Let’s Talk Small Talk

Let’s Talk Small Talk

  Small talk is “chitchat or sub-talk”.  It’s a light informal conversation originally designed for social occasions then evolved into business circles. However, it is not popular in all cultures. Some find it a waste of time, while others find it an effective...
Five Paths to Successful In Person and Online Networking

Five Paths to Successful In Person and Online Networking

During my corporate intern seminars, I would often get questions from international students about the various ways Americans network. They are right, it is confusing. That was my inspiration to write a book on networking. There are a lot of networking books on the...
Career Connectors

Career Connectors

Career Connectors is a non-profit organization which has served over 24,000 people in job transition, is recognized as a major Valley networking group and has garnered attention as far away as the White House. The original mission of “helping people with their resumes for free” has grown to serve a newly formed demographic born of the Recession—the midlevel professional who . . .

Fresh Start Women’s Foundation

Fresh Start Women’s Foundation

At some point in our lives we all need a “new beginning or fresh start.” However, those facing life’s biggest challenges probably need that fresh start the most. We are blessed with . . . organizations such as Fresh Start Women’s Foundation. Their founders saw a need and filled it, and the community . . .

Are You Dating Your Smartphone?

Are You Dating Your Smartphone?

That is what it looks like. How often have you attended an event and noticed people standing off to the sidelines engaged with their Smartphone? Sometimes they even gather in small groups to text and simply ignore everyone else. Have you experienced this? Or is this you? Unfortunately, smartphones and other hand-held technologies provide people…

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