19 juin 2018

As graduate students, much of our life revolves around our education. We spend countless hours writing final essays and preparing for exams, to the point that our life as a student becomes second nature. If you’re like me, it is a part of your identity. More...

Early in my graduate student career, I simultaneously dreaded summer and longed for it. I felt dread because finding a summer job is notoriously difficult where I live and longing because I, like many of my colleagues, needed a respite from the demands of the academic year. More...

Final grades are submitted. Email inboxes have been cleaned out and offices have been tidied. Quiet has descended on campus. More...

After next week, GradHacker will be on summer break for a couple months. But, as every graduate student knows, this does not mean that we are spending our days with our feet in the sand and a beer in our hand (well, at least not everyday). More...

At this point, summer is here, and with it, a lot of unstructured time. So, we can work, right? We've all got to-do lists a mile long, largely populated with everything we didn't get done during the semester. (Or over winter break. Or the semester before that.) It’s nice to think that we can finally clear out our to-do lists. More...

Grades are in, and the sun is out! Summer is a great time to recharge and reflect on the academic year. For me, nothing is more relaxing and motivating than reading a good book. While there are plenty of great reads for graduate students, here is a summer reading list about science and from some of the best science writers. More...

I’m in the process of re-watching Seinfeld in its entirety, pilot-to-finale. The show is remarkable in many ways (for a complete show-biz history, I recommend the book Seinfeldia), but its focus on fundamental and even mundane human interactions means the jokes hold up more than 20 years later. More...

Quand on aborde la mise en relation de l’entreprise et du public, c’est la rencontre qui intervient en premier lieu. Hasard, opportunité, probabilité ? Quel enjeu de service public régional de l’orientation à provoquer ces rencontres, créer ces opportunités, fabriquer ces hasards ? André Chauvet développe ici ces notions, pour faire suite à la première partie de la restitution de la journée du 31 mai. Vous retrouverez également la synthèse des ateliers de créativité de l’après-midi auxquels ont participé 204 professionnels. Plus...

Du 7 au 9 juin, 24 entreprises ouvraient leurs portes au grand public afin de mieux faire connaître les activités des entreprises implantées sur le territoire segréen. Zoom sur cette 3e édition de "visites d’entreprises" organisée par le club d’entreprises du segréen et l’association initiatives Anjou. Plus...

Le 23 avril 2018, le programme "La vie devant soi" sur Europe 1 consacrait son émission à l’apprentissage : "l’autre voie de la réussite".
En interviewant des jeunes issus de formations très diverses (apprenti cuisinier, apprenti menuisier, apprenti community manager…), l’émission donne la parole à des jeunes ayant trouvé leur voie par le biais l’apprentissage. Plus...