Per Paula Olson, webmaster and content creator of http://www.sampleresume.net:
I have been running this website for the past 5 years. Compiling a resume is such a crucial aspect to finding a job. To make this process easier my site offers professionally written sample resumes and free expert resume advice for college students and job seekers. Apart from the thousands of professionally written sample resumes the site also has a good collection of Job and Resume articles.
Six Hot Workplace Trends for 2011 from cio.com by Shane O’Neill
— information per William Lefavour
Inside Career Info is a searchable collection of hundreds of candid career reports written by “insiders”, successful professionals who are actually doing the job. Each of the 600 reports on the site contains:
We’ve been gathering these career reports over the past year through fund-raising programs with a variety of non-profit organizations, such as parent-teacher organizations. We are continuing to add to our collection to expand the richness and breadth of our coverage.
All of the reports are available at no cost and with no registrations.
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— from BizDean’s Talk
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Booz & Company’s hypothesis:
Companies that can craft a tightly focused set of innovation capabilities in line with their particular innovation strategy —and then align them with other enterprise-wide capabilities and their overall business strategy — will get a better return on the resources they invest in innovation.
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55 important technology terms you should know if you are starting a new job — from Diane Hamilton
— from mobl21.com
Three ways to use mobile devices in workplace learning — from the Upside Learning blog by Amit Garg
The anti-course: An instructional job aid — from Making Change by Cathy Moore
If you’re teaching a process or other practical action, consider creating an instructional job aid that helps learners apply the new process immediately to a real-world task. The mega job aid:
RWD in the News: ”The Learning Ecosystem” published in CLO Magazine’s December issue.
Excerpt from “The Learning Ecosystem” –by Mal Poulin
The learning ecosystem consists of strategies, methods, processes and tools to enable learning in every aspect of the business OJ; operation. The goal is to yield front-line performance improvements that result in customers who notice and come back for more products and services. Within all effective learning, look to employee behavior for noticeable measures of success:
• Colleagues want to be designated as subject-matter experts and embrace the responsibilities that go along with that designation.
• Learners and front-line performers clamor for the ability to learn and support their own performance.
• Employees head to the collaborative platform as a new watering hole for knowledge and support.
There is no single design for the ideal learning ecosystem. Its architecture is driven by what experts and performers will adopt best and by other factors, including the physical infrastructure deployed: network, real estate, hardware, software and learning assets that are contextual, accessible and measureable. Every learning ecosystem is supported by tools and technologies, but support for tools and technologies requires an effective strategy, a strong and lasting plan for learning and spreading business knowledge. Remember, it is not about the software. It is about what you do with it.
Continued Dedication to Workplace Learning — from ASTD.org by Laleh Patel
Investment in learning and development remained steady through one of the most challenging business years in more than a decade.
Despite the uncertain economic conditions that recently plagued both the private and public sectors, the 2010 State of the Industry Report demonstrates a continued dedication to workplace learning and development in a variety of organizations worldwide. Although organizations made many changes in the past year to adapt to the economic environment, they continued their financial commitment to learning and development for their employees at levels nearly equal to or greater than those in past years.
This annual compendium provides data covering the strategic and operational activities against which organizations can benchmark their learning investments and practices. For 14 years, the State of the Industry Report has provided insightful, actionable information for learning executives and business leaders to use when making decisions about how to leverage and build their talent. The data in the current edition includes responses from users of the WLP Scorecard, ASTD Forum organizations, and the 2010 ASTD BEST Award winners.
Surface computers linked via internet allow for new ‘mixed-presence’ collaboration — from ZDNet.com By Chris Jablonski
Researchers at Purdue and the University of Manitoba (in Canada) have developed software that enables users to use tabletop-sized touch displays to analyze complex datasets interactively over the Internet for business and homeland security applications.
The team created a software framework called Hugin that allows for more than one display to connect and share the same space over the Internet. They describe it as a “novel layer-based graphical framework for mixed-presence synchronous collaborative visualization over digital tabletop displays.”
The large displays of surface computers like the one Microsoft introduced in 2007 already allow for multi-user collaboration, but until now, they haven’t been connected for over the internet for mixed-presence interaction.
