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Latest Episodes

E13: Why You Don’t Have to Love Tech for a Successful Career Working with Technology (The 5 Traits of Technologists – Part 4)
May 31, 2019

Ever heard the expression “Love what you do, and you’ll never work a day in your life?” Nonsense, says CEO, author and social innovator, Charles Eaton, who explains the real secrets to a successful ca

Episode 13 -- Why You Don’t Have to Love Tech for a Successful Career Working with Technology (The 5 Traits of Technologists – Part 4)
May 31, 2019

Ever heard the expression “Love what you do, and you’ll never work a day in your life?” Nonsense, says CEO, author and social innovator, Charles Eaton, who explains the real secrets to a successful career working with technology. Hint: It’s...

Chapter 20 -- Providing More Pathways to Tech Careers: IT-Ready Comes to Illinois’ City of Lights
May 24, 2019

Launching a tech career means spending 4 years in college earning a computer science degree, right? Not so. There’s more than one pathway to landing a tech job, and Dr. Adrienne Holloway, Chief Innovation Officer for the City of Aurora, Illinois, is...

Chapter 19 -- How Can Young Technologists Thrive in Today’s Multigenerational Tech Workforce? Start Learning to Collaborate with Teammates Now
May 19, 2019

Thousands of digital natives from Gen Z will graduate from high schools, universities, trade schools and other programs this spring, eager to join Boomers, Gen X and Millennials in today’s tech workforce. How can they thrive in this competitive...

Chapter 18B -- What’s So Funny about Working as a Technologist? Our Podcast Goes into the Field to Find Out
April 30, 2019

Our correspondent Michelle Lange goes into the field with TechGirlz for a TechSavvy event, where middle school students and their parents learn that solving problems with technology is not only a viable career path for girls, but lots of fun, too....

Episode 12 -- How to Tell the Difference between Good Failures and Bad Ones (The 5 Traits of Technologists – Part 3)
April 30, 2019

The measure of success is avoiding failure, right? Wrong, says CEO, author and social innovator, Charles Eaton, especially when working with technology. True technologists, Eaton explains, not only admit failure, they embrace it.

E12: How to Tell the Difference between Good Failures and Bad Ones (The 5 Traits of Technologists – Part 3)
April 29, 2019

The measure of success is avoiding failure, right? Wrong, says CEO, author and social innovator, Charles Eaton, especially when working with technology. True technologists, Eaton explains, not only ad

Chapter 18A -- Do Digital Natives Have a Digital Edge in Today’s Multigenerational Workforce?
April 24, 2019

Does being raised a Digital Native -- immersed in an atmosphere of tech gadgetry -- give today’s teens advantages over other aspiring technologists in our multigenerational workforce? Tim Herbert, CompTIA’s head of research, shares insights from...

Chapter 17 -- Jonathan’s Technologist Tale: Orchestrating a balance between STEM & STEAM
April 05, 2019

Should STEM education formally incorporate the Arts, transforming STEM curriculum into STEAM programs for today’s teens? Explore the debate with technologist Jonathan Fuller, contributing editor to IEEE GlobalSpec’s Engineering360 blog and a...

Episode 11 -- How to Nurture the Next Generation of Women Technologists – before They Reach High School
March 30, 2019

Research shows that girls can lose interest in pursuing tech careers sometime between age 9 and the 9th grade. How can U.S. businesses prevent this potential loss of tech talent before these young women reach high school? Tracey Welson-Rossman, CMO of...