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Career Management As Personal Marketing And Business Development
White Papers This paper provides a comprehensive picture of valuable skills to develop as you move through your career, with the very important context of why you need them (from the "customer's" viewpoint), and an integrated understanding of how presentation...
[May 2, 2005, 0:00]
High Schools Adopt Adobe Software As Part Of The Web Tech Curriculum, A High-Caliber Curriculum That Meets Federal IT Career Cluster Standards
White Papers The initiative's goal is to create a national model and career cluster curricula framework for IT careers that involve the design, development, support, and management of hardware, software, multimedia, and systems integration.
[June 14, 2006, 0:00]
Most Techies Would Recommend IT Career To Offspring
News Three quarters of IT professionals would recommend an IT career to their children, a survey by careers website The IT Job Board has found. Bucking the current, gloomy economic outlook caused by the sub-prime lending crisis in the US, the majority...
[May 14, 2008, 12:33]
10 Things You Should Know About Developing Soft Skills To Advance Your IT Career
White Papers These pointers will help you focus on career-boosting soft skills, including communication, leadership, and relationship building. IT pros often have considerable technical training under their belts but lack experience in some key nontechnical areas.
[May 23, 2006, 0:00]
Microsoft Opens New PM Career Path
News There's a new IT career path at Microsoft Services for project management professionals, spelling potential for 150 new project management positions paying "in line with the industry," according to Christian Jensen, worldwide PMO program manager...
[March 13, 2003, 15:43]
Effective People Skills For The Project Manager: A Requirement For Project Success And Career Advancement
White Papers Importantly, people skills are also crucial for career advancement. This paper describes an innovative approach to articulating these people skills, which involve the abilities to: communicate effectively on interpersonal levels, develop and apply...
[January 30, 2007, 23:00]
Wage Penalties For Career Interruptions: An Empirical Analysis For West Germany
White Papers The aim of this paper is to shed light on the long-run wage effects of this variety of career breaks. As human capital accumulated on the job is one of the main determinants of an individual's wage rate, wages are likely to be affected by...
[May 25, 2005, 0:00]
The Educational, Social, And Economic Value Of Informed And Considered Career Decisions
White Papers For many workers, changing occupational structures are thrusting them into situations that require career decision making. Even among employed Americans, there is little doubt that they would better inform themselves about career options if they...
[June 24, 2005, 0:00]
Web Analytics: One Hot Career Path
News Lively, a political science major in college, began his career at a vitamin and drug manufacturer working with databases and managing sales and analysis. Web analytics are poised to become one of the hottest career trends of the next five to 10 years.
[July 4, 2001, 17:19]
SLATE Career Center Successes
White Papers Barisua Ernest (Ben) Nwidag came to the SLATE Career Center looking for help getting his feet back on the ground after arriving in the United States from his native country of Nigeria just three weeks earlier.
[June 23, 2006, 0:00]
Engineering A Career At The PC's Creation
News Did you start off thinking that would lead to a career as a physicist? So I was very definitely preparing myself for a career doing that. Thirty-five years ago, the technology industry began a slow but dramatic shift that ultimately would lead to...
[July 5, 2007, 17:07]
Job Corps - Successful Career Preparation
White Papers Department of Labor that provides no-cost educational and vocational training to young people with a goal to prepare students for a successful career. Job Corps is a program administered by the U.S. One of the instructors of Collbron Job Corps was...
[November 8, 2005, 23:00]
Burnt Out (or Laid Off)? Consider A Career Coach
News This article introduces you to one option: a professional career coach. Laura Young of Wellspring Associates states that her technical clients tend to arrive exhausted with burnout; they're often considering transitioning into a new career.
[May 3, 2002, 17:21]
Wheaton College Career Services Reaches More Students, Alumni At Less Cost With IBM Express Portfolio Solution
White Papers Despite its impressive ranking, the school's College Career Service Department was out of step with what today's Web-savvy college students expect - information on demand, 24 by 7, over the Internet. Career services department wanted a reliable...
[April 5, 2007, 0:00]
Is Contract Work A Good Career Move?
News Does the thought of chasing your team leader down the career path to retirement make you want to sob uncontrollably? Perhaps leaving your job to become a career IT contractor is just what the doctor ordered.
[May 8, 2002, 9:47]
Would I Advise Anyone On An IT Career?
Talkback When I joined the IT industry in the 70's it was the highest paid career (especially in sales). It's a good career still but not the best. Over the years it has become commoditised such that the guys who used to run TV repair shops now run local...
[September 10, 2007, 9:57]
Answers To Your Burning Career Questions
News Thus, the career outlook for .NET software professionals appears promising. Answer: Knowing .NET can boost your career I have a question about changing my career focus. My career has progressed from programmer (mostly mainframe work) through...
[June 18, 2002, 15:31]
Can A Foreign Assignment Help Your Career?
News I'll describe some of the advantages and disadvantages of working in another country to help you decide if it's a smart career move. It can be a career catapult, increasing your chances of promotion by as much as 100 percent, according to "expats...
[June 20, 2002, 9:59]
Getting To Know You: Rules Of Engagement For Political Appointees And Career Executives
White Papers This research examines key assumptions that federal political executives make about career staff and debunk myths that are inherent in those assumptions. First, the paper examines the mythology surrounding political appointees and careerists.
[December 27, 2004, 23:00]
Don't Talk Yourself Out Of A Great Career Opportunity
News I think my experience managing larger projects would be good for my career. I began my career with a Big Five systems integration firm. Question After a few years, I left to work as an independent and built a solid client base.
[July 19, 2002, 15:40]
