With a few days left in 2016, perhaps you’ve already started thinking of your New Year’s resolutions?
Here’s the problem with New Year’s Resolutions
The nature of the word “resolution” refers to solving or fixing something. That’s the major downside of New Year’s resolutions; they come from a negative place of feeling “not good enough”, making us wish to fix ourselves in order to be perfect, and that’s not a very motivating place to be.
We don’t need to be fixed, We need to grow. READ MORE AT H
It's hard to believe, but 2017 is right around the corner. This can be a great time to take stock and press the reset button, making positive resolutions for the future. These are often focused on personal improvement goals or hobbies, but could just as easily be a chance to buckle down, focus, and advance your career.
This year, consider tailoring your resolutions to maximize career success, making sure to choose realistic goals that you can meet in any given year, rather than having the same
As we finish off one year and prepare to start the next, it’s a good time to think about how we want 2017 to be better, which for purposes of this column means a better career. Here are 10 ideas for new year’s resolutions to adopt for a stronger career in 2017:
1. I will stay in touch.
You can start the networking habit with a holiday mailing. You can continue by reaching out in the new year to ask about people’s holidays. READ MORE AT FORBES
Trump is on track to appoint the first cabinet in 28 years without a Hispanic. When President Ronald Reagan nominated Lauro Cavazos in 1988 as the first Latino to serve in a presidential cabinet, he made history.
Today, President-elect Donald Trump is on the verge of making history too. With 16 cabinet-level officials and more than two dozen administration appointments announced, he is on track to appoint the first cabinet without a Latino in more than 28 years. For a president-elect who ran on
A new poll of holiday spending habits shows that Latinos are approaching the holiday season more conservatively this year than in the past.
According to an annual telephone and online poll conducted by Florida Atlantic University’s Business and Economics Polling Initiative (BEPI), more than one in five Hispanics don’t plan to do any Christmas and Hannukah shopping at all this year, up from one in 10 in 2015.
And those who do intend to go shopping are planning on waiting longer to start making pu
Hispanics living in the U.S., particularly those who hail from other countries, are approaching retirement with less than a third of the savings of their white counterparts.
A new study from the Urban Institute, an economic policy think tank in Washington, found that the rapidly growing ethnic group is facing an uphill battle to accumulating sufficient funds for their later years.
Hispanics numbered 55.3 million in the U.S. in 2014 — 17 percent of the total U.S. population, according to Pew Res
Changing a habit is hard, and resolutions require that. But successful resolutions have a few characteristics in mind.
I don’t think any of us plan to work at our New Year’s resolutions for just a few months before giving up, but that’s exactly what many of us end up doing. Changing a habit is hard, and resolutions require that.
Here are three characteristics of successful resolutions. The examples deal with saving money, but this advice can apply to other financial goals or goals about fitness
Forget those online postings. Here’s how to make real connections when looking for a job, while improving your chance of an offer letter.
First things first when you’re looking for a new job: Put down the computer. You’re not going to get hired by sending out your resume en masse to 100 LinkedIn and Monster postings.
“Assume that only 10% of everything available is actually posted online,” READ MORE AT BARRON'S NEXT
According toWilliam Almonte, an expert in professional training and hiring industry, everything from interior design change, lighting change and reorganizing the entire office can shift the mood of employees to a great extent. And how doesn't know a happy employee ensure happy clients and customer? Means the pleasant and convenient work environment your employees get in the office the more efficiently they look after your clients.
The initial step to create a successful business story a company m
Sure, parties are for fun, but they are also great for networking. So why not do both? Check out these party pointers.
It’s too true. While parties are events where people are meant to have fun, they are also primo networking territory. In fact, the winter holiday season, with its open houses, cookie exchanges, ugly sweater contests and company parties, is perhaps the most wonderful networking time of the year.
This does not mean you need to coldly calculate the potential business advantage of
The best workplaces for diversity show higher satisfaction for all employees—and bigger growth, too.
Diversity is an empty word in much of corporate America.
Many companies invest in diversity efforts and appoint chief diversity officers, yet are disappointed with the meager results. Over the last 30 years there has been progress, but most agree the full opportunity has not been realized. READ MORE AT FORTUNE
Three years ago, Daniel Trujillo's company, Tortilleria La Ranchera, was scrambling to meet his customers' demand for tortillas. He already had a 22,000-square-foot warehouse, but he needed more space. "People needed tortillas, and we didn't know where to shelve them," Trujillo says."
When he started La Ranchera in 1994, Trujillo had put together the money himself, but now, the business had grown beyond self-financing. It's the second-largest tortilla maker in Houston, Texas, America's fourth-l
Latinos are three times as likely as the general population to start their own businesses, but cultural and economic factors have hampered the growth of Latino-owned businesses at a cost of trillions of dollars.
A report by the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI) found the lost growth amounted to a $1.38 trillion “opportunity gap” in 2012 alone.
Minority business advocates are scrambling to identify the causes and fill the void. Latinos tend to open businesses with “personal moti
By 2019, there will be more Hispanics in Texas than Anglos, according to Pablo Schneider, CEO of the Wider Net.
If you add up all the minorities — Hispanic, African American, Asian — they already make up a larger percentage of the population than white people in Texas, and a handful of other states. Schneider said by 2040 that will be true for the entire nation as the U.S. continues to become more of a multicultural society.
"So what?" said Schneider at the State of Hispanic Business in North T
According to William Almonte team leader needs to follow certain principles when handling the different programs. The team leader needs to be very professional and skillful when teaching the employees the various skills that they have to master to excel in the long run.
In every organization, the workforce plays a crucial role. It is the employees who form the main crux of the institution. To bring about further growth and progress of the organization, these employees need to be trained well so t
People who are unemployed often don’t even bother looking for work in December. They figure it’s pointless because some hiring managers are on vacation and offices are closed.
Big mistake, says Susan P. Joyce, publisher of Job-Hunt.org, who says the total number of jobs filled in December 2014 was greater than the number filled in January 2015. What’s more, Joyce notes, January is the toughest, most competitive and most crowded job market of the year — precisely because so many people stop job
Walker’s Legacy, a professional collective committed to the empowerment of women of color in business and entrepreneurship, recognizes Latina’s Equal Pay Day. This segment of women experiences the widest pay gap and earns significantly less than their White, non-Hispanic female and male counterparts. While nationally women earn 77 cents to every man’s dollar, Latinas earn just 55 cents.
In other words, if the pay gap were eliminated, on average a Latina working full-time, year-round would have
Even as there are signs that the economy is beginning to turn the corner for the better, the Hispanic community is lagging behind.
Hispanics have a higher than the national average unemployment rate and many more are living below the poverty line. Most gut-wrenching, nearly a third of all Latino children are living in poverty. The last eight years have failed to do much to ameliorate this situation despite well-intentioned government policies.
The incoming Trump administration has an opportunit
Managers of an organization are peoples who train and monitor new recruits. Not only new hires they also monitor and supervise their subordinate employees. Startup companies or small businesses don't have different managers to train new hires. At MNCs or at large scale business enterprises employ a separate training and development managers to train new recruits.
Why do business organizations need to appoint Training manager?
These managers conduct and supervise training and development programs f
The end of the year might seem like a terrible time to look for a new job. Half the time, it seems like everyone’s on vacation, and the other half the time, they’re dealing with year-end reviews.
December is anything but business as usual, but for that reason, it might actually be the perfect time to job search. Last year, Business Insider reported on an Adecco Survey in which 94 percent of hiring managers urged job seekers to keep looking during the holiday season.
Here’s why... READ MORE AT P
