After many meetings, strained nerves, research and late or sleepless nights, the opportunity came when, on behalf of our group, I petitioned our school board to not only fully renovate our building, but enhance it with a Career Technology wing and a first class auditorium.
Since he had spent his career in technology, he thought it would be interesting if it was a service business.
It will provide IT skills training and softer-skills training on topics including leadership, self-confidence and interviewing, as well as the mentorship needed to build a long-term career in technology.
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In 2011, I gave up a career in information technology to start my own company.
Hill, 67, retired from a career in educational technology a few years ago and moved to Placitas, N.
Not only is their portrayal as an anomaly false, it also makes aspiring career women assume technology is not for them.
Some studies found that women are more likely to stay in a technology career where they are allowed to affect a human issue.
In my prior career in information technology, I advanced pretty rapidly.
The program is also funding statewide training for librarians so that they can provide job search, career development and technology assistance to patrons including many Latinos.
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Born in the UK, Eke went to university and began a career in information technology that lasted for five years before deciding to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming an actress in Nigeria.
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Alan Hill, one of the ten people profiled in the book, had a long career in educational technology, including a stint working at Apple in Cupertino, CA. He is now retired and is a full-time investor .
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If you already have a career in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics, reach out to young women around you and offer your support as a mentor.
Jules started her career as industrial designer for technology companies, and was subsequently a senior executive for large brands such as Keds, Stride Rite and Playskool.
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His interest in financial issues prompted him to get a mid-career MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006.
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Eventually, his career morphed until he became a technology consultant for nonprofits.
There are plenty of modern books to help them answer that question, but most of them fall into one of three broad categories: the strategic guide, a technology focus, or career advice.
Streaming has been one of the most important advances in technology as far as my career is concerned.
Technology is actually his second career: In the late 1930s, he played professional football for the Richmond Arrows and the New York Giants.
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An engineer from the elite Indian Institute of Technology, he started his career as a low-paid software engineer at a time when India's outsourcing industry was still to take off.
The closer a career relates to military expertise (managing, technology, etc.), the greater the possibility of earning more than if one entered an entirely different job market.
He later became a neuroscientist, now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spending most of his career doing basic research on how the brain's cells form connections during learning.
While working as a marketing writer early in my career, I got an unusual assignment from a technology company.
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When women think about careers in science and technology, they may wrongly believe the career would be one of isolation and lack of human contact, envisioning a lone scientist working in a lab or on a computer.
This led to a fascinating career path that began with the explosion of Silicon Valley technology drawing the film business toNorthern California.
Kevin Murray, a prosthetist at the UK's National Center for Prosthetics and Orthotics, says advances in materials and technology have been dramatic since he began his career.
David is a product of both Princeton and Harvard education, but throughout his distinguished career, he has been an author, screenwriter, technology inventor, recognized leader, and adviser for the White House and various other Federal government agencies.
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To address the need for a more analytical-skilled workforce, Ohio State and IBM are collaborating on new business and technology curricula to help students and mid-career professionals gain the latest skills in analytics and prepare for high value jobs in the future.
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