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Competing in the IT Job Market
Competing in the IT Job Market – Ten Best Practices for Technical ResumesPublished: The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN), March 2009
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What's Your Story?
Creating Powerful Stories That Get Results
Published: The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN) and WITI, June 2010
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Getting Back on a Technical Track
Practical tips to showcase your career development accomplishments.
Published: The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN), March 2010
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Do More Than Personalize Your Resume, Humanize It
Advice for creating a resume that accurately portrays your skills, experience, interests and personality.Published: The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN), June 2009
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LinkedIn or LinkedOut: Creating Powerful Profiles for Technology Professionals
Explains how the job seeker’s world has changed and why traditional approaches to sending out resumes and networking have lost their impact.Published: The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN), December 2008
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The Role of a Good Business Analyst
Confusion in the meanings of business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) carries over to job titles. To create the perception of importance, BI or data warehousing is often included in a job title without regard to the actual job role. Nowhere is this more evident than the role of a business analyst.Read complete article ›
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From Manualytics to Analytics
Written by Dave WellsManualytics? I guess it means analytics the hard way. The term (and the inspiration for this article) comes from my coworker and friend Jennifer Hay. On completion of an especially labor-intensive job to provide me with a handful of statistics, she suggested that "we really have to find a better way than manualytics."
Published: The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI), July 2007. Republished August 2008
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Is BI Ready for Agile?
Written by Jennifer HayThe team that formed to define the Agile Manifesto (www.agilemanifesto.org/) did so with such intensity of purpose that they identified the core principles of agile software development in only two days. Using the methods that make agile work so well, participants talked, shared, discussed, and collaborated. That these entrepreneurial leaders became of common mind epitomizes their commitment to the whole being stronger than the sum of its individual parts.
Published: The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI)
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New Dimensions in Career Networking: Creating Your Visual Portfolio
By Jennifer HayA resume simply isn’t enough in a competitive job market. Getting your resume noticed is tough enough. Getting an interview is even harder. The internet offers networking opportunities – LinkedIn, Plaxo, etc. – but even they don’t seem to capture the attention that you need to get a foot in the door. So what does it take to get attention? In a highly visual, multi-media world, it makes sense that a visual portfolio of your abilities and accomplishments is at least part of the answer.
Published: The Data Resource Newsletter (tdan.com)
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