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Introduction to Post-Graduate Opportunities. Exploring the right path for YOU. 2-Year or 4-Year Accredited University/College. On average, university graduates will make hundreds of thousands of dollars more over a lifetime compared to those with simply a high school degree.
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Introduction to Post-Graduate Opportunities Exploring the right path for YOU
2-Year or 4-Year Accredited University/College • On average, university graduates will make hundreds of thousands of dollars more over a lifetime compared to those with simply a high school degree. • You must be determined to graduate in order to benefit from an investment in a college degree. Students who do not put in the time to complete their degree programs will ultimately incur the cost of an education without the benefits. Other factors that contribute to such a return include one’s major/field of study and one’s school selection. • According to an article in The New York Times, a recent study published by the Pew Charitable Trusts in January 2013 indicated that those with a college degree fared much better over the course of the economy’s recession when compared to those with only a high school diploma. • When considering earning potential, it is widely assumed that 4-year degrees yield higher pay than 2-year degrees. That is simply not the case for all fields of study. Refer to the Post article published in January 2013.
US Military • The US military consists of the following branches: Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, and the Navy. • Incentives for service include housing, cost of living allowances, occupational training, tax benefits, education benefits, and health care. • Programs, such as the Partnership for Youth Success, incentivize enlistment further by providing service men and women with preferential hiring at over 250 civilian companies upon being discharged from duty.
Trade/Vocational School • On average, the annual trade school tuition is roughly half the cost of a four-year university. • Compared to a four-year college, trade school graduates spend less time studying by focusing on a particular profession’s skills/duties. • The following careers are considered trade professions: Electrician, Heavy Vehicle Operator, Landscape Architect, Avionics Engineer, Welder, Jeweler, Robotics Technician, Software Developer, Telecommunications Project Manager, and Dental Lab Technician.
Alternative Education • According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, it is anticipated that occupations like brickmasonary, construction, pipelaying and plumbing are to be among the 10 fastest-growing occupations over the next decade, none of which requires a traditional degree. • Believe it or not, there are three million jobs going unfilled because employers cannot find skilled applicants. • Mike Rowe of Discovery’s Dirty Jobs is seeking to bridge the skills gap by informing young people about jobs within industries that go unnoticed. • See ProfoundlyDisconnected.com and MikeRoweWorks.com to read articles and view clips that speak to and about this divide.
Excerpt of Money Morning Article titled “U.S. Unemployment: Three Million Jobs are Waiting to be Filled” • Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) is but one example of a company that can’t find skilled applicants for job openings. The company recently attempted to hire 26 employees, but nobody applied. • Bill Begal, who runs a Rockville, MD-based disaster-cleanup company, told Bloomberg News that he has spent almost $2,000 since March on help-wanted ads in newspapers, websites, and state employment services up and down the East Coast to find sales and administrative staff. • “I want people to come out and work for me,” said Begal, 42, whose teams respond to hurricanes, such as Katrina in New Orleans and other natural disasters. “Where are they? I just don’t see it.” • Robert Funk, chairman and chief executive of Express Employment Professionals, a national staffing firm based in Oklahoma City that helped 335,000 people land jobs last year, told the New York Times: “We currently have 18,000 open job orders we can’t fill.” How can so many jobs remain unfilled with U.S. unemployment so high? • One explanation is that many would-be workers lack the necessary skills to fill those positions. “There is higher demand for skilled jobs and less demand for unskilled positions than we’ve seen coming out of past recessions,” Funk said.
