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Pickens Technical College’s Pharmacy Tech Pathway: Idaho Techs Cleared to Prescribe Naloxone
Completing Pickens Technical College’s Pharmacy Technician program gives you the chance to earn your Pharmacy Technician Certificate, clearing you to start a lucrative and exciting career in the fast-growing medical industry. Colorado has a thriving healthcare industry that needs skilled pharmacy technicians and pharmacists to help patients.
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Pickens Technical College’s Welding Pathway: The American Welding Society Plate Certification
At the end of the Welding Program at Pickens Technical College, you’ll have a chance to earn an American Welding Society Plate Certification. This certification grants you entry into the American Welding Society, which can act as an online training resource, job board, and community for other welders across the country. The certification also means you can ask for more in salary or charge clients more.
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Pickens Technical College’s Construction Technology Pathway: Automation and the Labor Shortage
It’s an exciting time to be in the construction industry right now. Not only does Colorado have a wealth of construction jobs, but big-time investment dollars are also being poured into the industry. Why? Because investors sense big changes are coming to construction technology. If you’re considering enrolling in Pickens Technical College’s Construction Technology program, there couldn’t be a better time.
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Pickens Technical College Photography Pathway: Why Earn a Photographer’s Assistant Certification?
Being a professional photographer is unique because there are very few formal barriers to employment, yet only a small fraction of people who set out to become photographers actually get paid for their work and make a living. Pickens Technical College’s Photography program is designed to help as many people “make it” in the industry as possible, offering a Photographer’s Assistant Certification to help get you started. The Photographer’s Assistant Certification is available after the completion of your first semester.
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Pickens Technical College’s Marketing: Hospitality and Tourism Pathway: Best Businesses in Colorado Springs
In Pickens Technical College’s Marketing in Hospitality and Tourism program, you’ll learn how to work in the industry and build your own business. Colorado is full of tourism and hospitality opportunities, especially now during an unprecedented population boom here. Obviously, the state attracts visitors from around the world and has built an infrastructure friendly to the hospitality and tourism industry.
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Pickens Technical College Esthetician Pathway: Could Dry Flotation Disrupt the Industry?
As a budding esthetician possibly attending the Pickens Technical College Esthetician course next fall, you’ll learn about what ingredients to add to your various beauty and skin products to make your customers feel like they’re glowing again. Pickens’ Esthetician course, taught by Yong Keffer, is constantly updating its curriculum to teach cutting edge skin restoration techniques and treatments for problematic skin types and new methods of exfoliation treatments, aromatherapy, and more. While a large portion of this course will focus on professional make-up techniques and skills, providing people with a full-body relaxation and rejuvenation experience is a central focus.
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Pickens Technical College Early Childhood Education: What We Need to Improve
The Pickens Technical College Early Childhood Education course prepares you for a career working with children. With the training and experience you get in Jessica Cross’s class, you’ll be ready to take the next step, either in your education to become a teacher, child psychologist, or pediatric medical professional, or in your career in many possible child-related jobs. But once you break into the professional world of childcare, you’ll find many challenges, not only in Colorado and the Denver Metro Area but also throughout the United States. Issues of inequality and childcare access are prevalent. Fortunately, there are changes in the works, and you can participate in improving the childcare system where you find your job.
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Pickens Technical College Nurse Aide Pathway: My Life, My Story
The Pickens Technical College Nurse Aide pathway puts students on course to pursue careers in the medical industry, which is booming in our state with more jobs being added almost daily. The course prepares you for the Colorado State Board of Nursing Certification Exam, which is your key to your start in the industry. You’ll get a mixture of in-class and clinical practice in which you can learn and hone your skills until you’re ready to take the test and start your new job.
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Pickens Technical College Advanced Manufacturing Pathway: Job Shop and Career Services
Pickens Technical College is all about getting students into jobs doing things they love. All courses are geared toward teaching you what you’ll need to be a productive worker in whatever industry you want. All classes are taught with skills and competencies that employers are looking for right now. If you’re in the Advanced Manufacturing course, you’ll be trained to be an entry level machinist or manufacturing specialist. Someday, you might be both. And in the Advanced Manufacturing course, you’ll have the chance to utilize the many resources in front of you to earn that first position and grow into a career you’ll love.
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Pickens Technical College Facilities Maintenance Technician Pathway: Understand the Resources Available to Your Customers
Summertime is here and you’re done with class studies for a while. But that’s no excuse to not try and improve your skills before the next semester in the fall. One way you can do that if you plan on joining instructor Mike Roloff in the Facilities Maintenance Technician program at Pickens is by understanding the wealth of resources property owners and other future customers who need your expertise and skill have at their disposal. These resources are mostly Internet-related and are always aimed at helping customers limit costs to them and helping them find the best possible technicians for their maintenance issues.
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