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Career Planning

Career Choice: Urban Planner

Tweet Years of carefully planning has enabled some towns to become major cities, the joint handiwork of city administrators and urban planners who put their ideas on a blueprint, formalizing

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Career Choice: Training and Development Specialist

Tweet These professionals design and conduct training sessions based on training requirements, in a bid to help people improve their performance. Specialists use a variety of printed and visual aids,

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Career Choice: Special Education Teacher

Tweet If you enjoy working with special needs people, particularly children, you may find a career as a special education teacher to be rewarding. Most classes are very small with

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Career Choice: Actuary

Tweet Actuaries analyze statistical data including information desired by insurance companies: mortality, accident, disability and retirement rates that are calculated, assigned a risk and a forecast made for future liability.

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Career Choice: Meeting Planner

Tweet Although a college degree isn’t always necessary to work as a meeting planner, the skills of an experienced administrator are required. More than three quarters of meeting planners have

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Career Choice: Chef

Tweet Chefs receive training on the job, but many choose to attend a culinary arts program at a community or technical college. Some schools offer four-year degrees in food science

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Career Choice: Web Developer

Tweet That leaves approximately half with a bachelor’s degree, raising an important question for the reader: should I bother with college? That answer is no, if you don’t mind possible

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Career Choice: Health Educator

Tweet A health educator also encourages people to embrace healthy eating habits, by evaluating and implementing programs that lead to improved nutrition. A bachelor’s degree is generally required for this

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Career Choice: Restaurant Manager

Tweet It can also help you move up the ladder and supervise a chain of restaurants, manage a franchise or oversee a fine dining establishment. In any case, a bachelor’s

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Career Choice: Criminal Investigator

Tweet These professionals, sometimes known as special agents, procure and confirm evidence by interviewing and examining suspects and witnesses or by analyzing data. Much of what criminal investigators know they

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Career Choice: Dentist

Tweet Dentists conduct preventive care and may fit patients with dental appliances. Every state requires dentists to be licensed, a far cry from the day when barbers routinely pulled teeth.

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Career Choice: Pharmacist

Tweet Pharmacists compound and dispense medications as prescribed by physicians, nurse practitioners, dentists or other allowed medical practitioners. Licensure is required of pharmacists in all states, the District of Columbia