Palo Alto, CA — The nonprofit organization CareerVillage.org announced today that it has recruited over 100,000 industry professionals serving as online volunteers. The US-based nonprofit organization’s volunteers have collectively provided career advice to over 6 million online learners. …

Written by: Corina Chen and the CareerVillage.org Team — “Like a treasure hunter, she thoroughly and gratefully asked question upon question to professionals on CareerVillage.” Since she joined CareerVillage in 2017, Cindy proved to be unafraid to ask specific questions in order to more successfully join the workforce. As a third year college student majoring in psychology from Calgary…

Written by: Corina Chen and the CareerVillage.org Team — “I’m different. My head is in the game. I’m going to start my freshman year of college and want to prepare for medical school now. I want to go to the best medical school possible.” “Ever since I was little, my life has been about two things — medicine and…

Sherman Tam is a Senior Marketing Manager for Western Digital and volunteer on CareerVillage.org — Written by: Corina Chen and the CareerVillage.org Team For senior marketing and innovator Sherman Tam, success in the workplace begins with striving for excellency. He first learned this lesson from his dad. He writes, “My dad motivated me for a career because he was a great role model to show me what I needed to do.” …

Dr. Hollins is an English Professor at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania and volunteer on CareerVillage.org — Written by: Corina Chen and the CareerVillage.org Team Outside of papers, lectures, grading, and reading, what do professors really do? Long-time creative writer and English professor Tamara Hollins describes her daily rhythms to me in an interview we had earlier this week. Tamara starts her day with a workout before feeding her cat. After breakfast, she goes to…

Written by: Corina Chen and the CareerVillage.org Team — An ad plays telling you the next Great Chicken Nugget is on sale tomorrow at your nearest McDonalds. A commercial flashes alerting you to the upcoming fun, connection-heavy business conference for designers. A notice crawls across your search engine, letting you know that scholarships are available to students — as…

Augusta first joined CareerVillage in 2013 when she was in high school and first started thinking about college. “All of a sudden, it was like: ‘you need to go to college’. I thought to myself ‘what! I’ve never kind of heard about this up until the moment where it was…

CareerVillage.org has offered designed avatars for students for years and was at the forefront of offering diverse avatars (long before emojis got skin tones). When the time came this year to revise our avatars to match the revised design of the website, we dug deep into how to make them…

CareerVillage.org invited the Kaggle community to use their data science expertise to improve the algorithm that matches career questions from youth to working professionals. Palo Alto, CA — This week CareerVillage.org announced the winners of its $15,000 Data Science for Good competition on the data science crowdsourcing platform Kaggle. The…