Seth Godin (via tmblg)
“ Isn’t it odd that we’re willing to spend $300,000 to buy an accredited but ultimately useless academic line on our resume, but we hesitate to do a month of hard work to create a chunk of experience that’s priceless?
Daily Links - October 3, 2009
- How To Use Common Sense In The Job Search
- You Have More Experience Than You Think (Part I)
- Q#309 – Job Isn’t Posted Yet, How Do I Prepare to Apply?
- Q#310 – Don’t Like Degree, Should I Go Back to School? - Expensive do over, don’t you think?
- Follow the Money, Find A Job
- Networking Tip #8 – Take The Lead
- Phone interview tip #2 via JobRadio.fm
- Tenure: The Best Indicator of Company Fit
Daily Links - October 4, 2009
- 10 Fake Degree Disasters
- Your Online Reputation: Three Things You Need To Remember
- Ten ways for a job seeker to REALLY upset an interviewer!
- Build your cover letter around employer’s WIIFM (what’s in it for me)
- Quick Tip #14: Informational Interviews
- 5 tips for nailing a video interview
- Handling Rejection - “Rejection is hard to swallow, but you can’t let it eat you alive.”
Daily Links - October 20, 2009
- 5 Career Assessment Tests to Help Determine the Right Path
- Q#328 – How Do I Shorten My Resume to One Page?
- Q#329 – Accidental E-mail Typos – What Do I Do?
- The Value of an Online Degree
- Interview tips: Answers to the tough questions Part 2-5
- How to avoid first-job burnout
- 6 Thriving Jobs That Are Here to Stay
You Mean My Duke Degree Doesn’t Automatically Get Me My Dream Job?
Reblogged from the405club:
The majority of my professional experiences have been in various marketing capacities, and I thought that was it for me. I thought I figured out what I was going to do for the rest of my life by the time I was 20. And then I didn’t get a job in it, despite my internships, despite my networking, despite that Duke degree, so after months of searching, I took a position casting a reality show for MTV. And I loved meeting people, thinking creatively, not working traditional hours, and just getting out there. It was the thrill of being social, of outside the box thinking, of creating something tangible each and every day (a tape, filled with all the audition tapes I filled in the candidates’ homes) and the ability to see what I helped to create on television.
When that wrapped, I took a New Media marketing position, but swore to myself that it was the final test — was it marketing, or was it something more creative. While I remain passionately interested in creative marketing, specifically web viral campaigns, especially for music and entertainment, I’ve realized how much I love the creative process that was in my previous position. At my most recent position, many of my earliest responsibilities were to maintain a list of music blogs and blogger contact information. I turned a brief thing, into a daily occurrence — filling my Google reader with blogs and online news sources on everything, but most notably music and entertainment. And I realized - THAT’S WHAT I WANT TO DO.
NY POST: Don't Get That College Degree!→
“Intellectually and financially, studies show it’s not worth it. The four-year college degree has come to cost too much and prove too little. It’s now a bad deal for the average student, family, employer, professor and taxpayer.”
Yikes.
College Degrees More Expensive, Worth Less in Job Market→
Employers and career experts see a growing problem in American society — an abundance of college graduates, many burdened with tuition-loan debt, heading into the work world with a degree that doesn’t mean much anymore.
The problem isn’t just a soft job market — it’s an oversupply of graduates. In 1973, a bachelor’s degree was more of a rarity, since just 47% of high school graduates went on to college. By October 2008, that number had risen to nearly 70%. For many Americans today, a trip through college is considered as much of a birthright as a driver’s license.
Marty Nemko, a career and education expert who has taught at U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education, contends that the overflow in degree holders is the result of many weaker students attending colleges when other options may have served them better. “There is tremendous pressure to push kids through,” he says, adding that as a result, too many students who aren’t skilled become degree holders, promoting a perception among employers that higher education doesn’t work. “That piece of paper no longer means very much, and employers know that,” says Nemko. “Everybody’s got it, so it’s watered down.”
» via Time
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