Three ways to Explore, Upgrade or Prepare for a Career
Three ways to Explore, Upgrade or Prepare for a Career
It is always a good time to explore a career. Maybe you are just starting and want to know if a certain career is for you. Maybe you have been in a job for a while and want to bump your career up to the next step. Maybe you have a career and want to make a change for more intrinsic satisfaction or more money. Maybe you are near the end of your career and want to make a change to a part time post-retirement job. Whatever the reason, here are three ways to explore, upgrade, or prepare for a new career.
One, Explore a New Career – Learn about Careers
There are many ways to explore a new career. You can take a class that explains the career, talk to someone doing the job you want, review information and literature on the web, or read a book that spells out how to do a certain job. There are so many jobs out there and new ones popping up all the time. Here are a few careers you may want to explore in more detail.
Evaluate the career for you
- Career Match: Connecting Who you Are with What you’ll love to do
- Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success
- What Color is your Parachute? 2015: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career Changers
- The Encore Career Handbook: How to Make a Living and a Difference in the Second Half of Life
- Coach yourself to a new career: 7 steps to reinventing your professional life
Explore a specific career
- Explore a Career as an Administrative Medical Assistant
- Explore a Career as a Paralegal
- Explore a Career in Medical Coding
- Explore a Career in Medical Transcription
- Explore a Career in Medical Writing
- Explore a Career as a Pharmacy Technician
- Explore a Career in Nursing
Two, Upgrade your career – Get a Certificate
Sometimes small things make a difference when it comes to hiring. An extra certificate, skill or ability may make you the one who is hired. The small difference may give you the boost you need to get your dream job. Consider if a Certificate would give your career a needed boost!
- Certificate in Starting your own Business
- Certificate in Stress Management
- Certificate in Healing Environments
- Certificate in Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Certificate in End of Life Care
- Certificate in Integrative Mental Health
- Certificate in Pain Assessment and Management
Three, Prepare for your career – Get more Education
Sometimes you simply need more education to get the job you want. Some jobs require a high school diploma, college degree, or even advanced training. A little preparation may help you move to the next level of education.
Test preparation
GED
- Kaplan GED® Test 2015 Strategies, Practice and Review with 2 practice tests: book + online
- McGraw-Hill Education Preparation for the GED® Test
- Prepare for the GED® Math Test
- Prepare for the GED Test
College
- SAT/ACT Preparation – Part 1
- SAT/ACT Preparation – Part 2
- The Official SAT Study Guide Second Edition
- Kaplan SAT 2015 Strategies, Practice and Review with 5 practice tests: book + online
- Cracking the SAT Premium Edition with 8 practice tests, 2015
- The Real ACT (CD) 3rd Edition
- Cracking the ACT with 6 practices tests, 2015 edition
Graduate School
- GRE Preparation – Part 1 (Verbal and Analytical)
- GRE Preparation – Part 2 (Quantitative)
- GRE Premier 2015 with 6 practice tests: book + DVD+ Mobile
- The Official Guide to the GRE Revised General Test, 2nd Edition
- LSAT Preparation – Part 1
- LSAT Preparation – Part 2
- The LSAT Trainer: A remarkable self-study guide for the self-driven student
- Kaplan MCAT Complete 7-Book Subject Review: Created for MCAT 2015
- Princeton Review MCAT Subject Review Complete Set: New for MCAT 2015
Whether you want to try a new career, or upgrade by getting a certificate or further preparation, or prepare for a career through further formal education you can enhance your career by continuing to develop your skills and abilities in the workplace. The workplace pays for those with the skills to do the job well. Try one of the three ways to explore, upgrade or prepare for a career so that you are the one earning the “big bucks” that reward your skills and preparation.
