Try to connect with others on a professional and personal level so you can be respectable and memorable at the same time. Make what you say as effective as possible without having to talk too long to make a point, writes Anett Grant. Fast Company online (12/16)
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Making the Connection
Share holiday joy with these fun e-cards A holiday e-card can be a convenient way to reconnect with your networking pals and continue the good relationship you've built with others. These e-cards are a great way to share holiday cheer with your professional contacts, writes Sara McCord. TheMuse.com (12/18)
Get with the flow. How payment processing affects cash flow. Cash flow is the lubricant of business. Without a healthy cash flow, business dries up. It stops. It can't function. Which is why it is vital to keep the revenues coming in as the expenses go out. But there's one aspect of cash flow that many of us are not aware of. It is how managing credit cards and other such non-cash payments affect cash flow. Turns out it has a huge affect. Download the free guide today.
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The Landscape
US energy companies step up hiring in oil patch states Oil-related positions in the five states most dependent on drilling -- Alaska, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Wyoming and Texas -- jumped by 52.1% from August through October as a percentage of total job listings, according to recruitment website Indeed.com. "It is encouraging to see oil producers willing to invest in hiring once again," said economist Daniel Culbertson. Bloomberg (12/15)
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Don't fall for these job-hunt assumptions You don't have to apply online to get called for an interview, especially because networking can often get you better results than an application, writes Virginia Franco. You also can't just rely on a great LinkedIn profile to get attention from hiring managers, but should focus on being an active user on the platform as well. Forbes (12/16)
Balancing Yourself
How to become more engaged in your life To become more engaged in life, you should recognize the difference between the partial engagement you experience on the internet and the complete engagement you experience in real life, writes Matthew Jones. Establish a purpose to become your driving force and try to avoid multitasking, which waters down your efforts. Inc. online (free registration) (12/12)
What is time? When we find ourselves in moments of imminent danger, our brain seems to slow our perception of time, but researchers suggest it's simply that we have more acute memories of those moments, writes Jeff Wise. More generally, how we perceive time is a question pondered as early as Augustine in the late fourth century, Alan Burdick notes. New York magazine (12/15),The New Yorker (tiered subscription model) (12/19)
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
