Description: This article is the third in the series 10 secrets to landing your dream job. The author elaborates on: using emails and letter as marketing weapons, building your network, and networking the right way.

Description: This article is about putting your career or business on the fast track by digging into challenges.

Description: An introduction to a new benefit for members of the Management and Professional Development section - getAbstract, a service that summarizes important business-related books. Includes how to access this benefit as well as what it is and why actuaries would be interested.

Description: One of the many reasons several organizations fail to reach their potential is the presence of internal politics. In general, the question is not whether politics are present within organizations rather the right question is how much politics exist? From The Stepping Stone, April 2005, Issue No. 18.

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Description: This article covers the importance of humor in the workplace the many benefits include giving employees a tool for coping with stress.

Description: Achieve Your Career Potential! by John West Hadley from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, October 2004, Issue No. 16.

Description: The author presents a simple tool that can help managers be effective at developing people called the competency checklist.

Description: The fundamental steps to breaking out of a professional ‘slump’ are covered in this article.

Description: This article differentiates between pleasure, happiness, and satisfaction. It advocates goal-setting to achieve greater life satisfaction.