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Are We Experiencing A Technology Tsunami?

Rich Gee Group

Some examples: I never load software anymore – in fact I don’t even use my CD/DVD player. Engineering, design, materials, and service just got better. As moving parts disappear (CD’s, Software, Wires, Hard Drives) do the systems, personnel, costs, support and focus also decline? Can Change Your Thinking.

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Effective Online Communication

Coaching Tip

Back in October 1971, an engineer (who I knew when we both went to a small high school in Upstate New York during the late 1950s) named Ray Tomlinson chose the '@' symbol for email addresses and wrote software to send the first network email. .

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The Complex Conundrum of Using ChatGPT at Work

HR Digest

The use of AI tools at work can be harmless when it’s company-enforced and there is updated software that is highly secure and protects the company data. The unrestricted use of ChatGPT at work, however, can bring about a lot of ethical and safety concerns along with unexpected legal concerns for the company.

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3 Emerging Alternatives to Traditional Hiring Methods

Harvard Business Review

For example, the skills and knowledge required to be a good neurosurgeon are quite different from those needed to be a good lawyer, banker, or software engineer.) These three dimensions of employability and career success have strong links with broad psychological traits. The what question is in part context-dependent.

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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business Review

We said that we were looking for hard-working individuals with a high school diploma, whom we could train on all the hard skills necessary to become a software engineer and then hire as paid apprentices. We selected 15 people from that group who demonstrated strong work ethic, grit, and excitement for the program.

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Is It Cheating to Have a Side Project?

Harvard Business Review

You should be spending at least 1,000 hours a year--that's about six hours a week; about an hour a day — preparing for a new career (Just in case that your industry goes the way of publishing, pay phones, photo finishing and the like and either disappears or radically changes to the point where there is no room for you.).

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.