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May 24th

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Before You Hit Send: A Case for Proofreading Your Emails

Before You Hit Send: A Case for Proofreading Your EmailsBusiness owner Jim shared an email that surprised me and made me think.  We all know people who text and drive and chew gum at the same time.  We are in a hurry these days, and need to accomplish important things.  In a written message, typos are easily forgiven, especially if a line at the end of the message says, “Sent from my phone.”

That said, professionals still have a responsibility to maintain a slightly higher standard.  America is in the middle of a battle between spell check and autocorrect, and if the following email is any indication, America is not winning.
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Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

 Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work “There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus… suggests that it is creating as a revolt against silence, creating when both the creation and the rec...
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Now what? A game plan for job seekers who have already tried everything

Now what?  A game plan for job seekers who have already tried everything Sometimes I meet people who are really down on their luck.  They’ve been out of work a while and feel their prospects are low.  They can’t see a way out, and yet, to me, the path is so clear it’s prac...
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Book Review: Soledad O‘Brien's The Next Big Story

Book Review: Soledad O‘Brien's The Next Big Story“I began life as the child of a mixed-race marriage growing up in a white suburb, treated sometimes as a creature of bad circumstance… Bad things happen until good people get in the way.

I learned this...
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Career RoundAbout: Detour? Or Excellent Shortcut?

Career RoundAbout:  Detour? Or Excellent Shortcut? When Rachel asked me to help her husband find a job, I said no.  You who know me know, I rarely say no.  Especially to a challenge.  But I told her, Pops (not his name, but what we call him) never doe...
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