As you begin your career you need to determine what you want to do, for a living and for that matter, with you life. During your campus years, it is best to at least develop an hypothesis and being your discover in that direction.
If you keep your desire to figure this out as a priority, all will be well. If you just go class to class, or assignment to assignment, and think it will come upon you at some juncture, you are lacking strategy and wasting time. Here are some ways you can help yourself:
Attached you will find a link to 8 minutes that can change your life IF, you follow what NY Times best selling author David Bach says. He outlines the essence of his blockbusting best seller, The Automatic Millionaire. He even offers a free download of an updated version of that work, and Start Over Finish Rich for free. Both works are timeless and apply perfectly to you today. Read More...
On nearly every college campus I visit, Freshmen don’t frequent the Career Center. They figure getting a job is soooooo far off, so they don’t prioritize that activity. As Seniors stare down the barrel of ‘needing a job’, nearly all wish they had started this process sooner, and for good reason. Of students who graduate with a bachelors, half get a job that required a degree. Read More...
Some of life’s greatest pleasures come from the ability of choice. Whether we are thinking about where to live, who to love, or what to buy, we all like the ability to choose. The same can be said about choosing your career path. While there is no magic formula or treasure map to follow that will ultimately lead you to your ideal job and career, there are a few things you can do to help make the decision easier. Read More...
Your twenty-something years are critical for your success for three reasons:
There are three macro objectives one must achieve as you navigate through your learning years:
Your first job is very important as you depart from campus. If you have done a great search, you not only have a job, but it is the first step in a career that you are very excited about. It should be an area or industry that will grow over the course of your working years, so as you become great, opportunity abounds. That first job also can be precedent setting as well. Read More...
On campus you are surrounded by many events and opportunities to find employment through internships and/or full time jobs. These fall into the category of the ‘physical job search’ which include events and contacts that you can physically engage with to find an opportunity. Read More...
Pope Francis just visited and regardless of your faithfulness or lack thereof, he moved everyone he came in contact with. I believe he inspired us to raise the bar of expectation on a variety of issues. Don’t settle for what is given today, but raise the bar to a grander vision. I think that this touches on a huge issue facing us today and with that, reveals opportunity for all of us. Read More...
As baseball Hall of Famer Connie Mack said, ‘You can’t win them all.’ But that does not lessen the sting of NO. So what happens when you get a no? You were working with a recruiter, who ushered you into an opportunity. Perhaps they spoke so optimistically that you started to feel like this was nearly a done-deal. Then you get a rejection. Read More...
Are students who repeat an internship with an employer more likely to convert to a full time offer? This is a really important question that you need to get your arms around in that, if you were to get an internship between your sophomore and junior year and then be asked back for a repeat internship, Read More...
Every major financial guru that I know recommends having an emergency fund, and for good reason. This MUST be part of your financial plans as you move forward. Modest, regular funding into an emergency fund will get you to where you need to be over time.
What Is An Emergency Fund? Read More...
NACE, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (think college career centers partnered with employers) just released preliminary numbers that show:
The Study
About a year ago, Gallup and Purdue released a study where they tested workers just beyond mid-career in order to assess them on two fronts:
The work at LearnEarnRetire is for the 18-24 year old, usually in college, but always in a quest for betterment.
Toward that end, I want to share some advice I got from a book that I think is one of the best books ever on networking and professional development, The Start-Up of YOU.
Millions of you are on campus for the fall. Some of you are newly minted freshman and many others are making your return from summer break. Interests, area of study, and academic environments vary. BUT, you all share the same #1 objective. There are over 21 million of you attending college in America, and over 150 million post-secondary students worldwide Read More...
Once you land in your first role, you can rest assured that your new employer wants a highly engaged employee. What’s that? Employees who operate consistently above and beyond the norm. Better described they:
A High-Activity Process-Based Job Search
The job search itself boils down to this: You take Your Brand (who you are) and couple that with the amplification potential of Your Network (who you know and who they know) and insert them into aHigh-Activity Processed-Based job search.
We are in the midst of summer. A lot of students are working. Many are in jobs that are not internships in their potential future field. Plain and simple, millions are working to sock away some money.
So let’s say you have ‘a job.’ You don’t love it. Maybe you don’t even like it. It is just a‘summer job.’
The best outcome is, of course: Read More...