{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"527: At The Jellyfish Conference","description":"Chris and Elecia talk about pushing out of their comfort zone, networking advice, adding STARs and action verbs to resumes, using rust, thermo forming plastics, soldering together audio gear, and winning awards.  If you are looking for an update to your resume or are interviewing for a new job and you haven\u2019t heard of the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result), it is a good way to formulate what you\u2019ve done in a way that helps people see your impact. The Rutgers College Career Development Center has a STAR description that includes how to take your current, boring \u201cdid the task\u201d resume bullet point and move it into STAR format and then into resume format to say \u201cgot great things done\u201d. There are lots of examples of STAR in practice (ex 1, ex 2). We mainly talked about resumes but it is very useful for having coherent stories during interviews. (Search \u201cSTAR resume\u201d, \u201cSTAR interview\u201d, \u201cSTAR engineering\u201d to find a presentation that works for you. The college career sites are probably the best ones I\u2019ve found.) On the topic of resumes, if you don\u2019t know about resume action verbs, let us share some lists that will make writing your resume 25% less painful. Again, college career development centers have the best ones (Harvard Business School\u2019s action verb list is good for managers, Penn State has a nice set of verbs for engineering or see University of Houston\u2019s verb list for engineering.) And on the topic of interviewing and networking, do you have an elevator pitch for yourself? A short introduction of who you are? It is really handy to have that for conferences as well. Princeton has a short write up on putting one together; UPenn has a long write up (ironic given the topic but still useful). Will Chris be adding the Rust language to his resume? Too early to tell. He\u2019s been learning with Rust for Embedded C Programmers - OpenTitan Documentation.  Elecia has been playing with origami molded fabrics, as learned on Instructable Paper Mold Origami Fabrics 3.  The term on Instagram seems to be #plissage and it is covered in (super famous origami guy) Paul Jackson\u2019s encyclopedic Complete Pleats.  Chris has built a Colour Duo 2-Channel Colour Channel Strip Kit (a preamp with modifiable analog processing). This kit is from DIY Recording Equipment. He\u2019s enjoying working with it while recording music.  After Elecia\u2019s New Year\u2019s Resolution to apply for awards, we won a Communicator Award for Individual Episodes-Science & Technology, Distinction 2026 for an episode about engineering the landscape of fear and conservation technology in the wild: 501: Inside the Armpit of a Giraffe. This was quite the honor but after some consideration, we are even more honored to be nominated by listeners for the IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) Meritorious Achievement Award in Outreach and Informal Education. This award \u201crecognizes IEEE members who volunteer their time and effort to improve the informal education community, helping to promote engineering to students, parents, and the general public.\u201d Having fulfilled the objective and gone beyond, Elecia is still planning to apply for the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards where we\u2019ll need to find one or two episodes from July 2025 to July 2026 that show off \u201cscientific accuracy, initiative, originality, clarity of interpretation, and value in fostering a better public understanding of science and its impact.\u201d Transcript ","author_name":"Embedded","author_url":"https:\/\/embedded.fm","html":"