My favourite tool goes wherever I go. I keep it beside the bed, and it is the first thing I put in my suitcase or backpack. My favourite tool knows more about me than anything or anyone else. It carries…
Category: Ideas
My Favourite Tool
Posted in Balanced Life, Books, Business, Creativity, Ideas, Personal Thoughts, Uncategorized Tagged with: Tools
New Year is a Time to Have a Retrospective
New Year is a time to reflect on the passing year. If you are like me; you will have experienced many changes and challenges throughout 2019. I like to take time every January to reflect on the passing year and…
Posted in Goals, Ideas, Personal Learning and Growth, Personal Thoughts, Professional Development Tagged with: Change, Professional Development, Success, Tips
Personal Branding
I am not a marketing person, but I do believe in personal branding. How I display myself professionally in my networks is who I am. My personal branding is consistent throughout everything I do so that people have something to…
Have an Idea – Let Us Talk
Do you have an idea? Let us talk! Many people have ideas for a website, blog, forum or a new software to make their life and business processes better. Often times people do not know who to contact or how…
Microsoft MVC vrs WebForms – What do you prefer
I recently had a lively discussion with a colleague over what is better Microsoft MVC or WebForms. My friend had stated he liked MVC because it kept his code organized and clean. He also stated that he has seen many…
Posted in Design, Developement, Developer, Ideas, Personal Thoughts, Web Tagged with: Microsoft, MVC, WebForms
Development Team Relationships
This week I pushed out some old blogs outlining the relationships between senior and more junior developers. I did this because I thought it was very important to listen to each other. We can all learn from old and new…
Enhance Your Technology Career By Learning To Speak
Have you ever had a customer, co-worker or manager look at you as if you had two heads? When an IT Professional, speaks it is very important that who we speak to understands what we are saying. You cannot sell…
Posted in Employment Search, Goals, How To, Ideas, interview, IT, job interview, Job Search, Jobs, Leadership, Personal Learning and Growth, Personal Thoughts, Professional Development, self-improvement, Success, Team, Technology Tagged with: Career, Communication, Speaking
Clean Your Desk and Your Office To Stay Focused
A Clean Desk Is a Clear Mind. How can you be productive with a messy desk? Than answer is you cannot! A messy desk is a major distraction to you. A messy room is even more of a distraction. It…
Posted in How To, Ideas, Personal Learning and Growth, Personal Thoughts Tagged with: Achieving Goals, Being Great, Change, Experience, Professional Development, Tips
We Do Not Know You
I have encountered the phrase “We Do Not Know You” a few times during the job hunting process. Recently I interviewed with a company that used this phrase. I threw everything at them including LinkedIn Recommendations, Contacts, Resume, Cover Letter,…
Posted in Employment Search, entrepreneurship, Ideas, interview, Job Search, Personal Thoughts, Success Tagged with: contract work, extra money, job hunting, search strategy
