Week of January 25, 2015 – Gaining Job Skills

 

By Joan Whetzel

 

I’m still working part time while looking for full time employment. I haven’t been wasting my time though. I have been gaining job skills.

My current part time position has taught me to admit patients to the Clinic, update their charts, and perform data entry skills. Yeah, yeah, I worked at a doctor’s office many years ago – before computers were in use everywhere. (I’m dating myself here). Also we did patient admission and charting were done differently back then.

I have also taken some classes on Excel and Power Point. These classes have a number of advantages.

1.      They’re taught in person and are hands on. I got to do what they were teaching right then and there and save it to my thumb drive so I could play around with these new tricks at home.

2.      They are taught at the local public library so they’re close to home.

3.      Since I have a library card, they’re also free.

4.      The best part is that a lot of the jobs I’m looking for require knowledge of Microsoft Office, so now I can claim to have some skills in parts of Office other than Word.

It’s not much but it’s more than I had a year and half ago. So I guess I’m making some kind of progress.