Blog Category: Technology

The popularity of STEM learning has the potential to aid water conservation efforts by engaging young people to make a difference in our current and future water usage. Water is a finite resource, and taking steps to conserve it, both through everyday actions and government intervention, can ease the current pressure facing our freshwater resources.…

Design thinking is here to stay. A growing number of businesses and industries are taking this innovative approach to solving problems from a human-centered perspective, since design thinking can be used to improve existing products and services, as well as determine which new ideas can best serve customers and attract new clients. It also aims…

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost 9 percent of U.S. children suffer from attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Current research also indicates 70% of children with ADHD also have learning disabilities, which may hinder academic and career success. However, this difference in the way these children process information may be why many…

Jump to: Tips for older professionals | Tips for younger professionals Employers today place a high value on diverse candidates who are up-to-date in their field, technically savvy, and ready to make an immediate impact. While employing an age-diverse workforce is a valuable asset, many companies disregard it. In fact, age discrimination is very common…

Jump to Disclaimer Over 30 million people in the U.S. suffer from eating disorders (ED), and COVID-19 has produced substantial challenges for those in recovery. In a study by the International Journal of Eating Disorders, researchers discovered that symptoms of adults ranging from 16 to over 60 years old have worsened since the pandemic began.…

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Hosted by reacHIRE and the Career Services team For professionals who have taken a multi-year break from their tech career, the thought of reentering the workforce can be anxiety-inducing. Despite the myriad valid reasons someone might take a break — whether to raise a family, care for a loved one, or deal with a health…

In recent years, there’s been a push toward more diversity and inclusion efforts in the workplace in the hopes of creating greater opportunities for underrepresented groups and individuals.  Among those groups are caregivers who stepped away from work to care for a loved one for a period of time. As a result, these individuals have…

You’re reading this, in part, thanks to software developers. They built the platforms and applications used to run this site and write this article; they wrote the code that underpins every aspect of your digital experience. Given their outsized responsibility for architecting and shaping our online worlds, it’s not all that surprising that software developers…

When’s the last time you went a day without checking your phone, logging into your computer, or opening an application? Today, online tools and services are at the heart of modern society — we need them to function. Our need for digital architecture, in turn, makes the programmers who design and build it utterly invaluable.…

For employees and companies around the world, the impact of COVID-19 has changed the landscape of workplaces everywhere in record time, replacing physical office spaces with virtual environments. It’s also created many open-ended questions about the future of work: Is remote work as efficient as being in a shared office? Is it sustainable beyond the…

It might be hyperbole to say that JavaScript is a developer’s best (digital) friend — but it would certainly be hard to get by without it.  According to a recent survey conducted by Stack Overflow, JavaScript is the world’s most popular programming language, with an incredible 69.7 percent of the 90,000 developers polled citing it as the…

As the unprecedented shift towards online learning continues to grow, more s are seeking out the combination of skills development and flexibility offered through an online boot camp education. Today it is more possible than ever to break into fields such as web development, financial technology, UX/UI, cybersecurity, and digital marketing through the help of…

Thanks to the many advancements in modern technology, an online education has become more accessible than ever before, allowing learners to receive the same high-quality experience and outcomes offered by traditional education via a virtual experience. The recent weeks have witnessed an increasing number of schools and universities around the world transition to online-only learning,…

Today it is possible to learn the critical skills for a high-tech career through the help of a boot camp. With a wide range of boot camps on the market, mastering a new skill set has become more accessible than ever before. While boot camps are a great way to jump-start your career, they also…

Today’s tech industry faces an ongoing and visible issue: there simply are not enough women in the field. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, women make up half of the nation’s workforce and more than half of its population, yet, they are still significantly underrepresented across all areas of the tech sector, accounting for only…

The 8th top city in the world for technology, the country’s fastest-growing major metro, and the #1 place to live — Austin, Texas, continues to be on the precipice of job growth and new opportunities. » Stay tuned until the end to view our handy infographic summarizing all the information we’re about to cover. « New…

Many organizations today depend heavily on data regarding their customers, clients, products, operations, and market. There is now an unprecedented shift in how data is accelerating business transformation, and with that we see more and more organizations requiring talented and qualified professionals who can extract information, analytics, and insights from complex data. But what skills…

As the market for coding and web development continues to grow, more traditional schools are now entering the online coding boot camp market. Offering a coding boot camp allows these institutions to enter the emerging market and meet its growing demand. It is now possible to become a full-stack developer, coding professional, or a skilled…

JavaScript is a multi-paradigm programming language used to create and control the content of a website. Simply put – JavaScript is the language of the web. It utilizes event-driven, functional, and imperative programming styles. At the early stage, JavaScript was used only for client-side programming. However, today JavaScript is used as a server-side programming language…