New Co-op Coordinator and Exciting Events This Week
This week we welcomed an additional staff member to the Seattle Campus, Jennifer Youngblood.
Jennifer is the faculty Graduate Cooperative Education Coordinator for the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University – Seattle. Her background includes over 15 year of career counseling in higher education and private practice, as well as corporate HR. Jennifer has a BA and MA in History, a master’s certificate in Computer Programming, and MA coursework in Career Development. She is also MBTI Qualified and is a certified Distance Career Counselor.
We have some very interesting and unique events occurring on the Seattle Campus this week. The first is tomorrow presentation: Matching Industry Growth with Sustainable Development: The New Tech Challenge. This is the continuation of our speakers series: Local Leaders: Global Impact.
The Puget Sound tech sector is exploding. Since the ‘90s, our information technology sector created two-thirds of Washington’s job growth, which now represents 27 percent of all jobs in the state, mostly in the Puget Sound area. At the same time, cities are striving to achieve aggressive sustainability goals. With this growth driving our real estate market, are our developments and land use policies meeting the demands of this vital sector in ways that help us achieve our climate goals?The Puget Sound tech sector is exploding. Since the ‘90s, our information technology sector created two-thirds of Washington’s job growth, which now represents 27 percent of all jobs in the state, mostly in the Puget Sound area. At the same time, cities are striving to achieve aggressive sustainability goals. With this growth driving our real estate market, are our developments and land use policies meeting the demands of this vital sector in ways that help us achieve our climate goals?
Here is a special sneak peek at the presentation by Greg Johnson, President of Wright Runstad & Company, about Bellevue’s Spring District which will be used as a real-world case study.
Check it out here
The Seattle Campus will also be hosting an event on Thursday for the Young Professionals Network (YPN), titled I’M A YP. NOW WHAT?. The YPN is a group coordinated by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. They organize events for professional under 40 to meet and network. This week’s event’s theme is Next Career Steps and Personal Development.
Find out more about the event and register here.