Pursuing Your Career
Students will be returning to campuses nationwide during the next few weeks, and the weight of college costs will be most evident as students spend a ton of money on textbooks and other supplies. Problem is, a lot of the textbooks purchase never get used by the student spending $150 per book (understandably, those students …
Thomas Sullivan’s book, COLLEGE…WITHOUT THE EXCESSIVE DEBT, paints a grim reality. Students on average graduate with between 30K—35K in debt (Sullivan 2019:4). That’s a haunting statistic. His very short book provides a great blueprint for how students can avoid loans (for the most part if not altogether). Students continually using scholarship search engines to find …
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Not everyone has the luxury of working in an air-conditioned office. I’m sorta kinda in that situation. The building I work in has no AC, but my darling wife purchased me a portable AC unit for an anniversary gift. Yet, when I work at home or I go to another person’s office to fix any …
Sunblock or protective apparel – whatever you choose, don’t go outdoors without protection.
I’ve been involved in the higher education field for over twenty years, 16 years of which I have worked full time as an academic and career counselor for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. I myself was part of the program I now work for and have my own experience being a first-generation college student. My parents …
For those who have ever participated in efforts to hire new staff members, it will comes as no surprise that the recruiting process is often long, exhausting, frustrating, and costly. Matters get worse if at the end of a search, no one among the interviewed is hired. Now, I get that recruiters and members of …
My first position, paid, as a field archaeologist was as a teaching assistant for Dr. Eill Engelbrecht working on a Iroquoian site dating back to the 1500s. The year was 1992. There were 5 teaching assistants, the other 4 were grad students while I was a rising Junior/undergrad. The experience was filled with excitement and …
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Thomas Sullivan’s new book, COLLEGE… WITHOUT THE EXCESSIVE DEBT, gives a rather eye-opening view of college and the debt students on average leave college with, whether or not students completed any degrees. I myself have seen multiple students with over $20,000 in college loan debt fail to complete a degree. So, these students are left …
The older I get, the more I believe that “digital native” is not generational. I don’t even know if being digitally native is truly a thing. Gen-Xers like me were digital pioneers being the young generation that drove the explosion of web-based applications during the 90s. Millennials and Baby Boomers likewise were digital pioneers in …
So, what should you wear to a job interview? Sure, a number of readers will roll their eyes and laugh off this topic, thinking everyone knows the dress code rules. Funny thing is, I’ve been in way too many interviews where it was clear the interviewee was clueless about dressing for success. The image above? …