A higher education student affairs professional, Dave specializes in advising students on career development, major and career exploration, and job search strategies. Also a big computer geek. More
I’ve been thinking about making the move to Fedora Silverblue since at least 2020, and this summer I finally went ahead with the change. To grossly oversimplify, the Silverblue approach is to make the entire operating system immutable – there is nothing the user, an application, or malware can do to edit most of the…
It is hard to believe that it has been ten years since I completed my graduate studies at Kent State. It feels like it can’t possibly have been that long, but at the same time in reviewing my old portfolio, I know that I have grown a great deal as a higher education professional since…
It feels like it’s been ten years since I’ve updated the blog, but it has in fact been just over one. As everywhere in higher education, this new year has had its ups and downs, but I’ve been most impressed with the adaptability of our students, faculty, and employer partners to our temporary new reality.…
In higher education there are few things as invigorating as the start of a new academic year. Going into my second year at Bradley University, I have several new goals for the new year: Create a training video for the new version of Bradley netWORK (our job board) Streamline assignments for the course I teach,…
It’s been quite some time since my last post, but hopefully I will be back to posting regularly again. Much has changed in the past year. I left my position at Ashland University last fall due to family circumstances. I spent late 2017 and the first half of 2018 helping as an in-home caregiver for…
I will publish a longer write-up when I get a chance, but so far I am thoroughly enjoying my time at the Cincinnati WordCamp conference this weekend. Great discussion and networking! Tomorrow morning I’ll be at a few sessions on theme and plug-in development, really looking forward to learning more about the topics!
It’s Hacktoberfest again, so I submitted my first of four pull requests towards the Amahi documentation site, which was incidentally the first repository I ever used git for, a few years ago, when I was first getting started.
I wrote a new post on the Ashland University Career Services Center blog, 5 Tips for a Successful CareerFest. In this post I hoped to combine a number of resources students may find useful as they prepare for the event.
In a recent article in the NACE Blog, Lisa Tandan asks whether it’s possible that when people outside of Career Services refer to the resume, they mean something more than just a document, but rather a career toolbox or repertoire.
