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

Dearborne, Cecil

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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

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

Language

eng

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