Category: Educational

InfoSurf information is all educational in nature. We are here to help people — educators, job seekers, managers, students and scientists — understand data more fluidly and with more short and long positive impact.

Jobs in Arts & Humanities

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Careers in the Arts & Humanities are available across industries. Many jobs get a competitive boost if you add a few college courses.  Bachelor+ jobs can start at community college.

Job groups are included:

Arts & Humanities Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations
Education, Training, and Library Occupations

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business and management jobs

Information Management is For Every Career

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Not just for secretaries, anymore…

What skills were once thought of as “secretarial work”, are now a requirement for all professions, regardless of position. From receptionist to CEO,  the skills taught in office support programs are applicable to every professional job that requires any type of work on the computer. Continue reading

Aligning Your Story With Their Story

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A Key to Successful Interviewing: Storytelling

Even for the most seasoned job seekers, the self-promotion part of interviewing for a job feels at least a little bit difficult and at least a little bit artificial. But there’s no doubt that thinking about commonly asked interview questions markedly improves one’s comfort and confidence during the actual process.   Continue reading

No job experience? Some college courses? Discover your skills!

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Myth: Job skills come only from jobs.
Truth: The effort to pass even a single course in college hones skills you will use in your professional work life.

In fact, classes where you struggle the most are often the courses where you practice the skills needed for success because you got the work done well enough to pass.

Instead of thinking about school and professional life as different worlds, realize that they are merely different contexts that use different labels to describe the flow of activities. Sure, outcomes, deadlines, fonts and email programs will likely be very different, but the means to the ends are very similar.

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Industry & Manufacturing Jobs

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Industry and manufacturing jobs are about making, maintaining, improving the physical world. Trade schools and community colleges have trade programs.  Bachelor+ jobs can start at community college.

Job groups included:

Industry & Manufacturing Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations
Construction and Extraction Occupations
Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations
Production Occupations
Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

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