It baffles me to hear parents tell their kids that art is a hobby, not a career; that you can’t make good money with a degree in English. Wasn’t it just yesterday evening that these same adults binged…
What are the multiple professions that bring the company Disney To Life today? Business As Usual When thinking of giant corporations that seem to shape the world today, what companies come to mind? Is it Amazon? Apple? Perhaps…
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In a recent LinkedIn survey of employer’s most sought-after soft skills in 2018, “57% of leaders say soft skills are more important than hard skills” (LinkedIn). Globalization and innovation have…
The software company Infosys is hiring Liberal Arts majors. In fact 20-30% of its future workforce are Liberal Arts majors. Why? Because their technology solutions are built on user experiences,…
In a time where each job posting has hundreds of applicants and success as a job seeker is heavily based on how you present yourself, effective communication can make a…
CASE #! : Emma Williams. PhD in Skandinavian Mythology. Silicon Valley, Microsoft, Bing Studios. “Along the way, Williams developed a career philosophy about the connection between humanities degrees and jobs…
It’s become a truism that machines will threaten jobs because, well, it’s true. Forrester tallied up 24.7 million jobs getting the axe due to machines by 2027. The silver lining…
“While we’ve hired many computer-science majors that have been critical team members, It’s noncomputer science degree holders who can see the forest through the trees. For example, our chief operating…
“So I’m asking you to remember that behind every algorithm is always a person, a person with a set of personal beliefs that no code can ever completely eradicate. And…
As tech behemoths and a wave of start-ups double down on virtual assistants that can chat with human beings, writing for AI is becoming a hot job in Silicon Valley….
“Knowing how to code is only one piece of the puzzle. Tim O’Reilly writes well — and he knows how to build up a team of capable writers and editors…
“’The real value creation, especially in the technological revolution, is not just from the engineers but the people who connect the humanities to technology, or the arts to science,’ he…
On October 14th, 2014 WIRED.co.uk published an interview with Maxime Durand, the historian hired at Ubisoft to create the video game called Assassin’s Creed: Unity. In this piece, Durand speaks…
On November 18th, 2014, Fortune published an article on Larry Page, co-founder of Google, titled “How music education influenced Larry Page.” Here is an extract from the article: “As Google…
Writing programs in Python requires the sort of precision most of my writing doesn’t demand. A missing letter, an extra comma, or a poorly arranged phrase are more than just confusing; the smallest spelling mistake will stop the…
While the tech boom is partly responsible for the spike in students majoring in science, technology, engineering and math, many tech CEOs still believe employees trained in the liberal arts…
Originally published in The Huffington Post on July 29th, 2014 Does your son or daughter play Minecraft? And do you stand before that screen wondering what it’s all about, and how it’s possible that your kid doesn’t get…
If your child is anything like mine, he or she is probably spending a lot of time in front of the computer, playing Minecraft, watching YouTube videos, dancing before the…
The move to include art and design in the push to advance science, engineering, and math is not just a “feel-good” move. It’s critical to the future economy and families’…
