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Money magazine just put out the ten fastest growing careers in America. They are:

1. Software developer

2. Physical therapist

3. Financial advisor

4. Civil engineer

5. Marketing specialist

6. Management consultant

7. Information technology consultant

8. Database administrator

9. Financial analyst

10. Environmental engineer

We're reposting this information here for a couple of reasons. First, it's interesting to see what fields are growing the fastest. Second, and more importantly, we should all be thinking about what factors we want to prioritize in our career decision-making. The fields listed here are vastly different from one another. For instance, a management consultant and a software engineer have very different work experiences, with next to nothing in common. So is this the list you should be looking at? Or should you be looking at a list of the highest paying jobs? Or the jobs with the highest satisfaction levels?

There is no "right" list at which you should look. The important thing is to think about what matters to you before making decisions based on these types of lists.

Awesome results from our first pilot program with SFUSD!

Our first pilot program with the San Francisco Unified School District has finally come to an end. Hundreds of high school students have used our services and given us awesome feedback! Here are some of the results:

- 93% of students said they would recommend us to their friends

- 50% of them who didn’t know what they wanted to do in the beginning said they now have a career in mind after using CareerEagle and watching the videos

- Compare to another career education software, which cost SFUSD nearly $1M in the past year, 68% of the student said they prefer CareerEagle (MVP stage) over the other career software

We are pretty excited and look forward to expanding our services to more school districts and benefit more students in the near future!

SFUSD: Thanks for your support and we really appreciate your feedback!

A little bit about what comes next..

We’ve received amazing positive feedback about our service from both students and adults over recent months.

Over the coming year we’ll continue to offer our paid subscription service to adults. In addition, we’re also offering our service to school systems and have finished a semester pilot with one of the San Francisco Unified School District’s largest schools, Galileo High School.

While we charge schools (a low rate) for access to CareerEagle, we offer unlimited free access to schools in poor communities that lack the resources to afford our software.

If you want your school to have access to CareerEagle, let the administration know that they should contact us. Enjoy the site!

CareerEagle is now an official partner of Galileo Academy Of Science and Technology (as of March 2012) and Gateway High School (as of April 2012). So far, the students love our videos and keep asking us to cover more professions! Stay tuned for more results from our pilot programs with these two high schools! 

Top 5 Things You Need to Know to Create a Great Resume

1.  Remember to include your contact information – there’s nothing more annoying for a prospective employer than finding a good looking resume and then realizing that the phone number or email address is missing. Most employers won’t bother to find your information if you don’t include it in the header.

2.  Keep it to one page – This is a hard and fast rule. Really. Unless you’re a senior executive who has held a number of very high level positions, you should be able to cull your experience down to a single page. If you can’t do that, then you’re including fluff that doesn’t belong in there.

3.  Make it relevant – You don’t have one resume that you use for every application. You have a resume that serves as the starting point for every application. When you apply for a job or internship at a national park, you’re going to want to show off a different set of skills than if you’re applying for a job or internship at an accounting firm. Tweak your resume to highlight experiences that show some relevance to the job or internship to which you’re applying.

4.  Highlight accomplishments – You only have one page. Don’t waste space talking about the data entry you’ve done unless it was the most impressive thing you did. Give bullet points about the two or three most important things you did in any role.

5.  Be honest - Make yourself sound as good as possible, but always, always, always be honest on your resume.

If you're in either high school or college, you should be looking for an internship right now. Here are the top 5 reasons why..

1. It helps differentiate you - When you apply for a college, master degree or job, you'll be competing against lots of other people. On average, there are roughly 6 applicants for every open position in the US. If you want to stand out, you'll need more than your grades. An internship can help with that, particularly if it's in the field of the school or job to which you're applying. It makes you more unique, because now you're more than just a set of grades; you're a person with experience.

2. Experience - An internship gives you valuable experience. This is important both in terms of what it does for your skill set as well as what it tells others. It builds your capabilities in that field and tells others who are looking at your resume that you were able to do real work outside of a school setting, making them more likely to hire you.

3. Recommendation - Internships are good opportunities for you to get recommendations and references. These are the lifeblood of your future applications to schools and jobs. Without good recommenders, you'll find it very difficult to take the next steps in your career.

4. Decision-making - You need to decide whether a career is right for you. This site is just a first step, to help you find careers that look interesting. We strongly recommend doing an internship as a next step, to get your hands dirty and determine whether a given career truly excites you.

5. Everyone else is doing it - For once, this is a good reason to do something. Other students across the country are getting internships. They are your competition for the best schools and jobs. If they have that experience and you don't, you'll be at a disadvantage when you're both applying for the same school or job.

So don't wait! Start searching today. You may wish to check out a site like internship.com. Or apply to us by going to the Contact Us button and submitting a message stating your interest.

Here are the top 10 articles posted on Twitter and Facebook this week:

Jobs

The 9 Oddest Job Interview Questions Asked at Tech Companies in 2011 - Mashable
Job Interview Etiquette - Mint
Job Seekers, Creativity and Flexibility Count - Wall Street Journal
How to get a job: what's missing from resumes I'm reviewing - DailyKos
How to Get a Job Without Experience - Harvard Business Review

Education

Two Families, Two Takes on Virtual Schooling - Wall Street Journal
‎5 Core Steps to a More Satisfying Career in 2012 - Forbes
Don't Pay for Technology: 25 Freebies for Students - Education-Portal
Twitter in the Classroom: Watch This Teacher Engage Shy Students in Learning History - Good
How college prep is killing high school - Mother Nature Net

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Written By Monica Page

Very rarely are people able to go into the career of their dreams on the first shot. As with most things in life, trial and error is expected to finally find that perfect with. Instead of wasting years of your life toiling away at a job you hate, the simple act of talking to someone in a field you are interested in could help you fully determine whether it can make you happy or not.

It is a key fact of life that people like to talk about themselves, thus is should not be too hard to hear from someone about their career. With channels such as LinkedIn and blogs, it is now much simpler to find someone in an area you are interested in and asking them to share their experiences with you. This isn’t a interrogation, but a simple way to gain insight into their career and work-life.

It’s one thing to hear about a career from a textbook and another to actually interact with the person living the life day-to-day. At times the information you gain will be discouraging, other times it will be the inspiration you need to move your life in that direct. Either way, hearing from someone about their career will either save you from making a time-wasting mistake or lead you into a happier, more fulfilling life.

One out of every four children in the US live in poverty. Poverty in the US is defined as a family of four living with a combined income of under $24k per year. It’s really not poverty – it’s below subsistence level.

Many of these children have parents who are good, hardworking people who want to find a job but can’t. The system has failed these individuals. If someone is willing to work hard in America, he should be able to find a job. At CareerEagle, we’re trying to help.

We’re not a job search site. There are more than enough of those. But we can help people understand what opportunities are out there. The videos in the CareerEagle library are intended to provide visibility into the vast range of options available. Watch our videos and get inspired to seek a job that you never even knew existed until now. That’s a powerful tool. And it’s a tool that can help both executives who are looking to switch careers as well as the desperate parents who are looking for work so that they can support their families. Let us know what you think. Share your story.

-Aaron

Written By Monica Page

When it comes to presenting yourself to employers, the old saying “never judge a book by its cover” can be a little misleading. It is very likely that you will give multiple impressions to potential employers before you ever speak to them face-to-face (or through Skype of over-the-phone). Your resume will be doing most of the talking, and it is important to convey that you want the job and that you are the perfect fit for it.

The marvelous benefit of using a computer is the ability to effortlessly edit material whenever you need to. Taking this into account, it is not unlikely that through a job search you will have multiple versions of the same resume for various positions. It is important to ensure that your resume is full, but also not weighed down by an excess amount of non-relevant information. Provide each recruiter with the information they want to hear and nothing more. If you come off as boring and irrelevant on paper, no one will want to speak to you in person.

Once your resume is in order, make sure that all other online channels and representations of yourself all convey the same message. You don’t want to come off as confused and unfocused (even if you are). No matter how well you can convey your thoughts and ideas in person, very rarely will you get the chance to bypass the resume/coverletter gatekeeping. Tailor your resume, tailor your message, and then you’ll be able to pitch yourself face-to-face with recruiters.