PELION — A motorcycle accident has taken the life of a Pelion High School senior days before graduation.
The Lexington County Coroner’s Office says 18-year-old Cody Kyzer of Leesville lost control of his motorcycle on Convent Church Road Thursday.
Kyzer was transported to the hospital and died a short time later from head trauma.
A Facebook page has been set up in honor of Kyzer. The site says he played baseball for the Panthers.
Authorities continue to investigate the crash.
Tags: Graduation, Senior Days
By Diane Borhani
Life is all about building relationships. So, too, is a career—any career. So why does the recruiting process often consist of one or two on-campus interviews and maybe a half day on site at a company’s offices? You meet a handful of the people you might be working with, and chances are you’re nervous and self-conscious. How is anyone supposed to build a relationship out of that?
Believe me, that paradigm is as frustrating for potential employers as it is for the potentially employed. So we’ve been experimenting with the recruiting process, thinking outside the interview room. Instead of just telling students what Deloitte’s values are, we’re giving prospects a chance to live those values with us, to see who we really are. And yes, we get to see who the prospects really are as well, so when we make an offer we have a high level of confidence that this is someone who will grow and thrive at Deloitte for the long term.
Thats why we offer interested students an opportunity to take an “Alternative Spring Break” that we call Maximum Impact. Instead of part
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In a Wall Street Journal commentary piece titled Dont Wear Flip-Flops to the Interview, career counselor Adam Friedman writes that parents ought to do a better job of prepping their children for the job search, including such basics as how to dress and behave:
What is surprising is that most parents spend thousands of dollars on SAT preparation for their college-bound children, but little or nothing for job preparation. Most graduates with liberal arts degrees have no clue as to what jobs they are suited for and have little idea of what skills they need to land the job they want. More perplexing is the all-too-common scenario of the grad who is bewildered by the many options and doesnt know where to begin the job search.
Lack of focus is another issue. One applicant for a public relations firm was asked by the human resources manager at the firm why he wanted to enter the field and his response was, It beats flipping burgers.
Mr.
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Just as markets experience bubbles, so too do policy trends. Right now the tulip/tech stock/real estate bubble of wonkdom is the idea that, as a recent New York Magazine cover screamed, “college is a scam.”
The argument goes something like this: Sky high tuition has resulted in skyrocketing debt, all for a product that everyone thinks he or she needs even though many of us could and should do without. (For a more thorough and eloquent description of this argument, see this recent Education News Colorado blog post.)
To quote billionaire Peter Thiel and the New York Magazine article: “Not only is it [college] a scam, but the college presidents know it. That’s why they keep raising tuition.”
Students are paying for a higher portion of their own educations because we, collectively, as taxpayers, want them to.
Really? College presidents are sitting in their offices conjuring plots to imprison hard-working Americans with Wall Street-style Ponzi schemes?
I’ll set aside for now questions related to the inherent value of a college education. Instead, pi
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Once a week or so I will provide links to particularly interesting and provocative blog posts on education from around the nation, whether I agree with them or not. The number of education blogs out there has become daunting, so I do not pretend that my list is comprehensive, balanced or logical in any way. Here are my first offerings:
- Diane Ravitch on Bill Gates negative influence over public education. Daily Beast blog
- The average college grad starts at $27,000 per year, if he or she can find a job. Joanne Jacobs
- On a related notes, student loan default rates are rising fast. The Quick and the Ed
- Has Washington Post blogger Valerie Strauss become the Lou Dobbs of education? Jay P. Greene
- Michelle Rhee and former union chief Parker: Strange bedfellows. Teacher Beat
- Whats the real difference between Bill Gates and Randi Weingarten? Dropout Nation
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