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• Management Consulting and Finance: Still Desirable for College Grads?

  My friend and 30/20 Vision radio show co-host Lindsey Pollak and I had the opportunity to contribute to Marci Alboher’s New York Times career coach roundtable on management consulting and investment banking as careers for soon-to-be college grads. Here Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 4 Comments Filed under: Entry Level, Current Affairs, Business, Personal Development, Work, School, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• Hiring Managers Slow to Accept Online Degrees

  Well now, this is kind of scary… While employers and hiring managers are seeing more job applicants with online degrees these days, they’re not exactly clamoring to hire them. According to Vault.com’s 2008 Online Degrees Survey , while 49% of those who Read More... Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Continuing Education, Current Affairs, Employment Trends, Job Hunting, School

• You Can't Always Get What You Want

  At the gym, I was thumbing through a new issue of Time Magazine . One of the articles was about college wait-listing. According to Time, the high school class of 2008, 3.4 million strong, is the largest in American history. As such, getting into a first Read More... Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Current Affairs, Professionalism, News and Politics, School, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• How Necessary is a Top College?

  In his post about undergraduate colleges in the U.S , Seth Godin discusses the marketing hype surrounding the admissions process. Given the fact that today’s parents and their school-aged kids obsess for decades about the decision of where to go to college Read More... Posted Friday, November 09, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Continuing Education, Current Affairs, Personal Development, School, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• 30/20 Vision: New 20-Something Podcast Series!

  I am really excited to share the debut of the new 30/20 Podcast series - especially for the 20-something woman who wishes she had a couple of big sisters to clue her in on the ins and outs of life after college. The series will feature me and my fellow Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Entry Level, Attitude & Motivation, Current Affairs, Discovering Your Passion, Life Balance, Mentoring, Personal Development, Daily Life, Work, School, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• College Graduation = Real World? Not Exactly

  Thanks to CollegeRecruiter.com for pointing out an interesting aspect of MonsterTrak’s 2006 study of college graduates . Now while it comes as no surprise that modern college grads are moving back home in droves, it may be as shocking to you as it was Read More... Posted Monday, January 15, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Entry Level, Current Affairs, Goals, Plans, Hopes, News and Politics, School Attachment(s): http://www.lapalm-moving.com/pics/alliedtruck.jpg

• What Does the Election Mean to You?

  By now, the news has sunk in that the Democrats have taken over Congress, and everyone’s talking about what will happen next in Iraq. But what, if anything, does it mean for your earning potential? In USA Today, Sue Kirchhoff and Kathy Chu speculate about Read More... Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Continuing Education, Current Affairs, Employment Trends, Business, School Attachment(s): http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/homepage/hp11-7-06ddd.jpg