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Setting Your 2021 Career Goals

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An Advocate for Herself and Those Around Her

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Putting the User First in User-Experience Design

Writing, Editing and Technical Communication

Fashion-Forward to Copywriter

Lori Gray - May 7, 2019

Specialized Program in Professional Writing graduate Helen Schultheis has a “great love for storytelling, and a knack for educating and entertaining consumers.”

This is not surprising:...

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Adding Project Management Skills to a Business Role

Cheryl Cline - May 3, 2019

Three years ago, Eleanor Portacio Abea decided to steer away from a career track that she no longer found challenging. While she had worn many different hats at Stanford Health Care—including...

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Business
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From Video Game Production to Co-Managing Dreamforce

Cheryl Cline - May 1, 2019

When he began the UC Berkeley Extension Certificate in Project Management, Joshua Lanada was working full time as the Project Coordinator for startup video game company Trion Worlds.

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Behavioral Health Sciences
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The Course of a Counseling Career

Lori Gray - April 26, 2019

Do you visualize your own career opportunities as a beautiful landscape, complete with green meadows and valleys, winding streams and roads? A new adventure around every bend? Mountains in the...

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Business
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Deconstructing the Project Management Process

Sarah Benzuly - April 26, 2019

What is a project? “A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result.”

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Art and Design
UX design professional Macarena Muniz standing in a shaft of light

Making a Résumé Stand Out

Andrew Guest - April 26, 2019

When Macarena Muniz moved to the United States from her native Chile, she thought that her previous job experience might not be weighed accurately when competing for positions with local...

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Construction and Sustainability
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Finding Solutions to the Climate Crisis Through Meaningful Job Creation

Andrew Guest - April 26, 2019

There is a crisis in America’s workforce today as more and more jobs are lost to automation and potential workers are opting out of the labor force. Add in the global climate crisis, and the...

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Business
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Learning Various Functions of the Business World

Raul Acosta - April 19, 2019

I’m an international student from El Salvador who has been studying business.Before coming to UC Berkeley Extension, I finished my bachelor’s degree in business administration at Universidad...

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Business
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Expanding Her Technical Role

Cheryl Cline - April 18, 2019

In the tech world, successful professionals need to know the technical ins and outs of the company’s product, as well as customer-facing marketing skills. For Marketing certificate graduate...

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Business
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Understanding Her Own Personal Finances

Sarah Benzuly - April 10, 2019

For some, online advice and tutorials provide enough information to keep their finances on track. For others—like Sarah Sprague—having a more structured learning environment is preferable.

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Writing, Editing and Technical Communication
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Your Written Masterpiece Is Not Yet Finished

Lori Gray - April 8, 2019

You started a piece of fiction or nonfiction in a recent writing class or workshop, and since that course has ended, so has your writing. What are the next steps to keep your work-in-progress from...

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Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program graduate Jayinee Basu stands in front of a gray wall with sunlight on her shoulder

The Caesura That Led to Medical School

Lori Gray - March 21, 2019

While Jayinee Basu was pursuing her double major in literature/writing and political science—with a minor in studio art—at the University of California, San Diego, the thought of becoming a doctor...

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Art and Design
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Making Art Matters

Andrew Guest - March 21, 2019

Walking into the art room as a sixth grader, Rucha Chattur was enraptured by the colorful scene that met her eyes: the brilliant paint bottles, the scatter of brushes and the bright paintings...

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Technology and Information Management
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Weightlifter Turned Data Analyst

Trilogy Education - March 21, 2019

Athletics and data analytics may seem like two separate worlds. But recent data analytics boot camp grad Ian Wilson combined these two passions into a successful career at workout startup Fitbod...

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6 Takeaways From Our Informational Interviewing Webinar

Cheryl Cline - March 6, 2019

Informational interviews can play a powerful part in your career development. Following best practices can make all the difference in forging mutually beneficial career connections.

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Data Analysis Needed in a Slew of Careers

Andrew Guest - March 4, 2019

A 2018 survey from labor-market data firm Burning Glass revealed more than 150,000 nationwide listings included data analysis in the job title; more than 27,000 of those jobs were located in...

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Art and Design
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Conquering a Career Change

Andrew Guest - February 27, 2019

Career change is never easy. It takes education and training, work, a belief in self and—sometimes—just a spark of confidence.

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Invest In Yourself

Sarah Benzuly - February 26, 2019

Taking a single course or a full certificate is a worthwhile investment in your career that many companies will sponsor in order to retain great talent. In so doing, many organizations offer...

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Business
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From Political Science to Marketing Manager

Cheryl Cline - February 20, 2019

Now a senior product marketing manager at Granular, Sophia Fox once thought she’d build her career on political science and international relations—subjects she’d studied since middle school....

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Behavioral Health Sciences
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‘Digital Defynd’ Ranks Our Online Health Informatics Program #4 for 2019

Lori Gray - February 15, 2019

With a projected job-growth rate of 13 percent through 2026, it is no wonder that Medical Records and Health Information Technicians are experiencing a boom in educational offerings and...

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