00:00in today's video I'm going to be
00:01revealing how you can get a human
00:03resource management degree in as little
00:06as six months and this can be done by
00:08going to an accelerated University now
00:11there are several accelerated
00:12universities that I recommend but the
00:14one I'm going to be talking about in
00:15this video is going to be WGU also known
00:18as Western Governors University now the
00:21tactics and the strategies that I'm
00:22going to be talking about in this video
00:23can be used at many other universities
00:25but just to make this simple I am going
00:27to be using WGU as an example and these
00:30are strategies that until recently I
00:32only revealed in private consultations
00:34but I got a ton of requests to make
00:36videos about this on the channel and I
00:38made a few videos people really love
00:40them and they wanted me to make an
00:41entire series on all the different
00:43degrees that WGU has to offer and so
00:46that's what I'm doing and not only that
00:47but my team and I also worked really
00:49hard on creating cheat sheets for each
00:51individual degree and these cheat sheets
00:53make this entire process ridiculously
00:56easy this is probably going to save you
00:57like 10 to 20 hours of research and
01:00overall doing this can save you up to
01:01four years of school a hundred thousand
01:03dollars in student loan debt and a ton
01:05of opportunity costs as well so if you
01:08appreciate me making videos like this
01:09dropping an insane amount of value go
01:12ahead gently tap that like button and
01:14let's jump into it right now all right
01:15so this is going to be a four step
01:18process and you really have to take each
01:20of these steps very seriously don't skip
01:22any of them and the very first step on
01:24the list sounds very simple but you
01:26should still take your time on it and
01:27that is go ahead and transfer in all of
01:30the existing classes and the existing
01:32credits that you already have now you'll
01:34be surprised how many different things
01:36WGU actually accepts they're very
01:39gracious when it comes to credit
01:40transfers so for instance if you have
01:42military experience they may accept that
01:44if you have a lot of work experience
01:46they might accept that certifications
01:48and certificates CLEP exams AP and IB
01:51classes that you might have taken during
01:53high school and of course any other type
01:54of college classes that you've already
01:56taken many of these things can be
01:59transferred in on a lot lot of the time
02:00people find that they're able to
02:02transfer in a bunch of different classes
02:03at this first step that they didn't
02:05think they were going to be able to so
02:06yeah take your time make sure you do
02:08your research on this step transfer all
02:10those in and then you're going to get a
02:12list of the classes that are going to be
02:14remaining after you've transferred them
02:16in and you're going to get this list
02:17from the enrollment counselor that you
02:19talk to at WGU now this enrollment
02:21counselor might try to get you to enroll
02:23right now and using this method that I'm
02:25talking about you don't want to do that
02:27in fact you're not going to enroll until
02:29the very last step which is step four
02:31once you've transferred them in you've
02:32gotten that list of classes back you're
02:34going to go ahead and move on to step
02:35number two which is you are going to
02:37test out of a bunch of the remaining
02:39classes using third-party companies now
02:42this is what I like to call the test out
02:44phase now I do have a cheat sheet that
02:46makes this entire process insanely easy
02:49I will put that down in the description
02:50as well as the pinned comment below so
02:52definitely check that out now you can
02:54transfer in a ton of classes so for
02:57instance here's a comment I found when I
02:58was searching Reddit saying that they
02:59they are able to transfer in about 75
03:02percent of their degree before they even
03:04start at WGU and that's actually not
03:07very uncommon it's relatively common to
03:09transfer in at least 50 of your classes
03:11and sometimes it's even over 75 percent
03:13and you're going to be doing this by
03:14using third-party companies like
03:17sophia.org or straighterline.com and I
03:20actually like them in that order so
03:22study.com is my favorite one I've just
03:24had the best experience with them
03:25overall with people that I've worked
03:26with sophia.org can be really good as
03:29well and then straighterline is good for
03:30a few classes here and there now some
03:32people get super technical with this and
03:33they'll take like three classes from
03:36sophia.org and four classes from
03:38straighter line and like six classes
03:40from study.com and you can do that
03:42because sometimes they'll say that this
03:43class is like slightly easier to take
03:45than that class but with that being said
03:46I personally just like to keep it simple
03:48and just do all of them in one place and
03:51overall you are gonna have to take about
03:5340 classes to get this degree and if you
03:55use this guide correctly you can drop
03:57that down to about 14 classes that you
04:00have to take after you transfer all of
04:02them in and you can very comfortably
04:04test out of about one class per week
04:06even if you have a family a full-time
04:08job and you're super busy but if you're
04:10not super busy you don't have a family
04:11and a full-time job you can do it a lot
04:13faster than that so for instance I've
04:15had many people tell me that they're
04:16able to test out of one class per day
04:18and in some cases even multiple classes
04:21and the main reason why you want to do
04:23this using third-party companies and not
04:25WGU themselves is simply because it's
04:28faster cheaper and easier so once you've
04:30tested out of all these different
04:31classes you are going to move on to step
04:34number three which is you are going to
04:36pre-study the remaining classes so this
04:39is another important phase that a lot of
04:41people actually Skip and I don't think
04:42it's a good idea to skip because the
04:44whole idea here is you want to enroll in
04:47WGU and finish it as fast as you
04:49possibly can and if you haven't
04:51pre-studied the classes it's probably
04:52going to take you quite a bit of time to
04:54get through them and the reason why you
04:56want to go as fast as possible is
04:57because WGU charges you by the term and
05:00one term is six months so for instance
05:03if you enroll in WGU and you're able to
05:05knock all of those remaining classes out
05:07in six months that means you only have
05:08to pay for one term which is
05:10approximately thirty five hundred
05:11dollars that's right you can get an
05:13entire bachelor's degree in terms of the
05:15time that you're actually enrolled for
05:16about thirty five hundred dollars if you
05:18do this strategy correctly and this is a
05:20top ten percent school that's regionally
05:22accredited and respected in the industry
05:25now the best ways to pre-study this are
05:26going to be going on the WGU subreddit
05:29itself and that's extremely useful but
05:31they also usually have a WGU subreddit
05:34for the specific course as well and they
05:36tend to share a bunch of tips and tricks
05:37they talk about how to properly study
05:40for a class and how to pass the test as
05:42quickly and efficiently as possible and
05:43this sort of thing does change from time
05:45to time so it's good to stay on there
05:46and stay up to date same thing goes for
05:49Facebook groups so typically there's
05:50also going to be WGU Facebook groups for
05:53the specific degrees as well so you
05:55definitely want to look on there as
05:56people will be sharing tips and tricks
05:58as well and you might even be able to
05:59talk to them it's also pretty good for
06:01networking so there's that as well and
06:02beyond that there's always really good
06:04resources on YouTube of course
06:06um you've got udemy which has really
06:08cheap classes you've got Khan Academy
06:09which is typically free you've got lots
06:12of different resources out there for
06:13really good educational content online
06:15that's either free or very affordable
06:17and of course if you're a textbook type
06:18of person you can always buy a textbook
06:20um you know they're typically like 20 to
06:2230 dollars after a few years and yes
06:24buying an older textbook is completely
06:26fine they usually just update a few
06:28things here and there and it's
06:29essentially the same book and they
06:30charge like 300 for it and that's
06:32something you can absolutely avoid if
06:34you go to a school like WGU thank
06:36goodness finally after you feel
06:38confident that you've pre-studied the
06:39classes correctly you're going to go
06:41ahead and move on to step number four
06:43which is you are finally going to enroll
06:45in WGU and knock those remaining 14
06:47classes out as fast as you possibly can
06:50and there are many stories of people
06:51online that have used similar strategies
06:53to this to get through their degree in
06:56two years or less so for instance here's
06:58a person who is able to get their their
07:00entire degree in about 18 months here's
07:02another person who is able to get
07:03through their entire degree in about
07:04eight months and then of course there's
07:06always extreme examples of people who
07:07are able to get their degree even faster
07:09than that so for instance my friend Josh
07:11maticore he's basically the king of WGU
07:13he was able to get a computer science
07:15degree in two months and computer
07:17science is probably the most difficult
07:19degree to get at WGU now he took it
07:21extremely seriously he was trying to
07:23like speedrun it basically I don't
07:25expect everyone to be able to do that
07:26but with that being said he was still
07:28working a full-time job while he did
07:30that now make sure to take advantage of
07:32the professors at WGU especially for
07:35some of the harder classes like the
07:37Capstone project and the business
07:39simulation class and like I said before
07:40with WGU you can get the degree done
07:42really quickly really easily and really
07:44affordably you don't even have to quit
07:46your job or anything like that because
07:48it's extremely flexible you can just do
07:49it whenever you have free time and on
07:51top of that it is respected by employers
07:54across the country so for instance this
07:56person was able to get their human
07:57resource management degree from w WGU
08:00they finished it in one term and they
08:02had no issues at all they say that no
08:05employer ever questioned their degree
08:06and they were even able to land an I.T
08:08management role at an ivy league
08:10university with their degrees that they
08:12got from WGU this person as well got a
08:15degree from WGU and they were hired by a
08:17major company who just required an
08:18accredited bachelor's degree which is
08:20exactly what WGU is right so this is a
08:22great place if you're getting a degree
08:24where you just have to have an
08:26accredited degree right you don't need
08:28to have any fancy stuff you don't have
08:29to go to an ivy league university or
08:31anything like that there are many
08:32examples of jobs out there that for
08:34whatever reason they just require an
08:36accredited degree and they couldn't care
08:38less where you go so overall the
08:40strategy summary here is one you want to
08:42transfer in your existing credits two
08:44you want to pre-game the courses three
08:46you want to knock out as many classes as
08:49you can by pre-studying at third party
08:51companies and then four you want to
08:53complete the remaining classes as fast
08:55as you can alright so now I'm going to
08:57go ahead and jump into the cheat sheet
08:59and I'm going to take you through an
09:00example step by step on exactly how you
09:03would probably go about doing this all
09:05right so we are in the cheat sheet now
09:08and I'll just go over it really quickly
09:11um it's pretty self-explanatory but on
09:13the left side here we've got the ID for
09:16the classes if you click on that it'll
09:18take you to all the classes linked up to
09:21their IDs here you've got all the course
09:23names at WGU so these are the names of
09:26the actual courses you have to take for
09:28the human resource management degree at
09:30WGU uh here you have the units for each
09:33course and here you have the study.com
09:36transfers and so basically again this is
09:39kind of self-explanatory but this class
09:42right here English 104 if you completed
09:44this on study.com it would transfer in
09:46for this English composition class and
09:49if you click right here it will take you
09:51to the exact class on study.com so we're
09:54going to go ahead and start off with
09:56step one which is you are going to
09:58transfer in exist testing classes now in
10:01this particular case of course I'm just
10:02making this up but let's say you took a
10:05calculus like AP Calculus during High
10:07School let's say you took AP biology
10:09during high school and also AP economics
10:12so you're able to transfer in those
10:15three classes and then on top of that
10:16you took a semester at Community College
10:18and you were able to transfer an art and
10:21sociology as well so you were able to
10:23transfer in about five classes right off
10:25the bat now we're going to go ahead and
10:28move on to step number two which is the
10:30test out phase so you're going to go
10:33ahead and test out of all of the
10:35remaining classes that you can using
10:37study.com and as you can see it is a lot
10:40of classes now by the way when you go to
10:43study.com and you get to check out if
10:46you use the code Shane hummus you'll get
10:48about 30 percent off your first three
10:50months at study.com so they were nice
10:52enough to provide me a discount code and
10:56also it will help the channel out a
10:58little bit if you use that so I would
10:59appreciate that so after you test it out
11:02of all those classes these are the
11:04remaining ones that you would have so
11:06about 14 classes or so and you would go
11:09ahead and move on to step three which is
11:11you would want to pre-study these so you
11:14would go ahead pre-study all these
11:15classes you would especially spend more
11:18time on some of the more difficult ones
11:20and then when you feel confident you
11:22would go ahead and roll in WGU and move
11:25on to step number four which is knock
11:27those remaining classes out as fast as
11:30possible now with this particular degree
11:32it is very realistic to knock these
11:34classes out in one term some of the
11:36education degrees is a little harder to
11:38do if not impossible because you have to
11:41have kind of like experiential stuff
11:42that you do but with this particular
11:44degree you can absolutely knock it out
11:46in one term and two terms Max and that
11:48is of course if you use the methods that
11:50I talked about in this video then you
11:52would move on to step number five which
11:54is you would brag to everybody about how
11:56you were able to graduate in less than a
11:58year from WGU with a bachelor's degree
12:01and hopefully you would also move on to
12:03step six which is tell everybody you
12:05know how they can also do it as well and
12:07share this video with your friends and
12:09family so that they can take advantage
12:11of this amazing opportunity as well now
12:13one thing I do want to say is WGU is a
12:16phenomenal option for a ton of people
12:18out there especially people who come to
12:19me who I've worked with one on one but
12:21with that being said it is not for
12:23everybody right it has its pros and its
12:26cons there's nothing out there in the
12:28world that just only has Pros with no
12:30downsides WGU does have some downsides
12:33for instance it's completely remote some
12:35people hate studying remote
12:37um you know but I think like all schools
12:39went remote for like two years or so
12:41there so I mean it's kind of the norm
12:43now but with that being said I
12:45definitely think you should check out
12:46this video right here where I talk about
12:48the pros and cons of WGU to see if it's
12:51right for you or to see if there are any
12:53other schools that might be a little bit
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