This message was sent to ##Email##
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
As 2016 comes to a close, NOBCChE would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the NOBCChE eBrief a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 5.
|
Business.com
From July 21:
The average company receives at least 75 resumes for an advertised job opening.
However, large companies routinely receive hundreds of resumes. During its prime, Yahoo received 12,000 resumes weekly, according to the company's president, Marissa Mayer.
And former recruiter Scott Bacon told Fast Company that Google receives three million resumes a year.
Regardless of the organization's size or level of popularity, you’re going to compete with other candidates. Your resume serves as your first impression, and if it's not a good one, it will be your first and last impression.
READ MORE
Forbes
From May 26:
Many job seekers get nervous in job interviews, and who can blame them? A traditional job interview is a stressful situation. When we get nervous, we can start to spill details about our personal lives that have no place in a business conversation.
No one who's interviewing you for a job needs to know the grisly story of how you left your last job. They don't need to know who lives with you or how you've been supporting yourself between jobs. It can be tempting to unburden yourself to a sympathetic interviewer, but it's not a great idea.
READ MORE
Forbes
From Jan. 21:
Numbers on degree attainment for underrepresented groups within science, technology, engineering and math fields are alarmingly low. The problem is not exclusive to the Atmospheric Sciences. U.S. News and World Report recently noted that the U.S. STEM workforce is no more diverse now than 14 years ago.
READ MORE
The Huffington Post
From June 2:
As a female chemical engineer, Frances Arnold was already a rarity. After all, only about 16 percent of chemical engineers are women.
But now that she has become the first woman ever to win the prestigious Millennium Technology Prize — it was awarded in Helsinki, Finland, on May 24 — Arnold is truly one of a kind.
And she knows that in addition to a big cash award (1 million euros, or about $1.3 million), the prize brings an opportunity to spotlight the gender gap in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) careers and to be a role model for other women.
READ MORE
Forbes
From Jan. 7:
It is a harsh reality for job-seekers that our judgment is most impaired at exactly the point when we need our senses most — the moment when we’re evaluating a job offer.
We fall into the vortex very easily on a job search, as soon as a company is interested in us. We see the finish line to a tedious job search and our judgment falls away. Our senses abandon us.
When we should be asking tough questions, we think "I want that offer!" and if we get it, we sign it and say "Phew! At least I have a job now."
READ MORE
|
|
|
|
|
| |
FIU News
From May 12:
Information technology majors and sisters Shonda and Shalisha Witherspoon knew they would stand out in their STEM classes because they would be two of only a handful of girls — if any — in class. So, they decided they'd stand out because of their achievements too.
Identical twins, the two dress the same almost every day, except possibly for an accessory or two. They finish each other's sentences and admit to often thinking the same thing at the same time — a connection their friends dubbed twinlepathy.
READ MORE
TIME
From Jan. 14:
"In today's job market, your resume needs to immediately stand out," says Dawn Bugni, a professional resume writer in Wilmington, North Carolina. Attention spans are at an all-time short, with hiring managers spending just six seconds looking at a resume before deciding whether the applicant is worth further consideration, a recent study by TheLadders found. (That's if a human looks at it at all; before your application even reaches a hiring manager, it usually has to make it past an automated applicant tracking system.)
READ MORE
Forbes
From June 30:
Science, technology, engineering and math graduates are among the most in demand by employers when they finish school. For these students, it's easier to find a job, and these jobs tend to be higher paying.
Yet at most major colleges, more men study STEM fields than women. Can part of of the gender wage gap be ascribed to this gap in studying math and science in college?
READ MORE
The Atlantic
From Nov. 22:
In 1976, President Gerald Ford appointed physicist H. Guyford Stever as the first Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Having previously advised the military during World War II, and directed the National Science Foundation for four years, Stever became the first of a long line of advisors who counseled the White House on matters of science and technology — everything from disease outbreaks to climate change to nanotechnology.
READ MORE
Chemistry World
From March 24:
The overall state and future prospects of female representation in U.S. academic chemistry appears grim based on available demographic information, prominent speakers have warned at a diversity symposium held during the American Chemical Society's 251st annual meeting in San Diego.
The rate at which major research universities are hiring female faculty members into their chemistry departments is growing by less than 1 percent per year, said Valerie Kuck, a past member of the ACS board of directors and career consultant to the organisation. Her estimate was based on ACS figures combined with data that she collected herself through website searches of nine elite research universities.
READ MORE
|
|
|
|
|
7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063
|
