Posts By Editorial Team
Do You Have the Drive for Sales? Can You Close the Deal?
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The Arise Platform has a great opportunity for you to use your sales and/or timeshare industry experience to earn extra money on the side, from home – or even completely escape the confines of a cubicle!
One of the world’s leading timeshare companies is seeking inbound sales support from call centers using the Arise Platform. This timeshare company has been a pioneer and innovator in serving the vacation ownership market since 1976, and its properties include over 3,000 resorts in more than 80 nations.
What is Your Salary History?
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Ever cringe when you’re asked for salary history as you’re applying for a new job?
Prospective employers want to know what you’ve earned, so they don’t overpay for your time and talent. Yet you’re looking for advancement and you don’t want to be limited by previous positions.
Pivoting After a Job Loss
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In today’s workforce, it’s normal to skip around from job-to-job a great deal, either because you quit or are fired — six jobs before people are 30, by one estimate.
Three Ways to Outsmart The Smart Machine Age
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By Ed Hess
We are entering a new era, a so-called Smart Machine Age that will lead to technology and robots outperforming humans in many tasks. This is bad news on the job front, with one estimate that 47 percent of U.S. jobs will be automated over the next 15 years.
A Walk in Her Shoes
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Would your colleagues treat you differently if you were a man? The thought has surely occurred to most of us at one time or another. But an incident reported in The Huffington Post reveals the realities of this fear.
Wanted: Court Reporters
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By Most of us know them from court TV dramas or when we’re summoned to jury duty, watching them in their pivotal but whisper-quiet role meticulously transcribing every word said in court.
Yet there are not enough licensed court reporters to replace those who are expected to retire over the next five years. The National Court Reporters Association predicts more than 5,500 job openings across the country during that time because not enough students are enrolling in schools, such as ours, that teach it.
Court reporting needs are no longer restricted to courtrooms and attorneys’ offices, broadening career opportunities considerably. Much of the credit goes to real-time captioning technology that transforms notes taken on stenotype machines into verbatim transcriptions which can be displayed on individual devices or large display screens as the words are spoken.
Thanks to that technology, court reporters can now be employed to provide closed captioning services for live TV broadcasts ranging from news to sports. Closed captioning is required by law for the deaf and hearing-impaired, so broadcasters need these services.
Court reporters’ real-time captioning skills are also used by schools, at business conventions and meetings, during webcasts, and in some entertainment venues to assist attendees who have challenges such as hearing impairments, processing or learning difficulties, physical limitations, or for whom English is a second language. This again opens up a variety of career paths.
Court reporting careers can also offer lifestyle benefits, including flexible schedules as well as the option to work either on-site or remotely in some cases. Reporters are typically independent contractors who may have the option to work as much or as little as they choose. The median annual court reporter salary is $54,665, according to government statistics, with a range of $39,442 to $71,549.
Peg Sokalski-Dorchack is the director of court reporting at MacCormac College in Chicago.