what is your dream job/career/occupation?

Are you looking for right career path for you. What is your interest? There are literally hundreds of occupations to choose for national database. Have you found your niche yet? Do you know what you are good at? Where do you see yourself after few years? If you know your right career choice, please make a comment and I will direct you accordingly.

No GED?

No GED? Or are you concerned of taking long GED classes and passing their test? Have you accepted in a college; however you don’t have proof of graduation from high school? Do you find that all the centers for GED are full and you might miss your session for college? I work for a reputed nationally accredited degree granting college which offer career focused education. When I conduct career assessment I find many individuals without high school diploma. I completely agree that most of the time it’s not students fault not having a diploma. If you are one of them, then don’t think that door to your career is closed. It’s wide open for you. There are many options besides GED that can get you into a career college.
Let me share the story of one of my students named Juan. Juan came to me last fall to start school with us. He had a foreign high school diploma. When I interviewed him he sounded very proficient in English and also academic about his career interest. He passed our acceptance test and he was also eligible for financial aid. The only barrier for him from coming to our college and pursue bachelors’ degree was his documentation for high school diploma. I found it a total misuse of time if I let him go down for one tern to wait for a GED. There were two options open for him. One of them is his foreign high school transcript which can get evaluated by NACES ( http://www.naces.org/members.htm). However, he still needed to produce English language proficiency by sitting for TOEFL or ESL class. If he would follow this option it would take him at least 6 months to join our college. GED would have been another option. However in large cities, to register for GED tests can take months. Juan and I started brainstorming to find out what can we do to get him started as early as possible and to move away from this lengthy process. After days of long research we finally discovered an Online Self Pace High School equivalency program (http://www.continentalacademy.com/home.html) which is accepted by most of the career focused colleges. And guess what he finished his high school equivalency in 4 days. It only cost him couple of hundred dollars. And he started school right on time. And that way he saved long waiting and study for GED or TOEFL or ESL classes.

Where you at and where you want to go?

Where you at and where you want to go? This question may sound like an easy query to every one of us while travelling from point A to point B; however it’s a very critical question for an individual seeking livelihood. If someone can answer this question right at all time he or she will have no problem whatsoever during his career journey. Today career journey is not an one end drive. A person can steer his or her career vehicle onto different directions based on one’s professional and personal desire. However it is always important for anyone to find out point A or starting point for his career. For most of us it’s right after high school. We get really confused and lost when we get exposed to vast choice of occupations right off high school. It’s a tendency of ours to become cynical to choose a definite career track right after high school and start college to get required knowledge, skills and credentials for that career. Unfortunately most of us end up either choosing a wrong career track or spending few years wandering from one school to another school to find the right path for us. There are numerous reasons for this. If you are a high school student, do you aware of all flourishing occupation exist in our country? Are we looking for a profession for more financial security or more of what fit to our individual characteristics? Are we inclined to our circle of influence like friends and family while choosing right college or trade school for us? Do we follow the present vibe or influenced by the media? Are we taking shortcut to reach point B? Or are we afraid of failure, unknown fear of higher learning and investment associated with it? Or are we just following the footsteps of more familiar road to lead an everyday life? Do you feel that you are not capable of higher learning because you have no high school diploma? There are literally hundreds of questions we can ask ourselves to find out if we are ready for our career expedition. Like every other journey it is very important to prepare ourselves to start, to know where you at right now, to know your point A. Once you can identify your current situation, then only you can start asking yourself where your first stop should be, In other words, where is your point B? And how to get there timely and securely.