[…]is a surprise to many respondents.” The Labour Trends in the BC Technology Sector report (PDF) is available on the BCTIA’s […]
[…]have lots of job openings but there are still many IT workers who are struggling to land jobs. The reason? A skills gap. The jobs are there but workers’ skills are not. Todd Weinman, a recruiter quoted in the article, said: “You can’t rely on a company for your growth and training anymore…Except for […]
[…]admit gaps in knowledge. After all, our jobs require us to research often basic information for new users. With that in mind, we have to ask subject matter experts some pretty rudimentary yet specialized questions because we need to relay that content to users. Our jobs require a healthy dose of […]
[…]you make changes to the CSS, re-zip the EPUB project, rename so it uses an .epub extension, and test it on all the different e‑readers that your users may be using. Different e‑readers may render your EPUB file differently so testing is vital. I am speaking about formatting EPUB files at […]
[…]the working day. Researchers found that “this is because people are not just using e‑mail to communicate, they are also using it as a way of tracking tasks.” I guess I fall in that camp: Every day I create a task list for myself in Outlook and check it throughout the day to monitor if […]
[…]April 22–26, Minneapolis http://www.iasummit.org/ Write the Docs 2015, May 17–19, Portland http://www.writethedocs.org/conf/na/2015/ STC annual conference, June 21–24, Columbus http://summit.stc.org/ Lavacon, October 18–21, New Orleans http://lavacon.org How do you keep your skills up to date? Any other North American conferences that I should […]
[…]read online. This latest study seems to suggest that we should be even more ruthless when it comes to summarizing our main messages. It’s not surprising that people want key messages, not lengthy, nuanced exposition. Many North Americans are feeling inundated with information, suffering from “infobesity” (see my earlier article […]
[…]and probably very time consuming. What do you think? Here’s the web site: […]
[…]pages for SRK and Capstone Copper. Online Help I have created many online help projects for companies. At FortisBC, I documented dozens of SAP procedures for Call Centre Staff. We wrote content in Microsoft Word and then uploaded the content to an internal SharePoint 2010 web site. Here is a screen capture of […]
[…]delight clients and supervisors? One way is to go “above and beyond” what is asked of you. For example, if your client asks you to re-write an online topic, you could improve the topic but also add an illustration that clarifies a concept as well as improve an aspect of the […]