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Improving Your Digital Technology Skills Through Online Training

Outlier Model / March 6th, 2014 / 4 Comments

Some things you can only learn through workplace experience, such as teamwork, leadership, and communication. However, critical skills are best picked up and honed through formal training. Previously, online resources for professional development were scarce and required classroom or on-the-job training. However, many online training options can help workers keep their technical skills up to date with...

Posted in: Career and Work Tagged with: continuing education, digital media, online training, video game design, video game industry, Web Design

Why I am a mentor

CF / November 20th, 2013 / 9 Comments

Yesterday, I took my two student mentees out to dinner. I have two girls – one senior student who is about to do her first 8 month work term as a software developer and a second student who is just starting the computer science program. For an hour and a half, we chatted over Japanese foods and tea. The topics ranged from your regular pleasantries (“What are your holiday plans?”)...

Posted in: Career and Work Tagged with: mentoring, video game design, video game industry, women in computer science, women in technology, women working in male careers

Making a power play at work

CF / November 18th, 2013 / 14 Comments

In the software development industry, things can change fast. Usually, it’s just projects and deadlines that change, but sometimes it’s personnel changes as well. A recent wave of personnel changes has recently triggered a lot of upheaval in my department at work. Two of our main back-end developers quit, two new people started and the whole team got shuffled around to different work...

Posted in: Career and Work Tagged with: ambitious women, asking for a raise, negotiating a raise, vancouver jobs, women in the workplace

Top 10 side jobs – #6: Event Security

Brian / October 30th, 2013 / 10 Comments

Welcome to a new ten part series at the Outlier Model on the Top 10 Side Jobs available to the average person. Please check out our intro post and tune in every Wednesday as we count down to #1! This week’s job goes back to the event style side jobs. You could try a special event customer service role, or if being nice and cheerful isn’t your thing, then you can be solitary and intimidating...

Posted in: Career and Work Tagged with: event security, part time jobs, part time jobs for students, security license, side hustle