{"id":30195,"date":"2014-11-04T14:56:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T19:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2014\/11\/04\/lawrence-woman-lands-career-in-health-care\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:37:16","slug":"lawrence-woman-lands-career-in-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2014\/11\/04\/lawrence-woman-lands-career-in-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Woman Lands Career in Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9954\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2014\/11\/Elizabeth-Pena.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9954\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9954\" alt=\"Business Management: Healthcare Practice Management Program graduate Elizabeth Pena\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2014\/11\/Elizabeth-Pena-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Business Management: Healthcare Practice Management Program graduate Elizabeth Pena<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Lawrence resident Elizabeth Pena knew she wanted a career in the health care field, so she turned to Northern Essex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I live in Lawrence, I always heard great things about Northern Essex. I knew it was affordable, and I knew it would provide me the opportunities I needed,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>After being away from college for several years, she enrolled in the Business Management: Healthcare Practice Management Program. A wife and mother of four, Elizabeth also became involved in campus life and took advantage of leadership and career development opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth worked in the Student Success Center and was an orientation leader. She also took advantage of career workshops to gain skills in conducting a job search,<br \/> writing a resume, and improving interview skills.<\/p>\n<p>All of her hard work and involvement paid off, and after graduating in May 2013 Elizabeth got a job as a patient service representative for Greater Lawrence Family Health Center. \u201cThe workshops were great. They made me a better person and a better professional. They have helped me with my current job,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>About her present position, she says, \u201cI love working with people. There is always a way to help them feel good, and to try to help them solve their problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth credits NECC for helping her break into the health care field. \u201cNorthern Essex was great. They are very dedicated to helping you succeed. They have wonderful faculty, and I made great friends and great connections. NECC opened the doors to a career in health care for me,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence resident Elizabeth Pena knew she wanted a career in the health care field, so she turned to Northern Essex. \u201cBecause I live in Lawrence, I always heard great things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":30197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lawrence Woman Lands Career in Health Care - NECC News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2014\/11\/04\/lawrence-woman-lands-career-in-health-care\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lawrence Woman Lands Career in Health Care - 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