Shutterstock Many people invest hours into creating the perfect LinkedIn profile. They tediously list every award they’ve won and scour thethesaurus looking to find the right verb to describe their work experience. Yet, many of those same people spend little time thinking about their profile picture. Maybe it’s a cool candid photo someone took with a smartphone. Or maybe, it’s a professional head shot that was takenin a studio for another job.

Employees stand outside the new Amazon Go grocery store in Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016. Amazon.com Inc. unveiled technology that will let shoppers grab groceries without having to scan and pay for them — in one stroke eliminating the checkout line. Photographer: David Ryder/Bloomberg There’s nothing wrong with profit or efficiency. If you’re in business, you probably have multiple reasons, but profit is a big one. Profit is how you pay yourself.

Shutterstock Now that we have more or less adjusted to life in the new millennium, we are beginning to see our institutionsthrough new eyes. We see how the Godzilla edifice of hierarchy, rules and control mechanisms in place in nearly every medium-sized and large employer has hurt working people and customers alike. Smart businesses are nimble and responsive — everything a bureaucracy-choked organization cannot be. Smart organizations prize and praise their team members.

Shutterstock You are likely to be asked the question “What do you know about our company?” on a job interview before long if you haven’t heard it already. Unlike some of the pointless and insulting questions on the traditional interview script (“What’s your greatest weakness?” e.g.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos walks onstage for the launch of the new Amazon Fire Phone, in Seattle. (AP/Ted S. Warren) Amazon.com has been tiptoeing into the world of brick-and-mortar retailing for some time now. There have been small outposts at colleges and a few beautifully designed bookstores have been popping up in cities with rumors for several hundred more.

If you work full time, you spend at least one-third of your waking hours at your job. So feeling fulfilled in your role is critical.Yesterday careers website CareerBliss released its seventh annual list of the companies with the happiest employees. On CareerBliss, workers submit reviews of their employers.

Shutterstock Dear Liz, I value your advice very highly. I am at a crossroads. I’ve been in my job for four years but it feels like much longer. I was happy to get a “stable” job because until I got this job I was stuck in menial positions. Finally I got a chance to do something responsible here and it’s been great to stretch myself. I work for an international consulting firm. Watch on Forbes: I have a ton of responsibility.

There are so many things that can kill the careers of good, hard-working people. Honest mistakes often carry hard-hitting consequences. Most people kill their careers in subtle, decidedly undramatic ways. And it’s a shame because it happens all the time.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are two very hot buzzwords right now, and often seem to be used interchangeably. They are not quite the same thing, but the perception that they are can sometimes lead to some confusion. So I thought it would be worth writing a piece to explain the difference. Both terms crop up very frequently when the topic is Big Data, analytics, and the broader waves of technological change which are sweeping through our world.

Dear Liz, I read your columns avidly and I agree with almost everything you write, but we part ways when it comes to job-seekers who have been terminated from a past job. You advise people to withhold the fact that they’ve been fired and to make it sound like they left their last job on their own. How can you advise people to be so unprofessional? If someone got fired from a job, they need to say so and they need to explain it.