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| Doug Rice

Now Hiring: Six Occupations Not Requiring a 4-Year Degree

Pursuit of a 4-year college degree has been the default expectation for many high school graduates for decades. Rather than applying for jobs to enter the workforce, high school seniors seeking a career that could give them a more prosperous future would instead be mailing in college applications. Of course, the push for more students to attend college is not without justification. In general, lifetime earnings tend to increase in conjunction with the level of higher education degree attainment.

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| Mike Kyffin

JobsEQ®: New Feature Round-up

The team behind JobsEQ is always listening to our client’s needs as evidenced with the latest release to the platform. We are happy to announce the inclusion of several new features that were developed after productive consultative sessions with our clients. We’ve released two new analytics, added a stylish report, and enhanced the outputs of several of our workhorse analytics.

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| Doug Rice

Why Statistics?

Over the last few decades, the number of statistics programs in undergraduate higher education has continued to increase —shifting away from the earlier mindset that statistics courses are merely necessities for graduate studies pursuing other fields. Additionally, since its inception in the late 1990s, enrollment in AP (advanced placement) Statistics courses has been increasing more rapidly than for any other subject.

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| James Stinchcomb

Introducing Regional Underemployment

The unemployment rate in the United States is at historically low levels, coming in at 3.9% for July 2018, with many observers suggesting the nation is now at full employment. Despite the low unemployment rate, some questions remain about the state of the workforce. For example, one question is “how is the employment being utilized?” Or to put it another way, just because people have jobs right now, does that mean they have good jobs? One way to measure employment utilization is to look at the underemployment rate.