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How We Need To Redefine 'Higher Education'—And Help Everyone Access It

Forbes Careers

Many young people aren’t aware of federal aid programs that can help subsidize a variety of skills and career training that employers need.

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How to Move from Administrative Assistant to Executive Assistant

Eat Your Career

As a proud, former Administrative Professional and Executive Assistant, I pride myself on providing real-world career training and advice for the admin community. That being said, it is a very natural career progression to move from an AA to an EA. There are plenty of other opportunities for career advancement as an admin.

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Why is Professional Development Important?

Harvard Professional Development

Professional development is an important aspect of continuing your career growth and striving to reach your goals. Professional development is gaining new skills through continuing education and career training after entering the workforce. Advance in your career. What is Professional Development? Learn new skills.

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How Long Should a Job Search Take?

Eat Your Career

This is a question I get quite frequently in my monthly “Ask the Career Coach” sessions. As a career coach , one of my goals is to help my clients reduce the time it takes to land a new job as much as possible. appeared first on Eat Your Career. They want the process to be much faster than it (usually) is. Happy job hunting!

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How To Choose a Professional Development Program

Harvard Professional Development

Whether you’ve worked on the job for decades or just gotten started in your career, you may realize at some point that you need to enhance your knowledge base. That’s when you turn to a professional development program — a short-term continuing education and career training program geared toward professionals already out in the workforce.

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How To Choose a Professional Development Program

Harvard Professional Development

Whether you’ve worked on the job for decades or just gotten started in your career, you may realize at some point that you need to enhance your knowledge base. That’s when you turn to a professional development program — a short-term continuing education and career training program geared toward professionals already out in the workforce.

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Design Your Own Apprenticeship

Your Work, Your Way

In a previous post , I wrote about the idea of creating your own apprenticeship to learn new skills or pivot to a new career or industry. Apprenticeship is an ancient concept, of course; you may associate it with registered apprenticeships that train people for the skilled trades or other professions.

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