Tag Archives: Job Search

What Do You Love to Do?

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Connie Tolman

These days everybody from the car dealer to self help books give advice that you should do what you love to do.  In finishing  Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, I was struck by the theme throughout the book … Continue reading →

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Renewable Energy Job Market In San Diego – Part 2

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Connie Tolman

I wrote a series of articles a couple of months ago about jobs in the renewable energy market and concluded that there were none to be had in the near future.  Since then I heard from two sources that there … Continue reading →

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Interviewing for That Job

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Connie Tolman

Lately  I have been a part of an interviewing process which many of us are going through in these times.  We take classes on how to interview, we do role playing and we read books on what to say and … Continue reading →

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Green Energy – Where Has All the Money Gone?

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Connie Tolman

Has it crossed your mind to try to get a job in a green industry?  With all of the money flowing into this area, where would the jobs be?  According to the California magazine issue Winter 2009 this is how it … Continue reading →

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As Manufacturing in America Fades Away, Where Are We Going From Here?

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Connie Tolman

Now that manufacturing is done in America, it’s not time to have a funeral, it’s time to figure out what’s next.  There is always something next.  We just don’t know what it is yet. Manufacturing isn’t dead, it’s just gone … Continue reading →

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Biofuels

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Connie Tolman

Biofuels are the focus of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.  The former LBNL Director Steven Chu is notw U.S. Energy Secretary and he is driving the technologies that will be developed and how the government money will be spent. The … Continue reading →

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Photovoltaic Alternative Energy

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Connie Tolman

Another area being intensely studied is photovoltaic or solar cells.  The efficiency is already good at an impressive 22 percent – 22% of the sunlight that hits the cell is transformed into usable energy.  But the materials used must become … Continue reading →

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Gender Differences??

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Connie Tolman

During an Human Resources orientation at work, there were two males on the phone at remote locations.  When we went around the room to give our introductions, I noticed that the other two guys said what they could bring to the table and I talked … Continue reading →

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