Posts Tagged ‘ Career ’

Michelle Obama Supports Girls in STEM Majors and Careers

The unfortunate phenomenon of elementary-aged girls becoming interested in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) subjects, going off to college intending to major in and then pursue a career in one of those fields, and ultimately veering off somewhat sharply into less science-and-math rich majors and careers is common. [ READ MORE ]

What Can I Do With A Major In…?

UC Berkeley has a cool page on their site that allows you to click on any of their given majors and get a write-up of what you can do with said major (i.e., grad school, job)[ READ MORE ]

How To Land A Mentor

Those giants are called mentors, and every chucklehead youngin’ like yourself wants one. The more awesome a mentor, the more sought out they are. This has the unfortunate effect of making them ignore most of the tweedle-dums who come begging for their priceless advice and knowledge[ READ MORE ]

Not A Real Life, Not A Real Job

For the love of all things holy, please do not aspire to this as it is not a valid career choice: Virtual Pet Owners Now Hiring Virtual Pet Sitters[ READ MORE ]

Math Is Hard!

Not really. I adore math and all its perfect logic. I’ve ranted before about math and smart girls and the general idea that being capable of doing something well has nothing to do with gender, race, sex, or your ass’ ability to sprout wings[ READ MORE ]

Job Market Less Than Kind To Recent College Grads

The NY Times has the newest studies and infographics on how new college graduates are faring in this wicked-fun economy. Basically, the higher-educated are working for pennies in jobs totally unrelated to their fields of study. Debt resulting from all that higher-ed tuition and all those textbooks is insane ($20,000 is standard), and must sting [ READ MORE ]

Positive Outlook for Future Careers in Alzheimer’s Research

When the sh*t is actively hitting the fan in large amounts, everyone who was supposed to be dealing with the crap in the first place suddenly starts running around like their hair is on fire, desperately scrounging for a solution. [ READ MORE ]

Making the Summer Internship Work for You

There seems to be some theory in the offing that insists there's a direct correlation between one's future trajectory and one's summer break activities. [ READ MORE ]

Multi-Tasking Medical Assistants

If Awesome Multi-Tasker is one of your special skills, you might want to consider adding 'medical assistant' to your list of career options[ READ MORE ]

Lindsey Pollak’s Top 10 Job Hunting Tips of 2010

It’s next year, which tends to trigger heaps of clean-slate thoughts and lots of getting-shit-done inspiration. For anyone wanting advice regarding career development/improvement, or maybe just a job, Lindsay Pollack has rounded up her Top 10 Job Hunting Tips of [ READ MORE ]