CCA Releases Survey Results Indicating Americans Going Back to
School in Down Economy
On Wednesday, April 1st, CCA released the results of a new
commissioned survey, conducted by Harris Interactive®, finding more
than two out of three Americans either taking steps or considering steps
to address their employment situation in the midst of the current
economic turmoil.
According to the survey results, Americans are
“reinventing” their working lives with new educational
programs and career skills. Over one-third of survey respondents
(38 percent) indicated an interest in higher education and 32 percent of
these “education seekers” say they are doing so in order to
pursue a long-standing passion or an intellectual
interest. “Career re-inventors,” those pursuing a
long-standing passion or interest, constituted 43 percent of 25-34 year
olds in the education seeker group. The study suggests many
Americans - thirty percent of adults age 55-64 – feel empowered to
pursue long standing professional interests.
According
to CCA’s official press release, “A substantial
percentage of Americans are looking at the current downturn as the
opportunity to reinvent themselves with new skills, new interests and
new professional pursuits, notwithstanding the distress that many in the
workforce currently feel,” said CCA President Harris N.
Miller. “Nobody likes to be out of a job, but this survey
suggests that people who are unemployed, under-employed or simply
anxious about their current employment prospects are using lemons to
make lemonade.”
In conjunction with the release of the survey, Miller took part in a
radio tour that spanned numerous stations across the country. Click
here to hear Miller’s appearance on 680 AM WPTF in Raleigh, North Carolina (this information also
posted to CCA’s Twitter
page and Facebook account). CCA contact: Bob Cohen.
