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Networking is an essential part of business. While it takes a whole lot of vision, goals, passion, and determination to get you where you want to go, it also takes a good amount of connecting and building professional relationships.

Networking can help you develop important connections, find supporters or partners for business, land new contracts, or even open up new job opportunities. It’s the business tactic least talked about, and yet, it’s actually incredibly essential. READ MORE AT BUSINESS2COMMUNITY

Latinos are launching businesses at an unprecedented pace, but barriers — some long-standing, some brand new — keep them from reaching their potential.

The number of Latino business owners has surged by 34 percent over the past decade, outpacing that of any other ethnic group. Yet despite that entrepreneurial vigor, Latino business owners face ongoing challenges, as their companies tend to remain smaller and less profitable than white-owned businesses. READ MORE AT STANFORD BUSINESS

There’s a common piece of career advice that will stall your career if you’re not careful. It often comes from a well-meaning person—a friend, family member, or close mentor who wants the best for your career:

In order to secure your job and position yourself for bigger, better roles, you need to “make yourself indispensable.”

In reality, making yourself indispensable is the best way to keep yourself where you are in your job, rather than advancing. READ MORE AT QUARTZ

When it comes to negotiating your salary, conventional wisdom suggests you should “go hard or go home.”

But new research could turn those assumptions on their head and cause you to rethink how you approach your next pay raise. READ MORE AT CNBC

Welcome to a brand new year and decade—a chance to give your career a fresh start. Are you looking for more fulfillment and purpose in your work? Are you ready for a challenge that lets you meet your full potential?

If finding the next job opportunity tops your New Year’s resolution list, the recruiting experts at Booz Allen have some thoughtful advice. Here are their top tips. READ MORE AT CLEARANCE JOBS

Jennifer Lopez and Shakira brought serious girl power to the Super Bowl halftime show. The ladies brought the heat with some of their biggest hit songs.

Shakira kicked off the festivities in a red sequined outfit surrounded by matching dancers. The 43-year-old singer started the night with her hit sang a medley of her best songs, including “She Wolf,” “Whenever, Wherever” and “Hips Don’t Lie.” READ MORE AT FOX 61

Using a system based solely on numbers to tackle diversity and inclusion runs the risk of creating a “race to the bottom” as organizations work to achieve minimum requirements. Today, the sad reality is many are using these targets as a smokescreen to real change.

To unlock people’s potential and reap the rewards of diversity, meaningful cultural change must be implemented - this starts with the attitude and intentions of global business. READ MORE AT WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

Before you learn about how diversity and inclusion impact your brand, we should first clarify the meaning of the two human resources terms.

Diversity means ensuring professionals of all beliefs, backgrounds and experiences are recruited for career opportunities. Inclusion is the practice of providing equal opportunities for all professionals to contribute to the success of an organization. READ MORE AT BIOSPACE

Overall, Latino-owned businesses are less likely to secure loans from banks or venture capital. When all else fails, they’re more likely to fund their companies through credit card debt or factoring -- the practice of selling at a discount.

But these practices carry personal risk that can impede the ability for these burgeoning businesses to thrive or survive. READ MORE AT BLOOMBERG QUINT

They've won seven Grammy Awards, sold millions of records, and have made more than 50 albums - yet many Americans may not have heard of Los Tigres del Norte.

But this all may be about to change as Los Tigres are due to kick off Spanish-language coverage of the Super Bowl.

The band is known for their norteño sound - a genre of Mexican music influenced by polka and waltz.

They are just one of the Latin acts due to perform at the sporting event, along with Jennifer Lopez and Shakira. READ MORE AT BBC NEWS

Google has built a 2,000-person strong team of what it calls “Inclusion Champions” over the last three years to help test out prototypes of new devices and services to ensure that everything the company releases, from the latest Pixel phone to the newest Assistant feature, is built from the ground up to address people of all shapes, sizes and colors. READ MORE AT ABC NEWS

The San Antonio Latino Dream Makers Fund is helping entrepreneurs who have an idea and passion launch small businesses by helping them gain access to capital.

LiftFund and Bank of America launched the revolving loan fund to help Hispanic entrepreneurs turn their dreams into dollars. READ MORE AT KSAT.COM

Many organizations have prioritized workplace equality and access to high-paying, executive level jobs for minority groups in recent years.

Several 2020 presidential candidates are putting forward plans to increase minority executive positions by diversifying corporate boards, punishing companies with poor diversity track records and increasing funding for minority-led business institutions. READ MORE AT KUT90.5

Understanding the Latino community as a profoundly heterogeneous group is no easy task, much less understanding its priorities when it comes to entertainment.

Often subject to stereotypes and clichés on the small and large screen, the avatar of the Latino consumer has often slipped through the fingers of producers and marketers for decades. READ MORE AT BELATINA

As the topic of diversity and inclusion has gained ever greater importance in the business world, Forbes not only added this vertical to its reporting coverage but, in 2018, partnered with market research firm Statista to create a list of the Best Employers for Diversity. This year marks the third annual list.

The ranking was compiled by surveying 60,000 Americans working for businesses with at least 1,000 employees, and it features some notable shakeups: Google fell more than 150 spots amid the sexual misconduct woes besetting its leadership team and IBM, which has been battling age discrimination lawsuits, also took a dip, dropping from No. 217 to No. 237. READ MORE AT FORBES

The start of the new year is a natural time to resolve to do better and be better! Everyone knows that a major success factor for virtually any professional is the breadth and depth of their professional network, but too often we’re passive and expect our network to somehow strengthen on its own with minimal effort on our part. READ MORE AT FORBES

Latinos are taking the lead in small business start-ups, according to a new report from Congressional Joint Economic Committee Vice Chair New York City Democratic Representative Carolyn Maloney and Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Texas Representative Joaquin Castro.

“The rate of new entrepreneurs in 2017 was much higher for Latinos than for any other racial group—Latinos are 1.7 times more likely to start businesses,” the study notes.

Perhaps helping in that growth, Latino college attainment rates nearly doubled in last two decades. READ MORE AT FORBES

The beginning of the year marks the beginning of a journey toward improvement and trying new things. These 10 Latina-owned shops showcase different products that’ll make the start of 2020 make you feel like a diosa who got it together.

The Latinx community has a $1.7 trillion buying power in the U.S. and here’s an opportunity to support Latina-owned businesses while treating yo’self! READ MORE AT HIPLATINA

The biggest tech companies started publishing diversity and inclusion reports about 6 years ago, but the last few years have shown some stubborn patterns.

At Google and Microsoft, for example, the percentage of black and Hispanic workers didn’t even increase by a percentage point between 2014 and 2019.

Here’s a look at how diversity at a few big companies lags behind national averages. READ MORE AT THE HUSTLE

The job search process can be competitive. But there’s one thing that can help you stand out from the crowd: your personal brand.

Your personal brand is a way to market yourself. It defines how you present and promote yourself to others. This is the message that helps potential employers and colleagues form their impression of you, and helps them remember who you are. READ MORE AT UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER