Archive for August 26, 2009
Posted by admin on August 26, 2009 in General · 0 Comments
Career Description Guides Three great career guides selected from Amazon The System Administrator Job Description Handbook and Career Guide: The Complete Knowledge Guide you need to Start or Advance your Career as System Administrator. Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers. This System Administrator edition has been completely revised and rewritten and is designed [...]
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Posted by admin on August 26, 2009 in Career Planning · 12 Comments
Review Author Nicholas Lore uses the techniques of his career-guidance network, the Rockport Institute, to make The Pathfinder a substitute for a great job counselor. Through goal setting, list making, and other techniques, the book leads readers though the process of deciding exactly what they want to do for a living and finding a way to make it happen. Lore realizes that people have different [...]
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Posted by admin on August 24, 2009 in Career Planning · 1 Comment
Choosing Careers :Where Have You Been, and Where Are You Going? Choosing careers can be difficult so spending a bit of time on career planning is a great idea. It is perhaps not surprising that often people need help in choosing a career. You can go off and conduct some career research and review countless career descriptions but sometimes the most valuable work is thinking about your values [...]
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Posted by admin on August 18, 2009 in Career Planning · 0 Comments
Careers in demand According to the bureau of labor statistics, half of the fastest growing jobs rights now are healthcare jobs. 27 news reporter Mari Fagel has more on why this industry has a promising future, desp... Back to free career planning
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Posted by admin on August 18, 2009 in Career Planning · 1 Comment
Career Description Informatics I'm going back for my second degree. My first was in art history, the second will be informatics. Considering the market (nearly 10% unemployment at present), is this a good career move? What are some hot careers in this field? Back to free career planning
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Posted by admin on August 16, 2009 in Career Planning · 0 Comments
Career Descriptions Medical Assistants Medical assistants perform clerical and clinical duties in order to maintain efficiency in offices of physicians, chiropractors, podiatrists, and others, according to Career and Job Search Resources. Medical assistants are different than physicians' assistants. A physician assistant?s job requires examining, diagnosing, and treating patients under the direction [...]
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Posted by admin on August 16, 2009 in Career Research · 0 Comments
From Library Journal For job hunters, career changers, and vocational counselors the compilers have created a useful, new occupational resource in one volume by improving The Guide for Occupational Exploration (U.S. GPO, 1979). First, they eliminate the bulk--10,000 highly specialized job titles representing five percent of the workforce--and then add job descriptions based on updated Dictionary [...]
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Posted by admin on August 16, 2009 in Career Research · 1 Comment
Careers In Demand Dental Assistants Dental Assistants are essential to the area of dentistry. They work very hard to make sure all the tools are disinfected properly,making the patients feel relaxed, and they assist the Dentists and Hygienists with all the different dental procedures. In addition, they help with lab work and are trained in medical emergency procedures. Combined, these duties [...]
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Posted by admin on August 14, 2009 in Career Planning · 4 Comments
Careers in demand A pharmacists job isn't limited to a pharmacy. A pharmacist career might entail working with doctors in a hospital or with researchers in a pharmaceuticals company. For a full pharmacist job descri... Back to free career planning
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Posted by admin on August 14, 2009 in Career Planning · 8 Comments
From School Library Journal Adult/High School An introduction to 23 jobs in health care, architecture, the law, financial services, education, the social sciences, information technology, sales, media, and more. Gregory dedicates a separate chapter to each one, opening with its history and background and describing the current status of the field (including statistics on employment levels, education [...]
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