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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.

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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. Associations also have a long history of providing various forms of credentialing, from certificates to high stakes certifications, that are themselves a form of the “job market signaling” in which so much of the value of higher education degrees resides.