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US College Admissions Process – Selling Students to the Highest Bidders
The U.S. college admissions process is expensive and stressful, for everyone from high-achieving high school students to first-generation adult learners. It is also surprisingly ineffective — only about 30% of students headed to a four-year college graduate from that college within six years (about 40% take longer or don’t graduate at all, and about 30% … Continue reading
The Class of 2015 in US – Employers expect to hire 8.3 percent more new college graduates
Employers expect to hire 8.3 percent more new college graduates from the Class of 2015 for their U.S. operations than they did from the Class of 2014, according to a new report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Employers taking part in NACE’s Job Outlook 2015 survey cited company growth and attrition … Continue reading
US – Hiring of college graduates is expected to jump 16 percent
Hiring of college graduates is expected to jump 16 percent in the US, though the starting salaries will see only a modest growth, says a study. About 60 percent of employers said they will keep starting pay the same as last year for the newly minted degree-holders, the survey of more than 5,700 companies revealed. The … Continue reading
Certificates in US – Positive, significant returns research finds
The research from the center focused on certificates for programs that took one year or less to complete. Some have suggested that short-term certificates hold little value in the job market, although recent research has contradicted that notion. The forthcoming study by Di Xu and Madeline Trimble, both of whom are researchers at the Community … Continue reading
College and Employability in US – How are they doing and what are employers looking for?
How are colleges doing? Nearly seven out of ten employers surveyed indicated that colleges are doing a “good” or “excellent” job when it comes to producing successful employees; however, more work is required to change the minds of the 31% of respondents who gave colleges a “fair” to “poor” rating. HR has the most favorable … Continue reading
College Grads in US – Wages are terrible
More young people are grabbing debt to go to college, but they can’t punch the ticket to full-fledged adulthood, because college-grad wages are growing at historically pitiful levels. In fact, the incomes of recent college grads are growing so glacially that they make the rest of the country look like we’re discovering $100 bills in … Continue reading
US – Of 4 million job openings posted online, 2 million are for college graduates New Georgetown report finds
More than 80 percent of job openings for workers with a bachelor’s degree or better are posted online, compared to less than 50 percent of job openings for workers with less education*, according to a new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. The report analyzes the demand for college talent … Continue reading
US – College degree or vocational education ?
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that only 27 percent of jobs in the U.S. economy currently require a college degree. By comparison, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that 47 percent of workers today have an associate degree or higher. The BLS projects that the proportion of jobs requiring a college degree will barely … Continue reading
Starbucks – Employees to College for Free
Working at Starbucks is now a smarter move. The coffee chain plans to launch a new program on Monday that will pay for its employees to attend online college classes at Arizona State University. ” I believe it will lower attrition, it’ll increase performance, it’ll attract and retain better people I believe it will lower … Continue reading
College Education in US – 64% of hiring managers would still consider a candidate who hadn’t even attended college survey finds
Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm, and Beyond.com, The Career Network focused on helping people grow and succeed professionally, today announced the results of a study entitled, “The Multi-Generational Job Search.” Following a national survey of job seekers and HR professionals, 43% of the 2,978 respondents said that “cultural fit” was the … Continue reading
US College Labor Market / Recruiting Trends 2013-2014
The college labor market is improving, up 3 percent from last year for all degrees. Strong demand for accounting, marketing, computer science, engineering, human resources, public relations, and the inclusive “all majors” group will increase hiring for Bachelor’s degrees by 7 percent. The increase in hiring has been steady but could be better. Continue reading
Undermatching: academically capable low-income and minority students who do graduate from high school and are well prepared for college who do not succeed
“It has become a truism and a rare example of political consensus: Educators, researchers, and policymakers across the political spectrum agree that America must send more of its young people to college and must find ways to help them graduate” writes Jay Sherwin in Make Me a Match: Helping Low-Income and First-Generation Students Make Good College Choices … Continue reading
US / 41% of college grads overqualified for what they do
College just isn’t worth what it used to be. A survey out Tuesday found that 41% of college graduates from the last two years are stuck in jobs that don’t require a degree. Consulting firm Accenture talked to 1,005 students who graduated from college in 2011 and 2012 and haven’t returned to graduate school. In … Continue reading
US / The Skills Gap is good for technical college graduates
Tabetha Moore was a year away from earning her associate’s degree in human resources when a local manufacturing company gave her a full-time job in her field and agreed to pay for her last two semesters of school. The 21-year-old hasn’t yet negotiated the salary she’ll earn after obtaining her diploma from Fox Valley Technical … Continue reading
US / Vocational Education: a pathway to college, and a way to gain skills to pay tuition
Classes like wood shop or auto shop used to be called vocational classes. They were known as an academic dumping ground for students who weren’t succeeding in a regular classroom. But a lot has changed. In the rural mid-Michigan school district of Stockbridge, classes now offer a pathway to college, and a way to gain … Continue reading
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