Nontraditional College Success: Recent Episodes
Arnold Morales
This Podcast will motivate and empower nontraditional students to get more out of their college experience. You will learn how to land your dream job with a top company, enjoy the college experience, become a leader, make an impact in your community, make lifelong friends and graduate with less debt. Internships, Scholarships, FAFSA, student aid, awards, and full time job offers here we come.This podcast is for College students that are first generation, in Community college, Low income, Independent, Women in STEM, minorities such as Hispanic, African American, Asian American and others; GED Graduates, Students that Work full time, attend school part time, Undocumented, DACA, delayed enrollment, older student, second career, military, and International students. You are not alone we are in this together.
1.9 GPA, Non-target College, & 150+ Rejections to Adobe! ! with Leander Howard II
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Guest Links:
Leander Howard - LinkedIn
Spark Your Resume -Website
Spark Your Success - Podcast
Join us on a conversation about:
- biggest obstacles for first-generation and minorities and how to overcome them.
- five step plan to land your dream job
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Guest Links:
Daniel Botero
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thedanielbotero/
https://www.masteringcollegetocareer.com/
Astronaut Jose and I talked about:
- Overcoming 11 NASA Rejections
- Imposter Syndrome
- Standing up for what you believe in
- Books, Wine, and Netflix Movie
- How to become an astronaut
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Guest Links:
Tierra Luna Cellars: https://tierralunacellars.com/
Books and Consulting: https://tierralunaengineering.com/
Jose LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-m-hernandez-61879461/
June will be sharing tips and tricks from being a career coach and her experience as a recruiter for Tesla, Wish, Google, and Netflix.
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Guest:
June Caloroso- LinkedIn
Build With June- Website
Jessica Flores will be sharing how she went from a community college student working at McDonald's to an intern at NASA and Boeing.
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Guest:
Jessica Flores - LinkedIn
Alex Berry from Chocolate Milk Diplomacy will be sharing his experience as a 6' 2'' Black Male at a primarily white university, Studying abroad in China, and Corporate America (Intel).
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Guest:
Alex Berry - LinkedIn
Chocolate Milk Diplomacy -LinkedIn Page
Learn How Bolivar Received 9 offers at the virtual conferences from:
- Northrop Grumman
- Boeing
- Cummins
- 3M
- GE
- Raytheon
- BP
- Eaton
- Bechtel
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Guest:
Bolivar Morales - LinkedIn
Mel talks about her 2nd Career in Engineering and being a woman in STEM.
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Guest:
Mel Butcher- LinkedIn
Lead to Soar- Podcast
Melbutcher.com -website
Hi! I am a first-gen and proud latina. I am also the Founder and CEO of Max Up, a career consulting firm that specializes in helping college students and professionals to land their dream careers while maximizing their potentials.
I have been featured in The Well, The CPA Journal, Josh Talks USA, and more.
As a public speaker, I get to be a voice for many people out there, where I share my knowledge in events that go from small gatherings to large corporate events.
Host: Arnold Morales ⚙️
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Stephanie Nuesi - LinkedIn
Instagram- @stephanienuesi
Max Up - Website
An engineer-turned-life-coach, Gina founded Deliberate Doing LLC, an exclusive STEM coaching service dedicated to helping technical professionals defeat career despair. Her specialized coaching solves the common STEM problem: "What is next for my life?" As a former engineer, Gina identifies with technical experts who question their personal or professional existence.
Host: Arnold Morales ⚙️
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Guest:
Gina Covarrubias - LinkedIn
Deliberate Doing - Website
Advising Student Engineers - Blog
Yazmin Montoya Graduated from the University of Texas-El Paso with a Bachelors in Engineering Leadership and an MBA. She is currently doing a Systems Engineering Masters from UTEP.
She started her career as an aerospace intern at Lockheed Martin, moved to oil & gas, and recently got furloughed in the mining industry. Now she has moved on to technology with Intel. Learn what made her stand out and how she tackled this tough job market.
Host: Arnold Morales ⚙️
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Guest:
Yazmin Montoya- LinkedIn
“I grew up on a pig farm in Mexico, and now I’m building space telescopes. You never know where you might end up if you don’t try!”
-Dr. Margaret Dominguez is an optical engineer at NASA.
2020 Great Minds in STEM Most Promising Engineer
She recently recruited at SHPE National and shares with us tips on how to get into NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Host: Arnold Morales ⚙️
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Guest:
Dr. Margaret Dominguez - LinkedIn
NASA Goddard
podcast #engineering #virtualcareerfair #careerfair #jobs #aerospace
Arnold Morales ⚙️ shares his bad financial decisions with a certified financial planner Lucas Casarez, CFP®.️
Financial advice for students and early career professionals.
Level Up Financial Planning, LLC
Zoom Q/A with Students (Recording).
This recording is specifically targeting international students, but all students can benefit.
Ash, a software engineer shares his experience as a recruiter for GE during COVID and virtual career fairs. He also shares tips that got him his new job at Google
Julia, an energy engineering student answers questions about her experience getting an internship with Cummins Inc.
Host: Arnold Morales
Graduates from:
IUPUI
Purdue University
Georgia Tech
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Guest:
Julia's- Linkedin
Ash-Linkedin
In this episode, you will learn how Julia got an internship at Cummins as an international student during the virtual career fair.
Julia's- Linkedin
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- How to win Day one
- The first 90 days
- Accelerate the learning curve
- Being your managers sidekick
- Exceed Expectations on your Performance Review
Jolandi -Linkedin
The Graduate at work podcast- Link
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In today's episode we talk about:
- Crash Test Engineers
- Women in STEM
- Advice from a senior engineer for Early-career engineers.
Becky Mueller- LinkedIn
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My first official mentor and I discuss The importance of mentoring, where to find mentors, and much more.
with Alejandro Botero- Aerospace Engineer -Linkedin
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Aerospace vs Tech! & How to get into Tech! Ep. 25
- Aerospace vs Tech
- How to get into Tech
- Do and Don'ts when job searching
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Elevator Pitch and Interviews! Ep. 24
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Recording of Live Zoom Q/A with Professionals that recruited Virtually Sat, Oct 24 at 1 pm PST event notice on Nontraditional College Success Linked Page.
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Monthly Live sessions and weekly success stories coming soon on Nontraditional College Success Page on Linkedin.
How To Win at The Virtual Career Fair and Overcoming Rejections.
Highlights:
-How to prep before the career fair/conference
-What to do during the conference
-What recruiters are looking for
-I got rejected five times from my dream employer. The sixth time I got the job.
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Live Zoom Q/A with Professionals that recruited Virtually for Lockheed Martin, GE, and Northrop Grumman. Sat, Oct 24 at 1 pm PST event notice on Nontraditional College Success Linked Page.
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Have you ever wanted to receive advice from a fortune 30 CTO? Today is your chance. John Tracy shared his top advice for college students and early career professionals.
John Tracy was the CTO of Boeing from 2006-2016.
Highlights:
-I got laid off three times in three years.
-I applied to five of the six companies that make up Boeing, and they all rejected me.
- The company that had rejected me twice is the one that finally hired me.
-If you fail, keep trying. I failed algebra 1
-I am 62.5% Hispanic
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In today's episode Stephen Lu and I will talk about rotation programs.
-What are they? 🤷♂️
-How to get in one even if your company does not have one.
-Why you should be in one? 😀
-The downside of these programs 😞
Most of the big companies have these programs
.Northrop Grumman has one called Pathway, previously PDP
Boeing has one called early career rotation program
Stephen lu is in a rotation program at Lockheed Martin called ELDP.
Pros:
✅ Breath
✅ Network
✅ Special events
✅ Flexible- the big picture
Cons:
❌ Depth
❌Promotions
❌Fixed structure
Other topics:
Pay
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In todays episode we have Janelisse Morales Gonzalez a NASA intern, and student from University of Central Florida.
"My first ever LinkedIn post got 360,000 reactions and was viewed by 11.7 Millions"
"My teacher laughed when I said I wanted to work at NASA"
"I was 14 years old and taking college courses"
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In Todays episode we have Austin Belcak from Cultivated Culture.
He will be talking about:
Time Management
Growing Your LinkedIn Following
Land Your Dream Job Without Applying Online
COVID-19
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In todays Episode Our Guest Jay Flores and I will talk about:
Finding Your Passions, (college degree, Job, Industry)
Why your passion comes first and $$$ Comes Later
Why You Need to Get Involved NOW!
Jay will share his Nontraditional Story
Picking from several offers
Content Creation
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In this Episode Lazaro from Success Innovation and I will talk about:
- What you did not learn in engineering school and need in the field
- Expectations vs reality of engineering
- Lazaro's Nontraditional Story
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In this episode Khalid Blata, Alejandro Rodriguez and I have a conversations about mental health. We talk about our experiences dealing with mental health issues and how we deal with it. This is just a conversation between friends, no medical advice.
This is a very taboo topic for a lot of nontraditional students. So, we want to add some awareness to it and tell you it is okay not to be okay and you can seek help.
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In todays episode America's Top Career Expert Robin Ryan will share with us advice on:
- Where to look for jobs
- Resume tips
- Finding a network
- LinkedIn tips
- Virtual interviewing and how to answer questions the correct way
- COVID-19
- Cover Letters
- ATS - Applicant tracking system
- and Advice for graduating students
Robin answered some frequently asked questions:
- creative on resume ? yes or no
- headshot on resume? yes or no
- write all the keywords in white in your header or footer for ATS? yes or no
Resources Mentioned:
Glassdoor
built In
Robin Ryan's Resources:
60 Seconds and You're Hired! -Book on Amazon
Forbes weekly column
Robin's LinkedIn
Robin's other books and articles can be found at her website www.RobinRyan.com
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Episode 13- Networking! How to Stand Out and Win at Networking with CEO of Wonsulting, Jonathan Javier.Top Tips on Networking at:
•career fairs
•conferences
•presentations
•professional organizations
- how to build a relation with your connections
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Jerry Lee - LinkedIn
•Senior Strategy & Operations Manager at Google
•COO of Wonsulting - Website
Shares his underdog to winner story
•Immigrant story
•Not having enough money
•Not knowing what to do in college
•First intern at google from my alma matter
•Fastest promotion in the organization’s history
•Asian culture traits that does not match the US style
•Traveling and waiting to pay for student loans
•Balancing a busy student schedule
•What motivated Jerry though College
•His goal with Wonsulting
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International Students in the United States.
In this episode, our Guest:
Achraf Gbadamassi, Software Engineer at GE (General Electric) from the African Country of Benin
Yatindra Singh, Mechanical Engineer at Delphi from the Asian Country of India
Will talk about:
Why they emigrated to the US?
Culture shock
Misconceptions about the US
Racism
English as a second language
Missing home
Basmati Rice
Missing food
Finances and paying for school
Grad School
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If you are a minority or want to understand some struggles minorities go through, this episode is for you. I talk about the struggles of not seeing people that look like us, being perceived as inferior, thinking less of our accomplishments, and I talk about the advantages of being Hispanic.
Our Guest Jonathan talks about not being able to rely on immediate family to help with college, family pressures that are even higher for Latinas, feeling you do not belong, and do not deserve to be in top positions. He also will advise on how to overcome these and provides advantages of being Hispanic/LatinX.
After this episode, you will feel empowered as a minority and have new tools to succeed.
I promised links to organizations and I will post those on the Facebook Page "Nontraditional College Success".
What are your biggest insecurities?
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In this episode Brian, Amethyst, and Arnold will share their NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) experience.
NCAS Website - Link
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Arnold visited Marshall Space Flight Center, located in Huntsville, Alabama
Brian and Amethyst visited Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas.
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Schools attended:
University of Minnesota
Saint Paul College
Ivy Tech Community College
Purdue University
IUPUI
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Passaic County Community College
In this episode we will learn from LinkedIn Guru Justin Nguyen how to make a winning LinkedIn profile. Host of Declassified College Podcast.
Since it is a long episode but full of great information below is a list of topics discussed.
Topics and links:
LinkedIn Campus Editor
All Star Rating
Background photo
https://www.canva.com/
Keywords
https://www.jobscan.co/
Optimize Headline Section and getting people to click on your profile
Cheat code how to get higher word limit
Arnold Morales LinkedIn
Justin Nguyen LinkedIn
Optimize About Section - story telling and capturing interest
Activity and showing up on others feed
Optimize Education Section and how to get seen more
Optimize experience Section- links and becoming more credible
Optimize volunteer Section
Skills and endorsements- how to get people to endorse you
how to get recommendations
keep your privacy and avoid spam
How to make people stay on your profile and not jump onto someone else
Making 500+ connections
connecting with strangers?
Posting Resume on LinkedIn
Viral Content
Hastags
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Guest:
Justin Nguyen Host of Declassified College Podcast
In this episode, Renzo and I will talk about what we did to get six companies to keep asking us to come back as interns or full-time employees.
This is an extra episode we added from our routine uploads. On Wednesday, we did an episode on what we learned from interning at seven companies and still had a lot to share and did not want to wait since interns are currently out and want to help.
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Guest:
Renzo La Rosa
In todays episode you will learn what Renzo, Samuel, and myself (Arnold) learned from interning at 7 companies that include NASA, Northrop Grumman, and Rolls Royce. Together we have more than 16 semesters of experience as interns
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Guest:
Samuel Guzman
Renzo La Rosa
Our Guest Celia Ochoa and Arnold will discuss how they received a combined amount of $154,000+ in student aid.
- DACA
- Undocumented
- First Generation
- Hispanic
- Women in STEM
- Low Income
- GED Graduate
- Community College
Elizabeth Morales is a Honduras Immigrant that has not given up her dream of being a college graduate. Even if that means being nine years in four different colleges, two countries, and three cities, she has not taken this long because she has slacked behind; she has been a full-time student while getting super good grades and has two more years to go to finish her bachelors. Listen to her story and all the struggles she has to go through.
She has been first-generation, low income, returning, mother, full-time employee while attending school full time.
- Elizabeth's College Journey min 1
- Immigrant student challenges and how to overcome min 14:55
- Returning students (older) and how to overcome min 20:33
- Community College student and how to overcome min 24:35
- A full-time employee and going to school challenges and how to overcome min 29:28
- Being a mom and going to school challenges and how to overcome min 35:48
Mentions:
La Plaza
IUPUI
Ivy Tech Community College
Life with my superhero - Facebook Page
University of Washington
Universidad de San Pedro Sula
Hispanic Scholarship Fund YLI
Quotes:
*"Perseverance, when you want something so badly, you will do anything it takes to accomplish it."
"Giving up was not an option; it was no option before having my daughter ad; it is not an option now."
"You have to focus on the important part that is getting your education and finding your path. "
"Being a mom is not a full-time job; it is a 24-hour job."*
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How to Get Your First Internship! + 4 Tips to Impress that Students Never Do
In this episode you will learn how to get your first internship! which I believe is the Most valuable experience for getting your dream job, and it will set you up for success. Aside from my voice You will also hear from some very successful professionals and students who will be sharing how they got their first internship. I am also going to be sharing 4 thing that I did that are thing students usually do not do .
Guest Speaker:
Michael Wilson
In this episode you will learn how Nontraditional will motivate and empower students to get more out of your college experience. You will learn how to land your dream job, enjoy college more, make an impact, make lifelong friends and graduate with less debt
This podcast is for College students that are first generation, delayed enrollment, older student, second career, military, Community college, Low income, Independent, Women in stem, minorities such as Hispanic, African American, Asian American and others; GED Graduates, Students that Work full time, attend school part time, Undocumented, DACA, and International students.
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Top Challenges for First Generation students in College
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Congratulations! you decided to attend community college. Attending community college was the decision that changed my life. I went from minimum wage warehouse employee to six figures engineer and it all started with the decision to get educated.
There are many challenges community college students go through. In this article you will learn how to overcome those obstacles. Doing the research for this article, and by research I mean google, I gathered the most common challenges and grouped them in three categories. Not enough time, not enough money, and I am not sure what I am doing.
The following is what I have learned from experience and reading self-improvement books.
I am not sure what I am doing
If you did not go to college straight out of high school, graduated with a GED, are the first in your family to go to college, do not do well with modern technology you probably have a lot of questions and are not sure what you are doing. That makes our confidence low and makes the biggest obstacle ourselves. Repeat after me. I can do this. I started community college and had no idea what to do. I did not know what to study, I did not know what I needed to apply and succeed. I did not know how to pay for college. I had no one to ask in my family. I started engineering without even knowing what an engineer was. 3 Tips
I do not have enough Time
If you are working a full-time job, going to school part time, have family you take care of, or are juggling a lot this section is for you. Time is the most valuable resource we have. Once it is gone it will never come back. So how do we fit everything in our schedule? In the past my wife worked a full-time job and went to school full time. Now we have a baby, so she takes care of the baby and goes to school full time. I went to school full time, had one or two part time jobs, and was very involved with organizations. 4 Tips
I do not have enough Money
Money is one of the biggest obstacles for everything we want to do but going to a community college we have a huge advantage on getting affordable education. I started cc and had no idea how I was going to pay for it. I come from a low-income family household and they were not going to pay for the ridiculously high college tuition. If you have children, if you are a single parent or help someone in your family financially this is even harder to overcome. I received about $80,000 in aid for four years. $62,000 of those are in grants and scholarships that I will never have to repay. Remember I started as a GED graduate and had no idea what I was doing so you can do this to. 4 Tips
Nontraditional will motivate and empower students to get more out of your college experience. You will learn how to land your dream job, enjoy college more, make an impact, make lifelong friends and graduate with less debt
This podcast is for College students that are first generation, delayed enrollment, older student, second career, military, Community college, Low income, Independent, Women in stem, minorities such as Hispanic, African American, Asian American and others; GED Graduates, Students that Work full time, attend school part time, Undocumented, DACA, and International students.