#i also applied to a job that would train me to get my pharmacy technician liscence so im hoping for that one

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they should just give me a job

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Okay hi thank you for even letting me ask you about this lol! I’ll get straight to the point because long ask ahead but my question is how much do references matter (in the context of retail pharmacy) because I don’t have any 😭 or will they even ask me for some just because I know old friends of mine have gotten cashiering jobs without them during hs. Context: I graduated high school during the pandemic. i never worked because throughout hs even during summers i focused on school and summer class programs and everything to end up not going to college even though i worked rly hard during hs because i had a pandemic thinking about life moment and realized that i couldn't, probably shouldn't, and so i wouldn't go to college for the stem major i was rly keen on despite how uncomfortably crucial of a decision i was making for personal reasons! One of those reasons is that I did end up getting sick both physically and mentally (not covid, but led to isolating myself so i have no friends or teachers etc as a reference to put down) then I ended up stuck recovering at home since I was susceptible to getting a bad case of covid and sooo i’ve had 2+ years stuck inside to think and look online about what I might want to do and remembered that other majors i did apply for were medical related and one was even specifically just pharmaceutical sciences. I still dont feel comfortable even going to community college yet and just feel like becoming a pharmacy technician would fit w/ me rn because i personally just want to work and the healthcare + continued education aspect interests me as im thinking of going to community college for maybe nursing in 2-3 years from now. I promise im not like irresponsible i still have old physical teacher references but i feel rude if i had to put or give those down when i havent kept in touch and wouldnt feel comfortable contacting them just for a job i want, like i swear im the most boring straight A overachiever goody two shoes type of person that just likes to help people so the job genuinely interests me also this is so long im so sorry 😭 😭

Thank you for taking the time to type all that out and give me some info for reference!

My answer is that I don't think references are all too important, depending on the situation.

My experience is different from most people, to be honest. I went to college to become a technician (it's like a year-long program, not a degree or anything, it took me way longer than a year but I had extenuating circumstances), and part of the program is doing an externship (basically an internship, the school sends students to practice working in actual pharmacies and learn the basics). The pharmacy I did my externship at really liked me and thought I was very good at the work I was doing, so they hired me as soon as my externship ended even though I wasn't certified (I'm still not certified but that's another story and I'm currently gearing up to take the exam since I just finished the final class I needed to take). Now, I've been an employee for over a year!

This sort of situation is not the norm. I lucked out big time. Obviously I earned the job by being excellent at what I do, but I was also fortunate enough that the pharmacy was hiring at that time and wanted to take a chance on someone with no real experience.

If you don't want to do a formal program through a school to become a tech, there are still ways to do it. I can only really speak to how Walgreens does it because that's the only pharmacy I'm familiar with, though.

The way it works at Walgreens that I've seen a couple people go through now is that they were initially hired on as cashiers. Then, when the pharmacy needed more help, they talked to the store manager about starting the process of becoming a tech. First you get your pharmacy assistant license (you literally just fill out a form and pay a small fee and then you get it), and then you can start training. You have to take classes through Walgreens and complete a curriculum, but to my knowledge it's all online. During that time, you work in the pharmacy and learn how to do things, getting experience and whatnot. Then, once you complete the program, you're able to take the exam to get your license. To my knowledge, the people I've seen go through this path didn't really have any relevant references. They just talked to the manager about wanting to do it.

Some of this information might also be specific to Washington state, I think most places are similar but there may be small differences depending on your state's particular laws.

I imagine that you'd want the same sort of references as you would have to apply to any job. If you don't have any references at all it might be harder to get your foot in the door, but not impossible. Some places really need the people, so they'll go out on a limb for people who appear to have drive and passion for it. There's a lot of factors the play into it such as the current demand and, honestly, luck.

It would be a lot easier to become a technician if you did a formal program through a school, but that's not feasible for everyone. If it is possible for you I'd recommend it, because you'll learn things in a technician program that you won't learn just jumping into it at the pharmacy level (I know something that really trips up some people who started as cashiers and not students is medical terminology, for example).

Honestly, I really feel for you. I had to drop out of university due to poor mental and physical health. I wanted to become a psychiatrist or doctor of some sort, but it just wasn't possible so I had to change gears and that's when I decided to go to community college to become a technician.

If you have any other questions about anything related to retail pharmacy and/or pharmacy technician stuff, feel free to send an ask my way and I'll try to answer it to the best of my ability! I don't know if this answer really helped much at all because it does kind of boil down to "it depends", which isn't super useful. fdlkfjkl

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Last year was a really good year tbh. There was a chunk of nervous anxiety because I started training as a pharmacy tech early last year, but it wasn’t horrible and I had a lot of support.

Last year my job afforded me the ability to streamline my schedule meaning I was actually sticking to my self-made schedule much better than the past year. I also had regular free time that allowed me to enjoy community events such as an arts and crafts selling fair my city hosts every fall, to purchase a bike and enjoy getting out before it got super heckin hot, and to take regular weekends to go camping with my mom and grandma. I was able to plan to go to a conference for my job at the library and I took a mini weekend vacation to go to Milwaukee with my friend in addition to a week long vacation to Minot, ND to spend time with my dad, brother, and dad’s family for a cousin’s wedding - the first of three I was actually able to attend. 

It was a good fuckin year.

This past month has made me just as miserable as I was during the worst times at Hancock Fabrics or Target where I was worked into the ground with very little free time and genuinely didn’t feel supported by my team more often than not (this is not to say I did not make some very good friends at those places). If I had started a year earlier at Shopko Pharmacy, if not two years earlier, then I would have found the footing I had been looking for with that job - a second career path with relatively good prospects and financial stability to pay off some debt and start classes - maybe even full-time schooling - for my LIS. I didn’t apply to anything but the pharmacy that was buying our patient files because I wanted to go where my coworkers were going - only for two of us to be left at this point now that my pharmacist has accepted a job elsewhere and is jumping this disaster ship. I didn’t want to apply anywhere else because I wanted to continue the trajectory I had placed myself on when I started in pharmaceuticals as a technician and didn’t want to have to learn another new career.

The plan definitely was not to have to find a new job for the third year in a row. I’ve had plenty of times where I just felt beaten down. But this turn around has be feeling properly defeated. 

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2021 MBAs To Watch: Gráinne Dunne. Boston College (Carroll)

“Loyal and pragmatic with a thirst for adventure.”

Hometown: Athy, Ireland

Fun fact about you: I’m on a mission to visit all 63 national parks in the United States. I’ve visited 10 since moving to the US.

Basic studies and degree:

Trinity College Dublin, Bachelor of Science (Pharmacy)

Royal College of Surgeons, Master of Science (Pharmacy)

Where was the last place you worked before enrolling in business school? I worked in Operations at AbbVie, where I led a team of 13 pharmaceutical technicians at a drug manufacturing facility.

Where did you do an internship in summer 2020? PwC, Chicago / Remote.

Where will you work after you graduate? I have accepted an offer from PwC and will return to their Pharma Life Sciences Advisory Group after graduation.

Teamwork and leadership roles in the business school: As part of my community ministry at Boston College, I volunteer as a tutor on the Invest ‘N Kids (INK) program. INK is run by PhD students as a tutoring program designed to help disadvantaged middle school students with their homework.

I also volunteer at the West End House. This is the largest youth development agency in the Allston-Brighton community in Boston, offering impactful programs that ensure local young people are academically successful, develop professional skills, and adopt healthy lifestyles.

As a member of the Graduate Consulting Club, I took part in workshops and mentored a group of first-year MBA students. I’ve also participated in several case competitions. I worked with the admissions team in recruiting prospective students and acted as an ambassador for the program at information events.

I am a member of IntEnt, the Graduate Intrapreneurship & Entrepreneurship Association at Boston College. I participated in the IntEnt Apprenticeship Program, a volunteer opportunity that connects Boston College graduates with local Boston organizations.

I am a recipient of the Denis O’Brien Fellowship. Irish businessman Denis O’Brien created this merit-based scholarship, which offers two Irish students a year a fully funded MBA in BC, where O’Brien himself earned his MBA in 1982.

What school or extracurricular achievement are you most proud of during your studies? I am proud of how my relationship with the church has changed, inspired by the Jesuit tradition of service at Boston College. A strong sense of community was instilled in me. I don’t think I really understood before business school that individuals rarely change needles on big issues, but there is great power in having individuals consistently support their community. This is a change of perspective for which I am very grateful.

What success in your professional career are you most proud of? Working with an innovative biotech company like AbbVie offered excellent opportunities for exciting and meaningful work. As a Technical Operations Pharmacist, I was responsible for the technical transfer of a new oncological drug from pilot to commercial scale. It’s incredible to work on projects that have such a real impact on the lives of patients around the world. I was also the supply chain representative on the rollout team for a new hepatitis C (HCV) treatment at the rollout manufacturing site. Prior to the introduction of this therapy, there was no cure for HCV. Treatment at the time required long-term maintenance and was incredibly debilitating. AbbVie’s HCV treatment cleared the virus from your body within 12 weeks, allowing patients to live full and healthy lives.

Why did you choose this business school? Boston College has a very strong data analytics track – that was very important to me when choosing a program. I really enjoyed mastering data tools like SQL, Tableau, SPSS, Alteryx, and Python and learning how to use these tools for strategic insights. These are skills that will set me apart in the workplace.

Boston College has a deep connection to Ireland and a great sense of community, which makes it a special experience for me and where I feel very at home.

What was your favorite MBA event or tradition at your business school? The Tuck Winter Carnival, an annual intercollegiate event that BC is invited to, was my favorite MBA event – especially since it happened just before last year’s lockdown. I was fortunate enough to take part as a freshman MBA student. It was great not only getting to know MBA students from other schools, but also building stronger connections with my classmates and high school students.

Looking back on your MBA experience, what would you do differently and why? There isn’t much that I would change. I was hoping to go on a volunteer trip. With the lockdown, however, this was not possible. Otherwise, I might have changed a course or two afterwards. However, by dealing with various topics, I was able to understand my personal interests, strengths and weaknesses.

What’s the biggest myth about your school? Boston College is known as a strong financial school. That’s true, but the BC MBA also has a broad curriculum and we are fortunate to have very talented professors everywhere. For example, we have an incredibly strong data analytics track. Professors like Pieter Vanderwerf, George Wyner, Sam Ramsbottom and Jonathan Reuter make their respective fields accessible, practical and entertaining.

What surprised you most about the business school? I was surprised that I liked the more technical and quantitative subjects, although I am probably qualitatively stronger. There is a great sense of satisfaction in tackling a difficult problem and overcoming the challenge.

What did you do during the application process that gave you an advantage at the school you chose? A face-to-face visit to a school and a face-to-face meeting with faculty and students is invaluable, not only to give you an edge during the application process, but also to determine if the school is a good culturally fit for you.

Which MBA classmate do you admire most? Kimberly Hay Strauss is remarkable. She is always up to date in class while doing internships and looking after her son during school time. Despite her humble, low-key style, it is evident that she is incredibly intelligent and hardworking. She is also very generous with her classmates.

How disruptive was switching to an online or hybrid environment after the COVID outbreak?

The pandemic was certainly a shock and the MBA experience was one of many things that were hit by these unprecedented times. Regardless, BC and the professors did a great job adapting to an online environment quickly and providing personal support to the students. I also took the opportunity to get the most out of the online MBA experience by setting up zoom workouts in the morning, using virtual office hours, and making daily check-in calls with my friends. I was incredibly grateful that I had the opportunity to build relationships with my fellow students in the first semester. That was a great support network.

Who most influenced your decision to start a business while studying? Several people inspired and influenced my decision to do business while in college. My father is my role model. He is a serving leader within the local community. He set high standards for my siblings and me and taught us to do our best in everything we did. He instilled in us the confidence that great opportunities are open to us.

My younger sister is a trained pharmacist and also attended business school. She is a health counselor and opened my eyes to the impactful work available to those who can marry a health and business perspective.

James Hughes, a director at AbbVie, taught me a lot about strategic thinking and how to effectively support and engage a team. He is a great mentor who has actively supported my personal development and professional career.

What are the top two items on your professional bucket list? In the short term, I’m excited to come to PwC to work with life science clients to solve their greatest challenges. I am interested in building based on my data analysis skills that I acquired at BC. This is in line with PwC’s goal of training its employees with new data tools. Ideally, I want to help companies design and leverage data systems to achieve operational efficiencies and improve the overall patient experience.

In the long term, I would like to start my own company. Ideally, I want to start a small or medium-sized business that offers job opportunities or drives growth in my community.

What did … do Gráinne such an invaluable addition to the 2021 class?

“Gráinne has the ideal qualities that we expect from a BC MBA student. She is smart, hardworking, and dedicated to giving back to the community. Her exemplary achievements and contributions at BC – in the classroom and her work with Invest N ‘Kids, in her summer internship and at BC MBA admissions events – testify to her consistent pursuit of excellence.

Born and raised in Ireland, Gráinne attended Trinity College, where she earned both a BS and an MS in pharmacy. After graduation, she was hired by AbbVie, the Illinois-based pharmaceutical company, to work on the company’s business development program in Dublin, Ireland. Because of the high quality of her work, she was given the opportunity to work at AbbVie’s Chicago office.

Gráinne applied to the Carroll School, where she received the highly selective Denis O’Brien Scholarship, which is awarded to students expressing an interest in the economy or business development in Ireland. After a successful first year in the program, Gráinne completed the consultant internship program at PwC in Chicago in the summer of 2020 and will return there for a full-time position after graduation. We have been fortunate to have Gráinne as a member of the 2021 class and she is a real pleasure to work with. In addition to all of her successes in the program, Gráinnes’ humility and her commitment to the BC MBA program make us proud to have her as a member of our community. “

Marilyn Eckmann Associate Dean, Graduate Program, Carroll School of Management

source https://collegeeducationnewsllc.com/2021-mbas-to-watch-grainne-dunne-boston-college-carroll/

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Catching up with a UQ Pharmacy Graduate

Ever wonder where OzTREKK students have ended up?

We touched base with former University of Queensland Pharmacy graduate John K to see what’s been happening. He graduated from the UQ program in 2011 and was featured in our news section a few years ago: Canadian pharmacist talks about UQ Pharmacy.

So, now it’s time for another catch-up!

How long after you finished your degree were you able to start working as a pharmacist in Canada? Gaining employment as a registered pharmacist was fairly easy and quick once I was registered with the Ontario College of Pharmacists (OCP). And the great thing about the OCP is that they are really quick at processing your application and takes only a few days whereas in Australia it takes about a month. My issue was that it took a whole year before I could start my training in Canada because of the Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada (PEBC) exams which are only offered once a year. Then I had to apply to the OCP as a student and apply for exemption from having to take courses designed for international graduates.

Did you find the evaluation and examination process through the PEBC difficult, or was there anything you wish you knew beforehand? I found the Evaluating Exam fairly easy because UQ did really well in covering the topics that were on that exam, even topics that I did not expect, such as business questions—which were part of UQ’s pharmacy program. Both the written and oral Qualifying exams were challenging both mentally and physically, but again, UQ did well to prepare me since they emphasize Quality Use of Medicines, which is a major part of those exams but also in Canadian practice since Canadian pharmacists are able to prescribe prescription medications as well as change prescriptions and renew them without contacting a doctor. That being said, it is very important for graduates to study the main references used by Canadian pharmacists before the qualifying exams in order to be successful.

What did your process of coming back to Canada look like? The initial process after returning to Canada was difficult because there were so many unknowns and I knew that I had to pass all of the PEBC exams on my first try in order to avoid having to do extra courses as mandated by the OCP for international graduates. Also, the exams are all two-day exams except for the oral exam so it is pretty full-on. However, I found that once I got past the PEBC hurdles, everything fell into place afterwards. I found really good pharmacies for my studentship and internship and it went by really fast. So I guess my message for graduates is to be patient with the PEBC stage, you will get through it.

And did your process of heading to Australia to work look like? Getting registered in Australia is much easier than compared to Canada in that the examinations are a lot easier. However, that’s not necessarily a good thing. Looking back, I am glad that I challenged myself with the PEBC exams since they make sure that pharmacists are of the best quality. In other words, I found that the Canadian process made sure you were much more prepared to work in practice.

Are you able to compare both work experiences? Pros and cons? To be perfectly honest, Canadian pharmacy practice is decades ahead of Australia, everything from the expanded scope of practice to technology. Australian pharmacists do not have a prescriber number like Canadian pharmacists and as such, they cannot prescribe prescription medications, renew prescriptions nor order lab tests. The dispensing programs are also pretty basic whereas the Canadian programs are quite technologically advanced.

Retail pharmacies do not use technicians to their full capabilities as they do in Canada where they do all of the dispensing, blister packing, checking blister packs and renewed prescriptions and doing the order. So in Australia, the pharmacist has to do most of the technical work not leaving them much time for clinical work. Also, the pay is lower for pharmacists in Australia. However, some positives are that prescriptions are streamlined nationwide whereas in Canada you will get a variety of different types of prescriptions. I had one doctor who would print them out on what looked like a receipt paper. Also, there is no private pharmacy insurance in Australia so you do not have to deal with all the different billing from various insurance companies which is the most frustrating part of the pharmacy workflow in Canada. In Australia, you just bill Medicare and that’s it.

For graduates returning to Canada, I would highly recommend that you start off in one of the large pharmacy chains and once you get comfortable with pharmacy, usually after a year, switch to an independent pharmacy because they have adapted unique ways to survive in the competitive pharmacy market. You will get more opportunity to specialize in a certain area and provide more clinical services, the workflow is much better and higher job satisfaction.

UQ Bachelor of Pharmacy Honours

Program: Bachelor of Pharmacy Honours Location: Brisbane, Queensland Semester intakes: July or February each year Duration: 4 years Application deadline: The application deadline for the July intake is May 30; and November 29 for the February intake. You are encouraged to apply as early as possible.

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Leaving Retail: Part One

As stated in my previous post, I have found the light at the end of the tunnel and am currently transitioning out of retail and into hospital pharmacy. In many cases that I’ve witnessed, I listen to retail pharmacy technicians say that they don’t want to do retail anymore, and are going to leave... 98% of them are still there in the same pharmacy, 10 to 20 years later (which I can understand; if you’ve already invested that much time, you may feel like you should just stick it out). I was beginning to be one of those people, but there was a great opportunity that I just knew was for me, and I couldn’t handle the thought of someone else having what I wanted. So I shot my shot, and it was so worth it. Shooters shoot. I’ve received a couple of questions asking about what really made me want to move on, where did I go, so on and so forth. Since I’m on staycation for a while (using up time before I go on to my new job), I figured I’d go ahead and answer those questions now.

What Made Me Leave: Financial Reasoning

Aside from “This is for the birds,” I had/have a lot of personal frustration with my workplace. I work for a pharmacy that is a part of a rather large retailing company -- third-largest retailer in the world. Now, with that being said, you’d think with its revenue and borderline-monopolistic characteristics, it'd be able to pay its employees a reasonable amount (especially in a department where we handle sensitive information and patients’ lives). Wrong. They spend money on unnecessary t-shirts and other obnoxious garb (festive chef hats and aprons for other departments to wear for not even a month), when they could be paying their employees better.

From what I’ve heard from my other retail pharmacy tech friends, the compensation here is a little better than what they’re working with. And when I started there over four years ago, it seemed okay: you started at $8.30/hr (in my state, at that time, it was 65 cents above minimum wage, and me being only a year into the work force and working at a shitty big-box pet store, I was like HELL YEAH), and once you pass your next two “phase” tests (which you have six months to complete or you’re terminated), you get a total raise of $1.75. So in 6 months, you’re making $10.05/hr. Which isn’t the worst.

As time goes on, you do get raises. Each year, you get a raise, based on your performance review. And there are two more “phase” training programs and tests you can do to make more money that are 50 cents each (which didn’t roll out until 2 years ago). Which, again, sounds great! If you have a PTCB certification, you will have an additional 75-cent raise, and if you don't have one when you are initially hired, you’ll get a 75-cent raise plus reimbursement for the testing fee if you pass the exam. And, if you find the opportunity to become a Lead Tech, you will earn a $1.00 raise. I know, some of you are probably thinking “Why are you complaining?” and you’re right for now, but here’s where it begins to kind of not be so great.

All these raises are fine and good, but there is a pay ceiling that will be reached very quickly. When I was not a lead tech, and at a different store, my pay topped out at $15 and some change per hour. A year ago, I said to myself “Oh, shit, if you don’t find a new position, you’re going to top out in the next 2 to 3 years.” With this knowledge, and dealing with one RPh making my life a living hell because she took her personal issues out on me and made me feel like I was unstable and another RPh getting physical with me when she was having a manic episode (HR would not have believed me had a customer not witnessed and called corporate), I needed an out. I applied to be an ASP in one of the offices, and that didn’t work out (which I knew it wouldn’t. I had no experience in that field and I knew it would bore me, but it got my face out there). I came across another opportunity for a lead tech position and just went for it and landed it. It’s considered a promotion, so the ceiling went up, and it was great... Over a year and some more phases later, I did some math and thought “Oh shit... I’m going to top out of this position in the next 3 to 4 years and I can’t go any further up unless I miraculously show up with a PharmD tomorrow.”

**Side note: There’s also a tech at my location that loves to tell me how much she makes (which you’d think it’d be common sense to not talk about how much you make), and it pissed me off that she makes way more than I do (many DOLLARS more) and does practically nothing while I run around like a chicken with my head cut off. I told my manager about it, and he wouldn’t fight for a merit raise for me. Figured I’d throw that in there, too.**

To add, insurance through this employer is not great; I have to get my own insurance plan in the near future and I definitely won’t have a paycheck if I get insurance through the company (the premium is so expensive but the benefits are garbage). Sure, none of this may be a problem if you live at home, are just starting out in the work force, are in school, are using the job for experience (if you’re going to pharmacy school or some sort of other medical field), or you have someone else that you live with that also has a job, but I’m a single person that can’t completely rely on someone else’s income. It was at that moment, I knew this wasn’t going to work out, financially, as a real adult.

Part two to follow.

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A Compelling Entry-Level Cover Letter Example

It’s always challenging to get those important interview callbacks. If you’re a recent graduate or entering the workforce for the first time, you face even more obstacles. How can you convince employers to take a chance on you when you don’t have tons of experience? The key to success if communicating that you are hardworking, enthusiastic, and ready to learn. You can do that within your cover letter.

This post offers some quick tips for writing a cover letter that perfectly communicates why the company should bet on you. Scroll till the end for a compelling entry-level cover letter sample too!

Dig Deep For Experience

Entry-level doesn’t always mean a complete lack of experience. If you think hard enough, you’ll surely find some work that can communicate your skill sets such as:

Research projects

Internships 

Community and volunteer work

Coursework and at-school events

Imagine you were applying for an entry-level position as a sales clerk at a bookstore. Here’s how you’d frame your “pitch”:

“At  Madison High School, I was the captain of the Reading Club for 4 years and was responsible for selecting the best titles for monthly reading, curating a newsletter of interesting literature reviews, and moderating the meetings. Also, I volunteered at the local library and my duties included stocking shelves, and assisting students looking for school textbooks and leisure reading.”

Share Specific Personal Qualities

Since you don’t have much experience, you’ll need to sell your personality. So forget about vague platitudes. It’s a waste of time to state that you’re a “people person”, or that you’re a hard worker. Instead, focus on traits that are specific, and relevant to the job.

For example, if you’re going for a job that requires dealing with a lot of customers, provide a good snapshot of your interpersonal skills:

“I am very good at dealing with angry or frustrated customers diplomatically. As an annual volunteer at Crafts Fair, I know exactly how to moderate customer’s expectations and provide quick and effective resolution to any issues they may have”. 

Share a Connection if You Have One

Use the first paragraph to introduce yourself, and indicate the job you’re interested in. This is also the perfect place to mention any connection to the place of business or hiring manager. For example:

Were you referred to the job by a current employee?

Have you interned at the company previously?

Did you meet a company representative at a job fair?

Do you have an alumni connection with someone at the company?

Have you participated in any company-sponsored programs or volunteer events?

Here’s an example:

“My name is Beth, and I am a recent graduate from The Art Institute with a BFA in Interior Design. I recently volunteered at the Applied Arts Expo and worked with your assistant Head of Residential Design And Aesthetics. They informed me that you had an opening for an interior designer trainee, and encouraged me to apply. I believe I would be a great fit, and I’m excited to share my qualifications.”

Don’t Be Too Formal

Inexperienced job seekers often make the mistake of writing in an overly-formal, stilted style. That’s seldom necessary and can work against you. If you’re seeking a job in an environment that’s fun and laid-back, words like ‘whom’ and ‘therefore’ can be off-putting. Just like your interview attire, keep your letter business casual. That is more formal than when you speak to your friends, but not like you are holding court with royalty.

Entry Level Cover Letter Sample (Word version)

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Entry Level Cover Letter Example (text version)

Dear Marilyn Voss,My name is Katelyn Williams, and I am applying for the position of Pharmacy Technician Trainee. We met last week at the Madison job fair. You told me that my experience as a retail clerk would help me qualify for the on the job training program offered at Russell Drugs. After our conversation, I was very excited about this opportunity. So I’m sending this letter to express my intent to apply.

As you know, I worked at Mike’s grocery store while I attended high school. There, I bagged groceries, helped customers find items they needed, stocked shelves, and assisted in the floral department. I also learned to use the POS 2000 which is the same system used at Russell Drugs. I have received praise from my manager on my attention to detail, and customer service skills.

I plan to attend Rogers University in the spring to study nursing. I believe that my interest in inpatient care will help me to understand the needs of customers filling their prescriptions. In addition to that, I’m a regular volunteer at the local senior center where I help plan recreational activities.

Once again, I am very excited about this opportunity. I’ve included my resume, and hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely,

Katelyn Williams

Final Tip: Be Sincere

The entry-level job you land will probably not be the job of your dreams. You know that. The hiring manager knows this as well. There’s no need to carry on as if this is the ideal job, and that you plan to stay with the employer for years. For example, “I look forward to learning about web design, and working with the team at Harris Digital” is much better than, “It is my dream to work as a help desk technician. I look forward to a long career at Big Box Computers.”

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Why Is There An Equal Pay Day?

Each year, Equal Pay Day is recognized on different days depending on the year and the country because it symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year.

Another way of looking at it is that if men and women both started working January 1, 2018, then men got to stop working December 31 and the women have been working since then for free. That’s because women made 20% less on average in 2018 than men. The gap only gets wider when you also take race and ethnicity into consideration.

According to the Economic Policy Institute:

“While April 10th is the overall Equal Pay Day, the gaps for women of color are even larger. As compared to white men, women of color must work even further into 2019 to make up for the wage deficit they experienced in 2018. Black women’s equal pay day is August 22nd, Native American women’s equal pay day is September 23rd, and Latina equal pay day doesn’t come until November 20th, almost an entire second year of working to equal typical white male wages in 2018.”

Asian-American Women’s Equal Pay Day was also recognized this year on March 5th, and Mom’s Equal Pay Day, which compares the pay of all working moms to that of working dads, will be on June 10th.

The good news is that even though all the factors that contribute to women earning less than men are complicated, simply belonging to union and having the support that comes from being part of a union family goes a long way in evening out the wage gap. Unions raise wages in women-dominated service occupations (which include food service and janitorial services). Union women working in those industries make 87% more in total compensation and 56% more in wages than their nonunion counterparts. And overall, hourly wages for union women are 9% higher on average than for nonunionized women.

Peace of Mind

“There are probably Federal Laws that protect non-union workers but having such language in your contract makes it easier. I know my union will fight for me,” says Jennifer Rios. “Under a union contract, depending on your job classification, we’re all paid the same. We all move through the same progression steps. With the guaranteed wage increases, I’m able to do a little extra for my family, such as planning a family outing bowling.”

“The guaranteed wage increase helped me and my family a lot,” echoes Local 338 member Evony, who works at Duane Reade in New York. “It’s helped me pay my bills and doing more for my kids. Unlike non-union workers, we know we’re getting our set raise.”

Crystal Quarles worked as a teacher for nearly 15 years and made $8/ an hour with no health insurance. When she started at Kroger in 2014, she joined the UFCW Local 700 without hesitation. Because of her 6-month wage increases she is now at her top rate of pay. As a single mom, she is very glad to have a contract where women are paid the same amount as men for the same work.

Equal Opportunity

Being paid different amounts for the same level of work isn’t the only thing that keeps women stuck earning less. Sometimes, it’s lack of access to higher paid positions. There again unions help ensure equal access to opportunities for advancement for all workers.

In March of 2014 Marlenny Solaris, a UFCW Local 342 member, heard there may be a job opening she could bid on at the nursing home where she worked. This Porter job was typically performed by men in the Porter classification, and she was told by the Supervisor that it was not a woman’s job. When the Home did not put the posting up, Solaris bid on another job and got it. Only after she received her new position did her supervisor post the full-time Porter classification job Solaris had originally expressed interest in.

Local 342 Representatives backed Solaris when she again applied for the now posted Porter position and then she got it. This paved the way for more women who have since taken jobs at the nursing home as Porters. Her situation also shows how the ways in which women can be prevented from having access to higher-paid positions can be complicated, because without a union there to represent her, there’s little chance Solaris would have been able to even apply for the position she was qualified for and had expressed an interest in.

Training

Union membership also helps provide training to help level the playing field for hardworking men and women, regardless of gender.

“I didn’t have to take out a student loan to become a pharmacy Technician,” says Margarita Alejandro, a UFCW Local 1428 member who works at CVS in California. “Thanks to my union contract I’m able to get on-the-job training from my clerk position to technician and to make more money and provide for my family.”

from Why Is There An Equal Pay Day?

[endenogatai]

Dashdash, a platform to create web apps using only spreadsheet skills, nabs $8M led by Accel

Sometimes I think of spreadsheets as the dirty secret of the IT world today. We’ve seen a huge explosion in the number of productivity tools on the market tailored to help workers with different aspects of doing their job and organising their information, in part to keep them from simply dumping lots of information into Excel or whatever program they happen to use. And yet, spreadsheets are still one of the very, very most common pieces of software in use today to organise and share information: Excel alone now has around 1 billion users, and for those who are devotees, spreadsheets are not going to go away soon.

So it’s interesting that there are now startups — and larger companies like Microsoft — emerging that are tapping into that, creating new services that still appear like spreadsheets in the front end, while doing something completely different in the back.

One of the latest is a startup called dashdash, a startup out of Berlin and Porto that is building a platform for people, who might to be programmers but know their way around a spreadsheet, to use those skills to build, modify and update web apps.

The dashdash platform looks and acts like a spreadsheet up front, but behind the scenes, each ‘macro’ links to a web app computing feature, or a design element, to build something that ultimately will look nothing like a spreadsheet, bypassing all the lines of code that traditionally go into building web apps.

The startup is still in stealth mode, with plans to launch formally later this year. Today, it’s announcing that it has received $8 million in Series A funding to get there, with the round being led by Accel, with participation from Cherry Ventures, Atlantic Labs, and angel investors including Felix Jahn, founder of Home24. (It’s raised $9 million to date including a $1 seed.)

Co-founded by serial entrepreneurs Humberto Ayres Pereira and Torben Schulz — who had also been co-founders of food delivery startup EatFirst — Ayres Pereira said that the idea came out of their own observations in work life and the bottleneck of getting things fixed or modified in a company’s apps (both internal and customer-facing).

“People have a lot of frustration with the IT department, and their generally access to it,” he said in an interview. “If you are part of an internet business, it’s very hard to get features prioritised in an app, no matter how small they are. Tech is like a big train on iron tracks, and it can be hard to steer it in a different direction.”

On the other hand, even among the less technical staff, there will be proficiency with certain software, including spreadsheets. “Programming and spreadsheets already store and transform data,” Ayers Pereira said. “There are already a lot of people trying to do more with incumbent spreadsheets, and [combining that with] non-IT people frustrated at having no solution for working on apps, we saw an opportunity to use this to build an elegant platform the empower people. We can’t teach people to program but we can provide them with the tools to do the exact same job.”

While in stealth mode, he said that early users have ranged from smaller businesses such as pharmacies, to “a multi-billion-dollar internet company.” (No names, of course, but it’s interesting to me that this problem even exists at large tech businesses.)

Dashdash is not the only company that is tapping this opportunity. The other week, and IoT startup called Hanhaa launched a service that would let those using Hanhaa IoT sensors in their networks to monitor and interact with them by way of an Excel spreadsheet — another tip of the hat to the realisation that those who might need to keep tabs on devices in the network might not be the people who are the engineers and technicians who have set them up.

That, in turn, is part of a bigger effort from Microsoft to catapult Excel from its reputation as a piece of clunky legacy software into something much more dynamic, playing on the company’s push into cloud services and Office 365.

In September of 2017, Microsoft gave a developer preview of new “streaming functions” for Excel on Office 365, which lets developers, IT professionals and end users the ability to bring streams of data from a variety of sources such as websites, stock tickers and hardware directly into a cell or cells in an Excel spreadsheet, by way of a custom function. “Because Excel is so widely used and familiar to so many people, the ability to do all kinds of amazing things with that data and without complex integration is now possible,” said Ben Summers, a senior product manager for the Office 365 ecosystem team, in a statement to TechCrunch.

That ability to remove the bottleneck from web app building, combined with the track record of the founders, are two of the reasons that Accel decided to invest before the product even launched.

“We believe in dashdash’s mission to democratise app creation and are excited to back Humberto and Torben at such an early stage in their journey,” said Andrei Brasoveanu, the Accel principal who led the deal. “The team has the experience and vision to build a high-impact company that brings computing to the fingertips of a broad audience. Over the past decade we’ve seen a proliferation of web services and APIs, but regular business users still need to rely on central IT and colleagues with development skills to leverage these in their day-to-day processes. With dashdash anyone will be able to access these powerful web services directly with minimal effort, empowering them to automate their day to day tasks and work more effectively.”

With every tool that emerges that frees up accessibility to more people — be they employees or consumers — there are inevitably questions about how that power will be used. In the case of dashdash, my first thought is about those who I know who work in IT: they generally don’t want anyone able to modify or “fix�� their code, lest it just creates more problems. And that’s before you start wondering about how all these democratised web apps will look, and if they might inadvertently will add to more overall UI and UX confusion.

Ayres Pereira said dash dash is mindful of the design question, and will introduce ways of helping to direct this, for example for companies to implement their own house styles. And similarly, a business can put in place other controls to help channel how webapps created through dashdash’s spreadsheet interface ultimately get applied.

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[abckidstvyara]

Dashdash, a platform to create web apps using only spreadsheet skills, nabs $8M led by Accel

Dashdash, a platform to create web apps using only spreadsheet skills, nabs $8M led by Accel

Sometimes I think of spreadsheets as the dirty secret of the IT world today. We’ve seen a huge explosion in the number of productivity tools on the market tailored to help workers with different aspects of doing their job and organising their information, in part to keep them from simply dumping lots of information into Excel or whatever program they happen to use. And yet, spreadsheets are still one of the very, very most common pieces of software in use today to organise and share information: Excel alone now has around 1 billion users, and for those who are devotees, spreadsheets are not going to go away soon.

So it’s interesting that there are now startups — and larger companies like Microsoft — emerging that are tapping into that, creating new services that still appear like spreadsheets in the front end, while doing something completely different in the back.

One of the latest is a startup called dashdash, a startup out of Berlin and Porto that is building a platform for people, who might to be programmers but know their way around a spreadsheet, to use those skills to build, modify and update web apps.

The dashdash platform looks and acts like a spreadsheet up front, but behind the scenes, each ‘macro’ links to a web app computing feature, or a design element, to build something that ultimately will look nothing like a spreadsheet, bypassing all the lines of code that traditionally go into building web apps.

The startup is still in stealth mode, with plans to launch formally later this year. Today, it’s announcing that it has received $8 million in Series A funding to get there, with the round being led by Accel, with participation from Cherry Ventures, Atlantic Labs, and angel investors including Felix Jahn, founder of Home24. (It’s raised $9 million to date including a $1 seed.)

Co-founded by serial entrepreneurs Humberto Ayres Pereira and Torben Schulz — who had also been co-founders of food delivery startup EatFirst — Ayres Pereira said that the idea came out of their own observations in work life and the bottleneck of getting things fixed or modified in a company’s apps (both internal and customer-facing).

“People have a lot of frustration with the IT department, and their generally access to it,” he said in an interview. “If you are part of an internet business, it’s very hard to get features prioritised in an app, no matter how small they are. Tech is like a big train on iron tracks, and it can be hard to steer it in a different direction.”

On the other hand, even among the less technical staff, there will be proficiency with certain software, including spreadsheets. “Programming and spreadsheets already store and transform data,” Ayers Pereira said. “There are already a lot of people trying to do more with incumbent spreadsheets, and [combining that with] non-IT people frustrated at having no solution for working on apps, we saw an opportunity to use this to build an elegant platform the empower people. We can’t teach people to program but we can provide them with the tools to do the exact same job.”

While in stealth mode, he said that early users have ranged from smaller businesses such as pharmacies, to “a multi-billion-dollar internet company.” (No names, of course, but it’s interesting to me that this problem even exists at large tech businesses.)

Dashdash is not the only company that is tapping this opportunity. The other week, and IoT startup called Hanhaa launched a service that would let those using Hanhaa IoT sensors in their networks to monitor and interact with them by way of an Excel spreadsheet — another tip of the hat to the realisation that those who might need to keep tabs on devices in the network might not be the people who are the engineers and technicians who have set them up.

That, in turn, is part of a bigger effort from Microsoft to catapult Excel from its reputation as a piece of clunky legacy software into something much more dynamic, playing on the company’s push into cloud services and Office 365.

In September of 2017, Microsoft gave a developer preview of new “streaming functions” for Excel on Office 365, which lets developers, IT professionals and end users the ability to bring streams of data from a variety of sources such as websites, stock tickers and hardware directly into a cell or cells in an Excel spreadsheet, by way of a custom function. “Because Excel is so widely used and familiar to so many people, the ability to do all kinds of amazing things with that data and without complex integration is now possible,” said Ben Summers, a senior product manager for the Office 365 ecosystem team, in a statement to TechCrunch.

That ability to remove the bottleneck from web app building, combined with the track record of the founders, are two of the reasons that Accel decided to invest before the product even launched.

“We believe in dashdash’s mission to democratise app creation and are excited to back Humberto and Torben at such an early stage in their journey,” said Andrei Brasoveanu, the Accel principal who led the deal. “The team has the experience and vision to build a high-impact company that brings computing to the fingertips of a broad audience. Over the past decade we’ve seen a proliferation of web services and APIs, but regular business users still need to rely on central IT and colleagues with development skills to leverage these in their day-to-day processes. With dashdash anyone will be able to access these powerful web services directly with minimal effort, empowering them to automate their day to day tasks and work more effectively.”

With every tool that emerges that frees up accessibility to more people — be they employees or consumers — there are inevitably questions about how that power will be used. In the case of dashdash, my first thought is about those who I know who work in IT: they generally don’t want anyone able to modify or “fix” their code, lest it just creates more problems. And that’s before you start wondering about how all these democratised web apps will look, and if they might inadvertently will add to more overall UI and UX confusion.

Ayres Pereira said dash dash is mindful of the design question, and will introduce ways of helping to direct this, for example for companies to implement their own house styles. And similarly, a business can put in place other controls to help channel how webapps created through dashdash’s spreadsheet interface ultimately get applied.

[theinvinciblenoob]

Sometimes I think of spreadsheets as the dirty secret of the IT world today. We’ve seen a huge explosion in the number of productivity tools on the market tailored to help workers with different aspects of doing their job and organising their information, in part to keep them from simply dumping lots of information into Excel or whatever program they happen to use. And yet, spreadsheets are still one of the very, very most common pieces of software in use today: Excel alone now has around 1 billion users, and for those who are devotees, spreadsheets are not going to go away soon.

So it’s interesting that there are now startups — and larger companies like Microsoft — emerging that are tapping into that, creating new services that still appear like spreadsheets in the front end, while doing something completely in the back.

One of the latest is a startup called dashdash, a startup out of Berlin and Porto that is building a platform for people, who might to be programmers but know their way around a spreadsheet, to use those skills to build, modify and update web apps. The dashdash platform looks and acts like a spreadsheet up front, but in the back, each ‘macro’ links to a web app computing feature, or a design element, to build something that ultimately will look nothing like a spreadsheet, bypassing all the lines of code that traditionally go into building web apps.

The startup is still in stealth mode, with plans to launch formally later this year. Today, it’s announcing that it has received $8 million in seed funding to get there, with the round being led by Accel, with participation from Cherry Ventures, Atlantic Labs, and angel investors including Felix Jahn, founder of Home24.

Co-founded by serial entrepreneurs Humberto Ayres Pereira and Torben Schulz — who had also been co-founders of food delivery startup EatFirst — Ayres Pereira said that the idea came out of their own observations in work life and the bottleneck of getting things fixed or modified in a company’s apps (both internal and customer-facing).

“People have a lot of frustration with the IT department, and their generally access to it,” he said in an interview. “If you are part of an internet business, it’s very hard to get features prioritised in an app, no matter how small they are. Tech is like a big train on iron tracks, and it can be hard to steer it in a different direction.”

On the other hand, even among the less technical staff, there will be proficiency with certain software, including spreadsheets. “Programming and spreadsheets already store and transform data,” Ayers Pereira said. “There are already a lot of people trying to do more with incumbent spreadsheets, and [combining that with] non-IT people frustrated at having no solution for working on apps, we saw an opportunity to use this to build an elegant platform the empower people. We can’t teach people to program but we can provide them with the tools to do the exact same job.”

While in stealth mode, he said that early users have ranged from smaller businesses such as pharmacies, to “a multi-billion-dollar internet company.” (No names, of course, but it’s interesting to me that this problem even exists at large tech businesses.)

Dashdash is not the only company that is tapping this opportunity. The other week, and IoT startup called Hanhaa launched a service that would let those using Hanhaa IoT sensors in their networks to monitor and interact with them by way of an Excel spreadsheet — another tip of the hat to the realisation that those who might need to keep tabs on devices in the network might not be the people who are the engineers and technicians who have set them up.

That, in turn, is part of a bigger effort from Microsoft to catapult Excel from its reputation as a piece of clunky legacy software into something much more dynamic, playing on the company’s push into cloud services and Office 365.

In September of 2017, Microsoft gave a developer preview of new “streaming functions” for Excel on Office 365, which lets developers, IT professionals and end users the ability to bring streams of data from a variety of sources such as websites, stock tickers and hardware directly into a cell or cells in an Excel spreadsheet, by way of a custom function. “Because Excel is so widely used and familiar to so many people, the ability to do all kinds of amazing things with that data and without complex integration is now possible,” said Ben Summers, a senior product manager for the Office 365 ecosystem team, in a statement to TechCrunch.

That ability to remove the bottleneck from web app building, combined with the track record of the founders, are two of the reasons that Accel decided to invest before the product even launched.

“We believe in dashdash’s mission to democratise app creation and are excited to back Humberto and Torben at such an early stage in their journey,” said Andrei Brasoveanu, the Accel partner who led the deal. “The team has the experience and vision to build a high-impact company that brings computing to the fingertips of a broad audience. Over the past decade we’ve seen a proliferation of web services and APIs, but regular business users still need to rely on central IT and colleagues with development skills to leverage these in their day-to-day processes. With dashdash anyone will be able to access these powerful web services directly with minimal effort, empowering them to automate their day to day tasks and work more effectively.”

With every tool that emerges that frees up accessibility to more people — be they employees or consumers — there are inevitably questions about how that power will be used. In the case of dashdash, my first thought is about those who I know who work in IT: they generally don’t want anyone able to modify or “fix” their code, lest it just creates more problems. And that’s before you start wondering about how all these democratised web apps will look, and if they might inadvertently will add to more overall UI and UX confusion.

Ayres Pereira said dash dash is mindful of the design question, and will introduce ways of helping to direct this, for example for companies to implement their own house styles. And similarly, a business can put in place other controls to help channel how webapps created through dashdash’s spreadsheet interface ultimately get applied.

  via TechCrunch

[hi99b33]

Are you currently employed as a Pharm Tech in the US? I only ask because I was a PT @ CVS for 3 years, and CVS paid me to take both my state & national certification exams. If you're not currently employed in the field, I would recommend applying for jobs at local retail chain pharmacies like Walgreens and CVS. You'll still have to complete their internal technician training regardless of what certifications you have, but they'll pay your for work and training time, and for exam time.

No I’ve been trying too!! I didn’t think it was that hard to get hired by cvs. And the funny thing is the program associated with CVS and yet no call backs. Also, I want to go for the national exams so I can go out of state with it.

[abckidstvyara]

Sometimes I think of spreadsheets as the dirty secret of the IT world today. We’ve seen a huge explosion in the number of productivity tools on the market tailored to help workers with different aspects of doing their job and organising their information, in part to keep them from simply dumping lots of information into Excel or whatever program they happen to use. And yet, spreadsheets are still one of the very, very most common pieces of software in use today to organise and share information: Excel alone now has around 1 billion users, and for those who are devotees, spreadsheets are not going to go away soon.

So it’s interesting that there are now startups — and larger companies like Microsoft — emerging that are tapping into that, creating new services that still appear like spreadsheets in the front end, while doing something completely different in the back.

One of the latest is a startup called dashdash, a startup out of Berlin and Porto that is building a platform for people, who might to be programmers but know their way around a spreadsheet, to use those skills to build, modify and update web apps.

The dashdash platform looks and acts like a spreadsheet up front, but behind the scenes, each ‘macro’ links to a web app computing feature, or a design element, to build something that ultimately will look nothing like a spreadsheet, bypassing all the lines of code that traditionally go into building web apps.

The startup is still in stealth mode, with plans to launch formally later this year. Today, it’s announcing that it has received $8 million in Series A funding to get there, with the round being led by Accel, with participation from Cherry Ventures, Atlantic Labs, and angel investors including Felix Jahn, founder of Home24. (It’s raised $9 million to date including a $1 seed.)

Co-founded by serial entrepreneurs Humberto Ayres Pereira and Torben Schulz — who had also been co-founders of food delivery startup EatFirst — Ayres Pereira said that the idea came out of their own observations in work life and the bottleneck of getting things fixed or modified in a company’s apps (both internal and customer-facing).

“People have a lot of frustration with the IT department, and their generally access to it,” he said in an interview. “If you are part of an internet business, it’s very hard to get features prioritised in an app, no matter how small they are. Tech is like a big train on iron tracks, and it can be hard to steer it in a different direction.”

On the other hand, even among the less technical staff, there will be proficiency with certain software, including spreadsheets. “Programming and spreadsheets already store and transform data,” Ayers Pereira said. “There are already a lot of people trying to do more with incumbent spreadsheets, and [combining that with] non-IT people frustrated at having no solution for working on apps, we saw an opportunity to use this to build an elegant platform the empower people. We can’t teach people to program but we can provide them with the tools to do the exact same job.”

While in stealth mode, he said that early users have ranged from smaller businesses such as pharmacies, to “a multi-billion-dollar internet company.” (No names, of course, but it’s interesting to me that this problem even exists at large tech businesses.)

Dashdash is not the only company that is tapping this opportunity. The other week, and IoT startup called Hanhaa launched a service that would let those using Hanhaa IoT sensors in their networks to monitor and interact with them by way of an Excel spreadsheet — another tip of the hat to the realisation that those who might need to keep tabs on devices in the network might not be the people who are the engineers and technicians who have set them up.

That, in turn, is part of a bigger effort from Microsoft to catapult Excel from its reputation as a piece of clunky legacy software into something much more dynamic, playing on the company’s push into cloud services and Office 365.

In September of 2017, Microsoft gave a developer preview of new “streaming functions” for Excel on Office 365, which lets developers, IT professionals and end users the ability to bring streams of data from a variety of sources such as websites, stock tickers and hardware directly into a cell or cells in an Excel spreadsheet, by way of a custom function. “Because Excel is so widely used and familiar to so many people, the ability to do all kinds of amazing things with that data and without complex integration is now possible,” said Ben Summers, a senior product manager for the Office 365 ecosystem team, in a statement to TechCrunch.

That ability to remove the bottleneck from web app building, combined with the track record of the founders, are two of the reasons that Accel decided to invest before the product even launched.

“We believe in dashdash’s mission to democratise app creation and are excited to back Humberto and Torben at such an early stage in their journey,” said Andrei Brasoveanu, the Accel principal who led the deal. “The team has the experience and vision to build a high-impact company that brings computing to the fingertips of a broad audience. Over the past decade we’ve seen a proliferation of web services and APIs, but regular business users still need to rely on central IT and colleagues with development skills to leverage these in their day-to-day processes. With dashdash anyone will be able to access these powerful web services directly with minimal effort, empowering them to automate their day to day tasks and work more effectively.”

With every tool that emerges that frees up accessibility to more people — be they employees or consumers — there are inevitably questions about how that power will be used. In the case of dashdash, my first thought is about those who I know who work in IT: they generally don’t want anyone able to modify or “fix” their code, lest it just creates more problems. And that’s before you start wondering about how all these democratised web apps will look, and if they might inadvertently will add to more overall UI and UX confusion.

Ayres Pereira said dash dash is mindful of the design question, and will introduce ways of helping to direct this, for example for companies to implement their own house styles. And similarly, a business can put in place other controls to help channel how webapps created through dashdash’s spreadsheet interface ultimately get applied.