Geek in Heels - Page 176

How can you help your resumé stand out from the hundreds — and perhaps thousands — of other applicants? Why not go with the popular trend of infographics, graphs, and charts? While not applicable in all instances, you can't deny that having a visually-appeasing resumé design will help you be more memorable, especially if you are looking for a job in a creative field. This is where Vizualize.Me comes in. The new startup allows its users to create an infographic of their experiences, skills, and achievements with just a few clicks of a button. Once your infographic resumé is complete, you will receive a link so that you can easily share it on your social networking accounts. Take a look at a sample resumé created below...

Art/Design, Education, Marketing/Advertising, Parenting

“Guerilla Classrooms” Ad Campaign

Jun 25. 2011

In an effort to encourage parents to get involved in their children's learning, advertising agency Cramer-Krasselt has teamed up with COA Youth & Family Centers to set up interactive displays — dubbed "Guerilla Classrooms" — around the city of Milwaukee. AdAge explains: To promote parent-child interaction in fun ways, Cramer-Krasselt has set up large puzzles, word searches, mazes, books and rulers, sign-language translators, around-the-world basketball courts and a visual sound wave wall. Each display is designed to teach "real-world" applications of math, science, geography and reading. Take a look at some of the displays below. I love them! The ultimate aim of this campaign is to raise awareness of the positive impact parents' involvement can have on their child's education. I wouldn't be surprised if parents, as well...

Korean, Marketing/Advertising

Tesco Homeplus Korean Virtual Store

Jun 25. 2011

I am loving this video about how a Korean grocery store chain successfully brought its store to customers during their commute. How is it different from having just an online store? Seeing the items in front of you, in life-size, full-color photos that are brightly and attractively displayed not only reminds us of items we may have forgotten, it also makes us consider products that we *might* want or need (ie, impulse shopping)...

Aerin, Claire, Korean, Parenting, Personal, Relationships

My Mother’s Birth Story, Abridged

Jun 24. 2011

It is no secret that my father loves his two daughters and openly tells people over and over again how having two girls has taught him to be more sensitive, more responsible, and a better man in general. And as it was with Claire, it was he who was the happiest to hear the news that we are expecting another girl. However, I know that this was not always the case. I know that having lived most of his life in Korea — formerly a strongly patriarchal society — he must have had bouts of disappointment at not having sired a boy. (Surveys now show that for the first time in Korean society, parents prefer to have girls over boys. This is a...