This blog post is part of the Professional Stories Series, which collects stories about professionals with a degree in Spanish who did not follow the traditional path of being a school teacher or a university professor. Questions focus on skills, strategies for the job search, and career advice.
In today’s post, we interviewed Julie Lind, freelance editor, translator, and writer. Julie speaks English, and Spanish.
This blog post focuses on volunteering.
Volunteering is a great opportunity to develop skills, make a contribution, or support a cause.
Less formal than internships, volunteering can be beneficial to you. When you volunteer, you receive intangible benefits that do not necessarily translate into a salary or promotion.
This blog post is about how to decide between a Master’s and a doctoral program.
You can read about graduate school in the post entitled What Is Graduate School? and about some considerations before attending graduate school in the post entitled Is Graduate School Right for You?
For decades, students have travelled around the world to take classes, learn new languages, and get academic degrees from a different country.
Several Spanish departments in the United States recognize the importance of language immersion and have studying abroad as a requirement for the major. Although the pandemic forced the cancellation or elimination of studying abroad programs, these programs can still be beneficial to students.
In this blog post, I write about five benefits of studying abroad.
This blog post focuses on how to use strong verbs in your résumé. You can read about the three most common résumé formats in the post entitled Three Amigos: The Most Common Résumé Formats and about the sections of a résumé in the post entitled How to Write a Résumé.
This blog post is part of the Professional Stories Series, which collects stories about professionals with a degree in Spanish who did not follow the traditional path of being a school teacher or a university professor. Questions focus on skills, strategies for the job search, and career advice.
In today’s post, we interviewed Spencer Cappelli, an Email Marketing Specialist with Voces Digital, a division of Teacher's Discovery. Spencer speaks English, and Spanish.
In this post, I write about three of my favorite books about writing.
I started to read about writing in Graduate School. Stuck on my dissertation, I soon realized that my problem was not about mastering the technical aspects of writing, as I could easily find that kind of information in books and workshops. Being stuck was more about the process of self-exploration that comes with choosing words to create meaning.
Writing is a journey without maps.
This blog post focuses on building a reverse chronological résumé. You can read about the three most common résumé formats in the post entitled Three Amigos: The Most Common Résumé Formats. Future posts will address other issues related to format and strategy.
Although there are many ways and styles that you can use to strategize your résumé for an effective job search, there are sections that must be included. These sections are:
An internship is a work experience offered by an organization or company for a limited period and, usually, with no or little remuneration. They are temporary opportunities. Internships allow students to gain relevant skills in a particular field and get a sense of what is expected in that industry.
In discussing retention strategies for students doing a Major in Spanish, one of the most common challenges is not to attract students. More often than not, the challenge is to convince parents or legal guardians in charge of paying for their children’s education that a degree in a foreign language can be a lucrative one.
This post is addressed to those students with parents who are not fully convinced of the value of a foreign language degree or are not willing to support a student interested in doing a Major in Spanish or any other language.