Ear on Careers – Wendy Hamlin, Health Insurance Broker
May 27, 2010
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In this episode of “Ear on Careers,” we are pleased to welcome Wendy K. Hamlin, a health insurance broker at Essential Benefit Solutions based in Lincoln Park, New Jersey, 973-872-1008.
Wendy is a graduate of Bowling Green State University in her home state of Ohio. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in interpersonal public communications, with a minor in marketing. Wendy credits college with bringing her out of her shell and teaching her discipline, as she went full-time while working two jobs.
In the podcast, Wendy explains how she became interested in being a health insurance broker, which entails servicing her clients through education, administration of their plans, claims assistance and renewals as well as being a small business owner and growing her business. Listen as Wendy discusses her biggest surprises in the field as being the strategy and creativity needed to help her clients navigate the health insurance maze. She also shares an astounding “war story” and offers tips for people considering a career as a health insurance broker.
In addition, Wendy offers her insights into the changes in the health care system under the recently enacted law. She notes immediate and welcome changes such as dependents up to 26 years old being covered under their parent’s plan, small employers receiving tax credits and no pre-existing condition limitations. The changes coming in 2014 are still being hammered out, even though she believes there will be a role for brokers.
We hope this podcast gives you insight into becoming a health insurance broker, an interesting career path especially in today’s changing times.
Top-Tier Tutoring is very excited to bring you the web’s premiere “career day” podcast series – what we call “Ear on Careers.” This series of podcasts is designed to introduce our listeners to successful leaders in a variety of different fields, including business, industry, medicine, the arts, and so much more.
We welcome your feedback and ideas. Please submit a comment below, send us an email or give us a call at 973-243-1212.
New Service: College Counseling Over The Internet
May 13, 2010
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In this
podcast, Mike Rivera, co-founder, college counselor and tutor with Top-Tier Tutoring, introduces our listeners to a new service being offered: College Counseling over the internet! Now, students who are not geographically located near our center in West Orange, NJ, will have access to the same outstanding college counseling as those living nearby!
Listen as Mike explains the logistics of how the service will work. Using Skype, the popular web-telecommunication free software made popular by Oprah Winfrey, Top-Tier Tutoring’s college counselors will be able to work directly with your son or daughter. Students will receive the same guidance, only instead of being across the table, your child will be looking at his or her counselor live via webcam. Of course, you can feel free to sit in on the session as well!
Ear on Careers – Joseph Mitzenmacher, Law Librarian
May 6, 2010
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Joseph Mitzenmacher, Law Librarian
In this episode of “Ear on Careers,” we are pleased to welcome Joseph Mitzenmacher, a Reference and Electronic Services Librarian at Loyola University Chicago School of Law in Chicago, Illinois, http://www.luc.edu/law_library/.
Joe holds both a B.A. in Economics and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Upon graduating from law school, he practiced law for a few years but did not find it to be as satisfying as he had hoped. After doing some research, he found the related field of law librarian and obtained his Master’s Degree in Library Science from Dominican University.
In the podcast, Joe explains that a law librarian assumes an educational role by answering reference questions and teaching legal research classes. He also acts as a liason with the faculty as well as with electronic service vendors. Listen as Joe discusses a typical day for him in the library, shares his surprises in the field and offers a “war story” about hunting down a source for a King Henry VIII statute about coining money. In addition, Joe provides excellent tips and recommendations for those listeners considering a very rewarding career as a law librarian.
We hope this podcast gives you insight into becoming a law librarian, a challenging field that combines a law degree with teaching and research in an academic field.
Top-Tier Tutoring is very excited to bring you the web’s first “career day” podcast series – what we call “Ear on Careers.” This series of podcasts is designed to introduce our listeners to successful leaders in a variety of different fields, including business, industry, medicine, the arts, and so much more.
We welcome your feedback and ideas. Please submit a comment below, send us an email or give us a call at 973-243-1212.
