Index
A
- academia, careers in
- accounting degree, options for
- admission exams
- for law school
- predicting academic success and
- sending test scores to colleges
- admissions officers, meeting
- adult children, financial support for
- adult students, at community colleges
- Advance CTE
- Advanced Placement (AP) courses/tests
- affordability of college
- alternative ways to pay for college
- applying for financial aid
- for art education
- balancing issues of
- college fit and
- community colleges
- “dream team” for financial aid process
- economic issues of
- evaluating real price of college
- evaluating worth of college cost
- Expected Family Contribution (EFC)
- FAFSA4caster
- family discussions about financial issues
- grants
- increase in
- Net Price Calculators
- return on investment (ROI)
- true costs
- tuition, fees, other costs
- alumni, interviewing
- American Bar Association
- Apple
- applications for college
- attendance decision
- building college application list
- deadlines
- follow up to
- planning for
- aptitude for college
- artificial intelligence, employment outlook and
- artistic careers
- art education and
- artistic fields, defined
- commercial potential of
- disagreement between parents and children about
- hobbies versus
- sample earnings outlook for
- working for others in
- working independently in
- associates degree
- nursing
- police and investigative work
- See also community colleges
- Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU)
- attitude toward college
- automation, business careers and
B
- bachelor's degree. See affordability of college; college attendance decision; college fit
- background checks, for police/investigative work
- Barker, Travis
- Billboard
- Blink
- blogs
- books, for college research
- boundaries, of profession
- bricklayer example
- business careers
- automation and
- diversity of
- early experience for business careers
- educational preparation for
- entrepreneurship and
- overview
- sample earnings outlook
- Busteed, Brandon
C
- campus life
- community college lifestyle versus
- touring campuses and
- “Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education” (Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education)
- career choice
- assessing interests for
- assessing strengths for
- balancing with interests and strengths
- career clusters
- college exposure to
- community college and
- early experience for business careers
- field of study and
- finding meaning in work and
- future-proofing
- informational interviewing for
- Internet research about
- internships and part-time jobs for
- job shadowing for
- for liberal arts majors
- online communities for
- passion and
- researching
- for STEM majors
- trade-offs for
- work experience for helping professions
- See also college attendance decision; earnings outlook; employment outlook; goal assessment
- CareerOneStop
- certification, for helping professions
- Chihuly, Dale
- civil law fields
- class size
- CLEP
- code of ethics
- college admissions counselors
- college attendance decision
- benefits of attending college
- deciding to attend college
- selecting college to attend (See college fit)
- transferring college credit
- See also affordability of college; community colleges
- College Board
- college cost. See affordability of college
- college fit
- applying to colleges
- building college application list and
- decision-making for
- defined
- maximizing college experience
- overview
- questions for determining
- CollegeNavigator.gov
- college selection. See college fit
- Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education
- Committee of Ten (National Education Association)
- Common Application
- communication
- business careers and
- as superskill
- community colleges
- advantages of
- as alternative to four-year colleges
- disadvantages of
- evaluating
- overview
- 2+2 programs
- “connecting learning to life” approach
- contingency plans, making
- Cornell University
- corrections
- cost of college. See affordability of college
- creativity, business careers and
- crime scene investigation (CSI)
- criminal justice careers. See law and criminal justice careers
- criminal law
- critical thinking skills
- CSS PROFILE
- customers, knowledge about
D
- “day jobs,” for artists
- debt, college
- dental hygiene
- detectives
- Development Dimensions International
- dining halls
- Direct Subsidized Loans/Unsubsidized Loans
- diversity of students
- “Do Jobs Run in Families?” (Facebook)
- “dream team”
- dual-degree programs
- dual enrollment
E
- earnings outlook
- artistic careers
- business careers
- college employment statistics and earnings
- cost of living and
- earnings gap between college and high school graduates
- helping professions
- high-earning professions
- law and criminal justice careers
- liberal arts majors
- STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) careers
- See also self-employment
- Economic Policy Institute
- economy, college cost and, See also affordability of college; financial aid; financial issues
- Eliot, Charles W.
- e-mail introductions, for informational interviewing
- emotional risk, of helping professions
- employee engagement
- employment outlook
- automation and
- college placement statistics
- community college and job placement
- entrepreneurship for business careers
- helping professions and long-term career growth
- on-the-job learning
- self-employment versus staff employment
- value of college degree
- engineering. See STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) majors
- Engineering Multimedia Research Lab (EMRL; Cornell University)
- engineering technology
- entrance exams. See admission exams
- entrepreneurship
- business careers and
- freelance work for artistic careers
- private practice for helping professions
- self-employment versus staff employment
- essays
- ethical codes
- Etsy
- expectations. See goal assessment
- Expected Family Contribution (EFC)
F
- FAFSA
- FAFSA4caster
- fallback plans, making
- fame
- artistic careers and
- famous liberal arts majors
- families
- careers as “inherited”
- disagreement in, about artistic careers
- discussing finances with children,(See also affordability of college; financial aid)
- federal grants
- financial aid
- alternative ways to pay for college
- applying for
- college financial aid offices
- Expected Family Contribution (EFC)
- FAFSA4caster
- loans
- scholarships
- See also affordability of college
- financial issues
- family discussions about
- money management and business careers
- saving money to start a business
- See also affordability of college; earnings outlook; financial aid
- first-generation college students
- at community colleges
- diversity of students and
- fit. See college fit
- 529 plans
- forensic science (criminal justice)
- freelance work. See self-employment
G
- Gallup
- on employee engagement
- StrengthsFinder and StrengthsExplorer
- Student Poll
- gap year
- Georgetown University Center for Education and the Workplace (GUCEW)
- GI Bill
- Glassdoor.com
- goal assessment
- for career choice
- changing goals
- for college search
- “connecting learning to life approach” for
- determining college fit
- elementary school and secondary school education choices
- family discussions about financial issues
- finding meaning in work
- for interests and strengths,(See also self-assessment of interests and strengths)
- for pursuing artistic careers
- questions to ask for
- graduate degrees
- for helping professions
- law school
- medical school
- graduation rate
- graduation timetable
- grants
H
- Harvard University
- helping professions
- defined
- educational preparation
- emotional risks of
- long-term career growth for
- overview
- practical challenges of
- sample earnings outlook for
- “High-Resolution Leadership” (Development Dimensions International)
- high school courses, career choice connection to
- hobbies, artistic careers versus
- Holland, John L.
- homicide detectives
- How Liberal Arts and Sciences Majors Fare in Employment (Humphreys, Kelly)
- “How will you get where you want to go?,”. See also affordability of college; career choice; college attendance decision; college fit; community colleges
- Humphreys, Debra
I
- IBM
- independent work. See self-employment
- informational interviewing
- for aspiring artists
- conducting interviews
- contacting potential interviewees
- e-mail introduction for
- evaluating
- to explore career options
- finding people to interview
- phone introduction for
- post-interview follow-up
- preparing for
- questions for
- information technology, law enforcement and
- “inherited” careers
- Internet searches, for career research
- internships
- interpersonal skills
- investigative work (criminal justice)
J
- JD degree
- jobs. See employment outlook
- Jobs, Steve
- job shadowing
- JPMorgan
- judges
K
- Kelleher, Herb
- Kelly, Patrick
- Key Insights from the Extraordinary Leader (Zenger Folkman)
- Khan Academy
L
- language fluency, for detective work
- law and criminal justice careers
- crime scene investigation and forensics
- criminal law
- detectives
- law school preparation
- noncriminal law
- overview
- police and investigative work
- sample earnings outlook
- leadership, for business careers
- letters of recommendation
- liberal arts major
- career pathways for
- famous liberal arts majors
- liberal arts, defined
- liberal arts as practical choice
- overview
- sample earnings outlook
- loans
- debt for
- grants and
- See also financial aid
- LSAT
M
- major fields of study. See business careers; career choice; liberal arts major; STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) majors
- marketing
- business careers
- self-employed artists
- The Martian (Weir)
- Massachusetts, early education requirements in
- mathematics, early preparation for, See also STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) majors
- MBA degree
- medical careers
- community college preparation for
- high-earning professions in medical field
- medical school
- nursing
- strain of
- medical school
- medical technology/imaging
- military service, college and
- money management, business careers and
- morality, law and
N
- National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)
- National Center for Education Statistics (NCES; U.S. Department of Education)
- National Center for Higher Education Management Systems
- National Education Association (NEA)
- Naviance
- inception of
- StrengthsExplorer (Gallup) used by
- Net Price Calculators
- networking
- with college acquaintances
- entrepreneurship and
- “new-collar” jobs
- noncriminal law fields
- nontraditional students
- adult students
- at community colleges
- nursing
O
- Occupational Outlook Handbook (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- occupational themes (RIASEC)
- O*NET Interest Profiler (U.S. Department of Labor)
- online communities
- for artistic professions
- to explore career options
P
- part-time jobs, to explore career options
- Pell Grants
- Peterson's
- phone introductions, for informational interviewing
- photography jobs
- physical exams, for police/investigative work
- PLUS Loans
- policy, effect on career choice
- postgraduation budget, building
- private colleges
- for-profit and nonprofit
- scholarships by
- private practice. See self-employment
- problem-solving skills, importance of
- project management
- prospective student weekends
R
- research about careers. See career choice
- Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC)
- residential life
- community college lifestyle versus
- touring campuses and
- resources, for college research
- return on investment (ROI)
- RIASEC (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional)
- rigor, of community college courses
S
- salaries. See earnings outlook; self-employment
- scholarships
- school counselors
- science. See STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) majors
- scientific pathways, to STEM careers
- selection of college. See college fit
- self-assessment of interests and strengths
- assessing interests
- assessing strengths
- balancing ups and downs of
- careers as “inherited”
- for college and career exploration
- future-proofing career choices
- high school courses connected to
- strengths versus weaknesses
- trade-offs
- self-care, for stressful careers
- self-determination
- self-directed/continuous learning, as superskill
- self-employment
- business careers and entrepreneurship
- freelance work for artistic careers
- private practice for helping professions
- staff employment versus
- selling
- social skills
- social work
- software skills, as superskills
- “start-up” businesses
- STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) majors
- criminal justice careers and
- for helping professions
- high school conversations about
- law careers with
- middle school conversations about
- overview
- scientific and technical pathways to
- superskills for
- strengths
- assessing
- weaknesses versus
- StrengthsExplorer (Gallup)
- StrengthsFinder (Gallup)
- stress, of helping professions
- students, financial aid participation by
- “success” at college, assessing
- superskills, for STEM careers
- support services, offered by colleges
T
- teachers
- teamwork
- technical pathways, to STEM careers
- technology. See STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) majors
- “testing out”
- Thomson Reuters
- tours, of colleges
- transfer credits
- tuition and fees
- 2+2 programs
U
- unions
- United States colleges, number of
- Upwork.com
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- U.S. Department of Education
- U.S. Department of Labor
W
- Waldinger, Robert
- weaknesses, strengths versus
- Weir, Andy
- “Where are you heading?,”. See also artistic careers; business careers; helping professions; liberal arts major; STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) majors
- “Who do you think you are?,”. See also career choice; goal assessment; self-assessment of interests and strengths
- William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program
- work experience
- early experience for business careers
- for helping professions
- internships to explore career options
- job shadowing
- workshops, teaching
- writing jobs
- Wrzesniewski, Amy
Y
- Y Combinator
Z
- Zenger Folkman
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