Free Course of the Day: Resume Tips and Techniques

You have skills that employers want. But those skills won’t get you a job if no one knows you have them. Good résumés, applications, and cover letters broadcast your abilities. They tell employers how your qualifications match a job’s responsibilities. If these paper preliminaries are constructed well, you have a better chance of landing interviews—and, eventually, a job.

Key Concepts: careers, jobs, money, work skills

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Business Skills >> Personal Development
• Free Courses

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• Get Ready for your Job Search
• Getting Work Done!
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• Getting Feedback, Delivering Results
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• Anger Management
• Overcoming Inventoritis
• The Art of Making Money -- Golden Rules for Making $$$ eBook
• Resume Tips and Techniques
• How to Get a Job with the Federal Government


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Meet an eLearning Publisher: PD Media

PD Media provides and shares content on interesting and relevant topics generally found in the public domain.

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Free Course of the Day: 10 Steps to Becoming a Great Manager

You can be a highly effective manager if you can incorporate some basic principles into your everyday work practices. Here are 10 steps to consider to help you learn how to be a great manager.

Key Concepts: careers, healthcare, job

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Business Skills >> Project Management >> Project Management for Non-Project Managers
• Free Courses

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• 10 Steps to Managing Like a Pro!!
• Project Management Fundamentals
• Transitioning into a Project Management Role
• Initiating and Planning a Project
• Managing a Project
• Troubleshooting and Closing the Project
• Project Management for Non-project Managers Simulation


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Meet an eLearning Publisher: Online Marketing Expert

Chad Wiebesick is a savvy digital marketing pro who's been exclusively in the online space since the turn of the century (the 21st century, that is). A strategic thinker with an eye for tactical execution, he’s got extensive background in integrated media strategy across both B2B and B2C markets. He has successfully planned and executed branding and direct response digital campaigns for dozens of clients. Tactics have included search engine marketing (SEM and SEO), display advertising, rich media expandable banners, performance-based affiliate marketing, social media, podcast advertising, email, newsletters, and webinars. Chad’s work and contributions have earned industry recognition. He was named a Rising Media Star by OMMA Magazine in 2004 and was a finalist in Media Magazine’s Creative Media Awards in 2006. Chad has spoken at industry conferences, presenting to organizations such as Search Engine Strategies and American Business Media. In 2005 he was elected as an Executive Board Member to the Chicago Interactive Marketing Association and served again in 2006. Outside of work, Chad enjoys watching episodes of The Office and playing Wii with his wife. They live in Michigan.

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Free Course of the Day: Healthcare Jobs You Might Not Know About

As career fields go, healthcare is hot. And there are lots of cool jobs, including some that aren’t as well known. Find out about three of them here. Document prepared by Bureau of Labor Statistics and includes links to additional resources, and pros and cons of a healthcare career. 10 pages, pdf downloadable format.

Key Concepts: careers, healthcare, job

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Other
• Free Courses

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• Communication Fundamentals
• Legal Issues in Management
• Responding to Workplace Harassment (for Managers)
• Quality Service in the Public Sector
• Coaching for Business Success
• Personal Workspace...A Handbook for Entering the Workforce
• Effective Business Meetings
• The Impact of Workplace Diversity
• Be an Effective Manager
• Supervising Difficult Behaviors
• Dealing with Diversity


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Meet an eLearning Publisher: Learning Currents

Rebecca Gibson has a long history in a wide variety of contact centers with an emphasis on employee performance management. During six years with one of the fastest growing call center outsourcers in the country, she consulted with clients in the pharmaceutical, insurance, healthcare, financial services and high-tech industries on program implementation, selection practices, and workplace learning. As the Manager of Educational Services with ICMI and Training Director for nation’s largest behavioral healthcare services provider, she designed holistic strategies to improve employee performance and boost employee development efforts. She's currently the principal consultant with Learning Currents, where she focuses on tackling tough organizational challenges and designing and developing workplace learning strategies and programs. In addition to working independently with clients, Rebecca is an ICMI-Certified Associate and authors a learning and performance blog, learning-currents.blogspot.com. In her free time, she's exploring her love of learning as a student in San Diego State's Educational Technology graduate program.

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Free Course of the Day: Leading Meetings to Success

This free online course looks at the way meetings can be led, facilitated, controlled and influenced in order to achieve positive outcomes. Making Meetings Work will help learners develop the skills of chairing effective meetings and of presenting information.

All Global Mindset courses are self-paced free training courses, divided into short lessons with slide examples to illustrate issues clearly and in real-world settings. Plenty of practice situations, drag-and-drop interactive choices, and feedback allow you to engage the concepts and remain fairly active throughout.

Key Concepts: Business Meeting Management, facilitated, facilitation, Free Training, Free Courses

Course Appears in these Categories:
• Business Skills >> Communication >> The Effective Business Meeting
• Free Courses

Courses you might be interested in:
• Planning an Effective Business Meeting
• Leading an Effective Business Meeting
• Participating Effectively in a Business Meeting
• The Effective Business Meeting Simulation


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