Knowing what you want to do for a career is a life-long process. Your first post-college job is a step in that process — it probably won’t define your life. Many people change directions, job paths, priorities as they get older. You don’t have to figure it all out now, but you can arrive at […]
If you’ve been looking at job openings through Idealist.org, you may have run across an ad for an interim communications lead at a company called Yourstake.org. The instructions for applying include the following: The writers of the ad thoughtfully include a hyperlink to explain why they’ve included the last item. The link explains the purpose […]
These are the employers that many of you would likr to see at a campus career fair here in Champaign-Urbana. They want to meet you and hire you, but unlike a lot of larger (and mostly for-profit) organizations they don’t have dedicated recruiting staff who can take the time to travel downstate to meet students […]
Sponsored by the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Job Position: Editorial Assistant, SourceLab (3 hours/week, $15/hour, Spring Semester 2020 with a possibility to continue through Fall 2021) SourceLab, a digital documentary publishing project sponsored by the Department of History at Illinois, seeks an Editorial Assistant for Spring 2020. This position […]
The most recent episode of Slate’s Working podcast is an interview with Alison Luhrs, a narrative game designer for Dungeons and Dragons and Magic: The Gathering. Lots of great insight into how “narrative game design” happens, what the day-to-day work is like, and the pleasures and challenges of this kind of creative career. Working has […]
