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Online Education

Should You Take Online College Courses?

Students seeking to advance their education have numerous options available to them including public and private colleges and universities, two-year programs and online schools.

Career Planning

Career Choice: Medical Secretaries

Medical secretaries typically work in the background at hospitals, doctor’s offices and medical practices, individuals you may see when signing in for services, when discussing a bill or for obtaining a referral to another practitioner.

Education Tips

College Juniors: Consider Studying Abroad

What might be the best advice that anyone can give to a college junior? Some may say, “Opt for a double major,” while others may emphasize, “plan for your master’s program now.”

Career Planning

Career Choice: Optometrists

They represent the professionals you will see when matters of the eye come into focus. They’re known informally as eye doctors, but are formally known as optometrists, individuals that are qualified to diagnose, manage, and treat eye conditions and diseases.

Career Planning

Career Choice: Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers

Tweet There are many people that provide these services, but finding quality help often means turning to your neighbors, to third-party services or hoping that your online search turns up

Career Planning

Career Choice: Interpreters and Translators

Interpreters and translators are separate career paths, but there is some overlap in what these professionals do. Interpreters use oral or sign language to communicate; translators take the words of one language and translate it into the words of another language.

Career Planning

Career Choice: Police Patrol Officers

Tweet They are police patrol officers or “police officers” and are tasked with enforcing laws, maintaining ordinances, preventing crime, arresting violators and, yes, directing traffic. Most police officers work for

Career Planning

College Career Fair Resume Advice

College seniors have an excellent employment seeking tool at their disposal: the college career office. Every school has one, a place where students can turn to for resume writing help, interview tips, job leads and more.

Online Education

About Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

Got MOOC? Massive open online courses or MOOC may be the greatest disturber to higher education that we have seen in our lifetimes.

Career Planning

Career Choice: Video Game Designers

Those video games you love to play are the work of video game designers. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Tomb Raider, Guacamelee!, Call of Duty: Black Ops II and BioShock Infinite did not become best sellers apart from the exhaustive efforts of designer professionals.

Career Planning

Career Choice: Geographers

Geographers are sometimes known as scientists, individuals that study the earth’s surface. These professionals perform research on physical terrain including climate, soil, land forms, animals and people, with an eye toward understanding the impact human activity has on the world.

Education Tips

State Residency and Your College

You live in one state and plan to attend college in another state, but there is one big drawback: the public university that has accepted you will be charging you at an out-of-state rate.