University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2015 HWW Alternative Academic (Alt-Ac) Career Summer Workshop: Consulting and Innovating with Cecil Dearborne, ThoughtWorks

Dearborne, Cecil

Content Files
Day_3_Bounce1.mp4
Day 3 Bounce1.srt

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/88887

Description

Title
2015 HWW Alternative Academic (Alt-Ac) Career Summer Workshop: Consulting and Innovating with Cecil Dearborne, ThoughtWorks
Author(s)
Dearborne, Cecil
Contributor(s)
Perlman, Jeff
Issue Date
2016-02
Keyword(s)
  • Social media
  • Consulting
  • Associate Consultant Program
  • ThoughtWorks
  • IT
  • Software development
  • jobmarket
  • ALT-AC workshop
  • Humanities Without Walls
  • HWW
Date of Ingest
2016-02-15T22:42:52Z
Geographic Coverage
Chicago
Abstract
Cecil Dearborne, head of ThoughtWorks' Associate Consultant Program for North America, discusses this 24-month learning and working experience. The program commences with a five-week immersive learning experience at the ThoughtWorks University in India, followed by an entry-level consulting position in one of the ThoughtWorks offices for the duration of the program. More generally Dearborne presents the challenges and rewards of careers in IT consulting, innovation, and idea generation, with the 2015 Fellows asking lively questions throughout. More information about ThoughtWorks can be found here: https://www.thoughtworks.com/ More information about the ThoughtWorks Associate Consultant Program for North America can be found here: https://info.thoughtworks.com/ac-na Humanities Without Walls is a consortium of 15 universities across the Midwestern United States, based at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information, visit: http://www.humanitieswithoutwalls.illinois.edu
Type of Resource
video
Genre of Resource
  • Presentation / Lecture / Speech
  • Conference Paper / Presentation
Language
eng
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/88887

Owning Collections

August 2015 ALT-AC Pre Doctoral Workshop videos PRIMARY
The videos are from the ALT-AC Pre Doctoral Workshop held during 2015 in Chicago, and organized by Humanities Without Walls