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Fast Company
As much as 85% of jobs are found as a result of networking, according to research by PayScale, proving the old adage, “It’s not what you know; it’s who you know.” But not all networking is the same. Depending on the stage in your career, your actions should change and evolve, says Judy Robinett, author of Crack the Funding Code: How Investors Think and What They Need to Hear to Fund Your Startup.
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MarketWatch
Kids get an early glimpse of gender inequality on television.
That’s according to a new study by researchers from Rutgers University-New Brunswick and the Center for Scholars and Storytellers. A majority of main characters in American children’s fictional TV programming are male, the study found. Men also have a dominant presence behind the scenes: They create a majority of shows, and even write and direct a majority of episodes.
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Forbes
Social media has become more than a marketing strategy or a form of social sharing. Now, social media is mode, method and manager for how individuals and companies communicate about themselves to others. While not all job seekers are comfortable with social media, many companies use it to research and evaluate potential candidates.
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By Hank Boyer
 In 1977, country music artist Johnny Paycheck recorded what many employees desperately wanted to tell their boss as they quit their jobs. "Take This Job and Shove It!" nearly won a CMA award for Song of the Year, and artists like the Dead Kennedys and David Alan Coe re-recorded it in the years to follow. Have you ever felt like leaving a job this way? Many people have. However, before you yield to the temptation, there are few things you ought to know.
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Quartz
On one major standardized test measuring proficiency in technology and engineering, there’s a gap in scores favoring girls. And it’s growing.
Eighth-grade girls outperformed boys in every single category of the 2018 Technology and Engineering Literacy exam, including content-focused areas such as design and systems and technology and society, and “practice” areas, such as understanding technology principles and developing solutions and achieving goals.
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Science
Last month, David Mobley took an “emotionally difficult” step: The associate professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine, sent an online survey to his research group, asking for anonymous feedback on his mentoring. He was inspired to figure out ways to improve after reading posts on Twitter that discussed the importance of good mentoring. “If you want to get better at something, the best way to start is to find out where you’re doing it badly,” he says.
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Education Dive
Compared to 2014, U.S. 8th-graders are getting slightly better at applying their knowledge of technology and engineering to real-world challenges — and girls are outscoring boys even when they don’t take a specific class focusing on those topics, according to the newest results of the Technology and Engineering Literacy Report Card.
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