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Ellie is a teacher and content editor from Minnesota currently based in Granada, Spain. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies and Environmental Science from the University of Minnesota. Along with editing articles for Career Karma, she works as an assistant teacher of English in Spain and does volunteer work for the Sierra Club of Minnesota. Ellie is eager to learn as much as she can about technology and the global community while mastering her writing and editing skills. Being a native English speaker in Spain, her professional interests include global perspective, language, urban planning, and environmental issues. Outside of work, Ellie enjoys travel, history, reading, music, and being outside.

Why a Loan Might Be the Best Option for You
Coding bootcamps have become an incredibly popular option in recent years for people who want to transform their careers and their lives by developing skills in the tech industry. Just as the programs are non-conventional, so are the loan options…
How Merit America Can Help You Climb the Career Ladder without a College Degree
For millions of working Americans, college isn’t the solution. According to the U.S. Department of Education, only one in 10 students from a low-income background earns a university degree by the time they’re 25. Many of those that earn their…
Beyond Bootcamps: Meratas’ Amazing ISAs Help Realtors, Salespeople, and More Achieve Their Dreams
In our past work with Meratas, we’ve covered the basics of income share agreements (ISAs) and how students can ensure they’re getting the best ISA for themselves. ISA loans are helping many people achieve their dreams of attending coding bootcamps…
Defining Income Share Agreements: Here’s What You Need to Know About ISAs
Tiffany Wise had a plan. That was to finish her bachelor’s degree in computer science and start a career in software engineering. But after making her way through the four-year degree program and taking out a traditional student loan to…
How Thinkful Helps Students Navigate Problems During Their Courses
Thinkful helps students change careers, fast. And that means you'll have to learn a range of new skills in just a few months. But you're not studying alone. In a previous Thinkful review, we covered the strong support system for…
Crossing the Finish Line: Meet the People Behind General Assembly’s Student Success
Since its inception in 2011, General Assembly has been one of the leading training grounds for tech professionals, with the coding bootcamp boasting job placement rates that consistently cross the 90-percent mark. Behind these numbers lies the constant collaborative effort…
Hacking the Master’s Degree with upGrad
A master’s degree is a unique qualification in today’s career landscape. Demonstrating a prolonged dedication to learning, a master’s degree is more specialized, hyper-focused, and often research-based. When applying for jobs in a competitive landscape, a master’s degree can set…
Be Data Literate with Dataquest: Why Data Skills Matter and How to Build Yours
If you’re a working professional, it’s safe to assume that you know how to write, read, and comprehend written words as well as communicate your thoughts. You might even be good with numbers. But here’s a question to consider: can…
How Code Fellows Is Working to Set Industry Standards with Premier Modular Curriculum
In the world of bootcamps, when there’s such a wide variety of locations and programs to choose from, what truly sets a curriculum apart? Many bootcamps offer a plethora of add-ons, guarantees, bells and whistles. But the curriculum and instruction…
How to Know If You’re Ready to Start a New Career Through a Thinkful Bootcamp
You may have already found the bootcamp of your dreams on the Thinkful website. The school has plenty of options. Students can start building beautiful sites in the software engineering program, help organizations make sense of their data in the…
Divergence Academy: Your Gateway to a Career In Emerging Technologies
In the early 2000s, data science was an emerging field in tech that companies were just beginning to explore. By 2010, it had become one of the fastest-growing areas in technology. Today, Glassdoor reports that data scientist is the second-best…
Pathstream: Providing Learners with the Digital Skills that Are Shaping Today’s Workforce
Skilled tech workers are in high demand, and the need will continue to grow worldwide with no signs of slowing down. Forbes shared that 40 percent of companies hired tech staff during the pandemic, with 66 percent of companies having…
How Over 90% of The Software Guild’s Apprentices Find Jobs Within 6 Months of Graduating
The Software Guild’s founders came together with the mission to provide quality education to aspiring software developers. Software engineers with an average of over 10 years of experience each felt they could provide a much deeper and more successful educational…
GetSmarter Career Navigator: How to Plan Your Career the Smart Way
The onset of the pandemic in 2020 and the disruptions that followed thereafter revealed how dissatisfied most are with their jobs. Now that the economy is regaining its footing, people have begun to reassess and reinvent their careers. The question…
Take the First Step Toward Product Management Success with Product School
Tech is an exciting industry that continues to grow and evolve. According to Glassdoor’s 50 Best Jobs in America for 2021, eight out of the top 10 jobs are in this field. This isn’t surprising considering how much of our…
Kenzie Academy Job Placement Support: Here’s How to Invest in Your Career Development
In the past, career services were considered as an afterthought for many schools or an office on campus that students often walked by but never entered. Today, it’s proving to be a major differentiating factor between universities and bootcamps. Students…
How Coding Temple and WIOA Can Get Your Tech Career Started
The tech industry continues to grow at unprecedented rates. According to CompTIA, there were 3.9 million job postings for tech positions in 2020, and the job openings are projected to increase by 245,500 this year in the US alone. While…
Turing College’s Quick Guide to Finding the Right Data Science Role for You
If you do a quick Google search on data science, you’ll find dozens of different definitions. Companies and organizations also define their data scientist roles differently, based on their own understanding and expectation of the role. Some organizations regard it…
How General Assembly’s Career Services Help Students Find a Job During COVID-19
Higher education is failing to meet one of its top promises to its students: employment. A recent report by job site Monster reveals that among the Class of 2020 college graduates, 45 percent remain unemployed. While a significant part of…
Deep Dive: How Aspireship’s Industry-Approved Program Can Launch Your Sales Career
The software industry is growing exponentially. This growth is creating new career opportunities in ways that you might not have considered. Opportunities like a sales career in the $123 billion software-as-a-service (SaaS) industry, for example.   SaaS is a business model…
Qwasar Silicon Valley: A School That Starts with the End in Mind
If you’ve started looking into schools and programs to begin your new career in tech, the options can be overwhelming. While many schools offer programs and bootcamps that have the same objective—preparing their students for careers in technology—each school has…
Why Galvanize Data Analytics Online Immersive? Learn to Analyze Data Like a Pro
Data has been baked into nearly every industry, as companies continue to place big bets on data initiatives. But here’s the paradox: one in five companies are failing to maximize the opportunities that data presents.  A report from commercial data…
How Shillington Scholarships Gift Budding Graphic Designers With Savings
We’ve previously discussed how Shillington Education offers a unique educational experience that’s transformed thousands of Shillumni’s lives with a simple, yet challenging curriculum. The logical curriculum and experienced instructors are transforming people around the world with little to no experience…
Thinkful: 3 Certified Steps to Prep for Your Thinkful Interview
In previous articles, we’ve discussed the amazing support you’ll find at Thinkful, as well as the bootcamp’s great financing options and how they work to help you succeed. After reading the ways that Thinkful works to remove every barrier to…
How You Can Get Your Marketing Career Started With SkillBank
Many people want to be a part of something bigger than themselves. They want to contribute to the world and to their own lives, embark on a path where they can sustain themselves abundantly, and find fulfillment in the work…
A User-Friendly Guide to the Flatiron School Product Design Course: What Can You Expect?
What is design worth? A lot, apparently, as it’s become a critical component to business success. According to the Design Management Institute, design-led companies have “outperformed the S&P 500 by 219 percent” over 10 years. A sit-down interview in 2013…
Why App Academy Students Succeed: Get to Know the Coding Bootcamp’s Learning Network
There’s a fine line between good and bad software, and that could be a single line of code.  To an aspiring software engineer, this might seem like a welcome invitation to simply pick a language, watch countless YouTube tutorials on…
How Launch Academy’s Lifetime Support Sets Students up for Success
When choosing a bootcamp, you’ll find that there is a wide variety of options available. It’s important to figure out what values are important to you in your educational process, and use those metrics to find a bootcamp that aligns…
Tech Elevator: Represent Tech Scholarship Helps Underrepresented Groups Launch New Careers
In our last couple of articles with Tech Elevator, we’ve discussed the school’s major features, as well as how its Pathway Program helps maintain the school’s 90 percent job placement rate.  We’ve also briefly discussed how Tech Elevator is using…
Lighthouse Labs: Making Tech Education Accessible
Lighthouse Labs exists in a world where the obligations of working adults can prevent them from pursuing their education goals. Work and family can often eat up much of the time that many working people would otherwise have. However, this…
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