Weekly News: 3/10 - 3/14
Thanks for stopping by for another edition of the colleges, degrees, and careers weekly news. Here’s the news for this week:
Why You Should Care About the Recession
Written by a current college student, Why You Should Care About the Recession talks about how the current U.S. economy is affecting the job prospects of soon-to-be graduating students, as well as making it more difficult to pay for their educations. Most people in the United States have been affected by the downturn in the economy to one degree or another, whether it has cost you your job or just made the trip to the grocery store or gas station more costly then it once was. This article is just one more look at how people are having to deal with financial difficulties in today’s world.
New College Graduates to Find a Strong Job Market
Seeming to take the exact opposite stance from that presented in the previous article, New College Graduates to Find a Strong Job Market suggests that students that will be graduating college in the near future will actually find obtaining a job easier then they have in the past. This article attributes this to the fact that, as the baby boomer generation continues to reach retirement age, employers will be looking to fill the holes left by them with newly-trained, talented college graduates, especially in such career fields as marketing, engineering, and computer science. This is a much more optimistic view for current college students then that presented by many from across the web.
When the Job Doesn’t Meet Expectations
Many people have been in a situation like this: you finally find a job but, when you start working, you find that it is nothing like what you expected. In some cases, this is simply because you didn’t do your research into what the job was to entail before accepting employment. But, in other cases, it’s because your employer didn’t make it clear as to what they expected or simply decided to have you do tasks other than those you agreed to when you accepted the job. Whatever the facts behind problem, you must now deal with the situation you find yourself in. In this article, “When the Job Doesn’t Meet Expectations,” the author offers advice about what do to do to help correct the difficulties you might experience when you’re the job you get doesn’t match up with what you applied for.
Escaping from the Career Cul-de-sac
When people imagine climbing the corporate ladder of success, they like to think of it as a straight line. You start low down on the company totem-pole and work your way up to the top. More often than not, this is not the case. There are many ups and downs, turns and bumps, in the road to success. Sometimes, you may even find yourself stuck in a place with no apparent means to progress further. In the article, Escaping from the Career Cul-de-sac, the author interviews a particularly successful businessman who relates his own experience in climbing to the top of his career as well as offering some advice on how others can follow his example.
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