Interview with Christine Lambden, Consulting Skills Trainer and Author Christine Lambden and Casey Conner recently spoke on Expanding Your Influence at the DOUG Professional Development Seminar. She is a popular speaker and has appeared on Fox News and NBC’s Today Show, and has been quoted in Kiplingers, Profit, and Consulting Magazine on the business of consulting. We […]
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Presentation by Steve Palmer, IT Recruiter with Babich & Associates First, let’s start by breaking the delusions surrounding resumes. Resumes are grossly overrated. The average resume gets read in 10 to 15 seconds and 100’s of resumes are routinely submitted for each posted position. A common mistake is to confuse productivity with activity. Instead of spending days agonizing over crafting
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Presentation by Anthony R. Reed, CPA, PMP Companies seeking to improve productivity usually divide their resources between focusing on building teams or individuals. How effective are team building events in the long run? Sometimes, they’re like drinking some high-powered energy drinks. You feel great for a short time period, followed by a hard crash. The team
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Presented by E.J. Demaree II, Professional Development Chair of DOUG Principle #1) Be honest! That should be principle number one in your job search. Obviously, you should not fudge on what you are good at. However, the other side of being honest is NOT downplaying your strengths. If you have written an article on PL/SQL,
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Based on a Presentation By Lewis Cunningham, Oracle ACE at JP Morgan Chase Teach your database to “tweet” its status updates to a private account.In my search for fun and exciting things to do with an Oracle database—call them “stupid database tricks”—I often find myself, in the deepest, darkest hours of the night, happily hacking
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