Perseverance

We all have days when we feel like life’s challenges are just more than we can overcome.  If you’re feeling stretched thin, perhaps as you’re trying to train for a job in a new career field.  Or maybe you simply struggle to keep studies, work and family responsibilities from falling by the wayside.  Whatever your […] Read More

Job Hunting Blogs – A Link to Real World Experiences

Getting your certification is a wonderful thing, but now it is time to turn your attention and efforts to finding a new position with your newly minted qualifications.  With the economy in turmoil and the effects of this volatility on the labor market, the rules of job hunting are changing day to day.  What may […] Read More

Irene – Stay Safe This Weekend

Many of our students live in the coastal areas in the path of Hurricane Irene.  From all five boroughs to New Jersey’s coastline and all along the Eastern seaboard, its gonna be a wild weekend.  Please be careful and take care of one another during this dangerous storm. -Allen School Online Blog Read More

Sluggish Browser Slowing You Down?

When you get a new computer the best part of the experience is that everything moves and responds so quickly.  Same goes for installing a new browser.  In the beginning, the web surfing experience is easy, breezy and satisfying.  However, after a while, it seems inevitably that the browser slows down.  Pages take longer to […] Read More

Starving Students Shouldn’t Suffer

Hey, it’s hard to be a full time online student.  Especially if you’re also working full time and/or raising a family at the same time as you study to enter this exciting new field.  There frequently isn’t much do re mi left after you finish paying for all the essentials.  Lucky for you the fabulous […] Read More

Buying a New Laptop? Good Housekeeping’s Top Picks

So Online students, anyone in the market for a new laptop?  I know I am.  My 7 year old Dell Inspiron finally bit the dust.  So I am on the hunt for the best unit at the most attractive price.  It can be awfully confusing with so many makes, models and configurations to choose from.  […] Read More

A Popular Topic

Back in February of 2010, we published a post on the Allen School Online blog listing the top 10 reasons why people get fired from jobs.  No other post in the history of this publication has ever received as many comments as this story.  I still seem to receive at least one comment per week […] Read More

Top 10 Cities for Medical Billing/Coding Careers

The AllHealthCare section of Monster.com compiled a list of the top 10 best cities for people pursuing careers in medical assistant/billing/coding.   The list goes into a bit of detail for each city explaining why it made the list.  Of course, the most prominent contributing factor is the average pay for workers in the field.  But […] Read More

Breakthrough!

It’s always gratifying to blog about advances in the exciting medical field.  Unlike so many other fields you could have chosen to work in, medicine offers regular innovations that have dramatically positive consequences for humanity.  Take the case of the woman whose face was ripped off by an angry chimpanzee but this week unveiled the […] Read More