Advice – Page 136 – Steven Savage

Turning Hated Expertise Around

October 9, 2010 by Steven Savage

You ever get a call from a family member to help you with a computer problem that they could have figured out with some research?

You ever have a friend doing an interview who called you to ask you what the person he was interviewing was talking about?

You ever find yourself cornered at a party or get-together to explain something about your job or industry to someone, and wondered how they didn't know something that simple?

Yeah. Me too. When we do something for a living, when we're truly into it – in short, when we're progeeks or would-be-progeeks – everyone uses us as a source of information. It gets annoying.

Fannish Skills On the Job Search – Roundup

October 4, 2010 by Steven Savage

You have skills you use in fandom that you can use on your career – but can also use on your job search! A quick roundup of our articles on the subject!

You can use:

– Steven Savage

How To Communicate – With Measurement

October 3, 2010 by Steven Savage

I'm big on measuring success – you've had to tolerate me going on about that before. I'll repeat for those that have't gotten tired of me saying it; you need to measure, in numbers and dates and other data, your progress and results in your career, from job search to education credits, to dates of certification. Measurement lets you see your success – or correct errors you find.

We're geeks. We're usually good with numbers

I'm also finding out, more and more, that its a real necessity for everyone, to communicate their career progress with others. Our friends and family want to know how we're doing so they know we're OK – or that they need to help us out. We want to communicate the state of our career to others so they can help us out – or leave us alone.

If you want to show people how you're doing in your career, from a job search to getting an advanced degree, or what have you, you should be making sure the numbers you measure can also be communicated to the people who care about you. Or the people who you want to annoy you less.