Potential Job Opportunities for After Graduation Written by: Nathaniel Yonke North Central Technical College Abstract This paper briefly reviews the water and sewage and healthcare industries for job prospects after graduation from North Central Technical College with an accounting associate’s degree. It reviews expected overall industry average pay in those industries for accountants and accountant related positions as well as expected pay for immediate positions obtainable after graduation. The paper also touches on my reasons for pursuing these industries and why they are interesting to me. Primary sources are the Bureau of Labor Statistics, www.salary.com, www.americasjobexchange.com, www.monster.com all obtained online. …show more content…
I would be interested in working in this field because it would allow me to stay in a seemingly saturated market here in Wisconsin (BLS 2016). My immediate family is in Wisconsin so the appeal of being able to stay close to home is meaningful. Even a close move to Michigan or Illinois would keep me able to drive home for the holidays and special occasions. Another benefit of working in this field is that I am interested in the material. I know how important water transportation is. I also know that as the population continues to increase over time this field will steadily become more and more important almost ensuring continued job growth and opportunity. The job numbers were unsettling after my research, however. The other field that I was interested in potentially pursuing was that of healthcare. Labor statistics gathered again from the Bureau of Labor Statistics dating from May of 2016 show a lot larger market, reflecting 16,560 people currently employed in healthcare who work as some accounting style profession. The hourly mean wage is listed at $32.52 with an annual mean wage of $67,650. Another aspect about this industry that I found appealing was the level of potential educational support. Several private and publicly owned hospitals that I looked at indicated as a job benefit that they would help you pay for further education
When it comes to the topic of attaining a college degree, most will readily agree that it is essential to securing a successful career post-graduation. Whereas some are convinced that a college degree does not guarantee entry into a career in one 's field of study nor does it determine success in one 's career, others maintain that a higher education is, in fact, the way to job security and financial success. What comes into question is whether the investment in a college education is truly worth it or not in order to accomplish a student 's goals of success. I think it could be said for most prospective college students that the reason for going to college is to gain the credentials required for most jobs today. What many of those potential students may not realize is the substantial percentage of graduates who do not acquire a job related to their majors, how much debt they will incur, and just how many students don 't graduate at all for reasons such as an overwhelming workload and a poor work/ life balance.
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Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG) is a state-based national non-profit organization dedicated to preventing dropouts among young people who are most at-risk. Mullins High School is a 100% free lunch qualified school where students look for encouragement. Mullins High School adopted this program to develop leadership skills and soft skills that are essential for our students to be prepared for college and career ready. As an intern, I take this opportunity to determine the support provided by these extra-curricular programs in achieving the vision of the institution. Mullins High school is blessed to have Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG) program. The program coordinator Ms. T is proud of her student members and their highly supportive parents.
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My chosen degree program is Associates of Applied Science in Medical Assisting at Kaplan University. I am currently a online student. I have been doing some research of my program and I have came up with a lot of very interesting facts. First the median salary for a Medical Assistant is $28,860 per year that is about $13.87 a hour, that was in May 2010. There could be opportunities it maybe higher, For example, the experience you may have, or the facility you are working in, and even the level of the education that you have (/www. .bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/medical-assistants.htm).
After graduating high school mostly everyone has both high hopes and dreams, people whom have high hopes for the career life ahead of them seem to run into manys different obstacles along the way. After graduating high school I finally came to a conclusion of what I wanted to do with my life. My senior year in high school not only did my hopes change multiple times they also changed tremendously. One of the biggest obstacles that I ran into or that I face everyday is my cell phone. My cell phone is my biggest issue when it comes to anything its almost like its impossible for me to put it down. With social media being as big as it is today my head seems to stay in either instagram or snapchat 98% of the day. rather than my phone I seem to run
As a part of the HBCU Alumni Alliance’s Higher Education initiative program; Alumni of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are concerned about the inadequate representation of minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related professions. Consequently, DCHBCUAA STEM professionals have designed and organized an instructional hands-on STEM workshop for students in grades 10-12, to enlighten them on the different facets of professions available in the sciences. As a part of our community partnership with Kaiser Permanente, we have a workshop scheduled for Saturday, April 29, 2017, from 800 am-5:00 pm, at 2101 Jefferson Street in Rockville, Maryland.
Many young students want to pursue a career in accounting but are still wondering whether the possibility of matching this job or not. In general, the accounting industry is considered the industry that many students including myself choose and study. Graduate, students easily find a job and have a steady income. Not only easy to find a job and a stable income, I began to choose accounting because of the peculiarity quite "comfortable" of the industry: not too demanding, picky, I just have to like working with the numbers and skills required when working with numbers. Since accounting is an indispensable part of all companies and organizations, so this is one of the best craft unemployment negligent that I want to purse.
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Money and outlook- “Overall, job opportunities for registered nurses are expected to be good. However, the supply of new nurses entering the labor market has increased in recent years. This increase has resulted in competition for jobs in some areas of the country. Generally, registered nurses with a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing (BSN) will have better job prospects than those without one. Employers also may prefer candidates who have some related work experience”. “The median annual wage for registered nurses was $67,490 in May 2015. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $46,360, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $101,630”.-(www.bls.gov). There are a lot of people trying to become a registered nurse but, just becoming a registered nurse won’t get you as much money as getting your BMS and working with the government. A registered nurse can get up to $101,630 a year depending on how far you got into your education. For example getting your BMS can help a lot.
Somewhere during the last two years of my college courses, I was introduced to physician assistants. The thing that appealed to me the most is how much flexibility there can be within the career. There are a lot of options after graduation to work in a hospital, as a first assist, and in various clinics. Also, as a PA, you have the ability to create a plan of action for your patients, but you also have the potential to work as a team to create efficiency. There are also so many opportunities that other healthcare fields do not have. PAs have options to work in different specialties while MDs have to do additional residency work in order to go into a different field. Living in Mississippi for the past five years, I have also seen the demand for PAs grow. A lot of people did not know what a PA was, some even thinking it was a certificate program, but I have steadily seen more people growing accustomed to them and realizing they are a vital part of health care.
As soon as students begin their high school careers, colleges are looking for who will meet the requirements set to be accepted into college. Tulsa Community College specifically requires current high school students to make a certain score on each section of the ACT so they may take college courses while still in high school. For that reason, I took the ACT for the first time just after my sophomore year, hoping to score high enough for concurrent enrollment. Being a concurrent student allows me to receive college credit so that I may have more time for sports or extracurricular activities when I am an actual college student. My main goal is to major in music then have a career in the music industry. The music industry is a difficult career
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