For a lot of new moms, dealing with the late nights and the demands of a newborn can be taxing enough, but for Princess, in her postpartum period, she decided she wanted to start her college journey by pursuing the certified nursing aide program at Mountain…
Preparing to go to college can make anyone nervous, even the best of us. But for Kashna, going to college meant assimilating into a culture that was still fairly new to her, while also learning and studying in her non-native native language. Kashna immigrated to the…
Going back to school to earn a credential while being a mother to three young children is no easy feat. But for Heather Owens, she was determined to find a new career path after briefly working as a nurse during the onset of COVID-19. The grueling…
Caitlin Huynh decided to take a different path to reach her career goal of becoming a registered nurse, thanks to Northern Virginia Community Colleges’s (NOVA) workforce program. She decided to stack her credentials, starting with a Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) certification, while enrolling in healthcare…
In a “traditional” student journey, you graduate high school, you head to a two-year or four-year college, you get a degree and you’re set for life. Right? Well, imagine you’ve had an entire career, 25 years at a job only to walk in one day and…
While Jeff Wayne had worked as a truck driver in the early part of his career, he didn’t anticipate heading back on the road later in life. He had moved on to installing commercial carpets and enjoyed the work. But following a life-altering event, he needed…
We all do it. You might be doing it right now. Important tasks can be daunting, from applying to a job, to paying a bill to cleaning your house. There’s a fear instilled in these tasks that we just can’t get past in order to cross…
Time is hard to come by, especially if you’re working a full-time job or being a parent, and reading 30+ pages of training materials can feel agonizing. If you’re like us and have found yourself re-reading the same paragraph over and over again, you’re not alone….
You’re in a job, you’re working hard, you’re doing all the right things – but you’re still not getting a promotion. What gives? Every workplace is different, but if there is a pathway to advancement and you’re not getting anywhere, a conversation needs to happen to…
Going back to school to earn a credential that significantly increases your salary, bumps you up the career ladder and helps you have a fulfilling career are all wonderful reasons to enroll a FastForward program, but there are also many other small perks that get overlooked….