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Career Choice: Critical Care Nurses
Nurses may specialize in different medical areas including critical care. Critical care nurses are licensed professional nurses who are tasked with helping individuals with life-threatening problems.
Career Choice: Paralegals and Legal Assistants
Legal practices are not only staffed by attorneys, but also include paralegals and legal assistants, individuals that help gather facts, prepare legal documents and research legal precedent.
The Good & the Bad of Intersession Courses
As colleges and universities wrap up the fall semester, the spring semester will kick in about four to six weeks later. During that lull, some institutions offer winter or “intersession” classes.
Career Choice: Loan Officer
Money makes the world go ’round, right? In some ways that statement is true — if you have the funds, then you can do almost everything that you want to do.
Career Choice: Database Administrator
Ah, computers. They are an essential part of our lives and when they work according to plan, computers are immensely useful. When they cause us trouble, we may curse the manufacturer, programmers or anyone else that has had a hand in development.
US Professors of the Year: 2013 Winners
At least one of your college professors may have been recognized as “Professor of the Year” and you did not even know it.
Career Choice: Urologists
Urologists are physicians tasked with diagnosing, treating and helping to prevent benign and malignant medical and surgical disorders.
Career Choice: Fuel Cell Engineers
Fuel cells are being used to develop alternate transportation vehicles including hydrogen-powered cars. The industry is in its infancy with the first mass-produced vehicles expected to hit the market by 2015.
Career Choice: Geothermal Production Managers
Employment in environmentally sustainable fields continues to grow with new job titles emerging all the time. Natural heat tapped from the earth can provide an alternate source of energy, a geothermal-derived byproduct that needs to be managed.
Career Choice: Biomass Plant Technicians
So-called “green jobs” are growing and it has little to do with sunlight, water or good soil. What has happened is that people want, no they are demanding that the earth be cleansed and left in good shape for generations to come.
Career Choice: Anesthesiologists
Anesthesiologists are physicians, people that administer anesthetics to patients before or during surgery or for a medical procedure.
College Applicant Waitlisted: Now What?
You have applied to the college of your dreams or at least to one school that is among your top considerations for attending. Just when you are expecting notification, you receive a thin letter from the school. Uh, oh. It looks like you have been turned down.