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By Claire Kittle Dixon • May 18,2017 Career Advice, Professional Development

A Brave New World: Advice for the Newly Graduated

It’s May. If you close your eyes and listen hard enough, you can almost hear “Pomp and Circumstance” playing in harmony with a collective sigh of relief from parents and...

By Isaac Morehouse • May 16,2017 Professional Development

Curiosity is Better Than Knowledge

If I could choose to be the most knowledgeable person in the world or the most curious, I’d choose the latter without hesitation. Every interesting thing I’ve done has been...

By Roger Custer • May 12,2017 Professional Development

Email Etiquette 101

It’s never too late to brush up on your email etiquette. Here are a few pointers. 1. Use the cc, bcc, and reply all functions appropriately. There is nothing...

By Roger Custer • May 09,2017 Career Advice, Professional Development

Master the Interview With These 5 Tips

Are you nervous for an upcoming interview? Maybe you are graduating from college this month and starting to get calls from the places you applied to work. Maybe you are...

By Roger Custer • May 05,2017 AF Community

Reaching New Audiences for Liberty in Jackson

Nic Lott has a habit of blazing trails. He was the first African-American student body president at the University of Mississippi. He worked for President George W. Bush, Senator Trent...

By Isaac Morehouse • May 03,2017 Professional Development

What Kind of Company Do You Keep?

The other day in the delightfully cheesy “Magic of Thinking Big” I read a story about a guy who carpooled with loser coworkers. The kind who just bitched about...