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Could someone please give me an idea on a good business career interest. Then please tell me about it so I may see if it is something I would be interested in.

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Description of conflict resolution and careers, mediators, facilitators, arbitrators, negotiators. Jobs vary as much as dealing with family problems and divorces to dealing with groups of people and businesses, and negotiating agreements with businesses, peace keeping, and police.

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A good career that will be needed in the future is a conflict resolutionist. This is a mediator or facilitator.

Mediators work with people, the court system, schools, and businesses to solve disputes between people in a way that allows both sides to get what they need. A mediator does not make the final decision on how the dispute is solved. That person is called an arbitrator, which is another type of conflict resolutionist. Mediators can work with businesses to solve problems with other businesses or customers or employees. They can work with neighbors or landlords or friends when they have problems the people have a problem working out. Sometimes people get so mad or upset they stop thinking about anything else but winning the argument and a mediator helps them get back to what the problem is and helps the people involved feel better about themselves and each other. Working in a school, mediators help students solve problems, mostly by starting peer mediation programs where students learn to mediate arguments between other students.

A facilitator works with groups to help them learn how to get work done and make a decision. This is important for groups that have their own goals and not always want to help other people in the group with goals they may have. A facilitator can lead a group to success or they can teach others during meetings how ...

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