Rating: 4 stars (Spotlight Review)
Ken Jedding isn’t a stuffy know-it-all, waxing poetic about graduating college “back in the day” and dishing outdated job hunting advice to hungry newbies recently cast out into the dog-eat-dog world of career hunters. Ken Jedding doesn’t subscribe to the old maxim, “Those who can’t do, teach”; Jedding is doing and teaching. No stranger to higher education, Jedding has been (and currently is) in the trenches with the innocents getting ready to graduate in today’s economy.
Now that I’ve pointed out what Ken Jedding isn’t, let me tell you what he is: he’s someone who saw a need for valuable information, information we all wished was available when we graduated. Jedding has experienced pretty much everything the new college grad/job seeker/young adult will experience and rather than let each fledging-real-worlder flounder around figuring things out for themselves, he gave them a guide.
Higher Education is not only filled with sound advice for post-college job hunting in today’s dismal economy, but also provides a sort of pocket therapy to assuage common fears such as worrying you’ve majoring in the wrong thing or that nobody would ever hire you or worse—that you’ll never find the one.
Jedding gives incredibly valuable, useful advice on what to expect once that diploma is in your hand and how to handle each situation. It was also with great foresight that Jedding included other very important issues, such as parents and your relationship with them, moving home and finding and/or losing love; which can have quite an impact on how we view ourselves and important life decisions.
In addition to providing important, key information, there’s also an informative Q&A section. Although written with the college graduate in mind, Higher Education is quite relevant to high school students and those looking for a career change. Written in a very accessible, easy-to-read and humorous style, Higher Education lightens up serious topics, without making light of them.
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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Rodale Books (April 13, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-1605296760