Category Archives: Career

Resume tips for Computer Science/Software Engineering students

By Tara | Published: November 5, 2011
I recently attended a career fair to recruit soon-to-be college graduates for my company. Having attended a university where it was drilled into us from the very first week of our first year of university how to write a resume, I found some of the same issues with the resumes that my school told us [...]
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How did I end up in Computer Science?

By Tara | Published: October 21, 2010
Growing up, I’d say that I was pretty lucky. My parents raised me that I could do whatever I set my mind to, regardless of my gender. Sometimes I wonder how life would be different if my parents had had a son and a daughter instead of daughters, but that’s a moot point now. I [...]
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Mentoring

By Tara | Published: September 9, 2010
No matter how much experience you have, there will always be someone, somewhere with less experience with you. If you’re a first-year university student, you can mentor high school students, helping to teach them what university is about or helping them to choose a major that they will find rewarding AND get an interesting career [...]
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Planning

By Tara | Published: September 2, 2010
“Make a plan or someone will make one for you.” – the key wisdom that I took out of Jo Miller’s webinar on August 18th. Throughout university, I was really good at planning. I had a five-year plan that covered work and school terms and what courses needed to be taken when in order to [...]
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Internships stagnating your career growth

By Tara | Published: August 26, 2010
My university had a co-operative education program that integrated work experience into your degree. Following this program, I alternated 4-month work terms with 4-month school terms throughout the five years, for a total of five 4-month work terms. I am a huge advocate of such a program, but five co-op terms is too many. For [...]
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The Small Things at Work

By Tara | Published: June 30, 2010
Work term reports. We always griped about them. We always thought about how worthless they were. We were wrong. When time passes like it does as a permanent employee, it is difficult to remember all of the small things that I did at work. They never seem important when compared with other bigger things that [...]
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