Careers: The Importance of Pre-Employment Background Checks (Fast Company Magazine)

Careers: The Importance of Pre-Employment Background Checks (Fast Company Magazine)
Pre-employment background checks are being conducted with increasing regularity by companies that want to be more sure of the type of people they are hiring. The information used to determine if an individual will be hired varies from business to…

The Atari 2600: The box that launched a million IT careers (iTNews)

The Atari 2600: The box that launched a million IT careers (iTNews)
October marks the 30th anniversary of the release of the Atari 2600 videogame console. CRN takes a look at how the 2600 spurred the imaginations of kids who later became IT solution providers.

Vanderbilt family forges new life, careers in Alaska (Gaylord Herald Times)

Vanderbilt family forges new life, careers in Alaska (Gaylord Herald Times)
HOMER, ALASKA ? In June the Waclawski family ? Doug, Michelle, Aurora and Denver ? pulled up stakes and made the move from Vanderbilt to a remote region of Alaska where Doug Waclawski had accepted a teacher/principal position at the Razdolna School located about 30 miles east of Homer on the Kachemek Peninsula, south of Anchorage.