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Office Hours: Are Skills and Competencies More Important Than Degrees?

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Every now and then, there comes along a rebellious genius who drops out of college to start a company that flourishes into a multibillion-dollar global empire. Some of Silicon Valley's arch elite, like Peter Thiel, are even paying college students to pursue this self-hacked path.

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Hiring summer students: What every restaurant needs to know

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Hiring summer students: an easy way to fill those longer shifts with eager employees? While onboarding summer students might seem daunting, don’t worry. There are many perks to hiring summer students, including the roles they can take on in your restaurant, their flexibility, and their cost effectiveness. Feel like a win-win?

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Why You Shouldn't Overlook Candidates With an Alternative Education

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More students are pursuing higher education than ever before—but at a higher cost. The national student debt burden is approaching $1.5 trillion, and in 2016 the average college student graduated with over $37,000 in student loans. The result? There are more than 31 million such adults in the U.S.

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Alamo Colleges District Created an Award-Winning Employee Learning and Development Program—You Can Too

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Alamo Colleges District , a network of five community colleges in San Antonio, TX and the surrounding area, recently earned a Gold prize from Chief Learning Officer magazine's LearningElite program—a peer-reviewed, comprehensive evaluation of learning and development organizations across the world.

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5 Lessons to Teach Recent Grads to Set Them up for Success

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With college graduation season behind us, chances are you've probably just hired a few recent graduates. The professor picked Tuesday at 5:00 pm as the due date for that pesky paper, but she wasn't going to get around to grading it until Thursday anyway, so often, students could get some flexibility.

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3 Ways to Make Your Campus Recruiting Efforts Count

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Colleges are full of talented and ambitious students—a 2016 AfterCollege Career Insights Survey found 78 percent of college seniors had their job lined up before graduating. What better way to find highly skilled students than hosting a competition as part of your campus recruiting program that puts their skills to the test?

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Will Web-Era Trade Schools Create Tomorrow's Talent Pool?

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As Millennials rack up student loan debt and feel the lure of Silicon Valley's startup culture, the sentiment is growing: traditional four-year college is for the birds. It's no surprise, then, that students and professionals are attracted to these newly minted, job-pivoting environments. The advantages.