“Career jumpers” are finding a new future in biotech
From former teachers to service industry workers, people from all walks of professional life are finding a new career in biotech.
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Coding bootcamp grad finds his dream career within ‘REACH’
Harley Jackson used his time in a coding bootcamp as a launching pad to join LinkedIn’s apprenticeship program, REACH.
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Coding school helps program graduates land their dream jobs
Coding and software development isn’t necessarily new, but the exposure to the field as a career has taken off in the past two decades as technology becomes faster, smarter and more accessible.
Read MoreExperts: Older workers shouldn’t fear high tech for new career
If you are an older adult thinking of making a second career in the high-tech heart of the new economy, be prepared to face skepticism as to whether you can even turn on a computer, much less master the latest software. But you can do it. Here are some examples.
Read MoreVICTORY! Hacking Up a Mini-Win
Coding update! According to Codecademy, I am on a 17-day learning streak. That may sound impressive, but I still spent a solid ten minutes today completely flummoxed by a colon. Turns out it needed to be a semicolon for the code to work. Come on, JavaScript, you knew what I meant! You’re never going to become sentient at this rate. Anyway, I am happy to report that this week I had a CODING VICTORY! Someone mentioned that on a website we were building, the title had to be an image file. “Wait a minute,” I thought. “I think we...
Read MoreHow Do I Get Involved in the Startup Scene?
Ricky Spero is co-founder and VP of Product Development at Rheomics, developing a next-gen blood coagulation diagnostic for surgeons. He is also founder of Mint Market, making it easier for farmers and chefs to do business with each other. A friend recently wrote to let me know that he’d returned to the Triangle after some time away. He was looking for a job and was interested in startups. His question was, basically, “Where do I begin?” My first reaction was, hey — Let Me Google That For You. But to my surprise, what I found was mostly lists of...
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