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The Death of the Technical Author? l, Internet chat, and cell phones everywhere. Still, the quality of our communication seems to be diminishing we write feweTechnical Authors do not have high prominence in the workplace, and they don't have the best of images (as can be seen by the movie "The Technical Writer"). Today, there are a number of Technical Authors struggling to find new employment in the current IT sector, and one can find messages on Internet newsgroups questioning the future employment prospects for Technical Authors in North America and Europe. Some wonder whether the role of the Technical Author will dis Troubleshooting Your Job Search Even if you are smart and interesting and a snappy dresser, you may not be communicating effectively at work. Your business culture, priorities, processes, and physical environment, all play a part in how well information is sent and received. A large part of improving your communication environment is improving your own ability to communicate on an interpersonal level.OK. You've posted your resume online. You've sent out a dozen copies answering classified ads. You've told everyone in your network that you're looking for a job.And nothing has happened.Now what?Since 1996, I've written/edited resumes for nearly 3,000 clients and refunded less than 3% of them for lack of results. Based on this experience, here are four ways for you to troubleshoot -- and improve -- an unsuccessful job search.1) Is your One of the paradoxes of the 21st Century is that we are able to communicate like never before we have 24-hour news, e-mail, Internet chat, and cell phones everywhere. Still, the quality of our communication seems to be diminishing we write fewer Managing Resistance to Change ulture, priorities, processes, and physical environment, all play a part in how well information is sent and received. A large part of improving your communication environment is improving your own ability to communicate on an interpersonal level.01.Sometime back this author had written an article titled Are your employees leaving the organizations in disgust? Apply Change Management practices. While discussing about the various aspects of Change Management concepts, it is informed that the employees, for obvious reasons, generally dislike changes brought in by the management, as they do not like to come out of the existing practices.This article makes an attempt to demystify the resistance to cha One of the paradoxes of the 21st Century is that we are able to communicate like never before we have 24-hour news, e-mail, Internet chat, and cell phones everywhere. Still, the quality of our communication seems to be diminishing we write fewe Don't Assume All Candidates are Ambitious -- Make Them Prove It! part of improving your communication environment is improving your own ability to communicate on an interpersonal level.The goal of the behavioral based interview is to identify qualities that work well in your organization. But you also need to look at the flip side of this as to what are the characteristics of your problem people?Look at the qualities of the people who didn't work out so well AND BE HONEST. In some cases, the responsibility could fall to you in how you interviewed, hired or trained them. In other cases, it will be some part of their personality that you One of the paradoxes of the 21st Century is that we are able to communicate like never before we have 24-hour news, e-mail, Internet chat, and cell phones everywhere. Still, the quality of our communication seems to be diminishing we write fewe Dressing Tips for Interview Success Dressing appropriately for job interviews is one of those areas that puzzles some people.Should you dress conservatively or wear casual attire?What colors work best?What types of shoes should you wear?As a rule, you should dress conservatively for most job interviews. Remember, you only get one shot at making a good first impression.Here are some basic dress for success tips:Research how people in a particula One of the paradoxes of the 21st Century is that we are able to communicate like never before we have 24-hour news, e-mail, Internet chat, and cell phones everywhere. Still, the quality of our communication seems to be diminishing we write fewe Leadership: Take Away Their Excuses l, Internet chat, and cell phones everywhere. Still, the quality of our communication seems to be diminishing we write fewer long letters, we rarely sit down to dinner with the family, we have fewer face-to-face encounters, and we take less time to hold meaningful conversations. As the efficiency of our communication increases, it becomes less interpersonal.Excuses. If you're responsible for the performance of a group, you've heard excuses.Your job is to get rid of those excuses. With excuses gone, the real slackers stand out from the crowd. Then you can concentrate on rewarding and supporting your producers. You can zero in on the slackers and offer them the choice of repentance and reform or documentation and departure.There are two kinds of excuses. Some excuses grow out of the way that you assign w Its interesting that in 1990, only about half a million individuals in the US had a cell phone (that is less than one-quarter of one percent of the 1990 population). In 2000, 10 years later, there were about 100 million cell phone subscribers (about 35% of t
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