Category Archives: Career Planning

Sorry, I should have left you with some tasters of the sort of work that might be out there in the future. Actually, a few already exist and will continue to exist even as many existing today will disappear. Here … Continue reading →

This is the second blog entry in this theme of Future Work/Careers: There are social, economic, environmental and technological forces around the world that are building and intersecting at this moment in time that will magnify complexity of the human … Continue reading →

I haven’t written this blog for quite a long time.  I have been struggling with finding a focus that has meaning to me and merit to others. Much of my work in the past has been focussed on a general … Continue reading →

Secondary and college students are faced with a daunting future of rapid change, technological unknowns and shifting opportunities – changes which the academic world is unprepared to address in any meaningful way. Inertia and the standard human response within such … Continue reading →

I wanted to re-post this blog essay originally posted 2 years ago. It is still relevant today.  The Transition is the development passage of each  individual from “childhood” to  adulthood  with all of its responsibilities and expectations. The transition by our … Continue reading →

My focus and great concern for the past 30 + years in “education” has generally been keyed on what constitutes true education of “adolescents to young adults”, 13-25 years old and how truly inadequate contemporary education has proven to be … Continue reading →

An updated The Student Compass website has be very recently published. The old site, though comprehensive, was just too complex and textually overwhelming. The new site www.thestudentcompass.com, is visually more appealing and manageable. Though there is much more to say about the … Continue reading →