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A job interview is usually the time when an employer gets to know the job candidate’s personality to see if he’s the right fit for the job. But what if you could choose a job that’s the right fit for your personality? Are you an introvert or extrovert?
To find out, take this test: http://funtestiq.com/personality/personalitytest39.shtml
Now that you know who you are (based on taking a 20 question test) you see that extroverts tend to be enthusiastic, talkative, assertive and gregarious, introverts tend to be more reserved and less outspoken in groups. Though these characteristics aren’t the only factors in choosing a job, it can help to know what kind of role you could be best suited for.
When it comes to salary, the two personality types are on equal footing: Both extroverts and introverts were almost equally likely to earn six figures.
Want to know what job may be right for you? If you’re outgoing or social, consider the types of roles to which extroverts are drawn. Or, if you tend to be more withdrawn or reserved, check out the positions that introverts tend to choose.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/jobs/chi-introvert-extrovert-jobs-20120920,0,1493727.story
This dentist doesn’t take insurance. A 32-year-old man had a thriving dental practice operating out of a home near Melrose Park, but Cook County sheriff’s police said he lacked one important item: a medical license.
Special Ops Unit officers got a tip about the dental practice, but when they tried to set up an appointment, a receptionist said nothing was open for a week because of the full schedule of patients, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s office.
When an undercover officer was waiting for her appointment in the home, she saw a previous patient leave after getting a root canal procedure, the sheriff’s office said.
Officers then entered the home and found an entire dental office set up inside, with a chair, lights, tools, syringes, an X-ray machine and more.
The alleged dentist, Alberto Nunez, of Chicago, told officers that he had attended a dental school in Mexico City, but he could not provide documentation that he had completed the course and he was not licensed to practice dentistry in Illinois, according to the sheriff’s office. He was to appear in court the first week of September.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-sheriff-says-fraudulent-dentist-had-patients-no-license-20120831,0,7413580.story
What’s creepier, clowns or carnies? What about creepy carnies accused of sexual assault in the the fun house?
A carnival worker is being held on $200,000 bond by the Cook County Sheriff’s Department and is accused of the sexual assault of a 3-year-old child in a fun house at last weekend’s Schaumburg Septemberfest, police said Friday.
Adam J. Moyers of Franklin Park was arrested Thursday night and charged with two counts of predatory criminal sexual assault, class X felonies, law enforcement officials said.
According to police officials, on Sept. 2, the child and an older sibling entered the fun house. The older sibling went down a slide but the younger child was scared to follow. The older sibling notified their father who attempted to enter the fun house to help his younger child.
Moyers, who worked with the Fantasy Amusement Company in Arlington Heights for the last two years and was monitoring the fun house, stopped the father from entering, police said. He also had all other patrons remain outside as he entered the fun house to tend to the child, according to authorities.
Based on an “extensive investigation” authorities said that Moyers committed the act while alone in the fun house with the child, according to police.
The next day the child told the parents of inappropriate physical contact with Moyers. The parents reported the incident to the Schaumburg Police Department and an investigation was initiated. Moyers was arrested Thursday night and identified by the family, authorities said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/schaumburg/chi-carnival-worker-accused-of-sexual-assault-in-fun-house-20120907,0,5900881.story
What’s new in the hiring-and-firing world? Dr. John Sullivan has discovered interesting answers in articles appearing on ERE.net, the top online hangout for recruiting professionals.
Dr. Sullivan, well known in the human resource career field, is a management professor at San Francisco State University. Here are some creative ways companies are going about recruiting talent and weeding out the bad ones.
TECH SIMULATIONS. How a candidate would handle a real problem at work can be evaluated through simulations of the problem. Accounting giant KPMG has developed an electronic management simulation that allows the company to assess second-round candidates on their ability to solve real problems they would face if hired.
UNLIMITED VACATION POLICIES. Netflix and several startups have begun to offer employees unlimited amounts of vacation and sick leave. The bold approach treats employees like mature adults who know how to manage how much time they spend away from work. Management’s rationale: By offering compelling work and performance-based pay, the positive incentives may actually drive employees to work more hours.
LIMITED-TERM EMPLOYEE CONTRACTS. In Atlantic City, N.J., Revel casino and hotel required many new hires who were to interact with customers to sign employment contracts with a limit of four to five years. After the contract expires, an employee must formally reapply to be hired again. The rationale: Employees dealing with the public are more likely to remain productive and customer-friendly without a guarantee of job security.
Be prepared for anything while searching for a job. You just may encounter one of these practices in the company you aspire to join.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/jobs/sns-201208291530–tms–careersntp–h-a20120902-20120902,0,456706.column
Ever evolving, our world and how we earn money to live in it constantly changes, as does technology. This constant movement of ideas and inventions opens the door for us to create new ways to gather cash and stay ahead of the game.
Here are some fresh potential jobs that may be in demand in the next 10 years. The one common thread with them all is “technological know-how”. Along with the new, predictions of what related jobs might be replaced also are given.
Market researcher > Predictive data analyst
Every minute YouTube users upload 48 hours of video, Facebook users share 684,478 pieces of content, and Google receives 2 million search queries, according to the business analytics company Domo. As Big Data gets even bigger, fewer people will be needed to collect information, and more people will be needed to analyze and discover the value stored within these billions of terabytes.
Construction foreman > Smart engineer
Bricks and mortar aren’t what they used to be. Construction represents more than $7 trillion of the world’s economic output, and it’s expected to grow to $12 trillion by 2020, as emerging markets bulge in China, India, Latin America and the Middle East. And new transportation systems — from driverless cars to maglev trains — require infrastructure to be updated and reinvented. In developed countries, creaking urban centers will be retrofitted — or replaced — with new, sustainable technologies and materials.
As of today, nobody has developed a way to time travel, so I wouldn’t hold out hopes of being on hand to maintain or repair those machines. In OUR lifetime, perhaps not…
http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/jobs/chi-jobs-future-20120828,0,6641069.story
You don’t have to be a celebrity to consider yourself a brand. In fact, no matter how low-profile your job, say career experts, it’s increasingly essential to assume the role of CEO not just of your career, but of your life. You can call this enterprise “Me, Inc.”
“In today’s job market, being CEO of your own career is a necessity,” says Jay Scherer, managing partner at BPI Group, a Chicago-based human resources and management consulting management firm. “Just as a startup would do, every professional should begin to build their brand by identifying their goals and defining what makes them unique in the market. Once you define what you want to achieve, you can build a path with specific steps to succeed.”
There are a couple of “bottom lines” to keep in mind. The first bottom line for everyone’s career is job security and financial stability. The second bottom line is how you make a difference in people’s lives. “Get crystal clear on who you are and what game you are here to play. What do you stand for? Once you know that, create strategies and systems as to how can you put that stance into action in the world and use it to attract and create the opportunities you want,” Powers advises. “And then, just like any other brand, walk that talk. Make sure it is clear who you are and what you stand for at every touch point in your life.”
When you shift mentally and emotionally into being the CEO of your life, you consciously take control.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/jobs/chi-personal-brand-20120818,0,7320619.story
A Chicago man pretended to work at a North Side street festival Saturday so he could stuff hundreds of dollars in admission donations into his pocket, authorities said.
Christopher Urban, 39, was arrested and charged with theft about 5 p.m. Saturday at the Northside Summerfest on Lincoln Avenue at Irving Park Road in the North Center neighborhood, police said.
How did he do it? By posing as an employee of the event company running the fest. Urban offered to relieve workers for a break, then was caught removing money from the donation box. About $658 worth of donations.
He tried to walk off with the cash, but a security guard, an off duty police officer, nabbed him before he could get away.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-authorities-man-posing-as-worker-accused-of-stealing-fest-donations-20120819,0,1130378.story
This week, Dunkin’ Donuts released a new app that lets you pay for doughnuts with your iPhone, iPod touch or Android smartphone.
The Dunkin’ app works like the Starbucks mobile payment app. Download it from Google Play or the App Store, then load it up with money. The card supports American Express, Visa, Mastercard, Discover and PayPal.
The next time you need a doughnut fix, you can hand the cashier your mobile device to be scanned rather than using cold hard cash or a credit card.
Other than buying a gift card through this app, can anybody enlighten me as to why this is better than cold hard cash or a credit card?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/la-fi-tn–dunkin-donuts-app-20120816,0,3483830.story
Convicted mentally ill felons are sleeping among our beloved grandparents in Illinois nursing homes. They are also doing more than sleep. For example, a frail man blind in one eye was slashed in the throat by a gang member, police say. About a year earlier, the same assailant allegedly had stabbed him in the face with an ice pick.
More than any other state, Illinois relies heavily on nursing homes to house mentally ill patients, including those who have committed crimes. But a Tribune investigation found that government, law enforcement and the industry have failed to adequately manage the resulting influx of younger residents who shuttle into nursing facilities from jail cells, shelters and psychiatric wards.
Mentally ill patients now constitute more than 15 percent of the state’s total nursing home population of 92,225, government records show, and the number of residents convicted of serious felonies has increased to 3,000. Among them are 82 convicted murderers, 179 sex offenders and 185 armed robbers.
The state’s background checks on new residents are riddled with errors and omissions that understate their criminal records, the Tribune found, and homes with the most felons are among those with the lowest nursing staff levels.
But even Illinois’ largest nursing home owners’ association, the Health Care Council of Illinois, told the Tribune it was concerned about the practice of mingling mentally ill criminals with traditional, geriatric residents. The council advocates creating separate, specialized facilities that would provide mental health treatment to high-risk patients with felony convictions. State public health officials also said they would support a separate licensing and regulatory process for nursing facilities that serve psychiatric patients.
So who is the “responsible” jerk here? It must be “them”.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/chi-nursinghome1-ledeallsep29,0,357882.story
In a perfect world, we’d all put away 15 percent of our salaries annually for retirement as soon as we hit our early 20s. Saving that much so early would put us in good shape financially by the time we turn 65, experts say.
But we don’t live in a perfect world. So what is a struggling 20-something supposed to do in a tough job market and growing student-loan balances, among other hurdles, in order to save money? Maria Bruno, a senior investment analyst in Vanguard’s investment counseling and research group offered these insights:
Save something, anything
Even if you get a full-time job out of school, saving for retirement can be a challenge because you have demands on your paycheck, from building up an emergency savings fund to paying rent.
“We talk about saving 15 percent as a good solid benchmark,” Bruno said. “But if you can’t afford to do that right away, the next best thing is to put together a plan for how you can increase your savings rate.” Save ANYTHING, and increase that percentage by one point each year. So, if you can afford to put aside 5 percent now, you’d save 6 percent to 7 percent next year, 8 percent to 9 percent the following year, and so on.
Get help from tax credits
If putting away 5 percent of your income is a stretch, you might be able to take advantage of certain tax breaks to make contributions more affordable.
Contributions to a 401(k) plan or other employer-provided retirement plan are made before tax. So, if you earn $35,000 per year and save 5 percent, you would contribute $67 per paycheck (if you’re paid every other week), but because you save on taxes, take-home pay is reduced by only $57. (If you pay state income taxes, the benefit would be even greater.)
You can also open your own Individual Retirement Account (IRA). There are options out there, the important thing to remember is to put away something, anything. Retirement will be here before you know it.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/yourmoney/sc-cons-0726-started-20120727,0,6321353.story
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