Do you really exist? Will anyone remember you 100 years from now? I am reminded of this question based on my wife’s effort in reviewing our family tree last week. We purchased one of the family tree programs several years ago and she really worked hard to try to understand our roots. Unfortunately, my side of the family ends in South Georgia about 5 generations ago. This makes sense since record keeping wasn't a high priority during those days and especially for the rural south. On the ...
Well, it's that time of the year again when we are asked to update our performance documents for the first quarter. It's also the time I try to update my other career management documents. Like most people, this includes the classic two page resume. For the majority of my career, this was the manifesto for reviewing my progress. Then, two events changed my perspective and changed how I look at this difficult subject. The first was simply going to back to school with a bunch of academic f ...
Well, I have been working on this Visual Resume for about a month now. Each time I think I am done, I get a new idea and a new version is created. Here is the latest version which I really like how it look from an information perspective as well as a visual perspective.
One question that might be asked is why create a visual resume when you are not a graphic artist? For me the answer is that it forces you to look at your ...
This past weekend, many of us got a chance to watch the Masters (Ok, my last Golf related post for the week). Personally, I enjoy the Masters more for the course than I do for the golfers, per se. The 13th and 15th holes at Augusta National are a couple of the greatest risk reward holes in golf. Four things must happen in order to take advantage of the opportunity. First, you have to be prepared or talented enough to get into the Masters. This is no small feat and most golfers would trad ...
When you think of business ethics, what comes to mind? For me, I think of whistle blowing at Enron, insider trading, and corporate espionage; cloak and dagger type stuff. However, business ethics can also come with the little things that we do or don't do. At any given point in time, organizations may have hundreds of job openings in the growing areas of the business. Several members of our senior leadership have spoken about moving folks to the growth areas while reducing staff in the le ...
I wanted to enhance the Visual Resume with a couple new items. The first is
an expansion for the Industry knowledge which is located in the middle and on
the left. Here you can see my expands both in depth and breath depending on the
number of years. The other is a calculation for Return on Resource Investment.
Here I take into a ...
I decided to update my Visual Resume and many others have in order to provide a more artistic view of my professional history. On the top is a tag cloud that list my experience, technical skills, research interests, and knowledge areas. The bottom section provides a historical view of my employment, education, publication, and other trademark components.< ...
