"Cymer, the world's leading supplier of excimer light sources, delivers the deep ultraviolet (DUV) photolithography sources that are essential to today's semiconductor marketplace. Known for its highly narrowed bandwidths, higher processing speeds, and reliability, Cymer light sources are key in enabling technology which has allowed the semiconductor industry to meet the exact specifications and manufacturing requirements for volume production of today's most advanced semiconductor chips.

Designed to be highly reliable and compatible with existing semiconductor manufacturing processes, Cymer light sources enable the required resolution, depth of focus, and critical dimension control required to image semiconductor circuits."

• Are you listening or are you thinking? Often, when we think we are listening to the other person, we are really listening to ourselves, rehearsing the argument we are going to use to refute them or jumping to a conclusion off the first point our colleague made. Rule No. 1 for listening: Muzzle the internal debater until the speaker stops talking.
  
• Do you stop what you are doing while the person is talking? Sure, you can do two things at one time -- but you use only half your mind for each. Give the speaker your whole mind (not to mention your courtesy) and you will double what you retain.
  
• Do you listen for what isn't being said? A person's words tell only half the story. The other half comes through body language, eye contact, facial expression and tone of voice. Get in the habit of reading these and you will learn as much about what the person isn't saying as about what he is.
  
• Do you confirm that you have heard correctly? Restate what you hear the person say. This has three benefits: It shows him or her that you are listening, gives the person a chance to correct misunderstandings and reinforces the person's points in your mind. But don't parrot your colleague's words exactly; rephrase them as your own.
  
• Do you respond in a way that shows you heard the message? Another way to both show you are listening and reinforce your grasp of the material is to ask an insightful question. If your boss says, "Get out a memo on this by Wednesday," and you take a moment to think then come back with, "Wednesday morning is the annual meeting and the department will be distracted. Perhaps Thursday would be better," you will show that you not only listened, but also absorbed and analyzed the information.
  

"How do people find out about jobs? Are relatives, close friends, acquaintances, employment agencies, or newspaper advertisements the most useful sources about jobs? Mark Granovetter, a sociology graduate student, tried to answer this question in his Ph.D research. He interviewed about 100 and sent questionnaires to about 200 people in the Boston area who had changed jobs or recently been employed. All of these were what he called "professional, technical, or managerial" workers; they were not blue collar workers.

Granovetter was interested in how his respondents found out about their current jobs. Economists like to assume that buyers and sellers in the marketplace, including the marketplace for labor, have "perfect information." This means that all workers know about all the job possibilities for which they are qualified. Such a model might be not too unreasonable if most workers found their jobs through advertisements or through employment agencies. However, Granovetter found that more than half found out about the job opening that lead to their current employment through personal contacts; they knew someone who knew about the job opening. Specifically, 56% found their current job through personnel contacts, only 19% through advertisements or employment agencies, and 19% through direct application to the firm that hired them (the remaining 7% used other methods or did not answer the question)."