Column: Finding a job in the digital age leaves applicants in the dark
The job recruiting process is profoundly broken in my opinion. Blindly submitting your resume, or filling out job applications online will not get you a job anytime soon.
Companies increasingly rely on repetitive and exhausting application systems to hire prospective employees. Applicants will take an hour filling out an application for just one position, but there is no guarantee that it will even be looked at. Employers are trying to retrieve as much information from their potential employees applications, but is all the hassle actually worth it? Read more Here:
Featured Journalism Articles
In- depth : Diversity matters on college campuses but do schools take it too far?
College-bound students who believe that it is important to study with people of different ethnic backgrounds will want to consider student-body diversity when choosing a school. However, they shouldn’t be fooled by the school’s efforts to promote diversity in their brochures.
Diallo Shabazz was an African American student at the University of Wisconsin in 2000 when he stopped by the admissions office.One of the counselors there said,” Did you see yourself in the admissions booklet? You’re on the cover this year.” Read more Here:
Journalism
Below you will find a few of my best published articles that I have written in the past. The links will take you directly to the website that they were published on. The Exchange is an online publication that runs weekly from Franklin Pierce University. I wrote for the Exchange for four years and edited articles for two. Check out the content below.
Op-ed : Suspending students should be a last resort
Some schools believe that the best way to discipline trouble makers is to suspend them. However, research shows that suspending students just makes them academically fail at higher rates.
We normally hear about suspension the most in high school years, but now students as young as kindergartners are at risk. Read more Here:
In-Depth: With new technology, never again wonder if your drink is safe.
Today, it is far too common for young adults to be unknowingly drugged when out socializing with friends. A group of young engineers founded DrinkSavvy, a company that makes cups and straws that change color in the presence of common date-rape drugs GHB, Rohypnol, and Ketamine.
These drugs are completely odorless and colorless making them very easy to slip into any drink without being noticed. Read more Here: