Sarawoot Chittratanawat

SarawootCh [at]Yahoo.Com
Bangkok, THAILAND

My Thinking

	Problem of well educated people (WEP)
Home Resume My Thinking Quote Reading Photography Cycling Pet & Plant Links Blog Affiliates	During my last year in school, I started to see many friends of mine struggle to get a job. Looking around, many people couldn't get the dissertation out. Those people are really smart people. We can see from many decisions they made. Many thinking they shared. But why? What makes "well educated people" suffered? I asked myself if I am struggle. The answer is "yes". I started to search many articles on education, psychology, career development, career management and self-help. I realized that I am not alone. There are many well educated people struggle and suffering as much as I do (see http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/). After 3 year using "Ph.D." suffice, I think that my thinking on "Well Educated People" can be conceptualized. I decided to write this articles in order to: Share learning / thinking for other Well Educated People Accomplish part of my personal goal to bridge the gap between industry and academic Gather material for future research on "career development and management" class in 2025 I intend to make this article as a "live document". I'll update it whenever I have time, mood and enough material. Therefore, your thinking on this article or your story are really important for my personal research on this area. Please email me to share your thought and we can help other "well educated people" together... Who are "Well Educated People (WEP)"? What are their 3 problems? What are the cause of the problems and how we fix it? Outlook for WEP Who are "Well Educated People (WEP)"? Well Educated People (call WEP) is people who have education higher than average "higher education". This group of people includes: Hold Bachelor degree from top notch universities in US/UK Hold Master degree from top 10 universities in US/UK Hold more than one Master / Bachelor degrees from top universities Ph.D. graduate back to top What are their 3 problems? Some well educated people face career problems after graduation. Those problems are: Start to work late due to spent too much time in school Unhappy in workplace Job loss Above three problems are related as illustrated in figure 1. Normal people start to work at 22 years old. They are young, full of energy and can take very entry job without any concern. Comparing to WEP, WEP start to work at 24 to 30 year old. back to top What are the cause of the problems and how we fix it? Competitive workplace due to economic and other WEPs Complete degree too early Unable to stop learning / study Lack confidence to work Unable to work Unable to work with other people Fear to graduate Expect perfect knowledge back to top Outlook for WEP Career in 21st century is different from the past. Career plan is managed by individual employee -not by corporate nor boss. Although there are many competitions, WEP can take this as the advantage. Theoretically, WEP should be more maturity, more flexible to change and having high potential to move around the organization with less pain than non-WEP. back to top

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