conditions, phone tilt, and blur. When WalkSafe detects a car approaching at 30 miles per hour or faster, it vibrates the phone and makes a sound to alert the distracted user.”

UPDATE: Reader J.R. Ott writes: “We wonder why people are underemployed and unable to meet tough goals. Hell they can no longer walk by themselves without a gadget. Heaven help them if the battery dies, they will collapse on the sidewalk sucking their thumb crying.”

RICHARD EPSTEIN: Curing The Unemployment Blues. “Deregulation is our last, best hope.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Byran Caplan: The Magic Of Education.

THE WEEK: Democrats should fear a third-party challenge in 2012. Naw, anybody who’d mount a third-party challenge to Obama would be tarred as a racist or something.

REVOLVING DOOR: Obama And Billy Tauzin:

Here’s a YouTube of a 33-second Barack Obama campaign commercial titled “Billy” that aired in the 2008 campaign about Billy Tauzin, a congressman who went to work for the pharmaceutical industry as a lobbyist.

Here’s a Bloomberg News article from today headlined, “Tauzin’s $11.6 Million Made Him Highest-Paid Health-Law Lobbyist.” It begins: “Billy Tauzin, the former congressman turned pharmaceutical industry lobbyist, was paid $11.6 million in 2010, the year he brokered a deal with President Barack Obama that helped pass the health-care overhaul.”

Taken together, the two are a pretty devastating combination.

Plus, a reference to my anti-revolving door surtax.