Annie Card

Don’t neglect your networking! Most of the professional people I know got their new jobs through a friend of a friend. Remember, it is the “who you know” concept.  At any networking opportunity, share your resume and educate people on what your perfect job looks like and where you expect to find it. Some of the other steps you can take to get your resume out there...

If you‘ve envisioned your perfect job and wrote down that vision, now is the time to find it.  Plan the action steps that will take you to your goal. Some steps that have been useful in this process:

As a professional writer, I'm often asked the right way to say something in English. One of the joys--and exasperations--of English is that it gives you so many ways to communicate and all of them are right. For example, I could have written the preceding sentence in any of the following ways:

• English gives you many ways to express yourself, and they are all correct....

Birthdays, holidays, business lunches--how do you to stick to a diet or even to healthy choices when the workplace keeps shoving food at you? Here are a few tips to help you:

1. Keep healthy snacks in your desk drawer, locker and car. Dried fruit and nuts will stay fresh a long time; almonds walnuts and cashews are among the healthiest and contain protein, to help stave off...