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IS IT WORTH THE TIME? Pursuing Higher Education
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IS IT WORTH THE TIME?
Pursuing Higher Education
About your facilitator:
CEO/Founder, The Youth Career Coach Inc.
Certified Professional Career Coach (PARW/CC)
Education Consultant, Encompass Solutions
Faculty: Northeastern University, Suffolk University, and University of Rhode Island
Board of Directors, Dimock Community Health Center
Education includes: BA in Image Consulting, MBA in Global Business, MS in Leadership, Executive Certificate in Leadership, Certified Career Coach, currently working on Doctorate in Education
Former Employers include: BU, MIT Sloan, JWU, A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. , Wells Fargo, State Street, Neiman Marcus, Beth Israel Hospital, Roxbury Public Defenders
CONTACT
Office: 617-942-2861
Email: [email protected]
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Facebook: www.facebook.com/ natascha.saunders
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/
nataschasaunders
What we’ll discuss….
1. What is continuing education 2. Why continue your education 3. When is a good time to start preparing 4. How do you prepare5. Benefits 6. Ask The Career Coach
What is Continuing Your Education
is an all-encompassing term within a broad spectrum of post-secondary learning activities and programs. The term is used mainly in the United States and Canada. Recognized forms of post-secondary learning activities within the domain include: degree credit courses by non-traditional students, non-degree career training, workforce training, formal personal enrichment courses (both on-campus and online) self-directed learning (such as through Internet interest groups, clubs or personal research activities) and experiential learning as applied to problem solving.
Why Pursue Higher Education
What are your thoughts on why? To keep your skills and knowledge base
current Reducing employment limitations Self Achievement | Personal Satisfaction Enhanced traits such as: Discipline
It takes great discipline to study properly, avoiding procrastination and preparing adequate notes and study aids each week. It also takes great discipline to distill months of knowledge.
Money | Prestige
UNEMPLOYMENT
INCOME
According to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The report titled "The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings" (.pdf) reveals that over an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $1.2 million; those with a bachelor's degree, $2.1 million; and people with a master's degree, $2.5 million.
Persons with doctoral degrees earn an average of $3.4 million during their working life, while those with professional degrees are around $4.4 million.
When is a good time to prepare
Your thoughts? Now! I don’t believe there will ever be a good
time.Example:
Fire in our home My brother in my MBA Program
When you’ve notice the jobs you have an interest in require a degree
When you notice the people you want to do business with have degrees (People like to do business with people they know or have something in common.)
How do you prepare?
1. What are some tools that you’ve used to prepare? 2. Self Analysis3. Leadership and Peer Analysis (Biographies)4. Talk to your career coach (NFL)
5. Family Inventory | Time Management | Resources 6. Work flexibility | Corporation Culture 7. Attend an open house and orientation 8. Research
About the Schools Regarding Academic Programs Online or OnCampus or Both
How do you preparecont.
8. Meet with admissions, registrar, career services, meet the dean
9. Financial Aid Meeting | FAFSA10. Books where to purchase them (used,
library reserve, friend takes course different terms)
11. Meet with past schools attended
Benefits
1. What are the benefits?2. Consider the social and cultural benefits, for instance:
making friends, learning social rules and norms and understanding civic roles.
3. Some of the most sought-after benefits from education are economic. For example, specialized knowledge and technical skills, for example, lead to higher incomes, greater productivity and generation of valuable ideas.
4. Educated people make more money in traditional careers “except for the exceptions – idea generators”
5. People respect people with education more than those who don't
6. Having an education allows you to work in a field that you enjoy
7. Have more stimulating conversations8. Skill set such as writing | communication |
team work 9. Learn From Masters of your Field
Sure, many things learned in college can be learned at the library. What you miss out on, however, is someone to put those texts in context. Professors are hired because they're at the top of their area of expertise. Of course they won't all be goldmines, but when you find one, latch on. You'll learn more than you'll find in any book.
Benefits cont.
My success & survival tips
Stayed at work vs. Stayed at home to study (Where?)I used my current job as part of my research and papers –
opened doors to networking and expanded my knowledge base
I read many organizational charts of employees in my company & my competitors that went to the school I was attending
I did a semester long internship from the school but used my current job as the site it knocked out 1 whole term and I was able to pitch and craft a special project for my job
My study groups were specifically selected by me – kids whose parents sent them to school before they take over their family business
SOCRATES once said that “the more he learned, the more he became convinced of his own ignorance”.
Ask The Career Coach
Resources
Employee Online Courses MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
Such as: Classics, Languages, Chemistry, History, Economics, International Relations, Political Science, Artificial Intelligence, etc.
Hosted by: Emory, MIT, Oxford, UC Berkeley, Harvard etc.
THANK YOU!
CONTACT
Office: 617-942-2861
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ natascha.saunders
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/nataschasaunders
