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I always thought that at some point the name of my blog would become a liability. An anachronism. At some point the high tech equipment industry would recover to the point that it would no longer be trying to survive a recession, and my blog title would be… be obsolete! Yahoo! Is it Time to Take [...] I admit it. When I named this new blog “The Recession-Proof Trainer,” I knew the word recession would grab attention. Anyway, I couldn’t help it - the fact of our recession, along with its impact on my vocation and colleagues, was very much on my mind. And it still is. Isn’t the recession on everyone’s [...] Call it the worst semiconductor cycle yet or simply “The Recession,” the fact is - many are looking for work. Still, most of my friends and colleagues are still working in performance improvement related jobs at high tech companies - equipment trainers, eLearning developers, technical writers, and so on. We can help each other out. One interesting model where employed [...] The short answer is that the Technician Performance Improvement Council (TPIC) was officially dissolved during the fall of 2008 by its Board of Directors with the intention of establishing a new professional association of technical trainers in high tech industries. However, the current recession, as it gathered momentum throughout 2008, forced the individuals on the [...] Over the years of teaching the PBET Workshop, I have met over 1600 fantastic people from this industry. Yet today, I find it difficult to contact very many of them. People leave the places they have been working for many reasons: in the past- a better job offer; today- the recession. Yet typically, all I [...] I just heard from a friend that Spansion laid off more employees in Austin, California, and at other locations. This one was devastating for those involved. The small training organizations that there once were, now no longer exist. She says there are more bad announcements still to come this week. This is on top of the [...] I was shoveling snow lately. It was then that the idea for this website began to form. Snow job: This is when we begin to fill time with a lot of theory, some degree of which is irrelevant and useless. This can be prompted by many things, like lack of access to a machine [...] Since 1995, some 1600+ individuals in the semiconductor industry have improved their performance-based equipment training (PBET) skills through participation in the PBET Workshop. Since then, many have left the industry, voluntarily or otherwise, while others continue to champion the benefit of PBET within the semiconductor industry. But those who work in the semiconductor industry know that it is [...] |
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