A happy career and personal life from smiling?
Smiling engages at least three muscle groups, increasing bloodflow, and boosts circulation of immune cells.
What if youre not the smiley type? Fake it! Believe it or not, it fools your body into thinking youre happy about somethinglifting mood, and immune system function.
How easy is this? Its free, will boost your career, personal relationships, and you can do it any time! And if you walk around campus smiling, people will wonder whats going onand probably smile back.
It costs money to have a global workforce, and the way to offset that cost, writes Mercer, the huge human consultancy, is to try to “localize” compensation. In other words, try to get American employees, as much as possible, to accept the same pay, or close to it, as the locals receive (i.e. less).
Today the company put out a list of 12 pointers for expatriate staff. I thought it was interesting. Some issues raised were to consider whether the employee is in the expat assignment to perform critical strategic functions or to prepare for advancement in the company. Compensation for those two categories of workers may follow different philosophies. Mercer also suggests paying attention to how currency fluctuations impact compensation and to how families adjust. A
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans took the offensive Tuesday and cast President Barack Obama as the culprit for the economy’s persistent frailty, hoping to shift the focus away from his State of the Union address’ theme of economic fairness.
As they awaited the president’s election season speech to the nation Tuesday night, Republicans in the Capitol and on the campaign trail accused Obama of three years of higher spending, bigger government and tax increases that have left the economy stuck in a ditch.
“If the president wants someone to blame for this economy, he should start with himself,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. “
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For the past five years, ESR – ‘The Background Check Authority’ and nationwide background screening company accredited by the National Association of Professional Background Screeners – has compiled a list featuring emerging and influential trends in employment screening background checks selected by Rosen. The fif
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The seven deadly sins of career building:
Laziness
Carelessness
Lying
Stealing
Arrogance
Cynicism
Self-pity
There’s more of course, but that list is a really good start.
Here’s the thing. You never intended for those sins to show up in your personal brand, but those exact things may be popping up before our eyes.
How? We see you!
On laziness and carelessness
We see what you are doing and what you are not doing. Bel
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