{"id":2891,"date":"2007-05-15T12:51:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T12:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2891"},"modified":"2007-05-15T12:51:02","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T12:51:02","slug":"career_guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2891","title":{"rendered":"Career Guidance for This Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/guykawasaki\/Gypm\/~3\/116912268\/ten_questions_w.html\">Guy Kawasaki<\/a> interviews new Madison resident Penelope Trunk:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Question: Will getting an MBA or any other type of advanced degree be a good use of time and money since I can\u2019t find a job?<br \/>\nAnswer: No. If you can\u2019t find a job, then you should invest in something like better grooming, or a better resume, or a coach for poor social skills. These are the things that keep people from getting jobs. Instead of running back to school, figure out why you can\u2019t get a job, because maybe it\u2019s something that a degree can\u2019t overcome.<br \/>\nGrad school generally makes you less employable, not more employable. For example, people who get a graduate degree in the humanities would have had a better chance of surviving the Titanic than getting a tenured teaching job.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guy Kawasaki interviews new Madison resident Penelope Trunk: Question: Will getting an MBA or any other type of advanced degree be a good use of time and money since I can\u2019t find a job? Answer: No. If you can\u2019t find a job, then you should invest in something like better grooming, or a better resume, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}