Application Deadline for Military Spouse Scholarship From Career Step and...
Career Step has teamed up with the Army Wife Network to offer a $2,000 scholarship to military spouses to encourage them to pursue higher education. The application deadline is Friday, April 24....
View ArticleVideo Infographic: Finding the Perfect Military Spouse Career
The first step in going back to school is deciding what your career goals are. After all, it’s especially tricky to know what to go to school for if you don’t know what you want to do afterwards!...
View ArticleTips to Overcoming Career Challenges for Military Spouses
If your spouse is in the military, you are more than familiar with the unique challenges frequent moves place on establishing and maintaining a successful career. You are not alone. According to the...
View ArticleCareer Step and Army Wife Network Announce Winner of 2015 Military Spouse...
The winner of the 2015 military spouse scholarship offered in partnership with Army Wife Network is Megan Malone, the wife of a Navy Seal and a junior at San Diego State University!...
View ArticleFederal Scholarship for Military Spouses – Are You Eligible for MyCAA?
When it comes to paying for education, free money is always welcome, right? There are unique (and even downright weird!) scholarships for everything from tall folks to female jewelry designers to...
View Article2015’s Top Resources for Military Spouses
Being a military spouse has some great perks—including heaps of personal and professional resources. For those of you looking for new support, networking, educational, or job-finding resources, check...
View ArticleMyCAA 101: Approved (and Not Approved) Ways to Use Your Scholarship Funds
In our earlier posts in this series, we’ve shared what MyCAA is, why it exists, and who is eligible to receive those funds. As a military spouse, if you know you have access to $4,000 toward your...
View ArticleMilitary Wives: Exercise Your Right to Have a Rewarding Career
It’s a sad fact that military spouses have higher unemployment and lower wages than non-military spouses. According to the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, 30% of military wives under 25...
View ArticleMyCAA Funding: Your Get Started Guide
It’s said that every journey starts with a single step—well, the journey to your new career can begin with a single click! Military spouses looking to pursue a license, certification, or associate...
View ArticleFacebooking for Referrals: Finding the Perfect Military Spouse Career Video
Eligible military spouses can go to school for free with MyCAA funding. And even though they don’t have to pay for school, you still qualify for a referral bonus if someone you refer ends up enrolling...
View ArticleReality Check: Is Medical Coding Really as Difficult as You Think?
Medical coding and billing careers are in-demand—a 50% shortage is expected nationwide by the end of the year, meaning a great job is waiting for you! So don’t get discouraged if a medical coding...
View ArticleHow Many Military Spouses Use the MyCAA Scholarship?
The Department of Defense sets aside $100 million for spouse employment programs every year—and millions are left unclaimed! If you are a military spouse not taking advantage of the MyCAA military...
View ArticleYour Essentials Checklist for Finding a MyCAA-Approved Certificate Program
So, you’re a military spouse approved for MyCAA financial assistance? Congrats! As you evaluate your MyCAA options, keep certificate programs in mind. Certificate programs are one of the training...
View ArticleThe Soaring Demand for Healthcare Certificate Programs
Ready for some good news? Healthcare occupations are projected to add the most new jobs—5 million—between now and 2022. Even better? Many of these healthcare careers do not require years and years of...
View ArticleTest Taking Strategies
Test taking can be intimidating no matter what. It’s especially pressure-filled when you’re testing for a national certification. We’ve put together a few strategies designed to help you ace your...
View ArticleChoosing a Military Friendly School
When it comes to education and career training for military spouses, things can get tricky. Military families deal with frequent moves, deployments, homecomings, changing schedules and...
View ArticleMyCAA: Grab it while you can!
As a military spouse, you are more than aware of the many hurdles to your academic and professional pursuits, but now you can cross “financial aide” off the list. MyCAA is a generous financial...
View ArticleWhat To Expect When You Marry Military
Marrying a member of the military means signing up for a lifestyle that’s in a world of its own, from a dictionary’s worth of new acronyms to specific protocol and expectations that just don’t exist in...
View ArticleHelp Us Support Military Families!
November just might be our favorite month of the year. This month we’re making your referral efforts go even further by donating $50 for every one of your referral enrollments to the National Military...
View ArticleSteps to Success at Home and at Work as a Military Spouse
Being a stay-at-home spouse is a fulltime job—kids, dinner, laundry, shopping, bills. It can be difficult to balance a career, part-time or full-time, on top of home responsibilities. Many military...
View ArticleCareer Step Matching Referral Enrollments with Donations to the National...
Career Step, an online provider of career-focused education and corporate training, is challenging its nationwide network of referrers to help with the school’s fourth annual donation to the National...
View Article5 Overlooked—and Rewarding!— Healthcare Careers
Healthcare career opportunities are growing faster than opportunities in almost any other industry, and not all of them demand a tolerance for blood and needles. Interested in healthcare but not sure...
View ArticleRemoving Education Roadblocks with MyCAA
Education is often the first step down the path to a satisfying, successful career. However, for military spouses, this journey can be full of roadblocks. The My Career Advancement Account (or MyCAA)...
View Article5 Reasons to Jumpstart a New Career with MyCAA
For many military wives and husbands, the MyCAA financial aid program is a magic potion for jumpstarting a career. Yet despite offering $4,000 for career training for military spouses, the initiative...
View ArticleGiving the Gift of Thanks to Military Members and Their Families
The holidays are here again—and for many military families, that means the heart-wrenching reality of celebrating cherished traditions far away from a loved one on deployment or assignment. In this...
View ArticleMyCAA: The Key for Military Spouses Starting a Career
Many military spouses give up on pursuing a rewarding career because they feel they can’t make it jive with their family’s military lifestyle. Are you a military spouse? Sweep all disparaging thoughts...
View ArticleMyCAA Funding: The Path to a Work-from-Home Career
The dream of a stable career may feel far-fetched, particularly if your family lives a military lifestyle. After all, professional stability and military life don’t exactly go hand in hand… or could...
View ArticleMyCAA: Your Ticket to a Move-Proof Career
Military families relocate 10 times more often than civilian families, often every 2 to 3 years. Moving so much brings extra challenges for military spouses: many feel it isn’t worth investing in...
View ArticleFinding that Perfect Military Friendly School
Finding a career friendly to the military lifestyle is hard enough, so before you jump into a new school or training program, save yourself a little money and a lot of frustration by making sure the...
View ArticleMeet the Career Step Military Advisors
In honor of Military Spouse Appreciation Day, we’re putting a spotlight on our wonderful team of military academic advisors. Our team of military academic advisors works directly with military spouses...
View ArticleTips from an Instructor: Taking an Online Course
Whether you’ve recently graduated from high school or are coming back to school for the first time since Jimmy Carter was president (history lesson: that was the late 70s), it can be daunting to take...
View ArticleCareer Step and National Military Family Association Celebrate Military...
In honor of Military Spouse Appreciation Day today, Career Step, an online provider of career-focused education and corporate training, and the National Military Family Association, a nonprofit that...
View ArticleMyCAA: A Grateful Salute to Military Families
When we talk about the unsung heroes of the military, we often forget about the largest military group: service members’ families. Thankfully the Department of Defense has not forgotten these people...
View ArticleMaking the most out of your first hour at work.
I am a firm believer that your first hour at work can set the tone for the rest of the day. Things that happen in that crucial hour can determine whether you’re going to have a great day or an...
View ArticleMyCAA Success Stories: How Educational Funding Changes Lives
There’s nothing more inspiring than an underdog success story, especially one you can relate to. Here are some encouraging stories of unsung heroes—military spouses—and how they used MyCAA to improve...
View ArticleWhy Career Step is Perfect for Military Spouses (a laptop is just one reason!)
We are very excited to announce that our MyCAA-approved programs now include a laptop for all military spouses who enroll with this funding! This is a big deal because, with the online format of our...
View ArticleMilitary Spouse Scholarships: Get the Low-down On MyCAA
Introduction: Brittany Emerine, Career Step alumnus and military wife, found herself in a common situation that many military spouses face. Six months into their marriage, her husband was called to...
View ArticleTop 3 Ways to Exercise at Work
Often, the first thing that comes to mind when we think of exercising at work is being stinky and sweaty and having to sit like that all day. Career Step does something called Workout Wednesday (WoW!)...
View ArticleManaging Expectations When Dealing with Others
I come from a smallish town in southern Alberta, Canada. I was raised around remarkably polite people who held the door open for each other, small talked in the grocery line, covered the person in...
View ArticleBecome a Keyboard Ninja: Essential Shortcuts
If you’re planning on taking an online education program, it’s important to have some basic computer skills under your belt. One of the most important sets of skills is knowing how to use basic...
View ArticleCircle the Wagons: Help is All Around You
(source:q-files.com) I come from a long line of pioneers who ventured across the USA to settle the wild Wild West. I’ve been fortunate to be able to read journal entries from some of those ancestors...
View ArticleYour Inner Animal
Recently, many of us have seen little online quizzes intended to discover your spirit animal and memes poking fun at such a thing, but have you ever wondered what your inner animal might be as you sit...
View ArticleProcrastination Station: 6 Tips to Stop the Habit and Catch the Train
Procrastination is much like trying to catch a train. We have every intention of leaving early for it but often put it off until we’re running late. As we start to get ready, our mind drifts to the...
View ArticleNot All Work-From-Home Jobs Are a Scam
Work-from-home scams have been in the news a lot lately—and for good reason! Unfortunately, there are many scammers out there looking to take advantage of people who need a job with a flexible...
View ArticleWorkplace Ethics
A professional individual who has ethics is more likely to be successful in their career. Organizations that employ ethical practices and behaviors are more likely to gain public acceptance and...
View Article5 Reasons Studying and Working from Home is Perfect for Military Spouses
Compliments to the military spouse. Though it often goes unsung and unnoticed, your role in supporting your spouse is crucial, and you play an important part in the freedoms we all enjoy. Our hats are...
View ArticleWrite Like a Grown-up! 5 Tips to Professionalize Your Communication
I’ve noticed over the past 10 years of interacting with adult colleagues and adult learners on a daily basis that professional communication has declined pretty rapidly. I blame it on those darn...
View ArticleCareer Step Donates to National Military Family Association for Every...
Career Step, an online provider of career-focused education and professional training, will donate $50 for each student referral that leads to enrollment in one of its career training programs during...
View ArticleCareer Step COO Receives Military-Friendly Employer Award
Career Step, an online provider of career-focused education and professional training, is pleased to announce that its Chief Operating Officer Nate Swanson received the Patriot Award from the Office of...
View ArticleIs Online Training Right For Me?
The conveniences of taking an online class are enticing. The comforts of home versus battling traffic, securing a parking spot, and walking blocks across campus- all while carrying your computer and...
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