Download or read book Family Background Campus Experience and Job Searching written by Dian Liu and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Career aspirations reflect the individual social desires.By conducting a questionnaire survey among a group of Chinese students, this study explores career aspirations of Chinese college students and examines the link between socio-economic background and career aspirations, as well as the link between campus experience and career aspirations.It is found that students from better-off socio-economic backgrounds, whose parents have higher educational attainment, higher occupational status and higher income, tend to have higher aspirations towards their future career. Students who focus more on academic study and are more satisfied with their campus environment and available academic resources also tend to have higher career aspirations. Significant predictors of career aspirations were also found in this study. Mother's educational attainment and occupation turn out to be the most important variables in socio-economic background, predicting both students' desired occupation and salary. Students' time spent studying, together with their degree of satisfaction with academic resources are essential campus experience variables, predicting both students' desired occupation and salary.
Download or read book The Privileged Poor written by Anthony Abraham Jack and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Favorite Book of the Year Winner of the Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association Winner of the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award Winner of the CEP–Mildred García Award for Exemplary Scholarship “Eye-opening...Brings home the pain and reality of on-campus poverty and puts the blame squarely on elite institutions.” —Washington Post “Jack’s investigation redirects attention from the matter of access to the matter of inclusion...His book challenges universities to support the diversity they indulge in advertising.” —New Yorker “The lesson is plain—simply admitting low-income students is just the start of a university’s obligations. Once they’re on campus, colleges must show them that they are full-fledged citizen.” —David Kirp, American Prospect “This book should be studied closely by anyone interested in improving diversity and inclusion in higher education and provides a moving call to action for us all.” —Raj Chetty, Harvard University The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In this bracing exposé, Anthony Jack shows that many students’ struggles continue long after they’ve settled in their dorms. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance. This powerfully argued book documents how university policies and campus culture can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why some students are harder hit than others.
Download or read book What College Didn t Teach You About Getting Hired written by Jon Nelsen and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if there was a PROVEN method you could follow to SECURE the job of your dreams after graduating college? A job that pays you what your worth and that FITS YOUR PERSONALITY... Are you looking for a guide that will help you spot where you've been making mistakes and how to fix those problems, for good, so that you finally get the job you prepared for in college? If you've answered YES, keep reading... You're About To Discover Exactly How To Secure A Job That Pays Well And You're Proud Of Right After Graduation! You are about to learn exactly What College Didn't Teach You About Getting Hired! BUY NOW to take the first steps to a better life! The fact that you are reading this is enough proof that you don't need a lecture about how difficult getting a job is after college. You must have felt it - the pain, humiliation, frustration and sadness. It's infuriating to imagine that all your hopes and expectations that accumulated over the years of difficult schooling had to end in the misery of joblessness. But it's a sad truth that most graduates have to live with. Have you ever sat down and wondered... - Why are employers demanding "three years" experience? - Do I have to accept a paycheck just a couple of dollars above the minimum wage? - Why is it so freakin difficult to convince an employer to give you a chance to showcase your skills? - What do I need to do to get a job? - How do I know which job is right for me? This POWERFUL BOOK is here to give you detailed answers to all the questions you have been asking yourself, including what it is that college graduates do wrong, what they erroneously perceive and what they need to do to overcome the main challenges they face in finding a job. More precisely, you'll discover: - An overview of life and expectations after college - The three main problems graduates face today, and what you need to overcome them - How to set your career goals to see success - How to find the right job along with tips to do so successfully - How to find a job you enjoy - The top side-hustles every recent graduate needs to know - How to put it all together and secure your dream career with surefire strategies - How to find a job fast ... and much more! The reasons for not getting employed after college are too many to mention and while in some cases, college graduates fail to land a job because of situations that are beyond their control, there's a great many of them who actually fail to get a job because of failing to do a number of things right, or failing to acknowledge a number of hard truths. So whether you are looking for how to find a job at home, or how to find a job in another city this book will help you! Or maybe you are looking for a guide on how to find a job in a small town rather than a job in a big city, it can help with that too! This life changing bookhas all the best job search strategies you need! What College Didn't Teach You About Getting Hired will show you how to find a job that fits you and a job you love! The information contained in this book could literally be worth $1,000s over the course of your career!
Download or read book First in Family Students University Experience and Family Life written by Sarah O'Shea and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book, now in its second edition, offers a comprehensive overview of the experiences of First in Family (FiF) or first-generation students in higher education. It draws upon narratives of students and their family members and spans the entire university student life cycle (pre-entry, commencement, progression and graduation) with a focus on specific cohorts including mature-aged students, parents or carers, as well as the differentiated experiences of male and female learners. With research drawn from three major research projects and including over 650 FiF students from across all Australian states and territories, as well as Europe, this wealth of perspectives provides unique insights into the lived reality of attending university in contemporary higher education settings. The book is written for a broad audience and will appeal to those working in universities, as well as family members and students who may be contemplating participating in higher education.
Download or read book ENTRYLEVELtweet written by Heather R. Huhman and published by Happy About. This book was released on 2010 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The statistics are frightening. The National Association of Colleges and Employers' (NACE) 2009 Student Survey shows that just 19.7 percent of 2009 graduates who applied for a job actually have one. And, according to NACE's Job Outlook 2010 Fall Preview, employers expect to hire 7 percent fewer graduates from the college Class of 2010 than they hired from the Class of 2009. What's worse, this issue cannot completely be blamed on a poor economy. Entry-level hiring should have increased because many employers have laid off more expensive, experienced talent. So what's preventing new talent from entering the career marketplace? Millennials--those individuals born between 1977 and 1997 and also known as Generation Y--often expect college to teach them how to find jobs and are disappointed upon finding out this is not the case. And the career advice they do receive comes from ""authority figures"" (i.e., campus career center staff), whom they do not believe or trust. These graduates need practical and insightful guidance from someone who knows the challenges they face and how to overcome them. ""#ENTRYLEVELtweet Book01"" by career expert Heather R. Huhman is a must-read for college students and recent grads who want to learn what it takes to find, land, and succeed in an entry-level career. In 140 tweet-style tips, Huhman provides a roadmap of what to do to impress hiring managers, how to create stand-out ""career tools,"" and how to network during your job search with confidence in yourself and what you have to offer potential employers. Want to get ahead of your college colleagues? Get your copy of '#ENTRYLEVELtweet Book01' now, and let it guide you from classroom to career in approximately fifteen minutes--the perfect length of time for a busy student or job seeker. '#ENTRYLEVELtweet Book01' is part of the THINKaha series whose 100-page books contain 140 well-thought-out quotes (tweets/ahas).
Download or read book There Is Life After College written by Jeffrey J. Selingo and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of College Unbound comes a hopeful, inspiring blueprint to help alleviate parents’ anxiety and prepare their college-educated child to successfully land a good job after graduation. Saddled with thousands of dollars of debt, today’s college students are graduating into an uncertain job market that is leaving them financially dependent on their parents for years to come—a reality that has left moms and dads wondering: What did I pay all that money for? There Is Life After College offers students, parents, and even recent graduates the practical advice and insight they need to jumpstart their careers. Education expert Jeffrey Selingo answers key questions—Why is the transition to post-college life so difficult for many recent graduates? How can graduates market themselves to employers that are reluctant to provide on-the-job training? What can institutions and individuals do to end the current educational and economic stalemate?—and offers a practical step-by-step plan every young professional can follow. From the end of high school through college graduation, he lays out exactly what students need to do to acquire the skills companies want. Full of tips, advice, and insight, this wise, practical guide will help every student, no matter their major or degree, find real employment—and give their parents some peace of mind.
Download or read book Getting an Academic Job written by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1997 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have almost finished graduate school and you are wondering . . . How do I get that first academic job? Authors Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld and Marcia Lynn Whicker lead their readers through the basics: Are your sights set too high or not high enough? Are you prepared for the campus interview? Have you shown your seriousness about your career through your publications? These questions and many more are thoroughly covered in Getting An Academic Job, a brief yet practical guide to successfully entering the academic job market. Getting An Academic Job provides examples from a multitude of disciplines and academic settings and will be an essential guide to any graduate student.
Download or read book Finding a New Job in 90 Days Or Less written by Edward Murphy and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 120+ page book is about Finding a New Job in 90 Days or Less and includes all facets of Job Searching. Here you'll learn how to identify, measure, and increase your value added to any employer, how to create a compelling resume strong enough to make your phone ring, how to get your resume to the right people, how to interview strong enough to be selected as the #1 candidate, how to negotiating strong enough to receive the highest compensation the employer can afford, how to change careers, and how to measure the progress of your search. If you're looking for a better way to enhance your professional career, this is the book for you. Stop wishing you had a better career and do something about it. Put an Executive Coach on your team today!
Download or read book Spotlight on China written by Shibao Guo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fuelled by forces of globalization, China has gradually shifted from a centrally planned economy to a socialist market economy. Under the market economy China has experienced a massive and protracted economic boom. It is not clear however whether recent economic changes have brought the same miracle to education in China. Spotlight on China brings together established and emerging scholars from China and internationally in a dialogue about the profound social and economic transformation that has resulted from the market economy and its concomitant impact on education in China. The book covers a wide range of topics, including: • Market economy and curriculum reform• Teaching under China’s market economy• Changes in higher education• Transitions from education to work • Market economy and social inequality With its broad scope and fresh critical perspectives, this collection offers a most contemporary and comprehensive analysis of possibly the largest education system in the world. Lessons learned from the China experiment will inform researchers and educators about social and educational reforms in other countries which are undergoing similar fundamental changes. Spotlight on China provides a state of the art picture: dynamic, partial, full of contradictions and tensions, and, as we speak, in movement and local reconfiguration.” – Allan Luke, Queensland University of Technology. “The book moves social science research on China’s education another step forward by refining the balance between the viability of mainstream western concepts and the analytical possibilities of creating a new scholarship based on a deeper understanding of the historically grounded realities of contemporary Chinese education.” – Gerard A. Postiglione, The University of Hong Kong"
Download or read book Career and Family written by Claudia Goldin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author builds on decades of complex research to examine the gender pay gap and the unequal distribution of labor between couples in the home. The author argues that although public and private discourse has brought these concerns to light, the actions taken - such as a single company slapped on the wrist or a few progressive leaders going on paternity leave - are the economic equivalent of tossing a band-aid to someone with cancer. These solutions, the author writes, treat the symptoms and not the disease of gender inequality in the workplace and economy. Here, the author points to data that reveals how the pay gap widens further down the line in women's careers, about 10 to 15 years out, as opposed to those beginning careers after college. She examines five distinct groups of women over the course of the twentieth century: cohorts of women who differ in terms of career, job, marriage, and children, in approximated years of graduation - 1900s, 1920s, 1950s, 1970s, and 1990s - based on various demographic, labor force, and occupational outcomes. The book argues that our entire economy is trapped in an old way of doing business; work structures have not adapted as more women enter the workforce. Gender equality in pay and equity in home and childcare labor are flip sides of the same issue, and the author frames both in the context of a serious empirical exploration that has not yet been put in a long-run historical context. This book offers a deep look into census data, rich information about individual college graduates over their lifetimes, and various records and sources of material to offer a new model to restructure the home and school systems that contribute to the gender pay gap and the quest for both family and career. --
Download or read book Colleges That Change Lives written by Loren Pope and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-07-25 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prospective college students and their parents have been relying on Loren Pope's expertise since 1995, when he published the first edition of this indispensable guide. This new edition profiles 41 colleges—all of which outdo the Ivies and research universities in producing performers, not only among A students but also among those who get Bs and Cs. Contents include: Evaluations of each school's program and "personality" Candid assessments by students, professors, and deans Information on the progress of graduates This new edition not only revisits schools listed in previous volumes to give readers a comprehensive assessment, it also addresses such issues as homeschooling, learning disabilities, and single-sex education.
Download or read book Real Life Guide to Starting Your Career written by Margot Carmichael Lester and published by Pipeline Press. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real Life Guide to Starting Your Career gives recent graduates a step-by-step approach to finding, pursuing, and securing the right job after college. It is the second work from Michael Hoffman. It guides new members of the educated and employed through the job hunting process and helps them identify a solid strategy for getting the most out of their career.
Download or read book Making the Jump written by Jim Anderson and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been written with one goal in mind – to show you how you can land the perfect job when you get out of college. It doesn't matter where you are in school (Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, or Senior) the strategies laid out here are going to get you the job that you want! It's full of practical, proven techniques that will both help you to find the job that you want and make it yours!What You'll Find Inside:• How to get real-world work experience before you get out of college!• Hidden LinkedIn techniques that you can use to get in contact with the people who want to hire you!• Secret tips for mastering the interview process and getting the job!• How to make yourself look different from everyone else who wants the job that you are interviewing forDr. Jim Anderson brings his 15 years of college education coupled with his over 25 years of real-world work experience to this book. He's been on both sides of the interview table and he's going to show you exactly what you need to do in order to find and get the job that is perfect for youIt turns out that this transition from working to get a college degree to starting to use that college degree as part of your first professional job can be made to be a lot less scary. What you need to do is understand that it's going to happen and then start to prepare for it.It turns out that this finding of a first job after you graduate from college is not all that hard to do. Look at it this way, people have been graduating from college forever and ever and each year thousands of new graduates stream out of colleges all across the country and they all seem to somehow end up working at a job in a fairly short period of time. Sure there are always some exceptions, but we're talking about most people here.This means that you've got some pretty good odds that you are going to find a job after you graduate. However, I want you to do just a little bit better than that: I want you to find the perfect job for you.I've spent over 25 years working in the so-called "real world". During that time I've had the opportunity to do my fair share of interviewing and selecting of new college grads. Trust me when I tell you that I have first-hand knowledge of what it takes to be the job candidate that gets selected for a position.How to find the perfect job for you is exactly what this book is all about. We're going to start at the beginning and we'll take you through the entire process. We're going to be covering everything that you need to know about how to find the right job for you and then how to make sure that the people who are doing the hiring see you as the perfect candidate for that job.
Download or read book How to Write Powerful College Student Resumes Cover Letters written by Quentin James Schultze and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how college students and graduates of all ages and careers can:(1)transform even modest educational achievements and non-paying life experiences such as hobbies, travel, computer skills, family circumstances, and extracurricular activities) into interview-getting statements about job-transferable Skills, Knowledge, and Traits ("SKiTs"), (2) generate job interviews by fine-tuning resumes and cover letters specifically for each job application, and (3) prepare successfully for interviews by writing such persuasive resumes and cover letters. SPECIAL FEATURES include: an in-depth index, before-and-after samples of rewritten resumes and cover letters; a beginning-to-end flow chart for writing resumes and cover letters; "Dr. Q's Tips" based on actual student and alumni experiences; "Expert Advice" quotations from dozens of professional publications not on the Internet; a category-related list of "action verbs" that appeal to potential employers; sample resumes WITH accompanying cover letters. Based on solid research and professional reports from dozens of career fields, this engaging book is filled with personal stories and practical insights not available elsewhere. Hundreds of educators and career development experts across North American have endorsed "How to Write Powerful College Student Resumes and Cover Letters" and recommend it enthusiastically to students and alumni. Foreword by Richard N. Bolles, author of the best-selling "What Color Is Your Parachute?" books for job-hunters and career-changers.
Download or read book Life After College written by Jenny Blake and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents advice and written exercises for college graduates, covering issues that deal with work, friends, family, dating, health, leisure, personal growth, and life goals.
Download or read book The Experience of Being First in Family at University written by Sharron King and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-26 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth analysis of what it means to be the first in family at university. It examines the factors that influence first in family students' decisions to enrol, attend and continue at university, and how their hopes, dreams and ambitions for the future affect their university experience. Using survey data and semi-structured interviews, the book offers valuable and far-reaching insights into the first in family student experience, and provides recommendations for future practice at the national and institutional level for teaching and professional staff as well as for first in family students. As universities face intense competition for students and growing economic constraints due to funding cuts and increasing costs, this book comes at a critical time.
Download or read book Help Me to Find My People written by Heather Andrea Williams and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, siblings, spouses, and children. Williams explores the heartbreaking stories of separation and the long, usually unsuccessful journeys toward reunification. Examining the interior lives of the enslaved and freedpeople as they tried to come to terms with great loss, Williams grounds their grief, fear, anger, longing, frustration, and hope in the history of American slavery and the domestic slave trade. Williams follows those who were separated, chronicles their searches, and documents the rare experience of reunion. She also explores the sympathy, indifference, hostility, or empathy expressed by whites about sundered black families. Williams shows how searches for family members in the post-Civil War era continue to reverberate in African American culture in the ongoing search for family history and connection across generations.
