Every Cubicle Warrior needs a task management system to know what tasks are out there for completion. Task management is all about understanding your inventory of work, your prioritization of work, and your ability to understand the impact of new work coming into your task management queue. Having an effective task management system also gives… Continue Reading
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Poor job descriptions challenge Cubicle Warriors
When managing your career, there will come a day when you decide you need to change your position. Whether that decision is to stay with your company or to look for work at a different company, the first glimpse of a new position will be through the job description. There are a few good job… Continue Reading
Update: Zubed isn’t scary – it rocks
Back in July, I came across an article by Jim Stroud in The Recruiters Lounge about a recruiting tool called Zubed. I wrote about Zubed and how the technology was great – but scary. A quick review of Zubed Essentially, the tool allows a recruiter to have a position in Seattle to be filled, then… Continue Reading
Technology is Great; Technology Sucks
Yesterday was one of those great productivity days that got sucked into the technology Black Hole’s of life. I’ve had a few issues with Firefox 3.0 working correctly with the plugins and I chased down a few rabbit holes on that one. But then, the Internet connection went. Let me tell you, when the Internet… Continue Reading
To Stay or Leave – Your Company
This week I’m focusing attention on to stay or leave your employer. These articles present examination areas to help your decision. Yesterday, in To Stay or Leave – Your Industry, I covered how your company and personal industry can affect your decision. There are three more areas: Your Company Your Manager Your Personal Criteria I’m… Continue Reading
How’d You Score That Gig? — Interview with author Alexandra Levit
I’ve been a long-time admirer of Alexandra Levit through her blog, Water Cooler Wisdom. Alexandra previously published They Don’t Teach Corporate in College (ain’t that the truth…) and has now published another great book called How’d You Score That Gig? I have the great fortune of interviewing Alexandra about the book. Take a read… What’s… Continue Reading
Technology job shortages and rocket science
Business Week’s “The Great Tech Worker Divide” has an interesting look at the conundrum of technology workers here in the US not being able to find work while tech companies are continually complaining about not having enough skilled workers. The article correctly points out that the need in the US is for much more highly… Continue Reading
Five Reasons to Use Technology for Career Management
Over at Tough Questions, Great Answers, Darlene McDaniel has been working through a technology month where the blog posts have been about using technology for a variety of “getting the job” situations. Darlene asked me to guest post about a couple of tools that I use for Career Management: Jibber Jobber and LinkedIn. I’m not… Continue Reading
MindManager 7.0 Release Announced
Mindjet announced Monday that their next generation release of software will be available on May 30th. MindManager 7 comes in several flavors depending upon your needs: MindManager Pro 7, used for higher levels of integration with Microsoft Office products and team collaboration; MindManager 7 Mac for Macintosh users; and MindManager 7 Lite, targeted at home,… Continue Reading
A Bit of Halloween Fun
Hard to top this one: The all-time best practical joke a student shared made me laugh so hard I was almost crying. He said that a co-worker “tinkered with” the auto-correct feature in Microsoft Word on the computer of a technologically illiterate colleague. Every time this colleague would type the word “the” Microsoft would automatically… Continue Reading