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Many students enter college with the expectation of earning a high-paying job. Earning a college degree will guarantee that graduates find well paying jobs with opportunities for promotion, and benefits such as health care. Job applicants may consider the earning potential with reference to having earned a degree or not earning a degree. Increasingly, employers want applicants with higher education, hands-on work experience, and other qualifications and skills, such as Word Perfect, PowerPoint, Excel and bilingual knowledge. Experience is not enough, and a non-degreed applicants, or people with a high school diploma, will have a difficult time securing a higher paid job. College education can help better prepare applicants and lead to stable, long-term careers and a happy lifestyle. Degreed and non-degreed job applicants experience differences for earnings, opportunity, and health benefits.
Earning a higher educational degree may provide a job applicant more career opportunity. Higher education is the center and key element of all civilization advancements. An educational degree does not guarantee a successful career, many opportunities to make a good career. In today’s job market, most high paying positions require a higher education degree, not just a minimum level of experiences. Having a higher degree informs an employer that a person has an ability to learn, change, and reach goals. As the years progress, the abundance of available jobs has continued to decrease, causing employers to demand a higher set of expectations from perspective applicants. More often than not, most employers now ask that an individual possess a higher skills appropriate to that specific area of employment. Certificates and diplomas evidence employees’ completion of specified coursework. This consideration provides employers a perspective for the job seekers’ qualifications. Per Lisa Barrow and Cecilia Elena Rouse “an extra year of education was worth about a 9-percent increase in...