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Understanding the driving forces behind your decision is crucial for making informed choices and ensuring a successful transition. By carefully examining your reasons, you can align your goals and expectations with the challenges and opportunities that come with an international move.

If you’re considering an international move, first interrogate your motivations and priorities.

Watch this uplifting and empowering interview with James B. Milliken, Chancellor of The University of Texas System. Full Interview: https://lnkd.in/gxqG3t6A. Here are some powerful takeaways: • Leaders must understand their strengths and their impact on team dynamics and success, which helps explain the “why” behind our actions and behaviors. • Leaders should surround themselves with individuals who have complementary strengths, recognizing areas for personal growth and empowering their teams to excel. • He emphasized the transformative power of higher education as the engine of mobility and a bridge between talent and opportunity. UTSA Advancement & Alumni Engagement values a strengths-based approach, inspired by leaders like Chancellor Milliken and our own Karl Miller Lugo, MBA. Their dedication to lifelong learning and resourcefulness benefits our entire team. Their dedication to this approach ensures that best practices and innovative strategies trickle down through our organization, enhancing the capabilities of our people leaders and individual contributors. CliftonStrengths helps us build self-awareness, empower teams, and achieve our ambitious goals with purpose and direction. This philosophy is instrumental in creating a supportive environment where each team member can thrive, ultimately driving our collective success. Ready to join the dream team? Explore career opportunities with our organization here: https://lnkd.in/gDYzSdp8.

CodeSignal's 2024 University Ranking Report is here! 🎉 Hiring teams – it’s time to expand the scope of your target universities and open up your applicant pool to more diverse new grad talent. Check out our top 50 universities for technical talent 👀

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Postdoctoral Position in Digital Diary Management, Cornell University, United States The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) is a pioneer of purpose-driven science and Cornell University’s second largest college. We work across disciplines to tackle the challenges of our time through world-renowned research, education, and outreach. The questions we probe and the answers we seek focus on three overlapping concerns: We believe that achieving next-generation scientific breakthroughs requires an understanding of the world’s complex, interlocking systems. We believe that access to nutritious food and a healthy environment is a fundamental human right. We believe that ensuring a prosperous global future depends on the ability to support local people and communities everywhere. By working in and across multiple scientific areas, CALS can address challenges and opportunities of the greatest relevance, here in New York, across the nation, and around the world. Application link: https://lnkd.in/d-mF5K-H Application Deadline: 05/15/2024

Career advice is hard right? Our dreams as children are often brought back to reality and we find ourselves in “realistic careers.” This is especially true in STEM careers. It is so easy to speak to someone in STEM, learn about what they do and say “I wish I knew that was a career.” In my latest blog article I discuss the disconnect in STEM between public engagement and its impact on those seeking career advice. https://lnkd.in/er4JMBhy #STEM #ENU #EdinburghNapierUniversity #OfFelautumn #Careers

💭 Meet Caleb Watney 💭 Caleb exemplifies someone who impacts the world through policy. 🏛️ In university Caleb was really interested in both economics and technology, and after some internships he realized that he could combine his interests through technology policy. He graduated with a master's degree in economics from George Mason University, and from there started working on different sorts of tech policy issues at a number of different think tanks. Caleb has been a researcher at the Mercatus Center, worked at the R Street Institute, and was also the director of innovation policy at the Progressive Policy Institute. But he didn’t stop there - Caleb has spent the last seven years working in policy in Washington D.C., and has now co-founded his own change-making think tank called Institute for Progress (IFP), which aims to accelerate technological, scientific, and industrial progress. 🚀 His work has been well recognized across various media organizations, such as The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Economist, National Journal, and many more. Caleb’s work in policy and his Christian faith go hand in hand. 🤝 He says “we're certainly called to be in the world, but not of it… and so insofar as the mission of the Church is to bring the kingdom of God on earth, I think that's going to involve some engagement with the political process and of the political principalities of this world”. He views politics as a powerful way for Christians to have a radical impact in the world, while not compromising on our values and convictions. If you’re interested in hearing more from Caleb, attend our annual conference in Washington D.C. on May 18-19 where he’ll be the keynote speaker! If you can't make it in person, you can also watch virtually for free. We can’t wait to hear Caleb speak and see many of you there! Keen to learn more about policy? Sign up to one of IFP’s newsletters: https://lnkd.in/dEA7gx7f. For example, Statecraft is an interview series about how policymakers get things done. Sounds pretty good to us! We’re so thankful for Caleb’s dedication and work in policy. We hope his journey inspires you, and encourages you that you too can have a meaningful & impactful career through politics & policy. 🙌 #policy #impactful #careerjourney

Read insights from early career researchers on their roadblocks, motivations and vision for ECR equity https://hubs.li/Q02rN_vd0 ASHG Spotlight: Equity in early career research

We learn who we are in practice, not in theory. - Herminia Ibarra professor of organisational behaviour at London Business School. (Found via David Epstein's book Range) When I left university, I had no idea what career I wanted. 39% of graduates leave university knowing their degree isn't related to the job they want. Another survey showed 60% of graduates wanted to change careers within their first year of graduating. That might sound like a bad thing, but it's not. There's this idea that we should be able to know exactly the kind of job we want just by knowing ourselves. But that's just like the sketch below: expecting that by looking at a map we will know what it's like to sail around the world. Instead, we should treat it like an experiment. Find a small, related test to get hands-on experience which you can actually reflect on. For example, a side project or volunteer experience in that area. To reflect on who we are, we need experience to reflect on. #career #personalgrowth #personaldevelopment #visualthinking #sideproject