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How AI Data Analytics Will Transform Product Teams
As if you needed another transformation. If you’re looking for a little respite from the constant changes that have befallen our not-so-humble species, sorry to inform you that this is not going to happen anytime soon. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here and it's already turned half our world around – at least for digitalized businesses. That's not bad, but it takes some time to accept. For product teams whose lives are an endlessly iterative process, this shouldn't be a shock.
How Guestographics Increase Odds of Winning Backlinks
Backlinking is a tried and tested way of boosting your SEO rankings. However, if your regular guest post pitches aren’t getting much traction, you might want to switch things up and try your hand at guestographics. The guestographic method is a link-building technique that uses infographics in a new way. Entering into the world of link building might be daunting, as other brands might have gone far.
7 Steps to Future-Proof Your MSP Business and Stay Relevant
Businesses, big and small, operate with flexibility and speed that couldn’t have been imagined even a decade or two ago. The way businesses are built, scaled, and managed has transformed at a remarkable pace. Much of this change, from hybrid and remote work to instant support to next-day delivery, is powered by the goodness of ever-advancing technology.
Book Discussion: Implementing Onscreen Editing by Geoff Hart
Geoff Hart’s book, Implementing Onscreen Editing, is a companion to his previous release of Effective Onscreen Editing. The book could be a useful resource for editors and managers who are helping organizations move into non-paper-based editing processes, along with guidance for estimating work hours and the time it’ll take to manage resistance to change. Implementing Onscreen Editing is written in a more academic style, so it likely won’t be what you use as a quick-hit guidebook.
3 Tips for Speeding Up Your Design Process
The landscape of modern workplaces requires all employees to function as information workers, even those who started in wholly business or technical tracks. Markets are saturated with technology services and applications, so organizations work to stand out through their thought leadership, customer experiences, and professionalism. These requirements put the heavy lifting for design, writing, user experience, and social media on team members who lack the skills, the confidence, or both.
Get Your Best ROI from Conference Attendance as an Employer
photo credit: pixabay user freestocks-photos If you ask people what’s important to them in the workplace, you’ll get a variety of answers. If the workplace is toxic, they’ll say they just want to be respected (or left alone if they’re micromanaged). If the workplace is fine, but the work is dull and the position provides no growth, they’ll want an opportunity to learn and do more.
Free Resume Template Download for Consulting Projects and Career Highlights
I created this resume when I was up for consulting roles with a specific company and their clients. They wanted me to highlight my experience in a variety of industries, using modern technologies, and handling project types. These details were more important than a long list of all jobs I’d had. What’s different about this resume design from many is that one of the main sections focuses on short details related to specific clients and projects.
How PR Has Evolved: A Brief Timeline
The human race is wired for storytelling. There is evidence of this as far back as prehistoric times when men drew on cave walls and wrote in hieroglyphics on tombs. Humans feel the need to tell their stories and communicate with the public. The same is true for entrepreneurs or companies, though when they tell their stories for business purposes, it’s called public relations (PR). While PR has existed through the ages, it became a recognized strategy and profession early this century.
Meeting Minutes Template - Free Download
One simple way to manage your understanding of project tasks and timelines is to capture meeting minutes. A lot of companies don’t formalize notes as official meeting minutes these days, but it’s always good to keep records, put in your own words. A few years back, I’d published a template I’ve used many times to capture minutes during meetings at various organizations. I’ve also shared this template with team members. They’ve always appreciated an organized, cleanly designed format.
Modernizing Solutions for Technical Documentation Using the Cloud: Content Management in Paligo
Anyone familiar with the suites of technical communication and content management systems knows there are many available, and just as many that are outdated and old-fashioned. Years ago, Paligo (pronounced “puh lee go”), recognized the need to modernize the approach to technical documentation products.
Spring Cleaning for Your Career: Have 10, 20, or 30 Minutes to Spare?
Does the idea of spring cleaning and organizing make you want to hide under a rock until winter? Why not spruce up your resume or LinkedIn profile instead? Sometimes the career material update process is daunting—maybe you don’t know where to start, or you just lost a job and are in an urgent hurry to get another. So you’re not in an urgent job race, and if you have 10, 20, or 30 minutes to spare, here are some quick resume and social network updates you can do to spruce up your career materials.
Use Scope and Audience Analysis to Deliver Great Communications
You’ve probably run into this scenario when perusing a new, or even your favorite website: a headline piques your interest, but when you begin reading, the content wanders everywhere or nowhere, and you assign it a TL;DR (too long; didn’t read) in social media. If you fear the same thing will happen to your communications, when you plan your next project, start with the audience and scope—long before you start writing.
Business Communication Mistakes to Avoid if You Want to Be Employed
Communication is an integral part of success in the workplace. Sometimes words are taken out of context or they don’t fit the situation. Although some communication situations are challenging to navigate and interpret, there are just as many when you can obviously do the right thing and guarantee success. Start with accuracy and authenticity and you can’t go wrong! Spell names correctly When in doubt, just ask someone how to spell his or her name.
Applying Expert Tips to Your Job Interviews
Finding a job is rarely a simple process with minimal stress. From finding available positions that seem like a good fit, to creating a resume tailored to the requirements, and finally, interviewing, you have to do a lot to get the right job offer. Interviewing is a particularly challenging part of the process because it requires good communication skills with at least one other person who ultimately decides your fate at that time.
Looking to Make a Career Change? Why is is so Hard?
Looking to Make a Career Change? Why is is so Hard? If you’re like many people, you don’t like your job, but you worry about leaving it. Watch our video below to see some of the common reasons why people stay working in jobs they don’t like. Best of luck if you’re ready to find a new job. You can download our free templates if you need a starting point for a resume, cover letter, resignation letter, or interview slide deck! Related Tagged Changing Jobs
How to Finish Your Thesis and Earn that Degree
Have you pursued a degree beyond your bachelor’s, and you’re struggling to know when and how to write your thesis or report? It’s the final stop on the journey to earn the degree, so why is it so hard for so many of us to just get the thing done? Maybe it’s the pressures of working a new job after completing school, or a big move across the country, or just suffering from burnout, but many people struggle to know how to break up the writing, editing, and submitting process into manageable pieces.
Cover Letter Template Free Download - Centered Contact Info + Dotted Line Border
This cover letter template matches a resume template that you can also download for free from our CareerManager site. The top header bar is centered with your contact information. The format includes a dotted line as a simple design element to create a little visual interest without overwhelming the page. You can change the dotted line if you prefer a solid line (or no line).
Resume Template Free Download - Centered Contact Info + Dotted Line Border
The value of this design is a simple approach that helps you focus on the content, your unique accomplishments and skills that will help you stand out to get an interview, and ultimately an offer for employment. The dotted line and capitalized heading font create a small amount of visual interest, but don’t steal the show. This resume template is easy to customize if you’d like to change up fonts or colors.
Delivering Meaningful Performance Reviews as a Manager
If you’re a manager, you are likely responsible for managing performance reviews with your team members. The performance review process is often made stressful for the people being reviewed, but it can also create tension for the reviewer. Here are some tips for creating a successful performance review process for you and your team. One reason for employees’ stress about performance reviews is the fear that they’re going to get a poor review on an item that’s never been mentioned to them.
5 Ways to Simplify Resume Design and Updates
When you need a job, your resume must stand out from the crowd of competition so you can land interviews and secure work/roles. That doesn’t mean it should be flashy or fancy, but that it needs to look professional and cover information clearly. These five tips help you simplify your resume design work and make it easier to update in the future.
We All Want Full-Time, But Here's Why You Should Consider Other Roles
Over the years, we’ve seen a rise and fall in employment trends. Although online job postings and social networking connections afford new opportunities to engage about careers more than ever, the “always on” nature make it harder for any of us to stand out among the sea of applicants’ social profiles. A shift toward temporary employment opportunities also left many job seekers feeling uneasy about longevity and security, possibly even unemployed or underemployed.
Professional Profile Template Free Download - CareerManager Blog
I was recently asked to send a writer profile to an organization I do some freelance contract writing and eLearning development for so that they could send it over to a potential client to showcase some of my skills. The example document sent by the client was part-resume, part quick-hit highlight, so I needed to create something a little different. And I had to do it quickly because time is always of the essence when you’re trying to win contract work.
Cover Letter Template Free Download - Combination Format - CareerManager Blog
This cover letter template matches a resume template that you can also download for free from our CareerManager site. If you’re using the combination format for your resume, to either highlight specific skill areas or industries of expertise, this cover letter style will be effective. Your design elements will be consistent, and you can write your cover letter specifically around the skills and expertise you can offer to the organization to which you’re applying.
Resume Template Free Download - Combination Format - CareerManager Blog
Often, the combination resume format and the functional resume format are suggested for people who either have significant gaps they’d prefer not to explain during the interview process or for people transitioning from one career to another. Significant gaps happen for many reasons, including starting a family. And people in a transition between careers have many valuable qualifications, but might not be able to show direct experience in the field in which they’re applying.
Why Writing Well Matters (Even When You Give Away a Free Product) - CareerManager Blog
Many organizations and personal bloggers share free content that you can download from their websites if you’re willing to share some basic contact information. I like this model of content development and sharing. I often sign up with my email address and some information about my company, industry, and interests to download content. However, I’ve noticed that not all content is created equal. I imagine many people would say I shouldn’t complain if free content isn’t that good.
Memo Template Free Download - Revisit Discussion Points and Action Items - CareerManager Blog
Are you thinking that no one sends out memos anymore, or at least that they’re just so easy to create, why would you ever need a template for them? Well, I’ve found that a well-designed template can take a lot of the extra work out of crafting meaningful messages. If you’re sending a memo to managers and project team members, you want to deliver meaning, clarity, and persuasiveness.
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