2021 Guide to Green Careers – All You Need to Know

By 2030, the green economy is expected to offer up to 24 million new green jobs.

Check out the Guide to Green Careers

By Odessa Burkett
Odessa Burkett Assistant Director of Career and Professional Development for SBS
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The Future of the Entertainment Industry Beyond 2020

The entertainment industry is changing to conform with new realities, and those changes bring new challenges and opportunities.

What is the Future of the Entertainment Industry?

By Odessa Burkett
Odessa Burkett Assistant Director of Career and Professional Development for SBS
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What’d You Learn This Summer? 6 Students Share Their Lessons on 2020 Remote Internships

Read advice and life lessons from last summer’s virtual interns, digital fellows, and remote learners.

Remote Internships – 6 students share their lessons

By Cristina Lord
Cristina Lord
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Remote Internships for College Students: A Guide

How to get hired and what to expect at your remote internship.

Remote Internships

By Cristina Lord
Cristina Lord
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Using Data Science to Transform the Social Sector

Conversation with founder of Data Analysis for Social Good on how Data science is being used to improve the efficacy of organizations in the social sector.

Using Data Science to Transform the Social Sector

By Cristina Lord
Cristina Lord
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4 Things I’ve Learned on my Nonprofit Journey

A veteran of the nonprofit esctor shares lessons she has learned along the way…

https://www.idealist.org/en/careers/nonprofit-journey-4-things

By Rebecca Bell
Rebecca Bell Associate Director of Career and Professional Development for SBS
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Top 7 Websites for NonProfit Jobs (Forbes)

Where can you find NonProfit job openings? Big job-board sites, like IndeedCareerBuilder,SimplyHired and LinkedIn, have nonprofit listings. But if you’re really serious about looking for work in the nonprofit arena, I think it’s best to use sites specifically …

By Rebecca Bell
Rebecca Bell Associate Director of Career and Professional Development for SBS
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Building a Federal Resume

Here are some great tips about how to build a Federal Resume from The Partnership for Public Service.  If you follow these directions, you will be sure to put your best foot forward when applying for jobs on USAjobs.gov!

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By Rebecca Bell
Rebecca Bell Associate Director of Career and Professional Development for SBS
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How to Write a Cover Letter That Will Get You a Job

I’ve read a lot of cover letters in my career — thousands of them, maybe even tens of thousands. (If you’re thinking that sounds like really boring reading, you’re right.) What I can tell you from doing that is that most …

By Carol Sharick
Carol Sharick Director of Career and Professional Development for Undergraduates, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
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UMass Amherst Data Analytics & Computational Social Science 4+1 Masters Program

The Master of Science degree in Data Analytics and Computational Social Science (DACSS) is a 10-month (August to June), interdisciplinary degree program designed to train students to fill roles that require cutting edge data analysis and computational social science training …

By Carol Sharick
Carol Sharick Director of Career and Professional Development for Undergraduates, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
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