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Election Special - The Rest of the World Seems to Be a Blue State
October 31st, 2008 by Ash Kalb
Without getting too political (or choosing sides), we have some interesting results from an email survey recently conducted by our Beijing representative, Rob Metcalf. Rob asked his candidates, many of whom are not currently in the U.S. and/or are not U.S. citizens who they would vote for if they could. The results were… a bit lopsided.
94% of the 125 people who responded to Rob’s survey preferred Barack Obama to John McCain. Of those 125 responders, 57 were not U.S. citizens, and only 2 of those 57 preferred Mccain to Obama. As Rob pointed out in his follow up email to those participating in the survey, the results are surprisingly similar to The Economist’s online presidential poll that currently puts Obama at nearly 98% to McCain’s 2%.
So even if the U.S. has not made up its mind yet, the rest of the world seems to have some fairly strong feelings regarding the outcome of this election.
Not legal news, just really cool
September 29th, 2008 by Ash Kalb
Video of last week’s Chinese spacewalk. Not exactly legal news but cool to watch, plus it has some folks speculating that a new space cold war is in the making.
Resume Tips
September 18th, 2008 by Ash Kalb
Given the current volatility of the markets, legal and otherwise, it seems like an opportune moment to offer some resume advice.
Our partner site vault.com has a lot to say on the topic here.
Site of the moment Heller Highwater has a good sampling of resume resources here.
And of course, if you are looking to craft a resume for the Asia/Middle East legal markets, please don’t hesitiate to contact us at cypressrecruiting.com.
At the moment, the best defense against the changing fortunes of certain players in the legal market is a good offense. Arming yourself with a top notch CV is the first best step you can take to secure your future.
I digress, while nobody is looking…
September 18th, 2008 by Ash Kalb
Are any of you EMEA types getting all ANZAC and watching The Hollowmen? We’re addicted over here. I’m not going to say it is the best thing to come from the bottom half of the globe since Shackleton sailed north from Elephant Island. I’m not but I could. ABC streams episodes online without regional restrictions, so watch wherever you are.