Here’s a really interesting article for Linked in novices about using it to build a solid, helpful and valuable network.
LinkedIn SVP Deep Nishar’s Three Career Tips For Novice Networkers | Fast Company.
From the ever excellent Fast Company Magazine.
It’s a time of year- moving into winter, and an economic season- bloody cold- that can combine to make anyone with a new business responsibility feel like staying in bed. When even the weather is against you feeling sunny, it takes a few simple truths to get you out there doing what you’ve got to…
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Andrew Mitchell is in big trouble. He’s the recently promoted, multi-millionaire, son of a Politician, well-connected, minister. He’s in trouble for getting into some kind of contra-temps with a policeman. Did he or didn’t he call him ‘a pleb’, a ‘fucking moron’ and a few other things too? Well it seems like he did. With…
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