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Employers get MILLIONS (I swear, I NEVER exaggerate) of resumes each year, so why should they look at yours? What makes YOU more employable than the next guy? Aside from printing your stellar resume on glittering lime green cardstock, author Jennifer Merritt–“The Wall Street Journal Guide to Building Your Career”–offers several career boosters to transform your run-of-the-mill résumé into a job-magnet jackpot.
Many young professionals underestimate the potential payoff of industry and professional associations. Some are convinced they’re outdated and redundant, while others are just afraid of the price tag. However, when used properly, these groups can be helpful in expanding your network, staying on top of industry trends and furthering your education.
You may have participated in some charity events through a high-school sports team or a bake sale your mother threw so you’d have volunteer work on your college résumé, but volunteering can benefit you in more ways than merely making you appear charitable.
Jennifer has many other suggestions for making YOU appear employable. None of them, however, compare to MY suggestion of printing your resume on DayGlo paper. Maybe that’s why Jennifer has a book out and I don’t.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/jobs/chi-career-distinctions-20120621,0,1500577.story
Go ahead. Check it. Check your email listing on your Facebook page. See? Without asking for permission, Facebook has changed users’ listed email address to one ending in “@facebook.com.”
The changed was discovered Saturday, and has resulted in either users having their @facebook.com address being listed or simply having all of their other addresses be hidden. It happened to me as well.
While users can opt out of having their @facebook.com address listed, the troubling part of the change is how Facebook went about implementing it. The social network didn’t as much as announce the change was coming or alert users once it happened.
To change back your email address, go to your profile, click “Update info,” scroll down to “Contact Info” and click “Edit.” Select with whom you want to share each individual email address and to the right of that choose whether you want your email displayed on your timeline or not.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-facebook-changes-emails-20120625,0,2962878.story
A little girl is recovering at a hospital after she apparently stuck her hand into the family fish tank and a piranha bit off the tip of her finger this week at their Maine Township home.
The parents suddenly heard their daughter start crying and rushed over to find her finger bleeding. They became frantic when they found the child’s fingertip was severed and automatically believed the culprit was their 65-pound family pit bull, said Frank Bilecki, spokesman for Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart.
They called 911 and an ambulance took her to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, where a doctor realized this was not the case.
“He said: ‘This is not a dog bite,’’’ Bilecki said.
Authorities called her father, who was still at the home, and he immediately plunged his hand into the fish bowl, grabbing one of two piranhas.
“He had no fear; these were truly fatherly instincts,’’ Bilecki said. “He grabbed a knife and cut it open and found her fingertip right there.’’
The piece of her finger was taken to the hospital and doctors were trying to re-attach it, but Bilecki did not know if that operation was successful as of Friday afternoon.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/park_ridge/chi-piranha-bites-off-tip-of-toddlers-finger-20120622,0,6108827.story
Mozilla, at a recent presentation unveiled what it believes is the browser of the future, Firefox Junior, which it built for the iPad.
Firefox Junior is a full screen browser with no toolbar, search bar or omnibox. Instead, the app navigates with two transparent buttons on either side of the screen, located near one’s thumbs that let you go back or open a new page.
The right button, which has a plus sign, opens a page that lets you search for a new page or URL, contains thumbnails of your favorite sites or lets you see other sites you recently visited.
If you swipe to the left, you get another page that looks like the browser’s home page, with thumbnails for separate user accounts and the main Firefox logo.
Mozilla has said this project is still in prototype mode. This means it could quite a while before you and I get to use the app.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-mozilla-firefox-junior-ipad-20120618,0,4367754.story
The Chicago Gay Pride Parade’s attendance continues to escalate year after year. For 2012, there will be less parade entries, but a longer route to accommodate all the revelers.
Sunday’s celebration, which begins at noon, will include the Uptown neighborhood, and extend an additional five blocks in the name of safety and crowd control.
Alderman Tom Tunney, 44th, said organizers knew big changes were necessary when last year’s numbers were pushing up against 750,000 people, up from 200,000 attendees recorded only five years earlier.
“We knew the previous year’s route, which trapped many constituents in my ward between Halsted and Broadway for nearly the whole day, would no longer work,” Tunney said. “Last year, we had too much congestion in the central Lakeview neighborhood.”
The new route is intended to create more viewing space and additional access to public transportation, he said.
“We’ll also be able to open the streets back up to the community more quickly after the parade is finished as soon as possible,” Tunney said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-pride-parade-route-20120620,0,3379169.story
A Yorkville man was charged with driving an all-terrain vehicle under the influence after he struck a Shetland pony that had gotten loose in Kendall County, officials said.
The accident happened early Sunday at 3 a.m. as Quintin Wissmiller, 33, was driving a Polaris Ranger ATV in Yorkville, said Kendall County Sheriff’s Deputy Craig French.
The pony had to be euthanized due to the severity of her injuries, which included a broken back.
Wissmiller was charged with DUI and driving with a revoked driver’s license.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-man-charged-with-dui-after-hitting-pony-in-yorkville-20120618,0,6590535.story
They believed the end of the world is near. They sold their belongings, packed up what they had left, and headed to Arizona. In the process, somehow the idea to blindfold, bind, and tape their five kids crossed this couple’s mind as a good idea.
Adolfo and Deborah Gomez remain held on $50,000 bail, both charged with felony child abuse and endangerment.
Police said the couple and five of their children were traveling to Arizona to visit a sixth sibling, 16, who was living with relatives, when they became stranded Monday in Lawrence, Kan., after their SUV broke down.
A shopper called 911 on Wednesday after she spotted one of the blindfolded children, hands tied and legs bound, sitting near the vehicle. authorities said. The children, ages 4 to 15, are expected to be placed with relatives, officials said.
The couple rented various apartments in suburban Chicago over the years and was evicted at least twice, records show.
In recent months, the family lived in a home in Northlake, where neighbors described the couple as devout Christians who sold off what little possessions they had during a three-day garage sale before leaving town last week.
So what IS the connection between the impending end of the world and abusing your children? Right. There IS no excuse.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-children-bound-kansas-0617-20120617,0,4339089.story
Hoarding could pay off big. Keep that in mind as you are tripping over piles of your parent’s treasures, or perhaps even your own. A hoarder finds value in just about EVERYTHING and cannot stand to see ANYTHING go in the trash.
Maybe you or your hoarder have one of these lying around, buried under that sack of empty toilet paper rolls covered with rubber bands. What is it? A rare, still-working Apple I Computer from 1976.
The Apple I Computer from 1976 sold at Sotheby’s auction house on Friday for $374,500, or more than 500 times its original retail price.
The computer, one of only a handful in full working condition, had been estimated to sell for about $150,000 at the auctioneer’s sale of books and manuscripts.
Two bidders competed for the machine, the first compact computer to allow casual users to type on a keyboard and operate basic programs. An anonymous telephone bidder prevailed for a final cost of just under $375,000 including commission.
The Apple founders created the personal computer in 1976 and presented it at a Palo Alto computer club, but there were few takers at the time. Paul Terrell, owner of a retail chain called Byte Shop, placed an order for 50 of the machines and sold them for $666.66 retail – once Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs agreed to assemble the circuit boards rather than offer them as kits, Sotheby’s said.
The pair then produced 150 more and sold them to friends and other vendors. Sotheby’s said fewer than 50 original Apple 1s are believed to survive, with only six known to be in working condition.
You probably DON’T have one. But if it is possible you do, wouldn’t that be a great incentive to clean out your own house?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/technology/chi-apple-i-computer-fetches-374500-at-ny-auction-20120615,0,3689860.story
There’s no place like the city on a balmy summer evening. The soft breeze blowing in from the lake behaves as if it were Mother Nature’s own air conditioner. The city lights all aglow and sounds of life practically beg one to remain outdoors to enjoy this all too short season of beauty. An icy cold draft beer is calling YOUR name…
Grab some bucks, your friends, your friend’s bucks, and come on out! The Chicago Tribune has put together a list of at least 30 different places to imbibe this summer. You are certain to find ONE to your liking!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/midwest/redeye-its-warm-so-go-eat-outside-20120313,0,1990216.photogallery
Evidently his number was not up. First, he slams into a concrete divider wall going 60 to 70 m.p.h.
Then he flies off the cycle over a 40-foot ramp and LANDS ON HIS FEET on the embankment. Doing that, however, he shattered both of his thigh bones.
Yesterday, the Chicago man was traveling south on the winding feeder ramp toward Interstate 55 on his 1999 Honda motorcycle when he lost control and hit a left concrete barrier, said Trooper Mark Hall.
The rider was taken to John H. Stroger Hospital in serious condition.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-cops-motorcyclist-hits-feeder-wall-falls-onto-stevenson-expy-20120612,0,7792651.story
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