Is it time to panic about the future of higher ed?

Colleges are cutting programs, scaling manner up and in some serious instances, closing immediately. Is this the close of higher education?

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If you &#8217, re like me, and you may be since you &#8217, re reading this post, you get ideas for software, websites and services all the time. I know I do. What I struggle with is truly putting these ideas into practice. Before you know it, I have a lot of documents, some script, and domain names but no actual websites to speak of. Sometimes I write a little code, and other occasions I purchase a domain name that would suit my concept. I&#8217, m trying to break that routine.

I worked in higher d from 1998 to 2016. It was amazing and the best job option I could have made. I met so several awesome coworkers, team members, companions and more across that day. I left and went to the private sector for two decades, but it was n&#8217, t a great match. At that point, I went full-time on my own at my electric company, Gas Mark 8. I kept looking for higher ed roles, interviewed for several ( including a few full-day on campus interviews ) but nothing went my way. What can you accomplish &#8212, it happens.

Over the last 6 years since I left higher physician, I&#8217, d seen so many amazing people leave the industry. It started pre-pandemic, the past 3 decades have really been rough on higher learning and there&#8217, s been a massive exodus of skills. There are a lot of reasons for that, and we know many of them ( pay, remote work, career advancement, difficult environments, the big sea change in education, and so on. ) There has been a pretty large brain dump, and that &#8217, s a shame.

I&#8217, m bummed because I love higher physician and it &#8217, s significant. I don&#8217, t know what the future holds for it, but I believe in what its around. One child is one year away from graduating from college, and the other is one year ahead. They are utilizing all the options they have, working with wonderful faculty and staff, and taking advantage of them. It&#8217, s but important as they get ready to go out into the earth.

In Cleveland, where I reside, I created a very quick and dirty job search site that offered links to the Human listing sites of the colleges and universities close to me. I created a straightforward resource out of curiosity about what was available. I shared it with some people on my staff, and added more places like Erie and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was just for me generally, and had very little in terms of pattern or functionality. But, I did notice that some schools had RSS feeds, so I added a word in my code to one day create a feature that would present those job postings on the page without requiring another click. The thought persisted in me. I took me 7 or 8 times, but I eventually built it.

Before Christmas, I was searching through some ancient site and script folders to find the old job site I had created. &#8220, Lastly, &#8221, I thought, &#8220, there has to be an easy way to build this. &#8221, In about 15 days, I spun up a WordPress programmer page, installed some of the instruments we use at Gas Mark 8 and got to work. I started with the last school I worked at ( miss you, JCU) &#8212, it &#8217, s also where my son attends. I threw in their RSS feed and to my amazement, it worked. There were 15 work in a practice article sort I created. Interesting &#8230,

I continued to run on features and data buildings. The purpose in my mind was to create everything I didn&#8217, t have to tell. I wanted to add universities, trade their jobs, and ensure that the data is gathered correctly. It started out properly. I discovered that more and more schools offered RSS or Atom feeds through their applicant tracking system ( ATS ). A good number do, but the majority of them do not. TMany are sealed techniques, which is great, but it stinks to not reveal that data.

One thing that the plugins we have and the code I&#8217, ve written so far does n&#8217, t do ( except for a few tests ) is scrape pages to get job postings. The ones I’ve tried to use in the same system to re-use my code are many of whom obfuscate their code and refuse to let you make requests to data like JSON feeds ( Looking at you, Workday. ) Please let me know if anyone has a blade for any of these Aircraft websites.

When the work were coming in, the real web page needed a design, layout, UI and most importantly a brand. Let me introduce you to CollegeAnd University. profession. Have you recently tried to find a great site name? It&#8217, s hard.

Tako logo After a few weeks of work and getting some help ( thanks, Dylan! ), it &#8217, s ready for use. I&#8217, d voting about 90 institutions and the site now has over 7, 700 work. It regularly polls institutions, adds new employment, edits existing ones, and removes those that haven’t been posted. We&#8217, ve created some cool searching ability ( by keyword, state or both. ) I think it would be great to allow people to create job hunt emails, but that &#8217, s down the road. I&#8217, have got a good feature listing going.

We also have a brand. I had one made awhile ago for another app ( it&#8217, s on the list to build ) and we all love it so it &#8217, s got a graduation cap now. Why an crab? It&#8217, s got eight feet. Additionally, our firm has an 8 in it. Made sense at the time. I&#8217, m considering of calling it Tako.

The blog is built in WordPress and uses Elementor. We built it from scratch and I did the style in XD. To ballot and trade work, it uses WP All Buy Pro. I wrote some PHP to peel a few places that didn&#8217, t have feeds. It&#8217, s OK but not the best. The website is hosted at Cloudways, a Gold Agency Partner and a huge fan of the company. They &#8217, ve made our lives much easier.

I’m sharing it because some people also have email subscribers to this blog, so I hope you’ll start it and visit it. I want to know how to make this the best job search tool achievable because you may also function in higher education.

If you have a minute, do you mind checking it out? Better still, if you know of anyone who is looking for their next career chapter, kindly let them know. Every moment, we add new institutions, and if just one man finds an incredible opportunity on the website, it will have paid off.

Me? I’m happy to have one of these ideas come out of my nose and out into the world.

Owing and Happy New Year Job!

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