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 make hiring decisions have encountered applicants with online degrees, a 15 percentage ...

When I performed last year’s survey of the coolest jobs, I was a little surprised when no one voted for two of the most traditionally prestigious occupations – lawyer and doctor.  And sure enough, this week the New York Times reported that the desirability of the law and medical professions is at an all time low.    In the days ...

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 and if they’ll be able to get into the school of their dreams, it might surprise you to ...

[ImageAttachment] 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 how our world might change in light of the recent political ...

CNN Money reports that the U.S. Census Bureau has released a list of the “brainiest cities in America” based on education rankings.  If you equate education with intelligence, then the smartest city in the United States is Seattle - 52.7 percent of its residents age 25 or older have completed a bachelor's degree or higher. Second to Seattle ...