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...have 100 percent of your focus." The author is not a fan of texting ("Unless the situation is extremely urgent, text-messaging is not an appropriate way to communicate in a professional setting"); smiley-face emoticons; overly familiar salutations or sign-offs (forget "ciao" and "cheers"); or ungrammatical, unproofread messages. Jones warns that getting too frisky on social websites like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter can be career suicide: "Job candidates across any number of industries--from bankers to police officers--have been weeded out due to inappropriate postings on these personal pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

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