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Career Choice: Statisticians
If you enjoy parsing data, then pursuing a career as a statistician might be to your liking. Your strong interest in math or statistical theory can lead to a position where you collect, organize, and interpret numerical data, summarizing your findings into information that people find usable as well as useful.
Career Choice: Vision Rehabilitation Therapists
Individuals with sight problems face many challenges with even the simplest daily tasks difficult to accomplish. Aiding them in this endeavor are vision rehabilitation therapists, individuals who train patients to manage their homes, communicate, and use a computer.
10 In-Demand College Majors
High school seniors and non-matriculated college students are nervously scanning the news these days to see if their intended career path is still open or whether they’ll need to adjust their plans accordingly. Fortunately, an economic downturn usually means that hiring for key jobs is only temporarily curtailed while the long term prospects for most in-demand careers remain bright.
New Study Habits for the New Year
Are you satisfied with your academic progress? Specifically, are your grades where you want them to be? Let’s face it: students with a high grade point average (GPA) stand a better chance of landing a job or receiving grad school acceptance than those with average scores.
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.
