The Job Hunting In the Digital Age infographic highlights exactly how to and not to use your online personal to enhance your digital reputation. Gone are the days when a polished resume was the tool of choice to get your foot in the door. In today’s job market, employers are screening professional networking sites like LinkedIn. They are also searching for your name on social networking sites in order to develop a well-rounded picture of potential employees. Hiring decisions are crucial for the success of their business and employers want to use all data available to make the right choice. Make sure your social online personality doesn’t betray you in a job search.
You know the area surrounding your hotel better than your visiting customers do. That is why they rely on you to let them know what interesting events or attractions are nearby. As a hotel owner, you can turn this knowledge into increased revenues that help you maintain the profitability of your business.
Extinction of a species is a tragic thing, but it’s also a natural phenomenon. One of the most famous mass extinctions is the Permian mass extinction, while we’re not entirely sure why it happened, several causes have been proposed for the event: asteroid impact, flood basalt eruptions, catastrophic methane release, a drop in oxygen levels, sea level fluctuations or some combination of these, but all of these causes are of natural origin.
We’re all aware of the damage the sun can do to our skin and are bombarded with messages on sun safety, covering up and applying a high-factor sun cream. But are we aware of just how much damage the sun’s rays can do to the eyes? From painful sunburn to the development of serious eye cancers, sunlight can have a serious effect on our eye health. We’ve explored the potential risks the sun presents to the eyes and the steps we can take to protect ourselves.
When it comes to superheroes and villains, you may have noticed a common trend in how their coloured; with heroes often dressed in primary colours such as red, blue and yellow, while villains are usually decked out in secondary colours such as green, orange and violet. This infographic from Cartridge People takes a look at the theory behind these colour choices, examining what each colour says about the character wearing it.
We’ve got a lot of nasty stuff we’d like to get rid of somewhere not in the neighborhood of our only habitable planet, so why can’t we dump it on the Sun? Well, turns out, it’s easier to get it out of the solar system than to our local star. MinutePhysics explains why, beyond the obvious dirty bomb issue.
If your work consists of dealing with chunks of information on a regular basis, you may know for yourself that not only the credibility of this data, but also its freshness plays a great role. You want facts you can rely on when designing a research, planning a business strategy or writing a good report, or else you’re putting everything at risk. Wouldn’t want to waste all that time and effort, would you?
You’d need eyes in the back of your head’ is a common refrain from parents of young children who realise that a moment’s carelessness could lead to an afternoon in A&E – or worse. They know that the chances of their child coming to harm in the home are greater than any stranger danger they might encounter outside. By taking the time to eliminate potential hazards, parents can relax in the knowledge that while their little explorers may be frustrated, at least they’ll be safe.
Beards are very popular in men’s fashion and have been for the past year or so. Today it seems like more men then not a rocking a beard. However, beards haven’t always been popular or a good sign for men throughout history. Advanced Dermatology decided they wanted to take a deeper look and beards over time to see how they have went from being a sign of wealth and prosperity, to a sign of weakness, to a major fashion trend.
Now that the laws in the United States are changing to allow the use of marijuana for medical reasons more people are using it and reporting positive health outcomes. There are a number of different uses, more than just smoking. Many patients are vaporizing it or putting it in edibles or tinctures. It is being successfully used to treat epilepsy, chronic pain, depression, and cancer. Learn more about medical cannabis from this infographic!
Most of us greet the news that oil has fallen to $50 a barrel with a shrug of our shoulders. It goes up, it goes down; no one dies. We fail to engage because we don’t understand what drives it either way, or how it affects us. As with all commodities, supply and demand plays a big part in its price. It peaked in 2008, but the subsequent global downturn saw it experience one of the sharpest drops in history.
LTV – Customer Lifetime Value is a metric which measures the value of a client over the business life-cycle. It is one of the key measures of success for an app. Having the capacity to measure the real monetary value of customers over a long term helps the app developer understand their customers better, and be more efficient in the development of budgets and the setting of growth expectations for their apps.
Being a new dog parent is no easy feat. You don’t just have to play, clean and feed your furry friend, but also take care of the most basic of its needs. After all, it is you, who’d be responsible for its security, shelter and health. It can be a bit daunting for new dog parents to get acquainted with the needs of their beloved pooches. This is where our infographic of dog parenting comes in handy. It covers everything that you need to know and do for your pet’s well-being. Take a look!
More often than not when we hear the word farmer, we picture a ruddy man in wellington boots with a makeshift belt of baling twine. But this impression is as outdated as it is inaccurate. More and more farm workers are women, performing the crucial, though often unpaid, tasks that keep a farm running smoothly.
We’ve all been there. The water tank is emitting a strange gurgling sound and we know something’s not right. We call the plumber and pray that the house hasn’t become the Niagara Falls by the time he arrives. We wait on tenterhooks, anxiously watching the clock. Finally, the doorbell rings and there he is. We’re so relieved we want to kiss him.
Those of us who imagine that striking oil means drilling into a pool of liquid riches might be surprised to learn how wrong we are. Oil is not found in underground lakes, but dispersed through rocks like a sponge. The rocks must be broken to extract the oil, which looks like mud when it is taken from the ground. Nor is it the remains of dead dinosaurs! We take a look at how Oil was formed, and separate fact from fiction.
Small businesses are always looking for cheap but effective promotional techniques. A brochure campaign can surely help them out in limited budget allocations. The brochure can play a critical role in showcasing your company’s potential on a folded paper. These can especially help your showcase your products and services to the audience.
Whether it's taking, saving, viewing, or sharing photos, our smartphones and advanced digital technology made it so much easier than ever before. However, with the convenience, we also risk losing these photos due to changes in technology or technology malfunctions. And a lot of the times, we don't ever look back on these photos we took because they are stored digitally and we keep on taking more.
Architecture varies so much around the world, with cultural and religious influences often defining how a building will look, as well as the era in which the building was erected, and therefore any popular design features for that era. There are many iconic buildings around the world such as the Eiffel Tower in Paris or the Empire State Building in New York, but how about some of the more bizarre examples of architecture?
On August 21, the WWE’s SummerSlam is back, and tension and excitement could not be more palpable. With Brock Lesnar and Randy Orton taking each other on for the first time in more than a decade, there was a lot to look forward to. And if that wasn’t enough to get you excited, the Barclays Center in Brooklyn hosted a huge match between Seth Rollins and up-and-comer Finn Bálor to crown WWE’s first-ever Universal Champion.
Highway pileups are scary. They conjure up the mental image of newscasters interviewing distressed car accident victims ravaged by snow and the elements. Part of the reason they are so scary is the lack of control you have over the situation -- if you are in the wrong place, at the wrong time, there is very little you can do to avoid getting in a crash.
With more and more people travelling for work and pleasure, where around the world would you consider investing in property? The following infographic by Towergate Insurance looks into how long, based on average salaries for that country, it would take you to save to buy a house both in and out of the city centre in cities across the globe. The quality of life is also used to plot each city so that you can see exactly which cities not only have a high quality of life, but won’t take you an age to save for.
Education is not just about poems in books it is about lessons of life. You’re a high school senior, and you’re faced with the first and foremost life-asserting decision in your life – to choose what to do in life and to choose the right college, college of your dream. Once you finally decide what matters to you the most you can find the college that will fit all you criteria the best. The problem is that there are hundreds of them, and all of them have different programs, requirements, deadlines, costs, and which one to choose… who knows?
The number of freelancers is on the rise. In 2014 there were 53 million freelancers in the United States alone. By 2020 more Americans will be freelancers than not. Many of these freelancers work as social media managers because business need their help to market themselves to the billions of social media users.
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