STEM Jobs

Have any of you heard of this company or this guy?

Here's the e-mail my colleague Angela got...and we're trying to figure this out...whether it's safe and appropriate.

I wanted to update you on progress at STEM Jobs and let you know of a free

resource we're rolling out in March.   

We have partnered with key faculty and researchers in teaching STEM education

and connecting education curriculum to careers - resulting in 7 principles of practice.  

On March 3, 2015, we are rolling out a, free three-part, Classroom Training Series

that would be useful to both for educators (including Job Corps instructors - or workforce

instructors) and career advisors (to better understand how they can partner with educators

to connect classrooms to careers).  The series helps to frame a common understanding

of STEM between academia and workforce development.  It addresses the concept of

"STEM Anxiety" that inhibits many students from succeeding in gaining critical STEM skills,

and introduces our student-developed, "Do What You Love", campaign message.  We seek to

inspire students, jobs seekers and individuals in transition to open doors to their dreams

by following STEM training pathways.  I have an attachment providing the topics that will

be highlighted in the series. 

Secondly, we have revised version of the STEM Type Quiz - we have now completed

psychometric evaluation of the tool  - as an interest inventory for individuals and

students seeking direction in their job search, it can help connect those interests to

occupations and from occupations to training providers and employers.  There is no cost

for individuals to take the quiz.  I have an overview document as well that outlines our underlying

research and how we have tied our STEM Types to O*Net occupations.  I would be glad to send

it to you.

I'd love to set up a time to discuss everything so that your network can join thousands of others

currently utilizing our free resources.

You can check some of them out here:

http://StemJobs.com (information for students)

http://edu.stemjobs.com (our portal for teachers, counselors)

http://stemtype.stemjobs.com  (our proprietary STEMType quiz for students)