Showing posts with label accredited online schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label accredited online schools. Show all posts

Monday, 19 December 2011

How To Get An Internship



  1. Ask around. The best way to get an internship is through people you know. Ask friends, family friends, acquaintances. Put a request out on Facebook and Twitter. Someone must know someone else. Think six degrees of separation. If you are only six people away from the person who can give you an internship that will change your life, it makes the task seem less daunting.

  2. Brush up on your activities; An active, community spirited person is more likely to be hired than someone who has nothing to say and spends their time doing nothing. Make yourself sound as interesting as possible. 

  3. Lose the sense of entitlement; No-one likes someone who thinks the world should give them everything, you are no more special then anyone else. Arrogance is off-putting, confidence is key. 

  4. Work Harder than anyone else. Employers love people who help themselves. Do an online degree, the more skills you have the more likely you are to get an internship. Employers love people who go for it. 

  5. Think about what is stopping people giving you an internship, and then remove it. Take the feedback that you are getting from other people. If you are trying to get into finance do you keep getting told you need another qualification? Get it. Are you trying to become an actor and people tell you you need to be able to dance? Take some dance lessons. Remove the obstacles. 

  6. Account for gaps on your CV; Think about what you could say when asked about these. Bad things to say are; sitting around the house or watching TV. Say that you were learning French or something similar that could add another string to your bow. 

  7. Be likeable; It's a simple one but people like working with nice people. Try to smile even if you don't feel like it, say please and thank you and hold doors open for people. People will remember you as a good, decent person. The kind of person who gets hired!

Good Luck.

Thursday, 1 December 2011

Three Tips To Help You Choose A College


Three Tips To Help You Choose A College

This is the biggest question that a lot of people that are thinking about going to college think about at one point in their life . But one of the biggest things that you should take in to consideration is how long do you want to go to college. Some will say as long as it takes then there are others that want to go in long enough to receive a certificate . No matter how long you decide that you want to go to college is up to you ultimately. The three tips that you want to make sure that you keep in mind is:

1 Make sure that if you choose one of the online college that is one of well know accredited online schools . This is what employers look at when they look at your transcripts and your application when you put in for a job with them .
2 Another thing is make sure that the career that you choose is going to enjoy later on in life . This is something that a lot of individuals that choose a line of work to go into actually think of later on down the line when they are much older . For instance if you are someone that choose nursing for the career you want . That is fine just make sure that you always stay healthy because as you get older your immune system is something that is going to be affected. So if you have just a slightly weak immune system you may want to look into something that is not going to affect you later on.

3 Make sure that you choose one of the top careers that are going to be around for a long time. You do not want to choose a career that is eventually going to be phased out later on in life because then you are going to be an older person having to go back to college and struggling to find the right job again. Plus the older that you are the harder it is going to be for you to find a job .
Just by doing these 3 things you can be sure that you will be successful in whatever career choice you choose to go in to. So take some time and really think about it before you commit to a career.