Health and Human Services Professional Development

Is College Worth It? by   Roberta Kingery   on   July 17, 2013   This is the big question today.  The news media is painting a picture that is beginning to scare students and their families as they look at the cost of a college education.  We see news reports highlighting the number of college students who are unemployed, and I’ve seen it personally in my position as a Career Counselor.  But is it really as bad as the media wants us to believe? I don’t think so.  But the key to personal success after college is YOU.  Earning a college degree does not ensure that you will get the job of your dreams after graduation, in fact, simply doing enough to get by in college may not open the doors you seek.  You get out of it what you put into it – and it takes more than that. Let’s start with what you accomplish in school.   GPA is important.   A 2.0 GPA means you earned a C average.  Let’s focus on the word “av...

Among the Employed by   Jill Bowers   on   October 24, 2013   According to a study at   Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce (via  Yahoo! Education ) , graduates of the following discipline areas were   least likely to be unemployed: Nursing   (unemployment rate: 4.8%),   Elementary education   (unemployment rate: 5%),   Physical fitness and parks and recreation   (unemployment rate: 5.2%),   Chemistry   (unemployment rate: 5.8%),   Finance   (unemployment rate: 5.9%),   Mathematics   (unemployment rate: 5.9%),   Hospitality management   (unemployment rate: 6%),   Drama, theatre, and arts   (unemployment rate: 6.4%),   Family and consumer sciences   (unemployment rate: 6.4%), and   Marketing and marketing research   (unemployment rate: 6.9%). Rationale for higher employment rates in certain fields could be linked to natio...