Networking is perhaps one of the most valuable career-building skills a person can develop. When it comes to fleshing out your professional contacts, one of the best ways to improve your network is to introduce them to each other.
As advice blog The Art of Manliness explains, most people tend to network with the idea of building their own contact list and finding opportunities for themselves. By connecting your contacts with each other, everybody wins: READ MORE
Alejandra Castillo is the first Latina to head the Department of Commerce's Minority Development Business Agency. MBDA's aim is to help minority owned businesses gain government contracts, partner with government contractors and gain access to capital.
Castillo said the efforts are not "altruism" but a recognition that the fabric of the country is changing dramatically and that for the U.S. to remain globally competitive, it has to help grow minority businesses. In a meeting with Hispanic media
In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell discusses the role that "connectors” play in social epidemics. According to Gladwell, connectors aren’t just people who know a lot of people; they’re people with a knack for making friends and acquaintances wherever they go.
When trying to get their new businesses off the ground, most entrepreneurs would love their startups to become social epidemics. To be successful, they have to play the part of the connector and form relationships with the right people
Hispanic travel in the United States is growing at a faster rate than the general market and has an estimated annual economic impact of more than $56 billion. While travel and tourism in the U.S. have taken huge hits in recent years because of high unemployment and rising gas prices, Hispanics still continue with their family trips, spending more money per trip than the general population.
On average, Hispanics spend $785 per person on a trip while the general population spends $708 per person.
One of the hottest trends in the Hispanic marketing industry is targeting “biculturals,” people who are equally comfortable navigating in two distinct cultures. The term is especially popular in describing second- and third-generation Latinos in the United States.
This group—which tends to skew younger than the rest of the population—is just as comfortable enjoying the cultural traditions of the United States as they are partaking in the ones passed down to them by their immigrant parents and g
For many people, simply walking into a room full of strangers can be terrifying—let alone one packed with potentially valuable work contacts … and maybe even a future boss.
But since savvy networking can be one of the best moves you can make for your career, it’s time to learn how to fearlessly bust through the doors of any work event—and own it.
That’s why we challenged three networking veterans to divulge the clever opening lines that will enable you to strike up a conversation with just abou
"Mama always knows best!" is a quote that every young mom remembers while growing up. Moms, young and old, often turn to their own mothers (and extended family) for advice and now Kellogg's(R) is extending that community by bringing Latina moms together with Dias Grandiosos.
Kellogg's is taking a fresh approach to reaching and connecting with Hispanic families through stories about food, family and culture from real Latina moms. The digital age is inspiring moms to look for family advice online
The University of California has offered freshman admission to more in-state Latino students than white students for the first time, a change that reflects the state’s shifting demographics.
Fall 2014 admissions data reported by the Los Angeles Times showed that 28.8 percent of California residents accepted to one of nine UC campuses were Latino, bumping white applicants as the second most accepted group and increasing Latino acceptances by nearly a thousand from the previous year. At 36.2 perc
Why do some groups continue to cling to the American Dream in spite of the political polemics about people abandoning opportunities to better themselves because of the often touted income-distribution problem? This complex question can be answered in one word: faith.
A recent poll conducted by The Washington Post and the University of Virginia's Miller Center found that Hispanics in America, as a whole, have greater faith in their ability to achieve a better standard of living for themselves th
People often have the perception that networking is only relevant to entrepreneurs who are looking to win new business. But I have long been of the opinion that whether you're a business owner, a middle manager, or an employee just starting your career, networking should be a big part of your professional life.
If you are serious about progressing your career then you need to be proactive. Scouring recruitment websites and job portals are a crucial part of job searches, but a significant percen
Tough Latina women make up about eight percent of the U.S. population and their numbers are growing, they made up only two percent of the scientists and engineers working in those professions in 2010, according to a report from the National Science Foundation.
Luz Rivas, whose love of computers at an early age changed the course of her life, is determined to increase these numbers. She believes the interest and the confidence to get into technology and science has to start early. So after atten
La organización Gift of Hope se anotó otro éxito en la comunidad latina de Chicago al cumplir la meta de recaudar 24 “Becas por la Esperanza” para jóvenes latinos este pasado 13 de abril, 2014. El compromiso de Raiza Mendoza, Gerente de Asuntos Hispanos para la organización, llenó de moda y subió la temperatura de la ciudad de los vientos con las tendencias primavera/verano 2014 de la colección “Caracas” de Eva by Evelyn Swimwear. Presentes estuvieron representantes de algunas de las organizaci
Cuban-American Barb Mayo describes a tanda like this: "It's like a no-interest loan with your friends." Mayo had never heard of tandas growing up, and it wasn't until she started working in sales for a cable company in Southern California that she was introduced to the concept.
"I worked with a bunch of Mexican women and they were like, 'Hey Barb do you want to do a tanda?' And I was like, 'What is a tanda?' — and they explained it to me."
Here's an example of how a tanda works: Ten friends, fa
The beer is ready for dry hopping. Diego Benitez unscrews the bar clamps that keep a massive metal lid fastened to the top of one of his brewery's handmade fermenting vessels.
As he pries up the lid's rubber lip, breaking a pressure seal that for the last week has kept the fermenting brew isolated from the air outside, Benitez talks about his years growing up in Mexico City, the son of an Italian and a Spaniard who met there and started a window installation business; how he traveled to Europe
Are you discounting social media as a way to land a job? Or are you relying 100 percent on LinkedIn to help you create your digital footprint? If so, you’re making a mistake. Research shows employers benefit from using social media to attract candidates. The Society for Human Resource Management's 2013 survey, Social Networking Websites and Recruiting/Selection, found 77 percent of organizations use social networking sites to recruit potential job candidates.
They also found 69 percent of orga
The least expensive yet most effective marketing method for building your business is networking. This is especially true if you do business locally.
Many business owners say they don’t like networking or say it’s not effective marketing. Usually, this is because they are unfamiliar with networking or their results timing expectations are unrealistic.
Even with reservations about the success of networking, most business owners will gain value from networking by following a few guidelines.
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Landing a new job requires a lot more than just finding openings and applying to them.
To help job seekers get hired as quickly as possible, LinkedIn analyzed a group of more than 4,000 "super" job seekers, defined as LinkedIn members who viewed a job at a particular company and then joined that company within three months. The study examined what those successful job seekers were doing on LinkedIn during those three months of job hunting. Here are seven tips gleaned from the study:
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The success of a Hispanic marketing campaign relies on a series of controllable and uncontrollable factors that will determine the end result. However, there is one particular element that most marketing professionals underestimate all the time: strategic planning specifically for the Hispanic audience.
Most of the time, Hispanic marketing efforts are executed as a literal translation of a company’s Anglo marketing. They don’t take into consideration cultural nuances, brand perception or curren
QUE: Gift of Hope, Red de Donantes de Órganos y Tejidos trae el verano a Chicago con su 2° evento anual A Summer Filled with Hope, para recaudar fondos en beneficio de Becas por la Esperanza. Por segundo año consecutivo Evelyn Amador, fundadora de Eva By Evelyn Swimwear comparte el compromiso de Gift of Hope de ser parte de todo lo bueno para la comunidad Latina, apoyando el futuro de nuestros estudiantes con becas universitarias.
“Nuestros estudiantes Latinos necesitan sentir el apoyo de su c
Dr. Robert Rodriguez, President, DRR Advisors LLC
Dr. Robert Rodriguez is the president of DRR Advisors LLC (www.drradvisors.com), a boutique diversity and management consulting firm. He is also the author of the book, “Latino Talent: Effective Strategies to Recruit, Retain and Develop Hispanic Professionals.” He has worked with over 120 corporations helping them with their Latino and diversity initiatives.
Many consider Dr. Rodriguez to be the nation’s leading expert on Latino talent initi
