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Make College Count
Important Strategies Parents and Students Need To Know To Maximize College and Career Success
By Debra Condren, Ph.D.
Are you a student or parent of a college-bound student? Today, it is more important than ever that parents and students strategize to make college count.
Parents are spending upwards or $150k and more on students’ college educations. Predictions are that this figure will increase significantly in upcoming years.
Too often, students fail to consider today’s career market until after they’ve graduated from college. For the last five years, up to 50% of college graduates have not been able to find a job after six months of searching. Over 25% who do find work end up in low paying jobs not requiring a college degree. These grads find themselves unprepared for and vulnerable in a job market which is more volatile and highly competitive than ever before.
Succeeding in college means graduating fully trained and qualified to do the job you want to do. It also means that you are well-positioned and competitive in a rapidly changing job market.
Savvy parents and students who recognize today’s reality can partner together to devise a college “business plan” devised to ensure that students get their true value out of school by maximizing their training time and tuition costs.
Important strategies you will learn about to help students succeed in college include:
- The reality of today’s college experience.
- How to avoid the common trap of this post-college realization: “If only I knew then what I know now.”
- Important, powerful tips to avoid wasting college money, time, and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to train a student’s unique talents.
- The three most important things parents & students can do to help ensure success in college.
- How to plan ahead to be able to “know how to do what you want to do when you get out of school."
- A powerful tool to increase your competitive edge with prospective employers when you graduate from college (rather than realizing, too late, that you are untrained for specific, well-paying careers.)
- How to identify where the high-demand jobs are moving.
- Thinking like a master chess player: How to select classes to meet your long-term goals.
- How to spot majors that offer a better chance of getting a good job, post-graduation.
- Tips for training multiple interests and talents simultaneously while in college.
- A key "thing" students must do before heading off to college.
- How to get in touch with your talents and realize that college is a place where you get "a once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity to train your passions and skills.
- How to have fun in college while also being smart and balanced about what you are doing today and where it’s going to lead you tomorrow.
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How to Form Your Own “Informal Board of Advisors” to Enhance Your Career
by Debra Condren, Ph.D.
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