The News Review:
- House passes veterans employment bills
- Therapists Get an Earful About Career Anxiety
- Monster® Named Best Employment Site in 2009 Webby People’s Voice …
- Kaplan Career Institute pens In Boston
- Crunch boosts health-care careers
- Making rural youth aware of career opportunities
- Dr. Elizabeth DiBernardo Launches WorkAdviceNow(TM) Career Advice …
House passes veterans employment bills
AirForceTimes.com
the veterans’ economic opportunity panel chairwoman is the chief sponsor of HR 1088 the House-passed bill that orders training within one year of hiring for state employees assigned to duties as Disabled Veterans utreach Program Specialists and Local Veterans’ Employment Specialists known in veterans circles as DVPS and LVERs. Current Labor Department rules give new hires up to three years to attend the national Veterans Employment Training Services Institute based in Denver to learn about their responsibilities to help veterans especially those with special needs get jobs. This includes training career counseling and job referrals. n average it takes 2½ years for a new employee to attend the training which means there are hired specialists who are not fully trained. The bill requires new employees and any current employee hired since the start of 2006 who has not yet gone through the training to complete the course within one year. There is a short-term cost because the training and travel costs for two five-day courses are estimated to be about $3500 per person. The cost of the bill is put at about $3 million over the next four years when training would be caught up.
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Therapists Get an Earful About Career Anxiety
New York Times
Peter Turkl a clinical social worker and executive coach based in New York says the method he uses to look at behavior patterns and ways to change them has come to the forefront in the last few months as opposed to talking about relationships and issues lingering from the past. “Sometimes an entire session will just be devoted to coaching and I’ll give my patient homework to deal with a particular obstacle” he said. Employment psychology and career coaching are now in the spotlight. Though related they are hardly twins. To hang a therapist’s shingle most states demand a master’s degree and a license which requires a certain number of client contact hours a background check and passing a state or national certified licensing exam. While many career coaches have a graduate degree in counseling or accreditations there is no universal licensing system. Employment-related psychology was once viewed as “the most boring topic in psychology” Mr.
Monster® Named Best Employment Site in 2009 Webby People’s Voice …
Earthtimes (press release)
- The global Web community has voted Monster. com® as Best Employment site of the year in the 2009 Webby People’s Voice Awards. Recognized for its newly-launched interactive global platform the all new Monster.
Kaplan Career Institute pens In Boston
PRLog.rg (press release)
The Boston campus is Kaplan Higher Education?s second campus in the Boston metropolitan area. ?We are excited to extend our foundation for high-quality educational services strong curriculum and personal approach to students here in Boston and the surrounding communities? said Jeff Conlon president of Kaplan Higher Education. ?The Boston area is an important community for us and Kaplan is committed to offering educational opportunities in some of the most in-demand employment fields in the state. ?Led by Adam Kellner executive director of Kaplan Career Institute the campus opens by offering three diploma programs in dental assistant medical billing and coding specialist and medical assistant. The programs are designed to aid students in obtaining the knowledge technical skills and work habits required to pursue a wide variety of entry-level positions in the health care field. ?pening a second Kaplan campus in the Boston area will allow us to better serve local residents who seek quality career-focused training? said Kellner. ?We offer a unique integration of curriculum with professional skill development to empower students to achieve their life-long personal and professional goals.
Crunch boosts health-care careers
Canada.com
is not going to be sufficient in meeting the health-care shortage” says Rena Shimoni dean of health and community care at Bow Valley College. Although BVC has increased the number of seats in the past two years for its licensed practical nurse and health-care aides programs like other post-secondary institutions that offer health-care programs in Alberta the organization is taking a more flexible multi-faceted approach to solving the shortage of health-care workers. The beneficiaries aside from patients and families that desperately lack adequate health-care resources are the students who gain more career options than ever in expanding fields of employment. Blended learning using technology to offer distance education satellite campuses partnerships with rural institutions flexible and condensed program lengths foreign credential recognition assessments increased government investment a range of new programs and other measures are making health-care education more accessible at a time when it’s desperately needed say educators. “Calgary alone is short 400 family physicians” says Dr. Bruce Wright senior associate dean of education in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary. “When we’re short that many docs then we’re in crisis.
Making rural youth aware of career opportunities
Times of India
Besides not many have correct information about the union and statepublic service examinations where rural youth have good scope hesaid. The academy also strives to create awareness among parents whohave the common tendency of yearning to admit their children for medical orengineering courses. At a camp held recently lecturer Rajesh Bejjangala focusedon many low cost courses that help students get decent salaried jobs and boostemployment opportunities in the rural areas. getElementById(“storydiv”). substring(0storycontent.
Dr. Elizabeth DiBernardo Launches WorkAdviceNow(TM) Career Advice …
PR Newswire (press release)
WorkAdviceNow :: Dr. Elizabeth DiBernardo Launches WorkAdviceNow(TM) Career Advice Counseling Resource & Seminar Series. com and the seminars launching May 28th 2009 at a variety of locations in Dade and Broward Counties.