If you have been thinking about an internship while pursuing your degree, you have the right idea in mind. Speaking purely from statistics, employers constantly point to internship experience as one of the most important points in their hiring process. In other words, if you work an internship that is closely related to what you want to do when you graduate, you have almost doubled your chances to get hired. Read more...

It's the middle of summer! Time to sip lemonade, slather on the SPF and read gossip magazines for hours, right? Not if you've just graduated from college and you're eager to find a full-time job before the fall. If you're looking for your first job this summer, here are a few ideas to help you snap up job offers while everyone else is slacking: Read more...

This morning I got into a discussion with a friend of mine about people who we know who say, out loud and with all seriousness -- and at the age of 30-- that college was the best time of their lives. I was flabbergasted. Really? College? Four years that involved a constant crunch for time and money was the best era in their existence? If college was the best time of their lives, what on earth had they been up to since then? A lot of them had gotten married, had kids, bought amazing apartments, and yet the best time in their lives was when they had no money and had to use paper towels as coffee filters? It didn't compute. Read more...

It may be stating the obvious that your earning power over your lifetime is directly tied to your level of education. But competition is tougher than ever for high-paying jobs, and candidates just entering the work force are better educated than their predecessors. Everyone wants to know whether their freshly printed degree is worth their trouble. Read more...

The slowing of the economy hasn’t appeared to have an effect on the number of students finding work, said Tim Tritch, senior student service coordinator at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Read more...

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), total job openings for people with bachelor's degrees and associate degrees are expected to increase by 16.5 percent and 18.7 percent respectively between 2006 and 2016. In contrast, the total number of openings for jobs that require only short-term on-the-job training is expected to grow by only 8.8 percent. Read more...

What does a college education have to do with the future of your marriage? College graduates are half as likely to get divorced. Money still can’t buy you love, but the financial stability of a college degree can help put your relationship on solid ground. You knew college would boost your career, but could it strengthen your relationships too? It turns out college grads get all the breaks--both in the workplace and in the home. Besides taking home a paycheck 84% bigger than a high school grad (an average $9000 more per year), they're half as likely to divorce. Here's a closer look at the power of a college degree to keep your life on track.