Martin Briand - Bibliography

“The Surprising Importance of
Grades.” Sending signals in the job market. Last modified April, 5, 2010. http://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/the\_surprising\_importance\_of\_grades

This article, from the website Kellogg Insight, we learn the importance of grades for your future job. Indeed grades
seem to be really important for future employers, as they are a guarantee of
hard work and dedication.

This document is relevant as it
is often thought that grades are just number and they will never matter in your
professional life, this tells us that the grade we get can have a great
influence on your professional future.

Erin Millar. “How do I choose
the right program for me?” Last modified May, 22, 2007. http://www.macleans.ca/education/uniandcollege/how-do-i-choose-the-right-program-for-me/

In this article, Erin Millar explains us that choosing a program is not as easy as it can sometime look. By
that she means that most of the time, what you want to do further in life will
change through college, and that switching your major is normal and not always alarming.

This article is relevant to me
since, even if I know that I want to be in computer science, I was still
hesitant about my future, and now that I know that it is ok not to know what
you want to do exactly, I feel better about the future. What it tells me is
that I will most likely chance career path a lot through my life, and that
experience will allow me to eventually score a job where I want to.

Ketan Virmani. “Strategize your
resolutions for 2015.” Last modified December, 29, 2014. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/good-bye-2014welcome-2015-ketan-virmani

In this article from Linkedin, Ketan
Virmani explains us how you need to set up goal for yourself, so as to achieve
in life, in any circumstance, money, school or profession wise.

What I found interesting about
this article is the fact that it is recommended to add intermediate steps
between your current state and your long term goal, for example short term
goals and mid-terms goals that help you really achieve what you want to.

Jörgen Sundberg. ”How to Use Facebook for
Professional Networking.”

http://theundercoverrecruiter.com/how-use-facebook-professional-networking-10-useful-tips/

This
article from the website UndercoverRecruiter gives us ten tips to improve your
networking capabilities through the online social network Facebook.

This
article is particularly relevant, since in nowadays world, social Medias are a
very important part of socialising and networking. So if you manage to make
your personal image more professional through social networks, your chance of
being employed could drastically increase.

Suzanne
Bowness. “How to network the right way.” Last modified March, 11, 2014. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/career-advice/how-to-network-the-right-way/article17436855/

In
this article, Suzanne Bowness tells us more about how to network successfully.
For her, networking is essential to guarantee you a place on the job market.

This
article is interesting since it tells us how to network properly, for example,
if you go at a networking event, you should not stay with your acquaintances,
but instead go to other people and engage new conversations and relationships,
this is what networking should be.

Tony.
“On entering the Computer Science field with no programming background.”
CompSci.ca. Last modified September, 6, 2007.

http://compsci.ca/blog/on-entering-the-computer-science-field-with-no-programming-background/

This
article, taken from a blog named CompSci.ca Blog is here to explain to
undergraduate students how they can manage to enter the computer science field in
university.

This
article is relevant to me as I am planning to major in computer science,
however, I do not have any previous experience in computer programming, making
me a little stressed about my chances to pass. This article gave me motivation
and advices on how to manage to get into the computer science area of studies.

“Secrets
of Straight-A Students.” *Reader’s Digest.*
 Accessed December, 1, 2015

http://www.rd.com/advice/parenting/secrets-of-straight-a-students/

This
article from Reader’s digest informs us on all that is required to score good
grades in school. Some of the information presented here comes from high grades
students that scored above 4.0 and some education experts.

I
find this article relevant as it give you motivation and really sets up the goals
for you, it encourages you to outdo yourself and explain that the way to obtain
good grades is to show yourself and to be better organised.

Richard
A. Young, Ladislav Valach. “The construction of career through goal-directed
action.” *Journal of Vocational Behaviour*,
volume 64, issue 3 (2004): 499-514.

Richard
A. Young, professor in Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special
Education at the University Of British Columbia, Vancouver, and Ladislav
Valach, professor at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, analyze how an
occupational career can be shaped throughout one’s life. They explain that not
only your career is made with the choices, actions and projects you make, or
the goal you set yourself, but also other people careers, either family or
relationship related. This also raises the point that parents have a huge
impact on their child or adolescent career development.

This
article seems relevant to me as it explain how your career can be shaped and
how to make the best out of it. It is also pretty interesting for college
students, since generally speaking, most of us just left our homes to go to
university and seeing the approach of career depending on family influence and
education can help to get a better understanding of this whole situation. The
article also gives advice on how to set up goals, on different terms lengths,
and how to achieve them. As a college student, this article helped me to get to
know the subject of career planning.