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� � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Walmart Plans To Remove College Degree Requirements From Hundreds Of Corporate Job Descriptions - Forbes    Wal-Mart logo on a storefront. (Photo by: Don & Melinda Crawford/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) For many roles at Walmart’s corporate headquarters, applying for a job is about to require one less thing on your resume: A college degree. The retail giant said Thursday it plans to rewrite hundreds of job descriptions so that for many of its corporate job titles, applicants can have either a college degree or show they have needed skills through prior experience or other types of learning. Continued here Which languages take the longest to learn? - The Economist    THE DIFFICULTY in learning a foreign language lies not only in its inherent complexity. Languages are complex in different ways (though all are learnable by infants). The main reason a language is hard is that it is different from your own. America’s State Department places the languages it teaches diplomats into four categories (see chart), with estimates of how long they take to learn them ranging from 24 to 88 weeks. What underlies the difficulty of such languages for an English-speaker? The first thing many learners will think of is the writing system. Indeed none of the State Department’s hardest languages is written with the Latin alphabet used by most European languages. Chinese stands out for its difficulty. It is commonly said that a learner must memorise around 2,000 characters to be able to read a newspaper. But even this estimate is criticised; someone with 2,000 characters will still have to look up unfamiliar ones in every few lines of text. Japanese is (mostly) written with a subset of the Chinese characters, but most characters can be given either a Japanese or Chinese pronunciation, making the task mind-tangling in that language too. Continued here Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Winner of Mega Millions $1.6 billion jackpot claims prize in Florida—a state that does not tax lottery winnings - Fortune    The winner of last month’s $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot — the third-largest in U.S. history — has come forward to claim the prize, officials said Wednesday. Under a new Florida law, the winner’s name remains anonymous for 90 days from the date the prize was claimed, which was on Sept. 25, lottery officials said in an email. The lottery did not confirm whether the winner took the lump sum or the annuity, and did not specify the estimated lump sum amount. In Florida, winners have to claim the lump sum within 60 days of the drawing. They have up to 180 days if they choose to go with an annuity, which is paid out in 30 annual installments. The jackpot is also subject to federal taxes. There’s no state income tax in Florida. Continued here Why Emotionally Intelligent People Embrace the STA Rule to Be Better Negotiators - Inc.com    You've found the car you want to buy. Although the negotiation actually began the moment you walked onto the lot (more on that in a moment), now it's time to put it into words. As my Inc. colleague Justin Bariso says, emotional intelligence ultimately means making your emotions work for you, not against you. The first relevant number that starts a negotiation -- the anchor -- is often fraught with emotion. Continued here

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