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Help Wanted

By Jeff Burkhardt posted 8 days ago
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I am always keeping my eyes open for Business Development and Sales professionals for first PRO , but I recently escalated my plans to add to our growing IT Staffing and Recruiting practice, in preparation for 2021. You would think that finding talent for my team would be easy for someone like myself, ...
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It’s Been a Long Time

By Jeff Burkhardt posted 09-15-2020
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The COVID-19 Pandemic, as of this writing, has now entered its 27th week. By the time you may read this blog, we will be well into week 28. That is more than six months. Over 180 days. More than 4,300 hours. Some 259,000+ minutes. You get the idea. Regardless as to how you slice it, it has been a long ...
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California Attorney General has released final regulations for the CCPA

By Cory Underwood posted 08-25-2020
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Despite being signed into law on June 28th, 2018, and being placed into effect on January 1st 2020, businesses around the world have been wondering what exactly they will have to do to be in compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act. After multiple hearings and drafts, concepts were getting ...
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10 “Soft” Skills Every Digital Analyst Should Master

By Adrienne Segundo posted 08-19-2020
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Soft skills in a technical field…they’re a core requirement. Despite digital analytics still being considered a relatively new field, it’s one that is growing rapidly – both in scope of work and industry size. Every sector is hiring analytics professionals to provide insight into one business gap or ...
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Why Working with Staffing Companies Is Smart Business During a Pandemic

By Jeff Burkhardt posted 08-18-2020
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If history is the teacher it has been deemed to be, we have learned that economies, during stressed and recessed times, force us to look for creative answers to solve pressing business-related dilemmas. Despite a current 10.2% unemployment rate, and more than 30 million Americans receiving some form ...
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The Healing Power of Determined Hope: Actions the DAA is Taking to Eradicate Racism

By David McBride posted 08-07-2020
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In the wake of the recent protests against racism, fellow DAA board member @Mary Owusu and I hosted a Town Hall for members of the analytics community in late June to discuss ways racism is present in their lives. We also wanted to have an open discussion about ways members of the analytics community ...
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My 2020 Top Consultant of the Year Nomination

By Garrett Mark Scott posted 08-05-2020
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Weekly Client Performance Report Featured Project for Top Consultant of the Year An automated weekly email report providing client to client comparative data so we know which clients need the most help. This aids our key business requirement of client retention. We are a business with a bottom ...
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Onward and Upward with the Digital Analytics Association

By June Dershewitz posted 07-23-2020
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I’m here to share that I’ve recently become the President of the Board of the Digital Analytics Association (DAA). Beyond my day job, volunteer work is something I’ve always enjoyed. It’s gratifying to build connections with people around a shared mission, knowing that everyone who gives their time ...
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How Baseball Made Me a Better Leader

By Jeff Burkhardt posted 07-16-2020
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When I got into my late 30's, and I realized the Philadelphia Phillies probably weren’t going to call me to play second base for them anytime soon, I gave up playing men’s league baseball for a full-time seat behind home plate. At age 38, I became an officially licensed and certified Babe Ruth Umpire. ...
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The 5 types of mentors you need in your life

By Mai Alowaish posted 07-07-2020
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As I read an article in TED website about the 5 mentors you need in your life , I thought of all the analytics mentors in the past 5 years of my career and how each one represented one of those mentor types, and many of those great mentors are here in the DAA community so I wanted to mention them ...
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