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Continuing Education

Preparing for graduate school starts earlier than you may realize. Giving yourself time to think through and apply yourself to the research and application process is crucial to having the graduate school experience work for you.

First, you must ask yourself if additional schooling will be beneficial to your career and/or self-interests. If you decide that graduate school fits into your goals you will need to research different schools and programs, prepare and take admission tests, organize your graduate school applications and, if necessary, write your academic resume.

28 Resources found for
Category: Continuing Education

Related: Graduate School | Professional Development

1. Admission Essays
   Continuing Education - Insight on how to write and complete a personal statement/essay, as well as examples to look at.
   www.west.net/~stewart/pse.htm
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2. Advancing Women
   This a job search site specifiacally for women.
   www.advancingwomen.com/awcareer.html
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3. Applying to Graduate School: Preparing a Personal Statement
   Continuing Education, A one-page basic guide on writing and preparing your personal statement.
   www.psychwww.com/careers/perstmt.htm
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4. Association of American Medical Colleges
   AAMC's exclusive niche community includes hundreds of accredited medical schools, teaching hospitals, and medical centers throughout the United States and Canada, as well as thousands of individuals within our academic and scientific societies and profess
   www.aamc.org
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5. Career Magazine
   Has information on job searching, posting your resume, career resources and advice, articles, and continuing education.
   www.careermag.com
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6. CEO Express
   CEOExpressSelect is a unique mix of online and offline services shaped exclusively around the needs of the time-starved senior executive. It offers users more functionality, time-saving executive services, special business content, executive forums, and a
   www.ceoexpress.com
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7. Employment Guide.com
   This is a job posting and job fair site. Provides search engines for jobs and continuing education programs as well.
   www.employmentguide.com
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8. gradschools.com
   GradSchools.com is the leading online resource for graduate school. You can use this site to find your ideal program by searching by subject, location and even school.
   www.gradschools.com
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9. Graduate Management Admissions Council
   We are here to serve you and the overall graduate management education community. We offer numerous opportunities for you and your program to become more involved with the Council's initiatives and activities.
   www.gmac.com
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10. Tip Sheets from the UST Career Development Center
    We've created easy to use tip sheets on a variety of topics for you to download and use during your career development process.
    www.stthomas.edu/careerdevelopment/tipsheets
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    • Graduate School Resume
11. Guide to Medical School Admissions
    Continuing Education - This web site was created with the sole goal of helping aspiring doctors (aka Pre-Meds) to learn about the process of medical school admissions
    www.bestpremed.com
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12. Interpersonal Mastery
    Interpersonal Mastery provides training such as online computer software and management trainging.
    www.interpersonal-skills.com
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13. Is Graduate School for Me?
    This link provides questions to consider while contemplating whether a continued education is right for you.
    www.stthomas.edu/ careerdevelopment/ online/ is-grad-for-me.html
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14. ISEEK - Minnesota Job and Career Information
    ISEEK supplies specific career information for Minnesota including assessments, job seeker services, Minnesota schools for continuing education, and employment statistics.
    www.iseek.org/
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15. Job Hunters Bible
    Job Hunter's Bible offers job postings, online resumes, job-hunting advice and counseling, information on occupational and company research, and career networking.
    www.jobhuntersbible.com
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16. Kaplan Test
    Continuing Education - Provides classes for college entrance exam preparation as well as graduate program testing prep. Includes ACT, SAT, LSAT, MCAT, GRE and more.
    www.kaptest.com
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17. Law School Admission Council
    Search for law schools that meet your needs using keywords, location, and your UGPA/LSAT combination. Customize detailed searches using essential, up-to-date data and program information provided by the law schools to the ABA and LSAC for the ABA-LSAC Off
    www.lsat.org
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18. Lee Hecht Harrison's Compass
    Lee Hecht Harrison's Compass provides companies with innovated internal solutions to help them become the company of choice over competitors.
    www.lhh.com
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19. Minnesota Virtual University
    Continuing Education - Minnesota's comprehensive career, education, and job resource. You can explore careers, find a job, or plan your education.
    www.mnvu.org
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20. Peterson's Guide
    Planning for private school, college, grad school, continuing education or a vocational program. Search and save your list of schools. Find the financial aid you need to pay for your education. Learn everything you need to know about admission tests.
    www.petersons.com/graduate
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21. Premed Student's Guide
    Continuing Education - How to use the medical school search tool: Use this tool to see how competitive your MCAT scores and GPA are at different medical schools
    www.premedguide.com
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22. Spotlight On Careers
    Spotlight provides resources to liberal arts majors so that they may research many career fields such as education, science, social services, business, arts, and much more!
    www.stthomas.edu/ careerdevelopment/ spotlightoncareers
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23. The Princeton Review - Online Career Snapshots
    Job Search/Continuing Education. Help with how to get into graduate and specific professional schools. Info on testing such as the LSAT, MCAT, GRE and more.
    www.princetonreview.com
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24. Tips for Writing Your Health Profession/Graduate School Personal Statements
    Continuing Education - Each application service has room for a personal statement, and each has its own instructions. The following are excerpts from the application instructions for various programs
    www.advising.ufl.edu/ prehealth/ handouts/ prssttmn.html
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25. University of St. Thomas Graduate Studies
    Information on graduate programs at the University of St. Thomas.
    www.stthomas.edu/graduate
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26. University of St. Thomas Testing Services
    Testing Services is a resource for people interested in: Admission tests for graduate programs Personality, psychological or career assessments Exams administered under non-standard conditions Correspondence exams
    www.stthomas.edu/pc/testing
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27. US News Online - Colleges and Career Centers
    Rankings and evaluations of the nation's top colleges, universities, and graduate programs.
    www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/eduhome.htm
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28. Writing Your Statement of Purpose
    Crafting a compelling essay that articulately presents you at your best can be overwhelming. Our experienced staff of professional writers, educators, and admissions professionals can guide you.
    www.accepted.com/grad/persnl_stmt.htm
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