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The 8 Negotiation Skills You Need—Whether You’re Job Searching or Not

Let’s say you’re conducting a job search and aiming for an annual salary of $100,000, but a company you’ve interviewed with offers you $87,000. You could grudgingly accept it, walk away, or try to negotiate.

You decide to negotiate and …

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Professional Presentation | How to Build and Share Your Story

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Professional presentation—how you choose to build and share your professional story—is a major factor that can shape your career in the social-impact sector. Whether you are exploring pathways for growth at your current organization or seeking new …

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How to Develop Strong Followership Skills

If you aspire to hold a leadership role one day, you first need to learn how to be a great follower. Today, many organizations are pushing back on leadership-centric structures and instead relying on team-centered approaches—which depend on active followership …

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Here’s What You Should—and Shouldn’t—Capitalize on Your Resume

As a career coach, I’ve worked alongside recruiters and heard their complaints as they review resumes. I remember one squinting at the screen as she tried to read a resume with tiny font, and another telling me she doesn’t even …

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What to Do When Employers Are Ignoring You

You’ve spent hours writing your resume, searching job sites, and applying to different roles—only to receive rejection after rejection. And that’s if you even hear back about your application at all. After a while, this all gets pretty exhausting, and …

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After Effects Apprentice: 06 Type and Music

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One of the cornerstones of motion graphics is creating and animating type. In this course, Trish Meyer shows how to…

Revit 2025: Essential Training for Architecture

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Autodesk Revit is the industry-standard tool for practicing building information modeling, or BIM. In this course, author and consultant Paul…

After Effects Compositing: 4 Color Keying

Taught by Mark Christiansen
Color keying, also known as chroma keying, lets you shoot a foreground scene and insert it into virtually any background;…

After Effects Compositing: 2 Matching Foreground to Background

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Creating a moving shot that is made up of disparate elements and looks as though it was taken all at…

After Effects Compositing: 5 Rotoscoping & Edges

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So you’ve decided to rotoscope. Performing a “roto,” an animated selection with masking and paint tools, is time consuming, but…

After Effects Compositing: 6 Tracking and Stabilization

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Tracking is one of the most powerful ways to make your After Effects work more sophisticated, and one of the…

After Effects Compositing: 3 Advanced Matching and Looks

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Compositing is all about matching, and in this course we go beyond the fundamentals of matching foreground and background, into…

After Effects Apprentice: 09 Expressions

Taught by Trish Meyer
Expressions are one of the most powerful but underused features in After Effects. They can be used to animate layer…

After Effects Apprentice: 07 Parenting

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Parenting is a way to group multiple layers within the same composition inside After Effects. In this course, Chris Meyer…

After Effects Apprentice: 10 Time Games

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Discover how to manipulate time in After Effects. Author Chris Meyer shows how to stop, slow, and speed up footage,…

After Effects Apprentice: 04 Layer Control

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In this installment of After Effects Apprentice, Chris Meyer focuses on ways to edit and enhance layers in After Effects…

The Power of PreViz at One & Co

Taught by Richard Koci Hernandez
In this installment of The Power of PreViz, Dane Howard meets with the leaders of One & Co, an industrial…

After Effects Apprentice: 12 Tracking and Keying

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Explore how to use the motion tracker and stabilizer built into After Effects and shows how to handle a variety…

After Effects Apprentice: 11 3D Space

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This installment of the After Effects Apprentice series introduces 3D space in Adobe After Effects. Authors Chris and Trish Meyer…

After Effects Apprentice: 13 Paint Roto and Puppet

Taught by Trish Meyer
In this course, Trish and Chris Meyer introduce a series of creative tools inside Adobe After Effects. The centerpiece is…

After Effects Apprentice: 14 Shape Layers

Taught by Trish Meyer
In this course, author Chris Meyer shows how to create and animate vector-based artwork directly inside Adobe After Effects. The…

After Effects Apprentice: 02 Basic Animation

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Trish Meyer leads beginners through a gentle introduction to Adobe After Effects: from creating a new project and importing sources,…

After Effects Apprentice: 03 Advanced Animation

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In this course, Chris Meyer helps beginning After Effects artists take their animations to the next level. Chris shows how…

After Effects Apprentice: 01 Pre-Roll

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This short course is designed for those who have never used Adobe After Effects, or those who might need a…

The Power of PreViz at BMW Group DesignworksUSA

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PreViz, or previsualization, harnesses the power of visual preplanning in envisioning and designing products and workflows before prototyping begins. In…