The idea that college is the path to a better life is firmly rooted in the American psyche. Government policies beginning with the G.I. Bill, the rise of state colleges and universities, and federally backed financial aid were all designed to create more opportunity for more people to go to college in order to advance economically in society. The notion that a college education pays off in the form of much higher wages is the bench mark justification for having individuals and their families paying more and more overtime for the ever increasing cost of a four year college degree.
Yet new graduates in recent years have struggled to get their careers and their adult lives going. Almost two-thirds of recent graduates report that they don't have a job that is closely related to their field of study. Almost one in four already believe that their education was not worth the financial costs. Defaults on student loans have soared, in large part due to the fact that graduates cannot get jobs that pay enough to support their loan payments.
Complete article by following the link below:
http://www.naceweb.org/j112015/college-job-market-connection.aspx?terms=Top%20Degrees%20For%20Getting%20Hired%20In%202015
Apr 8, 2016
Mar 21, 2016
How you can help your students/clients follow their dreams.
As we near the end of another school year, an assessment of our work over the year becomes a concern. Did we assist our students or clients in ways that are measurable? Did we give them access to knowledge that may prove beneficial over their lifetimes?
As members of the career counseling profession, these are always critical concerns for us. At EUREKA, it makes all of our work so gratifying when we receive comments like the following one...
“Where has this website been all of my life?” This comment is from a student at San Diego Miramar College, received on March 17, 2016.
We think he may have found it... :))
In the process of reviewing complementary information to add to EUREKA.org, we have found many interesting and beneficial concepts. One is the work of Thomas C. Corley, author of “Change Your Habits...Change Your Life.”
After studying the daily habits of 177 self-made millionaires over the course of five years, he found that they avoid one costly habit: procrastination. It prevents even the most talented individuals from realizing success in life. One of the major causes of procrastination is lack of passion. Corley emphasizes: “We simply like to do the things we like to do and we put off the things we do not like to do.”
More: http://www.businessinsider.com/things-rich-people-have-in-common-2016-3
Another concept is to follow your dreams or your passion. Take a look at this video: https://youtu.be/x7rsTjQfxmA
Other concepts that your students/clients will find both insightful and fun are thoughts from Oliver Emberton. He brings out that if you want to follow your dreams or passion, you have to say NO to all alternatives! He contends that our brains are like a beach ball full of bees... having hundreds of conflicting impulses, pushing us in different directions.
According to his theory, “Monomaniacal focus on a single goal is perhaps the ultimate success stratagem. It’s a pattern found in successful people from Edison to Einstein. When you’re able to focus on a single goal, your achievements reach well beyond their theoretical limit.”
Read more here: http://oliveremberton.com/2014/if-you-want-to-follow-your-dreams-you-have-to-say-no-to-all-the-alternatives/
More about Oliver Emberton: http://oliveremberton.com/about/
As members of the career counseling profession, these are always critical concerns for us. At EUREKA, it makes all of our work so gratifying when we receive comments like the following one...
“Where has this website been all of my life?” This comment is from a student at San Diego Miramar College, received on March 17, 2016.
We think he may have found it... :))
In the process of reviewing complementary information to add to EUREKA.org, we have found many interesting and beneficial concepts. One is the work of Thomas C. Corley, author of “Change Your Habits...Change Your Life.”
After studying the daily habits of 177 self-made millionaires over the course of five years, he found that they avoid one costly habit: procrastination. It prevents even the most talented individuals from realizing success in life. One of the major causes of procrastination is lack of passion. Corley emphasizes: “We simply like to do the things we like to do and we put off the things we do not like to do.”
More: http://www.businessinsider.com/things-rich-people-have-in-common-2016-3
Another concept is to follow your dreams or your passion. Take a look at this video: https://youtu.be/x7rsTjQfxmA
Other concepts that your students/clients will find both insightful and fun are thoughts from Oliver Emberton. He brings out that if you want to follow your dreams or passion, you have to say NO to all alternatives! He contends that our brains are like a beach ball full of bees... having hundreds of conflicting impulses, pushing us in different directions.
According to his theory, “Monomaniacal focus on a single goal is perhaps the ultimate success stratagem. It’s a pattern found in successful people from Edison to Einstein. When you’re able to focus on a single goal, your achievements reach well beyond their theoretical limit.”
Read more here: http://oliveremberton.com/2014/if-you-want-to-follow-your-dreams-you-have-to-say-no-to-all-the-alternatives/
More about Oliver Emberton: http://oliveremberton.com/about/
Feb 10, 2016
An Emerging Career....
During a process of reviewing the careers that students are saving in My
Planner on EUREKA.ORG and to Favorites on EUREKA Express we discovered
that the top 10 occupations were ones that most of us are very aware of.
This is good because some of them are very much in demand such as Nursing and Police Officer. But we wondered if the choices are based upon students simply not exploring other lesser known possibilities.
One career that is not widely known is Bioinformatics Scientists. We developed this career description in 2008. This is a truly interdisciplinary field.
It is a career that combines many personal characteristics from personality, skills and interest perspectives. The work includes technology, plant and human life research, and the creation of new forms of medications. It's an emerging career with much demand.
When working with your students and clients you may want to try asking them to review the list of occupations in EUREKA, and just pick out one that they know nothing about and research it. This may open up new ideas for them. This idea may really work well in a group or class environment.
Click this link to learn more about this career:
http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/features/2014/06/explosion-bioinformatics-careers
This is good because some of them are very much in demand such as Nursing and Police Officer. But we wondered if the choices are based upon students simply not exploring other lesser known possibilities.
One career that is not widely known is Bioinformatics Scientists. We developed this career description in 2008. This is a truly interdisciplinary field.
It is a career that combines many personal characteristics from personality, skills and interest perspectives. The work includes technology, plant and human life research, and the creation of new forms of medications. It's an emerging career with much demand.
When working with your students and clients you may want to try asking them to review the list of occupations in EUREKA, and just pick out one that they know nothing about and research it. This may open up new ideas for them. This idea may really work well in a group or class environment.
Click this link to learn more about this career:
http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/features/2014/06/explosion-bioinformatics-careers
Jan 8, 2016
College Net/Purpose: Social Mobility Index
“One of the main culprits driving the tuition increases, and thus one of the central impediments to economic mobility, has been higher education’s pursuit of the rankings, particularly those put forward by US News & World Report. Asked to explain the factors behind tuition jumps at Cornell, economists there remarked that “how much the university spends per student for education and maintaining a low student/faculty ratio both weigh heavily in determining rankings. Any slippage in the rankings is extremely costly to the institution.” A study published in Research in Higher Education by a former Provost at the University of Rochester added that if a college or university wanted to move into one of the top 20 slots in the US News rankings it would have to increase spending by tens of millions of dollars a year.
It’s time to confront and change this dynamic – a dynamic that ratchets costs, restricts educational opportunity for American families, and thereby widens income inequality. Any factor that feeds income inequality injures our economy's potential for sustaining growth because it makes recessions more frequent and shortens periods of economic recovery. According to IMF economists Andrew Berg and Jonathan Ostry, "The key result from the joint analysis is that income distribution survives as one of the most robust and important factors associated with growth duration..... increasing the length of growth spells, rather than just getting growth going, is critical to achieving income gains over the long term...." The self-interested chase for US News "prestige" contradicts this key civic and economic responsibility.
One way to stimulate change in higher education would be to recast the competition for “prestige” around factors that improve access, affordability, and graduation, and that advance economic mobility for students.”
One way to stimulate change in higher education would be to recast the competition for “prestige” around factors that improve access, affordability, and graduation, and that advance economic mobility for students.”
To learn more about this site click here: http://www.socialmobilityindex.org
Dec 11, 2015
Why We Desperately Need To Bring Back Vocational Training In Schools
Excerpt from Forbes:
"Throughout most of U.S. history, American high school students were routinely taught vocational and job-ready skills along with the three Rs: reading, writing and arithmetic. Indeed readers of a certain age are likely to have fond memories of huddling over wooden workbenches learning a craft such as woodwork or maybe metal work, or any one of the hands-on projects that characterized the once-ubiquitous shop class."
Click here to read more about this story on Forbes.com:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholaswyman/2015/09/01/why-we-desperately-need-to-bring-back-vocational-training-in-schools/
"Throughout most of U.S. history, American high school students were routinely taught vocational and job-ready skills along with the three Rs: reading, writing and arithmetic. Indeed readers of a certain age are likely to have fond memories of huddling over wooden workbenches learning a craft such as woodwork or maybe metal work, or any one of the hands-on projects that characterized the once-ubiquitous shop class."
Click here to read more about this story on Forbes.com:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholaswyman/2015/09/01/why-we-desperately-need-to-bring-back-vocational-training-in-schools/
Nov 19, 2015
Skilled trades are the most in demand occupational group both in the U.S. and abroad
This is the month in our culture that we take the time to give thanks for what we have… a very wonderful tradition.
Again in thinking about our students and the struggles they face in growing and learning the importance of making good decisions, we made an interesting discovery while doing some occupational research.
Many of you are familiar with Man Power. It is a company with a strong web presence that specializes in employment related issues. We have found them to be nearly as reliable as BLS in their career data.
According to ManpowerGroup, the number #1 occupational group in demand both in the US and internationally is SKILLED TRADES. This is a broad category in today’s labor market. Again our community colleges are in the lead in this arena. Laney Community College, through its Career and Technical Education Department, provides us with announcements similar to the one below.
An example from Laney:
The Industrial Maintenance certificate at Laney College is a 9-month full-time program (August 2015- May 2016) training students to be entry-level maintenance machinists. Training is in machining, welding, and electrical work. English fluency and 8th grade level math skills are necessary. Tuition and books for the program are less than $2000, and financial aid and fee waivers may be available for those that qualify. These are college courses and you will receive over 30 hours of college credit. The program begins on August 17th, 2015. Note: This training can lead to positions with Chevron and other utility type industries who are seeking employees due to many current employees retiring. At Oil refiners such as Chevron, starting salaries are from $75,000 to $100,000 dollars annually.
Based on research from Manpowergroup.us the following are the top ten career areas in demand:
To learn more go to:
http://www.manpowergroup.us/campaigns/talent-shortage-2014/
Again in thinking about our students and the struggles they face in growing and learning the importance of making good decisions, we made an interesting discovery while doing some occupational research.
Many of you are familiar with Man Power. It is a company with a strong web presence that specializes in employment related issues. We have found them to be nearly as reliable as BLS in their career data.
According to ManpowerGroup, the number #1 occupational group in demand both in the US and internationally is SKILLED TRADES. This is a broad category in today’s labor market. Again our community colleges are in the lead in this arena. Laney Community College, through its Career and Technical Education Department, provides us with announcements similar to the one below.
An example from Laney:
The Industrial Maintenance certificate at Laney College is a 9-month full-time program (August 2015- May 2016) training students to be entry-level maintenance machinists. Training is in machining, welding, and electrical work. English fluency and 8th grade level math skills are necessary. Tuition and books for the program are less than $2000, and financial aid and fee waivers may be available for those that qualify. These are college courses and you will receive over 30 hours of college credit. The program begins on August 17th, 2015. Note: This training can lead to positions with Chevron and other utility type industries who are seeking employees due to many current employees retiring. At Oil refiners such as Chevron, starting salaries are from $75,000 to $100,000 dollars annually.
Based on research from Manpowergroup.us the following are the top ten career areas in demand:
- Skilled Trade Workers
- Restaurant and Hotel Staff
- Sales Representatives
- Teachers
- Drivers
- Accounting and Finance Staff
- Laborers
- IT Staff
- Engineers
- Nurses
To learn more go to:
http://www.manpowergroup.us/campaigns/talent-shortage-2014/
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