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(Credit: Thinkstock) Registered nurse Colleen Cunningham was at a crossroads. Though the 46-year-old had been a nurse for two decades, liked her colleagues and had a good reputation, she felt that she’d exhausted the role. “I really just wanted to expand my scope,” she said. The answer? Another degree. A lot of larger companies will assist you financially if the field of study is relevant to your job and employer. — Brett Evans But the Albany, NY, resident didn’t quit her job. She enrolled in a full-time programme to become a nurse practitioner, which would qualify her to prescribe medication and [...]

BBC Capital 30th March 2015 The secrets to staying employed   When a client calls career consultant Al Stewart looking for some help on finding a secure career, the founder of Business Mentors finds himself laughing a little. “The days of working your entire career at IBM and getting a Rolex at the end are long gone,” said Stewart, in an email. “No career is safe from constant change, re-engineering, global competition, technological obsolescence.” Now more than ever, it is hard to find careers that can be counted on for the long haul. There is a solution, however. Instead of focusing [...]

Now that they think they finally understand millennials, some employers and consultants are already trying to size up the next generation of workers. They’re analysing the teenagers and children born since 2000 to predict how they may resemble or differ from millennials. At this point, the consensus is that the millennials’ successors will be even more addicted to technology and struggle more to focus on work. But because they’ve grown up amid terrorism and a dire global recession, these children and teenagers are expected to be more cautious and more sceptical than millennials, as well as to have more realistic expectations [...]

BBC Capital 26th February 2015 Can you learn even complex languages quickly? (Getty Images) These people will fix your life Picture this: You want to apply for a dream assignment abroad. There’s just one problem. You need foreign language skills that you don't have – and time is not on your side. It might sound like an impossible task, but according to language experts, you can learn basic communication skills in weeks and master the basics of a foreign language in several months. While you might not quickly reach the fluency that allows you to understand great foreign literature classics, you [...]

BBC News 17 August 2014 A good dog walker can earn $96,000. (Thinkstock) Growing up, your parents may have encouraged you to become a doctor or lawyer, careers that elicited prestige and, quite often, were equated with very high pay. But it turns out that your childhood dreams of becoming a carpenter or a crane operator may have served you equally well—or better—financially. We turned to question-and-answer-site Quora for a look at the jobs most people assume don’t make a lot of money but, in reality, pay very well. No experience? No problem Here’s what respondents in-the-know had to say about the [...]

BBC News, Capital, 8 June 2014 There's nothing worse than a horrible boss. (Warner Bros.) Most of us, at some point in our careers, have experienced a bad boss. These terrors demoralise employees, walk around with an ego the size of Russia and make colleagues cringe as soon as they in the room or bellow down the hall. Yet are these bosses truly ineffective managers? Perhaps the “bad boss” syndrome is merely a personality clash between the head of a team and the employee. We turned to question-and-answer-site Quora for some advice onwhether bad bosses exist.  Here’s what some respondents had [...]

One member of the team told Sky News the flooding is far worse than anything he saw this winter in Somerset or the Thames Valley. Sky News 20 May 2014 See the video By Tom Parmenter, Sky News Correspondent in Bijeljina, Bosnia British firefighters are providing a "lifeline" for flood survivors in the Balkans' worst natural disaster in living memory. A team of 33 men and women from all over the UK have been working around the clock near the devastated communities close to the Bosnian city of Bijeljina. The crews have been helping in small rural villages and have pulled [...]

Stephen Sutton, the teenager with terminal cancer, has raised just under £2.5m for the Teenage Cancer Trust. This is his YouTube video. Cancer Fundraiser Stephen Sutton Leaves Hospital The 19-year-old who has raised more than £3m for charity is allowed home after a "dramatic improvement" in his condition. 03 May 2014 SKY NEWS Stephen was discharged soon after this picture with David Cameron was taken   Stephen Sutton, 19, posted on his Facebook page that he had been allowed to leave hospital after a "remarkable recovery". He wrote: "I then also have some more great news... I've been discharged from hospital! [...]

BBC Culture 22 April 2014 Sigmund Freud in 1920 (Corbis) Psychoanalytic theory has changed a lot in the 75 years since his death, but literature still feels the strong influence of Freud's ideas, argues Jane Ciabattari. ‘It will never be the same again’ Freudian slips. The Oedipus complex. The ego. The id. The superego. Sigmund Freud’s writings changed how we perceive human behaviour. The founder of psychoanalysis pioneered insights into perhaps the original unreliable narrator – the self – and opened the pathway toward increasingly complex literary characters with motives beyond the obvious. “Every dream will reveal itself as a psychological [...]

A huge rescue operation is underway after a ferry carrying hundreds of children sinks off the coast of South Korea. Wednesday 16 April 2014, Sky News  Part of South Korean passenger ship "Sewol" that has been sinking is seen as South Korean maritime policemen search for passengers in the sea off Jindo. More than 100 people remained missing after a South Korean ferry with 477 people aboard capsized off the country's southwest coast, Yonhap news agency said. Almost 300 people are missing after a ferry sank off the coast of South Korea. Two people have been confirmed dead so far - a [...]