CareerVillage Articles

Category: Insights

  • Designing diverse and inclusive avatars is hard (but important!)

    Designing diverse and inclusive avatars is hard (but important!)

    CareerVillage.org has offered designed avatars for students for years and was at the forefront of offering diverse avatars (long before emojis got skin tones). When the time came this year to revise our avatars to match the revised design of the website, we dug deep into how to make them diverse and inclusive. Here’s how […]

  • [Press Release] CareerVillage.org Joins NewSchools Future of Work Challenge

    [Press Release] CareerVillage.org Joins NewSchools Future of Work Challenge

    Funding and management assistance from NewSchools Venture Fund will fuel efforts to create exceptional tools to help students connect to the future of work. Palo Alto, CA — CareerVillage.org is proud to announce its selection as a member of the 2018 Ignite cohort at NewSchools Venture Fund. CareerVillage.org is one of 11 ed tech companies […]

  • It’s Professional Services Week!

    TLDR for students: Ask questions this week about careers in consulting, accounting, audit, and tax. Starts Monday 9/25 and ends Saturday 9/30! There are over 1.3M jobs in accounting and audit in the United States, and the US Department of Labor calls it a high growth sector, growing at 11% per year. Whether you’ve ever considered […]