A new week is upon us along with new content. In week 6 of the SetFocus SharePoint Masters Program students will be focused on a SharePoint Business Processes project. From the Career Development side, this is an exciting week as students should be nearing officially engaging with their region Placement Specialist. To become engaged with a Placement Specialist a student needs ...read full article»
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Week 6 of SharePoint Masters Program
Week 5 of the SharePoint Masters Program!
The content continues to flow as we enter week 5 of the SetFocus SharePoint Masters Program. The week begins with a one day project focused on Branding and Web Content Management and then student’s transition to a lecture on SharePoint Business Processes given by Darrell Wire. The Career Development team also continues to provide new content each week during the Brown ...read full article»
Week 4 of the SharePoint Masters Program!
We have made it through the first half of the SharePoint Master Program! There are many exciting learning opportunities ahead including this week’s lecture focusing on Branding and Web Content Management. Corroll Driskell will again be offering his wealth of knowledge through his interactive instruction. Week four also brings an opportunity for Career Development (CD) headway. At this point students will ...read full article»
Week 3 of the SharePoint Masters Program!
The second week has come to a close and the third has begun. The course unquestionably has increased in challenge and the focus for this week will be a continuation of SharePoint for Developers followed by a SharePoint Development project. Projects are real world specifications focusing on concepts recently covered in class and allow students to actively interact with the ...read full article»
Week 2 of the SharePoint Masters Program!
The first week is now behind us and we are moving on to the second! Most have figured out the basic navigation like the GRID (and the importance of the mute button), their virtual machines and some of the small features like Office Communicator. The classroom bond with their fellow classmates is beginning to form and everyone is starting to ...read full article»
Week 1 of SharePoint Masters Program!
The first week of the SetFocus SharePoint Masters Program has arrived! Most students have had an opportunity at this point to test run their GRID setup and Virtual Machines and gain some familiarity to be sure things will go smoothly that first day. In addition to the test run, they will have met some of their fellow classmates with whom ...read full article»
Article Alley – Best Practices for Writing a Successful Resume
Every edition of The Career News: Weekly News, Tips, and Tools for Your Job Search provides readers with multiple quick-read articles, across a variety of topics. In her article, “Best Practices for Putting Together a Successful Resume( March 1, 2010 edition), Alesia Benedict discusses some key elements to include in your resume. She highlights the idea that most job seekers ...read full article»
category: Article Alley, Career Development, Preparation, Resume, Resume Summary, SetFocus, Steps for Success, successful resume
Week 12 .NET Masters Program
The final stretch is upon us and week 12 of the SetFocus .NET Masters Program brings the last week of lecture. This week the focus will be Windows Communication Foundation and James Arendt makes his instructional debut providing his immense knowledge. From the Career Development side things are still heating up. With the job search in full swing it is ...read full article»
Article Alley – Writing Your Resume Summary
Your resume summary is the first piece of information a potential employer reads about you. SetFocus teaches, in our Steps for Sucess, that it should leave them wanting to know more about you and entice them to continue reading through the rest of your resume. In the article “How to write a Professional Summary for Your Resume,” Maxwell Hurst discusses writing an ...read full article»
category: Article Alley, Career Development, Preparation, Resume, Resume Summary, SetFocus, Steps for Success
Thought for the Day
Remember this? “You’re slouching! Sit up straight!” Many of us grew up with parents and/or grandparents constantly telling us to “Put your shoulders back! Stand up straight!” And I am here to do the same to you. I was slouching in a chair in the doctor’s waiting room, flipping through an old magazine and came across an article about confidence and ...read full article»
Keyword Do’s & Don’ts
Keywords are an important ingredient in putting together your resume and a vital piece of Career Development’s Steps for Success. Most employers and recruiters use specific keywords to determine whether or not you are a possible match for their open positions. This week’s blog highlights Do’s and Don’ts for incorporating keywords into your resume as determined by a job posting ...read full article»
category: Career Development, Do's and Don'ts, Finding a job, Ideal position, Keywords, Preparation, Resume, SetFocus, Steps for Success
Week 10 .NET Masters Program
Week 10 brings us to the quarter mark of the .NET program! The week is a continuation of ASP.NET Using VS2008 and Matt Snow will be the instructor for the week. From the Career Development side, official engagement occurred last week bringing the job search to front and center. A tool that works hand in hand with the job search ...read full article»
category: 60 Second Commercial, A Day in the Life, Career Development, Masters Program, Networking, SetFocus
tags: .NET, 60 Second Commercial, ASP.NET, blog, Career Development, engagement, Events, facebook, LinkedIn, Matt Snow, MDSN, Seminars, SQL Saturday, twitter, User Groups, VS2008
SetFocus Career Development Steps for Success
Welcome to the road toward career success! The SetFocus Career Development Steps for Success are designed to lead you through, and assist you with, your job preparation tools, materials, techniques, and strategies. We’ll take you from identifying your ideal position, through composing your materials for marketing yourself, all the way to assisting you with finding a position where you can ...read full article»
Week 9 .NET Masters Program
A new week is upon us along with new content. In week 9 of the SetFocus .NET Masters Program the focus will revolve around ASP.NET using VS2008. Due to the magnitude of this topic it will extend into next week. Wayne Wilkerson will again be resuming instruction. From the Career Development side, this is an exciting week as students should be ...read full article»
tags: .NET, analyzing, ASP.NET, Career Development, CareerBuilder, companies, Dice, engaging, geography, hiring partner, Interview, job search, LinkedIn profile. portfolio, marketing, Masters Program, Monster, network, Placement Specialist, positions, recruiters, Resume, salareis, SetFocus, support, tools, VS2008, Wayne Wilkerson