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Get A Jump On Your Career, And a Jump on Success
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Getting an early start on your career can give you a head start on achieving success. That’s the lesson from four young professionals who spoke with Black Enterprise about why gaining experience at a young age ultimately led to big career benefits.
Leticia Bhola, a 35-year-old licensed master social worker in Washington D.C., worked at a salon when she was 15 years old. She spent her remaining high school year’s as a salon assistant, went on to work for Cornell Medical Center, then attended Baylor University. The advantages of this work history were immediate.
“The experience taught me how to deal with diverse populations and how to be a team player,” she says.
Isiah Hall, a 27-year-old who works with the National Urban League, got his start at the age of 12 and says he gained an education in financial management as a result.
Read more about all four young professionals on Black Enterprise.
When Your Job is a Joke: 5 Ways to Combat Underemployment
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Are you underemployed? If so, you’re not alone.
Recently, the Associated Press reported “1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployed”.
“Young adults with bachelor’s degrees are increasingly scraping by in lower-wage jobs — waiter or waitress, bartender, retail clerk or receptionist, for example — and that’s confounding their hopes a degree would pay off despite higher tuition and mounting student loans…About 1.5 million, or 53.6 percent, of bachelor’s degree-holders under the age of 25 last year were jobless or underemployed, the highest share in at least 11 years.”
Most would agree being underemployed is better than being jobless, but that doesn’t mean individuals who are underemployed have it easy.
While looking for the job we want, some of us have realized it is necessary to take any job we can get as long as it stops the slow drain of available funds in our checking accounts. However, underemployment doesn’t have to be a permanent situation. The following slides will show you five ways to combat being underemployed.
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