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The Scholarship Book 2001: The Complete Guide to Private-Sector Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants, and Loans for the Undergraduate
13 Jan
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Personal and professional growth is cited as one of the primary drivers for today’s workers. As we move into an era where workers are assuming control of their own career destiny, education and training are increasingly important.
People are looking at their careers differently today than they have in the past. No longer do they place their faith in the employer to provide all their learning opportunities. Now they must create and implement their own learning designs-taking advantage of corporate training, special assignments, and outside education programs.
In the future, the movement will be even more pronounced. During the years ahead, workers will be choosing their employers based, in part, on opportunities to learn and grow. They’ll be looking for companies that demonstrably support education and training. Workers will be significantly more intent on continuing their education-to build their skills, their credentials, and their capacity to perform at increasingly higher levels of competence and effectiveness.
A major objective of their ongoing learning will be to enhance opportunities for advancement-with the current employer or a future employer. People expect to move from job to job every 2-4 years, though not necessarily to a different employer. They will tend to be more loyal to employers who encourage them to grow. Mentoring and experience will be important, as will various kinds of formal learning.
Some of this learning will be gleaned from corporate training and development programs. Commercial seminars and conferences sponsored by trade and professional associations will provide further learning opportunities. An increasing number of workers will take courses at community colleges and universities.
With the magnetic draw of the labor shortage, young people will be pulled from the traditional post-high school process into the world of work. High demands will drive recruiters to recruit students right off the college campus. They’re already recruiting more aggressively for students at community colleges and four-year institutions. Some companies will fund work-study programs, enabling students to continue their education while working.
Education takes money. Employers will contribute, at various levels governed by a wide range of factors. In many cases, more funds will be needed. Employed students will face challenges of finding money to fund their college and university work. Employers who help their workers find solutions to their educational problems-including financing-will earn their loyalty and devotion. Companies don’t have to finance educational endeavors to win that appreciation; just helping the workers find funds on their own will be a benefit.
Solution: buy one or more copies of a directory of scholarships and place them strategically around the workplace. One good example of such a valuable resource is The Scholarship Book 2000. The annual, produced by the National Scholarship Research Service, contains pertinent information on 4,000 scholarship sources offering awards up to $40,000 per year. Included are scholarships limited to people over 25, 35, and even 60 years of age.
Each entry gives the name, address, phone, e-mail, and internet sites, followed by an explanation of the amount of the award and application procedures. The variety of opportunities for funding is mind-boggling! This volume has a wealth of information, and even makes for good reading.
The 8″ X 10.5 inch format is easy to use. The cover is attractive, making it a nice book to have around in break rooms, human resource development offices, corporate libraries, and other appropriate locations around the company. At a $25 price, this three-pound book makes a smart purchase to send a message: “we support the ongoing education of our employees.”
Rating: 5 / 5
Lot of great ideas on how to send three kids to college
Rating: 5 / 5
This book as a lot of good qualities and some bad too. The bad one was that it does take awhile to go through all the scholarship programs. Plus a lof of them repeated themselves in each catorgory. So you waste your time as you are going through the numbes.
Good note is that this books as like 5,000 scholarship keeping in mind of the doubles/triples of a quite a few of the awards. Catagories are within from state, to nationality, to what you want to major in, race, sex etc! So it covers just about everything!!!
Granted nothing is totally free! You have to work a little to receive the money. Either sending a SASE with some basic info. about yourself. But even the FAFSA isn’t totally easy on filling out all that paper work either! So if you receive that award then you know what I am talking about.
Rating: 5 / 5
I am a Financial Aid Counselor at a private college. We were thinking about buying some books that our current students could use for scholarship searches. This book has TONS of various scholarships in it. There are several different categories that the scholarships are listed under, which makes it easier for the student to search. The student can also search through each scholarship if they wish, but that will be very time consuming. I recommend this book to any incoming or current college student who needs more free money.
Rating: 4 / 5
I bought this to try to find something to help us send my son to Georgia Tech for Architecture. Out of all the sections I looked at, (which included Retired Navy, Resident of Georgia, Boy Scouts of America, Religious Affiliation and Architecture) I found ONE listing that even came close to what we’re looking for. I would have been better to have been a gay, blind, black woman, from New York, looking for a career in journalism. I’d have found THOUSANDS of listings for this. I’m afraid I feel ripped off here, guys.
Rating: 1 / 5