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Getting A Criminal Justice Degree

October 3, 2010 / Staff

A criminal justice degree is great for anyone who wants to work to keep people safe. After graduation you will become a part of a huge community of others who are also dedicated to serving and protecting the public. One of the best ways to get your degree is to go to school online.

Getting Your Degree Online

There are a lot of online schools available to choose from once you graduate from high school or get your GED. In these programs you will learn how to identify and explain criminal behavior patterns and analyze how society controls both the criminal and the crime. Of course, how to put an end to crime is also examined. Included herein are the studies of sociology, philosophy, law, psychology, public administration, urban studies and forensic science.

The jobs you can Choose From

Once you graduate with your associate’s degree you may want to work as a crime scene technician. This is a really popular job because it has been showcased on a lot of television shows today. As a crime scene technician you will be working to solve puzzles from the clues that are left behind at crime scenes (i.e. physical evidence). To do this job you must be really objective and organized. You will also need to have strong computer skills.

What to Expect in the Future

There will be plenty of jobs within this field well into the future. However, your salary will vary depending upon the line of work you do. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics there will be an 11 percent increase in the need for police jobs to be filled and a 16 percent increase in the need for correctional officers’ jobs to be filled in the near future. So, clearly, jobs are not scarce in this field.

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Making Online Education Work for You

October 2, 2010 / Staff

Online education establishments are now bigger and better than ever. Not only are they the perfect solution for people who cannot attend college for any reason, but they are now equally respectable as offline education. Establishments such as www.onlineeducation.com offer a range of courses to suit every potential learner, and even offer financial aid and scholarships. They also provide a range of resources and a support network to ensure you get the best from your online education.

Order text books in advance. If you plan on borrowing them from a library, check how long you can have them for, and what their availability is like. Books online often sell out fast, so keep your eye out for good prices and ensure you have all the recommended reading. Not only does this ensure you get a balanced view on each topic, but it also gives you more material to reference in assignments.

Set up a work area. Having a desk and chair purely for work is a great idea, if it’s possible. Store your textbooks nearby, and have a notepad and pen for note making. Make sure any other equipment you may need is to hand, too. Keep your mobile and TV away, to try and minimize distractions.

Schedule your study time. Work out how much time you need to spend each week, and divide this into days. Look at where you have free time, and are least likely to be distracted. Then schedule in blocks of study time, remembering to allow yourself to have breaks. This is good for stopping procrastination, as you know you only have to study for a certain amount of time. Www.onlineeducation.com gives you information on how many study hours each course needs, and what you should be reading during this time. There is also support available to help, including advising on self-study.

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Are Online Colleges the Latest Smart Trend?

September 9, 2010 / Staff

What is the latest trend in education? The answer is simple: online colleges.

Online universities and colleges have been spreading quickly and have made their presence felt across the globe. As universities like the University of Phoenix have made this trend popular, an online education has a lot to offer.

The flexibility is one of the biggest advantages. Students can now concentrate on a degree in their own home, studying and doing schoolwork whenever they like. This means that individuals can now keep their family, social schedule, work commitments and be able to pursue their educational goals.

Online colleges are also a great way to go to school in locations where few respectable choices are present. If you live in one of these areas and don’t want to move, an online college can be the perfect middle ground.

How will this trend fare in the coming years? Well, all signs are pointing to an increased presence for online colleges and universities. As expected, individuals are excited to go to school online and to not have to rearrange their life to pursue their degree and start or advance their career.

Another sign of the increased presence of online education is traditional institutions. Previously, traditional colleges and universities may have only offered a few online classes for students. However, now it is more common for traditional schools to offer degrees that can be studied on the internet. Many of these schools have launched degrees that are based completely online, along with distinct parts of the school that is devoted to online-based studies.

As it is increasingly common, perhaps this is the latest smart trend for many in education. If a student is able to handle the atmosphere, an online education represents a considerable choice for tech-savvy students.

In education, certainly online schools and universities represent a development smart trend.

That said, please do your research. Look into the graduation rates for the schools. You don’t want to end up with tons of student loans but no degree!

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Hiring in the technology sector remains sluggish

September 7, 2010 / Staff

The news isn’t very good on the job front, and even the tech sector is struggling to add jobs.

Government labor reports released this year, including the most recent one, present a tableau of shrinking opportunities in high-skill fields.
Job growth in fields like computer systems design and Internet publishing has been slow in the last year. Employment in areas like data processing and software publishing has actually fallen. Additionally, computer scientists, systems analysts and computer programmers all had unemployment rates of around 6 percent in the second quarter of this year.
While that might sound like a blessing compared with the rampant joblessness in manufacturing, it is still significantly higher than the unemployment rates in other white-collar professions.
The chief hurdles to more robust technology hiring appear to be increasing automation and the addition of highly skilled labor overseas. The result is a mismatch of skill levels here at home: not enough workers with the cutting-edge skills coveted by tech firms, and too many people with abilities that can be duplicated offshore at lower cost.
That’s a familiar situation to many out-of-work software engineers, whose skills start depreciating almost as soon as they are laid off, given the dynamism of the industry.

Technology firms are sitting on a mountain of cash, so hopefully this will be temporary. President Obama is now proposing huge tax breaks for investments in equipment, along with making the research tax credit permanent. If the GOP can put aside politics and pass these proposals that they have supported in the past, perhaps we can jump start this sector and other sectors.

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HP sues regarding Mark Hurd’s new position at Oracle

September 7, 2010 / Staff

There’s an interesting battle brewing between HP and Oracle regarding Mark Hurd, who was recently hired by Oracle after he was recently ousted as CEO by HP’s board following an expense and sexual harassment scandal. Now, HP is suing Hurd regarding Hurd’s new position at Oracle.

Hewlett-Packard Co. is suing Mark Hurd, the chief executive it ousted last month, to stop him from taking a top job at rival Oracle Corp.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in a California state court, came a day after Oracle hired Hurd as co-president to help lead the database software maker’s efforts to lure business away from HP. HP claims that Hurd won’t be able to perform his job at Oracle without spilling HP’s trade secrets and violating a confidentiality agreement.
This type of complaint isn’t unusual in the technology world, nor is the confidentiality agreement that Hurd had signed as part of a severance package from HP that could top $40 million.
Technology companies often require such agreements because workers walk out the door with valuable technical information.
But the stakes are higher with Hurd than a rank-and-file employee, and the lawsuit may delay when Hurd could start his new job.

HP may have a valid claim, but you have to wonder why they wouldn’t have an even more explicit non-competition agreement. It sounds like they might have a case surrounding trade secrets and confidentiality, but for $40 million you would think they would have something more concrete.

This should be a lesson to any company who provides VERY lucrative severance packages – get something in return!

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