Weekly Career Profile: Survey Researcher
Survey researchers work for corporations, government agencies and political candidates, designing or conducting surveys about people and their opinions. A bachelor's degree will suffice for anyone who wants an entry-level job as a survey researcher, but more technical positions require a master's degree, generally in business administration, marketing, statistics or communications. The future looks promising for those working in this field. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that survey researchers will experience faster growth than other occupations that also require a bachelor's degree (Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 Edition).
If you are considering a career as a survey researcher, you need to learn more about this occupation. Read Survey Researcher: Career Information to get some basic details, including information about earnings, job outlook and advancement opportunities. To learn even more, try to arrange an interview with a survey researcher. If you don't know one, perhaps someone in your network does. Read Full Post Weekly Career Profile: Survey Researcher originally appeared on About.com Career Planning on Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 at 17:02:11. Permalink | Comment | Email this
Weekly Career Profile: Surgical Technologist
Surgical technologists assist in surgery. They work under the supervision of surgeons and registered nurses as part of the operating room team. To become a surgical technologist one must complete a formal program lasting between 9 and 12 months. The program consists of a combination of classroom instruction and clinical training. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey researchers have a bright future. Job growth in this field will be much faster than the average for all occupations through 2018. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 Edition). ...Read Full Post
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I received an email the other day from a reader who was quite unhappy with some of my advice regarding proper workplace behavior: "I've just read some of your office ...Read Full Post
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When Jumping Out of the Frying Pan, Avoid Landing in the Fire
I first entered the career planning field in the early 1990s during another recession. I was in graduate school studying to be a librarian and was hired to run a job information center in a public library. Unemployment was quite high at the time and we were very busy. One thing that sticks with me to this day were those clients who had lost their jobs and decided to retrain for new careers because their former ones held little promise for recovery. Unfortunately, the careers they chose to retrain for held little promise either. These clients had literally gone from one bad situation to another.
To avoid ending up in a field that had little to offer them, they could have done some research. The Occupational Outlook Handbook, as the name implies, looks at an occupation's potential for future growth. Of course, since these are only predictions, they can change, but it's better than investing time, money and energy into training that definitely won't pay off.
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