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How To Find A High-Paying Job Without A College Degree
December 19, 2012 by William Frierson
There is no question that getting a college degree can help you get a job. However, if you don’t have one, that doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t get a good job. Learn more in the following post.The following is a guest post by Career Step. According to FinAid, students are graduating with an average student loan debt of $23,186. The average student loan debt for borrowers aged less than 30, as of the end of March 2012, has risen 56 percent since the beginning of 2005 to a record $20,835, according to data released by the Federal Reserve Bank
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What Employers Can Be Thankful For This Thanksgiving
November 21, 2012 by William FriersonEmployers can be thankful for a variety of quality candidates that are out there just waiting to be hired. Learn more in the following infographic.Thanksgiving is about more than stuffing turkeys and full bellies after a good meal. The holiday is really about recognizing our blessings and being thankful for the wonderful things we have in life. For companies looking to find the best talent in order to grow and stay competitive in this tough marketplace, great candidates are truly a reason to be thankful.
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Drop Out, Dive In, Start Up: Are Journalists Missing The Main Point?
September 28, 2012 by Steven Rothberg
By Mark Mehler and Gerry Crispin of CareerXroads
A few recruiters, thinking out of the box, might benefit by looking for prospects who delayed traditional education for learning of a different kind.
Peter H. Thiel, the PayPal billionaire has garnered some serious ink for his initiative in offering some of the best and brightest young minds $100k and a mentor for a two year stint at a start-up. All the recipients of Thiel’s largesse are 20 and under and so missing what would ordinarily be viewed as the ideal time to attend MIT, Harvard, IIT Bombay etc. His plan has come under serious criticism and a bit of fanfare. The latest testament to this controversial initiative was recently featured in the NY Times. Continue Reading
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Number of Unemployed Young People Since 2002 Increases by 64%
August 28, 2012 by William FriersonAccording to one source, there has been an increase of young people not working since 2002, in 2012.
Nick Gidwani, founder and entrepreneur of SkilledUp.com (a search engine that provides easy access and discovery of more than 40,000 online, career-advancement and skill development courses), says there are a growing number of young people who have been priced out of higher education and are looking for alternative ways to increase their marketability. Many of those who have acquired a degree have found that its value no longer guarantees a well-paying career in their field of study. Millennials typically have excellent basic computer proficiency, but they lack specific and marketable skills that businesses can use, such as using graphic design or data analysis software. With thousands of low-cost or free courses, these young people can get “skilled up” so that they can take control of their career paths and compete in the marketplace – both with their peers, and with an increasingly global digital workforce in India, South America and Eastern Europe. Continue Reading
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Challenges Young People Face After Graduation
May 31, 2012 by William FriersonJust when you think all of your hard work is over after graduating from college, it is only the beginning. As a college graduate, you now face new challenges including getting a job. Check out the following infographic for more information. Continue Reading
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Six Ways to Sell Gen Y With Your Job Description
May 23, 2012 by William FriersonIt’s no secret that most job descriptions are awful. They make the hiring company sound boring and the work tedious.
This could be a real problem for employers when they try to hire Generation Y Millennials. While some managers and recruiters are fed up with the stereotypically whiny and self-entitled “Trophy Kids”, Generation Y is predicted to comprise nearly 75% of the world’s workforce by 2025, according to a study by the Business and Professional Women’s Foundation. Companies will eventually be fighting for the best of them, so start using the job description to court talented millennials.
Here are six ways employers should tweak job descriptions to attract Gen Y: Continue Reading
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Are Young Workers the “Go Nowhere” Generation?
May 09, 2012 by William FriersonA recent piece in the New York Times by Todd G. Buchholz and Victoria Buchholz calls 20-somethings the “go-nowhere generation” based on their statistical reluctance to relocate for work. They note, “The likelihood of 20-somethings moving to another state has dropped well over 40 percent since the 1980s, according to calculations based on Census Bureau data…According to the Pew Research Center, the proportion of young adults living at home nearly doubled between 1980 and 2008, before the Great Recession hit.”
Whether or not you believe Millennials are sedentary or risk averse, the article includes research by economist Lisa B. Kahn of the Yale School of Management showing, “…those who graduated from college during a poor economy experienced a relative wage loss even 15 years after entering the work force.”
Is this just a recipe for a “lost generation?” Continue Reading
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Gen Y Believes Training and Development is Most Important Employee Benefit
May 08, 2012 by William FriersonIn case you didn’t know this as a current employer, the younger generation wants more than money. They value the opportunity to learn and grow as employees.
A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers’ survey of over 1,200 CEO’s, and a separate article, revealed two very important pieces of information you should be aware of: Continue Reading
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Shifting College Costs Burdensome to Millennials
April 11, 2012 by William FriersonGoing to college is costing more money these days for Millennials, as a result of reduced funding over time.
America’s future middle class is in peril, with state investment in public higher education plummeting over the past two decades leaving students and their families to pick up the slack. A just released report by public policy center Demos provides a new analysis of the Grapevine data on state funding trends for public higher education from 1990 onwards and details how a pattern of disinvestment is leading to stagnant graduation rates and skyrocketing levels of student debt. Continue Reading
