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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Thinking of Becoming a Spy?
 Last month my family and I visited the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. If you're ever in the DC area, I recommend you go. It was a fun and educational way to spend a few hours. Interesting facts about spying were displayed on panels in the museum 's lobby. The one that jumped out at me, of course, had to do with careers. It stated that prior to September 11, 2001, an average of 110 people per day applied for jobs with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Six days after that terrible day, on September 17, 1,100 people applied to the CIA. That is an incredible increase, but I was just astounded to see the original figure of 110 applicants. It got me thinking about spying careers.
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Asking for a Raise: How to Approach Your Boss
 When I learned that someone I know asked his boss for a raise by explaining that he had a large mortgage on his house and a lot of other bills to pay, I cringed. I can't stress enough how that was absolutely the wrong approach to take. Your mortgage and your bills aren't your boss's concern and you should not bring that up when you are negotiating your salary. It's not about needing or wanting a raise. It's about deserving one because of what you are contributing to your employer's bottom line. You earn your salary, your employer doesn't give it to you. Your salary should be based on what you do for the company and what you bring to the table.
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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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