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Five Steps to Boost Your Salary
By Vicki Salemi
Step 1: Ask for a raise.
Do your homework by asking your company's human resource compensation department for salary ranges within your position. Of course, you can't just take their word on it. Check external sources as well, such as www.salary.com. Sharon Winston, senior vice president and managing director of the San Jose office of Lee Hecht Harrison global career services firm, notes you should be prepared for the talk with your boss.
"Identify three of your strongest accomplishments within the organization or areas in which you took on extra responsibility," she says. "If you are still turned down, ask how you might improve in asking for a raise in the future."
Step 2: Pursue an online degree or certificate.
According to Frank Mayadas, program director of the Sloan Consortium, comprised of institutions and organizations committed to quality online education, higher education gives you the opportunity to fine-tune your skills or explore different professional paths, making you more for higher paychecks in the future. "Furthering education helps people further their careers," he says. The advantage of online degree opportunities?
"You don't have to be in a traditional classroom setting. With time and geographic constraints of juggling work and family, you can receive a quality education on your own terms."
Step 3: Take advantage of.................
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 Nursetown Announces Career and Education Center
By Conrad Lopez
Nursetown.com is excited to announce a new section our web site dedicated to education. There is information on upgrading your license from LVN to RNs or getting your BSN online from accredited universities. We think this is perfect for the traveling nurse.
It is broken into two sections. There is the Online Resource Center which gives a listing and description of tons of schools with a variety of online training and degree programs. There are links on most of them so that you can obtain free information about their programs.
Then there is the Online Learning Center which features many articles and career links.
We hope you enjoy it and feel free to ask for as much free information as you like. Article continues...  Questions on Travel Nursing
By Conoway Gothard
A new blog has been launched to help travel nurses and prospective traveling nurse get information. Conrad Lopez, the founder of Nursetown and TravelnursingUSA and a nationally regarded exert on travel nursing now writes an online blog called Ask Conrad.
The blog is designed to interact with the nursing community.
"I get a lot of emails asking me questions about travel nursing," Lopez told us. "For years I have just been answering them personally. It ocurred to me that if one person was asking the question a lot more people out there probably had the same question. We decided to put up an interactive Q&A on the TravelnursingUSA site and the logical extension of that was to create the blog so we could accumulate all of the questions in one place. It also gives nurses and recruiters alike an opportunity to make comments and expand on the issue....... Article continues...  ER Nurse Enjoys Variety of Assignments
By Susan Schneider
Coquet Williams has the soft, calm voice of someone who is content and happy with her life’s choices.
After listening to her stories, you might ask, "What’s not to like?"
Williams, an emergency room nurse, and her husband, Jerry, are self-described "gypsies at heart" who are enjoying traveling to places they would never have experienced if she hadn’t decided to try travel nursing after their children left the nest.
"Jerry was in the military when we first got married," Williams explained. "So there was a lot of international travel in the early years. But after he retired from the military, he worked in the high-tech industry for 19 years and we stayed pretty much in one place for a long time."
"After he retired the second time, he was ready to get out and ............. Article continues...
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