Professional association for networking with the French-American business community.
Topic: Professional Development
The Write Life – Publishing, Freelance, and Blogging Industry Advice
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MarketingHire Job Board and Career Advice
Find marketing job postings and industry insights/research to level up your career in this field!
Transferable Skills for Doctoral Students in the Humanities
With Connected Academics, you’ll find incredible resources to prepare for careers outside of academia. This link includes resume tips and samples to translate doctoral experiences from languages, literature, and the humanities to non-academic industries.
Negotiating as a Woman of Color in Tech
Tips and testimony around leveraging your personal value in being a badass WOC negotiator!
The Benefits of Bringing Your Whole Identity to Work
According to the conventional wisdom, if you want to succeed at work, you need to learn how to fit in culturally. But in recent research, we’ve discovered that many professionals of color have succeeded in underrepresented fields by shining a light on their differences and mobilizing their identities.
Asian-Americans on Being “likable” in the Modern Workplace
A lawsuit claiming Harvard ranked Asian-American students lower on personality traits like “likability” reflects stereotypes that persist in the workforce, too. In this article, Asian-Americans share their experience with likeability.
Feeling Seen, Heard & Affirmed: Pursuing Professional Development Opportunities as a Person of Color
This article provides experience and several suggestions for how to go about finding professional development in an organization as a person of color.
The Bias of Professionalism Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not privilege the values of white and Western employees and leave behind people of color.
Websites for Moms Reentering the Workforce
This article provides links to resources for moms re-entering the workplace. There are resources for making connections, finding mentors, paid project work, remote work opportunities, etc.
Parker Dewey
Parker Dewey provides students access to paid micro-internships, short project-based experiences with employers that help you gain critical skills to build your resume. Students can create a free account, upload their resume, search for, and apply for projects that match their interests and skillsets. The micro-internship board updates frequently with new opportunities. Many of these […]
Career Competencies Activity
This is an activity for students and supervisors to discuss career competencies that the job requires and that they want to develop for future goals, using a reflect, plan and dream model.