Posts Tagged ‘Career’
How to Prepare For a New Career without Quitting Your Job?
December 17th, 2011
If you are already working full time and want to change your career, you can opt for various online degree programs. Distance learning offers you maximum flexibility so that you can plan your schedule and study at your own pace.
Preparing For a New Career without Discontinuing Your Job
Students choose online degree programs for various reasons; predominantly due to the convenience they offer. For those working full time, online degrees help them in developing a career or in revamping their existing one without discontinuing their existing jobs and allows them to avoid a break of two- or four-year from work which they would otherwise have had to take in order to pursue higher education.
Online colleges help you to opt for online degrees at any place and can help you complete the course from the comfort of your home.
Tags: Career, Career Quitting
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Not Job Hunting? Six Reasons to Still Attend a Career Fair…
September 25th, 2010
Dr. Joseph BarberIf you are a Freshman or Sophomore, sometimes it’s confusing of why to attend a Career Fair. (Especially that our Engineering & Computer Science Fair is right around the corner on Oct. 4th) Well, courtesy of UPenn’s Career Center, check out these six things you can do at career fairs even if you aren’t actively looking for a job.
1) Hand people your well-formatted, mistake-free, Career Services’ critiqued resume. OK, if you are not looking for a job, this is one that you might be able to skip. But…, what happens if you are chatting with employers (see below), and someone asks about your experience, and then says, “do you have a resume I can take away with me?”. As you don’t want to miss this opportunity to network, which is the better answer:
- “Errr…., no, but I can write my name and email on this napkin”
- “Yes, this reflects my experience to date, and obviously I am going to be gaining more experience over the next few months/years.
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Ready for 2020? Advice for every career stage
August 23rd, 2010
Information technology has always been a fast-changing field. But nothing compares to the expected sea changes in the next decade that will impact the career plans of every generation of IT worker.
“The rate of change has accelerated dramatically,” says Alain Chesnais, president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and founder of Visual Transitions, which specializes in computer graphics and social networks. Consider, he says, that graphics chips are doubling in capacity every six months. That translates into a thousandfold increase in capacity over a five-year period — the average shelf life of most game platforms. “We’ve never seen anything like it in any industry,” he says.
As the effects of these types of advances ripple across the corporate world and combine with the forces of the Web, mobile computing, consumerization and virtualization, “traditional IT organizations won’t look [the way] they do now,” says Thomas Druby, an IT executive and former CIO at a large insurer.
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