I always like to tell people about the good sites I find in my Internet travels and here is a podcast that I have really come to enjoy. Below is the text of a Career-Op Extra Podcast I released today. Check out the In The Trenches podcast!

This is a Career Opportunities Extra for Sunday, April 17th, 2005. The High-Tech Career Handbook. I’m Douglas Welch.

I listen to a wide variety of podcasts, technology-related and otherwise. In The Trenches, hosted by Kevin Devin, has caught my ear over the last several weeks. Regular readers and listeners already know that I have a large bias towards experience over classroom learning. This is perhaps due to my own computer upbringing, but I also see the great effects of “on the job” training in many of my peers. Classroom training is good, as far as it goes, but it is through application of classroom content that we all become better high-tech careerists. Learn as much as you can, but apply all that you learn.

In his podcast, Kevin recounts his own trails and tribulations of a high-tech career and also hosts Admin-to-Admin discussion sessions and regular Tech Chats with other IT workers. He has a pleasant friendly style to his podcasts and I learn something new nearly every time I listen. Sometimes it is just nice to know that there are other people in the world who are dealing with the same issues, both technological and business-related, that you face every day.

I highly recommend you check out the In The Trenches web site and podcast to give your thinking and career a boost today. It can be found at http://www.kevindevin.com/ Links are also provided on the Career Opportunities web site at welchwrite.com/career/ and in the comments section of this MP3 file

An In The Trenches promo is coming right up.

This has been a Career Opportunities Extra with Douglas E. Welch

(Recorded promo immediately follows)

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