Worst ways to break up

Breaking up is never easy, and there’s only one good way to do it: in person.

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But there are all sorts of bad ways. If you can imagine a heart-wrenching, nasty, vengeful, or just plain insensitive way to break up with someone, the odds are someone’s done it. Here, for your painful pleasure, is a roundup of some of the worst ways to get dumped—from postmodern to classically tasteless.

By text. It may be the age of iEverything, but breaking up over the phone was never cool, so why would anyone think texting the bomb is socially acceptable? Yet an international survey conducted by the market research company Synovate found that 1 in 8.33 cell phone owners had dumped someone via text message, and 1 in 12.5 reported having gotten the bad news that way.

Seems more than a bit crass. But maybe it’s just a consequence of our growing dependence on electronic communication. After all, 1 in 5 respondents to the same survey reported having used text messaging to set up a first date. If you start that way, why not end that way?

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10 Ways to Volunteer in Haiti

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Six months have passed since the devastating earthquake struck Haiti — the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. While more than half of all Americans made donations to assist the Haitian people, many are deciding to do something more: To travel to Haiti to help. Could you be one of them?

As one Tonic reader who volunteered with Hands on Disaster Responsein Leogane, Haiti writes: "My wife and I just returned from a week there and we cannot say enough good things about our experience. It is hard work — I mean REALLY hard work — and the devastation in Haiti is heartbreaking. But the opportunity to help is also incredibly rewarding."
Builders. Nurses. Therapists. Translators. Teachers. As Haiti continues to rebuild, more volunteers than ever are needed for a variety of jobs. Below we've gathered a list of 10 volunteer opportunities that exist right now, with everything you need to know to get started.

Interested? Log on to the appropriate website. Make that phone call. Take that extra step, and get involved.

1. Hands on Disaster Response is running a rebuilding effort called Project Leogane in the town of Leogane through January 2011. "It is a wonderful organization doing great things for the people of Haiti," writes our Tonic reader. Currently, HODR only needs skilled carpenters, builders, and people with construction experience. Please contact info@hodr.org or click here.

2. From now to mid-August, the Colline Foundation, which was founded to build a top-notch school in Haiti, is organizing new groups of 50 volunteers each week for a 5-day stay (Monday to Friday) to help with relief work, translation, teaching, health care or with a number of programs currently being facilitated by NGOs. Check out their website for more information and to volunteer.

3. The Global Haiti Initiative, an intercollegiate clearinghouse for development programs in Haiti, has a few spots open for their August 14-21 trip to Haiti. They will be doing work in Port-au-Prince and Leogane, as well as building a health clinic. A member of Obama’s administration will be joining them. If you are at all interested, or know anybody interested, contact Jimmy Toussaint at jimmy@collinefoundation.org with the subject line “Global Haiti Initiative.”
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What NOT to do: 7 ways to ruin your resume

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In the time it takes you to read this paragraph, the average recruiter will have plowed through six resumes. (We know; we timed one.) Want to increase the chances of your resume making it to the next round? Then don’t do any of these seven things, which recruiters say — more than anything — make them want to push the “shred” button.

(For more resume tips, check out our interactive critique of an actual resume.)

1. Apply for a job for which you are not remotely qualified
Many candidates believe the job hunt is a numbers game — drop enough resumes, and you’re bound to land something. But shotguns are for hunting pheasant, not finding jobs. The reality is that recruiters hate wasting time on resumes from unqualified candidates. Morgan Miller, an executive recruiter at StaffMark, recalls the security guard who applied to be a financial risk manager (maybe Lehman should have hired him), while Scott Ragusa at Winter, Wyman talks of the aerial photographer who sought out a position as a tax specialist.

“Sorting through unqualified resumes is frustrating, unproductive and puts an extra burden on staff,” says Katherine Swift, Senior Account Director at KCSA Strategic Communications in Natick, Mass. “It also makes it much more challenging to find the right candidate.” So the next time you’re thinking of blasting out resumes to all 60 of the job listings on Monster.com that have the word “finance” in them , save your time (and that of the recruiters) and only apply for ones for which you’re qualified.
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