PowerPoint skills test not required, if you're a soldier
Posted by EmployTest - on Mon, May 03, 2010 @ 03:42 PM
Elizabeth Bumiller's kind of funny, kind of disturbing, article from last week talks about how dependent the US military is on Microsoft's PowerPoint program. Everyone from the top commanders in Washington down to the field level combat officers often spend hours a day creating PowerPoint slides.
From The New York Times...
Gen. David H. Petraeus, who oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and says that sitting through some PowerPoint briefings is “just agony,” nonetheless likes the program for the display of maps and statistics showing trends.
The so-called "Death by PowerPoint" hasn't actually been blamed for military mishaps, but if you are looking PowerPoint experts, you might be well served to search the ranks of our military. And we may call on them ourselves when we're developing the next round of PowerPoint skills tests.
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