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How Three Post-Secondary Programs Are Setting Autistic Individuals on a Path to Success

Success

So, the duo founded nonPareil Institute, a post-secondary training institute, in 2008. Crew members fulfill these needs from nonPareil Institute’s accommodating environment while gaining job and project management skills, working with others, meeting deadlines, earning a check and strengthening their resume and portfolio.

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4 Steps for Dealing With a Hated New Job

On The Job

If the problems are serious -- you ethically disagree with company policy or you're asked to do duties you find reprehensible or just have no interest in -- then it's probably time to just move on and learn from the experience. When you begin interviewing for a new position, you may want to avoid putting such a short-term job on your resume.

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How to Never Be a Victim Again

On The Job

Remember what 2008 felt like? Learn something new. Promise yourself you'll spend as much time learning about a new technology, for example, as you do playing fantasy football or reading about the Kardashians. Do you have a resume ready? Pretty grim years. Big mistake. No one should ever forget what that felt like.

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Successful Resumés

Laughing all the Way to Work

Updated this article February 13, 2008 [link] Unfortunately, in one job I had I was involved on the downside of government downsizing, but I feel that even during a seemingly bad experience, you can always learn something positive. One of the many things I remember, and have put to good use, was a workshop on resume writing.

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For Beginners: Keyboarding

Administrative Arts

Helpful tips and what to learn to progress in an administrative career. Boost Your Resume, Become Bilingual. Top 10 Posts of 2008. I will be writing some posts especially for beginners in the clerical field. These will be posted to the category For Beginners and will include For Beginners in the title. No Budget for Training?

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Networking Key for Vets to Find a Job

On The Job

In 2008, when Jessie Canella returned home from Iraq where he had been deployed as a Marine, he wasn't sure how to get a job in the civilian world. Canella soon learned what other job seekers have discovered: Competing with thousands of others online is often like throwing a resume into a black hole. He declined.

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Set Yourself Apart from the Competition » Make or Break Moments

Make or Break Moments

Each had a resume, test scores of the tests they’d volunteered to take to show their abilities and each provided a cover letter and their hourly rate. I thought I would prefer someone from the United States and Canada but I soon learned that they were the highest cost and not all had experience.