Helping Students with a Data Professional Career
Steve has advice for students looking to become data professionals.
2025-06-02
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Career Growth
Rising Pay for Certifications
People with certifications are seeing their pay rise faster than others. Steve has a few thoughts on this today.
2025-05-05
156 reads
2025-04-30
131 reads
2025-04-21
242 reads
Is GenAI Coming Faster Than You Think?
GenAI technologies have created a lot of concern among many tech workers. Steve has a few thoughts on how these technologies might impact data professionals.
2025-03-31
142 reads
AI Tools for Job Seekers – Salary
In our conversations with job seekers, a consistent theme has been HOW do you use AI tools. This can be used to get new ideas, improve and optimize resumes, understand trends/market data, determine new connections and networking avenues, save time, alleviate headaches and roadblocks, and be more efficient and effective overall. Well, say goodbye to the days where you need to start a cover letter or resume from scratch or feel isolated, alone, and anxious during the resume writing, interview prep, salary negotiation, and other parts of the job search process, as we all now have an incredibly powerful job searching tool and career coach at our disposal to help with any writer’s block and almost every challenge you may run into!
2025-03-19
The Job Outlook for Database Professionals
The job outlook for database professionals is good, but it's not that easy to get a great job. Steve has some advice for you today.
2025-03-05
251 reads
No End to Programmers
The idea of chat-oriented programming has led some people to think that AI LLMs will reduce the need for programmers. Steve disagrees.
2025-02-08
139 reads
Can You Become a More Productive Engineer?
Steve has a few thoughts on becoming more effective. This involves more than just becoming a better coder.
2025-01-24
164 reads
Adding the Right Value
Are you doing the things at work that your boss cares about or the things you care about? Steve has a few thoughts on this.
2025-01-08
181 reads
Blogs
Take Time to Gain Perspective
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Probably the best piece of advice I ever received is to take time to...
The Fringe Festival
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I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
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