TechSkills - Medical
TechSkills offers technical and professional career training in a variety of information technology, health care, and business related fields at over 25 locations throughout the United States. TechSkills offers flexible learning schedules that include courses held during the day, evening, weekend, and online. Many of today’s college students have work and families and the people at TechSkills have designed programs that are convenient and flexible so that students can complete their studies while maintaining their current commitments. TechSkills offers programs in information technology, health care, and business. There are dozens of programs for students to choose from.
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The TechSkills training program equips students to work as entry level pharmacy technicians in a wide variety of health care environments. Pharmacy techs work in retail pharmacies, hospital pharmacies, rehabilitation centers, and long-term care facilities. The program teaches students skills that will make them successful pharmacy technicians. Skills such as mixing and measuring medications, compounding, billing insurance companies, understanding pharmacology fundamentals, and inventory purchasing. Topics covered in the program include pharmacy math, pharmacology, anatomy and physiology, pharmacy procedures, and medical law and ethics.
TechSkills offers students intensive job placement and career services through an eight step process. The career services process includes:
- Step 1: Evaluate Your Career
- Step 2: Organize Your Job Search
- Step 3: Build Your Résumé
- Step 4: Market Yourself
- Step 5: Find Hot Opportunities
- Step 6: Expand Your Career Network
- Step 7: Tap Hidden Jobs
- Step 8: Ace Your Interview
All through the process students are assigned their own placement coordinator to provide them with the job placement services they need. One of the most important services rendered is the 120 hour externship with a local employer or the student's existing employer. The externship gives the student the opportunity to showcase their skills to an employer as well as put to practice what they learned in the classroom.
