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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 [...]

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 [...]

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