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Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN num: 9780595658022
ISBN number: 0595658024
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Page Count: 200
Printing Date: July 02, 2003
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Begin a Work-at-Home Career with the Training and Education You Need!
Train at Home to Work at Home
This unique guide provides comprehensive resources on more than 200 distance-learning programs that can teach you 27 of the most popular and profitable work-at-home careers.
Distance-learning programs have exploded in the last few years—-courses are now available online, via e-mail, via teleclass, through the mail, on audiotape, on videotape, and even on CD-ROM.
You can learn: - graphic design at UCLA
- professional writing at Washington State University
- life coaching at CoachU
- Web site design at Penn State
- financial planning at University of Alabama
- interior design at the Art Institute International
- medical transcription at the Health Professions Institute
and many more. Plus, extensive resource lists (organizations, books, and Web sites) complete each section. Full contact information, tuition rates, and course descriptions make comparisons and contrasts a breeze.
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I was interested in an online paralegal study program. This book presented various options, and I ended up at the Washington Online Learning Institute, (WOLI) based on this book's recommendations. It was the best professional decision I ever made. A great school, even better than the author described, possibly because it had grown and developed after the time that the author wrote her book. So, if you can find a book that can really help you with your career, you should buy it! Due to the guidance from this book and my certificate from WOLI, I now am a certified paralegal and happily employed in a corporate law department. I don't know if I would have ended up at WOLI without this book, so I am very grateful to the author for pointing the way and showing that online learning is a very real choice in today's world. I do think, however, that it would have been helpful to distinguish a bit more between fully developed programs such as the one at WOLI with lesser quality study programs at other schools, because this is a real issue that kept coming up as I searched for the right school. Some schools, for instance, are just old fashioned correspondence schools which send you materials and expect you to learn on your own. Other schools, the best ones, provide dynamic online interactive learning environments. That is what I loved about WOLI, but not all schools offer such a rich environment. I think the author could have stressed this a little more and saved her readers some time, but overall this is a very useful book.
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Train At Home To Work At Home: How To Get Certified, Earn A Degree, Or Take A Class From Home To begin A Work-At-Home Career by Michelle McGarry is a good book.
I might argue that the main reason that most folks want to work at home is to earn money. Money that they may not have intially to take the courses that she suggest.
It might be better to use an online resource like pennyperclick.com to earn the money for the classes first.
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In "Train at Home to Work at Home" author Michelle McGarry lists 27 occupations that can be done working out of your home. Each occupation is very first described in order to give you some sense of what the occupation entails. After the description is a section with an extensive list of programs that offer distance training. Within that section the programs are described, complete contact information provided, and the details of the program are given (including costs). This section is followed by one that provides more information including suggested books, organizations, and web sites.
This book provides information on different work-at-home occupations. It does not provide information on how to perform those occupations nor does it pretend to provide any training. It is a resource book that points the reader to some of the better work-at-home ideas and how to get the training you will need in order to be successful at the venture.
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Train At Home To Work At Home: How To Get Certified, Earn A Degree, Or Take A Class From Home To begin A Work-At-Home Career by Michelle McGarry is an invaluable and "user friendly" guide to readying oneself for home-based employment. Individual chapters directly address how to become job certified, earn a college degree, take specific job-oriented classes from home, and offers a wealth of practical advice for pursuing a number of home-based careers such as childbirth educator, financial planner, graphic designer, information broker, paralegal service, web site designer/webmaster, wedding planner, and more. A superb overview and resource for anyone with responsibilities that keep them at home yet seek a productive earning career, Train At Home To Work At Home is a unique and highly recommended addition to personal, professional, and community library Jobs/Careers reference and resource collection collections.
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If you are looking to save a great deal of time and effort researching educational institutions and organizations offering distance learning programs and courses pertaining to twenty seven different work-at-home enterprises, Michelle McGarry's insider's guide book, Train at Home To Work At Home: How to Get Certified, Earn a Degree, or Take a Class From Home to Begin a Work-at-Home Career, will prove to be a godsend.
However, it should be noted, this is not a how-to but rather a where-to-look book.
McGarry's main focus is to provide information about training and education for home careers.
As for the pros and cons of home businesses, and the how-to in setting them up, the author refers her readers to her section entitled "Michelle's Bookshelf and Bookmarks."
The arrangement of the listing of occupations and businesses are in alphabetical order, covering such occupations as: bed and breakfast owners, bookkeeping services, catering services, childbirth educators, child day care providers, desktop publishers, editorial services, graphic designers, financial planners, home inspectors, image consultants, indexers, information brokers, medical billing and coding, and many more.
Learning institutions offering programs pertaining to the various careers are listed with their addresses, phone numbers, web sites and email addresses.
This is followed by an indication of the courses offered, the types of certifications or degrees attainable, costs, number of credits required for completion, if there is email support, what learning materials are included, information concerning exams, delivery methods, and other pertinent data.
For example, if you were interested in becoming a paralegal, we are informed that the University of California, Los Angles, is one institution that you may want to consider.
This university offers two certificates with different concentrations: an Attorney Assistant, Litigation Option certificate and an Attorney Assistant, Corporate Option certificate. The cost of the program is $3, 750.00. On the other hand, you may wish to follow the program offered by Ashworth College in Norcross, Georgia, which approaches the course in a different manner.
One caveat, as the author mentions, "verify that what you're learning is satisfactory to the industry standards. Check with national associations if this program will satisfy their certification requirements. Ask industry leaders if you need a Bachelour degree, or if a certificate will suffice. Do you need in-office experience in this field before breaking out on your own?"
At the end of each career segment the author provides references to various books as well as E-books, organizations, and web sites, where the reader may further his or her knowledge concerning a particular occupation.
One of the drawbacks of books of this nature is that some of the information provided becomes quickly obsolete.
In order to deal with this problem, the author offers a free e-mail newsletter that will update readers on new programs, old programs no longer available, new tuition rates, new phone numbers and other pertinent information.
Replete with a great deal of information reflecting the author's many hours of meticulous research, this book will prove to be invaluable to anyone contemplating working from home, or wishing to improve their skills.
As an added bonus, the author provides an eleven- page bibliography, as well as a listing of recommended web sites. ...
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