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Are Students Really Career Ready?
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Are Students Really Career Ready?

Students and parents are questioning the value of a degree. Simultaneously, companies are questioning if graduated students joining the workforce are truly career ready. Higher education is feeling this pressure. Host Jason Altmire sits down with Eric Kue

Career Education Report · Career Education Colleges and Universities ​

January 19, 202218m 4s

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Show Notes

Students and parents are questioning the value of a degree. Simultaneously, companies are questioning if graduated students joining the workforce are truly career ready. Higher education is feeling this pressure. Host Jason Altmire sits down with Eric Kuennen, Executive Director of Work Readiness Solutions with Kaplan University Partners to discuss this challenge that institutions face. 


Eric shares about the current disconnect between higher education and corporate jobs, how industry is getting involved in higher education to better prepare students for careers, the evolution of career services at colleges and universities, how institutions measure if their career services are successful, and why this growth in higher education is critical.


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