Perks of being an expat and taxing the rich this week in Pakistan’s business and economics twitterverse
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his week we once again find ourselves talking about overseas Pakistanis and just how good they have it because boy do they have it good. And while we dream of getting to send remittances while the rupee is at an all time low, there are other questions regarding taxing the rich and what is appropriate to put on a CV anymore making the rounds on the internet this week. Ariba Shahid brings you all this and more in this week’s social media roundup.
CV honesty
Expensive education
Schools are outrageously expensive. Like when we say expensive we mean it. Sometimes it makes one feel like you need generational wealth just to be a highschool graduate considering school fees and tuition fees. School owners are probably rolling around in cash.
But did you think-
The fact that the HBL app crashes every Monday and has become a running joke on twitter is funny. We wonder if it’s the case with all applications and not just HBL, but HBL gets more traction because it has more users?
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Does one really need to mention MS office as a skill in their resume anymore? We assume everyone needs it to pass their undergraduate degree. Then again, if you don’t mention it will employers think you don’t know how to use it? Perhaps we should only mention very specific abilities, like making charts or being an Excel wizard, or knowing how to move images in Word without ruining the formatting of the entire text. What to do, what to do?
