Archive for April, 2010
Employers nix more and more job applicants after reviewing social networking sites
Friday, April 30th, 2010College students prepping for life after graduation may want to take a closer look at their social networking profiles before they lose out on potential jobs.
Read article by Harry Locke here
Fulbright Foreign Students Convene in Washington, D.C. to Foster Change Through Social Entrepreneurship
Friday, April 30th, 2010On April 29-May 2, approximately 63 Fulbright students representing more than 47 countries will convene in Washington, D.C. at a Fulbright Enrichment Seminar hosted by the U.S. Department of State to explore social entrepreneurship as a model to address shared challenges in the areas of environmental sustainability, public health, education and economic and social equity.
Fulbright Enrichment Seminar participants, studying at institutions throughout the United States, will contribute their global perspectives as academically gifted and socially engaged individuals to a variety of activities designed to stimulate discussion on social entrepreneurship. Continue reading here
In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits
Friday, April 30th, 2010
In an age of open source, custom-fabricated, DIY product design, all you need to conquer the world is a brilliant idea.
Photo: Dan Winters
Read the Chris Anderson’s essay here
Just Doing It
Friday, April 30th, 2010By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
You’ve heard that saying: As General Motors goes, so goes America. Thank goodness that is no longer true. I mean, I wish the new G.M. well, but our economic future is no longer tied to its fate. No, my new motto is: As EndoStim goes, so goes America.
EndoStim is a little start-up I was introduced to on a recent visit to St. Louis. The company is developing a proprietary implantable medical device to treat acid reflux. I have no idea if the product will succeed in the marketplace. It’s still in testing. What really interests me about EndoStim is how the company was formed and is being run today. It is the epitome of the new kind of start-ups we need to propel our economy: a mix of new immigrants, using old money to innovate in a flat world. Continue reading here
How to Get & Stay Hired at a Startup
Thursday, April 29th, 2010This week, Urban Interns, a national marketplace that connects small businesses with people seeking part-time jobs and internships couldn’t help noticing that so many of their positions are based with “startups”- and by this they mean businesses that appear to be relatively young and still in high-growth mode. They might be innovators in their spaces, or they might be jumping on a trend – either way, these can be some of the most exciting but risky jobs. While you may end up at the next Google, you can also end up at the next Kozmo. (If you don’t remember that one, just let it go – we’re showing our age.) And these can be incredible opportunities to work directly with founding teams. If you’re interested in entrepreneurship yourself one day, listen up. Continue reading here
Entrepreneur Summit
Thursday, April 29th, 2010President Barack Obama hosted a Presidential Summit on entrepreneurship this month in Washington. This year, the focus was on the entrepreneurism in Muslim majority countries. Philip Alexiou has more in this edition of Money In Motion.
Best Employers for the Class of 2010
Thursday, April 29th, 2010Things are looking better for this year’s graduating class than last year’s. Employers expect to hire 5.3% more college graduates in 2010 than they did in 2009, giving the job market for college grads the best hiring outlook it has seen in nearly two years.
Preliminary reports show that the strongest areas of employment will be in Accounting, Engineering, and Retail/Wholesale as the top employers extending offers to 2010 college grads. The technical fields of Accounting and Engineering, which have traditionally been the most active in hiring recent college grads over the years, continue to see high demand.
After analyzing preliminary hiring reports, recruiting trends, and multiple employer rankings, we have ranked this year’s best bets for employment. Continue reading here
Source : CampusGrotto
Interns Head Abroad for Work Experience
Thursday, April 29th, 2010Students with few job prospects are increasingly heading overseas to add international experience to their résumés.
With the entry-level job that new college graduates used to snap up increasingly hard to come by, those starting out now have to look farther afield for that first gig. Employers said they expected to hire 7% fewer college graduates in 2010 vs. the previous year, according to a survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges & Employers (NACE) last fall, and recruiting remains down on many college campuses this spring. For many students, that signals it is time for a different approach. Increasingly, a growing number of them are securing an internship abroad to gain some work experience and then coming back to the U.S. to launch their careers. Those just a few months out of school are heading everywhere from Israel to Germany, snapping up sought-after jobs in government, nonprofits, and high-tech companies. Continue reading here
Source : Businessweek
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An Editorialist’s Opinion of How to Write Better
Monday, April 26th, 2010This week on WORDMASTER: Another voice from the recent Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages convention in Boston. Patricia Kelvin has a doctorate in the teaching of writing. She was an award-winning editorial writer on a newspaper. And she says thinking like an editorial writer can help students improve their writing.
“So much of English writing is based on writing about literature, which is because most English teachers are first and foremost literature teachers rather than writing teachers. On the other hand, the kinds of writings that most students will do in their futures doesn’t really have to do with writing about something that’s already been written.
“And if you look at what a journalist does in editorial writing, they’re writing about something that’s very topical. They have to find out information about that topic. They have to develop arguments for the newspaper’s position. They have to be able to refute the arguments of anybody who’s opposed to that. And they need to do it very quickly, and they need to do it in a relatively short way. You can’t write a thousand-word editorial, for example.” Continue reading here
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Source : VOA News
American Colleges are Going Green
Monday, April 26th, 2010The nickname of sports teams at Tulane University in New Orleans is the Green Wave. North Texas University’s squads are the Mean Green. Once called the Indians, Dartmouth College’s teams are now the Big Green.
Green is in in college sports. But there’s an even bigger green wave in the classroom.
Last year alone, colleges and universities across the country created more than 100 major or minor programs in energy, sustainability, environmental studies and other so-called green subjects. Continue reading here
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Source : VOA News
Photo: Oberlin College