How to prepare for your performance review If you haven't yet had your first performance review with your company, your best options are to look through the company handbook and talk to coworkers to see what you should expect, writes Moira Lawler. The review should be treated like a job interview, except you should also expect to receive some degree of criticism. LearnVest (12/9)Reinvigorate your career with these resolutions
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Your New Year's resolutions for 2017 should include renewing your networking efforts early in the year and keeping your LinkedIn and public social media profiles up to date, writes Leif Walcutt. Other resolutions that can help your career include consistently checking the job market, tackling the toughest tasks of the day early in the morning and creating specific plans to reach your career goals. Forbes (12/14)
Why Platform Matters When Choosing an ERP System In order to survive, grow, and compete in the digital age, organizations need an ERP that is highly flexible and able to adapt. So, what are the tough platform questions you should ask yourself when shopping for an ERP? Download the report to find out!
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Making the Connection
Get specific to attract attention on LinkedIn The key to succeeding on LinkedIn is to find a more specific niche to focus on instead of trying to be all things to all people, writes John Nemo. You can still appeal to a number of industries while marketing yourself as an expert in a specific area, Nemo writes. Inc. online (free registration) (12/15)
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
Calif. felons find new hope with Proposition 47 Almost 200,000 convictions have been reduced from felonies to misdemeanors under California's Proposition 47, giving new hope to former felons who now have better job prospects. Felons have a hard time getting professional licenses and finding work because many companies don't allow them to be hired. Ventura County Star (Calif.) (free content) (12/14)
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Make the most of your few seconds with a better resume Hiring managers only look at resumes for a few seconds before moving on to the next one, so you want to make sure your resume makes an immediate impact, writes Jonathan Long. Try to ensure that your work experience tells a compelling story and that the top third of your resume is attractive, interesting and provides valuable information so hiring managers will want to continue reading it. Entrepreneur online (12/15)
The Water Cooler
Early 1900s women hated giving useless Christmas gifts A group of women in New York formed The Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving to rally against giving Christmas gifts they didn't feel like giving, writes Erik Shilling. "The yearly emphasis on materialism annoyed the so-called Spugs, but there was also a basic, practical complaint: the era's custom of employees giving gifts to bosses and higher-ups in exchange for work favors," he writes. Atlas Obscura (12/15)
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
