career development
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Making a Personal Pivot Companies sometimes make changes in organizational direction to improve their futures. Individuals can also make changes in direction―personal pivots. And like companies, individuals who cannot pivot can become stagnant, neither growing nor dying. Read on for more about some changes you could make. |
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Can Womens' Diversity Be Found via Exclusion or Inclusion? Conferences and training programs that focus solely on women are on the rise. Although all of this focus on women's diversity is a way to enable them to step up and obtain better prospects, it leaves us to question whether the diversity lies in their exclusion or inclusion as a group. |
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The Benefits of Public Speaking for Testers If you're a tester and you've been avoiding public speaking opportunities because you don't think it applies to your work, you don't know what you would talk about, or you're just nervous to present in front of people, you should change your mind. Public speaking has several benefits for testers. |
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The Keys to Improving Employee Morale You can have the most talented, experienced team of tech professionals all under one roof, but if they don’t have high morale, success will be hard to reach. That’s why a group like Plasticity Labs—which uses data analytics to gauge workplace morale—can even exist. |
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How to Be Successful at Work—and Everywhere Else It would be wonderful if success at work were as easy as following five simple steps, like you may be led to believe from many article titles. Still, an occasional glance at advice about how to be successful is worthwhile. Read on for attributes and practices that can help you down the right path. |
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The Value of “What’s Unique about” Questions in Information Gathering A highly effective angle for drawing useful information from customers is the “What’s unique about…?” question. What’s unique about this problem? What’s unique about your current process? What’s unique about your company? You're likely to get a deeper understanding of what your customer wants. |
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Applying Emotional Intelligence to Your Testing Is software testing an emotional activity? Think about the range of emotions we feel when undertaking our role. What emotional intelligence tries to teach us is how to identify and respond to these emotions in the most productive way possible. Read on to learn how to use emotional intelligence. |
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Does Experience Really Matter? Two of the most high-profile executive appointments recently were Satya Nadella as CEO of Microsoft and Vishal Sikka as CEO of Infosys. Both organizations put their trust in first-time CEOs, which leads us to question: Does experience really matter in today’s business world? |
