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How to Get Ahead at Work Without a College Degree

Eat Your Career

Many people, in many fields, do not place an extremely heavy weight on the value of a college degree because they understand that real-world experience is often the best education there is. Don’t let that little voice inside your head tell you you’re less than everyone else just because of your educational background.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

Success

Through her work, Arrington is breaking cycles of incarceration and creating pathways to college education and careers for historically underserved communities. She’s also involved in educating the next generation of women entering the medical field through her role as the CEO and founder of Women STEM Mentorship.

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How I Lost $3 Million in 24 Hours and Bounced Back

Success

It all started in 2001 when I launched a service business based on just an idea. Over the years, I’d developed contacts, partners and skills, and I had the industry reputation necessary to put together a contract this big. But I know now I would never be where I am today without this traumatic experience. And I did change that day.

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Creating a Win/Win for Admin and Executive

Office Dynamics

Leverage your administrative team's capabilities by offering a greater variety of challenging tasks that allow them to utilize and expand their unique skill set. They are able to work faster, make fewer mistakes and better utilize their skills to meet the demands of the job. She was previously at Intel from 1995 through 2001.

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

Success

Reach out to groups that cater to Black engineers, LGBTQ professionals, Hispanic programmers—whatever skill set you might need. The Market Development Group the company launched to identify sales and support opportunities tied to women- and minority-owned businesses resulted in $300 million in new revenue in 2001. It’s flexible.

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: Do Online Classes Make Sense for.

On The Job

Heres my story discussing online universities: As the job market continues to flounder, many professionals are turning to online classes as a way to help save a current career or start a new one -- but both universities and students are warning that not all online educations are created the same. “I The numbers are staggering.”

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Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

On The Job

With their technology skills and great social networking abilities, GenY ( born roughly between 1980-2003) previously have found employers willing to meet their expectations. Like the rest of job hunters, Generation Y has found jobs can be tough to come by, even with their skills. Then the 2001 recession hit the Telecom and IT sector.

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