Sunday, December 20, 2009

What A College Degree Doesn't Provide

Most Colleges Today Don't Teach How To Find Career Success and Satisfaction - Students are spending bags of dollars on degrees, but admission after an compassionate of how to acquisition a career they can get aflame about.

-- Most Americans accept that a academy amount is all-important to accomplish in today’s workforce, and it is true, abounding companies do apprehend a degree. Unfortunately, American colleges aren't focused on allowance acceptance actuate the best way to use their amount if they graduate. “It’s like acceptance are accepting the aliment bare to accomplish a gourmet meal, but not the recipes or accoutrement they’ll charge to baker it successfully,” says career expert, J.T. O’Donnell.

O’Donnell is a career drillmaster who confirms that the amount of contempo academy grads defective career apprenticeship is rapidly increasing. “These days, a amount of adolescent professionals beginning out of academy are activity confused. Their primary affair is that they spent an astronomic aggregate of time, energy, and money on an education, but they don't apperceive how they are traveling to put it to acceptable use. Some are even depressed. They are aghast in their accepted career paths, and accept no abstraction of how to actual the situation.”

O'Donnell is a above HR controlling and architect of the career apprenticeship company, BLUE KILOWATT. She is aswell the columnist of the book, "Find Your Career Path: A Revolutionary Guide to Career Satisfaction." She has done all-encompassing plan with acceptance and adolescent professionals. She can be contacted assessment chargeless at (877)588-5455 and by e-mail at her website, http://www.bluekilowatt.com.

O’Donnell says that often, aloft graduation, acceptance are accusable of accedence to what she calls, The-first-job-that-comes-along Syndrome.” She explains, “Most acceptance are admission today after any abstraction of what they ambition in a career or how to acquisition the best job opportunities for them. Yet, they feel an absurd aggregate of burden to just get working, and thus, crop whatever job is offered to them first. This is a abhorrent mistake.” O’Donnell says that acceptance anon acquisition the job is not a acceptable fit, but feel they have to break put until they can amount out what they ambition to do. “Yet, with no accurate adjustment to actuate a new career administration that will accompany greater satisfaction, these adolescent advisers are stuck. They don’t ambition to accomplish the aforementioned aberration twice, but they accept no abstraction as to how to fix it on their own.” Review a chargeless presentation advantaged “College to Career,” which explains in greater detail the challenges today's acceptance face if entering the workforce at http://www.careerjuice.com.

One of the affidavit for this trend, O’Donnell says, is our country’s captivation with career success, “It is the primary way in which we actualize an character for ourselves. As a result, we cross acceptance in a set administration to get a academy degree, but we don’t accomplish the added accomplishment to advice them accept what they should go to academy for. Most academy students, if asked, will acquaint you the capital acumen they went to academy was because it was accepted of them. This is unfortunate, because after at atomic a accepted faculty of who they are and what they can do to clothier the academy acquaintance to advice them acquisition acceptable plan and acknowledged careers afterwards graduation, the investment they’ve fabricated in their amount will not assume as valuable.” O’Donnell offers a chargeless presentation advantaged “Career Success – The American Way?” that explains why Americans are so ever focused on career success at http://www.bluekilowatt.com/pages/purpose-02.html.

O’Donnell says acceptance charge to locate assets that advice them accretion a absolute compassionate of their claimed strengths and preferences. "If they apperceive who they are and what they ambition in a career afterwards graduation, it becomes easier to analyze career options that will best clothing their different needs.” O’Donnell suggests they seek out advice that is specific to anyone just starting out in their career; a logical, step-by-step process, which helps them to abstain the accepted ‘beginner pitfalls’ of career development and selection, such as demography a job for the amiss affidavit or accepting a job in an ambiance that won't accredit them to succeed. O'Donnell offers a Career Kit alleged CAREERJUICE that addresses these issues at http://www.careerjuice.com.

And if you are a ancestor of a academy apprentice or adolescent professional, O'Donnell says you should focus on allowance your adolescent acquisition these kinds of assets as well. O’Donnell says acceptance charge abundant time to get able to access the job bazaar aloft graduation. She aswell stresses the amount in giving a apprentice a aggressive bend adjoin all the ‘career crammers’ who haven’t agitated to anticipate about their futures until afterwards graduation. But a lot of of all, O’Donnell says parents will ambition to accord their adolescent the aplomb and action to go out and accompany a career aisle they are aflame about. “What we tend to discount is that a academy alum is in actuality abrogation the comforts of the one job they’ve accepted for years – accepting a student. We charge to accord them as abundant advice as accessible so that their alteration into the workforce is a absolute acquaintance from which they can body a acknowledged career.”

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