Part 1.  Game Change
If you haven’t noticed, the commencement speech buzz is quiet this year.  Instead, everyone is wondering whether college is really worth the investment.  Are we getting good value for all that money?
In a just published Pew Research Survey; nearly 60% of Americans say the money spent on a college education is a [...]

From Sputnik to Green Tech, Untapped Spatial Talents
In 1957 the National Science Foundation (NSF) published a report, Scientific Careers, to launch a nationwide search for people with the potential to become scientists.  The Russians were kicking our butts with Sputnik.   We needed to find people with aptitudes for hard science and technical subjects to compete in [...]

The Career Decision Problem is a tough nut to crack, largely because the roots of the problem are not easily visible to the naked eye.  The blog post, The Stimulus We Really Need, discussed that since people don’t know they have a unique set of innate talents, they are left to navigate their career choices without [...]

Conventional wisdom suggests that better schools and advanced education for all is the yellow brick road to solve many of our nation’s problems. But let’s play Dorothy and peek behind the curtain to see what the Wizard of Educational Oz is concealing.
The latest study by the Department of Education has, once again, found that there is [...]

The aim of The Careerologist blog is to shine light on the underlying reasons why so few people are on the right career path. I’ve been a career design consultant for over 15 years and I’ve met a lot of unhappy people who are stuck in jobs that don’t utilize their natural talents. And lately, [...]