Author: gregoryheller
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Shine A Spotlight In Your Next Job Interview
As a job candidate, it’s up to you to shine the spotlight on the skills and experiences you’ve had that are relevant to the job or company you are interviewing for. Listen to this article on ConversationsOnCareers.com Take a moment It is not enough to have a dozen well-rehearsed stories that illustrate examples in response to…
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Podcast Recommendations For and By MBAs – 2021 Edition
Podcast recommendations from Foster MBA students and alumni.
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Tips For Taking A LinkedIn Profile Photo
A good headshot on LinkedIn is important for your profile. Users with photos receive 21x more views than profiles without, and are 36x more likely to receive messages. A “professional” photo increases those chances even further. But you don’t need to pay a professional photographer to have a “professional” looking photo. We’re going to provide…
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Podcasts I’m Listening To (Summer 2020 Edition)
When the topic of podcasts comes up, the next question is always, “What do you listen to?” and since my listening habits change regularly, I figured it was long past time to update my current heavy rotation. News and Current Events Seattle Now Up First Consider This NPR Politics Podcast Marketplace Tech Shortwave Long Form…
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Zoom Backgrounds For Your Next Virtual Meeting
Are you #WFH (working form home)? Do you need a new background for your virtual meetings on Zoom, or Microsoft Teams? I found some great options with an interior design flair: Arhous furniture RentFurniture.com West Elm Curbed.com Bruntwood.co.uk BEHR (the paint company) One Fine Stay (more exotic travel inspiration backgrounds) Search Pexels for “Zoom Office…
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Conversations On Careers and Professional Life
In addition to my work as a Career Coach and Business Communications Advisor at the Foster School of Business, I host the podcast Conversations On Careers and Professional Life. To better serve my listeners, I recently launched a website for the podcast specifically. You can visit ConversationsOnCareers.com to learn more about the podcast, find episode…
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How to change text to all caps/UPPERCASE in Google slides
Have you ever wanted to change text to all caps or UPPERCASE in Google slides? I did, and couldn’t quickly figure it out. I googled it, and only got answers that related to google docs at first. But then I figured it out, so you don’t have to. Select the “Format” menu, then “Text”, then…
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Announcing my podcast: Conversations on Careers and Professional Life
Earlier this year, I was awarded a Compassion and Resilience Seed Grant from the UW Resilience Lab so support creating a new podcast for the Foster School of Business, MBA Career Management Office. The grant is supporting four episodes on topics including and relating to resilience, self-compassion and mindfulness. Additional episodes will feature interviews with…
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My Podcast Recommendations #trypod
In the spirit of #trypod, the industry promotion to get more people to listen to podcasts, here are my recommendations. I will group them into two loose categories, 1) news and information, 2) entertainment News & Information Planet Money (NPR) – I’ve been listening since the beginning. About the economy and business. NPR Politics (NPR)…
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Quadrennial Exercise in Criticizing Election Maps
Every four years, it seems, after an election the coverage of which is dominated by red/blue maps and warnings about how divided our country is, a series of news stories or blog posts will start to emerge on social media proclaiming, “no, its not a big red map with some blue islands, its a really…