This article is from Careerbuilder, through a business partnership with CNN.com. 

“Today’s economy has many people returning to school in lieu of working full time, while others have chosen to enhance their education to make themselves more marketable to employers.

“In a CareerBuilder survey of more than 8,000 workers, 21 percent said they were going to school to make themselves more viable for employers. Of that group surveyed in March, 7 percent go to school full time, 3 percent attend part time and 5 percent take classes online.

“Have you toyed with the idea of going back to school, but didn’t think you could? Here are 10 stories from workers who thought they didn’t have time for school and how they made it work.”

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This article is from the Wall Street Journal.

“When unemployment is high, job-seekers may need to go where the jobs are, ‘to make ends meet, to get on with their lives,’ says John Challenger, CEO of outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

“But don’t move with the herd.Before workers decide to relocate, career counselors advise making sure they understand the local economy they’re going to, and what they’d do if the new job doesn’t work out as planned.

“Also, make sure you understand what kind of help, if any, your new employer is prepared to give you for moving costs. ”

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This article is from the Webster University Journal.

“Online education has its benefits, such as not having to worry about parking or wearing pants.

“But a recent report commissioned by the Department of Education concluded that online education may also be better than traditional classroom education.

“‘On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face education,’ states the 93-page report by SRI International, an independent, nonprofit research company.”

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This article is from WDBO Local News. 

“Seminole Community College taught its first online class in 1996 — to four students.  Today, over 4,000 are logging on to their lessons.

“SCC officials say enrollment since last fall has increased by 27%, spurred no doubt by the desire of some people to improve their job prospects in this economy.

“The phenomenal growth in SCC’s online classes is a direct reaction to student demand, Distance Learning Services Manager Wilma Hodges says.

“‘It’s easier for students to work them into their schedules.’”

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This article is from Careerbuilder.com.

“Gone are the days when all job seekers had to worry about was their résumés and cover letters. Today, those documents remain a staple of the job-search process, but they are joined by a growing phenomenon: social networking.

“Forty-five percent of employers reported in a June 2009 CareerBuilder survey that they use social networking sites to screen potential employees, compared to only 22 percent of employers last year. Eleven percent of employers plan to start using social networking sites for the screening process. More than 2,600 hiring managers participated in the survey.

“Of those who conduct online searches/background checks of job candidates, 29 percent use Facebook, 26 percent use LinkedIn and 21 percent use MySpace. One-in-ten (11 percent) search blogs while 7 percent follow candidates on Twitter.”

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This article is from the Washington Post.

“Students starting school this year may be part of the last generation for which ‘going to college’ means packing up, getting a dorm room and listening to tenured professors. Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering. Colleges, like newspapers, will be torn apart by new ways of sharing information enabled by the Internet. The business model that sustained private U.S. colleges cannot survive.

“The real force for change is the market: Online classes are just cheaper to produce. Community colleges and for-profit education entrepreneurs are already experimenting with dorm-free, commute-free options. Distance-learning technology will keep improving. Innovators have yet to tap the potential of the aggregator to change the way students earn a degree, making the education business today look like the news biz circa 1999. And as major universities offer some core courses online, we’ll see a cultural shift toward acceptance of what is still, in some circles, a ‘University of Phoenix’ joke.”

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This article is from The Examiner. 

“Whether you’re going back to get your GED or your PHD, returning to school for the first time after a while can be scary. 

“If you haven’t been to school in years chances are that you haven’t heard about distance learning yet.  You can now take whole course loads from the comfort of your own home office.  For anyone making the transition back to school as an adult, distance learning can lessen the anxiety.”

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This article is from The Wall Street Journal. 

“With unemployment at a 26-year high as the grinding downturn wears on, many people are being forced into job changes—if they’re lucky enough to find new jobs. But for those still employed and managing their careers, there’s a perennial question: How often should you change jobs?

“During the recent boom, it was common to hear advice that frequent jobs changes were the way to take advantage of the fast-moving economy, maximize personal opportunities and use leverage to get pay raises. Long over were the days of professional loyalty–employees to employers, and vice versa– when people clocked life-long careers at the same company. The career adviser and blogger Penelope Trunk, for example, counseled her readers in 2007 that ’staying in one job forever is today’s recipe for career suicide.’”

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This article is from Mercury News.

“SANTA CRUZ — As the national jobless rate hovers around 10 percent this Labor Day, it’s clear that high school graduates, even those who go on to college, are not guaranteed a job.

“But as conservation-minded pupils at the fledgling Natural Bridges High School hedge their garden of pumpkins, sunflowers and corn, they are also hedging their bets that the Regional Occupation Program will one day help them secure a steady paycheck.

“‘I know the way things are going, green careers are going to be huge,’ said Jake Dent, a 17-year-old senior from Aromas.

“A study released by the Pew Charitable Trusts in June found that venture capital investment boosted the number of so-called green jobs in the U.S. 9.1 percent between 1998 and 2007 — twice as fast as overall job growth nationwide. California has the most green jobs, with 10,200 businesses offering 125,000 ‘clean’ jobs — those focused on reducing energy use, conserving water and taking other steps to reverse harmful impacts on the planet.”

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This article is from MSNBC.

“There’s a lot of talk about so-called ‘green’ jobs lately, and many of you are wondering how you can get a piece of the action, especially if you’re out of work.

“Well, you’re going to have to think beyond just wanting a green job because these positions are so varied and are in so many industries. Saying you want green employment is almost like saying you want employment. And even though federal dollars earmarked for sustainable industries are starting to trickle in to projects and job-training programs across the country, that doesn’t mean green jobs are plentiful.

“‘Thinking just ‘green job’ limits you too much,’ warned Paul Pierpoint, vice president for community education and chair of the ‘Green Team’ at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, Pa., who said the expected green jobs explosion has yet to materialize.”

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