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DevOps is all the rage right now. It is currently the most aggressively recruited job title on LinkedIn, according to a 2018 report. Every CIO, CTO and CEO I know is looking to deploy DevOps in their organizations, and every senior level developer and systems administrator is banging their head trying to properly understand their role in the process. After sifting through a ...

I have worked full-time for five different organizations in telecommunications, high-tech and academia over twenty-five years. The employee population in those organizations has ranged from 1500 to well over 50,000. No matter the firm, business unit, or team, it is the executive assistants and support personnel who are the real heroes, the unsung makers of order. They are th...

Building brand awareness and successfully interacting with consumers is a crucial part of doing business today. Customers enjoy and expect a personalized experience, and delivering just that will set you apart from your competition. Voice search and live videos were just two of the methods marketers explored to improve consumer interactions and brand awareness in 2018. As in...

The latest State of Marketing report has found the top priority and challenge for marketers today is one and the same: engaging with customers in real-time. It’s always been a challenge for marketers to get the right message, in front of the right person, at the right time. And that challenge remains the same today, but now that real-time engagement is a possibility, the def...

AI is the most important technology development of our lifetime, enabling systems to make autonomous decisions. AI monitors patterns in systems and human behaviour to create algorithms that provide solutions. We are in the transition generation where AI and automation will change the nature of work, play and the economy. The largest technology companies on the planet includi...

Speaking up is hard to do.   You see something ethically questionable. Notice someone not being included. Run up against offensive speech. Disagree with an opinion that’s all too quickly become consensus. Want to add a different idea to the decision-making process. While we’d all like to think that if we saw something, we’d say something in these situations, we are strikingl...

As entrepreneurs in the industry are aware, 2018 was a big year for innovation in tech. That trend is expected to continue in 2019. For entrepreneurs, this presents many opportunities — but also possible pitfalls. Yours may be the company that creates cutting-edge tech or is one of the earliest to implement it, vaulting you ahead of competitors. But not all new tech ends up ...

The past 10 years have seen a wave of innovative big data software designed to analyze, manipulate, and visualize data. Yet for the regular knowledge worker, Microsoft Excel, 30 years on, remains the go-to product for people looking to make sense of data. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, maintains that Excel is still the one Microsoft product that stands above the rest — and ...

In an age of digital communication, many may question whether you even need a cover letter anymore. Is it really important?  Link to article: https://hbr.org/2014/02/how-to-write-a-cover-letter

We’ve all been there: Overworked, rundown by our never-ending to-do list, wondering if that whole “work-life balance” thing is just a myth.  Find out the 20 best jobs that let you live your life. Link to article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahlee/2014/10/20/the-20-best-work-life-balance-jobs/#1bf8c24d2e32