Wednesday, December 10, 2014

NASA's Pathways Intern Employment Program



Job Title: NASA's Pathways Intern Employment Program
Department: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Agency: Langley Research Center
Job Announcement Number: LA15I0002

SALARY RANGE:
$44,615.00 to $67,161.00 / Per Year
OPEN PERIOD:
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 to Tuesday, December 16, 2014
SERIES & GRADE:
GS-0899-7/9
POSITION INFORMATION:
Multiple Schedules - Internships
PROMOTION POTENTIAL: 9
DUTY LOCATIONS:
1 vacancy in the following location:
Hampton, VA View Map
WHO MAY APPLY:
U.S. citizens who are enrolled or accepted for enrollment pursuing a Master's or PhD in Aerospace Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Chemistry, Applied Sciences or Physics on at least a half-time basis in accredited educational institutions.
SECURITY CLEARANCE:
Not Applicable
SUPERVISORY STATUS:
No
JOB SUMMARY:
The NASA Pathways Intern Program provides students with the opportunity to explore NASA careers and

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Imagine how this can work for government and schools!


Noblis internships for undergrads in Falls Church

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

Noblis is now accepting applications for our Summer Internship Program!

from Lead Employee Relations, EEO and Diversity Strategist at Noblis, VP, Diversity at NOVA SHRM




Summer Internship Program

Join Us
A summer at Noblis is a summer well spent. If you are a student who is looking for good pay, valuable real-world experience, and the ability to apply your coursework, Noblis is the place for you.

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Job Search Tips

Reposted from LinkedIn:

Reposted from LinkedInEdythe Richards (MA, MBTI®MP, GCDF)

Edythe Richards (MA, MBTI®MP, GCDF)

Career Counselor | Myers-Briggs Master Practitioner

Surviving Your Job Search: What Job Seekers can learn from "The Walking Dead"

To honor the start of Season 5 of AMC’s The Walking Dead (premiering this Sunday, Oct.12), here are 7 job-seeking tips that don’t require waiting until the zombie apocalypse.
1.) Knowledge is power. In a post-apocalyptic world, what you don’t know can killyou! Survival requires knowledge of tools, weaponry, agriculture, first-aid, and other basic survival skills. It also requires knowledge of your group and your enemies. Michonne survived isolation in the woods due to her background in fencing and knowledge of how and when the walkers attack. Hershel’s knowledge of anatomy saved Carl’s life. Daryl’s knowledge of tracking saved the group from attacks numerous times.
THE LESSON: Know the realities of today’s job market. If you’re just beginning your job search, here are some quick questions to ask yourself:
  1. Is your resume customized and optimized for the ATS?
  2. Do you have a list of employers you are targeting?
  3. What has been the result of your recent job interviews?
  4. Do you have a clear target?
2.) Strength is in numbers AND individuals. The first lesson in a post-apocalyptic world: you need a group to survive. Michonne only got so far alone in the wilderness. Larger groups seemed to fare better than smaller groups (think Tyrese and Sasha pleading to join Rick’s group; the difficult trek toward the unknown Terminus). The second lesson: the group dynamics will determine your

Friday, September 26, 2014

Telling your story during your job search

Re-posted from Job Seekers United Blog


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Be a Storyteller - Kayne Karbach



Kayne is back again with another great blog post on the importance of your story.  Great insight and congratulations on your new job!  Take it away . . .

Be a Storyteller

Everyone has a story. Unfortunately we often fail to tell our story when conducting a job search. But if you want to land a job, you’ve got to tell your story. Not your life story, the story of you; your hopes and dreams and how your next job can make them a reality.

Like most people, as part of my job hunt I decided to begin reaching out to old and new friends alike. But instead of just talking about my background and what kind of work I’m suitable for, I told them my story. My story is one of a future where I align my work with my beliefs. That means engaging in work with a social impact component, having a real opportunity make an impact in my community, and to grow as a person.

It’s important to realize that when telling your story to people, many times it will fall on deaf ears. But that’s a sign that it’s working. You don’t want a lot opportunities that are sort of a good fit. You want the one. Telling your story will help weed out the sort of good fits and help you focus on the job you really want.

But don’t just make something up on the fly. Take time before reaching out to people to really think through what you want your future to be and how a job can make that so. They’re not separate. You’ll find that this time will help you think in a more holistic way.

I recently landed a job that is two miles from my home. A nearly impossible feat in the suburbs of Washington, DC! As a result I get to spend more time with my family, and I get to bike to work - two aspects that are part of a future I’ve envision for myself. And it’s all thanks to telling my story.

Kayne Karnbach has a decade's worth of experience in stakeholder engagement and project management in issues spanning human rights to environmental conservation. He is currently seeking a position in corporate social responsibility and can be reached at Kayne.karnbach@gmail.com.

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Arlington's Allure for Young Professionals

Reposted:  from the ARLnow blog by Ethan Rothstein.

About the Jobs’ for Young Professionals

by Ethan Rothstein — September 2, 2014 at 11:05 am 
View of Clarendon to Ballston from a commercial flight (Flickr pool photo by Ddimick)new, county-funded study, polling young professionals who live and/or work in Arlington, found those who live in the county do so because of their job, not necessarily because of its amenities or social scene.
The study was conducted by the Southeastern Institute of Research on behalf of Arlington Economic Development, and polled 400 residents who identify as either Millennials or Generation X-ers. Of those polled, 139 live and work in Arlington, 137 live in Arlington and work elsewhere and 124 work in Arlington and commute from the surrounding area.
Of those who live and work in Arlington, 45 percent said they live in the county because of their job or because of “professional opportunities,” while 39 percent of those who live in Arlington and work elsewhere said they are in the county for professional reasons. “Location” was the second-most popular reason given to live in Arlington, followed by “friends/social scene.”

Monday, August 4, 2014

New BigData Training DC Meetup Group

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Friday, July 25, 2014

Clark Howard - Highest Paying Degrees

By Clark Howard  -  ClarkHoward.com

Two new reports provide ammunition to rebut the many complaints you hear these days that college isn't worth the cost.

Highest-paying 2-year degrees...

Monster.com has a report that details the highest paying two-year degrees. They are as follows:

  • Registered nurse
  • Dental hygienist
  • Respiratory therapist
  • Computer programmer
  • Telecom Installer
  • Industrial Engineering Technician
  • Police officer
  • HVAC mechanic
  • Paralegal

The reality is there are professions, at all levels of education, where the earning power is higher and the job possibilities are greater. We'd all do well to remember this the next time we hear somebody saying college isn't worth it.

If you're looking for the highest-paid college majors, here's the latest list (expressed as starting salaries) according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers:
  • Petroleum Engineering: $93,500
  • Computer Engineering: $71,700
  • Chemical Engineering: $67,600
  • Computer Science: $64,800
  • Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering: $64,400
  • Mechanical Engineering: $64,000
  • Electrical/Electronics and Communications Engineering: $63,400
  • Management Information Systems/Business: $63,100
  • Engineering Technology: $62,200
  • Finance: $57,400

So all those guys (and gals, to a lesser degree) in high school who were math and science nerds that you thought were such losers are the ones making all the dough!

As you can see, the basic idea here is to go with the hard sciences. If they interest you, the hard sciences will afford you career options, career mobility and the greatest earning power.

Monday, July 7, 2014

Government Career Guide

From GovLoop:

How to Find, Land, Keep and Leap in Your Government Career

In this guide you will find:
  • 50+ tips on how to land your first government gig
  • Expert insights on getting your next promotion
  • Cut through the bureaucracy and become a senior executive

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Innovations in Remote Digital Workforce


from washingtonpost.com

Elance-oDesk flings open the doors to a massive digital workforce



Several years ago, when Serge Knystautas was building his Web site business, PrestoSports, he faced a typical start-up dilemma: He badly needed software developersand he was finding it hard to lure such in-demand workers when he couldn’t promise them a steady paycheck.
So Knystautas turned to oDesk, an online platform for hiring, managing and paying remote freelance workers of all kinds. From his Rockville, Md., headquarters, he scooped up developers based in Russia, China, Colombia and elsewhere to help PrestoSports build its system for hosting Web sites for hundreds of college teams.
“Telecommuting on steroids,” Knystautas calls it.
PrestoSports has grown since those early days, now working with some 700 colleges, but oDesk remains an important part of its business model. More than a dozen technologists in Latin America today work for PrestoSports via oDesk, collaborating among themselves and with workers in the Washington area.
Knystautas never meets oDesk workers before contracting with them, but the site has ways of reassuring him that he’ll get his money’s worth. It asks freelancers to pass tests to verify that they’re qualified for specific jobs. It shows reviews of their work for previous oDesk clients. And once freelancers are on the clock for Knystautas, an oDesk tool offers him screenshots and minute-by-minute logs of their progress, making it easy to ensure that they are on task.

Monday, June 16, 2014

Crampell: The Big Freeze on Hiring



From washingtonpost.com

The Big Freeze on hiring

I have some good news, and I have some bad news.



First, the good news: Employers have more job openings today than they’ve had at any time since the Great Recession began.
The bad news: Employers may be posting jobs, but they’re taking longer than ever before to fill them.
It now takes 24 working days for the average job opening to be filled. That’s the longest hiring delay since at least 2001, the first year for which numbers are available, according to a recent report from Dice Holdings based on research by Steven J. Davis, R. Jason Faberman and John C. Haltiwanger. To give you some context, when the recovery began five years ago, the average opening took about 16 days to fill.
This means employers are dragging their feet making hires, despite having 10 million jobless workers to choose from (not to mention many more already-employed applicants looking to job-hop). I’ve spoken to workers who have been called back for as many as nine or 10 interviews for a given position, only to be told at the end of the process that the firm had decided to hold off on making a decision “for now.”

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Samuelson: The Jobs Mystery

from washingtonpost.com

Robert Samuelson: The jobs mystery

With the government’s latest monthly employment report, the American job market has entered a bewildering good news/bad news phase. The good news is that May’s increase of 217,000 payroll jobs finally puts total employment above its pre-recession peak. There are 8.8 million more jobs than at the low point. Unemployment has dropped from 10 percent to 6.3 percent. Chief White House economist Jason Furman points outthat monthly job gains have averaged nearly 200,000 in the past year and are trending up.
And the bad news? There’s plenty of that too. Economist Gary Burtless of the Brookings Institution notes that getting to the pre-recession employment level took six years and four months, far longer than the previous post-World War II record of four years after the 2001 recession. Not only has job creation been slow, but the number of people wanting more work remains discouragingly high. To the 9.8 million officially unemployed must be added another 7 million; they say they would like a job but — because they are not looking — are not counted in the labor force. Finally, there are 7.3 million part-time workers who would like longer hours.

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Unemployment's Long-Term Problem: SHRM looks at LTU’s Causes/Solutions

For my first post on the NOVA STEM Blog, I am going to take "the easy way out" and present a link to a great article posted on SHRM’s website by Joseph Coombs, SHRM’s Senior Analyst for Workforce Trends.  

This article takes a hard look at this issue (plus I am quoted in it!)

Click here:

Friday, February 21, 2014

Deep Learning - Arlington Artisphere March 24

Reposted from Data Science DC

A Short History of and Introduction to Deep Learning


  • Monday, March 24, 2014

    6:30 PM to 
  • Artisphere

    1101 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA (map)
    Metro and parking information: http://www.artisphere.com/visit.aspx
  • For our March event, we are thrilled to have John Kaufhold from Deep Learning Analytics present a technical introduction to Deep Learning, one of the hottest topics in data science in the last couple of years. How hot? Go search for "deep learning", and skim through hundreds of hyperventilating news articles describing how it's used at Google, Facebook, Netflix, and more, and how it's beating image and speech recognition benchmarks at near-human levels of performance. At it's core, Deep Learning is in many ways just the next iteration of the venerable Artificial Neural Network, a repeatedly hyped machine learning technique almost as old as the digital computer. So what's real innovation, what's hype, how do Deep Learning nets actually work, what's new about them, and what does it matter to you, the data science practitioner? Join us and find out!

       6:30pm -- Networking, Food, and Refreshments
       7:00pm -- Introduction
       7:15pm -- Presentation and discussion
       8:30pm -- Data Drinks (on-site cash bar!)


    Abstract:
    Big data and the emergence of data science as a formal discipline have both renewed interest in machine learning technologies that are scalable, fast, affordable and do not suffer from overfitting. Though the "No Free Lunch theorem" implies no machine learning technology in 

Monday, February 17, 2014

Lists of MOOCs

MIT and others provide a huge number of MOOCs (Massive, Open Online Courses) perfectly suitable for those who have a desire to continue learning from wherever and whenever they choose.

If you want to expand your mind but don’t have time to go back to school, there are plenty of options to get an advanced education online. The best part? All of these programs are completely free!

Check them out here: http://bit.ly/19vWxP6