Tomorrow you could be living in dynamic Dubai and earning a tax-free salary with global benefits. Starting with two aircraft and a handful of enthusiastic people, we have grown at a phenomenal rate. We are now one of the fastest growing airlines in the world, flying to over 125 destinations across 6 continents.
We are looking for people to join our global family of over 54,000 people from 160 nationalities across a diverse range of disciplines. If you are a high performer, seeking unparalleled career opportunities, join the Emirates team and help us create the future of travel.
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Senior Occupational/Business Psychologist - the role holder will assess, evaluate and recommend suitability of candidates for employment or promotion, and act as a consultant to senior managers in the building of strong teams, resolution of work related conflicts and managing the psychological aspects of change in the workplace.
Job Outline -Research, assess, administer, and recommend the most appropriate psychological tools for recruitment, workshops and training leading to enhanced quality of selection and staff development. -Ensure tools used are appropriately normed and/or adapted to the needs of the organisation as required. -Proactively develop and deliver relevant workshops across the Group depending on the business requirement and an understanding of the business and its challenges. -Thereby support staff and managers facing challenges of continuous expansion, growth and business. -Support management and the HR-Business Support team in implementing corporate change by facilitating interventions, developing appropriate workshops to assist individuals to cope with change, and provide other support in order to minimize resistance to change and facilitate positive forward movement. -Facilitate team sessions across the business to support the forming of new teams or the growth and development of intact teams. -Conduct detailed leadership profiling to support promotion, development and high potential assessment. -Design and conduct assessment and development centres for various purposes as required. -Research and benchmark international practices particularly in the area of Aviation Psychology ensuring the Emirates Group continues to follow best practice in this area.
Salary & Benefits: We offer an attractive tax-free salary, paid in Dirhams, the local currency of the UAE.
Experience and Qualifications: -Masters degree in Occupational or Business Psychology; Chartership or its equivalent will be of added advantage. -At least 6 years experience post Masters. -Membership of the BPS, APS or other international professional body. -Qualifications and experience on the WAVE, Hogan, EQi would be an advantage. -Experience facilitating team dynamics sessions using a tool such as the MBTI is essential. -Significant experience designing and conducting assessment and development centres is also essential. -Should have worked in an occupational setting in a large corporate; aviation experience would be an added advantage as would the change aspects of M&A and other large organisational change scenarios. -Practical knowledge of the Gulf culture an advantage. -Fluency in English language is essential both spoken and written.
Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall was fined $30,000 for screaming at an official during an October 28 game against the Steelers. Now Hall says the official falsely told the NFL that Hall had threatened to kill him during their heated exchange.
Hall told the Washington Post that head linesman Dana McKenzie told the league office that the reason he ejected Hall from the game was that Hall issued a death threat. Hall says that?s simply not true.
?Yeah, he said that?s what threw the flag for the ejection,? Hall said. ?And so, you know, that didn?t happen. That should have never happened, and we wouldn?t be having this conversation. There?s just a lot of things that are unresolved with that case that have to be resolved.?
Hall said that in the process of appealing his fine, he began to believe that the NFL Players Association never should have accepted the Collective Bargaining Agreement that ended the lockout last year. According to Hall, the players gave the league office far too much authority to discipline them.
?Any time you?ve got one person that?s the judge, jury and executioner ? he makes the fine, then he hears the appeal, then he decides the amount ? it?s just tough. It?s just tough,? Hall said. ?The CBA we agreed on probably wasn?t in the best interests of the players, from my viewpoint.?
Although Hall stopped short of criticizing the union, he said that he now wishes he had immediately hired his own lawyer when the NFL fined him, instead of relying on help from the Players Association, which is what he has done so far.
?I should have took a step back and got independent counsel, figured the right, I guess, path to go on,? Hall said. ?That?s kind of what we?re trying to do now, I mean, because what happened shouldn?t have happened. He shouldn?t have came at me like he did. I shouldn?t have came back at him. But it happened. But after that, I was told that I said I was going to ?[profanity] kill him,? which didn?t happen.?
If there?s still a dispute about exactly what Hall said to McKenzie, that suggests that no audio of the exchange exists, and we?ll likely never know who?s telling the truth. But a $30,000 fine obviously means the NFL thinks Hall said something that went way too far.
December 20, 2012 7:58 AM EST Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) shares are ticking higher in early trading amid reports it might see a nice boost in iPad mini demand through the end of the year.
According to Digitimes, Apple increased orders for the iPad mini by 25 percent to 10 million units, as demand for the tablet continues to be robust. Sources have said that total unit volume for the few months since the device debuted in late October/early November will be about 12 million units.
The number is significant in that it could come in 20 percent above Apple's own expectations. The Curpertino, CA-based electronics and media giant had loose predictions of 10 million units being shipped in 2012, adjusting that to about 6 million to 8 million units as component yields waned.
Sources noted that yields have markedly improved and shipments have already surpassed 8 million units.
Upstream manufacturers supplied about 4 million to 4.5 million components in October and November, with the same volume expected in December.
No word on expectations for demand or shipments moving into the first-quarter of calendar 2013.
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Dec. 12, 2012 ? A new study by biologists at Mercyhurst University focuses on the influence of climate change, particularly warmer winters, on the survival and potential fecundity of cold-blooded animals.
Cold blooded animals, or ectotherms, do not have an internal mechanism for regulating body temperature. Instead, they rely on solar energy captured by the environment.
The purpose of the Mercyhurst study, a collaboration of Michael Elnitsky, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology; and students Drew Spacht and Seth Pezar, is to assess the current and future impacts of climate change on the overwintering energetics and microenvironmental conditions of the goldenrod gall fly (Eurosta solidaginis). Larvae of the goldenrod gall fly have long served as model organisms for studying the strategies used by freeze-tolerant animals for winter survival.
"We used historical temperature data to estimate the overwintering (November through March) energy use of larval gall flies," Elnitsky said. "Based upon the relationship between metabolic rate and temperature, the estimated energy utilization during winter has increased by more than 30 percent over the last 50 years."
Further, with continued climate change, each additional 1?-degree C rise in temperature during winter is projected to increase energy use by 12 percent. The consequence of this is that the amount of energy remaining at winter's end directly determines how many offspring the goldenrod gall fly can produce.
"Unlike some other insects that are benefiting from a changing climate, goldenrod gall fly populations would be predicted to decline," Elnitsky said.
The research team has begun similar assessments of the impacts of a changing winter climate for other arthropods, such as deer ticks (Ixodes scapularis) that transmit Lyme disease bacteria and the hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae), an invasive insect destroying hemlock forests throughout the eastern U.S.
The Mercyhurst group presented their research at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America (ESA) in Knoxville, Tenn., last month. Spacht of Erie and Pezar of Madison, Ohio, were awarded the President's Prize in the Physiology, Biochemistry and Toxicology section for their poster presentation. The President's Prize is the award given to the top undergraduate presentation in each section at the conference, which was attended by more than 4,000 scholars.
Also at the conference, Chris Strohm, a 2011 Mercyhurst biology graduate and currently a graduate student in entomology at the University of Kentucky, was awarded second place among graduate students in the Systematics, Evolution and Biodiversity section.
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Google shared their plans for 2013 to their affiliated agencies. In this article, we share what 2013 holds for Google and what it means for your online business.
On the 23rd November, Metakinetic?s Search Marketing team was invited to the exclusive invite only Google Engage Event; Box of Tricks for Agencies at the impressive One Marylebone in London. Walking in to the Soane Hall you could see the eager Search Marketing Specialists, Executives and Heads ready to soak in everything Google had to say. The event focused on both organic (SEO) and paid (PPC) search marketing within the Search Engine Giant, whilst also dipping its toe into the Social Media realm of Digital Marketing. For those unable to attend, take a look at what to look forward to in 2013 with Google.
Mobile is Pivotal
With many mobile statistics, Google proved their point of mobile, in particular mobile commerce, being the future with 51% of mobile phone owners having a love for their smartphone already, this is only going to increase. It is predicted that in 2013 more people will access the internet via their mobile device, whether it is their smartphone or tablet, than any other device. If that is not enough to grab your attention, in 2015 it is estimated that there will be a mobile device for each and every person on the earth. Just think to yourself, how many mobile devices do you have yourself? Maybe a personal smartphone, a work smartphone and a tablet too? That is three to yourself, soon you?ll have a personal tablet and a work tablet and many even a hybrid of the two like the Samsung Galaxy Note; a merge of the tablet and the phone.
So what does this mean for online businesses, in particular ecommerce? Google recommend going mobile, and despite user demand, only 10% of advertisers have a mobile site. We were shocked too; mobile technology is changing our customer journey. 64% of us admit to using mobile devices whilst in store in the UK to compare prices and to see what else is out there. Therefore, can you afford to not only not have an online presence, but not have a mobile presence either?
Google+ to Benefit Positioning
Google+ is described as a ?social spine that underpins and strengthens all of Google?. So as Google expands into the Social Media sector, it is important to look at what Google+ can do for your ecommerce business and increase your reach.
The Search Giant holds the majority of the cards when it comes to search marketing due to the sheer dominance in the market share, so the theory is what they say goes if you wish to succeed online. However, it isn?t as simple as surrendering to Google, instead Google?s mission is to organise the world?s information and make it universally accessible to you, improving the user?s experience. When you think about it, don?t we all want to improve the customer experience? It is definitely a hot topic in retail, both in store and online; so instead, think of Google as an advisor with their algorithms.
Although many were distraught at the effects of the infamous Panda and Penguin updates, what the user is left with is high quality, relevant results to their search queries, removing those awful spam sites. Let?s just say agencies that were using black hat practices are now seeing white as the new black after many hours, days, weeks and possibly months of hard work. Luckily, we at Metakinetic can say we only believe in ethical and natural SEO strategies to give our clients high ranking and genuine positions.
With Google+ being a little over a year old, the service has achieved over 40 million members and 1 million brands as users. These impressive stats transfer to daily active users spending an average of 60 minute on Google+ per day. Within Google+ users can search queries and keywords as they would in Google. However, brands with a Google+ account which are relevant to the search query will be favoured with the displaying of their company profile on the right hand side (where PPC adverts would usually be seen on Google). Let?s take Marks & Spencer as an example to demonstrate how this works. In the image below you can see the Google search results appearing in the usual format, however on the right posts from Marks & Spencer?s Google+ appear on the right in a larger predominant position, making it more eye catching and resulting in more clicks.
When discussing the benefits of Google+, Google also stated the user is more likely to click on your company?s result if they can see their connections have endorsed your brand through the social extension g+1. They have found it has given brands whose G+ profile appears as part of search results a Click through Rate (CTR) increase of 5 to 10%. Therefore integrating search marketing with social media to improve the performance of your ecommerce business give a higher chance of conversions.
Google Shopping to Change
Google Shopping UK has been announced to change to the US model. With it comes the paid advert option for Google shopping, where paid adverts will display a sponsored tag. Google Shopping?s paid adverts work in the same way as PPC (Pay per click) works; simply contact your search marketing agency to see if they can incorporate a Google Shopping campaign to your search marketing. This expands brands being able to advertise their products when certain keywords are searched in shopping, increasing reach.
Like PPC, the paid section of Google shopping will be displayed above the organic results, however still being sectioned off using a sponsored tag. This way the users can still determine which type of results they want to choose from. The combination of both paid and organic results can optimise any Google shopping campaigns to ensure you reach your customers. Alongside an effective ecommerce solution, Google Shopping can give you access to a different audience, in the same way that Amazon or eBay have an audience that have certain buying habits, so does Google Shopping. Using Google shopping and your ecommerce solution together can increase the audience reach and enhance your conversions.
The Importance of Remarketing
Remarketing is the use of cookies to track the journey of your users, presenting them with your adverts in Google?s Domain Network. This enables you to target users that have accessed your website and left it without carrying out the desired action, such as a purchase, giving you a second chance to re-engage with a large proportion of your traffic; 96% of visits have undesired results.
Within your traffic you will have a variety of audiences; you need to create different remarketing campaigns for each specific audience to increase your chances of conversion. For instance, around Christmas time, new traffic may be those looking for a Christmas gift for a loved one. ?Your remarketing campaign can be tailored to reach someone a certain number of times in a selected period to make your remarketing as effective as possible.
Analytics to Go Universal
For those who use Google Analytics to measure the performance of your website, we have good news for you. At the Google Analytics Summit in California October 2012, Universal Analytics was announced, a new way to measure the performance of not only your website and online presence but also your business.
Using a different type of cookie, it tracks your customer journey from online to in the store, by integrating all aspects of your data, whatever your device. For example, this new data platform is able to integrate the data from laptops, tablets and mobile devices to create a better understanding of how your customer?s decision journey is carried out. As a result you can streamline your online campaign to increase conversions. This cross-channel measurement allows online businesses to discover the correlation between the channels to optimise conversions, developing a customer-centric campaign.
So what does this mean for ecommerce? With the use of loyalty cards the customer?s journey is measured, for instance signing in to your online site to research a product they are looking at buying. Often, if the customer does not buy on your site it is measured as an opportunity missed. However, if the customer then goes into store to buy the product they were looking at, with Google?s Universal Analytics it is reported as a conversion with the true customer?s journey measured, making your metrics more accurate. With accurate information you are able to transfer it to heighten your customer?s experience, for instance, if your customer does their buying research on your ecommerce system, why not email them a discount code to use online; increasing online sales and showing the customer the ease of buying online.
Final Note:
After an afternoon of insightful information our search marketing sponges returned back twice the size that they arrived at Google Engaged in; it is still questionable whether it was the sheer amount of information, the cocktails afterwards, or the food!
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CAMBRIDGE, UK | December 13, 2012 -- eLife, the open-access journal for outstanding advances in life science and biomedicine, reveals a fresh approach to presenting and using scientific content on its new website, launched today.
In June 2011, three leading research funders came together in a unique collaboration to inspire change in science communication. The first product of this partnership is eLife an open-access journal for the most influential research in life science and biomedicine. After much anticipation surrounding the announcement of the project, recruitment of the academic editorial team, the call for papers, and the publication of first articles, the eLife journal website is introduced today.
The eLife journal invites visitors to explore important new research and associated data, read comments and commentary by experts and colleagues, and get a sense of the quality of work that eLife is publishing.
Nineteen research papers have now been selected for publication by eLife's academic editors. "eLife editors have successfully established a high bar for the journal," said Randy Schekman, Editor-in-chief. "We will continue to publish only those papers deemed highly influential or important. Authors who give us a try will be rewarded with a quick initial decision and for those selected for full peer review a constructive and decisive review process. Feedback has been very positive, with board members, referees, and authors all embracing our approach."
The new site also offers a chance to explore how eLife is taking advantage of digital media. Presentation of content is clean and distraction-free, allowing authors to present the results of their research in full, and inviting readers to delve deeply into the work by exploring figures and their supplements, watching videos, reading editor decision letters and author responses, downloading data sets, viewing article-level metrics, and more. All of this is a starting point, as eLife will continue to solicit feedback from the community in making the presentation as accessible and usable as possible.
"Now is a great time for scientists to come and take a look at eLife, see what they think of the science, and what they think of the way the science is being presented," added Schekman. "We invite our colleagues to consider eLife as a venue for the publication of their most important work. Although our selection process is stringent, we can promise a speedy review for all and a quite unique experience for the authors of papers we accept for publication."
The eLife journal is now online at http://elife.elifesciences.org.
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For more information about the eLife initiative, and commentary on the site launch, visit http://www.elifesciences.org.
About eLife
eLife is a unique collaboration between the funders and practitioners of research to communicate ground-breaking discoveries in the life and biomedical sciences in the most effective way. The eLife journal is a platform for maximising the reach and influence of new discoveries and showcasing new approaches to the presentation, use, and assessment of research. As an open-access journal, eLife delivers access to content for free, online, immediately on publication, and will encourage maximum possible reach and utility of the content by publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which is emerging as the gold standard for open-access publishing. eLife is supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust. Learn more at elifesciences.org.
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Contact: Jennifer McLennan j.mclennan@elifesciences.org 301-215-8938 eLife
CAMBRIDGE, UK | December 13, 2012 -- eLife, the open-access journal for outstanding advances in life science and biomedicine, reveals a fresh approach to presenting and using scientific content on its new website, launched today.
In June 2011, three leading research funders came together in a unique collaboration to inspire change in science communication. The first product of this partnership is eLife an open-access journal for the most influential research in life science and biomedicine. After much anticipation surrounding the announcement of the project, recruitment of the academic editorial team, the call for papers, and the publication of first articles, the eLife journal website is introduced today.
The eLife journal invites visitors to explore important new research and associated data, read comments and commentary by experts and colleagues, and get a sense of the quality of work that eLife is publishing.
Nineteen research papers have now been selected for publication by eLife's academic editors. "eLife editors have successfully established a high bar for the journal," said Randy Schekman, Editor-in-chief. "We will continue to publish only those papers deemed highly influential or important. Authors who give us a try will be rewarded with a quick initial decision and for those selected for full peer review a constructive and decisive review process. Feedback has been very positive, with board members, referees, and authors all embracing our approach."
The new site also offers a chance to explore how eLife is taking advantage of digital media. Presentation of content is clean and distraction-free, allowing authors to present the results of their research in full, and inviting readers to delve deeply into the work by exploring figures and their supplements, watching videos, reading editor decision letters and author responses, downloading data sets, viewing article-level metrics, and more. All of this is a starting point, as eLife will continue to solicit feedback from the community in making the presentation as accessible and usable as possible.
"Now is a great time for scientists to come and take a look at eLife, see what they think of the science, and what they think of the way the science is being presented," added Schekman. "We invite our colleagues to consider eLife as a venue for the publication of their most important work. Although our selection process is stringent, we can promise a speedy review for all and a quite unique experience for the authors of papers we accept for publication."
The eLife journal is now online at http://elife.elifesciences.org.
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For more information about the eLife initiative, and commentary on the site launch, visit http://www.elifesciences.org.
About eLife
eLife is a unique collaboration between the funders and practitioners of research to communicate ground-breaking discoveries in the life and biomedical sciences in the most effective way. The eLife journal is a platform for maximising the reach and influence of new discoveries and showcasing new approaches to the presentation, use, and assessment of research. As an open-access journal, eLife delivers access to content for free, online, immediately on publication, and will encourage maximum possible reach and utility of the content by publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which is emerging as the gold standard for open-access publishing. eLife is supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust. Learn more at elifesciences.org.
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