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Author Archives: zezinez
The graduation ceremony season that never came
Originally published in The San Diego Union Tribune, May 25, 2020. May is graduation season. Only this year, commencements throughout the country were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. A crushing development for seniors in high school and in college, … Continue reading
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Building social capital with first-generation college students
Originally published in The Chronicle of Mentoring & Coaching, October 2019. Education is the path toward upward mobility. Yet it is education plus social class that may determine the type of job a person is able to get after graduating … Continue reading
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Preparing first-generation college students for their first career job
Originally published on LinkedIn August 7, 2019. A little-discussed reality is that many recent college graduates are underemployed. French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu called this diploma inflation, the disparity between the educational promise and the opportunities the diploma offers. Roughly 43% of college … Continue reading
Bilingual Employees in Demand
Originally published on LinkedIn June 19, 2019. A recent survey by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) found that U.S. employers have an urgent and growing need to hire employees with foreign language skills. Nine out of … Continue reading
Employer biases that favor some college students over others
Published originally as a LinkedIn article May 23, 2019. We are all biased; it’s part of our human nature. Unconscious or implicit bias is when we make judgments about people or things. Through socialization, we have adopted stereotypes we believe to … Continue reading
Financial illiteracy has consequences for all of us
Published originally as a LinkedIn article April 5, 2019. A 2014 PwC research study on millennials found staggering results regarding personal finances and financial literacy. Only 24% of survey participants demonstrated basic financial knowledge. The majority were concerned with being able to … Continue reading
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Rethinking Unpaid Internships
Published originally as a LinkedIn article December 6, 2018. I’ve been waiting for a champion, with a national platform, to speak up against the practice of unpaid internships. I just found her. Newly-elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made headlines for tweeting about the need … Continue reading
No such thing as bad publicity?
Published for NHMC on 5/21/13 Eva Longoria seems to be carrying some extra weight on her petite shoulders as the Executive Producer for “Devious Maids.” The Lifetime channel show, scheduled to premiere on June 23, has created some buzz and … Continue reading
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Is Netflix a game changer?
I refuse to pay almost a hundred dollars a month for the privilege of having 100 television channels that usually aren’t worth watching. I represent a small, new trend of what are called “cord-cutters.” Cord-cutters are those who choose broadcast … Continue reading
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