All Things College and Career

Interested in learning what it takes to become a Quality Assurance Engineer?  Packaging Science expert? Our guest, José Díaz Aquino, shared that if you have eaten Cheerios in your lifetime, “I, no kidding, probably packaged it.”

José shares his wealth of expertise in quality assurance engineering where he reached high levels of responsibility at General Mills.

You will learn the advantages and drawbacks of working as a quality assurance engineer, what it takes to prepare for a career in this field and why our bags of chips have so much air in them. 🤔

José is so well-rounded.  He played basketball in college and talks about a complete career switch to become the Assistant Director of Career Programming at Northern Arizona University, which you will learn about in this podcast. 

José is talented, funny, smart, and kind.  He was a pleasure to interview!  

Forward this podcast to anyone interested in learning more about:

• Quality Assurance Engineering
• Quality & Regulatory Operations Manager
• Packaging Science  
• Chemical Engineering
• Systems Engineering
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Food Scientists
• Microbiologists
• Switching Careers
• Career Services

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SHOW NOTES:

Follow José on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-r-diaz-aquino/
Follow José on Twitter:  @JoseDiazAquino

Books & Authors we Talked About:

Dr. Dawn Graham | Switchers: How Smart Professions Change Careers – And Seize Success

Michelle R. Weise, PhD | Long-Life Learning:  Preparing for Jobs that Don't Even Exist Yet

What does the future of work and learning look like?
What do you need to know to prepare?

According to Dr. Michelle Weise, “for the future of work, we are all going to have to be very skilled problem solvers and system thinkers” and “that really does require a different approach on the part of higher-ed institutions in cultivating those kinds of learners.”

Michelle’s work focuses on the bottom 25% of income earners and what needs to change to help them to overcome barriers that prevent them from achieving academic and career success. One of the largest barriers Michelle describes is solving for time and lack of funds.

We talk about the role of A.I's role:

• Helping to bridge the gap for employers to understand if a potential employee has the skill set they need.
•  Helping employees to feel confident that the education or training that they are pursuing will lead to work.

Right now, we are teaching in silos. Things will need to become more interdisciplinary. Michelle provides examples of organizations that are doing it well.

Refer this podcast to:

• Anyone struggling to move forward in their career
• Anyone needing free resources to up-skill
• Higher Ed | Career Planners/Counselors/Academic Advisors
• College Planners/Counselors
• Employers

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SHOW NOTES:
Buy Michelle’s Book on Amazon:  Long Life Learning:  Preparing for Jobs that Don't Even Exist Yet
Follow Michelle on Twitter:  @rwmichelle
Follow Michelle on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwmichelle/
Visit Michelle’s Website:  https://www.riseanddesign.io/
Michelle collaborated with Clayton M. Christensen on a Book | Hire Education:  Mastery Modularization, and the Workforce Revolution: 

If you are average, you will change jobs like 14 times.

Technical skill will get you that first job. But those who pivot, advance, and move into leadership positions are more likely to have… a strong foundation in the humanities. Wow. But it is STEM studies that have higher perceived value.

Lecturers Molly Campbell and Krista Jackman think the humanities have a PR problem. “People think, ‘Oh, that career path doesn’t have one particular outcome.’ People are saying that like that’s a flaw when it’s actually the whole point, to prepare you for a wide variety of careers.”

In response, they pitched the Mellon Foundation. Now, they elevate the impact of the humanities in their community and have “very fuuuuuuull calendars.” Their six HUGEmanities initiatives are changing the way people see, and assign value to, the liberal arts.

Refer this podcast to:

• A grant funded researcher
• English, psychology, history, art history, the classics, philosophy, theology, anthropology or theatre majors
• Someone in sales

After listening to this podcast, Academic and Career Advising Services can help you explore colleges like the University of New Hampshire or help you get the most from your liberal arts degree, just like Molly and Krista.

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Email Krista & Molly:  [email protected]
HUGEmanities Website
University of New Hampshire | UNH
Community College System of New Hampshire | CCSNH

WARNING: This is not your parent’s career advice. This is Gen Z-er, Justin Nguyen’s, careers-for-peers approach that has 18, 19 and 20-year old's binge-listening his podcast and contributing crowdsourced, real-time data for young job hunters.

He leads from experience. After college-age, Justin sent out a fruitless pile of internship applications, he discovered, over a dish of ice cream, that the real path to Fortune 500 internships is networking.  Then he landed three of them.

While prestigious internships look amazing on a LinkedIn profile, sleepy data points alone do not produce job offers. Justin recommends something else, something much easier, to add to LinkedIn that really opens the doors of career opportunity.

Justin is the founder of GetChoGrindUp, a movement to help students navigate their way through college.  He is also the host of an iTunes top 100 podcast, Declassified College Podcast (on Apple).

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·         A college student following a parent’s dream

·         Career-hunter using LinkedIn

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Show Notes

Follow Justin on LinkedIn (or reach out to him)
GetChoGrindUp
Declassified College Podcast (on Apple)
University of Tampa
University of Central Florida
Gary Vaynerchuk
Mr. Beast YouTube Channel
Colin and Samir
Immigration Nation Trailer on Netflix
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Want to learn what it takes to reach the highest levels in hotel management?  Are you currently working in the hospitality space and looking to transition to health care?  If so, then this podcast episode is for you!

We interview Odette Perriel, V.P. of Patient Care Services at Maine Medical Center | Maine Health.  Odette reached a very high level working for the Ritz Carlton Hotel before she made the transition over to health care and patient care services.  She explains how a background in hospitality is an ideal preparation for patient care services. 

Odette is gracious in sharing her tremendous path to success.  She started out at the bottom and worked her way to the top.  She experienced numerous different roles in hotel management from working the front desk to the Director of Residential Services at the Ritz Carlton:  "I definitely took opportunities to learn every department that I could." 

Odette is talented, ambitious, smart and nice!  We hope you enjoy this podcast episode as much as we did.

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SHOW NOTES:
Maine Medical Center | Maine Health
Johnson & Wales University | JWU
University of Phoenix
CMS | CAHPS Survey

If you are considering a major in Communication Sciences and Disorders, or if you are thinking about becoming a Speech and Language Pathologist, then this is the podcast for you!

We found the perfect combo to interview for this profession, as we have a mother/daughter team with a combined 43 years of experience in a wide variety of settings.  Sue Caron, the Mom, and Cathy, the daughter, share with our listeners what it takes to become a speech and language pathologist.  

Cathy as the more recent grad shares the educational and training process from undergrad, to earning a master’s degree in communication sciences disorders, to preparing for the ASHA Boards, to getting your first job, to becoming a “Clinical Fellow” and finally to earning your “C’s” as in Certificate of Clinical Confidence. Cathy currently loves her work in the K-8 educational setting.

Sue, as an expert in the field, has seen it all and has a wealth of experience and knowledge.  She has worked in a variety of settings from private practice, to school settings from pre-school through college, and to outpatient, clinical and hospital settings. She has great things to say about them all.  

We discuss the pros and cons of being a speech pathologist, what a typical day is like (spoiler alert, there is no “typical” day) and what sort of cases they see.  

Cathy and Sue are a fun duo and are both so passionate about helping others and about their field.  We hope you love this podcast as much as we did!

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Show Notes:
ASHA:  American Speech, Language & Hearing Association
Listen to the Podcast Episode with Michael Guptill | Executive Producer and Owner of Hackmatack Play House
Frosh College Consulting

We have an amazing guest this week.  Meet Debra Olshan Cooper, a woman with 30 years of expertise in public relations and marketing, landing her clients on numerous tv shows such as Good Morning America, as the owner of FreshConnect.  Debra now uses those same strategies to help recent college grads develop and pitch their own story to land amazing jobs. 

Debra has some great advice for recent college grads, such as, “if your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough” and “if you can connect emotionally and create and experiential feeling, you’re hired, you just are” and “If you have an idea, you can craft it, architect and design it, and go for it!  Tell the world about it.  This is what employers want to see.”  Debra believes that Gen Z has such great value, “if they only knew it.”  

We loved this podcast episode with Debra.  It is full of great career tips for recent college graduates and it is a fun interview as Debra brings an amazing level of enthusiasm and joy.  We hope you enjoy as much as we did!   

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Email Debra:  [email protected]
Visit Debra’s Website:  Your Career Design Lab
Follow Debra on Twitter:  Your Career Design Lab on Twitter
Follow Debra on Facebook:  Your Career Design Lab on Facebook
Austin Belcak Podcast | All Things College and Career
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The North Face

Interested in a career in business? Thinking about earning an M.B.A.? Considering a career in Sales & Marketing?  If so, then this podcast episode is for you! 

We interview Jeff McAndrew who shares his career journey, from his start at Penn State, to his work in Sales at Tyco Integrated Security (now Johnson Controls ), to earning his MBA at Northeastern University to working for a start-up called PIKA Energy to now working as the Director of Sales at Generac Power Systems.   

If you are thinking about a career in business, you will gain a lot of insight from our conversation with Jeff.  He provides loads of tips from networking to how to develop a career in business and what it took Jeff to get where he is today. 

Jeff shares the advantages and drawbacks and what a typical day is like.  He also shares how his education helped him to land the position he is in today. 

Jeff is smart, personable, and incredibly knowledgeable about the field of business.   We could have chatted with him all day!  We hope you enjoy our conversation with Jeff as much as we did.

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Jeff's LinkedIn
Homeowners can call Generac for a new Solar Storage Battery:  1-888-Generac
Smeal College of Business | Penn State
Barbarian Days:  A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
North:  Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail by Scott & Jenny Jurek
Dave Matthew's Band

Are you considering a career as a Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine?  If so, then this podcast is for you!  In this episode we chat with Dr. David Doiron, an experienced chiropractor and sports rehabilitation specialist who has been in private practice since 2012.   

We talk about David’s undergraduate years at UNH where he majored in Kinesiology and Exercise Science and was also a NCAA Division 1 Track Athlete where he specialized in the Decathlon.  

We also discuss what chiropractic school was like, what it was like for David to simultaneously earn both a Doctor of Chiropractic and a Master’s in Sports Science & Rehabilitation, and finally how David was able to open up his own private practice.  

We loved our conversation with David because he was quite honest about his journey.  We also learned so many interesting things like how David likes to help people achieve pain relief without surgery, and how David helps his patients to move in the places that they need to move and helps to stabilize them in the places that they need to be stabilized, and we touched on posture and much more.  

Dr. Doiron has a great approach in that he figures out the patient’s goals and then works with them to achieve their goals.  He prefers 30-minute visits with patients so he can really get to know them and offer a more comprehensive approach.  We even discussed what David is doing to keep his office covid-safe.  

Dr. Doiron was a such a fun guest.  He has a great sense of humor and is very smart.  We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did! 

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SHOW NOTES:
Doiron Chiropractic & Sports Rehabilitation. LLC
Call Dr. Doiron’s Practice: (207) 282-5233
Email Dr. Doiron: [email protected]
Logan University
University of New Hampshire
Rob Doiron, M.D. Podc

Interested in learning how to achieve diversity, equity, and inclusion in your workplace?  If so, this podcast episode is for you!  We interview Dr. Janice Z. Gassam, an experienced consultant and founder of BWG Business Solutions.  Janice helps organizations interested in making positive changes.  

Janice also recently released her first book on Juneteenth called Dirty Diversity: A practical guide to foster an equitable and inclusive workplace for all. Janice also hosts a podcast called, Dirty Diversity and a YouTube Channel called Dirty Diversity with Janice Z. Gassam.  Janice is also a professor at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT.

We discuss Janice’s varied educational path from her undergraduate experience at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, to her graduate experience, where she earned her master’s degree, at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, LA and finally where she earned her PhD at Hofstra University on Long Island, NY.   Any students considering these institutions would enjoy hearing Janice’s take.

We also discuss Janice’s experience of doing a TEDx talk:  Make Emotional Intelligence Great Again.

Janice is an amazing and accomplished young woman who has a lot to offer in terms of improving race relations and understanding identity issues.  We learned a lot from Janice, and we think you will too!  We hope you enjoy our conversation with Janice as much as we did!   

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Email Janice:  [email protected]
Visit Janice’s Website: https://www.drjanicegassam.com/