Whether you’re currently employed, or are actively seeking (as in, job-hunting is your full-time occupation), one of the most important things that you can do is to build your Portfolio. We talked about your Portfolio in this previous blogpost, with examples of how to use GitHub, LinkedIn, and your personal domain as “Portfolio bases.” Your… Continue reading Writing to Get Your Next Job: Five Essential Rules
Category: Career Strategies
Building Your Online Portfolio (A Collection of Useful Links)
One of the strongest things that we can do to position ourselves – for the next career move, and also for creating a new tier of powerful professional relations – is to build our online Portfolio. This post provides links to good Portfolio examples for three different cases: This post provides a collection of useful… Continue reading Building Your Online Portfolio (A Collection of Useful Links)
Up a Level
Have you ever played one of those video games where, after you’ve done suitable glorious deeds and collected many trophies, you are rewarded with going “up a level” in your game? OK, you probably have. I haven’t. The last time that I played a video game, the user interaction was something like “Take sword,” or… Continue reading Up a Level
Peer Reviews, Acknowledgments, and Working in Pairs
We’ve previously addressed many aspects of “how to write your research paper.” (In fact, there is a full YouTube playlist on this; see the link at the end of this post.) Now, we’re shifting focus to how you wrap things up at the end. This is a “little things that count” move. We want to… Continue reading Peer Reviews, Acknowledgments, and Working in Pairs
Strategizing Your Research Project: Developing Your Portfolio Elements
When life gets hard, and you still have to get your research project done, sometimes it’s hard to focus and figure out the “most important thing.” Blog Update: How to Get More Focus and More Time Dear All – this is an update, added Sept. 22, 2022. Building your Portfolio is a BIG THING. Just… Continue reading Strategizing Your Research Project: Developing Your Portfolio Elements
The Great Career-Boosting Reading List: Books 4(a) & 4(b)
Are you making a career transition? This is the situation that many of us are in these days – especially for those who are graduating this week from Northwestern University’s School of Professional Services (SPS) Master of Science in Data Science (MSDS) program. As we move into our career transitions, it is SO HELPFUl to… Continue reading The Great Career-Boosting Reading List: Books 4(a) & 4(b)