| If you are one of many people who initially made the | | | | graduated. |
| decision to forgo post secondary education but now | | | | Work preparation |
| regret it years after the fact; maybe you started your | | | | It is not sufficient enough to have memorized text |
| college education but didn't finish? If these | | | | book materials, without having practical experience and |
| circumstances describe the path your life has taken it | | | | knowledge that will help you work well in your chosen |
| is important to know that it is never too late to return | | | | field. This can leave a student without direction and |
| to college and receive your diploma. | | | | feeling discouraged. |
| Receiving a college education is very important as | | | | Ontario College courses should prepare students to |
| many perspective employers seek to fill positions with | | | | work in their chosen field rather than pouring the |
| highly educated and qualified individuals. Life and work | | | | textbook versions of everything into their heads. What |
| experience was once sufficient enough to get your | | | | students need is hands-on experience in their field in |
| foot in the door and maybe even advance your | | | | order that they understand what the working world will |
| career, however this is no longer the case. Now | | | | be like. This can also help the student determine if this |
| holding a college degree is a requirement for anyone | | | | is, in fact, the degree field they want to be in. They |
| looking to work within a specialized field. | | | | may have experience through work preparation that |
| An education never expires and will help open doors | | | | they do not like and may decide that the field they are |
| within your chosen field regardless of how long you | | | | studying is not the field they wish to be in after all. It is |
| have been out of school. Education is therefore | | | | better to make this decision while in school rather than |
| extremely valuable for all those who possess one. | | | | be stuck in a career they hate once they enter into |
| It's never too late | | | | the real world. |
| The truth is that it is never too late to decide to go | | | | Being honest and providing students with an accurate |
| back to school. People of all ages and within all fields | | | | depiction of their chosen field, goes a long way |
| decide to go back to school or to become educated in | | | | towards having a well educated and satisfied work |
| a particular field. However, individuals who go to college | | | | force. This also results in a higher quality workforce |
| for the first time or return to college are doing it | | | | because they know what they are doing before they |
| because they want to enter a new field of work or | | | | do it. It minimizes training in new skill areas and makes |
| they want to advance within a company they already | | | | the graduate more confident in what they are doing on |
| work for. | | | | the job. Uncertainty is one of the reasons why so |
| However, the ideal college education is one that | | | | many companies have high turnover. Work preparation |
| prepares the individual for work right away. This is a | | | | can ease this situation and make the entire process |
| more practical and hands on type of education. There | | | | and experience better for all of the parties involved. |
| are still people in our society not working within their | | | | That makes one wonder why there are not more |
| degree fields because they had no job placement | | | | colleges and universities taking a work preparation |
| assistance or they were not prepared in the way that | | | | approach in addition to filling the students full of |
| they should have been prepared before they | | | | knowledge. |