According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, between 2010-2020, the U.S. is projected to add 20.5 million new jobs. This employment number reflects an overall growth of 14.3%! This is good news if you are a high school senior or a nontraditional student who will be attending college. How about a major that is [...]
According to the National Center for Education and Statistics (NCES), 756,000 master’s degrees and 174,700 doctoral degrees are anticipated to be granted between 2012-2013.[i] That’s a lot of graduate degrees! What do you need to consider before filling out grad school applications? Here are some suggestions: GPA in your major. If you’re considering grad school, [...]
With Facebook users at 1.06 billion and college students being advised to watch what they share with the social media world, there emerges a process of cleaning up Facebook accounts—friend lists included. As college graduation looms and thoughts turn towards post-grad pursuits, you may be tempted to unfriend people who you do not think you’ll [...]
You will be graduating from college soon. Not only will you have earned your degree, you may have figured out how to write great cover letters for your resumes, remained calm by going on multiple job interviews, and researched possible careers. However, you still might harbor some uncertainty as to what you will do once [...]
Whether you are a single mom returning to college after a 10-year hiatus, a self-employed business professional who wants to earn his online MBA or a health care employee who wants to improve her chances of moving up the ladder, don’t let applying for federal aid intimidate you. The FAFSA today is not the FAFSA of [...]
According to the BLS (Bureau of Labor and Statistics): “Between 2002 and 2012, more than 14 million job openings are projected to be filled by workers who have a bachelor’s or graduate degree and who are entering an occupation for the first time.” That’s a lot of jobs—and degree choices. While some of you who [...]
It is Friday morning, and you just checked your college syllabus to find out what terms you need to review for your upcoming, sociology exam on Monday. You have begun searching for examples of modern ethnographies — fact: you are a social science major so you search for terms two times more than math majors [...]
College students: do you suffer from SMAD (social media attention disorder)? Discover these helpful apps… and get back to work!
It’s never too early to start planning your start-up business–even as a college student. Thanks to a new “crowd-funding platform” called Kickstarter, you may be able to transform your million-dollar idea or art project into a reality.
Between 1992 and 2009, the number of college-educated workers increased from 27 million to 44 million. Don’t lose ground in this increasingly competitive job market. Make your college plan today–here’s how.