You *always* have many options, no matter how much school or experience you have.
Learn the four steps to use national online career database that helps you find out yours.
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Career Explorer: Understand Education and Wage Reporting
Occupation profiles usually don’t clarify that preferred education level can vary and that wages vary drastically for the same careers.
Learn how to interpret that information.
Headhunting: Options in Unusual Places
Learn to quickly mine O*Net to more easily match jobs: better matches on candidates or for transitioning people to new jobs or careers.
Education Paths In Trades: Physical Fitness Matters
Some of our largest growing job sectors are in areas where significant physical demand is required to do the job – most of the trades, lots of applied sciences, etc. If we look for trends from employers as to the required skills, we see that physical demand is becoming more and more important. As American culture continues to gravitate towards less physical leisure time, we are becoming less and less able to perform physical tasks.
Information Management is For Every Career
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