6 Things to Do While You’re Figuring Out Your Career Goal

Posted on July 6, 2018July 6, 2018 by Katie Evans

If you don’t have a career goal, you don’t have permission to stand still. While you’re waiting to figure our your career goal, you should be working to ensure that once you do figure it out, you have everything you need in place to achieve it.

You have to set yourself up for success by laying a strong foundation for reaching your goals. Here’s where to focus your energy:

1. Educate Yourself and Sharpen Your Skill Set

The first thing you should do to maximize your chances of career success is gain academic or practical qualifications and training. Even if you don’t have a clear career goal yet, you probably know what topics interest you. If you’re into health care, pursue a medical degree—any medical degree. If you like the idea of having a secure health care job, but aren’t into blood and guts, look into radiology.

If you love drawing, take art classes—especially digital art classes that might help you find a job as a graphic artist or designer. If you love the idea of travel, find a study abroad program that will strengthen your language and cultural relations skills. Businesses love to hire bilingual employees with strong cultural relations skills.

When you aren’t sure of your career goal, you should be constantly trying new things, and taking classes of any sort will help you narrow your goal and gain skills in the process. If nothing else, see what local classes you can find on Groupon. There’s usually art, cooking, and finance classes listed there for less than $40.

2. Ask for Advice

Even if you don’t have a clear career goal, you can start gathering information about your options. You can even start networking (and you should). Fill your LinkedIN account with people you meet that have interesting careers. Make sure to add your classmates and professors to LinkedIN, too. You never know who might be able to offer you advice or recommend you for the perfect job once you’ve defined your goal.

If you’re in college, you should talk to your professors and advisors about career options. Ask them for advice, or if they can recommend a mentor for you. Mentors can help you network, clarify your goals, and find new things to try.

You should go to career fairs while you’re in your search for the right career goal. You can meet recruiters from all career industries, and they can offer you advice on whether or not an industry is right for you.

You can also set up informal meetings with careers advisers and recruiters. These professionals specialize in helping you get the job you want, so they have a lot of expertise to offer, even if you don’t know what you want yet. At the very least, they can help you with your resume and refer you to experts in industries you’re considering.

3. Assemble Your Support System

No man, or woman, is an island; you need people around you who encourage you and help you stay focused on your goals. If you’re a parent, you need a village to help you with childcare and to vent your frustrations in a healthy way.

Some careers put a huge strain on families. First responders, like firemen, paramedics, and police officers, have higher divorce rates than people in other careers. Military families also face the strain of constant moves, deployment, and work-related stress. Finding support, like Military Spouse Appreciation Day, can help. Having a strong support system before you start a high-stress career path can mean the difference between having a happy, fulfilled life and being married to your job.

4. Gain Experience

No matter which career goal you eventually choose, you are going to need experience. Any work experience is better than no work experience, so start looking for jobs and internships that will allow you to try new things and meet new people.

Once you’ve chosen a career path, internships are one of the best ways to gain the right experience. Sure, you may have to forgo a wage for a period of time, but if you impress the boss, you may end up with a lucrative job offer. Companies hire interns all the time. Even if you don’t get a job offer at the end of your internship, you will still have industry contacts that can help you find a job other places and valuable experience to take to the competition.

You can also volunteer to gain experience. Look at charity organizations like your local food bank, Habitat for Humanity, or the Red Cross. You can meet people from all career industries while helping your local community at the same time.

5. Get GRIT

If you’re the kind of person who quits things when they’re hard, work on your perseverance. Employers want to hire employees who problem solve their way through tough situations. GRIT is key in most any industry.

If you haven’t heard of GRIT, start by reading Angela Duckworth’s GRIT: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. You will be amazed how much you can achieve by simply not taking “no” for an answer. Life isn’t always going to be easy; in fact, most of the time it will be quite hard. Gain the skills to deal with it and you’ll be ready to tackle any career goal—opportunities will come your way.

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6. Believe in Your Own Ability to Succeed

To achieve any career goal, you have to have confidence in your own abilities. We gain confidence by trying new things and leaving our comfort zones. Challenge yourself to do the things the scare you (as long as they’re safe), and you will quickly build the confidence you need to succeed.

It’s ok to not have a clear career goal, but it’s not ok to sit back and wait for a career to fall in your lap. While you’re looking for your goal, there are still plenty of things you need to do to set yourself up for success. Get to work!

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Do You have what it takes to Reach Your Dream Job Goal?

Posted on July 3, 2018August 19, 2018 by Katie Evans

Landing your dream job isn’t as hard as you think it is, as long as your dream job is fairly realistic. If you dream of running your own company, you can absolutely do it. You set your goal and plan each step to reach it. Then, start working through the steps until you achieve your goal. Most dream jobs can be achieved this way.

Those who don’t achieve their dream job fail for one of three reasons:

Their dream job is unrealistic (Like, “I want someone to pay me millions of dollars to shop all day”)
They don’t want to put forth the effort to reach the goal
They have limited thinking instead of believing in limitless possibilities

If you’re not working your dream job right now, are you taking steps to reach your goal, or are you stuck for one of these reasons? If you’re stuck, it’s likely you that is standing in the way of your dream job.

Is Your Dream Job Realistic?

When you are seven, your dream job should be wildly unrealistic. You should want to be a rock star, a movie star, a professional basketball player—you name it. These jobs are just like any other dream job, really. You can be a rock star if you learn an instrument or learn to sing, join a band, jam at the right events, hire a manager, record a record, go on tour, and keep making music for your adoring fans. These days, you may even have luck with creating a YouTube channel and finding a marketing manager that can take it viral. The problem is, this kind of dream job is a lot of work, and you will have people constantly telling you that you can’t do it. You can—you just have to be willing to put in the effort.

But what if you’re 45 and your dream job is still to be a rock star? You can still do it, but it’s a lot harder. The level of effort you will have to put into it is insurmountable for most people, and you have to overcome societal bias and stereotypes of what it is to be a rock star. It’s hard to convince the world that you’re rock ‘n roll when you’re driving a minivan. But hey, don’t stop believing. You have extra steps to reach your dream job, but they are still actionable steps.

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The problem with unrealistic dream jobs comes when you think everything will just be handed to you. If you’re the best rock singer in the entire world, but the only place you ever sing is your shower, yet you expect that one day a recording studio executive is going to corner you on the street and give you your big break, you have unrealistic expectations.

Millennials have a reputation for expecting things to be handed to them, but it’s not as generational a problem as you might think. People of all ages have unrealistic expectations, and they use them as an excuse as to why they don’t have their dream jobs. They blame luck and fate instead of the truth that they’re not willing to set their goal, list the steps to reach the goal, and start working towards it.

Yes, I just told you that you can be a rock star. Now, do you want it bad enough to do what it takes to achieve your goal? If not, it’s not your dream job—it’s just a dream.

Do You Lack the Motivation Required to Land Your Dream Job?

If you’re working a job you hate that has no logical path to any future position that will bring you what you want for your dream job, you probably lack motivation. Unless, of course, you’re paying for college or some sort of education that’s on your list of steps towards your dream job, or you’re making ends meet while applying for other positions that are on the list of steps towards your dream job. Which is it for you?

If you lack motivation, ask yourself why. Is it because you don’t think your dream job is realistic, or is it because your dream job isn’t really your dream job? Have you psyched yourself out so bad that you don’t think you can reach any goal? Or, do you just not know where to start on your path to reach your dream job?

Where to Start: Education

If you’re having trouble figuring out where to start on your dream job goal path, most likely the best place to start is with figuring out what sort of education you need to do your dream job. Start by looking on LinkedIN to see what sort of education and certifications people with your dream job have. Then, start looking for places near you or online that you can gain that education.

For example, most leaders have some sort of college degree. If you’re a woman considering a leadership role, take a look at USC’s leadership infographic for inspiration and ideas.

If your dream is to run your own beauty salon, look into beauty certification courses at your local vocational school. If you want to be the top real estate broker in town and make millions of dollars per year, look into your state’s requirements for real estate agents. If you want to be a rock star, look for music programs at local colleges.

If You’re Stuck, Network

If you have an education but aren’t sure how to use it, ask for help. You should have a LinkedIN account filled with former professors, fellow graduates, and people in the industry you want to join. Send them messages and start asking questions. Find out what has made them successful so you can figure out what your next step should be.

Talking to people is especially hard for introverts, but from one introvert to another (I’m an INTJ), you have to do it. Without networking you can never really hope to get anywhere in your career. Go to Meetup.com and find a local group dedicated to your career passion. It’s free (usually), and you’ll be amazed what you can learn over a $2 cup of coffee while talking to the right people.

Write Down Your Plan

If you need motivation, you should write down your dream job goal and the steps it will take to reach it. If you don’t know the steps, ask your network or hire a career coach. Either way, make a physical representation of what you need to do to reach your goals. Then, when you complete a step, cross it off and happy dance.

Put your step list where you can see it everyday and it can remind you of your goal and how to reach it. If you’re brave, put it on the refrigerator. If you’re shy, tape it inside a cabinet door or inside your closet door. Seeing it will help motivate you—just knowing it’s there is sometimes enough to inspire you to take the next step.

Take One Step

Remember the proverb that a journey of 1,000 miles begins with one step? That first step is often the hardest to take, but it’s also what builds momentum. Do one thing, right away, towards your dream job. Maybe it’s as simple as Googling places to take classes or signing up for Meetups, or maybe it’s applying for a job. In a year, you will remember what it was like to take that first step, and it will inspire you all the more.

What to do if You Have Limited Thinking

We are bombarded with messages that we can’t do what we want to do. Even my favorite career blogs write topics like “Don’t do What You Love.” If you wanted to be a rock star when you were 7 but gave up on the idea by the time you were 15, likely it was because someone in your life convinced you that it wasn’t going to happen for you.

Limited thinking is a problem for all of us, and it’s one we have to work at overcoming daily. The truth is, you can have anything you want if you believe it’s possible and you put in the work to get it. This isn’t just me being optimistic, either—it’s a truth repeated by successful people everywhere, from Oprah to Warren Buffet.

One strategy to help you overcome limited thinking and reach your goals is to surround yourself with people who speak positively. Love your negative friends and family, but also remember that their limited beliefs contribute to their own personal setbacks. You don’t have to follow in their footsteps. Write down your goal, and do what it takes to reach it.

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There’s no big secret to landing your dream job, even though I wish their was so I could make a billion dollars selling it. If you set your goal, plan your steps, and work to accomplish each step, your success is inevitable.

5 Jobs that Pay You to Travel

Posted on July 2, 2018June 19, 2019 by Edna Crane

If your dream is to travel for a living, you can find a variety of high-paying jobs that will fund your travel obsession. Most require some sort of college degree or certification, but with a little preparation, you can be making money and seeing the world in no time at all.

Here are five more careers for people who love to travel:

1. Long Haul Driver

If you love to drive and want to see thousands of miles of countryside each year, then you might enjoy a job as a long-haul driver. As a driver, you can either work as your own boss and pay a service to find you loads to haul, or you can work for a trucking company. You’ll need a CDL license and a passion for the open road.

With the advanced technology implemented in today’s cars and trucks, your job will be much easier than the past generation’s. With apps, you can find your way around, locate the best views, and find somewhere reputable to stop for the night. You can find nationwide truck driving jobs online.

2. Travel Nurse

If you want a career in health care, but you want to see the world outside of a hospital or doctor’s office, you might consider a career as a travel nurse. In this job, you accompany patients who need medical supervision to travel. This means you might jet halfway across the world, or take a cruise in the Caribbean—either way, you travel is paid!

You’ll need an RN, BSN, MSN, or NP, and likely a couple extra certifications to become a full-time travel nurse, but the experience is well worth the effort. Be sure to check out Lucy Atkinson’s 12 Essential Tips on Staying Safe While Traveling before embarking on your travel nursing adventure.

3. HR Consultant

If you become an HR consultant or recruiter in an industry with a gap in skilled workers, you can be paid a lot to travel the country (and maybe the world) recruiting potential candidates. You’ll visit universities and colleges, which are often in fantastic tourist areas. If you’re a foodie, this is a great job for you because colleges are often located near hip and trendy areas with awesome local restaurants.

You’ll need at least a bachelor’s degree in psychology, human resources, or business, and most high-powered HR Consultants have MBAs. More than anything, you’ll need to be very good with people!

4. Cruise Manager

If you dream of sailing the seven seas while making a lucrative salary, then a position as a cruise manager may be for you. You’ll need a travel and leisure hospitality management qualification to land the job, and then you’ll need experience in the hospitality industry—which you can also gain on a cruise ship.

There are all sorts of cruise managers, from managing housekeeping teams to hosting weddings and elaborate events. Whatever your hospitality passion, you can find a fun job on a cruise ship and see the world.

5. Hotel Inspector

If you love watching Hotel Impossible, and can see yourself staying in a different hotel every night, you might love a job as a hotel inspector. You will test out hotel amenities, judge the cleanliness of rooms, taste-test room service offerings, and put the staff’s service through their paces. You will create reports and offer hoteliers advice on how to make more money by improving their services.

A hotel inspector will need relevant experience and market knowledge. A degree in hospitality management and experience managing your own hotel will help you break into the industry.

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Teaching as a Side Hustle: The Pros & Cons of Adjunct Teaching

Posted on June 25, 2018June 25, 2018 by Bre Smith

If you’re in need of a side hustle, you should consider a job as an adjunct teacher at a local college, or in the case of online classes, maybe even a distant one. The entry barriers may be fewer than you think.

Colleges generally require teachers to have a master’s degree in the subject they’d like to teach or any master’s degree plus at least 18 graduate credit hours in the subject. However, hiring committees may also consider candidates with alternative qualifications such as high school teaching experience or industry certification. Past formal teaching experience is also usually not required—the interview will likely include a follow-up teaching demo.

Here are the pros and cons of adjunct college teaching.

The Good Things About Adjunct College Teaching:

Fulfillment

If you love helping people (and especially love sharing your knowledge or skills), there’s no field as rewarding as education. Ask yourself if you’ve sought out opportunities to teach informally—perhaps by training colleagues at work, leading a Sunday school class, or volunteer tutoring. If so, you’ll probably find this work very gratifying.

Reduced Commuting Time

You generally only have to be on campus when your class meets and a bit before and after to answer student questions and/or hold office hours if they’re required by your school. Most traditional college classes meet once, twice, or three times per week, and colleges are increasingly offering more and more online and hybrid (reduced meeting time) classes to keep up with the evolving way today’s students learn.

Convenience

In the same vein as a reduced commute, much of the work—grading, preparing for class, answering student email, etc.—can be done at home. This is handy because, as we’ll discuss in the next section, you’re probably going to need a separate full- or part-time job.

The Things You’ll Want to Consider Carefully:

Low Pay

It’s no secret that teachers don’t choose their careers for the money, but unfortunately adjuncts earn the worst pay of all. They’re paid per class taught, not per hour worked. The adjunct rate of pay at the college I taught at was $1,700 per class. Classes are generally four months long (a semester), so the harsh reality is that depending on how much time your teaching duties take, you could end up making less than minimum wage. This means that for most, adjunct teaching can only be a side hustle.

What’s more, colleges often limit the number of courses an adjunct can teach per semester—the one I worked for had a cap of three per semester. You may be allowed to work as an adjunct at other schools (check with your college to make sure), but keep in mind that you might have to adjust your material to meet their requirements.

No Job Security

Adjunct teaching is contract work, so there’s no certainty about the number of classes you’ll get to teach or if you’ll even be hired next semester. Also, the full-time faculty at the college are required to teach a certain number of classes each term, so if one of their sections doesn’t fill up, a class that was originally assigned to you may be given to a full-timer at the last minute.

Possible Lack of Autonomy

In attempts to ensure uniform student experience and outcomes, your college may require everyone who teaches a course to use the same materials, exams, etc. If so, full-time faculty are usually in charge of choosing and creating these items, so as an adjunct you may feel as though you don’t have much say in how your class is taught. On the other hand, it’s easy to see how receiving a highly-structured premade course could be a blessing for first-time teachers.

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The Verdict on Adjunct Teaching Jobs

Did the cons in the last section scare you straight? Just remember that although working as an adjunct is low on financial rewards, it’s big on personal ones. While adjunct teaching is more viable as a side hustle than a way to earn a living, if you feel called to teach, it’s a great way to try out a career in education and make extra money without a big commitment. In any case, please thank a teacher in your life.

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How to Start Planning for Your Dream Career

Posted on June 22, 2018August 19, 2018 by Katie Evans

Your dream career isn’t going to fall out of the sky and smack you on the head. You have to plan for it.

If you are completely lost and unsure how to plan your dream career, there are a few things you can do right now to identify the steps it will take to reach your goals. Once you’ve identified the steps, reaching your goals is simply a matter of completing each step!

To figure out the steps to the best career for you, try these ideas:

Research Companies in Your Chosen Industry

When you’re envisioning your dream career, picture the physical place where you’ll work when you’ve achieved your goals. Is it a corporation? A small business? A college? A hospital? An airport?

Now, from that vision, research companies that will allow you to work in your perfect location. You can Google to find companies, or surf on LinkedIN. Do your research to find out as much as you can about companies that offer your ideal work environment. You want to know about their company culture, what kind of projects they do, the different job roles within the company, and who their employees are.

Once you know who the employees are, you can follow them on LinkedIN, or at least look at the kind of skill set they have. Pay attention to their previous work experience and the degrees they hold. Make a list of common skills, education, and previous work experience you see among the workers.

After you’ve made a good list of common skills and education among employees at your target companies, start looking through their open job advertisements. Is there anything listed that you could do now to start networking within the company while you improve your skills for your dream job? If not, pay attention to the wording in the job advertisements. Are there even more skills and experience the company wants?

If you can find three companies where you’d love to work and research them thoroughly, you will see patterns in the skills, education, and work experience between their employees and their job advertisement. You will begin to form a clear picture of the skills and experience you need to gain.

Network and Ask for Advice

With a clear vision of the companies where you want to work and what skills you’ll need to get there, the next step you should take to planning the steps to your career goal is to start networking with the people who do the job you want to do. Send emails to people in the role you want and ask them if they mind talking to you over coffee or Skype. Start making connections so that you understand your dream job better. These connections can help you find internships and recommend you internal positions within their companies.

You should also consider finding a career coach. A good career coach can help you set goals, make plans, and clearly see your next steps toward your dreams.

Strengthen Your Skill Set

If you’ve researched companies in your chosen industry and networked with people doing the job that you want to do, you should have a very clear list of skills and education you need to land your dream job. Now it’s time to start gaining the skills you need.

Outside of traditional college education, companies like Training Connection offer computing courses for those wanting to boost their IT skills. You can also find workshops and certifications for almost every industry. Don’t count on your college education alone to get you a job—in most cases you will need skills outside of your degree to find your dream job.

Intern, Extern, or Volunteer

To break into your chosen industry, you will need work experience of some sort. One of things you can do if you can’t find a job is to take an internship. Believe it or not, a lot of internships are paid, and those that aren’t offer a wealth of experience and networking opportunities.

If you’re out of college or don’t feel comfortable taking an internship, look for opportunities to extern or volunteer. Contact HR departments at the companies where you want to work and ask if they’re open to volunteers. Explain that you’re trying to gain experience in the industry and you’d love to work for them. Very few places will turn down free work, so it doesn’t hurt to ask.

Plan Your Next Move

Everything on this list so far should help you clearly see the steps to at least entering the industry for your dream job. You should have actionable steps to start today to start down your career path. Your next move should be to either research companies, network with people in your industry, gain skills, or gain experience. Make a list of the steps to your dream job and start checking things off the list!

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5 Unique Medical Careers that are Never Boring

Posted on June 20, 2018June 20, 2018 by Katie Evans

If you have a personality that craves adventure and constant change, you might be bored in a lot of medical careers. While family doctors find their work fulfilling, they also spend a lot of time in the same medical office, every day, for years and years.

Medical careers are, for the most part, economically stable, so many college students find them attractive. You don’t have to trade adventure for a stable career, though. You can find a unique career in healthcare if you know where to look. Here are a few ideas:

1. Cruise Ship Nurse

Modern cruise ships hold thousands of passengers and crewmembers. When out on the water, often hundreds of miles from a hospital, nurses and doctors employed by cruise lines are responsible for treating illnesses and injuries that occur while underway.

Cruise ship nurses can have a heavy workload and need to be able to deal with a huge variety of ailments, but the job has many advantages that make it very rewarding work. You get to travel the world and make use of all the cruise ship facilities in your free time. You get to meet new people every week. And, if a patient is especially troublesome, you know they’ll be gone in just a few days when their cruise ends.

Nurses with emergency room experience do best in this role. There are sites online where you can search for cruise ship nurse roles.

2. Air Ambulance Paramedic

Air ambulance paramedics have to conduct rescue missions in areas where ambulances cannot reach. Injuries as the result of extreme sports and road accidents are the some of the common cases that these paramedics tackle.

An air evac career is fast paced, and obviously, you need to have a head for heights. Like groundwork as a paramedic, it can be extremely rewarding to save lives and help patients on some of the worst days of their lives. Most air ambulance paramedics have previous experience as a paramedic or in the military.

3. Prosthetics Technician

Prosthetics technicians build new artificial limbs and body parts for patients who have suffered amputations or serious injuries. This rewarding work involves working closely with patients to meet their individual needs and then using machinery to craft prosthetics with precise measurements.

Prosthetics make a world of different for the patients who receive them. It can be rewarding to see patients use your designs to walk again when they never thought they would. Recently, animal prosthetics has gained notoriety, so if you find yourself bored building prosthetics for humans, there’s always building legs for horses and tails for dolphins.

The job requires knowledge not only in anatomy but engineering, but physics and chemistry. There are courses in prosthetics engineering that can teach you all the necessary skills.

4. Medical Illustrator

If you’ve got a talent for drawing and an interest in medicine, a job as a medical illustrator could allow you to use both skills. Medical illustrators create drawings and animations for educational, marketing and research purposes. Drawings must be anatomically accurate as well as aesthetically pleasing. You could even take your artistic skills further and help produce models for filmmakers and schools.

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5. Forensics Scientist

Forensics scientists with a medical background can be useful for helping to solve crimes. They analyze biological samples from suspects such as hair and skin to check if there’s a DNA match at the crime scene. The job can even involve working on more serious cases such as murder and manslaughter, helping to identify causes of death. There are specialist qualifications that you can take in forensics science in order to break into this field.

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Is a Career in Human Resources Right for You?

Posted on June 18, 2018June 18, 2018 by Katie Evans

If you love working with people and feeling needed, a career in HR may be right for you. Human Resources professionals keep businesses staffed and act as liaisons between managers and their staff. They manage employee benefits and are responsible for maintaining training and employee records.

Careers in Human Resources

As a human resources professional, you can find several types of HR jobs. Smaller businesses may have only one person to handle HR tasks, while larger corporations may have hundreds. The most common HR career titles are:

HR Director

In a larger corporation with a great many HR employees, the HR director oversees budgets, policies, procedures, and strategic planning for an HR department. Most HR directors have at least 10 years of experience in human resources.

HR Manager

In medium to large companies, an HR manager oversees the daily operations of the HR office. They are responsible for ensuring HR tasks are completed, and they do the hiring for their department.

Training Officer

You know that boring sexual harassment training you have to take every year? Somewhere in your company, there’s a training officer that makes sure everyone takes that training. Training officers identify employee training needs and either create or find courses to meet those needs. They may be responsible for employee on-boarding and orientation as well.

Recruitment Coordinator

One of the most important roles of HR is to recruit talented employees. A recruitment coordinator advertises vacancies, sorts applications, and is in charge of shortlisting candidates for interviews.

HR Officer

An HR officer performs many tasks in the HR office, such as employee absence tracking, record keeping, performance evaluations, and even payroll in some cases.

HR Administrator or Assistant

Everyone has to start somewhere! If you’re just starting a career in HR, you will likely start in this entry-level position where you will handle data entry, paperwork, phone calls, emails, and other employee communications. You will assist HR officers and managers with the daily tasks of running the HR office.

Skills Important in an HR Career

Human resources offers you a variety of job options, but they aren’t for every personality. Outgoing personalities do best, as you will be dealing with people and their problems most of your workday. Other qualities of a good HR professional include:

Strong leadership abilities: The HR department is the go-to place for employees and managers who need support. People will look to you to lead them in the right direction to solve their problems.
Problem-solving skills: You will see problems of all shapes and sizes in the HR department, and you’ll need the skills to navigate all of them!
Exceptional communication skills: You must be able to communicate in-person, on the phone, via email, through company memos, and during presentations.
Strong sense of ethics: You must clearly know the difference between right and wrong and make the best decisions for the people who trust you with their issues.
Strong organizational and time-management skills: You must be able to manage stacks of documentation, meetings, and a variety of daily tasks. Your time-management skills must absolutely rock!

Education for a Career in HR

You can take a variety of educational paths to a career in HR, but most jobs will require you to have at least a bachelor’s degree. Most HR professionals pursue degrees in fields like psychology and business. To advance to the ultimate HR Director position, you will need a graduate degree.

A career in HR isn’t for everyone. If you prefer to work on your own and never see another person, you might want to choose a different career field. HR professionals love to solve problems and get a thrill from finding the perfect person to fill a vacant position. If this sounds like you, start reworking your resume with HR keywords like “problem-solving,” “active listening,” and “talent acquisition.”

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3 Careers in Healthcare that Aren’t Gross

Posted on June 12, 2018June 12, 2018 by Edna Crane

Healthcare is one of the most popular industries in the world, due in no small part to how large the sector is in general. With seven billion people on the planet all requiring healthcare provision, it’s safe to say that the healthcare industry is a great choice if you’re looking for a job that’s “future proof.”

However, a lot of people faint at the sight of blood and get nauseous at the sight (and smell) of other bodily fluids. Luckily, there are plenty of jobs in healthcare that still have plenty of job stability yet never encounter the grossness that most people associate with the industry.

Here are three healthcare career choices that will make your mama proud, yet you never have to encounter blood and guts:

1. Practice Management

Practice managers are absolutely crucial to the overall smooth running of a clinic. The work is varied, busy, and diverse; some days you will be ordering supplies and choosing to visit Kemper Medical for more information on their range; other days will be more focused on the management of the clinic and creating schedules for the medical staff. You won’t interact with the general public much; instead, you’ll be in the background, organizing the practice to ensure that everything is working exactly as it should be.

2. Advertising and Marketing

Yes, even healthcare providers need advertising and marketing departments. You will be involved in promoting your place of work, hopefully to the benefit of new patients. Ultimately, a healthcare provider is only as good as their ability to generate custom; there’s little point having an outstanding health-related service if no one is able to benefit from it due to lack of awareness.

Alternatively, you could become involved in public health awareness, using your health and marketing skills to ensure the general public are aware of essential information that will benefit their well being and lives. Both sides of healthcare advertising and marketing are very rewarding, and could be an excellent choice for you. Public health campaigns can be a vital resource when it comes to educating the public; working in this sector would allow you to be involved in this important work.

3. Medical Writing

Medical writing is a highly-technical field, and due to this, may be a suitable choice even for those who don’t feel they are “creative”. Medical writing doesn’t require creativity; it requires the ability to take dense information and turn it into something readable. You would work writing up a variety of different documents, including clinical trial results, regulatory documents, and more besides. A great choice if you have the ability to pick out pertinent information and turn highly specialized text into something more suitable to a general audience.

You don’t have to be a doctor, nurse, or technician to make healthcare your field of choice. By obtaining the skills to work in the occupations above, you are still able to find a home in the bustling healthcare sector, and should thus be able to protect your career prospects all the more.