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1 Dean’s Advisory Council Issue 3, November 2013 The Fastest Growing Apps of 2013! What do Vine, Flickr and Instagram all have in common? They are this year’s fastest growing apps according to market research firm GlobalWebIndex. Vine experienced a whopping 403% increase over the course of the year while Flickr and Instagram saw about 146% and 130% growth respectively. Other apps on the list include Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Youtube and Skype. What’s interesting about the top three apps is that they are all visual apps; in other words, their main focus revolves around the sharing of pictures and/or videos. This would explain why marketers have been vying for ad-space on mobile apps recently, people tend to share and enjoy images more than sending a tweet or posting a status : Marketing majors, TAKE NOTES! esources: Symplicity Calendar Includes information on all RBS Club events and professional workshops by OCM https://undergradbusinessrutgerscsm.symplicity.com/calendar/inde x.php/pid258724? CDC Calendar Includes information on Club events as well as on campus events. https://andromeda.rutgers.edu/ ~cdcrun/CDCRUN09/CDC_Cale ndar.html Source: http://mashable.com/2013/10/21/fastest-growing-apps/ By Maha Kazmi Lessons For Life As I walked into my Financial Institutional and Markets class on a very chilly Thursday evening, I dreaded the three hours of listening to a handful of speakers. I was already feeling under the weather and disappointed for not hearing any news from the interviews I recently had with some reputable companies. My graduation was creeping up on me like a Halloween nightmare. I asked myself, how many more times am I going to get my resume approved? Or how many times can I attend the numerous career workshops? Is the job market that severely competitive? After all these various questions, I figured I just concentrate on class and the newly arrived guest speakers whose topic was Lessons for Life. After the detailed introductions to the speakers, the actual presentation followed. I had no idea how significant and mind altering this speaker session would be. The first speaker elaborated on the role of interviewing. He explained that he had given interviews countless times in the course of his life. He had flown back and forth to California, flown with his wife to Hawaii for four days and mostly all over the country to examine the company and its people. Students need to realize that interviewing does not end with just a couple of interview rounds. It is indeed a life-long and enduring process. He could not stress enough the importance of constructing and updating one’s resume. It is imperative students do so, to remain active and conscious of the job-hunting process. In addition, he also shared