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Business College Mentor Profile: Lee Angel
8/30/2011 11:33 am

Some call her Dr. Doolittle. Others call her the Chicken Whisperer. She’s a wife and a mom. And for a lucky handful of students earning their business degree online, she’s known as "My mentor, Lee Angel."

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Why Teaching is Still a Career Worth Pursuing
8/25/2011 9:58 am

If you’ve been considering a career in teaching, recent cutbacks and economic conditions may have left you wondering about your prospects. WGU recently took a look at the job market for teachers and found that the prospects are as diverse as the educational needs of America’s students.

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Letting the Right Job Find You With Your Online Resume
8/23/2011 9:57 am

In a tough job market, your task just got tougher: How do you make a quick, convincing, and compelling case for yourself as a job candidate? How do you make sure your Google results give a prospective employer a complete picture of your skills and experience? An online resume could be your answer.

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Student-to-Student Advice: Set Specific Goals
8/19/2011 11:15 am

We’ve all heard it said time and again: “Set goals!” But sometimes a lack of goals isn’t the problem; it’s the vagueness of the goal that’s an issue. When an objective is not specific or personal enough to measure and track, it becomes useless. For instance, my goal is to graduate within four years of having enrolled at WGU – a laudable goal; however, there is so much wiggle room in that timeframe, it would be easy to get off track.

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