Jenny: And our reader who is changing careers might want to first do research on
career fields of interest and informational interviews with people in those careers.
Encourage your student to identify several
career fields of interest.
As a career builder, internships are a chance to gain exposure to
career fields of interest without making a permanent commitment.
Join groups for your college and
career fields of interest.
Research
some career fields of interest so you can share some possible targets (it can be more than one area if you present a solid rationale for targeting each career).
LinkedIn is another great resource for finding contacts in specific
career fields of interest.
Sample job search networking letter for send to set up an informational interview or to obtain job search assistance by networking from a contact in
your career field of interest.
Say you are reading about a company or organization in one of your classes and, given
your career field of interest, you believe it would be a great fit for the type of experience you are looking to get.
Virtual Internships are an excellent way to gain skills in
your career field of interest.
Examples might include an «elevator speech» summarizing your interests and assets targeted towards
a career field of interest or a brief show and tell regarding a successful academic or work project.
Professional • Explore career fields and find out what you like and don't like to do • Gain relevant real - world experience to enhance your resume • Observe professional people and behavior • Develop networking skills and gain professional contacts in
your career field of interest • Be more competitive in your full - time job search and / or graduate school applications
Not exact matches
With these kind
of numbers in mind, it's clear that adding some coding know - how to your toolkit is a wise investment in your
career future, whether or not you're specifically
interested in developer roles — since having programming skills means you can work in virtually any
field.
If you've thought
of working in the healthcare
field but aren't particularly
interested in seven years
of medical school, a
career in audiology or speech - language pathology might be
of interest to you.
They have great
career opportunities, a never - ending supply
of interesting work, competitive compensation, wonderful benefits, great people, wonderful training programs, a tremendous number
of brilliant professionals in their
fields ready to help, and great core values.»
The Edison Awards recently spoke with Hattar about her
interest in science, what misconceptions she feels people have about the
fields and some
of her
career highlights.
The Edison Awards recently spoke with Rofougaran about her
interest in science, what misconceptions she feels people have about the
fields and some
of her
career highlights.
To discover the possibilities: First click on your
field of interest, which includes
careers in Marketing, Operations, Finance or Sales.
Her
career and
interests span the
fields of science, art, spirituality, consciousness, psychology, healing and education, all
of which she incorporates as a therapist and adult educator, and on occasion, as a lazure artist.
McGraw - Hill authors represent the leading experts in their
fields and are dedicated to improving the lives,
careers, and
interests of readers worldwide
Rodriguez has also been working with a group
of 50 Dominican professionals from the
fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to create an organization that will mentor local students
interested in STEM - focused
careers.
Life at the Bottleneck by Ruth Müller, 26 October 2012 Upon realizing, as a scholar
of science and technology studies, that success and failure in academia depend on more than personal effort, Ruth Müller made it a point to identify other potential
interests and
fields of occupation to increase her resilience to
career anxieties.
You will be able to set up a professional profile, join groups belonging to our nine affiliated professional societies, discuss
career issues, arrange to give a talk at a neighboring lab, establish a research collaboration, or locate a mentor or a protégé in your
field of scientific
interest.
One
of Prasher's
interests is Civil War reenactments, and from his perch in 2011, he imagines a reenactment
of his early
career: If only he had networked with other scientists and institutions, especially when he felt isolated, he says today, he might have stayed in the
field of bioluminescence or at least in science.
Students
interested in doing a Ph.D. and pursuing a research
career in the
field of MBE typically complete degrees in cognitive neuroscience, psychology, educational psychology, or education — with significant training in the complementary
fields mixed in.
«Brief exposure to charismatic
career women inspires female students to pursue same
field: Easy, inexpensive experiment briefly sent inspiring role models into intro to econ classes and sharply increased college female
interest in the male - dominated, well - paying
field of economics.»
The students, Tracy Nelson and Emily Towler, sorted through rosters
of SMU economics alums and shortlisted 18 men and women that they thought were working in
interesting fields — which purposely excluded stereotypical jobs in banking and finance — and then carried out scripted interviews with a subset
of who agreed to be interviewed via Skype to get additional information about their
career path and to assess their charisma.
So it is also a good idea for biologists
interested in pursuing a
career in the microarray / biotechnology
field to be computer savvy and have a working knowledge
of statistics.
Watkins says college students
interested in a
career in anthropology should take introductory courses in cultural anthropology or physical anthropology; these courses give the best overview
of the
field and are offered at many colleges and universities.
If you are
interested in a
career in research, getting involved in a research program over the summer is one
of the best ways to truly get a taste
of life at the bench, but depending on your
field of study, your «bench» may be the dense foliage
of the Amazon jungle (see» For the Love
of Nature» by Dr. Emilio Bruna).
At least, nuclear, upper atmospheric, and ocean sciences connote certain
fields of training and the sorts
of things that
interest scientists making
careers of those
fields.
By this stage
of her
career, Wood knew which labs were doing cutting edge work in her
field of interest.
In a survey
of nearly 6,000 doctoral students in a broad range
of fields, more than a third
of the students with plans to pursue postdocs said they had more
interest in
careers outside
of academic research.
Students exposed directly to work environments in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)
fields are more likely to decide to follow paths that will lead to such
careers, according to the findings of «Vocational Anticipatory Socialization of Adolescents: Messages, Sources, and Frameworks that Influence Interest in STEM Careers,» published online today in the National Communication Association's Journal of Applied Communication Re
careers, according to the findings
of «Vocational Anticipatory Socialization
of Adolescents: Messages, Sources, and Frameworks that Influence
Interest in STEM
Careers,» published online today in the National Communication Association's Journal of Applied Communication Re
Careers,» published online today in the National Communication Association's Journal
of Applied Communication Research.
An amateur
interest in photography could be combined with a
career in science to provide a novel step toward work in the
field of the public understanding
of science or scientific photography.
UTA also has started unmanned vehicle systems undergraduate and graduate certificates for students
interested in
careers in one
of the nation's most exciting engineering
fields.
I particularly enjoyed connecting with the other young scientists, and I became aware
of many
interesting research
fields and opportunities for potential future collaborations and
career steps.
After the game was over, Chudler gave a short talk encouraging the students to pursue
careers in neuroscience, neural engineering and STEM
fields, advising the group to let their own
interests be their guide when choosing a
field of study and possible
career.
We have developed a professional
interest and a person
interest in this
field, and will continue work in this
field for the rest
of our
careers.
To increase the number
of students
interested in STEM
careers, especially in scientific and medical
fields, the Gladstone Institutes supports summer internships for community college students through the Promoting Underrepresented Minorities Advancing in the Sciences (PUMAS) program.
Specifically, I got deeply
interested in two
fields that would mark the rest
of my scientific
career until today: symbiosis research and the study
of the major transitions in evolution.
Early in her
career she became
interested in the
field of Molecular Biology.
James started his
career as an investment banker, but he had studied health economics, which is a really
interesting field because we're looking at not just economics but we're looking at how do people spend their money to live longer, and feel better, and to stay well, and decided after a year in banking that he wanted to work with integrative medicine or functional medicine, and he founded something called Evolution
of Medicine, which is an eCommerce platform that lets doctors manage their practices better with customized tools and things like that so they can become more functional doctors, just to make it easier for the transition to come from basically a trained representative
of Big Pharma.
Early in his
career, he became
interested in the sequelae
of chronic toxicity (especially lead, mercury, environmental pollutants and electromagnetic
fields) for the course
of illness.
For those
of you who've never heard
of an informational interview, it's essentially an opportunity to meet with a professional in your
field of interest, chat about their
career path, and the
field in which they work, and ask for any
career advice they have.
He gained an
interest in acting while a senior in high school, but he had no idea
of how to pursue a professional
career in the
field.
A lack
of Native Americans in the
field of science initially prompted the Jack Kent Cooke Dissertation Fellowship recipient to study how middle school students become
interested in science, possibly leading to
careers in the science and technology
fields.
But what is especially satisfying and
interesting is that this is the first time the award was given to people who have spent their entire
careers in the
fields of education and adult development rather than management...
The free resources,
field - tested by teachers, are being used in middle school, high school, and college classes, building the pipeline
of students
interested in STEM
careers.
HGSE is well situated to develop a
field - building program and train a new generation
of early
career researchers, building on current research, faculty, doctoral student
interests, and activities relating to civic learning and civic action.
Instructional Design is a continually evolving
field that will keep you
interested and engaged over the course
of your Instructional Design
career.