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- Career blog shoebox
- This gallery is the photo shoebox for TechRepublic's Career blog. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/ by Toni Bowers
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Blog, Professional Development, Blogging, Internet, Toni Bowers, career, it management, it leadership, resume, certification, training
- Image galleries 2008-07-07
- Include an attachment field with your Access 2007 database
- With Access 2007's new attachment fields, you can attach most file types to your database records. For example, suppose you want to include each employee's resume document with his/her record in your Employees database. Follow these steps: Open the Employees database. ...
- Tags: Database, Microsoft Access, Resume, Microsoft Office, Databases, Storage, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware, Mary Ann Richardson
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- IT career: Moving into a higher-paying specialty
- If you decide to stick with IT for the long haul, in order to move up the corporate ladder and make more money, you might look at the management tract. Although management has been the fastest growing tech category for several years, according to a recent article in InformationWeek, you...
- Tags: toni bowers, resume, Career
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Money Magazine's 20 top jobs include three from IT
- CNNmoney.com released its top 20 jobs based on research provided by Money Magazine and Salary.com. Three of the jobs are IT-related. Here they are and why they rated "top job" status:Information Technology Generalist--According to the report, this position is "the gateway to more advanced IT jobs." It seemed strange to...
- Tags: toni bowers, resume, Career Development, Career
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- As yourself these tough questions in job search
- I found something other day called The Tough Questions Blog. The blog is geared toward, "Business owners, executives, entrepreneurs, and anyone who has anything at all to do with sales, marketing, customer service, or product development - no matter the size of the company."The blog's author, Adam Brucker, Founder and...
- Tags: toni bowers, resume, Job Candidates, Interviews, Career Development
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- How to get the most out of professional references
- If you list references from a former company in your resume, you can pretty much expect that all a prospective employer will get out of them is your name and years of employment. More and more companies are adopting a strict reference policy to protect themselves from legal action. These...
- Tags: Success, resume, References, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- Real-life resume blunders
- How bad of a mistake can you make on your resume? Here are some reallife examples from Dribbleglass.com: I am very detail-oreinted. My intensity and focus are at inordinately high levels, and my ability to complete projects on time is unspeakable. Thank you for your consideration. Hope to hear from you shorty! Enclosed is...
- Tags: resume, Job Candidates, Humor, Career Development
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Titles, Project Crash in Resume
- Working on my resume. For my current position, I have played programming analyst, systems, business analyst (ugh, just analyst), programmer and am maintaining the existing crap system. Oh and to make it more fun, the project has gone from a full rewrite to a 'refurbish' (definately not...
- Tags: duckboxxer, project management
- Discussion threads 2007-03-04
- Pause & Resume Macro
- Can I program a macro to pause and let me key in variable information and then continue playing the macro? For example, your next appointment is pause so you will need to bring your payment of pause. This will be due at the time of your arrival.The general...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Word processors, Microsoft Office
- Q&A 2006-08-24
- First Contract job and resume
- I have recently started my first contract job which is for a 3 month period. My question is this, how do you show contract jobs in a resume. I have only ever done my resume for full time positions.Ie. Worked, date to date. ...
- Tags: job, droolin, employment, resume, contractor, career
- Discussion threads 2006-05-11
- The job interview and the million dollar question..
- I'm currently in my final years of college for my associate degree in Technical Support.I'll graduate may '07. To date my resume is pretty solid, I've had the same job for about 6yrs at the local grocery store as a janitor, I have a technical support internship and I also...
- Tags: job, thomas_nuffan@..., resume, bad terms, stay face, career, Janitor
- Discussion threads 2006-04-10
- Unemployed for awhile. How do you handle a break in your resume?
- Unemployed for awhile. How do you handle a break in your resume?I have been unemployed for a couple of years. When I submit my resume, several recruiters dont want to talk to me because of the break. I had two offers withdrawn during this time period, one due to budget...
- Tags: job, balloonchaser, career, resume, unemployment, recruiter
- Discussion threads 2006-04-05
- Nineteen words that don't belong in your resume
- Very usefulThis info is particularly useful as I update my resume every 6 months. I've already replaced the words "synergy" and "assisted". Thanks for the tips.Wise AdviceI'm polishing up my resume as I'm about to graduate college. It is so hard to try to truncate 20 years of experience...
- Tags: telephone
- Discussion threads 2006-03-13
- 10 things you should know about creating a resume for a high-level IT position
- 10 things you should know about creating a resume for a high-level IT positionarticle rootFinallyI can't tell you how many inappropriate, albeit well-intentioned, tips and pieces of advice about my resume. I haven't found anything really appropriate yet. But this speaks to me.I'll second that!This is exactly what I've needed...
- Tags: job, iamnorthwind@..., career, it, jobs, resume, information technology
- Discussion threads 2006-03-09
- A better VNC with FreeNX for remote desktop control
- windows client to freenx server brokenfor several months now resuming a connection between a windows nomachine client and linux freenx server is broken and the issue ignored or even denied on the freenx mailing list the only available mailing list as nomachine closed their mailing list some months back.the initial...
- Tags: desktop, FreeNX, hardware, Linux, nomachine, nx, remote desktop, resume, server, session, undefined, VNC, window
- Discussion threads 2006-01-10
- DOWNLOAD: Use this checklist to verify job skills and resume claims
- http://techrepublic.com.com/5138-10878_11-730082.htmlAfter you take a look at this download, please post your feedback, ideas for improvements, or further thoughts on this topic.Thanks,--The TechRepublic Content TeamJob skills and ResumeYou have to be sure it is HR that is performing the checks and balances in verifying education and calling on previous and/or current...
- Tags: job, Human Resources, it management, resume, interview, hiring, JodyGilbert
- Discussion threads 2005-12-05
- DOWNLOAD: 5 tactics to help ensure that the best resumes land on your desk
- http://techrepublic.com.com/5138-10878-5895794.htmlAfter you take a look at this download, please post your feedback, ideas for improvements, or further thoughts on this topic.Thanks,--The TechRepublic Downloads Teamnot badIt's a step in the right direction.Frankly, I'm of the opinion that HR shouldn't be empowered to do much of anything other than disqualify candidates who...
- Tags: job, applicant, Human Resources, it management, resume, hiring, JodyGilbert
- Discussion threads 2005-10-17
- DOWNLOAD: 10 things: Creating a resume for a high-level IT job
- http://techrepublic.com.com/5138-1035-5874203.htmlAfter you take a look at this download, please post your feedback, ideas for improvements, or further thoughts on this topic.Thanks,--The TechRepublic Downloads Teamhmmpage requested cannot be found error.Quantify major accomplishments, et al.This is the biggest problem is resume prep that I see.Most of us have just had assinments that...
- Tags: job, JodyGilbert, career, resume, 10 things, information technology
- Discussion threads 2005-09-20
- Successful job hunts combine old and new techniques
- 48 months later...The original post was indeed relevant in 2003, however time has moved on and the IT job market is starting to make a good recovery.Continuing on the theme of job hunting and new techniques please visit us at http://www.itzoom.com (self-marketing email for IT Professionals) and see how you...
- Tags: career, cv, email, information technology, job, mike@..., networking, professional, resume, technique
- Discussion threads 2005-09-05
- Resume for own business
- My primary day time positions have been with established organizations. After work, weekends, holidays and time off from my primary job I own a part time business, building computers, adding software, designing spreadsheets and databases. How do I list this in a resume?Some suggestionsWhere you place your part-time...
- Tags: name holdout
- Discussion threads 2005-08-29
