Entry Level Jobs
 

Two heads are beter than one. SO I've been thinking and thinking about what some good entry level jobs that require a small amount of training are.

There are so many options when one is training for something outside their normal realm. I am looking for something quick and easy just because I am not allowed to finish my BA while on Unemployment


What has been crossing my mind so far....

Medical Coding/ Transcription - Is there really a demand for this kind of thing? There seem to be many scam websites or at least caution is recommended when looking into this kind of thing.

Library Media endorsement - I LOVE working in libraries but there are only part time jobs available most of the time plus I would be the same position having the time off in the summer and as a single person this isn't a good thing.

Production/file/data entry clerks - I can usually pass the state application test yet my office experience is around six months with sketchy on and off times spent in libraries.

I am leaning toward employment with another state agency if I go with the business office classes because the department can compel employers to give preferential treatment to dislocated workers. This means an interview. There isn't anything compelling them to hire if you don't have the skill. Of all the college classes I could possibly take in business which one, two or three will give me the skills employers are looking for???
I thought maybe Shawnee would know THE best business class to take.

Thanks in advance.

Well, I shy away from any kind of academic advising: I don't really know what would be best.

I would caution you to first look at area community colleges. Make sure the school is accredited (there are schools, particularly proprietary, from which you can't transfer credits. This is fine except one day you might want to build on those classes and find the school you are applying to won't accept the credits. Just be absolutely sure what you want the outcome to be.)

I would also watch searching online. There ARE scams and you have to be very careful. Start with your local community college, is my best advice.

Sorry I can't help more.

No problem

I would be doing dual enrollment but I am limited. I am looking at the Community College. I would like to work a short assignment and take classes, so online seems best for me...besides a keyboarding class and some other kind of office softeware class can be done from here. I am just not knowing which are more useful in the workplace.

thanks though! I really appreciate it.

I didn't mean to caution against taking classes online, I meant that a search might return some suspect sources from which to take classes.

Some people are great at online classes. I found, for me, it's too easy to procrastinate.

Good luck! :)

There may be some jobs out there for this but mostly they are not for first timers. If you can get a job as a new coder and learn the job, I mean really learn it well, you can make a meger living doing it. A really good coder is hard to find but not hard to keep. It is one of those jobs that can take a few years to learn really well.

Low training requirements? Hooker.

Good hookers are hard to find, but easy to keep.

Thanks Merc.

I don't see very many of the coder jobs out there. I have only months to gleen a little more information than I already have.

I know what I don't know so I was leaning toward business software. I think even in case management one would need to have a few of those skills.

Yes the coder/transcriptionist jobs do seem attractive though and I agree a person would have to be at the top of that game to make it.

Receptionist or runner at a professional office.

I tell you one of the best things I ever did was get into legal staffing. Lawyers always need staff, even in down times, and the working conditions, salary, and benefits are superior in today's work climate (unless you get an a-hole attorney, which you have to watch out for).

I wouldn't mind being a runner. I am an assistant at heart.

lol@ A-hole attorneys. We should make them wear a letter A on their lapels so we can know at first glance.;)

Isn't 'a-hole attorney' redundant? :rolleyes:

Sorry, but no. I've met many wonderful, caring attorneys in my career.

There are bad ones though, but you learn very quickly to avoid those, if at all possible.

Oh I was kidding. I have too.

Joke, sheesh.

hey sky, you could be a putpocket:

http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php...225#post589225

I know you were kidding. But it kinda makes me sad sometimes. Many, many of the attorneys I have met and worked with in my career are great people, worthy of respect (and I wouldn't work for anyone who couldn't earn my respect). Helping people in trouble is what lawyers do, and I fight against the public perception of attorneys as sharks whenever I can.

It's a joke as old as the hills. My ex sis-in-law, who I am still close enough to that she gets mad when I call her "ex" is an attorney who tells me a lot of the jokes herself.

I also know some great lawyers from around my town.

Anyway, I meant no disrespect, and I agree with you. :)

You know us financial aid administrators. We're all batshit crazy! ;)

oh I didn't see this

I don't think I fall under your job experience description.

Naw, I didn't think so either. ;)

It was just a way for me to attention-ho some more attention to my job ad. :lol:

Well I don't know what your situation is but how about this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgical_technologist

Takes about a year of school at some kind of a vo-tech.

wow interesting

I am allowed to do a short term training program such as this but I thought RNs and med students did that kind of thing?

Unfortunately I can not stand the sight of blood. I would probably hurl and or pass out. I can't stand needles either otherwise the health care field would be a great place.:)

I know a girl who got her LPN at the joint vocational school. Then when she decided to get her RN she basically had to start over: credits didn't transfer.

yep one has to be careful about that kind of thing.

ok I still want to pick your brain and Cloud's too. No advising required.

If I asked you what was the one class YOU took that was most valuable what would you say? Keybording?
well of course everyone needs that. Acess, Excell? You probably don't use any of those programs.

I saw it. It was funny.

When I was in HS, we had a thing called "TYPING" on what were called "MANUAL TYPEWRITERS." LOL. I never used it until computers came around, but it has come in handy now as I don't even glance at the keyboard most of the time.

Any Office class. I am the Queen of Excel: I learned Excel just out of necessity, but if you can use formulas in a spreadsheet you can save hours of time: it's a very good skill to have. Definitely something in formatting in Word and processing in Excel.

I took a couple paralegal courses but found I wasn't motivated enough for a career change at the time. That turned out good for me, but I'm sure Cloud can tell you what skills she uses.

yeah, MS Office applications. I'm an Excel moron, though, and as for access--I've tried to teach it to myself, without success, since I'm a verbal person. I use Word the most.

You do not need paralegal classes to work in a law office as a receptionist, clerk, runner, or legal secretary. You need basic office skills to act as a legal secretary; MS Office, organizational skills, filing, and some poise and polish is good too. For a legal secretary position, you need a typing speed of at least 75-80 wpm, though, and excellent verbal and word processing skills.

thank you thank you thank you

exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for

...Where they teach you to smoke pot for a living...;)

:rolleyes: Is there any money in that?

There is money to be made off of those who smoke it.

yup 7-11 always needs employees on the graveyard shift

I don't cotton to being robbed. (had to say it )

I would work in one of those little coffee shacks but I haven't figured out how to quit when I get bored and I would get bored. They don't usually want temp employees.

I think in those little coffee shacks it is presumed that all employees are temps.

At 277. a week in Unemployment I might have to.

I'll have to pay off my car in Feb and hopefully by then I'll have a full time job.