Academia and Careers

Academia and Careers https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php/en-us/all-categories/community/academia-and-careers Thu, 02 May 2024 06:30:45 +0000 MYOB en-us Coursera and The Wharton MBA Foundation Series https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php/en-us/all-categories/community/academia-and-careers/4473-coursera-and-the-wharton-mba-foundation-series https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php/en-us/all-categories/community/academia-and-careers/4473-coursera-and-the-wharton-mba-foundation-series

Whether you’re looking to explore accounting or build a foundation for future academic or career pursuits, these courses, taught by faculty from one of the top business schools in the world, can provide you with the fundamentals of business and management.

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Coursera is an education company that partners with the top universities and organizations in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Classes offered on Coursera are designed to help you master the material. When you take one of the classes, you will watch lectures taught by world-class professors, learn at your own pace, test your knowledge, and reinforce concepts through interactive exercises.

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Open Education Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials freely available online for everyone to use. You can download a resource, edit it in some way, and then re-post it as a remixed work.

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About the ASU Open CourseWare Initiative

Thousands of educational videos, audio recordings and text documents for students, teachers, and lifelong learners of all ages.

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Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.

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EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University that offers online learning to on-campus students and to millions of people around the world. To do so, edX is building an open-source online learning platform and hosts an online web portal at www.edx.org for online education.

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Academic Earth aims to provide everyone with the opportunity to earn a world-class education by offering free online classes and online learning tools.

]]> Academia and Careers Sat, 06 Jul 2019 10:07:51 +0000 MIT OpenCourseWare https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php/en-us/all-categories/community/academia-and-careers/4465-mit-opencourseware https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php/en-us/all-categories/community/academia-and-careers/4465-mit-opencourseware

More than 2,200 courses available, include complete video lectures; not all of these have complete lecture notes. The videos are available in streaming mode or downloaded for viewing offline. Many video and audio files are also available from iTunes U.

]]> Academia and Careers Sat, 06 Jul 2019 09:12:36 +0000 U.S. Government Recruiting and Hiring Persons with Disabilities https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php/en-us/all-categories/community/academia-and-careers/4464-u-s-government-recruiting-and-hiring-persons-with-disabilities https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php/en-us/all-categories/community/academia-and-careers/4464-u-s-government-recruiting-and-hiring-persons-with-disabilities

The Federal Government is actively recruiting and hiring persons with disabilities. A variety of exciting jobs, competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and career advancement.

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Scholarship For Service (SFS) is a unique program designed to increase and strengthen the federal government workforce that protects the government's critical information infrastructure. This program provides scholarships that fully fund the typical costs for books, tuition, and room and board while attending an approved institution of higher learning.

]]> Academia and Careers Sat, 06 Jul 2019 08:39:31 +0000 CIA Careers and Internships https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php/en-us/all-categories/community/academia-and-careers/4462-cia-careers-and-internships https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php/en-us/all-categories/community/academia-and-careers/4462-cia-careers-and-internships

Make a difference in your career. Consider the global employment opportunities at the CIA. We're looking for a diversity of people for the important job of keeping America safe. This includes Clandestine Service Officers to be on the front line of human intelligence. Plus, individuals skilled in science, engineering, technology, analysis, foreign language, and administration for positions in the United States and overseas.

]]> Academia and Careers Sat, 06 Jul 2019 08:11:39 +0000 How to Qualify for Federal Student Loan Debt Forgiveness https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php/en-us/all-categories/community/academia-and-careers/4461-how-to-qualify-for-federal-student-loan-debt-forgiveness https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php/en-us/all-categories/community/academia-and-careers/4461-how-to-qualify-for-federal-student-loan-debt-forgiveness

Interested in shedding some federal student loan debt? If you plan things just right, there’s a strategy that may work for you. It’s called the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

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GCFLearnFree.org online classes offer you the opportunity to learn on your own time and at your own pace. All of our classes are completely free and will earn you accredited Continuing Education Units and a Certificate of Completion!

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We’re writing to tell you about a unique paid fellowship opportunity for people from racially diverse and marginalized communities.

]]> Academia and Careers Thu, 04 Jul 2019 07:00:00 +0000 Youth In Action After-school Leadership Program https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php/en-us/all-categories/community/academia-and-careers/4459-youth-in-action-after-school-leadership-program https://www.jones-massey.com/index.php/en-us/all-categories/community/academia-and-careers/4459-youth-in-action-after-school-leadership-program

Youth In Action participants have access to community service opportunities, elective school credit for participation and field trips. Brave New Films new series – Following Their Lead: Youth in Action – to spotlight young leaders across the country who are creating positive change on critical social and political issues.

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FlexBook allows users to produce and customize content by re-purposing educational content using different modules. SAT exam with lessons and questions in math, reading, and writing., which provides free test prep for college entrance exams to high school students across the country.

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This is a great source of information on civil service jobs, USA job search engines, internship programs and Web pages providing more resources. Most civil service jobs require Pennsylvania Residency at the time of application. Refer to the "Job Requirements" section of those test announcements in which you are interested to determine if residency is required.

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Federal resumes are a bit different from private sector. Federal resumes require more detail and are therefore a bit longer than a traditional resume. On a federal resume you need to include items such as number of hours worked per week and supervisor contact information. You can build your federal resume on USAJOBS.gov and tailor for individual applications.

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