Global Career Compass
Leveraging Education Abroad for Student Career Development & Employability
Category: Career Decision-Making
The Cost of Working Your Way Through College
This lengthy NY Times article focuses a spotlight on the very difficult issue of how many undergraduates are forced to work long hours to either minimize their post-graduation debt burden and also meet their annual tuition and related expenses: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/business/college-costs-battled-a-paycheck-at-a-time.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 The piece highlights a… Continue Reading “The Cost of Working Your Way Through College”
Alignment of Higher Education and the Workplace in Asia
The Asian Development Bank reports on the nature of the changes in the workplace in the region and suggests ways in which the region’s academic institutions need to adapt: http://www.adb.org/publications/improving-transitions-school-university-workplace. This section reads like a prescription for U.S. higher education — The Changing Workplace Interesting… Continue Reading “Alignment of Higher Education and the Workplace in Asia”
A Solid Base for Making Sound [Career] Decisions
This is an excellent essay: http://chronicle.com/article/A-Solid-Base-for-Making-Sound/135220/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en Adding more transparency and hard data into the mix which is available to students – and career advisors on their campuses will add much value to the development of more fact-based decision-making when it comes to creating… Continue Reading “A Solid Base for Making Sound [Career] Decisions”
Career Planning at Zimbabwe’s Universities
I’ve just returned from conducting workshops in Harare as a U.S. State Department speaker specialist. The focus of my work was to introduce the concept of career planning and advising and to discuss how to develop a stand-alone career service office. You can listen… Continue Reading “Career Planning at Zimbabwe’s Universities”
Colleges Get Career-Minded: Some View Issue of Employability as “Mission-Critical”
This story in the Wall Street Journal caught my attention: http://intranews.sns.it/intranews/20120523/MI43141.PDF . The thrust is that the transformative [my word] economic downturn has forced colleges -especially those with a liberal arts curriculum at the core of their mission- to consider and/or devise coursework and… Continue Reading “Colleges Get Career-Minded: Some View Issue of Employability as “Mission-Critical””
Does Debt Affect Career Choice?
Here’s the Canadian perspective based on new research: http://higheredstrategy.com/category/employment. Seems that whether or not students had a debt burden after graduation did not directly alter their career choices –meaning they did not only look for employment with high earning potential as the principal criteria for… Continue Reading “Does Debt Affect Career Choice?”
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