Summary of Education and Employment
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Summary of Education and Employment
Getting a job and keeping it will require learning skills throughout your life. Almost everyone will have to adapt. Even if you choose not to go to college, you will go through some education—perhaps learning new programs, taking an online class, or doing on-the-job training. The companies you work for invest in you so that they can succeed and grow. In turn, they provide pay and, hopefully, benefits. These will help you make a life for yourself and for others as well—children, a spouse, and perhaps parents and relatives.
How far you go in the world of work will depend mostly on how far you want to push yourself to work hard and learn new skills. Ideally, higher education of some kind can help you with that.
Things to do
- Discuss your options for college with a trusted teacher, counselor, or family member.
- Spend time on the Big Future site to get your questions answered about going to college.
- Fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid if you have not done so already.
- Talk to a guidance counselor at school to find scholarships to apply for.
- Spend time searching Big Future, FastWeb, and Cappex, among other sites, for scholarship information.
- Sit down with a friend and do a mock job interview.
- Visit job sites like Snagajob.com, Monster.com, LinkedIn.com, Indeed.com, and Careerbuilder.com and create a profile for yourself.
- Write your resume.
What you have learned
- Education
- Paying for College
- Employment
- Getting into the Job Market
- Writing Your Resume
