Over the years I’ve worked with technology, I’ve listened to many, many complaints about the technological tools that folks are using in their work. Everything from poor interfaces, slow response times, and various limitations of the tools. One of the more interesting ones I’ve seen though, are the folks who get bad data from a…
As someone who works as non-attorney staff, I found this article really interesting, and probably much closer to the truth than I might want to admit. Legal Secretaries Find Door to Advancement Shut Now, to be fair, I’ve seen this sort of thing play out at places outside of law firms as well. You have…
I had a random thought today while I was processing some e-discovery documents. I stumbled upon a resume, and noticed that the author name didn’t match the name on the resume. That got me thinking. Now, certainly there are plenty of reasons why the author name would not match the name on the resume, things…
This holiday weekend has been a little eye-opening for me in terms of how networking works. As I mentioned when I presented at Ignite a few weeks ago, you want to grow a network because asking people you don’t really know to help you can be awkward, at best. Far better to have a network…
The guys who do the Manager Tools Podcast, which I have loved and learned so much from even though I’m not a Manager, are starting up a new podcast on Dec 4, Career Tools. Like Manager Tools, it will be a weekly FREE podcast addressing your Career: development, search, interviewing, networking, recruiting, promotions, layoffs, etc….
So, after working onsite at a day long seminar, and watching numerous people give presentations, I have some thoughts naturally. 🙂 If you are presenting using a lapel microphone, let’s try and put that sucker in the middle of your jacket, or even on your tie guys, ok? If you put it on the outside…