TechRepublic Resources
- The view from the management side
- I have been asked on occasion "what is the worst thing about being a CIO or Director?" My answer is that there is no one "worst thing" and for the most part, at least for me, there are more good days than bad days. But there has been...
- Tags: Ladder, Organization, Professional Development, Tools & Techniques, Leadership, Career, Management, Ramon Padilla
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- TR Out Loud - May 9, 2008
- If you haven't gotten wind of the most recent news, you won't want to miss this episode of TR Out Loud. Sure, you'll still hear all the staples, as well -- top five discussions, sweet biscuits, ShhhIT list, and Question of the Week -- at least for the next week....
- Tags: Professional Development, Help Desk, Podcasts, Call Centers, Career, It Operations, Internet, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Job loss scare brings out the suck-ups
- As I've mentioned before, I worked alongside several other middle managers at a former company. We were generally cooperative with each other, armed with the knowledge that we all had the same goal -- to make the company successful. And we were successful. About five years into...
- Tags: Job, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Team Management, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- 10 ways to develop customer self-sufficiency
- Helping your customers become more technically capable frees you up to spend more time giving them higher-value services -- which could ultimately benefit your career. Calvin Sun offers some advice for helping your customers become a bit more self-reliant.This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things...
- Tags: Customer, Calvin Sun, Professional Development, Blogging, Benefits, Career, Internet, Human Resources
- Download resources 2008-05-14
- CBS acquires CNET Networks
- As Larry Dignan said in his blog this morning over on our sister site ZDNet: "Nothing like scanning the headlines and finding out your parent company has been acquired." Our parent company, CNET Networks, was just acquired by CBS. I don't...
- Tags: CNET Networks Inc., CBS Broadcasting Inc., Professional Development, Food & Beverage, Blogging, Career, Manufacturing, Internet, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Video: Five signs you aren't cut out to be a CIO
- Welcome to the first episode of TechRepublic's new weekly video show, Sanity Savers for IT Executives. This show will provide actionable tips for CIOs, IT directors, and other senior IT leaders to help them become more effective leaders, make good technology decisions, align IT and business goals, and better manage...
- Tags: Information Technology, Video, Chief Information Officer, Professional Development, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Career, Management, Marketing, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- An emerging career no one knows about
- I was reading a piece on Yahoo's Education today that talked about some new career paths that no one's ever heard of. While most were not directly connected to technology, one was: Nursing Informatics. The article pointed out that, ironically, hospitals are way behind...
- Tags: Patient, Health Care, Professional Development, Healthcare, Career, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- 8 tips for creating your personal brand
- Remember back in the old days when deciding what color paper to put your resume on was the one of the most challenging tasks in your job search? The good news is that there are now 4,126 zillion new tools for getting the word out on your...
- Tags: Job, Brand, LinkedIn, Web Site, Gunn, Professional Development, Public Relations, Web Site Development, Recruitment & Selection, Career, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Interview with technology and science writer Annalee Newitz
- TechRepublic Out Loud has been a wonderful platform to highlight the TR community and happenings on the site. I'd now like to branch out a bit and include information and interviews with some uber cool people who are also involved in IT. They might not be members of TechRepublic yet,...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Technology, Annalee Newitz, Nanotechnology, Podcasts, Wiki, Professional Development, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Online Communications, Career, Management, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Getting fired can be OK
- Many of my clients came to me because they were in danger of getting "taken out." Some came directly, paying for a coach themselves. In other situations, a company who wanted a coach to help save one of their teams retained me. In most cases, if the...
- Tags: Job, Severance Package, Recruitment & Selection, Professional Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Career, John McKee
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Is there no career opportunity for the Help Desk pro?
- In a piece published today on Computerworld, Thomas Hoffman writes that people look at the career opportunities for Help Desk pros two ways: One, that the Help Desk is a dead-end job and two, that it is a perfect opportunity to see how a company works and flex your people...
- Tags: Help Desk, Call Centers, Professional Development, It Operations, Career, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Gender Issues in the Career Development of IT Professionals: A Global Perspective
- Each period of technological change carries with it high expectations of societal and organizational restructuring that will favour the disadvantaged. The same is true for the Information and Communication Technologies. The fast expansion of the IT labour market, the need for diverse talents, the shift in the demand from technical...
- Tags: Career Development, Women, Information Technology, Gender And Diversity, Professional Development, Strategy, Human Resources, Career, Management
- White papers
- Job Corps - Successful Career Preparation
- Job Corps is a program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that provides no-cost educational and vocational training to young people with a goal to prepare students for a successful career. One of the instructors of Collbron Job Corps was assigned to research programs that were more progressive than...
- Tags: Job, U.S. Department Of Labor, Cisco Systems Inc., Job Corps, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies
- A Vision for Success One Student at a Time: A Case Study
- In partnership with HP, the Vancouver School District in Washington State has developed a vision for a digitally connected community that supports families. This partnership is utilizing technology to bring people and resources together in ways that foster lifelong learning and personal growth in a safe, healthy environment. Core components...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Vision, Business Structures, Professional Development, Strategy, Finance, Career, Management
- Case studies
- HP ProCurve Networking Case Study: Tampa Bay Workforce Alliance
- Serving Florida's Tampa/Hillsborough County area, the Tampa Bay Workforce Alliance TBWA works in conjunction with state government, businesses, educational institutions and the community to develop and maintain a quality workforce to meet the continually evolving needs of the county while enhancing economic development. While career centers provide valuable services to...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP ProCurve, Workforce, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Utility Computing, Career, Human Resources
- Case studies
- Contributions of CTSOs: Policy Makers and CTSO Student Views
- This webcast highlights the experiences of the national student leaders with their organizations and shows how students' organizations contribute to improving high schools, the preparation of a world-class workforce through the advancement of leadership, citizenship, academic, and technological skills as well as inform the public about future opportunities available to...
- Tags: Organization, Professional Development, Leadership, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Digital Media, Career, Management, Human Resources, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- Office for National Statistics' Centralized HR Management Enables Progressive People Strategy
- The United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics needed to streamline its core HR and training processes to provide a centralized framework for its progressive multi-tiered people strategy modernization program, enable employee data self-management and introduce more cost-effective and efficient recruitment, learning and career management processes. IBM Business Consulting Services oversaw...
- Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Office, HRM, Training, IBM Corp., Workforce Management, Professional Development, Human Resources, Career
- Case studies
- Preparing America's Future: The High School Initiative and Career and Technical Education
- This webcast gives an overview of the department's high school initiative called Preparing America's future. The Preparing America's Future initiative was launched in October 2003 at the first national high school leadership summit. The purpose of the initiative is to encourage leaders at both state and local levels and at...
- Tags: Education, Initiative, High School, Preparing America, Professional Development, Leadership, Career, Management
- Webcasts
- Clarifying the Goals for Career and Technical Education
- An increasing body of research links investment in education with increases in labor productivity. Investments in primary, secondary, and postsecondary education result in positive returns to the individual and to the community. This webcast clarifies the goals for career and technical education.
- Tags: Education, Professional Development, Career
- Webcasts
- Balgar Jagpal: The Art of professional development
- When Balgar Jagpal went to college, his dual passions were art and computers. He studied both with the idea that he would pursue those interests by going into the field of computer-generated art. Then something happened. The more he explored the world of computer, the more he became interested in...
- Tags: Professional Development, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Productivity
- Case studies
