Friday, March 23, 2012

Facebook's Timeline makes business history fun and easy to read

No doubt you're aware of Facebook's new Timeline for business pages.  Here's an interesting article about it with examples of some of the new content it makes possible (do you  know where the name for Tide detergent came from?): http://adage.com/article/digital/meet-coolest-facebook-brand-timelines-coke-espn-ford/233015/?utm_source=digital_email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=adage

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Useful advice about getting a job

This article links you to several sites with good advice about job hunting: job hunting advice .  Unless your future career is on track, I think you'd benefit from at least one of these.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Got a question for me?

Do you need an answer to something that's been bugging you about college life? Put it in a comment below, and I'll see what I can do to help answer it.  Or maybe another one of our readers will post an answer.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

What happens to you after graduation?

Maybe nothing, including no job, if you have been a slacker in college.  You are 3 TIMES more likely to be unable to get a job, and much more likely to wind up living with your parents after graduation, than students who were academic achievers in college.  You're also much more likely to have significant credit card debt. Read this article: http://www.citytowninfo.com/career-and-education-news/articles/academically-adrift-college-students-struggle-after-graduation-12012602

Monday, January 9, 2012

Will college help you or kill you?

Will you turn out like John Quincy Adams, the 6th president of the U.S., or like his brother, Charles, who went to Harvard just as J.Q. did, but died an alcoholic at age 30?  Read the advice their father gave them, at http://bit.ly/wUdlXx

Sunday, June 19, 2011

I'll bet you know someone like the students described in this article!

The article talks about "drifting dreamers," students with high ambitions but no clue how to achieve them, who practice "strategic management of work requirements -- that is, getting a degree with as little work as possible." Know anybody like that? (Not you, of course.) Btw, the article appeared in a Canadian online newspaper, but it's talking about U. S. students. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/is-our-students-learning/article2062281/