Schooling Necessary for Dental School
Before you head off to dental school, you need to have a certain level of knowledge to get ahead. You don’t want to have to start from scratch and learn the basics during your first year. As with any profession that requires a lot of knowledge, your efforts to refresh your memory and acquire new knowledge must remain consistent. Put the thought in your head that there’s always going to be someone making a bigger effort to stay on the forefront of the industry than you. You have to work as hard as you possibly can to outwork them. If you...
read moreFacilitating Communication between IT personnel and End Users
Users often have a very different view of the IT process than those who actually work to keep the networks and software assets running smoothly. Unfortunately, this leads to a lot of misunderstandings as one group can have difficulty expressing itself to the other, and then problems begin to compound and cause productivity problems and cost a lot of time and money. The demands on the IT department can be overwhelming, and the larger a company grows the more complex those demands can become. There are some things that can be done, though, to...
read moreTeaching Students About Investments
The best way to set students down the path towards financial stability is to teach them about investments. Investing is a hard topic to condense into a format that’s understandable in a classroom. You might be able to come up with some core fundamentals, but there’s no guarantee the students could apply what they have learned to the real world and expect the same results they would get in other fields. The key is to instill the desire to invest in your students, making them want to do the research and realize any risk they might encounter...
read moreBe Successful: Ask Questions
It is important for learning, that when you read something or listen to a speech that you do so with a critical view. You need to question things in order to create your own opinions that are not influenced by other peoples. To be as scholarly as you can, you need to question information in order to find out the truth in anything. You need to be aware of logical fallacies that are present in various scholarly articles. If you do not know much about logical fallacies, I’ll show you using some examples that are present in the article “The...
read moreThe Onboarding Process via Human Resource Software
Whether the economy is the most healthy we’ve seen in the last hundred years, or the worst, small and medium businesses are being forced to focus major effort more and more on the development and retention of their current workforce, and even less effort on recruiting. Companies are learning that just like it’s more expensive to gain a new customer than keep an existing one – employees are the same! Human esource software enhancements are leading the way to help firms accomplish this strategic task. Onboarding processes range from...
read moreSmall Business Legal Tip: Don’t Mix Your Finances
Guest post by: Gary P. Lightman is an attorney for individuals and business owners and has over 30 years experience helping them get out of legal trouble. If you are in school and looking to start your own business, there are a lot of things to learn. But some of the most important tips have to do with legal issues because that is where you can get in the most trouble. When you’re starting up a business, you likely feel like you’re wearing a dozen different hats at once—you’re the president and CEO, the HR department, the sales...
read moreHow a University Can Enhance the Student’s Experience in College
There was once a time when attending a university was a privilege extended to a very specific group of people, either those with a lot of money, a lot of connections, or extreme scholastic achievement. Now the opportunity for the university experience has been expanded to include a much larger percentage of the population allowing more than just the upper class and bonafide geniuses the chance to better themselves through higher education. Still, the increase in the student body has put a strain on a lot of universities as professors are...
read moreSkills Necessary for Marketing Scholars
We all know that marketing has changed drastically over the last decade. The channels through which we communicate with consumers have changed, but the things we say and even the core values to which we appeal have been altered as well. If markets, people, and cultures are changing, we can safely assume that the people involved in representing brands to these groups will need to keep up–and the skills needed to get jobs with the top interactive agencies can be learned as you progress in your education. But you have to be aware of what...
read moreEducation Practices – CBIA Education Foundation
The CBIA Education Foundation is a 501 (C) (3) affiliate of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association (CBIA). Our mission is to help prepare a skilled workforce for Connecticut employers through the development of public-private sector partnerships in education and job training. We are not an endowed foundation and do not make grants to individuals or organizations. Rather, we seek grant opportunities and funds to develop programs that further CBIA’s public policy positions at the state and federal levels, and develop best...
read moreCBIA’s programs
Grants from agencies such as the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education, help us fund the development of innovative programs that create alternative approaches for the development of a skilled workforce that focuses on employer needs. CBIA’s programs seek to improve student performance primarily in math, science and technology and provide opportunities for educators to spend time in the workplace to keep abreast of changing job requirements and technologies....
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