By SANDRA GUY
Business Reporter sguy@suntimes.com
Mary Fran Wiley, a 27-year-old web designer, credits her lapse to school, and use of amicable media and Google-friendly web profiles, with alighting a pursuit during Orbit Media Studios. Photographed on Thursday, Dec 22, 2011. | Richard A. Chapman~Sun-Times
Mary Fran Wiley followed an increasingly informed track to a new job: A crony e-mailed her a pursuit inventory from LinkedIn, and Wiley leveraged her social-media savvy and a tailored cover minute and resume to win a position as a web engineer during a Ravenswood startup.
“If we ‘Google’ me, we am a whole initial page of Google hunt formula — we see my Twitter account, my blog, my personal website, my personal portfolio and my LinkedIn profile,” pronounced Wiley, a 27-year-old LaGrange local and University of Illinois connoisseur who now lives in Willow Springs.
She landed an talk during all 3 companies where she practical for jobs before being hired Dec. 2 during Orbit Media Studios, Inc.
Wiley intentionally kept her Facebook page off of a Google results.
“I make certain my web participation is what we wish people to find,” she said, observant that she uses Google Index to make that happen.
Wiley, who aced a 50-percent income boost with her new job, had told friends she wanted to lapse to Chicago after she had worked given Jun 2010 as artistic manager for Illini Media Company, a non-profit during her alma mater that operates a university newspaper, radio station, annual and engineering magazine. Wiley had worked during Illini Media for 3 years in promotion sales while she was in college.
She majored in French and general selling during U of I, though she credits her preference to obtain a graphic-design certificate from a College of DuPage, a village college, in 2009-2010 with assisting her benefit value in a pursuit market.
“I knew a French grade wasn’t going to be a golden ticket,” pronounced Wiley, who speaks French and German in further to English. “I know lots of imitation designers who could be illusory web designers if they weren’t fearful of a technology. Take one
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