Hi, I’m Alexander!

I’m an economic commentator who creates articles and videos about the job market, education, and professional development. As of late 2025, my work has reached 3.5 million views and 50,000 subscribers across platforms.

Professional Experience

Prior to going independent, I spent half a decade in multiple career-related positions at Utah State University.

During that time I served as:

  • The Career Design Specialist for students in USU’s College of Engineering, where I provided career support to approx. 8,000 students via 1:1 coaching, workshops, and public lectures.

  • An Instructor of Career Literacy for the USU Department of Integrated Studies and the Center for Academic Belonging & Learning Excellence. In that role, I taught 11 semesters of ISTU 3010 “Career Exploration and Design,” which served as the capstone class for the Integrated Studies major at USU. I also developed curriculum for numerous courses and publications at the university (highlighted in my CV).

  • And, for 9 months, I functioned as the Interim Employer Relations Manager of Utah State University (under the Executive Vice Provost), where I managed the university’s career fairs, online job board, and employer partnerships.

During my tenure at USU, I was recruited to serve as an Executive Board Member for the Utah Career Development Association (Utah’s branch of the NCDA), where I consulted politicians, business leaders, and schools on evolving job market trends.

Prior to my time at USU, I worked under the U.S. Department of Education’s GEAR UP Grant for the CCSDUT school district.

In that role, I administered the $4.3 million workforce-readiness grant to Ridgeline High School via career counseling and organizing in-person site visits to universities, trade schools, and worksites in the region. I also functioned as the Parent Outreach Coordinator for the grant, where I worked to ensure that the parents of high schoolers in rural Northern Utah and Southeastern Idaho had up-to-date information about the labor market, college admissions, military enlistment requirements, and the offerings of regional trade schools.

Before that, I spent a year and a half as a Graduate Teaching & Research Fellow at the University of Nevada, Reno under the James Hulse and Wilbur S. Shepperson Endowments.

During my tenure at UNR, I conducted research about socioeconomic trends in the gaming sector job markets of the United States and Japan, as well as assisting with the teaching of Economic History courses at the university.

Education

While working at UNR, I pursued a Master’s degree in Economic History. However, I chose to depart the program and enter the professional workforce prior to my final semester because of pandemic-related shutdowns and the existential threat of furlough.

I received my Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies at Utah State University, where I also did minor coursework in Linguistics and Asian Studies.

  • Before graduation, I carried out my experiential learning over the course of 2 years at the Wheatley Institute, where I worked with scholars and counterterrorism intelligence personnel to analyze and mitigate potential religious and political violence.

  • During my time at USU, I served as a Co-Founder and President of the USU Interfaith Student Association. Via that club, we managed to help organized and facilitate the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Salt Lake City and create a $1,000 semesterly scholarship for student leaders engaging in multicultural clubs.

  • My language emphases (required by the program) were in Japanese, German, and Sanskrit.

Before transferring the credits to USU, I earned Associate’s credit in American Intelligence, Diplomacy, and Defense at George Mason University in Washington, DC.

  • During my time there, I participated in 2 National Youth Leadership Forum programs where I was deeply immersed in national security operations in the nation’s capital.

  • I also received the opportunity to represent Nevada at one of the 2013 Presidential Inauguration gala balls under the sponsorship of the late U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid.