Employer and employee discuss the importance of attitude and the hiring process.
Six months ago, a rainbow-haired Chelsea Hall-Fitzgerald had just completed a computer networking certificate at Collin College. She also worked part time in a big box appliance store.
Today, her hourly wage as a full-time project coordinator for AMX by Harman is three times what she made as a clerk, and she is on track to complete her associate degree at Collin College in December.
Hall-Fitzgerald became an information technology (IT) technician before graduation because the humble attitude, tenacity, and, most importantly, excitement for IT that she demonstrated during a student presentation got her a interview for a job initially advertised as requiring a bachelor’s degree.
WASHINGTON — The federal government’s largest investment in apprenticeships will begin in the next few weeks.
Details of the application process for the $100-million American Apprenticeship Grants will be announced next week or in early November, according to Laura Ginsburg, a team leader in the Office of Apprenticeship at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).
WASHINGTON — Geospatial technologies may have quietly entered Americans’ lives via smart phones and electronic toll collection systems, but they are part of a revolution that Keith Masback wants people, particularly educators, to pay attention to.
“Geospatial intelligence is fundamentally about exploration, understanding the world around us,” Masback said, explaining that the revolution is due to phenomenal devices that most people previously encountered only in spy novels.
Geospatial intelligence imagery — whether its source is on-the-ground sensors, space satellites or low-flying drones — “goes into almost every aspect of everything we do,” Masback said in his keynote address at the opening of the Advanced Technological Education Principal Investigators Conference on Wednesday.
Madeline provides the editorial content, photos, and design for the Salem High School Alumni Association newsletter, which is published twice a year and mailed to 10,000 alumni.
