I’ve been catching up with my podcast backlog over the last couple of days, and that includes the latest series on Career Tools on dealing with the angry and demeaning boss. One of the interesting things that struck me was how much the current state of the economy, especially in the legal sector, seems to…
Douglas Welch is planning an online version of the UnConference, calling it CareerCamp: What is CareerCamp Online? CareerCamp Online is an unconference in the style of BarCamp, PodCamp and other “camp-like” unconferences. All attendees are highly encouraged to also give a presentation and, at the very least, participate in the conversation. CareerCamp Online seeks to…
I recently finished reading Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers and it has been sparking a few thoughts that I want to turn into blog posts. The first one I’ve already written elsewhere, but this one is a perfect fit for this blog, because I’ve often talked about burnout as it relates to helpdesk work, and some of…
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…