Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
June 10, 2026 | Live Webinar
Where Credit Is Due
Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.
Whether you’re sending out position inquiries or posting your professional information out on MySpace.com or some other service somewhere in the hopes that you will get picked for a new position, there are a number of ways in which you can enhance the job hunting experience and make yourself more marketable.
Just as art students carry their work with them to demonstrate their abilities to potential clients, easy-to-use options are available to you so that you can have a personalized portfolio to demonstrate your own craftsmanship.
When you are trying to put your best foot forward, nothing beats giving a potential employer the feeling that they are the customer. In truth, you are the product being sold, so it makes sense. Of course, you are also the sales person, marketer, president, etc.
The advantage of being affiliated with the information technology industry is that you can provide material to a techno-savvy audience--many of whom enjoy a little multimedia showmanship. Sure, you probably have to go through the stone wall of human resource departments who try to filter out the riff-raff, but once you make direct contact with the hiring body, then you stand a better chance of wowing them with your specially packaged credentials, more than others might in different business areas.
What You Should Have
At the most basic level, be it …
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