Weekly Career Profile: Environmental Scientist
Environmental scientists go to work each day with a primary goal in mind: to protect the environment. They conduct research in order to find ways to identify and then eliminate pollutants and other things that can harm the environment or be hazardous to the population. Most employers will hire only candidates who have earned a master's degree in environmental science, hydrology or a related natural science. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 Edition). ...Read Full Post
Weekly Career Profile: Speech Therapist
 Speech therapists, also called speech pathologists and speech-language pathologists, diagnose and treat people who have speech-related disorders including the inability to produce certain sounds, voice disorders and fluency and speech rhythm difficulties. They also work with clients who wish to modify accents. In order to become a speech pathologist, one must earn a master's degree in speech-language pathology.
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Evaluating a Job Offer
When you've spent a long time looking for a job, you might be tempted to accept the first offer you get. While that's an understandable reaction, it's not a good idea. You must first decide if the job you've been offered is right for you. It is better to have to keep looking—particularly since you have some momentum going— than it is to start your search all over again if, after a few months, you decide that the job wasn't a good fit after all.
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Girls Should Consider a Non-Traditional Occupation
If you took a roomful of elementary school kids and asked them what they want to be when they grow up, what do you think they would say? I bet the boys would come up with a variety of options including doctor, engineer, carpenter and electricians. The girls' answers would be quite different. In this day and age you'd have your fair number of budding doctors, but how many of them would aspire to be engineers, carpenters and electricians? Probably none.
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Weekly Career Profile: Physical Therapist
 Physical therapists treat patients who have problems with mobility or pain. Among their patients are accident victims and people who have arthritis, heart disease, fractures, head injuries and cerebral palsy.
To become a physical therapist, one must earn a master's degree from a physical therapy education program and pass both state and national licensing exams. This field has an excellent job outlook. Employment will grow much faster, through 2020, than it will for other occupations (Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2012-13 Edition).
If you think you might be interested in this occupation, you should learn more about it. Read Physical Therapist: Career Information. This article will give you basic details about this occupation, including information about earnings, educational requirements and advancement opportunities. Next, read a firsthand account of life as a physical therapist. It will help you discover more about this occupation than a written description can provide. Finally, take the Should You Become a physical therapist? quiz to help you decide if this career is a good fit for you.
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