Archive for June, 2009

What do you think is the best career interest assessment tool?

There are lots of tools out there that are supposed to help you to find your professional calling – e.g., what color is your parachute, the myers-briggs personality inventory, the strong interest inventory, etc.
What do you think is the most useful and accurate? Anyone have any data on which has the most effectiveness on helping [...]

Wildlife Rehabilitation

“This is Freedom—as a good a name as any,” Thomas Young said,
gesturing to a mature bald eagle perched within a large wire
cage. “Freedom is going to have his freedom if I have to sell my
soul to get his wing fixed.”
Discovered in Cairo, Oklahoma, Freedom suffered from two bullet
wounds, and Young, a licensed wildlife rehabilitator, master
falconer [...]

Learn When to Seek Guidance

When Should You Seek Guidance From The Professors Of Your Courses?
There is never a bad time to seek academic guidance in your courses. Professors love when students drop by for office hours to discuss assignments or any questions the readings might have brought up for you. You should especially seek your professor’s guidance if something [...]

Is there a website that offers free career assessment without me adding my info?

I am 33 and want to go to college…..but have no idea what I want to do as i have never had a career before. is there a website that I can take a test to see what career would be good for me to go to school for. i just want to [...]

Four Ways to Find a Part Time Job Within your Major

Your career starts in college. You need to explore opportunities and professional options while you’re still in school. Linking your studies with real world work experience is highly recommended approach. If you need extra cash, don’t work at Blockbuster, try and find a gig that supports your academic endeavors.
Here are four ways to find [...]

Career advice for a schizoid personality?

At nineteen, I have been diagnosed as having schizoid personality disorder and am trying to get some career advice.
On an intellectual level I am no fool, but the jobs I usually gravitate towards require little, if any, skill or mental stimulation.
I do study via correspondence and need some extra cash to support my hobbies.
What jobs [...]

Robots: America’s Answer to Dwindling Math Scores

I. Introduction
“You can’t achieve what you can’t conceive.”
-Author unknown
The United States of America may lose its supremacy as a superpower if our children of today can’t grasp the technologies of tomorrow. The trend has already been set. High-level engineering jobs are currently being outsourced to other nations, not only because of cheaper costs, [...]

War Veterans and Traumatic Brain Injury

Each year the number of U.S. veterans increases as soldiers returning from America’s most recent wars come home. However, as the survivors are welcomed home after pursuing a dutiful career serving their country, a new generation of men and women suffering from mild- to severe-traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are greeted with battled medical budgets and [...]

Checklist for Seniors

1. Have You Been To The Career Center?
If you haven’t yet, now’s the time. Most college students have been counseled about their careers before their senior year, but not all of them have. Drop by the career center sooner rather than later. Go through their career search resources, and make an appointment to see a [...]

Has anyone ever taken a career assessment ?

If so were your results right point of what kind of career you wanted?
Yes And there are right on. The few times i have herd some say they did not like the answers it was do to some thing new to them or some thing they have not thought about.
I think ever high school should [...]