Recently I received the following email from appropriately worshiping reader Victoria:

Freshers Bpo Jobs at Mumbai Stream Global Services

JobTitle: Support professional and Senior Support Professional

About Stream Global Services :
Stream Global Services is one of the leading multinational Technical Support Outsourcer (TPO), operating in the fastest growing segment of the BPO Industry. With several years of successful track record. We have 30 Contact Center with 18000 employees

Experience: 0 — 2 Years

Skills: Bpo / Customer Service / Computers

A recurring theme here on Aard is my complaints about how useless certain kinds of higher education is if you want a job. For a change, let's take a look at what kind of degree is most likely to get you a job in Sweden over the coming decade. The Swedish National Agency for Higher Education has just published a study that offers data on this very issue. Here are the degrees where there will be a labour shortage in Sweden for the foreseeable future!

• Medical laboratory scientist, Sw.

When I was a post-doc, I spent a few months seriously thinking about changing careers and teaching high school. I might have followed through on that plan, too, but I didn't know how to pay for it.

Today, if you have a background in science, technology, math, or engineering, you can retrain to become a teacher and the National Science Foundation will help. The Robert Noyce scholarship program has funds to help ease that transition to the classroom.

A comment at Prof-like Substance caught my eye.
You called yourself a PI? What's with all these biomedical people referring to a professor as a PI? In some fields a professor is a professor. An academic title is more dignified than an administrative acronym.

Freshers Engineers Jobs at Delhi/NCR SlideShare

JobTitle: Software Engineers

DrugMonkey has a poll up asking for reader reports of the science career advice they have gotten firsthand. Here's the framing of the poll:

Designer Jobs at Shanti Consultants Delhi/NCR
JobTitle: Interior designer (female)
About Shanti Consultants    :
A renowned interior designing company with its corporate office in Dwarka,working for various reputed companies in Delhi/NCR,outside Delhi also ‚throughout India.
Experience: 1 — 2 Years

Skills: desigining / good communication
Job Description:
To handle projects related to interior designing of residences and offices.To make visits [...]

Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here.

I came across this post by Digby about the narcissism of CEOs, which is worth a read. One of the things I think a lot of academics have a hard time understanding is how common antisocial personality disorders can be in positions of power outside of academia. In my experience, sociopaths and narcissists--and I use those terms in their clinical sense, not as synonyms for asshole--are really infrequent in academia.