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Portraits Revisited: Voices from the Document Control Community
Career · 29. June 2026
Portraits Revisited shares insights from Document Control professionals around the world, highlighting career paths, confidence, risk management and the value of the profession.

Document Controller Skills: What Employers Really Expect
Career · 29. June 2026
What skills do employers really expect from a Document Controller? This article explains the key competencies behind effective Document Control, from accuracy and revision control to communication, judgement, confidentiality and risk awareness.

What a Document Controller Does: Roles and Responsibilities
Career · 05. February 2025
This article explains the role of a Document Controller, outlining core responsibilities, governance principles, and how Document Control supports risk management, compliance, and operational reliability across document-intensive environments.

Getting trained and certified by Consepsys: What is the return on investment?
Career · 29. May 2023
What are the benefits and the return on investment of getting trained and certified by Consepsys?

How to ask your employer to fund your training [Templates and Tips included]
Career · 29. May 2023
Getting trained and certified benefits both you and your company; it’s a win-win situation: You gain knowledge and recognition while becoming a more skilled and productive employee. So it’s fair to ask your employer if they would pay for your training, education or certification, as it will also bring value to the organisation. But, for many, this conversation might feel uncomfortable. That’s why we have listed 10 tips to help you approach this conversation confidently.

Avoiding Process Blindness
Career · 12. April 2023
The majority of professionals suffers from the fact that their interfaces do not understand how much work goes behind tasks, and the processes that professionals must go through. A typical example is that many users expect their documents to be distributed within five minutes of having sent it to the Document Controller. Users who behave like that exhibit a condition that we will call “Process Blindness” for the purpose of this article.

Understanding How To Interact With Your Work Interfaces – Personality Types
Career · 12. April 2023
In the workplace, it can be difficult to deal with the various personalities that we face on a day-to-day basis. Naturally, each of us finds affinities with certain people, aversion towards some people and neutrality towards the rest. Most people get along just fine with most other people in the work environment. Most people, but not all people. It can be very interesting to actually understand our own personality, that of other people, and the reasons why there is an affinity or a dislike.

How to be more credible in meetings
Career · 05. November 2021
Meetings are an interesting moment in the workplace because not only they can be a great forum to share progress, accomplishments, issues and concerns, but they are also a place where you can shine and build a strong professional image. Or on the contrary, if it is not handled properly, your credibility can go down quite quickly. So what to do to be more credible in meetings?

Gift to self: End of year career review
Career · 05. November 2021
The end of the year is a natural time for reflection: what have I accomplished this year? What am I most proud of? What are my goals for next year? Too often, we tend to jump from one year to another without really taking the time to take a step back and reflect. So why not make a special gift to yourself in the end of year period and offer yourself a career self-review?

New to Document Control? A way forward
Career · 05. November 2021
The Document Control profession attracts newcomers every year, and there’s no wonder why: it’s a really interesting position, at the heart of efficiency, quality, traceability. It is also really varied as you can work in many different industries, projects, environments, and locations: there are Document Control professionals in all countries. However, it is a profession that cannot be improvised, especially as there are rules to be followed, reasons for these rules, and values to be protect

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