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This video surprised me: I had no idea that financial types had progressed further than just using VLOOKUPs and Pivot Tables. I thought Pivot Tables would be part of the landscape for those in finance but Power Query, Power BI, simple and advanced VBA? Match and Index? Wow. There is also “removing duplicates” which I…
This article on job searches failing to increase in states where unemployment benefits were cut popped up in my feed. I was surprised to see this kind of article this late in the game – I saw a similar article but about a month ago. Didn’t some states already cut the benefits? If so, by…
Okay, today’s post is outside of my usual topics but I think it is necessary to go outside of one’s usual domain. This activity falls under my “horizon scanning” that I usually do so that I can get a sense of the direction of the world or citizens are moving. I’m trying to get a…
I encountered Heather McGowan through my readings of Thomas Friedman’s writings. He was writing on a topic about the future, where we will be forced to continuously learn because technology will be progressing so fast that skills become rapidly outmoded. That is pretty much Heather McGowan’s contention: we will be continuously adapting and learning as…
I went back to a post I did last year to see what I wrote about what we might do in regards to China once we reach the other side. Cross my fingers, it looks like we might reach the other side this year – OMG, that would be awesome – but we must first…
I read an interesting article about H-1B visas and the impact on American job. As usual, Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Dealbook had the details – he has been coming out with some really thought provoking articles surrounding the American job environment. The question posed in the article was: does restricting H-1B visas help create American jobs?…