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Project Management Gets Agile
Agility–the ability to move quickly and easily–is a term that is sweeping the project management field and is now being adopted across various industries. We have all experienced working on projects...
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Six Sigma and Lean: Bringing Speed and Accuracy to Business Processes
Two hot terms in process improvement these days are Lean and Six Sigma. You might have heard of them, but what exactly do they mean and why should you care? We asked Ric Van Der Linden, MAOM , and...
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Going Green is the New Gold
Green is the gold standard in modern business, as industry leaders look for new and improved ways to implement sustainable strategies into their day-to-day operations. The green economy is growing and...
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Career Info Nights Featured at Science and Engineering Festival
By Henry DeVries ”It’s never too late to fall in love with science and engineering,” says Steve Briggs, a plant biologist and faculty member at UC San Diego, who started out as an English major until a...
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An Algal Bloom in the Biofuel Industry
San Diego is widely recognized as one of the world’s leaders in biofuels research and development. An analysis, conducted by the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), found that for the algal...
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Bottled and Kegged: San Diego’s Craft Brew Culture
Friday, April 5th, is the opening of San Diego History Center’s upcoming exhibit, “Bottled and Kegged: San Diego’s Craft Brew Culture.” The exhibit features many hands-on interactive elements that help...
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UC San Diego Extension partners with World Wildlife Fund
This August, the University of California San Diego Extension and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will launch a new international certificate program in Advanced Terrestrial Carbon Accounting. This unique...
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CPA Licensure Education Requirements to Increase in 2014
A CPA is a Certified Public Accountant licensed by the state. Jobs held by CPAs can vary, but common responsibilities include maintaining financial records and making sense of complicated financial...
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Grammar Matters
There is a big difference between writing “Eat here and get gas” and “Eat here, and get gas.” When it comes to business writing, do you mean well but it comes out good? Are you never quite sure what is...
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San Diego’s Unemployment Lowers, Economic Outlook Rises
Last week, the Employment Development Department reported that San Diego County’s unemployment rate fell to 8 percent, the lowest rate since December 2008, when it was at 7.4 percent. Data show that...
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Choose a Company with Employee Development
How important is a company’s dedication to employee development when choosing your career path? Although such training may not be in the fore front of your career decision making, consider the effect...
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Military Transition: Building a Career in Facilities Management
San Diego is a robust military city inhabited by both active-duty military personnel and military veterans. One of the greatest obstacles veterans face is the transition of skills learned while serving...
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Finding a Sustainable Career
Sustainability is about the preservation of resources today in order to meet current needs and the needs of future generations, or in other words “the capacity to endure.” For businesses,...
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America’s Top Career Coach to Speak at June 8 UC San Diego Career Boost Camp
By Henry DeVries Understanding your personal brand is the key to boosting your career, according to America’s top career coach, who is coming to UC San Diego on June 8 to speak at the second annual...
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Would you Like a Certificate with that Wine?
Even before Jesus turned water into wine, wine has been a favored beverage among bacchanalian partiers and lonely, single women alike. 2,000 years later, wine is still increasingly popular in the...
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Mark Cafferty on Career Talk Radio
Mark Cafferty has been the president and CEO of the San Diego regional Economic Development Corporation (EDC) for a little over a year. Before that Cafferty spent nearly six years at San Diego...
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Smile for What it’s Worth
Don’t underestimate the value of a smile. Literally. A study of recent MBA graduates found that optimistic people get hired more quickly than their less-optimistic peers. Plus happy workers were more...
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Make Beer Your Business and Pleasure
In San Diego, new breweries are opening left and right, with a rumor of nearly 100 to be opened by the end of the year. In 2011, the last year with complete data, the economic impact of the industry...
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Beer Buzz on Fox 5 San Diego
UC San Diego Extension‘s new brewing certificate is making headlines! Fox 5 News reported that the growing brewing business in San Diego is calling for more skilled workers as the science behind the...
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America’s Top Career Coach to Speak at June 8 UC San Diego Career Boost Camp
By Henry DeVries Understanding your personal brand is the key to boosting your career, according to America’s top career coach, who is coming to UC San Diego on June 8 to speak at the second annual...
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