PTC Veterinary Assistant Pathway: Why the Dumb Friends League is Your Friend

If you’re participating in Pickens Technical College’s Veterinary Assistant program, it’s probably because you love animals and you want to help them professionally. Working as a veterinary assistant is a great way to find a job working with animals much faster while spending much less money than by going right to veterinary school. You can gain experience and build relationships in the veterinary community before you make the leap to full-fledged veterinarian if you choose. If you stay a veterinary assistant for the long haul, you’ve still chosen a rewarding, useful, and lucrative career working with animals.

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PTC Executive Internship Pathway: Top Communications Skills You’ll Need at Work in 2019

Completing the Executive Internship program at Pickens Technical College’s High School pathway is the first step in getting your dream job right out of college. Many companies and high school students alike are realizing that with half an opportunity, interns can quickly turn into a valuable part of any organization. Getting experience in a real work environment before you even graduate high school is a huge advantage you can press into a long and rewarding career.

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PTC Health Pathway: The Evolving Role of the Pharmacy Technician

The Pickens Technical College Health Pathway allows you to enter the booming healthcare industry in the state of Colorado and beyond. People will need increasingly complicated and nuanced care as they age, and the Pharmacy Technician is a great way to ensure that the community gets the medicine they need to get and stay healthy.

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Engineering and Technology Pickens Pathway: Brad Keselowski’s Advanced Manufacturing Startup

Nascar champion driver Brad Keselowski is starting his own engineering company, focusing on being an industry leader in advanced manufacturing, additive manufacturing, and CNC technology. Beyond starting a bold new company, Keselowski also envisions his plans ushering in a new wave of manufacturing jobs for the entire sector.

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Marketing, Hospitality, and Tourism Pickens Pathway: Three Hospitality Social Media Trends That Could Affect Your Work

If you’re in the Pickens Technical College Marketing, Hospitality, and Tourism program, you’re learning the finer points of marketing tourism and hospitality services to interested customers. Once you’ve mastered the basics of providing top-notch hospitality services, you can develop marketing plans, which is the name of the game in the hospitality and tourism industry these days (or any days). Pickens’ course specifically introduces you to marketing strategies geared towards several different types of hospitality features, such as hotels, restaurants, clubs, and more.

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PTC Pathway: Photography: Landscape Lessons from 2018

With 2019 in full swing, what have you learned from your time as a budding photographer in Pickens Technical College’s Photography program in 2018? No matter where you are in your photography career, you can always learn lessons and improve from past mistakes and work you’ve done the year previous. Professional and amateur photographers alike benefit from taking a moment to look back at their artistic and technical progress from the year before to see where they can continue to improve and which areas of their technique they still need to work on.

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Pickens’ Transportation Pathway: Diesel Mechanics: Leveraging Education for Gainful Employment

It shouldn’t be a surprise at this point to learn that Pickens Technical College’s Diesel Mechanic program is set up to get you a good job right after you complete the program. By tapping into up-to-date training and information designed to help Medium and Heavy-Duty Diesel Truck mechanics, you’re well on your way to well-paying entry-level job.

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Pickens Landscaping and Environmental Pathway: Urban Greenhouses on the Rise

The Urban Horticulture and Landscaping Management program at Pickens Tech sets you up with the tools and skills you’ll need to enter the workforce ready to go. That workforce, and the companies that provide it, are changing as the culinary industry explodes in the Denver area. More companies than ever before are popping up in Colorado offering fresh ingredients to local restaurants all over the state. And they’re taking more control of the fresh vegetables and fruit they produce. Horticulture experts, especially those like you who are experienced with urban horticulture and how to make urban food webs work, are using urban space more creatively to produce tasty, fresh, natural ingredients. The trend is growing. Continue reading “Pickens Landscaping and Environmental Pathway: Urban Greenhouses on the Rise”

Pickens Human Services Pathway: Culinary Arts—Culinary Industry Changing Worldwide

The Culinary Arts program in the Pickens Human Services pathway offers you plenty of experience and the ability to learn about how different foods work together, how to prepare excellent classic dishes, and the ever-important business side of any culinary enterprise. It might be difficult to imagine now, in the middle of learning how to use knives safely and how to complement flavors, but you’re at the beginning of an exciting career. The culinary scene, not only in many cities around the United States, but the entire world, is changing rapidly. Traditions all over the world are being challenged by new, young, upcoming chefs.

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Pickens Health Pathway: Nurse Aide—Tightening Labor Markets Bring Opportunity to Entry-Level Healthcare Workers

You probably joined the Nurse Aide program at Pickens Technical College because you
heard about all the opportunities in the healthcare field in Colorado and the United States at
large. Nurse aides are becoming increasingly important to nurses and other healthcare
professionals at facilities all over the country. With the Baby Boomer generation getting older,
retiring, and facing more health issues, and because of more people getting health insurance
coverage, the healthcare industry has been struggling to meet demand for several years now.

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