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Association Brain Food: 10.6.23

Reid All About it

Another take on the young professional recruitment challenge comes from James Young of Product Community. The writing has been on the wall for a long time—follow the link in the story to the 2014 memo written by a former ED. Host: Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration Wed 10/11 at 2 p.m. – Next gen membership #2.

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Refocusing on Jobs and Education in 2015

YourMembership

At the beginning of 2014 we started a conversation on the importance of a career center strategy for associations, especially in light of social networking giant LinkedIn’s aggressive efforts to become the leading online job board aggregator. Associations have an opening to be a driving force in this arena.

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Your Conference Is Offering Learning Scrap That Is Not Even Worth Recycling

Velvet Chainsaw

CEU And Certification Challenges When you layer those stats with the fact that CEUs are rapidly being commoditized, it’s pretty much a race to the bottom. The challenge with many certifications is that passing a test of memorization questions is no longer seen by employers as leading to better on-the-job performance.

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Could Associations Replace College? (Take 2)

Leading Learning

I first posed this question in a post published in 2014. Tuition costs remain high – too high for many adult learners – while the results they underwrite are arguably not what they should be. Roll forward eight years, and the questions seems even less if crazy – if crazy at all. The Need for Leadership.