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How Do I Become a Marketing Analyst?

Jacqueline — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:50:28 +0000

How Do I Become a Marketing Analyst? The marketing analyst position is the typical entry point to the new marketing department in this decade. It’s the first step along the road to becoming a brand manager or marketing director. Most companies require a bachelor’s degree of some type for this position, although the exact degree [...]

How do I become a Brand Manager?

Jacqueline — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:43:59 +0000

How Do I Become A Brand Manager? You may not have heard the term “brand management” before in connection with a job description, or if you have, you may have wondered what it is. This is one of the career descriptors that have surfaced in this decade as businesses seek to focus on their specific [...]

How do I become a technical project manager?

Jacqueline — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:33:21 +0000

How Do I Become A Technical Project Manager? There are generally two kinds of project managers in today’s workplace: project managers, and technical project managers. Both of these careers lead to becoming a Program Manager. While project managers may lead projects that are very technical in nature, a technical project manager has skilled deeply rooted [...]

What is a Program Manager, and how do I become one?

Jacqueline — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 23:16:03 +0000

What is a Program Manager, and how do I become one? Program Management is the next level in the Project Manager’s career path. Most program manager jobs are found in STEM fields, and mostly in the technology sector specifically. Program managers coordinate high-level aspects of a set of related projects, rather than managing individual projects’ [...]

What is High School for anyway?

admin — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:59:36 +0000

There is not a quick answer from parents and students when asked, “What is high school for anyway”? Answers like career preparation, college prep, athletics, socializing, general education…for some, the answer is, “because we have to go.” On an unfortunately too frequent schedule, another report comes back and slaps us in the face screaming that [...]

The Smartest Kids in the World

Conor Hilton — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:13:30 +0000

Ever wanted to know where the smartest kids in the world are? Once you knew that, did you want to find out how the managed to become so smart? Amanda Ripley seeks to answer those questions in a new book, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way. The book follows [...]

What Makes a School a Fiske “Best Buy?”

Jacqueline — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:34:33 +0000

Every year, Ted Fiske – the education editor for The New York Times releases his yearly book on the best colleges in the country. While other guides are focusing on getting into Harvard and taking out massive loans to pay for about five minutes at Yale, Fiske does some digging and finds schools that might [...]

How to Pay For Medical School

Tyler Beckstrom — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:10:01 +0000

Becoming a physician in today’s world can be a pretty daunting task. There is large time commitment (as long as 8 years) and then debt payment that can range from $150,000 to nearly double that depending upon your institution. So how can you pay for all the schooling? There are many options available, with some [...]

Top 5 Scholarship Search Engines

Conor Hilton — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:08:24 +0000

As we all know too well, college is an expensive endeavor. Rather than belabor that tragic and tough reality, we thought gathering some resources to help alleviate the crushing debt that awaits most college students would be more useful. If sports aren’t really your scene, but you still want in on that proverbial pot of [...]

3 Myths About Your 20s that Could Affect Your Entire Life

Jacqueline — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:47:42 +0000

Whether you call it Generation Y, the Golden Years or “That time that I could spent all of my money on entertainment and food,” your 20s can feel pretty great. After all, you have endless education and professional options and there’s a good chance you only have to worry about one person: Yourself. But before [...]