Careers Begin with What You Learn

Young Workers under 30 do not think they are in the right career and more than half expect to undergo a career change within two years. If you are one of these young people you have time to do something about it. What you do now is critically important. Your education is key to the career choices you are about to make. 

Here are some key observations. The advice is especially important to career changes. 

Your most important decision is what you study, not where you study it. With good information at the beginning, it is possible to make sure that your degree is not worthless to you (who you are) or worthless to employers. To create the worth you need to make some important decisions before you begin investing your time, energy and money in what you study. Data shows that the right investment in the right degree pays off handsomely. Indeed, it is likely to be the best investment you will ever make. But many get it upside down by trying to "figure it out" along the way. It can happen to you without valuable information at the beginning. 

Some hope that their university selection will fulfill the potential for the right career in the end. It is a false hope. Guarantees do not come from the prestige of the institution awarding the diploma. There are no guarantees. 

Your Future Guides provides data on the decisions career changes need to make. This is about you. "Who you are" matched to a career opportunity in the labor market is far more important than which college or university you attend. This is why the book begins with inexpensive ways to measure "who you are" and then progresses to data on career opportunities in the real world. 

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