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Working or Studying From Home? Time Management Tips for Remote Learners
With so many distractions and the comfort of your home as major obstacles, working or studying from home can be a difficult course to pursue. That is why Medical Billing and Coding blog has developed a list of time management tips for remote learners, to help you work efficiently from home. Remote learning is not [...]
Be a Training Standout: How to Jumpstart Your Success in the Classroom
Here’s a question for medical billers and coders . . . Exactly when did your career start? If you stop to think about it, you will probably realize that your career didn’t begin when you got your first job. It actually started on the day when you walked into a classroom and began your training. [...]
Tips for Getting the Most From the Career Services Department
To ensure that you get the most out of the Career Services Department, Medical Billing and Coding Blog has outlined some of the important benefits of the department. Here are a few tips in taking advantage of all that Career Services has to offer: Assistance with Resume Writing Your resume is one of the most [...]
Accounting Tips for Self-Employed Billers and Coders with Home Offices
Did the word “deduction!” jump into your mind the minute you thought about opening a home office? If so, you are thinking wisely, because a home office provides many great opportunities to deduct business expenses from your taxes. But be careful. The IRS has some requirements – and traps – waiting for people who break [...]
How to Stay Focused and Strong While Working and Studying Alone
Last Monday’s post covered some strategies for making the transition to working at home. This week, let’s explore some of the same concepts in more depth, with an emphasis on staying focused when you are working and studying alone. Work in dedicated time blocks. Don’t check your email or send text messages during your working [...]
Do You Have What it Takes to Work from Home?
What does it take to work at home? What are the biggest mistakes to avoid? We asked those questions to a man who has worked from his home office for 20 years. Here’s his advice on getting the most from working at home: Plan to go through a transition period. Don’t expect to like home [...]
Five Tactics that Can Help You Get the Job You Want
CNNMoney.com released an interactive slideshow that provides several different key factors in locating and getting hired at the job that you want. The presentation, created by Jia Lynn Yang in April, 2009, is called “How to Get a Job”, and is “an interactive guide to navigating the worst job market of your lifetime”. We have [...]
Is Medical Billing and Coding the Right Career for You?
Are You Ready to Advance Your Career? is a fun, informative self-test that’s available free online at Queendom.com. If you take it, you’ll find that it delivers some useful perspective on where your abilities could take you in professional life. We took the test and liked it. It got us thinking. So we asked 10 [...]
How to Stand Out in Career Interviews
Your goal in a job interview is to show that you fit in, right? No, wrong, according to Debra Benton, a top leadership coach and author of CEO Material: How to Be a Leader in Any Organization and other bestselling books. According to Benton, your goal should be to stand out in interviews, not fit [...]
Medical Billers and Coders: The Unsung Heroes of Medical Offices
Doctors and nurses are at the forefront of patient care, and receive most of the attention associated with running a medical office. Behind the scenes, however, medical and billing and coding specialists serve vital roles in maintaining a successful healthcare facility. Here is a quick rundown of some of the responsibilities of medical billers and coders: [...]
