Balancing Work and Study
In many cases, students opt for an online education in order to save money. By studying at home part-time they are still able to work, and many plan to keep their full-time jobs. However, studying for an online degree will eat up a lot of time and energy and although full time work is great in theory, it may be necessary to modify your working hours as you progress through your course.
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Choosing Your Online Degree
If you decide that an online degree is the right option for you, there are many factors you need to take into consideration. One of the most important is accreditation – it is vital that you ensure that the college has accredited the course with the relevant body for accredited online courses.
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Online Education Classes
If you want a new career, one of the best ways forward is to enroll on an online education class. If you are changing direction, it’s very likely that you will have to consider retraining or studying for a professional qualification. With the speed at which technology is evolving, everyone is going to have to get used to the idea of life-long learning and most of us can expect to retrain several times in our lives. Unfortunately, many people are put off by the prospect of years of study and in some cases look back to bad experiences at school, afraid they’ll have to go through the same humiliation again.
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Entry Level Careers
What exactly is an entry-level job and should you consider taking one? Entry level careers were traditionally first jobs for new graduates or school leavers, giving them that all-important first step on the career ladder. But with so many people changing careers more often by choice or as a result of the uncertainty of today’s job market, entry-level careers are no longer just for the young. Whatever your age, an entry level position may not be what you had in mind, but it isn’t always as negative an option as you might think.
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Six Steps to Career Change
If you are thinking about changing career, it is very common to feel overwhelmed by the number of possible directions in which you could go, the new qualifications you might need and all the different ways you can study for them. Things become even more complicated if you are over 40 and children to consider or a mortgage to pay every month.
Deciding what you want to do and enrolling on a course or brushing up some of your skills at home is just the beginning. Next you have to produce a dynamic resume, find the sort of openings you want and succeed in an interview. To help you out, here is a step by step plan which will take you through the process from initial decision to final interview. It’s designed to be completed at the pace which suits you best.
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Career Change Over 40
Many people reach the age of 40 and find they are discontented with their careers, but feel that age is a barrier to change. However, populations in the West are growing older, pensions systems can’t keep up, and so unless you’ve accumulated a lot of money, you are probably going to find that you have to work past what you might have hoped would be retirement age. Unfortunately, employers haven’t yet caught up with this trend and as a result, people over 40 or 50 are not always welcomed when it comes to hiring.
If you are in this situation, don’t despair - there are things you can do to improve your chances of getting a job, irrespective of the prevailing attitudes of employers. To start with, when creating your CV or résumé, you can target it very precisely for the job in question. You have got the experience which younger people don’t have and so you can highlight this in the early part of your résumé to make your application stand out, so that career change over 40 becomes a positive experience.
You don’t have to put personal information, like date of birth, on your CV – in many countries it’s against the law to ask for this information. Although age discrimination is now illegal in the
Let’s look at the positive aspects of being a little bit older - you have experience and skills which youngster don’t have and these are incredibly valuable to a prospective employer. You may think this doesn’t apply if you are heading back to work after raising a family, but you’d be wrong – soft skills, which includes things like communication, time management and the ability to meet deadlines are extremely important in the market place and I’m sure that as a parent, you have got most of those skills down to a fine art. Make a list of all the skills you have build up over the last twenty years, whether they were gained in employment, at home or as a student. You might be surprised to realize just how many you have - and how many of them are transferable.
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New Year New Career
As the New Year approaches, many people decide it’s finally time for a change of career.
How many times have you said that this year will be the one when your life finally takes off? And like so many New Year Resolutions, it was quickly forgotten when you found yourself caught up in the 9-5 drudgery once again after the Christmas break.
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