College Can Help You With Your Career

Published on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 by Nohel Category: Career Development

Higher education is, by all means, the way to secure your path to the top of the ladder. One cannot think of having a career without at least a bachelors’ degree. Let us outline some of the ways in which college can help you with your career.

Acquire the skills you need

This is probably the most important way a degree will help you with your career. “You can’t learn Economics from Google and Wikipedia”, said the CFO of a Big Four audit company. College creates a solid foundation on which you can build your career.

Networking

College helps you connect with professionals in your chosen field. You will gain exposure to the industry requirements and meet new people sharing your interests. In other words, you will be connecting.

Career guidance

More and more colleges offer career guidance programs to their students. They help you focus on a certain path and fine-tune the skills you will need in your chosen field. “Computer science”, for example, is a broad field: college will help you find whether you would like a career in, let’s say, computer programming, software engineering or data analysis.

Learn how to learn

College introduces you to various sources of information and teaches you how to do your own research. It builds a mindset, preparing you to learn on your own and improve your skills continuously. College builds soft skills: it makes you develop a team spirit, coaching abilities, proactive attitude, decision making and problem solving.

Meet employers’ requirements

It’s a fact: nowadays more and more employers look for individuals with college degrees. A bachelors’ diploma is an indication that the applicant has been taught the skills required by the company, can build new skills and improve on his own.

Voices frowning at today’s economic crisis say that you are more likely to find a job with a high school degree than with a college diploma, since more and more companies have unskilled worker vacancies. Even with today’s gloomy job market, holding a college degree gives you a better chance at getting a job than a high school graduate. The possibilities broaden exponentially after college. Worst case scenario, you can always fall back to an under-skilled job like flipping burgers at the local fast food, but a high school graduate will not likely end up with a job in Deloitte.

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