Look again at Twitter. Here's an article about it in Mashable - 15 Twitter Accounts for Incredible Science Facts. Notice that the folks doing the Twittering are people like Neal deGrasse Tyson, Chris Hadfield, Carl Zimmer, and Bill Nye -…
Originally published in Career Change for Academics, in May, 2014 Here’s a really interesting look at the potential for individually-tailored freedom to learn within higher education in the future. Stanford 2025 At first, it looks like a self-serving description of how…
Originated more than 50 years ago in the context of job and employment tools, the Dependable Strengths Articulation Process has stood the test of time and is flowering anew in the context of coaching and positive psychology. Coaches are now…
Resources on Networking for Academics http://www.pewinternet.org/files/old-media/Files/Reports/2013/Social%20Networking%202013_PDF.pdf Pew Report on Networking, 2013 http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/03/07/millennials-in-adulthood/ Pew 2014 Millennials now 18-32 http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/sep/26/academic-conference-five-tips-research useful article on networking at a conference http://thesiswhisperer.com/2010/09/23/top-five-ways-to-better-academic-networking/ article on improving networking among academics http://infospace.ischool.syr.edu/2012/06/21/social-networking-for-academics-and-scholars an older article that reviews 5 social…
Note that, while many tools are available now, this article is compiled also from the advice and experience in many articles listed in Google searches for “online interviews.” I also got wonderful suggestions, both from colleagues I know face-to-face and…
More important than the title on your degree... Ask yourself "What skills have I gained?" and then focus on the skills you most want to use. Historians have a wide range of transferable skills, 99% of which are marketable. The…
So you're a scientist and you say Twitter is totally useless to you? Look at this article in Mashable - they list "15 Twitter Accounts for Incredible Science Facts." http://mashable.com/2013/11/06/twitter-science-facts/?utm_cid=mash-prod-email-topstories&utm_emailalert=daily&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily Yes, they're a little more like factoids, but it's real…
I'm just back from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where 11 career counselor-types took the new 2-day version of our Dependable Strengths for College workshop/training. The evaluations look great and I saw a lot of enthusiasm and appreciation for…
Books The Start-Up of You, Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha I’m on LinkedIn – Now What? Jason Alba How to REALLY Use LinkedIn Jan Vermeiren and Bert Verdonck (free download at http://www.how-to-really-use-linkedin.com/) LinkedIn Success Wayne Breithbart Job Searching With Social…