Archive for the ‘School, Training, Courses, Testing’ Category

Personal development: what makes sense?

Posted on April 20th, 2010 by by carl

How can personal development, training courses, etc improve your career? In my experience, very rarely will a hiring manager hire someone just because they have trained on a certain technology or because they hold a certain certification. Certainly if the course or certification is a rare one, that might help your chances but typically hiring [...]

How much is that degree worth?

Posted on April 8th, 2010 by by carl

I was checking out a company’s website today and came across the management section where it profiles the senior managers who work there. I was reading over their bios and was checking out each person’s education to see what schooling they had. I came across one profile that mentioned that the manager held a degree [...]

Learning how to follow instructions

Posted on April 1st, 2010 by by carl

Since it’s April Fools Day today, I thought I’d mention an interesting lesson I learned from a teacher way back at the end of grade 6. Fortunately I wasn’t the only one who learned the lesson that day and even more fortunate that the joke that was played on us didn’t cost us anything but [...]