Talking Yourself Up: How to Score Points During an Interview and What to do After It's Over
Anthony Brown has always been good at pharmaceutical medicine, but recently he's become a pro at being interviewed as well. Just 1 month and two interviews after graduating from St. John's University in Queens, New York with a bachelor's degree in toxicology and chemistry in May 2005, Brown landed a job in the pharmaceutical industry as a quality assurance professional, doing safety assessment and regulatory work for the company's pharmaceutical and biotech clients. Read more
The Persuasion Gap: Engineering Educators May be Missing the Chance to Influence Graduates' Career Choices
Do students who complete engineering majors pursue engineering-related careers? Not necessarily. Wrestling with career choices, graduates often reach impulsive and transitory decisions. Institutions and family wield important influence, and students can be disproportionately swayed by single experiences, be they internships, interactions with faculty, or advice from mentors. Yet seldom, it seems, do they get career guidance from engineering educators. Read more
ACM and Partners Applaud "National Computer Science Education Week" to Advance Computing’s Role in Preparing Skilled Workers and Creating Career Opportunities
ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) joins with several partners from the computing community to commend the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of a resolution to raise the profile of computer science as a transforming industry that drives technology innovation and bolsters economic productivity. The resolution,
H. RES. 558, sponsored by Congressmen Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) and Jared Polis (D-CO), designates the week of December 7 as “National Computer Science Education Week.”
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