3 Online Degrees to Advance Your Career

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Each year the workforce welcomes thousands of new college graduates to its ranks. Unfortunately, a large percentage of those graduates discover that their undergraduate degree isn’t enough to take them everywhere they were promised.

Quite a few of the recent graduates and experienced workers earned degrees in areas that more than likely will not help them move their career up the ladder. One option to fix this is to continue to grad school, and get a degree that is even more applicable to your chosen field. If you think that’s out of the question due to time constraints, consider pursuing and online degree to advance your career.

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Career Advancement

It is important to note that just about every worker will hit a roadblock in their career. They reach a point that limits further advancement in their career. Generally, this is because their company or corporation prefers to advance or promote employees with advanced degrees. Many hardworking individuals miss out on promotional opportunities because they lack the necessary advanced knowledge or skills required for that advancement. Online education provides the opportunity to pursue an advanced degree that furthers their career by opening them up to those promotions. Remember to pursue a degree that is in the highest demand in your field.

High Demand Degrees to Advance Your Career

Business degrees in several areas are in exceptionally high demand. Try to focus on those areas. Pursuing an advanced degree is a wonderful investment in future success. The top degrees to pursue include the following:

• Business Management - A business management degree offers the graduate a specialization in motivating, managing, and recruiting employees. If you’re interested in taking a leadership position in your company, this would be a good degree to get. Even if you’re unsure about managing employees, most companies would love to advance someone with this type of specialization.
• Marketing - An online advanced marketing degree provides advanced training in marketing analysis, research, strategy, and marketing techniques important to almost any organization. Those with advanced degrees are highly likely to be promoted to marketing managers within the company.
• Accounting -An accounting degree provides advanced knowledge in auditing, to managing a corporation's financial records. Those with degrees will be contenders for managerial positions within the organization like accounting managers, auditing supervisors, or financial analysts.

It should be noted that many traditional universities have an online presence, which makes it easier for people to pursue a college education or earn an advanced degree online. If you need feel you’ve hit a wall in your career, perhaps furthering your education is the right course for you.

By  Claire Stewart	Embed
Claire Stewart is a freelance writer and blogger focused on writing about health, travel, and business among other topics. She graduated from Washington State University with a Bachelors in Women’s Studies and currently lives in Seattle with her goldfish, Merlin.