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• 10 people you’ll meet during your next job search

  Hank Boyer Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  It is 2:12 p.m. on a Tuesday when your cellphone rings. Looking at caller ID, you see that it is the name of a company you applied to a few weeks back. Arrangements are made to speak in about a week, and now your mind turns to what lies ahead. You need to become an expert on this company… and on the 10 people you will meet during and preparing for your upcoming appointment.

• How manufacturers are keeping their employees safe

  Bambi Majumdar Manufacturing

  The disruption that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused has been felt across the world of manufacturing. Manufacturers have been some of those companies on the front lines to lead the country through recovery and renewal. Unlike many industries that quickly pivoted to remote work, factories cannot function with a fully remote workforce. At the same time, they must ensure the safety of the employees on the job.

• Will there be teachers’ strikes over classroom teaching this fall?

  Patrick Gleeson Education

  As schools have been reopening the past few weeks, I've been following teachers’ responses to classroom vs. online teaching. There seems to be growing unease among teachers about opening classrooms in the midst of the coronavirus. But education authorities — certainly the federal government, but also many state and city governments — have not shown the same reluctance.

• Adapting tried-and-true instructional strategies for emergent bilinguals…

  Erick Herrmann Education

  Many, many schools have started the new school year with a major shift in instruction. As teachers return to working with emergent bilinguals and English learners, teachers are having to reexamine the tried-and-true strategies they have used to build language instruction and practice into the curriculum across all of the content areas. The strategies we are used to using cannot function the way they did in the past.

• The touchless future of our airports

  Matt Falcus Transportation Technology & Automotive

  One thing that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought us is a step up in technology, particularly in areas that affect our travel and interaction with the world. Now it seems the technology to allow the process of transiting an airport from door to gate could become as close to "touchless" as possible thanks to innovations in technology being fast-tracked by different companies.

• Mind your mindset to drive your association forward

  Linda Popky Association Management

  We can't magically change the state of the world today to destroy the virus and bring back the world as we knew it at the start of the year. But there is one thing we can change to be more successful: our mindset. Here are a few thoughts about how a different mindset could help your organization.

• Survey: COVID-19 has limited access to needed care

  Scott E. Rupp Medical & Allied Healthcare

  For many individuals — real people with real health conditions — the pandemic has had a profound impact on their lives. People continue to report that the pandemic has led to a reduction in access to medical care. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Research and Development Survey (CDC RANDS) published recently, as many as 40% of people said they had reduced access to medical care because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• What is social capital, and how can educators help students build it?

  Sheilamary Koch Education

  Before summer break ended, my 15-year-old daughter wrote up eight burning questions, donned a mask and met with a local architect for her first informational interview. The answers to most of her questions could’ve been found online. Yet like the high school guidance counselors who introduced me to informational interviewing years ago, I understand that making connections with professionals in her area of interest is at least as important as getting questions answered. That day she took a step in building her social capital.

• Float through the end of summer on these terrific tubing rivers

  Dave G. Houser Recreation & Leisure

  We can't think of a better summer pastime than floating down a scenic river in a big rubber donut — with a frosty brew in hand. And with America the Beautiful blessed with so many idyllic rivers, we've taken on the task of searching out eight of the country's best rivers for tubing. We’ll start out West. But first, here’s a bit of information about tubes.

• How school resource officers can help ensure student safety during the…

  Amanda Kowalski Education

  School resource officers are often the calm in the middle of daily educational chaos. During a worldwide pandemic, these officers’ jobs have changed dramatically, but they can still bring some sense of normalcy to their students and school staff while fighting crime and COVID-19 — in new ways.

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