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 was the question, as well as highlights from our responses: “I will be graduating ...

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 ...

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 choice college is a heck of a lot tougher if you had the misfortune of being ...

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 ...

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 authors and pals Christine Hassler (20-Something, 20-Everything), and Lindsey Pollak (From ...

[ImageAttachment] 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 to me to learn that nearly HALF planned to return to their parents’ ...

[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 ...