Mobile Phones are no more a luxury but have become a part of our lives. These electronic toys have reached the far flung areas and you will be surprised to know that Satellite phones use the technology to commune with far flung, war and calamity struck areas. Military makes use of the same technology to reach war struck or prone regions.
Mobile phones are used to communicate throughout the world; you can now reach out to your friends and relatives anywhere on the globe without spending much money. Sending text messages or sms is no more an extraordinary feature in your mobile phone, as now you can send emails by accessing internet.
Bluetooth technology is one such application, people are just aware that one can send music videos or songs from one mobile phone to other without any charge but this application offers you much more than what one is aware of. Bluetooth can be used as a safety and proximity application. One can lock and unlock doors, devices or turn on and off computers, trace ones mobile phones and laptops too.
Mobile phones are also gaining popularity in earthquake prone countries like Japan and Finland. Mobile phones here have an added feature which can inform people about any such adversity in advance.
One should also know that there are a few places where one can’t carry a mobile phone or use it. These limitations are laid at proficient tennis and golf events where concentration is the key. People are also not allowed to talk over their phones while driving such limitation is not only limited to metro cities like Mumbai but also major cities like California, New Jersey, New York follow this norm.
Apart from the above one should also note what impact the radiations emitted from mobile phones have on their health. According to some researchers these radiations are harmful and can damage the DNA which can ultimately lead to cancer or can disturb the barrier in brain which restricts inflow of hazardous matter from bloodstream. But as we are advancing we can’t stop using this technology instead you can avoid speaking in elevators, trains, subways as radiation reflects inside these enclosed spaces. Make use of headsets and when possible put your phones on loudspeakers.
Should I keep my Resume short and crisp or should I exaggerate? If I keep it brief, how will the employer come to know about all that I have done? If I exaggerate, may be the employer will not go through it as it is too detailed? Are these thoughts troubling you when you start penning down the most important document for a job search? Read along to understand some important and useful facts about resumes.
- Your resume should always stress upon your marketability and consistency and highlight your work experience and skills acquired.
- Mainstream of the employers prefer a chronological resume and do not prefer to look at it for more than 10-20 seconds.
- Majority of the employers prefer looking at a resume with a cover note and a thank you note.
- Too frequent job changers are generally a No for most employers. Therefore, if your resume talks about too many changes in the recent past, it is advisable to state a short line advising why the change was done. Reasons like promotion offered, increased pay, business winding down are all perfectly acceptable reasons.
- A grammatically incorrect resume with spelling errors, typos will always leave a negative impression on the employer.
- Maximum bit, about 80% of the first screening happens through the resume.
- Employers appreciate a tweaked and tailor made resume that suits the employers need instead of a “one for all” resume.
- The purpose of the resume is not to get a job but to land you up with an interview.
- Mentioning generic objectives is again one of the biggest mistakes a job seeker can do, it indicates that person is not sure about his/er career goals.
- The flow and order of information on the resume occupies critical importance. When the employer starts scanning the resume, which does not take more than 10-20 seconds, they loose interest if the candidate has started is resume with information that has no relevance to the job being applied for.
- A 4-5 page resume makes the employer loose interest immediately. Therefore, focus on your achievements than the responsibilities. Also remove unrelated experiences and skills.
- A lot of people feel that deleting work experiences is like hiding information. However, that is not true. As you progress in your career, earlier work experiences decrease in value. It is advisable to keep your experiences and skills limited to the last 8-10 years of your professional life and remove experiences that have no linkage to the job applied for. You can condense the experiences prior to that in may be a paragraph.
- Use consistent fonts; make the format look simple and neat. A good font to use is Times New Roman for print resumes. Bold your headers. Avoid colors.
- Most employers prefer an employee keeping the job for at least two years before changing it.
All these tips make certain that your resume looks polished and increases the chance of it being read.
There are several facts about pollution that people are unaware of. Pollution is a far more deadly disease than any other disease, it is a slow killer. Some facts about pollution that is good to know and spread.
- Pollution is a global killer affecting over a billion people around the world and with millions poisoned and killed every year. According to the report of The World Heath Organization, 25 percent of all deaths in the developing world are directly certified to environmental factors.
- Americans represent just 5% of the total world population but they consume 22% of the Oil, as a result of which the last 100 years have seen heat trapping gases increase by 22%.
- Plastics are the worst contaminators. While a plastic cup may take 50-80 years to decompose, a plastic milk jug may take 1 million years.
- Our everyday tasks contribute to over half the pollution. Ground litter may end up in storm drains, ditches and streams.
- Too much of Nitrogen to crops will leak into groundwater causing nutrient pollution in rivers and oceans leading to severe health problems to the humans who consume them. Groundwater, which is the potential drinking water for humans, has been found to contain 73 different kinds of pesticides.
- Dumped and untreated sewage is the biggest threat to human and wildlife health.
- Soap and dirt from car wash at home can end up in drains and ditches and finally in our streams untreated.
- Majority the trash dumped in the World’s ocean is plastic.
- By the year 2030, the present number of cars on the planet, 500 million is expected to double up to 1 billion.
- Some sources of pollution are a significant contributor to Global warming. While the solution to Global warming is vague and unknown, the solution to pollution is well known and available. All that is needed is sponsorship for resources and commitment.
- The developing countries of the world are the world’s most polluting countries. Many of the tactics like legal, political, cultural and economic disincentives for polluters that exist in developed countries do not work in developing countries that are only increasing industrialization making themselves economically competitive for manufacturing and processing.
- Pollution has far more adverse impact on Women and Children who are physiologically different and more vulnerable than Men. Though children only constitute 10 percent of the world’s population, over 40 percent of the global burden of disease descends on them. Approximately, more than three million children under the age of five die annually from environmental factors.
- People troubled with pollution problems are far more at risk to contracting other diseases.
- Nearly 4 tons of Carbon Dioxide is discharged annually into the air for every one of the 6 billion people on earth.
- The Immune and Endocrine system can be disrupted by a growing list of pesticides that have the long term impact on the future generations of exposed humans and animals both.
It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.
Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
No word in the English language rhymes with”MONTH”.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
“Go.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.
Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself.
Utopia ia a large, smooth lying area of Mars.
The largest galexies contain a million, million stars.
The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.