Clara,
I understand your dismay, but the message from employers (and you’re right –
it’s the same message from a broad range of employers, possibly including the
aforesaid shoe salespersons) is that project management and team management
skills and communications skills are not showing up in
Ecolog-l...i sent the attached reply to Todd Doherty's reply [*in bold*] to
Jarrett Byrnes...my comments to Todd are in *italics...clara*
*Jarrett, thanks for sharing.
I think this issue (and many of those in academia regarding gender gaps,
socio-economic accessibility) boil down
Clara, I agree.
To be marketable in the workplace you must have skills that are in
demand in the workplace. Its that simple. Too many students graduate
without marketable skills.
Marketability for grad school does not equal marketability for a job
out of the BS.
You want to get a job in
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Ecolog:
It's just interesting that the number-one skill required for ecology is GIS.
Now I know why I was such a failure!
Well, on second thought, I guess I shouldn't place all the blame on the
absence of GIS skills (and the absence of GIS at the time). I sucked at
statistics too--but what
As I'm applying for internships, I have realized that I possess a
marketable skill that is valuable to employers: I am willing to work for no
pay...
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 11:03 PM, malcolm McCallum
malcolm.mccal...@herpconbio.org wrote:
Clara, I agree.
To be marketable in the workplace
Are we just allowed to casually insult half the populace in a post here? In
Clara's 7th, very well punctuated point, she wrote:
7. ...i am somewhat exercised by your post because, IMO, too many young,
especially, female, applicants don't bring much to the table that others
don't already know or
Hi Chandreyee,
Here's a suggestion if you want to filter out certain threads or
individuals from ECOLOG-L.
Use the filter function on your e-mail program to re-route those threads
or messages from particular individuals automatically to the trash folder.
Next, never open your trash folder.
